….love my alone time.
Solitary, singular, isolated, throw out any definition of oneness that works and you will find me in between the letters.
Smiling.
I’m an only child, you know. Well, maybe you didn’t know that but I felt like sharing anyway. Most, not all, only children aren’t lonely at all, in fact, we can do one thing better than anyone else.
What’s that?
Why, be alone, of course!
I miss so many things about being alone and I know you might wonder just what they are.
Really, aren’t you curious?
Thought so.
Well, here goes….10 things I miss about being ALONE! <drum roll>
1. No one lecturing yelling at me, first thing in the morning and continuing again at night.
2. My “stuff” where I want it without getting into a my-space-debate.
3. Toilet seat always left down. No cold porcelain greeting my posterior at 3 a.m. pee time. Not being greeted by just a cardboard roll where the toilet tissue once was. (Okay, I know this makes more than 10 but tell me you don’t miss not having to deal with this from your days of single-blissdom!)
4. No soggy towels hanging in the bathroom to dry off with after a shower. (Now leaving bathroom-hell)
5. No empty milk containers left in the fridge with the hope that the God of Milk will re-fill them at some point.
6. Not having to cook a gourmet meal if all I want are Stella D’oro Swiss Fudge Cookies for dinner. Or maybe nothing at all.
7. Staying up all night watching movies without being reminded that I’ll just be a total, tired, cranky bitch in the morning.
8. Burning scented candles everywhere without hearing sneezing and hacking complaints from another room.
9. No one tampering with my car seat adjustment. Rear and side view mirrors where I left each of them and.. satellite radio left on Deep Tracks (not Opie & Anthony). Plus, the steering wheel situated way down, lap-low. That’s how I roll.
10. Getting up to walk outside at 2 a.m., in my jammies, to look at the full moon, maybe take some photos, and not seeing someone throw open a window to yell..“are you effing crazy?“.
Yes I am. Crazy for wanting to feel…lonely.
My response to one of Mama Kat’s Writing Prompts: List the top 10 things you miss about being alone. (Inspired by The Little Hen House)
“I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.”
Audrey Hepburn
