Tiny vacations
A room, a door, two minutes
We had a Twitter thread going on about tiny, petty things our spouses do to make us hate them and I realized I don’t like being touched or talk to (or even looked at) while I’m eating alone.
Yesterday my husband touched me, in a perfectly friendly, even kind way, while I was eating my peanut butter cereal. It burned like hot acid on a hot day!
I realized it’s because breakfast is one of my micro vacations of the day and I couldn’t stand having my two-minute vacation, especially one where I’m eating something crunchy and sweet, interrupted. Here are my other tiny vacations these days:
Any morning time I’m awake and have hot coffee and nobody else is awake.
Right after a shower when my head is under a towel and I can’t hear anything and it’s dark under there and nobody can find me.
Listening to music/podcasts during laundry/dishes time. If someone suddenly comes in and talks to me, I realize I’m back to doing a chore so I’m pissed about having my audio flow interrupted and also being red-pilled against my wishes.
Lunch by myself. It’s like breakfast but I catch up on my reading so when that doesn’t work out I’m wholly disconnected from the entire world.
When I’m exercising, and I can yell things like “If you can’t get him back in the kitchen, make sure he’s not eating anything you care about!” or “Get yourself an ice pack!” or “My goal is to finish this without stopping so you figure it out!”
Anytime I’m driving by myself, anywhere, as long as it’s a distance close enough that my back doesn’t start to hurt.
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One witchy thing
The shower is my mini vacation. But I have a 4yo so I definitely don’t get one every day, and even when I do it very often includes a 4yo running into the room to tell me something nonsensical about her favorite tv show.
Ooooh leaving the dinner table a few mins early to go run the water for bath. My five minute break in the evening routine of not having to talk or listen to little people.