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Wednesday, January 21, 2004
MORE THOUGHTS ON MARRIAGE
Interesting, isn't it, exactly how the things you most looked forward to in life turn out? Marriage is wonderful. But not as relaxing as I expected it to be, somehow. I was looking forward to having my own kitchen, not eating in the cafeteria anymore. I think somewhere along the way I forgot that cooking on my own didn't really take any time out of my schedule because I did homework while I ate, and the preparation time took no longer than eating in the cafeteria would have. Now it takes the time to cook as well as the time to eat, since I eat with my husband. I looked forward to having my own house, nice and clean, but I forgot what a mess moving in makes and how long housecleaning seems to take when you've got a couple hundred pages of reading that need to be done on your mind.
It's really nice to have him around all the time. It's nice to be able to tell him whatever's on my mind as I'm on my way to drift off to sleep. It's nice to have somebody to talk to while I'm washing the dishes. But I forgot that having somebody around all the time makes it take longer to do things, since you tend to bump into each other. That he also tells me what he's thinking while going to sleep, sometimes for fifteen minutes when I really wanted to be asleep. That he sometimes plays on the computer while I wash the dishes and my thoughts get an absent 'mmph--hmmph' (or some other variation on the Gugg grunt). That I get really stressed and worn out when I'm behind on homework. In short, reality hits with its usual painful whumph.
A wise man I knew once said that life is full of 'plus'es and 'minus'es. A big plus comes wrapped in little minuses, and a big minus wrapped in little pluses. This is a big plus. But at the moment I'm not liking the minuses.
Interesting, isn't it, exactly how the things you most looked forward to in life turn out? Marriage is wonderful. But not as relaxing as I expected it to be, somehow. I was looking forward to having my own kitchen, not eating in the cafeteria anymore. I think somewhere along the way I forgot that cooking on my own didn't really take any time out of my schedule because I did homework while I ate, and the preparation time took no longer than eating in the cafeteria would have. Now it takes the time to cook as well as the time to eat, since I eat with my husband. I looked forward to having my own house, nice and clean, but I forgot what a mess moving in makes and how long housecleaning seems to take when you've got a couple hundred pages of reading that need to be done on your mind.
It's really nice to have him around all the time. It's nice to be able to tell him whatever's on my mind as I'm on my way to drift off to sleep. It's nice to have somebody to talk to while I'm washing the dishes. But I forgot that having somebody around all the time makes it take longer to do things, since you tend to bump into each other. That he also tells me what he's thinking while going to sleep, sometimes for fifteen minutes when I really wanted to be asleep. That he sometimes plays on the computer while I wash the dishes and my thoughts get an absent 'mmph--hmmph' (or some other variation on the Gugg grunt). That I get really stressed and worn out when I'm behind on homework. In short, reality hits with its usual painful whumph.
A wise man I knew once said that life is full of 'plus'es and 'minus'es. A big plus comes wrapped in little minuses, and a big minus wrapped in little pluses. This is a big plus. But at the moment I'm not liking the minuses.
