It's a time that requires an after dinner, after house cleaning, after work completing activity that doesn't call for much action because by this time of day, the energy store is near depletion.
(Which is precisely why Celine's children were birthed in the late afternoon/early evening: that is when work gets done. If the labor pains came at any other hour, she would have been too consumed not producing to actually push anything out)
(And why sometimes after a full day of teaching, tutoring and two hours in the car, Ali comes home to a silent house and sits on her couch/sensory deprivation tank for a few before starting dinner and reading the house for Matt's arrival)
So if production isn't an option after coming home from work and making dinner and eating dinner and cleaning up after dinner and finishing up work left over from the day, then what do you do with that time? How can you make the most of it without really doing anything?
Well, you fake it, obviously.
Here's our List of Things That Seem Productive But Require Little or No Brainwork
10:22 PM 1. me: Copy and paste Gchat into our blog instead of re-writing it and laboring over structure and words
2. Celine: watching TV is something we do a lot(and who doesn't)that is why i suggest watching a channel you have never watched before, like the Spanish channel)
3. Celine: eat some nutella
10:27 PM 4. me: twist your hair around your index finger and snip the split ends.that can take hours 5. Celine: love that one! use it.
How about put away clothes that have piled up on my dresser over the past week?6. me: or gather all of the sweaters you can't afford to dry clean and with a set of tweezers, pluck all of the cat hair yourself
Celine: I have done that (or something like that) before
me: and then hang them outdoors in the cold to have the stink blown off
Celine: I pull off pills on sweaters
10:32 PM me: I use a razor sometimes for that. Did you see Lady Gaga perform earlier?
7. Celine: blogging, that's a good after dinner/before bed activity (I'm tired, btw, and no, I missed her performance) or checking empty email boxes
me: blogging is good for other people to do or that's what we do?
other people don't want to blog, do they?
me: aren't we the only ones who want to blog? if people liked blogging, wouldn't we have more readers? wait - do we have any readers? thank goodness for your sister and her comments. If the heart is a lonely hunter, than blogging can be a lonely heart. lol
10:44 PM Celine: i don't know about thati have a friend who started blogging (and i never thought she would). me: I love taylor swift
Celine: she is cute
Celine: a little awkward...but cute
where did they find her (we didn't hear about her AT ALL in turkey)
me: um, a christmas tree farm in PA!
10:47 PM me: my cousin patrick told me when he is a famous opera singer, he'll pay me to ghost blog and tweet for him
Celine: ha
8. me: back to our list. I sometimes pass time rolling up different sized socks and trying them out in my bra
Celine: Beyonce seems sweet
(not i)
10:48 PM me: to see what I might aspire to when I am preggers some day
celine: interesting
9. me: I make up dances
and perform them for matt
but I always end up hurting myself
he thinks it's a comic routine but it's really not
I'm really trying to dance
10:49 PM Celine: that is a good one
dance practice
And here are a few more good ones:Write a letter to someone in another country, anyone - we can give you some addresses.
Go house shopping here or here
Go furniture shopping here or clothes dreaming here
Do some push-ups with these
Or some Yoga with these
Craigslist is definetly an activity I always do before shutting down the computer at night! We are always in need(want) of something!
ReplyDeleteBut neither of you do the mom/wife walk through the house at night? Taking the cups/plates off the couch/table and dumping them in the sink, replacing the warming bottle of milk to the frige, throwing the removed socks down to the general direction of the hamper, putting the phone back on the charger and finding the remote for the TV and replacing it BY the TV so you can use it to turn on the cartoons in the morning? That is my last burst of productivity before bedtime. ;-)
LOL, that is the last thing I do here Lex. Not every night, but those nights that Jeff falls asleep on the couch waiting for his wife to finish working... and then not taking his snack napkin and milk cup back to the kitchen... actually, I like doing it - makes me feel less guilty that I was working.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout-out Ali... although I am not witty in comment writing (which irritates me)... definitely need to get an English tutor for more enriching blog response (maybe Celine or Chantal can help with that).
As Ali does a dance as comic relief - I leave it to those of THE OFFICE... uniting us both, under the blankets, chuckling together before both falling off to sleep with a bit of a lighter heart.
Hey! It's not comic relief! I'm really dancing and I think it's good stuff!!
ReplyDeleteAs for the last walk through - well, that's the reason my husband is always in bed at least 25 minutes before I am. I can't even kid myself about going to bed with a dirty dish in the house - there's NO way I would sleep! I'm glad I'm not the only one. Matty thinks I'm insane because I'll jump out of bed if I realize I forgot to fold the throw blanket and store it in the ottoman.
For some reason, I don't think Celine and I are united in OCD...
LOL you guys!
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