{"id":38,"date":"2006-09-04T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/09\/not-a-domestic-goddess.html"},"modified":"2006-09-04T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T03:34:00","slug":"not-a-domestic-goddess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/09\/not-a-domestic-goddess.html","title":{"rendered":"Not a Domestic Goddess"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve discovered a curious thing. When I have a three-day weekend to rest and get things done, I become a different person. I don’t really want to watch TV, or even have it run in the background to make the place seem less silent. I eat better. I keep my house in order. And at the end of the night, I still have enough energy to walk through the kitchen and think, “Hmm, the dishes. I could do the dishes before making my evening tea.” (Take my word for it, this thought never<\/span> occurs to me normally.)<\/p>\n

I’d always felt vaguely guilty about my normal schedule for doing dishes (I use the dishwasher for everything possible and wash the rest only when absolutely necessarily). Visiting my parents this month, I was even more shamed by my mom’s new habit of doing nearly all of her dishes by hand even though the dishwasher is sitting right there just because she loves watching the water drip off the plates. Here I can hardly find it in me to put hand to soapy water more than every few days and my mom does it three to five times a day! (Don’t worry, most of my dishes go into the dishwasher just fine so my kitchen isn’t smelly or ugly.)<\/p>\n

My mom tried to explain that she wouldn’t do this if she worked full time, but deep down I figured she was just trying to make me feel better. Well, now I’ve learned that if I didn’t work full time I might <\/span>do my dishes once a day…<\/p>\n

No, I’m not a slob. But I’m no domestic goddess, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve discovered a curious thing. When I have a three-day weekend to rest and get things done, I become a different person. I don’t really want to watch TV, or even have it run in the background to make the place seem less silent. I eat better. I keep my house in order. And at … Continue reading Not a Domestic Goddess<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}