That makes sense.

Today the high is only 82! Maybe I can do something besides lie unmoving beneath the ceiling fan when I get home from work.

Can today just be Friday? I would like to opt out of the rest of this week.

I'm sorry about Lucky, Maria.

I made it through Tuesday only having to jettison mowing and laundry.

Yesterday wasn't too bad. I think tonight will be pretty full though. The weekend will be crazy busy. Once my wife's business is done getting starting, that will help a lot. I'm doing everything tech related with that plus furniture assembly and some other stuff like that. The house is getting bad again too. Sometimes I wish I could have the house to myself for a weekend so I could just clean it. It seems like I can get a couple of hours of cleaning in on the weekend and get a good head of steam going, but then someone will need me to do something and when that's done there's something else, and then something else, and I can never get back to it. It gets frustrating.

Gud, I'm legitimately confused: why doesn't your wife clean? What does the division of labor look like in your house?

Today is my Friday since I decided to take tomorrow off, which means I really need to get some stuff done today.

It's hard for me to figure that out since I sort of hop from task to task without really reflecting on the whole picture.

I do the cooking and when we do carry-out I'm almost always the person who picks it up. I do the vast majority of the grocery shopping. We both do laundry, and we both do dishes. I handle trash and recycling, mowing, auto repair, and household repairs. We both do vacuuming. I handle bills. She handles school issues and taking kids to appointments. She handles putting together pills into pill boxes. I handle everything technological. I tend to do more de-cluttering and filing and wiping things down.

Crap. I remember I told a recuriter he could call me this morning. I sort of hope he doesn't follow through.

Is there room in your budget to have a housecleaner come in, maybe even just once a month? That could free up some of the deep-cleaning time for you both.

Do your kids have chores? I was responsible for dusting and vacuuming on Saturday mornings by the time I was 10, maybe younger.

The kids have sporadic chores. Our daughter does her own laundry and our son will move toward that before long once he reaches the age when she started. Mowing will me moving toward them too. There is supposed to be a time on the weekends when they pitch in too, but often things will come up.