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Ok, so as many of you will glean from the cunning title of this post, I do believe that all my reading Naomi Woolf (sp?) and believing in feminism, but not the way Kyle uses the word, and stuff, has caught up with me. Technically, when you stay home and someone else goes out to earn money, and you do the washing, that makes you a housewife. So now I’m a housewife. Just without the ‘wife’ part. Oh ja, and not in a house either. It’s more like a flatshare, albeit a comfortable one.
There are positives and negatives to this new found role. The positive is getting to loll around in bed with my hair all messy while Kyle bustles around getting ready for work. And getting to visit Tescos to buy a Magnum at 3:32 in the afternoon, because bwahahahahaha, I’m not at work, and I can go for a Magnum break whenever I feel like it.
The negative is the overwhelming desire to make sure there is ’something for supper’ by the time Kyle gets home, dis-empowerment and the danger of brain turning to mush while watching daytime television, especially the price savers channel, where people buy cushions and stuff. It’s basically like Verimark, only not as slick. Being a presenter on one of those shows must be the most challenging thing ever, no jokes. You try ad libbing about Egyptian cushion covers for 40 minutes live on air.
I really hope that I get a job soon. I went to a temping agency the other day, and FAILED A MICROSOFT WORD EFFICIENCY TEST. How does one do that? I don’t know, but I managed. My excuse is that *nobody* has to do mail merges anyway, and one day when I have a corner office, I will gloat and fire anyone who says that anybody needs to. Because nobody needs to.
I think watching too much daytime TV is making me bitter.
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jen, you know how housewives stay busy and avoid day-time tv…? they have children. and affairs with the gardener. you don’t have a garden, do you? i’m just saying…
Comment by Jill March 13, 2007 @ 3:10 pmMS Word efficiency. Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Muppets seem to be running that temping agency.
Stay away from the TV. Read a book. Write a book. Write a book about Egyptian cushion covers. Anything. Just leave that good for nothing idiot-box alone.
Comment by halfhaggis March 14, 2007 @ 9:45 amum….whats a mail merge?…*confused*
Comment by hotpinkflush March 14, 2007 @ 3:57 pmexactly my point, hot pink…
Comment by jenbug March 14, 2007 @ 4:27 pmFur, dont make a lie. You failed the typing test, didnt you?
And so cunning little fur thought it would tricksed its BA friends by looking through the tool menu in msword and took the most ‘complicated’ word, ‘Mail Merge’ (we prob would have caught onto, the “My excuse is that *nobody* has to do spell check anyway,) and blamed it your lack of typing talent on it.
Shame you Fur!
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