Dear Husband

Dear husband chartered a sailboat with "The Pelican Army" (AKA - group of buddies he has down here who came up with this boy club) and is sailing from Newport Beach to Catalina Island for the weekend.

Dear husband left me with a list of to-do's to take care of while he is gone on vacation playing Peter Pan. Ahem - Pay bills, sell car, take other car to the shop, mail pics to photog clients...


Dear wife was not amused.

P.S. To make myself feel better I'm scheduling a hair appointment for next week. Cut and dye. Seriously, I look like a rat and I couldn't stop thinking about it after that last post. And since he left the house a mess when he departed, I may just have to get a massage too for my poor muscles that spent all weekend cleaning it ;)

P.P.S. He's lucky he's so good looking.

"Liberated and Unhappy" - Just Food for Thought

Interesting article from the New York Times

Op-Ed Columnist: Liberated and Unhappy By ROSS DOUTHAT

In the 1960s, American women reported themselves happier, on average, than did men. Today, that gender gap has reversed. Male happiness has inched up, and female happiness has dropped.

"...all the achievements of the feminist era may have delivered women to greater unhappiness. In the 1960s, when Betty Friedan diagnosed her fellow wives and daughters as the victims of “the problem with no name,” American women reported themselves happier, on average, than did men. Today, that gender gap has reversed. Male happiness has inched up, and female happiness has dropped. In postfeminist America, men are happier than women."

Side Note: I've had a lot of fun running around Corporate America and am grateful to be treated equally. I DO think however that men and women are just plain different. And while women are certainly MORE THAN CAPABLE of ROCKING the workplace and even tackling labor jobs successfully, maybe these numbers just illustrate the point that we are most happy when we find joy in our God given strengths? What's wrong with excelling at and embracing motherhood? Certainly more satisfying than documenting profit and loss margins at HP, trust me.

Could it be we've spent all these years trying to "prove" we are equal to men, by simply trying to BE men?

I am woman, hear me...?

Oh how life changes...

Before Marriage

1. Monthly Spa Trips
2. Anthropologie/BCBG Shopping Sprees
3. $100 hair cuts
4. Handbags: Prada
5. Shoes: Lanvin
   

After Marriage

1. Massage from Kris
2. Shopping, what's that? Oh, you mean the grocery store?
3. I actually cut my OWN hair last time
4. Handbags: Rrright
5. Shoes: Wearing the old ones

You could say my life has changed a bit :) Kris's fault? Actually, no. We set aside money every month for each of us in our "kitty account" to use at will. When we first got married I plowed through it, but I started using it less and less and after a year I gave it up entirely. It all goes to the house fund now.

So maybe my life isn't as glamorous but if I really wanted that stuff, I'd get it. Somehow it's just not as enticing. Interesting....