 Comedy: February 01, 2006 Issue [#861] |
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This week: Edited by: Melissa is fashionably late!  
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Life throws us curve balls, running us through a gambit of emotions. The best emotion of all is happines, and nothing envokes happiness more than laughter. There is a science to making others laugh, and it is through that science that comedy has evolved.
This topic of this week's Comedy Newsletter is time. |
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Time is an amazing thing. I used to think I didn't have enough, because I worked a full time job on second shift, plus spent the morning being a full time mother to my beautiful baby boy. I still found time to be on Writing.Com, though, even with all of the activity of working and mothering and trying to take care of the house.
Then I got laid off on January 5th, and after getting past the initial shock of losing a job that I wasn't altogether crazy about because of the shift, I was excited. I thought this would afford me more of the one thing which I had been lacking - time.
This past month has proven me wrong. I've learned you don't gain time, you swap it. When you trade in time you've spent working, you are able to spend more time with your family. If any of you are dedicated to your family, you also know that they suck up your time like a leech.
I sometimes wonder what my husband thinks I do all day. He makes the obvious conclusion that I sit in front of the television, eating bon bons and watching soap operas. The house miraculously cleans itself, the dishes put themselves into the dishwasher, and the laundry is dirt resistant and returns to his dresser drawer, folded, after he takes it off for the day.
Not to mention the 11-month old that must entertain himself while I watch said soap operas. He changes his own diapers, forages for his own food (or maybe eats the crumbs that fall off my bon bons), and plays by himself while I am immersed in my soap operas.
I only wish that I could admit the above is true, and feel the normal guilt of a wife/mother who neglects her family and house. But, if I were going to neglect them, it ought to be obvious to him, by now, that I'd neglect them for Writing.Com. 
I can tell you that if you don't have 100% respect for a mother or father who stays home and tends the house and children, you better wake up! Or, better yet, give him or her the day off and try it yourself. Walk a mile in his or her shoes, and I'm sure you'll need a foot-rub by the end of your journey! 
In the meantime, I have to go. My dinner is burning, I have to take the rollers out of my hair, my son is busy tearing apart family photos from the 1930s, I have a pile of laundry 3 miles high, my husband is due home in 15 minutes and expects the house to be immaculate and a Dopplebock to be poured and ready for him when he walks in the door! I guess I need to go back to neglecting myself instead of my house. I'm sure I can manage to make some more time in 4 more weeks! |
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