Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Ten for Tuesday: How to Tell When It's Time to Get Out More

I think that title is pretty self-explanatory, so here we go:

1. It's 3 p.m. and you still haven't brushed your hair -- and doing so seems like a big effort.

2. The highlight of the day is a five-minute walk to Tesco's and you need to take a nap when you get home again.

3. You've lost the ability to interact and scuttle around the street with your head down, unable to make eye-contact.

4. When you do engage in conversation you can't shut yourself up again and babble on for minutes at a time until you need to breathe.

5. When your other half comes home, you pounce on them like you haven't had human contact for days.

6. You resort to cutting the mould off bread and fashioning snacks from stale leftovers just to avoid leaving the flat.

7. You've become way too familiar with every sound emanating from your neighbours' flats, from barking dogs to flushing toilets.

8. You haven't worn 'proper clothes' for weeks.

9. Your slippers have holes and your high-heels gather dust.

10. Make-up? What's that?

Yikes, that was surprisingly easy to do! Clearly I need to get out more, not that it was ever in doubt.

Happy Tuesday!

53 comments:

  1. #2 -- you owe me a mouthful of OJ and a new shirt Talli :-D

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  2. omigosh Talli I am LOLROFL here. You are describing me to a T, along with my daughter who's also a writer. Yesterday she called and said, Mom, will you go to the store with me?

    I can't, honey, I have to clean house and finish my novel.

    She said, I hate going to the store. Which is why we have to food in the house.

    She is just finishing up final edits on her novel as well. Both of ours may come out at the same time. And then we can finally leave our houses and go buy food.

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  3. Oh, Talli I love these (and I see you did make it to 10). I think I especially like #2 and #9.

    Mason
    Thoughts in Progress

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  4. This sounds so familiar from when I used to write at home! Now I would give anything (apart from, it seems, my salary) to feel the strange pride I used to get when brushing my hair 'before' midday. I feel like doing a companion post - how to tell it's time to stay in more! Top of the list would be when I can't actually find my bed due to the heap of disregarded work clothes on top of it (the scene is 7am, clothes are flying: too fat, too young, too wrong, too warm, too cold...)

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  5. Haha you had me laughing hysterically throughout! Great list, though I don't know the feeling, I know what to look forward to!

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  6. LOL, thanks for a smile and posting!

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  7. I think #1, #2, #5 and #9 could be lifted straight out of my life! I must get out more!

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  8. Those were funny, Talli! Hermiting is bad for a public speaker, so I try not to fall into those traps.

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  9. Too funny!

    How about: You know you need toget out more when you talk to the dog more than you talk on the phone.

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  10. But.. but... I do all those. Ok maybe not pounce on the other half - but I do pounce on the kitty when he returns home.

    And it's Waitrose for me, ahem.

    And I think I wear heels at home and slippers for outside.

    Yep, time to get out more.

    :-)

    Take care
    x

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  11. I could have written this list! I DID get out this morning, to the gym. But no one will be home until 3 p.m., so I think I'll put off showering until, um, 2:50!

    (If there's an odor in the forest and no one there to smell it, does it really smell bad?)

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  12. that was too darn funny! I know the feeling though...

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  13. I wish we lived near each other, then we could make each other get out more.

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  14. I know where you live so you're not in my house so how do you know me so well?
    LOL

    Mary

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  15. Oh dear. I nodded at all of those.

    Except it's 5.15 now and I STILL haven't brushed my hair.

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  16. *teehee* You need to drink more. Then there would be a rum run at least weekly.

    Very nice list!

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  17. 1, 6, 7 & 10. All apply today. LOL. Another witty post. Thank you!

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  18. Hee hee, you made me laugh so much.

    I have no milk for breakfast tomorrow because I was 'too busy' to walk the 50 yards to the shop. Good grief, it would have meant doing my hair :-)

    J x

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  19. These are great!! Is it sad that I can relate to some of these? ;)

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  20. I relate to all of these. This is sad and bad at the same time.

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  21. LMFAO...That was funny and just so you know you're not alone, i liked 7 and 10, it's totally me x :)

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  22. So funny! Thanks for the laughs. A couple of them did hit close to home for me...

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  23. I think I've only worn make-up twice in the past year. :D

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  24. Oh, dangit, I read this then looked at the clock. It's 12:30 pm and I haven't put in contacts, let alone put on shoes or makeup. It's like you're watching me and can see in my closet. Who are you? And why are you stalking me? Akkk!

    Helen

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  25. ROFL! What a great post. I'm not going to say how many of these I identify with... *hurriedly puts on shoes and jacket, gathers keys and slams door*

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  26. Talli,
    Hang in there, we writers always have those days when we really do need to step away from the keyboard.

    Love this one: "You haven't worn 'proper clothes' for weeks"

    Are you spying on me? :)

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  27. Scarrily familiar... If it weren't for my day job, I'd never get out. :D

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  28. Holy crapola-- this sounded too much like me! YIKES!

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  29. What is this 'out' of which you speak?

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  30. Blimey woman...that was one funny post!! Yes, I think you definitely need to get out more...

    C x

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  31. Funny list! This summer, I notice my showers are getting later and later in the day. If I didn't have children, I'd be rushing in the shower before my husband returned home.

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  32. What a fun post! Yep, time for a trip to the local pub...hub and I are back from holiday (met some lovely Brits along the way).

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  33. LOL -- I can't tell you how many times I've caught myself babbling when I manage to get out of the house. Excellent post.

    Patricia

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  34. What happens when you've gone beyond babbling incoherently to being unable to locate any words at all to even say "oh, sorry about your foot there..."

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  35. What's all these new fancy words you're going on about: brush, make-up, fancy clothes? What I want to know is how I can delete this blog post from my reading list so my husband doesn't literally drag me outside.

    CD

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  36. I can definitely relate to this list. I had this whole plan of stuff to do this summer, but I only did half of them. If only school wasn't starting up so soon...

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  37. the one about neighbours is the best. Also, for some reason, I really like the phrase "proper clothes" :)

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  38. Ohh yeaah. Me to a T. Every day if possible.

    Thanks for a great post to which I totally relate!

    ~that rebel, Olivia

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  39. Sounds like we need to find out more about what happens at Tesco's.

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  40. Haha so relateable and true. You are awesome!

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  41. I was sitting here thinking - how did she come up with these? And then I realized! Hahaha! My kids would say TMI (too much information)

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  42. Talli, I think we must be identical twins. Isn't a writer's life grand? Haha!!

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  43. Sometimes I'll get a phonecall and I can't shut myself up. That's when I know I've spent too long alone with my computer. Great post!

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  44. I sooo needd to get out more. LOL

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  45. Ummm ... you don't mention masturbating?!

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  46. Have you been spying on me and passing me off as you?!

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  47. I am definitely falling into this category! I have needed to get out more for a long time now!

    CJ xx

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  48. awesome list! thanks for the laugh!

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  49. What a "writerly life" you lead! I'm jealous :)

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  50. I you talking about me? This really sounds familiar! I burst out laughing when I read about being aware of all the noises around you! :)

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  51. The Japanese have a word for this. It's "hikikomori." Literally "pulling away, being confined." Some absurdly high percentage of their male population stays in its apartment all day with the shades drawn, pursuing rather obsessive compulsive activities and living online.

    Sometimes you need to take a breather from civilization, you know?

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  52. Haha, yes, I have almost all of those problems ;)

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