Comments on: creature of habit

By: petite

petite — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:55:10 +0000

ha ha

well spotted!

but I think there were non-secretarial duties involved too…

By: snowgaze

snowgaze — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:16:43 +0000

Maybe it’s just me who doesn’t like routine, but have you thought that if you didn’t have a fixed side of the bed to sleep the problem of the radio would be (at least sometimes) solved? When I sleep on the side of the radio (no such thing as my side or your side at our home), the snooze button is hit the second after the radio went on… :-)
As for the rest of the routine, I can only say I understand and share my sympathy…

By: Van

Van — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:12:16 +0000

Say, when you find that job advert, let me know??

By: kim

kim — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:55:12 +0000

I feel your awakening pain. Our apartment morning ritual:

5:30, alarm clock goes off to (yes) news radio. It beeps and plays and is all out annoying until David actually wakes up (or I get annoyed and give him the “hint”). However, David doesn’t actually hit snooze, he just turns off the buzzing part and LEAVES THE RADIO ON. Then, about half of the time, he promptly falls back asleep, relying on me to wake him back up again fifteen minutes later, and then again fifteen minutes later after that.

He actually gets up at 6, to be out the door at 6:25. Why we couldn’t just sleep an extra half hour is beyond me.

Of course, the news radio can be interesting. They seem to play a song every 20 to 25 minutes or so to break up the monotony, and one morning I awoke to Prince telling me over and over that I’m a “sexy motherfucker.” So surreal.

By: ViVi

ViVi — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:40:18 +0000

It occurs to me that with such a heavy workload, you’ll be needing an assistant. You know, someone to keep the kettle going and keep the nail files sharp. Lemme know if I can help. ;)

By: JonnyB

JonnyB — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:47:19 +0000

Hmm.

I was thinking of expanding into the European market so there may be a franchise available. Can you do jokes about Christmas lights and stuff?

By: petite

petite — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:45:05 +0000

suziboo – Despite the fact that I would love to give Tadpole a brother or sister, I stand firm: no second child until I have a lady to do the ironing, my employer has consented to a four day week and Mr Frog has a new job which does not involve him working 14 hour days and leave me feeling like a single parent.

anan – Nature is cruel. How is it that I am hardwired to wake up at the tiniest cough from behind a closed door, and Mr Frog can sleep through?

By: anan

anan — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:40:22 +0000

The first night my sensitive new-age husband and i cuddled up to our little bundle of joy (born just that morning)the wee tyke woke up with a cry. i jerked awake, just in time to see said husband turning his back to go back to sleep in the same atavistic gesture of males everywhere.

It was then that i saw how it really was…

By: Legomen

Legomen — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:32:21 +0000

Bloomin’ bosses.

My Portuguese boss now has a habit of dropping into the office BEFORE she hangs her coat up. Now there is just no ‘Hide all browsers’ warning as we don’t see her sashay past.

It’s doing my head in too.

By: Suziboo

Suziboo — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:01:58 +0000

“Et c’est pour quand le petit garÃ§on? Quoi? Mais il vous faut un garÃ§on, vous avez dÃ©jÃ une fille. Et il faut qu’ils soient assez rapprochÃ©s, sinon il peuvent pas jouer ensemble.”
The above is what people said to me (with a change of sex as I had a boy) as soon as Tadpole 1 reached his first birthday. I don’t know your plans, petite, but if you don’t want your mornings to become even more impossibly, hopelessly chaotic(yes, it is possible, and in ways you cannot yet imagine), then DON’T LISTEN TO A WORD FROM THESE INTERFERING GITS. Even if the Frog, your In-Laws, and three domestic servants are helping you out, you will not have a minute to yourself until they are both at school. Don’t say I didn’t warn you