A list of things you no longer have in common with your single/childless friends…and why you love them anyways.
This post was originally inspired when I about died laughing reading one of Chelsea Handler’s books where she said, “Don’t married people know that the last thing a single person wants to do on a Friday night is play a nutty game of Yahtzee? I’d rather take a bubble bath with my father.”
And the answer to that question is no. No we didn’t know that, but thank you for pointing it out Chelsea. Did it ever occur to you that maybe Yahtzee is all we have left? Our husbands don’t want us drinking all night because it means they have to watch the children and the children don’t want us leaving because OHMYGOD who would cook their freaking grilled cheese sandwiches?
And yes, my children do eat grilled cheese sandwiches at 2am because that’s the kind of mom I am dammit.
Yahtzee is our only option.
This is as good as it gets for us and I’ll tell you what…there are a number of things you single gals do that aren’t exactly OUR cup of tea either…for example…I too, would rather take a bubble bath with your father than:
- Watch re-runs of Snapped while stuffing my face with chocolate and wondering why men aren’t interested in me.
- Listen to my single friends talk about how waking up for work at 8am is exhausting.
- Empathize with a friend who complains that her Audi is in the shops while I man handle a God forsaken MINI VAN!
- Go to a club dressed like a street walker in an attempt to find true love.
Ummmmmm….you know what this is just stupid. Because let’s be honest, I would totally dress like a street walker and head to the clubs for a night. With or without my single friends.
I guess what I’m trying to say with all this is that my single friends have got it made, Yahtzee is the married couple’s version of clubbing, and I really want to take a bubble bath with Chelsea Handler’s dad.
But don’t get me wrong…I may have said goodbye to the Audi and the responsibility-less life of a single person when I decided to get married and have babies…but they’re worth it.
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Now it’s your turn! Choose a prompt, post it on your blog, and come back and sign Mr. McLinky. Be sure to sign up with the actual post URL and not just your basic blog URL (click on the title of your post for that URL). For good comment karma try to comment on the three blogs above your name!!
The Prompts:
1.) A list of things you no longer have in common with your single/childless friends…and why you love them anyways.
2.) A list of things you no longer have in common with your married/child bearing friends…and why you love them anyways.
3.) What was it about that movie? Describe A movie you once had memorized.
4.) Describe your dream home…house, location, and grounds.
5.) Define “freedom”.
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Loved your post and your prompts this week.. Chose no.4 for now.. :)
I think the thing that gets me how the single friends are always late to stuff – like getting just themselves ready to go anywhere is a major production – meanwhile, you’ve made dinner, read stories, checked homework, cleaned the kitchen, showered, shaved and shampooed, used a glue stick three times on an Art project AND tried on ALL the “good” jeans in your closet before getting dressed to go (ok, ALL means both pairs) – and you’re waiting for your single friends to show up.
oh dooooood i hate that…when my single friends are late, i’m like, “you REALIZE that i only have 2 hours and 34 minutes until i turn into a pumpkin now, right?! get your shi#! together!”
we even had to stop playing yahtzee because my son is a really light sleeper and wakes up from the dice-shaking. now all we do when friends come over is sit around the coffee table and whisper to each other.
AMEN! They are worth every sacrificed weekend out with single friends….
oh wait….I don’t have any single friends who don’t have kids!
I am so playing yahtzee this weekend!
Great prompts this week!! I had a hard time choosing.
At this stage of the game, with a 15 month old stirring in the other room and it’s barely 11:00 PM and I’m having a hard time keeping my eyes open, Yahtzee sounds WAY more my speed than drinking the night away in heels that I can’t walk in.
I interact with single friends on facebook and call it GOOD! BWAHAHA…
I have a divorced friend that pushed things so badly that I had to distance myself, though. WOW!! Talk about someone SUCKING the LIFE right OUT of you… *sigh*
Being long since I partecipated. I am back with prompt n. 5.
What a fun post. Unfortunately I don’t have many single friends, many of them have babies or are entangled just like me :)!
Have a fun day.
omg…. i read her book a long time ago… and just died laughing all the way through it. Thanks for the post on my page! :)
My childless single friends and I have been known to play board games on Friday nights. It’s not the activity – it’s Yahtzee that’s the problem. ;-)
Hmmmm…..Chelsea probably wouldn’t have enjoyed listening to my DS hack away with a persistent cough for the last TWENTY FOUR HOURS either! Since your prompt asked the writers to talk about the annoying AND the good, I will say that our single/childless friends do give us a hand sometimes when we a drowning in the quicksand of parental / marital obligations. Thank goodness for that — no bathing with relatives required! I enjoyed your post.
I absolutely love Chelsea Handler! I literally laughed out loud almost the entire time I read “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang”. Hilarious!
Life with children has a different flavor than the single life, or life without children. I’m not embarrassed to drag the trash to the curb in my PJ’s (just did it), drive my kids to school with my hair looking like Nick Nolte’s mug shot, or some other such horror. :) And I am quite sure that my husband dearly misses the street walker apparel of yesteryear. Sorry babe, Target doesn’t sell that shit!
