After what seems like years to him, I've promised my hubby that we could stay home today. This is going to be a rough day for that because again, it is SO beautiful outside!
You see, I am naturally a street rat. I have always been, even as a baby my mom said I was happier running the streets with her than I was being at home. So I'm guessing that it's in my blood to always be on the go since it was my mom that was always going too. ;-) It's hard for me to stay at home unless I have something specific that I'm working toward. (Deep cleaning for the holidays and family coming up, planning an event or doing projects around the house like planting a garden or building new shelves.)
What makes this especially hard is that I no longer live back home. It's been almost 3 years since we moved to Texas, but I still haven't made any REAL friends. Sure we've got friends that we chat with when we see them and that we occasionally get together with, but none that are the "hang out on a regular basis, let's go shopping together, invite yourself over for dinner" kind of friends that we have back home. Which means that I don't have the kind of friends here that I can call at a moment's notice and say, "Want to go to Wal-mart?". So that leaves it all to my husband...and boy oh boy does he hate it. LOL He is NOT a street rat. He's a homebody the likes of which I've never seen before. He'd be happy to sit at home all day, every day for weeks on end. Can you see how this doesn't mesh well for either of us? LOL
So here I sit today, itching to get out of this house and enjoy the world, but keeping my word to my hubby that we will indeed spend one whole entire day without having to get in the car and go somewhere.
Except maybe to the 7 Eleven around the corner for a coconut slurpee...
;-)
As her hubby I would like to point out that all of the "stay at home and work on something" involves me not doing what I would like and what she would like. Case in point: Gardening and making shelves! How many of those ump-teen shelves did you make? Hmmmm?
ReplyDeleteLOL Love you babe, I love doing these things for you, I truly do! Bench, chest and crown molding next!
I can relate to what you're saying in more ways than one!
ReplyDeleteWe had friends that we spent every weekend and a few weekday evenings hanging out with when we lived in Central PA. Whether it was "Hey, we're going over to Lowes to pick up some ______, wanna come?" or "Hey, we're firin' up the grill. We do food, you do drink?" or "Hey, we're gonna watch Survivor and order Chinese. You in?"
We've really missed doing that since we've moved. We have our friends J&R, but they're very different than my hubby and me. They're not very active people, they don't like being out in the sunshine, they have very different TV taste than we do... so it makes it hard.
It really winds up just being my hubby and me. Which is fine with both of us, for the most part. We love each other's company and always have a great time together... but there's something to be said for having that girlfriend you can go grab a coffee and piece of pie with. Or the hubby having that guyfriend he can blow stuff up with. :-)
Hope you guys had a great day together!