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Slicin' and Dicin'

MrKleen73 said:
Congrats on that PR, and i totally understand trying to get home earlier. I had to push the fact I was leaving at my intended time on this set up. For some reason the attorneys knew I was leaving early Friday afternoon all chose to show up late Friday afternoon. I left at my planned departure time anyway and headed home. Now being asked to fly out to Denver this weekend and I am thinking someone else might have to cover this one. My position is not supposed to be mainly travel and it is seemingly morphing into that.
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yeah I get that! at least its a reasonable flight from Houston, you still have the 1hr time change to contend with but travel kinda loses its novelty after a while. I used to love it and lately I've somehow kinda grown bad at it. I think its a little bit of a subconcious thing, not wanting to do it so much anymore that I tend to be scatter brained when its time to pack/prepare.

Hyde said:
Worth it. Time is money.
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amen, and between forcing in time with the wife late Friday night and the jet lag, I really needed that Saturday recovery.
 
It's a change in priority, the good news is with the wife home, she can probably pick up the slack to pack for you and not even not notice it as a chore. My wife has taken over my packing just because she wants to make sure I have everything. She has a checklist she uses now. LOL Even if I pack myself she will come home and go through everything to make sure I didn't forget anything. Yeah, she spoils me a bit. :)
 
MrKleen73 said:
It's a change in priority, the good news is with the wife home, she can probably pick up the slack to pack for you and not even not notice it as a chore. My wife has taken over my packing just because she wants to make sure I have everything. She has a checklist she uses now. LOL Even if I pack myself she will come home and go through everything to make sure I didn't forget anything. Yeah, she spoils me a bit. :)
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ha, yeah I felt very uncomfortable having my wife drive me to and pick me up at the airport. I'm used to having hard flight times and parking the car at one of the local lots, then taking a shuttle into the airport etc. it adds around 30-60 minutes each direction. this time she dropped me off and picked me up which was AWESOME. I did tell her I felt weird about it, but it was a huge relief, one less thing to stress over. plus her picking me up at the airport meant we could go straight to a little dinner date instead of her waiting for me to get home around 10pm, in which case she would have already been sound asleep no doubt.
 
Dustin07 said:
ha, yeah I felt very uncomfortable having my wife drive me to and pick me up at the airport. I'm used to having hard flight times and parking the car at one of the local lots, then taking a shuttle into the airport etc. it adds around 30-60 minutes each direction. this time she dropped me off and picked me up which was AWESOME. I did tell her I felt weird about it, but it was a huge relief, one less thing to stress over. plus her picking me up at the airport meant we could go straight to a little dinner date instead of her waiting for me to get home around 10pm, in which case she would have already been sound asleep no doubt.
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I would say that is an improvement all around. Also there should be no guilt or odd feeling if you look at the opportunity you are providing her, I am sure she wants to take things off your plate since you all took work off of her plate. She will want other ways to feel she is contributing and you have to allow her that. It's hard for a super self sufficient person to do that, but we all often forget to allow others to be generous to us, when we are givers by nature.
 
MrKleen73 said:
I would say that is an improvement all around. Also there should be no guilt or odd feeling if you look at the opportunity you are providing her, I am sure she wants to take things off your plate since you all took work off of her plate. She will want other ways to feel she is contributing and you have to allow her that. It's hard for a super self sufficient person to do that, but we all often forget to allow others to be generous to us, when we are givers by nature.
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oh yeah I agree with all that, just doesn't feel very masculine having the wife do my pick up and drop off haha. you probably hit the nail on the head though with normally trying to be self sufficient and then accepting this help.

on the flip side even though we are learning how to tighten budgets and whatnot with less income I will say life at home has been pretty great. Her stress level is like zero, even with the step daughters chaos and moving back in for a while. trading her income for this lifestyle so far has been a blessing. only 1 week in and like I said, does require some big financial changes and learning a tighter budget but so far it feels worth it.
 
With what I know you value, it is no surprise to me that home life has improved. Not only does her not working save money in the obvious reasons, but you will find many other quality of life benefits for both of you that will likely be worth more than the money she was bringing in to both of you.
 
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