It’s Monday, dreaded Monday. Well, Monday may be hell on you folks that have to get up and go to a day job, but it’s actually a bit of a relief for me. See, on Mondays, when the GirlyBoi goes back to work, I get back to my regular non – schedule.
I like to think that I don’t “do” schedules. I prefer to think of myself as a spontaneous sort of free spirit. Self employed (might as well be unemployed right now), free to hop from project to project or to stay up late and sleep in at will or whim. I am so full of shit! Hahaha!
I actually do have a number of things that need to be done daily in a somewhat timely fashion, as well as weekly things, not to mention a slew of things that I want to do daily, and if I tell the truth, I do them on a (*shudder) “schedule”.
Still, since this is the world according to Thorne, (and since a certain amount of self delusion is welcome in Thornesworld), I shall call it my Non – Schedule, and happily retain some small bit of my self image as a spontaneous free spirit!
I don’t know if Spring brings out folks’ inner organizer or if I’ve been reading too many mommyblogs, but is it my imagination or are there about ten million people out there all writing about their freaking organizers? Their lists and to-dos? See that pic up there? The nearly illegible (even for me) scrawl on the envelope? That’s my to-do list- my non-schedule; my pocket organizer.
The list reads:
- Make Birdy Bread
- Call Phone Co.
- Clean & herb fireplace
- Blend tobacco
- Take dinner out
- laundry?
- compost
Now, there’s a good chance that I’ll lose or throw away that list before I get it done. And it doesn’t include any of the regular daily stuff (except for the taking something out of the freezer bit- I’m always forgetting that one!), nor does it include any of the projects or want-to-do’s.
Back when I used to try to keep lists; real lists, I used to list all the daily shit; dishes, bed, blogging, feeding birds, sweeping, dinner- just so I’d feel accomplished when I got to check all that crap off even if I didn’t get any of the extras or want-to-dos done. Haha!
These days there are some legths to which I will no longer go for a bit of self delusion. That’s growth, right? Isn’t it? Hee hee!
The thing is, on my weekends my non-schedule gets blown to hell! Let me tell you folks that being a femme lesbian with a Girlyboi (yes- read this as “butch”- read this as “male-without-a-dick”) for a partner, is not as different as some of you hetero wives may think.
Can I just say that my GirlyBoi works her narrow butt of all week at a construction/building job and when she comes home, like many (I said many- not all) men, she feels nothing so much as entitled to simply lie around?
Now, I could go off on an entire rant about people who are content to lie around and be lazy, but that’s not where I’m going with this one. I realize that not everyone is a go-gettin’, do-stuff, active freak like me and that’s cool. The best thing about that GirlyBoi o’ mine is that she does all that “boy” stuff (yes, I’m a sexist), like taking the trash out and going to the dump and emptying cat-boxes, and she also pitches in with pairing her own socks (she is a sock freak!) dishes and putting her own clothes away; and on weekend mornings she does my morning bird care chores and brings me coffee in bed. You can’t beat that with a stick! I’ll put up with a lot for coffee in bed.
No, the worst thing about weekends is that her laziness is contagious! When she’s layin’ around, I can’t seem to help layin’ around with her even when it’s driving me nuts!!!
This weekend was worse than usual, because Spring did a backflip and turned cold and windy and rainy. Windy is a relative term here in the High Desert. We get breezes almost every day, but 40 mile an hour cold winds with 65 mph gusts simply sux on so many levels!
Let me tell ya, you don’t want to be outside in that crap even if it’s not raining. Even driving in it is a pain in the ass.
So although we had some outdoor work scheduled to do together, when the weather foiled that the GirlyBoi figured she got a couple of free days and it turned into a deep laze weekend.
How many movies can a person watch? How many times can a couple of old dykes have sex? (I’ll never tell) How much blogcruising can you do on freaking dial-up!!! Arggghhhh!!!!
I’m so glad it’s Monday. It’s still a bit chilly, but she’s at work and I’m back to my usual non – schedule. I’m scratching the laundry and compost from the list (for today), and late on taking out dinner (as usual), and it’s so cold in here I made a fire so no fireplace cleaning today, but there’s birdy bread to bake and basic household chores and at least one indoor project I’m up for, so it’s all good in Thornesworld today! (Did you notice the little crochet bag next to my list? I finally got something worked out for Shelly’s Good Medicine Project. I’ll write that up and fill you all in later!)
Peace, out!
