Source: Cover of I Love Bacon! recipe book by Jane Rockmill
Oh Sundays. I have a love/hate relationship with them. I love how you can wake up with no alarm, just laze around in bed. Enjoy a greasy breakfast (with bacon, of course) and sip your morning coffee while reading the paper or catching up on your favourite blogs (Or you can go out for breakfast, but I sometimes cringe at the thought of an overpriced breakfast. $12??!!? Are you kidding me?). The morning seems to last forever in my opinion. Come mid-afternoon, time seems to speed up and go by a lot faster. Then that sinking disappointing feeling sets in. Tomorrow is Monday. Tomorrow it is back to the grind. Back to the work week that seems to drag on like that teacher in Charlie Brown where I never understood what she was saying.
I often spend my Sundays grocery shopping, because it is just a complete ZOO on Saturdays. I’ll do a few loads of laundry and cook food for the week. In the post: The Joy of Cooking…For One, I complain about cooking for one. Now I am the head chef and meal planner and am cooking for two. Oh joy. We don’t grocery shop together because he’s not a big fan of grocery shopping. As I have mentioned before, the bf is quite handy and thus assumes the responsibility of being Mr. Fix-It. (With an older house, there seems to be a lot of fixing things.) I once hammered a screw in my bathroom wall, so thus I assume the responsibility of trying to be a domestic goddess. He does do some cleaning, but I usually have to ask.
I have come to the realization that I like the idea of having my own house and eventually owning it, but I absolutely hate cooking and cleaning. But I do it because we all know that eating out all the time is a waste of money and I’m not willing to pay someone to do the cooking and cleaning for me. I know people work crazy hours and it takes a load off, but you know when they say “leave it to the professionals” for some things? You can argue with me all you want, but cooking and cleaning are not some of them. If you can read, you can cook. Dirt and dust doesn’t disappear like magic in the movie Fantasia, so clean up your mess already.
If I lived in the 50s or 60s and was the housewife, staying at home, and only did the cooking and cleaning, I think I would have gone bonkers. Sure all that stuff passes the time, but I wouldn’t want that to be my livelihood ( I am definitely the Peggy Olson in Mad Men). Even if the bf was making a ton of money and we could live off one income easily, I still wouldn’t want to be a stay at home housewife. He, on the other hand, wouldn’t mind staying at home and cooking the bacon I brought home. Nowadays, I know you can work from home, which does seem awesome in a lot of ways, but I like actually going to a workplace and making my money. I don’t have enough discipline to work at home. There are too many distractions and since my current job isn’t a typical office job, I couldn’t work at home anyway if I wanted to.
My fiance and I are perfectly suited to each other in this respect. I love going out and working at my career, and he’s perfectly content to keep house. He does work, but he only works part time in the winter. The last thing I want to do at five o’clock on a dark winter evening is cook supper, and I rarely have to, I can usually count on him to have a meal on the table and the house clean and tidy. It’s awesome!
That does sound like an awesome deal. I am super jealous. 🙂
I could never be a stay at home mom. I hate cooking and cleaning, although I am doing it more of it to save money.
When I lived by myself, I got more of the ready made meals at the grocery store because I was just one person. I did cooking here and there, but not as much as now, since my bf and I are living together.I cooked yesterday and today! I’m taking a break tomorrow. I don’t think I’ll ever like cooking or cleaning!
Yeah I will never enjoy cooking or cleaning. Too much work… I do it well because we need healthy meals. And I have to clean because it gets gross….lol
Agreed, I’m also a Peggy Olsen haha. I think I would go crazy being a housewife. I cook and clean because I have to, not because I want to.
I think many females feel the same way. 🙂
I enjoy cooking but I can see where you are coming from. I love getting out and working. Cleaning – not so much!
I really enjoy cooking for people.But, I get sick of cleaning. I couldn’t have been a housewife in the 50’s or 60’s, but I COULD work from home today! I also would have someone come in and do a heavy clean once a month.
I often joke with bf I could be a stay at home “dog mom” (we don’t have kids yet). But the truth of the matter is, I could work from home, but wouldn’t want to be a traditional stay at home mom. I like the interaction from co-workers and getting out of the house. I don’t like to cook, and will clean out of necessity.
Going out to breakfast is nice, but I agree that it’s way too expensive. A dozen eggs is $3 at the most, and they charge at least $5 for a 3-egg-omelet. HA! It’s about convenience though and companionship. My family doesn’t usually sit so close to each other in the mornings when we eat breakfast, so it can be nice to have that “forced” face-to-face time.
While I hate the idea of being a housewife (in the stereotypical sense), I do enjoy cooking and keeping a clean house. In fact, I keep a VERY clean house. I’m rather anal about the whole thing. *hangs head*
-cf
Wow. I should hang my head in shame if you did a white glove test at my house. There are some dusty surfaces. lol
I’m kind of weird, in that I actually like to clean. For me it’s a way to destress – and I get anxious if I leave things a mess or if I know of something that needs to be decluttered or cleaned! Cooking, however, is a different story. I don’t have enough patience to cook fancy meals. When I’m hungry, I wanna eat! As I’m a vegetarian, I eat quite a few things that don’t require cooking/cook in a short amount of time, so that works out. Hubby may be on his own in the cooking department, but I think I make up for it by doing all the cleaning. It all balances out in the end.