could do with a beer
Hi Kirova,
Yes - I can also relate to the lack of time / stresses of modern life.
Both me and my wife work full time, we have two teenage boys who basically operate as work creation machines.
(You know the type - they wear a shirt once, throw it in a heap on the rubbish heap they call their bedroom floors when they go to bed at night, get up - cant find shirt in mess - take a clean one out of the wardrobe -find original shirt in a crumpled mess three days later and put it in the laundry.
Or (or more usually AND!) they decide to come home from school and make themselves a "quick" sandwich - result - I come home from work to find kids sprawled in front of the tv, munching said sandwich , not even changed out of their school clothes - because they have "had a hard day at school"(
!?) with a kitchen that now looks like it took a direct hit by a SCUD missile.)
We only have weekends and evenings to do all the domestic stuff - cleaning / shopping / laundry / helping with homework / acting as taxi service for kids various activities etc etc etc.
It is SO easy just to waste the little spare time we have by drinking / vegging out in front of TV.
Did that for too long - so - I have made my mind up to extract as much "experience" as I can out of every spare minute.
I get up and hit the gym at 6am some days - or am still in the climbing gym at 10pm coz these are the only time I can fit it in.
My wife and I take equal shares of domestic stuff so we can BOTH fit in SOME enjoyable activities on some evenings of the week.
Yep - I am one of those strange males that CAN operate a washing machine and an iron! - and I am not ashamed to admit it!
Contrary to common belief - it does not make my little boy bits fall off or make me any less able to climb mountains, SCUBA dive or compete in triathlons.
This trip to the mountains will be my first for several months - so it is not as if I have loads of spare time just to enjoy myself all the time.
Yep - you gotta MAKE these things happen whenever you get the opportunity.
And - when you do - it IS so much more rewarding than "sitting in a numbed out haze in front of the TV - again!)
Go For It
Carpe Diem as they say!
Love
Satori
xxx
Hi Kirova,
Yes - I can also relate to the lack of time / stresses of modern life.
Both me and my wife work full time, we have two teenage boys who basically operate as work creation machines.
(You know the type - they wear a shirt once, throw it in a heap on the rubbish heap they call their bedroom floors when they go to bed at night, get up - cant find shirt in mess - take a clean one out of the wardrobe -find original shirt in a crumpled mess three days later and put it in the laundry.
Or (or more usually AND!) they decide to come home from school and make themselves a "quick" sandwich - result - I come home from work to find kids sprawled in front of the tv, munching said sandwich , not even changed out of their school clothes - because they have "had a hard day at school"(
!?) with a kitchen that now looks like it took a direct hit by a SCUD missile.)We only have weekends and evenings to do all the domestic stuff - cleaning / shopping / laundry / helping with homework / acting as taxi service for kids various activities etc etc etc.
It is SO easy just to waste the little spare time we have by drinking / vegging out in front of TV.
Did that for too long - so - I have made my mind up to extract as much "experience" as I can out of every spare minute.
I get up and hit the gym at 6am some days - or am still in the climbing gym at 10pm coz these are the only time I can fit it in.
My wife and I take equal shares of domestic stuff so we can BOTH fit in SOME enjoyable activities on some evenings of the week.
Yep - I am one of those strange males that CAN operate a washing machine and an iron! - and I am not ashamed to admit it!
Contrary to common belief - it does not make my little boy bits fall off or make me any less able to climb mountains, SCUBA dive or compete in triathlons.
This trip to the mountains will be my first for several months - so it is not as if I have loads of spare time just to enjoy myself all the time.
Yep - you gotta MAKE these things happen whenever you get the opportunity.
And - when you do - it IS so much more rewarding than "sitting in a numbed out haze in front of the TV - again!)
Go For It
Carpe Diem as they say!
Love
Satori
xxx
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