I chose the same prompt, BTW. Have a great day!
hate it when the friends whose kids are grown and out of the house just laugh when they find out yours is still a)potty training or b) entering middle school or c) learning to drive. They all smile and nod knowingly.
hate it when the single friends are late or no-shows, and think you can get out the door in under 5 minutes!
You go Mama! I don’t even know who Chelsea Handler is! But loved your post anyway :)
Haha! Great post! especially about how it is so exhausting to get up at 8:00… My sister used to complain all the time about that!
I gotta say, I’ve always loved Yahtzee! I even have a German version of it (called Kniffle). I have hand-held versions of it in BOTH bathrooms of our house.
So, is Chelsea Handler’s dad hot? Cause I don’t know how to play Yahtzee.
But I love to play Spades, and battle of the sexes, and Uno, etc.
A great card game, a shaker full of Margaritas, the kids knocked out on ice cream and Benadryl, me in my worn out house dress, bestest friend over in hers, our hubs’ talking about the same ol sh*t, sounds like a great Saturday night to me!
**smiling and nodding knowlingly** been there, done that. Yes, we are emplty nesters so I can look back and smile . . . NOW. I remember many a night our neighbors would be over and we’d send the kids to the playroom to kill each other or whatever while we played cards and mixed pitchers of margaritas. Lots of fun! Unless it was a Sunday night and we had to get up to get them off to school. Then we’d all look like Nick Nolte’s mug shot… LOL
Great posst. Love Chelsea Handler and Wanda Sykes.
Amen. To every. single. word.
I think I’m having a midlife crises (in which case, my poor children had better marry young because clearly I won’t be around to see my grandchildren) We’ve been married 10 years, and I’m longing for the freedom of years past. Whilst playing Yahtzee with the kids, I’m dreaming of hooker clothes and do-me boots and a night in a club somewhere. Too bad we don’t live closer.
Love Chelsea!
The length of time it’s been since I’ve owned really cute clothes to go out in falls right in line with the length of time it’s been since I got married.
After writing this prompt, I had to search out a friend for some single girl time. Pedicure is booked for Saturday. Hooray! :) also, I would have to agree with you. I would soooo dress trashy and go to a club, if it got me out of poop detail for a night. :)
I love your prompts this week! I usually do but apparently this week my brain actually worked so I could link up too!
And you are so right! They are worth it but Lord how I miss our responsibilityless days sometimes! Ahhh the joy of sleeping in after a night at the bar!!
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Megan
Freakin hysterical! I love Wanda Sykes too
oh man–this post was awesome!
I still might write a post on this one!
You mean you have hooker clothes? Mine is reduced to either super-ratty t-shirts or business casual. Bor-ring… P.S. I’ve heard Chelsea Handler’s dad is HAWT!!!
So glad to finally participate this week!
Loved your post. So very, painfully true!!
Boy, I can’t really relate to the single friend thing. I married my high school sweetheart, and became engaged at the age of 16. We had our first child while I was a Freshman in college, and we’ve been together for the past seventeen years. I’ve always been family-oriented, and can’t imagine life any other way.
Love your take on this prompt! Perfect way to address it I think! And, luv Wanda Sykes as well. I guess it is a love fest. “Listen to my single friends talk about how waking up for work at 8am is exhausting.” Totally! When you have kids, sometimes going to work is a BREAK! :)
A couple weekends ago, I had a chance to relive those single days going out with the girls to the clubs and lets just say, I have never been more thankful to be married with children.
There is nothing like a drunk guy girating on your thigh to remind a girl of this.
I love my single friends to pieces, what I don’t like are my single-not-so-friends who think that I’m missing something just because I don’t go out as much as I want to. When they crawl into their empty beds at night, I’m snuggled beside my hubby, and when they wake up with their hangovers, I wake up to my baby’s kisses! I love your post and I often dress like a street walker!
I love hanging out with my friends without kids…as long as they can take me talking about my kids. C’mon people! I don’t have an outside job, this is what I have.
I think I have one friend without kids and she is a little older than me. We were the last of our set to have kids so I guess we were Wanda and her husband. LOL Now I just think wth? Why couldn’t we have done this sooner? Thanks for the infertility God.
Great prompt! Chelsea cracks me up and so did your post! I can totally relate with the whole Yahtzee = night out! But I would totally go clubbing one night if I could! And yes to all the single gals, those kids really are worth it!
Love the Wanda video! And I remember in college, my best friend- who had recently gotten married invited me to go out and play BINGO with her and her husband. I remember thinking… ” You are TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD! ” And wondering if wedding ring equaled immediate induction into AARP. I waited until 26 to get married and 30 to have kids… so I’m not sure if it was the kids or the age that threw us over the hill…. but at least I wasn’t playing Bingo@ 21. **shakes head**
Kat, this is a great post! Is this the same Chelsea that wrote Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang?
Anyway, your fundamental point is right on. Kids may take you out of the Audi (or the chevy convertible, in my case), and they may take you out of the clubs, but they’re worth it and then some. And honestly, I’m too damn tired in my 30s to get all dolled up and go trolling for men who are most likely only looking for a booty call anyway.
I love being married. Single life, begone! Never come to call again!
