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July 21, 2005
Woe is me
If anyone asked me, what it is I most miss about those pre-parenting days of yore, I think apart from the obvious time issue, I would answer that I really miss not being able to do things on the spur of the moment.
On Tuesday Mr. PE's (childless) friend phoned to say that he was in the queue to get tickets for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Arts Theatre, a whole group of them were going on Thursday, should he get us a pair too? Mr. PE ended up agreeing to two tickets because he knew that even if I couldn't get a babysitter there would be a hundred and one other people willing to take my place instead.
So with little hope I contacted all the people on my babysitting list. It didn't take long, there were only two and both were busy on the night in question.
So almost before I had even declined my ticket there was already someone in the sidelines ready to take my place but it seems in my domestic role I'm not quite so dispensable.
I usually take this sort of thing with a pinch of salt as part of the parenting (or let's face it mothering) package but occasionally when I think I might enjoy the night in question as much (if not more)than those who are going then it begins to bother me. It is then that I start wondering if it would be incredibly bad of me to start on the only chocolates in the house, the ones that are supposed to be for Littleone to give to her teacher tomorrow on the last day of term. (Don't worry, the answer is an astounding YES!)
To top it all off I have had this painful throat for a week now, I'm not even sure it's getting any better. Perhaps I'm going to be ill forever and then I'd never be able to get out the house.
*sob*
Posted by purple elephant at July 21, 2005 10:11 PM