Actual conversation
October 26, 2007
Woman #1: I love cooking. Sometimes I feel bad because I spend so much time preparing dinner that the house looks kind of messy. But there is only so much time in the day, you know?
Woman #2: Yeah, I hear you about the time. Although I hate to cook. It’s so boring. I’m not very good at it either. My husband likes to cook though.
Woman #3: I don’t like cooking much either. But I love to clean. There is something so satisfying about cleaning.
Woman #2: Hmmmm, cleaning makes me want to drown myself in a bucket filled with bleach. My husband likes cleaning though.
Woman #1: So what DO you do?
Woman #2: Today I went to Target twice. And bought mascara.
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So are you woman #2? Just checking!
October 26th, 2007 at 8:28 pmInteresting Conversation.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:31 pmI’d rather be friends with woman #2.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:32 pmI heart you, #2!
I was a Target today too. Only once though. I did manage to buy some mascara as well….Lash Out. Now I must remember to wear it.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:44 pmI cook because we need to eat and the kids are not fit for restaurants. I clean because I can’t relax when the house is messy.
I would like to be woman #2 but married guy number 4 (none of the above).
October 26th, 2007 at 8:45 pmBWAHAHAHA!
October 26th, 2007 at 8:55 pmOh! Oh! I’M Woman #2!!!
Love your blog, got the link from a friend. Thanks for the laughs.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:12 pmSo what DO you do??
I love that. As if there’s nothing more in life than cooking and cleaning.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:17 pmYou are so woman number 2 aren’t you? And if you are, would you loan out your husband? Seriously…what husband likes to cook AND clean? He’s dreamy.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:21 pmHahaha!
October 26th, 2007 at 9:46 pmAnd see…I’m woman #4. The organizer, and by the end of the conversation I would have woman #1 cooking dinner for all of you. Woman # 3 would be cleaning for all of you and Woman # 2 would be shopping for everyone. Now isn’t that neat and tidy?
I’m sick, I know. And not just because I’m having imaginary conversation.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:34 pmstill standing, you beat me to it. I was thinking about that scenario before I’d even finished reading the post
October 27th, 2007 at 1:13 amwhat still standing said.
October 27th, 2007 at 3:00 amI think I just peed a little laughing.
Need to do more kegels… or stop reading you….
*clenches vaginal muscles*
October 27th, 2007 at 4:25 amI think “Woman #2″ kind of has her hands full before cooking and cleaning even enter the picture!
October 27th, 2007 at 8:05 ami am so woman #2 too and unfortunately my hubby too loath doing housework…I think we need to borrow your husband
October 27th, 2007 at 8:16 amI *puffy heart* woman #2.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:17 amI am SO with woman #2. Plus I do need more mascara. In fact, I think I should be declared Honorary Woman #2 because my kitchen is a mess and I do not plan to cook breakfast this morning.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:19 amWell, okay, that would be because I need to unVelcro myself from the ‘puter and go to WORK (WORK ON A SATURDAY, OH GOD IN HIS HEAVEN).
I forgot to mention that the rest of my house in addition to the kitchen would be referred to by the British as a “tip.”
October 27th, 2007 at 8:20 amdons Honorary Woman #2 crown and prepares to stop commenting
October 27th, 2007 at 8:21 amTotal honesty is so refreshing sometimes. And gotta love Woman #2’s husband!
October 27th, 2007 at 8:28 amI think woman #2 drowned all the women in a bucket of bleach and then captured their husbands and never had to do a damn thing, again. I think woman #2 is my hero.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:41 amhey, a girl’s gotta have her priorities.
October 27th, 2007 at 10:31 amNOT cleaning stresses me. But cleaning, paradoxically, does not relax me.
October 27th, 2007 at 10:34 amI’m also Woman #2. I have a cold right now and dude, SO MILKING IT.
October 27th, 2007 at 10:39 amI am totally woman #2, but I would go to Target twice for mascara, forget to buy it, yet somehow still spend $100 each trip in the process.
October 27th, 2007 at 10:42 amYou are so funny. I wish I was woman #2.
Really.
October 27th, 2007 at 12:27 pmCount me as woman #1.
October 27th, 2007 at 12:39 pm[...] Go here, read this, then tell me… which woman are you? Wanna guess which one I am? [...]
October 27th, 2007 at 1:43 pmI’m woman #2. Is #2 really you?
October 27th, 2007 at 2:23 pmI agree with Still Standing—I was planning suggesting something like “co-mothering” (Some days, I’m so envious of those polygymists!) one of you shop, the other clean, the other cook and you’d all be good.
October 27th, 2007 at 2:55 pmWoman #1 and woman #3 need to come and cook and clean for ME!
October 27th, 2007 at 3:00 pmBack in the mists of time I sat down (YES!) one morning when a third of my six kids (six kids in seven years! No multiples! Yikes!) were at school and the other thirds were still at home helping me get from 9 o’clock to 10 o’clock. I made a list of how many meals I would have to prepare until each kid reached 18 and was out of the house. (How naive was that idea? Out of the house, I mean. . .)
I can’t even remember how I did the math, but I came up with 8 times 3 times 365 times 17, 16, blah blah, blah. The number was staggeringly horrific. So!
I made a resolution to become the best damn cook I could, under the constraints of time and money. Five of those kids are now gone, and I am still the best non-professional cook I know.
Don’t dismiss the satisfaction of mastering (well, you know. . .) something you hate to do but HAVE TO DO! Nuff said.
I never did master cleaning, tidiness, order. Still can’t find my good scissors.
October 27th, 2007 at 3:06 pmThat’s too funny
October 27th, 2007 at 3:32 pmI can identify with woman #2 as I am just on my way out to Target for the second time today too!
October 27th, 2007 at 3:37 pmyou are hilarious - thank you!
i am dropping Kid off at grandma’s do i can go to IKEA for the second time today.
October 27th, 2007 at 4:02 pmWho needs cooking and cleaning when you have blogging! And woman #2 is darn good at it!
October 28th, 2007 at 4:49 pmWell at least you do clean (as well as visit Target!). I hate cleaning as well and my house is a tip.
October 28th, 2007 at 5:10 pmI thought this was hilarious the first time I read it - so much so that I re-read it today, having forgotten I’d just seen this: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14441228/detail.html?rss=bos&psp=news. Yikes. Who would have seen that coming?
October 28th, 2007 at 8:44 pmWould you do me the biggest favor? Please pray for The Gravell family. Hallie is a sweet little girl from Louisiana who has Stage 4 Neuroblastoma and has just been put on Hospice. This is the most wonderful family and they adore their precious Hallie.
October 29th, 2007 at 1:59 amHer website is:
http://www.caringbridge.org/la/hallie
Please stop by to leave some encouraging words.
Thanks.