To me, Chelsea Handler is SO MUCH FUNNIER in writing than she is on TV. What’s up with that?
And that Wanda Sykes clip was hilarious!
Love your post, it’s really funny! And I was happy to participate in the writing workshop this week. However, if I can be frank, I took a bit of offense to some of your comments about single people, namely:
Listen to my single friends talk about how waking up for work at 8am is exhausting.
Go to a club dressed like a street walker in an attempt to find true love.
I am single and I don’t do EITHER of these things. Ever. I get up at 6:15-6:30 for my job and really I don’t get this generalization anyway (are you saying the singles you know all work at jobs they don’t have to be at until 10am?? Doesn’t seem likely). I’m also SO over going to clubs to find love, period. Frankly, I think anyone who expects to find love in dis club (besides Usher) is a moron – you’ll find someone who wants a one night stand for sure but love, no. I have enough self respect not to dress like a ho and go grind on any guy who looks slightly normal and shows interest at a club.
I understand you’re kidding around and you come from a different viewpoint and that’s cool! Just wanted to point out that one shouldn’t generalize :) Thanks!
Also, in response to some of the other comments, I’m also NEVER late to get togethers with friends. Well, really I’m never late period. I think it’s rude. So, I also don’t appreciate that generalization (lets be honest, even if they weren’t single, these friends the other posters talk about would probably STILL be late all the time bc thats most likely their personality). I feel sorry for these ladies that have single friends that act so poorly – that’s just no cool and it gives punctual, mature, grounded, hardworking single people such as myself a BAD NAME!
I thought for sure your letter would be to Ellen ;)
Is it okay if I tell the child-less people that most of the time kids are worth it? It’s been one of those days where I’ve been dreaming of how easy it all was before kids…
And for the record, Yahtzee is one of my favorite games!
Ummmmm… hmmmmm… Should I be offended, here?
Today I told my son to go and find something to do that won’t land him trouble. Yeah…but they’re worth it. :P
After reading this, I think I should have done this prompt! I can completely relate with you and the a lot of the commenters. We have some single friends that can’t get somewhere on time if their life depended on it. The wife makes comments about how it will be so much “fun” when they finally have kids. How they will split getting up at night 50/50..how her mom will babysit her kids for free, not that she’s asked her, she’s just assuming. I say “HA!” I’ve known your husband a long time, honey, and he ain’t gettin up from his drunken stupor to feed the baby. And yeah, my mom and mother-in-law both said they would babysit all the time too. Now I get the whole “we have lives too b.s.”. My mom won’t even watch the kids twice a month so I can have a part-time cleaning job for the Christmas money. And the whole not able to get ready on time with just the two of them, they’re gonna miss the whole damn event with kids! Yeah.. I totally should have wrote about this. I could go on for days, lol!
Ok, so I just NOW read my comment back to myself (yes, after I submitted it). Holy freaking grammatical errors! I guess the whole baby’s sick and I’m not getting any sleep kind of shows. So much for sounding intelligent! Geesh.
Sorry ’bout that.
Seriously? Who does NOT love Chelsea Handler??? OMG…is she the funniest or what. I totally hope you really sent this letter to her…please tell me you did…please?
Chelsea is a riot and I’ve loved her show ever since I bumped into her in a store in Los Angeles and she was as friendly as she is funny.
So far, I am enjoying the WW; I would love some comment karma coming my way especially as I seem to always add my blogs last. :-( Come on peeps, show me some love. Yes, I do leave lots of comments for others :-)
Thanks for hosting this Mamakat! I stayed away from the hot potato single/married divide and went for 4 and 5 for my two blogs.
Fun, fun, fun…
Best & have a happy weekend!
Elizabeth
You are so funny! How hot is her dad, anyway. Ewe…did I just say that. Must be the five kids talking.
You had me at “Dear Chelsea Handler…”
I’m a huge fan of hers, love her sense of humor! Watch her every night, have read all her books, etc.
I can definitely relate to not being able to relate to my single friends, although being 42, I don’t have many left.
Every once in a while, I do think back on those single girl days and wonder why I thought I was so tired all the time. lol. I didn’t know what exhaustion and stress were! I do miss the going-out-during-the-week and dressing like a prostitute days. Good times.
~Melissa
LOL, I absolutely love this post. Chelsea Handler is the only reason why I am looking forward to watching the MTV VMA Awards.
I unfortunately have always been at least 10 years more mature than my peers in school, and this post nails it on the head of those single friends in my life now. I surround myself with married couples with babies though, so I haven’t had any complaints lately – but when those friends tell me that I should be going out clubbing and popping pills for “fun”, I am appalled. My fiancee and son are SO worth the life I live. My only option lately is to go to dinner and watch a movie; and no – I would like to go out and have ladie’s nights every once in a while, but I can’t party the way my friend’s do nowadays. I’ve got to come home to waking up every few hours for a feeding.. but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
You are an inspiration, Mama Kat! I am in love with your blog. I’ve been reading your blog long before I even joined the blogosphere :)
I am a silly woman. I did this Writer’s Workshop a week late! Here was my post anyway…
http://www.oldschoolnewschoolmom.com/2010/09/freedom.html