I’m of no help here, as usual, but a friend and I were discussing this situation the other day.
My wife and kids are visitng the in-laws this weekend. They will be no more than 4 minutes out the door before I turn into an enormous pile. I instantly revert back to a 20 year old with no responsibilities. My diet will be mostly frozen pizzas and cinnamon toast crunch. I will probably start drinking before 10 AM. Clothes probably aren’t happening. I sent out cryptic text messages looking for weed. I’m likely bringing the TV up from the basement so I can watch a few college football games while I play 30 hours of video games.
Does anyone else do this, or am i just the least mature 32 year old around?
^I think that’s pretty normal. I do something similar.
Mike & Mike were talking about it the other day too. Golic’s wife was leaving town and he plans to do nothing but eat, sleep, and watch TV all day (basically being a sloth) and Greenberg was horrified at the idea.
Watch the Spurs, because you care about the result, and so if you hear how it ends, it will spoil your enjoyment considerably.
Then watch the Football on DVR. You don’t care so much about the result, because you don’t care who wins, but you’ll still get to watch how the strategy unfolds and where the key turnovers are.
This gives me hope for when I inevitably get old and boring and married. One of my coworkers’ wife and kids were out of town for a month this summer. We had so much fun hanging out and drinking on the weekends that never happens the rest of the year.
You are the only one. I hit my CFA books to make sure I haven’t forgotten anything, then read all of itera’s posts to gain some much-needed life wisdom.
I don’t know why there are empty wine bottles and junk food cartons in the trash and how we ran out of tissues.