At last it’s Friday, and I’m so happy I could cry. It has been a long, daunting week of non-stop work and missing my family.
What is interesting to me though is the fact that some people look forward to the opposite: getting away from their family. I’m not talking about your typical I-need-a-break-to-spend-some-me-time kind of getting away, though. That I can relate to. But the people I’ve been meeting with this week all have to travel to do their jobs, easily around 75% of the time. When I casually asked some of them how do they handle family life when they’re always on the go, some of them said that being away from home actually makes it easier for them to deal with family life, because if they had to be at home with their spouse and children every day they’d go crazy. One even went so far as to say that if it wasn’t for the fact that he was mostly only home on the weekends, he and his wife would probably be divorced by now, since spending more than 2 or 3 days together straight is painful for both of them.
I think that is so sad.
But my spouse is also my best friend, I adore my children and I love my house. To me there is no place like home and I am so glad that tonight I get to return to it. I also look forward to not having to get up and get dressed, put on makeup, make sure my hair looks luxurious and drive to an office every morning before starting work like I did this week – since that’s usually when I get most of my productive writing time done. These past 5 days of doing NaNoWriMo during a week when I ONLY had free time to write at night after long, 12 and 13 hour work days were really painful, but I did manage to get a total of 3,246 words written. That’s about half of what I’d hoped to have written by now, but I still have the rest of this weekend to try to pick up the pace.
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Hard working woman, I admire.
Oh, You shouldn’t be shocked at his statement. I’ve always said you and your husband have something good. Not easily found.
Applause @ your passion for writing.
You’re right Don, I shouldn’t be shocked. I can’t help but feel a bit of sadness, though. And yes, I do consider myself very fortunate.