Bachelor Week!!

Lisa has tickets to go to the tapings of the finale for So, You Think You Can Dance. This show is, by far, Lisa's favorite. No amount of nausea could keep her from this opportunity. She is going with her sister, Amy, and Amy's friend, Ginger. Lisa's taking the kid and I will have the whole house to myself. No nauseous wife, no crying kid... wait... scratch that.

Generally speaking, when Lisa leaves town to have some girl time with her sister or her cousin, I always have the best-laid plans to do nothing but sit around, eat pizza and play video games. I think that of the 5 trips Lisa has taken, from recent memory, I managed to actually fall into a video-game-induced torpor, well, none of those times. This time would prove no different. Generally, I get distracted working around the house. I do a good, deep cleaning of the floors, I scrub the kitchen and work in the yard. I take care of any maintenance items and by the time it's all done and I actually sit down with my friend Mr. Xbox, Lisa is calling to say she is on her way home.

However, this time was probably a 50/50 split. Like any good kid, I did all of my chores before I went outside to play. In a quick bit of honest disclosure bordering on stupidity, I was a Friday night homework kid. Yep, I would get home from school on Friday and do my homework that night, thereby leaving me a free weekend. Joke's on me though, as my Sunday was usually spent alone while all of my friends were doing their homework. Hmmmm... explains why I didn't date very much. Now that I've depressed myself with my lack of middle-school social life, I have to re-assess my own thoughts on when our child should do homework... who am I kidding, this kid will totally take after Lisa! Sunday night (or Monday morning) it is!