Relationships & Productivity

I've come to the conclusion that being in a relationship positively ruins your productivity.

You're relaxing at home for a while, and bam! the whole day is gone. How does this happen?
Maybe (here comes a mushy call) you're enjoying your time together too much to notice, or it could be that you need to have the combined will of two people to get both asses into gear.

We have a "things to do" list, comprising of all sorts fo fun activities ie art galleries, cultural things, cooking, trips away, learning new hobbies etc.
However, all that goes out the window, with late wake-ups in the morning, bumming around the house, DVD watching (and cuddling hehe)...the list goes on.

Not that I'm complaining. In the end, it's all quality time, right?

Damn! ten cheap calls already:

hee hee mushy call (that's me! :))

I agree QT is QT but QT outside the house is sometimes much needed after endless QT nights infront of the DVD! But then again you'll be 'complaining' about not enough in house DVD/snuggle QT nights when you're all activitied up!!
mushiejc (link) - 20 April '05 - 11:21

damn.
ue - 20 April '05 - 14:53

I'm pretty productive with my boyfriend, so who are you unproductive with JB??!!! =p
beckster (link) - 21 April '05 - 10:27

ah... but is the opposite.. ie, being too productive, any better??
bjee - 21 April '05 - 18:25

Bjee is right. What is productivity for the sake of productivity?

Btw, I'm loving single life atm :)
PeeDz - 23 April '05 - 19:28

agree with fellow commenters - no use being productive just for the sake of it.. cuddle time wins hands down over trying to achieve 101 things at once! But having said that, hafta give a shout out to my homie PeeDz... life on the singles cruiser is grand at the mo'!
lmm - 24 April '05 - 07:55

Maybe I always know that there is things to do. Relaxing for the sake of relaxing is not a strong point, although it should be addressed.

Yes, PeeDz, I know the single "XBox" life suits you to a tea :)
JookBoy (link) - 24 April '05 - 12:54

Yup, can't fight the chipping action.. finished Max Payne 2, nutting through GTA: Vice City atm :)
PeeDz - 27 April '05 - 20:10

Damn indeed.

What are you doing KC? If seems your gf has no issues with her levels of productivity. :)
ricegrains (link) - 29 April '05 - 14:34

I have the perfect strategy for making your day together more productive. All the chores that I should be doing all week (ironing, vacuuming, taking out garbage, etc) you postpone until she's at your place. Then all of a sudden it's "clean-up time". Together, of course.

My favourite is to say you're taking the garbage downstairs while she's ironing some shirts, and then duck off to the gym for an hour or so. 30 minutes on the bikes in front of V-channel and you'll be pumped full of testosterone, ready to rip her away from her ironing in a fit of passion.

The idea is to make it look like you're caring about her, while at the same time you're not letting her waste your time. So while she's vacuuming, call out something sweet, like "baby, you might have to take the end off when you clean behind the TV. It's hard to get to, you know." This shows you care, and you don't even have to look up from the computer screen.

Another thing that makes it look like you care is a little 1-minute massage for her when she's ironing. Because that's about how long it takes to get the syrup from the hotcakes (see below) off your fingers.

If you run out of things for her to do, you can always get her to make you some hotcakes with syrup! You've got the mix already in the cupboard, so she can't screw it up like she does the rest of her cooking. In the mean time you just continue looking up porn and calling out the occasional "careful, the pan gets hot you know" when you can hear she has just burnt herself.

RC

PS quick tip, is that when you're putting your case together to get her out of your house on Sunday morning, always *include* the hours that you spent asleep. Suddenly "we just spent 4 hours together" becomes "you know, i've already spent 12 hours with you baby. That's half a day. Imagine if I spent half a day everyday with you. That's half my life! I mean, it would be great and all baby and I love you and all that shit, but seriously, when would I have time to go to work? Yeah. Ok, so we'll do this again next week, right? You know where the bus stop is. Ok, bye."

RC
randomcow - 02 May '05 - 11:02