It's time for a confession.
After all, confessions are the first step when seeking improvement.
This will be bad. You might not want to read on. If you do, you have been warned!
Maybe you already know this about me. I
have been in denial about this issue for so very long that
it borders on being a disease.
I'm lazy. (Apparently.)
Lazy as in sluggish, slothful, idle. Unwilling to work or use energy. Characterized by lack of effort or activity.
I've always been this way. (Apparently.)
I got my first job when I was 15-1/3. I worked in a nursing home for the summer months and continued to work there two weekends a month thereafter, all while attending school and maintaining a GPA that placed me in the top 10% of my class. Since I came from a low-income family, this meant that the government sent me a check every month just for keeping my grades up!
My head hangs in shame. What a lazy 15-years-old I was.
After Noah was born, I had a part-time government job that allowed me to take him to work with me. When a second position came open, I was offered a second part-time position. I worked 50 hours a week while mothering an infant who never saw a minute of childcare.
This is outrageous laziness. I may be too embarrassed to go on.
Fast forward to now. I just want to make it as painless as possible for you to read about someone like me who is just so extremely lazy. (Apparently.)
I'm a single mother two three children with a full-time job as a Waldorf teacher. I'm known to ask my teenagers to babysit the toddler, so I can take a shower or use the bathroom. [Gasp.] I think taking the trash out and loading/unloading the dishwasher are reasonable chores for teenagers. I don't always cook dinner. At times my children have to eat Evol burritos or [Gasp so big I'm almost choking to death.] a bowl of cereal & fruit.
Laziness is apparently very common in Pisceans. Pisceans also tend to have substance abuse problems. (Apparently.) I think I might need a bottle glass of wine to swallow this confession...
Hi. My name is Cadi and I'm extremely lazy. This is my confession.
[I think you're supposed to applaud now.]
10 comments:
Shock! Horror!
I hope whoever said you are lazy feels better for getting that "truth" off their mean-spirited chest!! Have another (large) glass of wine I say - if you're not too lazy to pour it! ;)
Murielle,
I'm even too lazy to pour wine into a glass. I'll just drink straight from the bottle. ;-)
<3
You are just too cute for your own good :0}
i hope whoever called you lazy has a confession of their own to make....like "I'm clueless with a big mouth"
Reasonable chores for teenagers indeed. This sounds like conversations I've had with my two teenagers lately. They think they are hard done by because most of their other friends don't have to do any chores (or so they say!). I say that being able to do things will make their lives easier when they live on their own and one day they'll thank me for making them learn how to do important life tasks, like unloading a dishwasher, cleaning a bathroom and now, gasp, starting to do their own laundry! There should be a support group for "lazy" mothers. I was also thinking about going on strike for a day, or a week, to show them all the things that get done here without them even noticing! Keep up the good work!
I like the bit about drinking wine straight from the bottle! Least you're admitting it ;) Now go and put your feet up.
Well that just made me smile quite a bit. Thank you.
Cadi,I,too, have that underlying thought most days. That was drilled into my head as a child, to the point where I think that, of myself daily. Ask anyone who knows me, and they will tell you that the word Lazy, is the fartherest from their mind,when they think of me, but still, I feel it inside of myself.I have decided, there is some kind of hormone or chemical imbalance that makes us feel this way and hopefully, during my next visit to my nurse practioner,we will discuss this matter.We most likely need some 3 S tonic,if they still make the stuff.I used it years ago, and I think it was an iron tonic for building up the blood. Low iron will make you feel lazy,and then this drought and excessive heat with 100 plus temperatures,we are having doesn't help matters.Hopefully, this too, will pass.
Being a single mother does not necessarily mean one is lazy(who would even SAY such a thing,anyway?) and in my opinion I think single mothers generally have to work even harder; twice as hard!
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