IHO Rikki-- What do you do when your SO is gone?

[thiswillbe]

I remember we did one of these a while back, and it was fun (I still remember S's answer!). So, what do YOU do when your spouse/SO is out of town?

[rikkiandjulie]

I work today, tomorrow I'm off, I work 4 hours Friday, and I'm off Saturday. I work Sunday but she is back then.

So I will be ordering takeout tonight and watching Nip Tuck on Netflix.

Thursday I'm sleeping in, a trip to the dog park, and its suppose to snow so I'll bake and watch more Nip Tuck. :-)

Friday I'll work a few hours. Then my best friend (also out KD) is driving up from Colorado Springs, meeting me at work and we are off to Breckenridge. An awesome ski/mountain town that will be gorgeous just after snowfall. :-) We will putz around then head back.

Saturday I'm headed to Manitou Springs for the coffin races. It's an old legend in the town that it rained really hard on Halloween and a coffin slid down the mountain, so now they have coffin races. Not real coffins more like box cars dressed up in Halloween themes. I'll take pics! This is also right by BFF so I'll be going with him and his family (which I love).

Sunday opening the coffee shop at 4:30a. Then J is home and one of our very good friends is riding back with her, so that will be fun!

Although this is NOT typical, I'd usually just eat take out, sew, and bake. :-)


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[2brides]

L has been home 2 weekends since August (she is home during the week, but gone every weekend.) Honestly, I work 100x harder when she is gone than when she is home because there is so much to do and only one adult doing it (the weeks worth of laundry, getting the kids homework done, prepping stuff for the kids (soccer/school/etc), entertaining the kids, chores around the house, etc.)

The things I do differently:
I don't make the bed. L always wants the bed made and so I do it every morning. But when she isn't home? Ha.
I watch crappy tv that L hates (and always stay up way too late doing so.)
I decide what the kids and I are going to do/eat when I/we want to do it (this is going to be the hardest part of having her home. I am used to being the sole decision maker on the weekends.)
If I feel like lying in bed till 8am on a Sunday, I do and am not guilted by my wife tackling chores around the house.

I used to love when L traveled for business pre-kids. I would go hang out in bookstores for hours, meet up with friends and not feel guilty for spending the day with them, go to happy hour, sleep in....oh, I miss those days.

[2brides]

Rikki - that sounds like an AWESOME weekend! I am jealous!

[hlke]

I pretty much eat things C wouldn't eat and watch things C wouldn't watch. I also try to block out time for myself to do something I've been wanting to do - read a book or do a sewing project. It's not that I can't do those things when she's home, but that our weekends together lately have been so important to us, we tend to do things together rather than both hang out doing separate things.

I used to take the car and go to Target (I almost never drive), but now there's a Target on my way home from work so I don't need to save up going anymore.

[ElsaVonM]

We haven't spent a weekend apart since we moved, so this is pre-kids. But when she traveled for business I used to (a) not do ANY chores until the night before she came home, including dishes and making the bed and (b) make a giant pizza and eat a few slices for every meal until it was gone. Oh, and watch old movies on TCM.

[twotrue]

Let's see....
- I clean on my pace. Meaning I don't put self-imposed pressure to get things done on a pace that I think she wants.
- I drive her car.
- I don't make the bed (that's always her chore since she sleeps later).
- I watch crappy tv that she would comment on.
- I make frilly girlie alcoholic drinks.
- I smile because the house stays cleaner.

And there's probably a lot more but those are always the top ones that come up when we talk about this.

[kershnic]

Eat pizza rolls for dinner!

[joyseattle]

C rarely travels without me. But when she's not home during the day, I stay in bed longer, eat what I want which she wouldn't usually consider a meal, and let the dog bark at squirrels etc longer than she does.