Mr. Mom’s unofficial week off –>
Since the little minions were driving mommy out of her mind, i opted to do a swap for a week, so she’s down at the office keeping the kids in line… and i’m at home masquerading as the spoon wielding harbinger of sore bottoms.
Well… actually my week has gone more like this…
But don’t tell mommy, she thinks we’re hard at working cleaning … something.
It’s kind of my unofficial vacation. Being self-employed one can never actually take vacations. We’re not like the cubical farm inhabitants of corporate America. Things like paid vacation, sick time and benefits are not in our vocabulary. They are mere shimmers of a dream, faint wisps of something far off that we read about in books, but ..
oh wait.. a dispute has arisen over the ownership of the sheep toy.. i must grab my spoon and investigate …
All is well, we were able to settle the dispute with peaceful negotiations.
SO.. where was i? Oh, the joys of self employment. i think i can sum it up best in the words of the old man. “Why should I work 8 hours a day for someone else, when I can work 16 for myself!”. Words of wisdom i shall cherish and someday pass on to my son when he decides to throw his sanity and financial stability to the wind and start his own entrepreneurial endeavors.
I should quit before this turns into a book, but rest assured as you all toil away in your grey fabric cells, munching your power bar and wasting your employers time reading my wife’s website… I SHALL RETURN!!
Now, where did i put my spoon?
Category: daily, Jim 12 comments »
June 29th, 2005 at 9:36 am
“wasting your employers time reading my wife’s website… ”
Don’t give away all my secrets…. Allison is very lucky to have you and the spoon…
June 29th, 2005 at 10:37 am
I’m picturing the super hero version of “General Jim” (a ref to how I first read it how this post is filed), the spoon wielding crusader. It’s a beautiful image, really. And now you know what to be next Halloween!
June 29th, 2005 at 11:28 am
All I have to say, is that Kev would probably give anything to be able to stay home with the kids while I worked. If anything, this week will probably give you both a better appreciation/perspective for what the other person does. By the way, how are the ballet classes going? Hee hee hee.
June 29th, 2005 at 12:14 pm
Cute post! And as much as I’d love to be self employed some day, I must say getting paid to read blogs all day can be beneficial. Hmmm, tough choice, tough choice.
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June 29th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
I cracked UP when I read the “wasting your employer’s time…” thing. Jim, you are a funny man.
June 29th, 2005 at 6:27 pm
Being a stay-at-home mom myself, I get to waste my own time–for free!
June 29th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
I must say, Jim is quite the “BALLET DAD”!
June 30th, 2005 at 7:59 am
Jim- You gotta meet my brother-in-law. He’s got his own web design business as well and they’ve taken some pretty darned good vacations…6 weeks in Europe when my niece was 2…a few in Hawaii here and there…They got involved in the real estate game and made some decent money. I watch them in awe. =)
June 30th, 2005 at 9:18 am
You summed it up SO WELL. “Wasting your employer’s time” cracked me up. That is *exactly* what I used to do when I worked at the law firm. I had pregnant brain, and could only concentrate for a few minutes at a time, so my release? Visit all the pretty websites with the pretty pictures to get my “focus” back. BWAHAHAHAHA!
I love the sheep pic with the kids. They look so angelic. “What? Us fighting? NEVER!” hee hee
June 30th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
“Spoon wielding”…hmmm..bless you for the TRADE! Please comment again before the week is OVER!
June 30th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
LOL!
and what a good daddy!
July 1st, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Actually, it’s my husband that wastes his employers time reading blogs-I just waste my own time :)
Great negotiating skills over the sheep, btw, you’d be a better nominee for the UN ambassador than the one we currently have!