C/D: Slipping into antisocial, do nothing attitude whilst spouse (or significant other) is out of town

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― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

Salt *and* Pepa?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

classic

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

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― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

The spouse has to be out of town for this to happen!?!?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Are you spying on me?

― MV, Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Especially if your usual attitude is already antisocial and do nothing.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

i mean, i could have called someone to do, y'know, something since i dropped my wife off at midway on saturday. but instead, i've made my way through beers left over from our 1000 day anniversary party, listened to a bunch of records, eaten peanut butter sandwiches for dinner and generally done a whole lot of absolutely nothing.

but on the other side of it, the night is just -- whooooosh. and i'm left with this feeling of, hrmm, maybe i should have gone for a walk.

tonight's big accomplishment, though: a single load of laundry (mixed colors, cuz i was too lazy to separate)

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

trayce otm.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

imagine this same situation, only you have no spouse or s.o. so the condition is permanent unless you take action.

oh yeah, and you run out of peanut butter for sandwiches after the first week or so. single life is sooooo slack.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

when i'm single i normally feel like going out constantly

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

haha
xpost

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

when i'm single i normally feel like going out constantly

i do too, until i run out of money. and my muscles and head ache from way way way too much alcohol.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

I had this for three days last week, but it was even moreso because it was the spouse plus the child being gone and me all to myself to do whatever I wanted, which basically never happens these days. I had grand plans -- I would see a movie a day, do lots of writing, go to museums. Pah. I went to one movie (Tropical Malady, which is good), wrote a little, and...I don't honestly know. Slept late. Went to work. Did the dishes. Listened to a lot of music. Drank a bottle of wine. Or two, maybe.

xpost: yeah, when I was single I almost never spent a day just sitting around at home by myself, it felt sad and lonely. now it's like a vacation. which is no slight to either spouse or child, I love them dearly, but it does change your perception of free time.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

when i'm single i normally feel like going out constantly
i do too, until i run out of money. and my muscles and head ache from way way way too much alcohol.

1. go out constantly
2. get too tired and catch a cold
3. spend weekend and following week trying to recuperate
4. go out on a trial basis, only to realize you still feel like crap and have made it worse
5. finally recover, go out, and find out your alcohol tolerance has been reset to that of a five year old.
6. slow crawl back to normality by sleeping a lot, working on tolerance

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

imagine this same situation, only you have no spouse or s.o. so the condition is permanent unless you take action.

i remember it well... definitely dud. but then it led me to that feeling of needing to go out constantly, which lasted like a month before i met the woman who became my wife. seven years ago now...

― john'n'chicago, Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

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it's neither classic nor dud, it's just... how we roll.

― chief of chaff (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

This is how we do it.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

classic, especially when they are gone for months at a time. like my girlfriend.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 7 July 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

I usually give myself a project to do when the wife's out of town: record some songs, work on website, etc. More often than not, I end up eating Ben & Jerry's ice cream and watching DVDs instead.

― mike a, Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

1000 day anniversary?
oh my

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

1000 day anniversary party Awesome idea!

If you change your mind about being antisocial, there are some good shows tonight and tomorrow night that will be attended by some ILXors!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

First time this has happened to me (gone for three months) and I find myself smoking up waaaay more, which leads to antisocial do-nothing attitude. It's especially worse since we don't even talk on the phone because our schedules completely conflict.

What makes it weirder is that this is my first post-graduate summer where the "reality" of this life has hit me (spent the first one partying/jobless and last year was our first summer together so we did a lot despite my 9-to-5 schedule), so I totally feel the life sucked right out of me.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

The last time I rolled like that, I watched the entire Freaks and Geeks box in a day or two.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

brilliant. not a wasted day at all then!

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 7 July 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Woohoo!

I'm going to open a Flying Fish ESB and finally see what The Wire is all about.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 16 August 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

First two episodes are ace.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 16 August 2007 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

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