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Tue, October 10
Quiching!
All this time I've been telling myself I do have a bit of the Domestic Goddess in me: I dust our furniture every other day, vacuum every three days, Windex the windows, and do the laundry (well, the last time I washed the laundry and J folded). But last night, J one-upped me in Domestic Godessness: On my way home from seeing a sing-along version of “Grease” at the Ziegfield theatre with my coworkers, I received a text from J: “Que pasa?” he asked. I wrote back that I was on my way home. “What are you up to?” I texted him. His response back:
“Quiching!!”
I had no idea what that meant. Maybe it was a new kind of dance the kids were doing these days…But when I came home, the answer was this: There was J, in the kitchen, in his bathrobe, laboring over two quiches. I now hand him the Domestic Crown, for all I’ve done in the kitchen thus far is make cereal.
By the way, my “life plan” is now out in the open. At my mother’s birthday party on Friday, I was hanging out in my sister’s room with her and her other twelve year old friends. One of her friends teased me relentlessly about why I am not married. “Because,” I explained. “I don’t have a ring on my finger.”
“Why don’t you have a ring on your finger?” she prodded.
“Because I’m not engaged,” I answered.
“But why aren’t you engaged? You and J have been dating for like, five years!”
“Two, actually...Well, I don’t know really. Maybe in a year or so…I’m in no rush for marriage. But I guess it would be nice if...”
I noticed that her eyes were now looking behind me, towards the doorway. I turned, and there was J, with a bemused expression on his face, like, “Oh REALLY? So that’s the plan, huh?” So embarrassing. I also can’t believe I’m getting pressured by twelve year olds.
J, on the other hand, was smarter than me. When my mom's friends asked him why he and I weren't engaged yet, he answered simply, "Because I'm gay." On second thought, that would have required a much lengthier explanation for the twelve year olds...
Posted by lexzog at October 10, 2006 12:00 AM
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