I'm bored!

[Loobyloo]

I may be a lady but I am out at work all day

[TheGoodEarth]

Apologies sleepyowl, I admit I have generalised a bit. I wonder what the % split of forum members is between men and women? Anyone know?

[TheGoodEarth]

I may be a lady but I am out at work all day

Me too loobyloo (not a lady) but at work all day and I would much rather be at home pottering about. Work is way more boring! I am trying very hard to find a way of giving up work and yet still managing to survive financially but it seems impossible. I think I am just going to have to wait until I am a pensioner

[Loobyloo]

I may be a lady but I am out at work all day

Me too loobyloo (not a lady) but at work all day and I would much rather be at home pottering about. Work is way more boring! I am trying very hard to find a way of giving up work and yet still managing to survive financially but it seems impossible. I think I am just going to have to wait until I am a pensioner

Me and my OH are working hard at finding a way, if we do we'll let you know what the secret is!!

[sleepyowl]

more women than men I think it's about 70-30 split

[JulieSherris]

Ha, I'm no lady either... altho I am female....

TGE, there's more women here than guys, but we treasure the guys who join us

A typical day for me in the life before 'Ish'.....

Get up - 8am.... get a coffee, PC on, let the dogs out....
Spend the next 7 hours drinking coffee, nattering with any neighbours that happen in, pop a game up on the PC & chat on the phone to kids/mum/council colleagues on various committees/friends.....

Somewhere in between have breakfast or lunch depending on when I'd remember.....

3.30pm..... whirl around the house like a dervish, straightening beds, flicking duster (maybe) hoover (also maybe) wash up cups & anything else..... prepare veg if eating at home, wash hair if eating out.....
4.30pm, greet hubby as he walks in the door with a coffee & a smile & chat about my busy day.....
Ha! See... not secret at all!!

Nowadays out of necessity, my day is filled with hunting for basset poo around our 2 acres..... get the peat in for the Stanley, chop wood, split wood, fill dishwasher (yay!) tidy bedroom, maybe have a look in the lounge & walk back out again...(I don't use that room, so the dust can stay awhile) clearing any more trees that need to be pulled out the growing area.... knit maybe, facebook, this forum, breakfast AND lunch... prepare dinner...... and still greet hubby with a smile & tell him about my busy day!!

[Loobyloo]

Nowadays out of necessity, my day is filled with hunting for basset poo around our 2 acres..... get the peat in for the Stanley, chop wood, split wood, fill dishwasher (yay!) tidy bedroom, maybe have a look in the lounge & walk back out again...(I don't use that room, so the dust can stay awhile) clearing any more trees that need to be pulled out the growing area.... knit maybe, facebook, this forum, breakfast AND lunch... prepare dinner...... and still greet hubby with a smile & tell him about my busy day!!

Sounds like bliss to me, *sigh*.

[Millymollymandy]

Well I was hacked off this morning cos the sun shone and showed the smear marks on my freshly cleaned windows! I'm only doing the insides, outside is a filthy mess of rain splots and cobwebs and chrysalises, you name it. But as soon as I wash them the cobwebs come back then it rains again!

And this morning I was jabbed AGAIN as a nurse came round to take blood from us for testing - can't believe the amazing service here where the nurses come to your house to do it!!! Previously I had to go to a blood test lab to have it done. Anyway for the first time ever he couldn't get enough blood out of one arm so had to jab and poke the other one too. Ow! Still at least I do't have to suffer 2 days of painful arm like after the tetanus on Monday thank god!

[sleepyowl]

I've got to rescues my 9 year old son from hobgoblins, hope that husband No3 divorces me as I only married him 'cos he is straight & thought it was absurd that he had fallen in love with me, gather bits of corpse for a mad scientist, buy castle fairfax keep my other 2 husbands happy as well as my wife, visit my sister & parents who have returned from the dead, shoot gargoyles, hunt for treasure & rescue slaves.

And when not playing Fable II go to work, cook dinner, play cards & drink alcohol

[Thomzo]

Well very soon I shall stop trudging into the office at 9 to fall asleep with my eyes open in front of a computer for 7 hours before trudging home again to fall asleep with my eyes closed in front of the TV because I am so tired from all the 'work' I have done all day.

Instead I shall be finishing the decorating, digging the garden, building a new chicken house and run, doing lots of good physical exercise and falling asleep properly. I give myself a month before I need to go back to 'work' because the Ish life is far too tiring

Zoe

[TheGoodEarth]

Typical day for me that I want to leave behind for a more sustainable fulfilling life.

Get up 6.30am
Walk the dog for half an hour.
Quick S/S/S and a cup of tea but no time for breakfast.
Leave home 7.30.
Drive for half an hour and train for half an hour.
Arrive at work and go through emails.
Attend numerous meetings with people more concerned with their egos and career.
Tolerate mind numbingly boring tasks, people and office politics.
Sit at a PC all day in a room with artificial air, heat and light (how mad is that BTW)
Gaze longingly at the sunny day outside (like today
Think about why we are here and what it is all about.
Reverse commute on the way home.
Get home between 6.30 and 7.00.
Eat, talk, see child for an hour, washup up etc.
9pm sit down knackered watch some tosh and then the news.
Go to bed.

I am a hunter gatherer!! I am not programmed to live like this! What happened there??

[Rosendula]

Apologies sleepyowl, I admit I have generalised a bit. I wonder what the % split of forum members is between men and women? Anyone know?

This took some finding. I remembered Annpan doing the poll, but just couldn't remember what the post was called. I've never put the word 'sex' in a search engine so often

[JulieSherris]

sleepyowl - I like that post!

[JulieSherris]

I've never put the word 'sex' in a search engine so often

Rosie, you've lived a sheltered life...

[Annpan]

I missed my chance to say.... "I may not be a Lady, but I'm all Woman"


My day is not un-similar to Julie's day - but I have a toddler and no Dogs... so I have it easier



You forget TheGoodEarth, that you also get a pay packet at the end of the week... something that some of us have chosen to forgo for the benefits of a more time wealthy, less money wealthy life.