I Have My Self all to Myself!

It has been a glorious weekend. Don't know if I told ya or not, but I am husband-less and child-less for the entire week.

How did I manage that you ask?

Well hubby and Kaydn Rye left for Idaho yesterday to visit hubby's family, which Kaydn Rye has never met. Hubby's grandmother isn't doing so well and it's her dying wish to finally see Kaydn Rye. They'll be gone until next Saturday. I can't believe it.

Don't get me wrong, I love my little monkey and I'll miss him, but I haven't had a week to myself in, well, since I can't remember. I guess since before I got married. That would be, oh, about six years ago.

I've had weeks apart from Kaydn Rye, but that was when I was working as a journalist and therefore I was at the newspaper office about 12 hours a day, so that definitely did not count as a week to myself. That was a rough time. When I took the position as a political reporter we had to move from Mississippi, where I finished college, to South Dakota, where the new job was (I guess that was probably obvious). Hubby was still in Mississippi wrapping up the sale of our house, I had no place to live except for the motel I'd be staying in until I found a place to rent, I had no babysitter, and I knew absolutely no one. On top of that, I was warned that I would need to plan on working atleast 10 hour days with my job, so I felt I really had no choice but to bring Kaydn Rye to my parent's house to stay until I settled myself. He ended up staying there for atleast a couple weeks. I can't remember. I would come up on the weekends to visit him, which was a six hour drive, and then I would pretty much come right back to work and to my little motel room.

So anyway, back to this week. Yesterday you would not believe what I did.

I did absolutely nothing.

Nothing.

I can't remember the last time I did that. Maybe college. Early college.

And it felt so good. Gertie and I just pretty much sat on the couch and watched television. I know, television! I rarely watch television. I got Kaydn Rye up at 6:30yesterday morning so he could get dressed and hop in the car. And after that I just laid on the couch making funny faces with the dog. There was a Law and Order marathon and an America's Next Top Model marathon. I rarely get to feed my Law and Order addiction, and I hadn't seen America's Next Top Model in like 10 years, probably since the first or second season. I didn't even know that show was still on. Talk about mindless television.

The whole day I didn't even cook or clean. I had sandwiches for both lunch and dinner, and I didn't do the dishes either. They're still sitting on the counter. Can you believe it? It took every ounce of my being to walk by all the dishes on the counter and not do them, but I managed it. Now if you don't read this blog, that means nothing to you, but if you read this little blog you know that the cleanliness of my house usually borders on obsessive-compulsive. I actually dream about vacuuming.

After a day of nothingness, I then proceeded to make myself useful and clean out my inbox. I cleaned out more than three hundred messages that had piled up. And then, I took a break from my long, hard day's work and put my jammies on, again. Then I fell asleep on the couch.

This morning I went to church, hung out with my peeps for a little while, and came back home where I proceeded to actually do something with my life. Gertie was terribly upset that we were not going to lounge on the couch all day, but I think she'll survive all the hard work she's put in today.

And of course, the question everyone's asking is, "Why didn't you go to Idaho? What's up with that?"

The answer to that question is very multi-faceted. First of all, hubby and I, on a 15 hour drive, alone in a car together, would not be good. We would definitely end up on the news. We do best when we have some space apart from each other. And really, I could not at this point just take a week off from my life. It's not possible right now. I took my one day vacation, and that was good enough for me.

But I will say, I will miss my hubby when it comes time to do all his chores. Like taking out the garbage and building a fire in the fireplace. I have been trying all day to get that stupid fire going. What in the heck is my problem? I mean, come on, it's so easy a caveman can do it....Needless to say, the fire is normally hubby's domain.

And his presence will be missed during the injecting of the turkey on Thursday. He always injects the turkey with his little cajun flavoring on Thanksgiving, but this year I'm on my own. Oh yeah, did I mention that I'm having the fam over for Thanksgiving this year, and for the ten people that will be arriving I bought a 22 pound turkey? What in the world was I thinking? That means everyone will have to eat atleast two pounds worth of turkey.

So will I be okay by myself for a whole week? The short answer? Definitely. Don't get me wrong, I need my peep time, but once I get done hangin with the peeps, I need my me-space. I am definitely a space girl. Not like I'm an astronaut, but like, I need my space.

And hopefully Kaydn Rye will do alright for the week. He is quite the traveler. His absolute favorite thing in the world is going places. Every night he asks, "Where are we going when I wake up in the morning?" And when I occasionally have to tell him, "Nowhere," he is definitly upset. So needless to say, he was thrilled about waking up at the crack of dawn to go on an all-day road trip yesterday. He is for sure my little world traveler. But me, I don't like to drive anywhere. I need my own little private jet. The only problem with that is that everytime I'm on an airplane my face is in the barf bag the whole time. So while I love flying, flying does not love me. Actually, when we used to fly from Mississippi to North Dakota for holidays, when Kaydn Rye was really little, he'd be happy as a bug sitting in his seat, Gertie would be happy as another little bug sitting in her doggy bed under the seat and I'd be hunched over in my seat, hoping to die.

And oh, forgot to tell you, but my happy picture is complements of I Can Has Cheezburger.




Show Me Your Web Site and I'll Vote For You!!