Solitary Confinement…please.
Quiet.
Linking up with Mamakat’s Writing prompt this week, I chose number 3:
List the top 10 things you miss about being alone.
10. The warmth and security of a snug straightjacket.
9. Not spending two hours of my day cleaning the house from the marauding hordes who spent the night here.
8. Sleep.
7. No dog to walk, no tortoise to pick weeds for, no fish’s water to de-chlorinate and no cat trying to trip me as I stumble towards the kitchen every morning.
6. The color purple. Okay that has nothing to do with being alone — but I love the color purple.
5. Cooking for one. (And making things I like to eat that no one would touch.)
4. Taking a shower for longer than three minutes and shaving more than once every two weeks. Though it’s rather a novelty at parties to talk about my braided leg hair.
3. Sleep.
2. A clean car. Well, maybe my car wouldn’t be clean — but at least it wouldn’t be wrapped in orange HAZARDOUS WASTE tape.
1. No background noise of TV, computer games, fighting, interruptions to referee the fighting and my brain humming with constant static.
And it would be BORING.
Not to say I couldn’t recharge with a few days of alone time, but from one who battled infertility and persevered through two domestic adoptions….
I thank God for their bodies and all their ENERGY, mess, noise, itty bits of paper everywhere and the Indian Burial Mound of tangerine peels that was discovered petrifying behind the couch yesterday.
Yes, thank God I’m not alone.
But that’s not to say I’ve forgot how on the occasional weekend.
What about you? What is most pleasing about having solitary time.
Ooh, sleep took up two spots! Mine should have, too! I’m with you on the fact that I wouldn’t change it for the world. Thanks for commenting on my post. Off to check out more on your site!
Yes, sleep. Guess I need to catch up on some this weekend. Thanks for stopping by Jana.
Interesting that our lists are similar! Yay! I’m not the only one that doesn’t like the background noise of tv!
Now that I’m an empty-nester, I really do miss the noise of having everyone at home.
Except that I’m still glad the bathroom is free when I need it …
hahaha, braided leg hair, now that is funny!
I love purple too! 🙂
Yes Jannica, it’s either laugh or cry. Ha.
I know Jerralea, I will miss my 18 year old’s messes when he leaves home next fall. But a dip in the amount of laundry won’t be too bad.
Love the tangerine peel pile. 🙂
I would say sleeping in. Funny, though, my kiddos are now old enough to fend for themselves for a while if I sleep in, but our geriatric dog demands that we all be up when she is. At dawn’s crack, of course.
Good thing she’s so cute.