Blended Days

Ever been off work for 5 days, stayed at home for at least half of the days, followed by the loss of a sense of time?  This is happening to me now...

Since the power went off last Wednesday and is still off at my workplace today (Tuesday), I have not been required to go to work.  This means that I am going on day 6 of being 'free' of distinct time obligations of any kind.  What to do with so much freedom?  

One, is that you get to know your neighbors lives probably a bit more than they wish you did.  I now know the guy on the second floor, 3rd apartment, is trying to forget his ex by visiting as many girls in town as he can or is enabled to.  The other guy on the second floor, 1st apartment, is a retired marine and drinks about 10 cans of beer a day and says the same amount of curse words as he did when he was in the Marine core.  His buddy, who works at the chicken processing plant comes over and they do 'man gossip' for hours and hours of the day. The couple on the third floor, 2nd apartment fight about anything and everything and their kid has to witness it all and surely will be mentally damaged by it by the time she grows up.  The woman in that relationship is really close to the ex of the guy who is a man slut that I mentioned earlier, too.  The women in the building are much more protective of their business as they stay inside much more (good choice ladies) and only come out to go get their hair 'did' at the parlor as they come out with their hair covered with a rag and come back shaped up.  

So is this what people do when they are off work for such a long time?  Be nosy with the neighbors lives and only find out what the day of the week is when they hear it mentioned in one of their conversations?   Now before you all think I am Ms. Nosy I only overheard these conversations because I like to keep my back door open and screen shut to get fresh air inside and also read on the balcony.  I can't help but overhear their conversations even if I pretend to be reading when they are talking.  If the ears had an 'off ' button I would press it.

This makes me think of the days when I would be home to take care of any children I might have.  I would be working on them, raising them, teaching them what they need to know...but I would obviously have to do a better job about keeping up with my days and adding structure of my own to make a clear division of time and add back that management of efforts that my job so clearly provides now.  

Its raining, I am caught up on housework, posted this article... what's next....