It's amazing how much time one would expect to spend with someone that one lived with. With my husband, unfortunately, it is not what one would expect.
At the beginning of our relationship we had all the time in the world for each other. Now, I go weeks without a wink of 'alone together time.' Between my niece (whom just turned 3 today - Happy Birthday Shyanne!), our kitten Anubis and our Great Dane puppy Osiris, 'alone together' is a fictional phrase one tends to dream of.
It has been the same routine everyday for months now:
The animals wreck the apartment so I can't sleep much past 8am;
I finally get up and clean, then go online to do homework and such;
Shy comes over at around noon terrorizing the animals and helping them destroy the apartment;
Tommy comes home at 4:30pm and I am already irritable;
Charles, mine and Tommy's friend, comes over shortly thereafter;
Charles and Tommy watch tv or play video games while I chase the animals and kid around screaming;
Tommy falls asleep on the couch at around 11pm;
Jaime picks Shy up at about 11:30pm and stays a while;
Jaime and Shy leave around 12:30-1am;
Charles comes to the computer where I am and talks to me until he leaves anywhere between 2-4am;
I struggle to wake Tommy up and drag him to bed;
repeat.
Thankfully, however, it will all change soon enough. I will begin working 6:30am-2:30pm, receive the child and start it all over. But, the major difference will be my staying up forever at night. If I am getting up at 5:30 in the morning, I am not going to tolerate the zoo that frequents my home. Also, Fall semester is starting rather soon and I am taking another full load - 6 classes, 19 credits. Hopefully I will find some new strength for this semester.. I need my scholarship back.
Tanya LeeAnn
