I got Glen Campbell's "Everyday Housewife" stuck in my head whilst vacuuming today. Of course, that simple chore lead to others....I'd been putting it off as long as possible, but frazzled by a couple of hours of setting up a new Internet Router, I needed busywork.
Ironic, isn't it? (In my best cartoon voice). I don't think Glen was thinking of a housewife doing much more than food, laundry, cleaning, childcare, and staying pretty for her man! I guess that's why my rendition of the song kept slipping into Waylon Jenning's Luckenbach, Texas. I'm no musician - maybe there are some of the same chords? Or perhaps it's just that they're both country songs - not my go-to genre.
So I was in a singing/vacuum frenzy. I had wanted to use my new slick chordless model - easy to zip around and pick up those obvious chunks on the oak/tile floor. But NO, the one I purchased online (after shopping locally with no luck) arrived Tuesday. We started unboxing it to discover it had been used - scratched and dirty! WTH! So it was quickly boxed up and returned. I had to pull out 'ol faithful and corded.
Don't you hate it when, while doing one simple chore, you make the mistake of getting down to floor level and discover all those cupboard drips you can't/try not to see when standing up? I don't know what you do when that happens - but I pull out the Irish accent and pretend to be the scullery maid. I tell off those slobby lads and lasses who live in the "big house" all high and mighty, leavin' the dirty jobs for we "red knuckled hard workin' gals".
That and cleaning wore me out! Now I'm relaxing, enjoying the WiFi hookup - staring at the one item that refuses to comply by joining. Waylon's "simple life" sounds appealing.
