What kind of errands....

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Registered: 08-27-2005
What kind of errands....
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Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm

Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?

I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?

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Registered: 01-05-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 11:37am
Ummmmm....no? Its way easier for me to hit the slopes with friends post kids than it ever was pre kids. First of all careers being what they are, way more of my like minded friends can afford skis and teh ski days/trips to go along with them. Not to mention so many more of us can afford the awd/4x4 vehicles that tend to make actual execution so much more likely to happen.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 11:44am
I had a non-G rated life pre kids. By the time I had kids the allure for most of it had long since worn off. Getting married, not having kids, took care of the part of the allure which I figure never will entirely ware off.
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Registered: 01-05-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 11:46am
Oh, so not mine then.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 11:47am

That wasnt the question I asked. I simply asked her if her mil was rushed to the hospital, would she leave work to go there (this was going on the premise that said mil lived in proximity of her). I'm not talking about sitting at the hospital all night with dh while the kids are left to flounder. I'm talking about leaving work for a family emegency.

Dj

Dj

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Registered: 01-05-2005
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 11:50am

Where? Was it the part about recreational skiing which we all find such a useless waste of time? Or the part where I told my daughter if she didn't want to give up semi-comp gym for competitive hockey she would just have to go without hockey because we certainly weren't putting her in houseleague? Or could it have been how we decided that since the kids didn't take up comp swimming all the swimming lessons were a complete waste of time?

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Fri, 09-09-2005 - 11:52am
Children at 4, 5, 6, the time they are able to get into these things don't have a clue what an organized sport is. They can't want or not want it. They have no experience.
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Fri, 09-09-2005 - 11:55am

To refresh your recollection:

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You...wear a vintage lace dress to occasions nowadays? That you wore 15 or 20 years ago to your wedding?

I'd love a picture. Wow. I don't think "frugal" does you justice. No wonder you think having more than one dress is conspicuous consumption.


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Registered: 03-28-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 11:57am

Oh, don't overanalyze it. There are some understandable circumstances. Really.

My dad wanted to go to Korea with someone who had also been in the war. He couldn't find anyone willing to go. His son-in-law offered to take him. He probably didn't realize that we weren't going to let him reimburse us when dh made all the arrangements. My dh has a lot more interest in war history than I do. I don't think my father wanted to visit the places he was sent into war as a teenager with someone he was all that close to (which includes me.) It had the potential to be pretty emotional to visit the place where about half his regiment combat team (including his best friend) was killed in two days and I think going with a son-in-law was just the right amount of familiarity for my dad. (I think he has been quite protective of his family when describing the atrocities of war he experienced.)

I suppose the main reason my father didn't go on his own was because he thought it was pretty self-indulgent to visit a former warzone just to get closure on a war he fought fifty years ago. When his son-in-law showed an interest, it didn't seem so self-indulgent anymore.

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Registered: 03-28-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 12:09pm

You can spin it any way you want to. I have a great relationship with my father but he also drives me nuts. (For the record, I wouldn't want to go on a luxurious vacation with me and my clone either. One of me is enough.) I just got off the phone with him to ask him some questions about Korea so I could accurately descibe what happened to him in the war in order to write my post to QM below. He shared with me some personal memories about being a medic and dealing with dead soldiers and how he still feels betrayed by the way his battalion was sent to slaughter. Then he told a funny story about being stuck in a trench for 32 days and how the guys passed the time. I don't know that his sharing those thoughts are signs of an intimacy problem between him and I.

I like PJM enough to wish she had better relationships with her brother and father. It isn't a superiority thing at all.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 09-09-2005 - 12:26pm

I had much more money (at least, for the nine years I was working FT, pre kids) pre kids.

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