Leaving Las Vegas

Posted by Cynical Sarah on July 10, 2007

It’s been really hard getting back to regular life since having to spend two weeks in Las Vegas for work. Yeah, it was work, pretty much every day I was there, but living out of a hotel and eating out for every meal for weeks can ruin a person for life.

Who wouldn’t like to have someone cleaning their room and bathroom every day and never having to worry about dirty dishes or what to cook?

I didn’t have to worry about vacuuming, dusting, scrubbing out a tub, or laundry. Not that I worry too much about that on a regular basis anyway, but at least this way I didn’t have to do it AND it didn’t build up to the point where it was going to drive me insane if I didn’t do it immediately.

Two weeks with maid service has spoiled me and I may have to reconsider the hubby’s suggestion of getting a maid.

It’s almost embarrassing to even think about since we’re two fully capable adults who could easily handle all these crappy household chores if we’d just set our minds to it and do it. Instead, we’re both lazy and after a full week of working, the last thing we want to do is tidy things up around the house.

So it builds up until one or the both of us can’t handle it anymore. That’s something easily fixable with or without a maid though.

Getting in the habit of eating out every day is less fixable. It’s just too expensive to eat out all the time, but I have no ambition to cook and no idea what I’m even hungry for most of the time to even help with suggestions of what to make for dinners.

So my first week back home after Las Vegas there were at least two meals that I snacked through instead of trying to figure out a real meal. I’d rather microwave a sausage for myself and leave the hubby hanging than try to come up with some forced meal.

By my second week back, it was getting better. I managed to throw together a meal or two, but not once did I bother to take a lunch to work when it was so much more convenient to head to the food court where I could just eat whatever struck my fancy that day.

I learned a long time ago (not really that long ago) in college that I really enjoy having a wide variety of choices available, so I don’t really have to decide ahead of time what I want to eat. Cafeteria food may not be the best example, or most edible, of food, but at least I had plenty of bland food to choose from.

Having an excuse to eat out for every meal was a secret dream come true from those college years. Once again I didn’t have to think about or plan a meal. The only decision I had to make was where I wanted to eat and then just pick whatever seemed the most appealing on the menu.

It’s a much simpler process than trying to think of what I might be hungry for, then figuring out if we have everything to make it, then actually make it and clean up afterward.

I’m definitely going to have to work through that one though, because there’s no way we’re going to be able to hire both a maid and a cook just because I like living without any responsibility.

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