Book Blogger Hop No. 82: Reading or Housework?

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This Week's Question

Read or Clean? Read or Bake?

Read or Make Dinner?

What would be your choice?

(Submitted  by Elizabeth @ 

Silver's Reviews)

My Answer

This is a matter for deep pondering, yes, indeed..... Oh, of course not! Any hardcore reader worth their salt will immediately reply that reading tops ANY OTHER activity! That includes blogging, although I dearly love writing posts and commenting on other bloggers' posts, as well. Reading is just out of this world! Therefore, it simply cannot be compared with any other mundane, routine, BORING everyday activity. True, the activities mentioned in today's question are a necessary part of daily life. However, they are nowhere near as interesting, addictive, enjoyable, or downright riveting as reading is! They can, therefore, be put off as much as humanly possible. (Says me!)

Okay, so I do realize that there are other bloggers out there who enjoy baking as a hobby. I can understand that. I'm not at all interested in baking as a hobby, but hey, there's something for everyone in this world! I can see how others would enjoy it. But cleaning? Making dinner? How prosaic!  How very ordinary and uninspiring! (Some well-known chefs might take exception to my observation that making dinner is a prosaic activity, but oh, well.....)

Of course, I would never let dust pile up on furniture to the point that someone could draw a face on a table top, for example. Lol. But I'm not such a "neat freak" that I am DRIVEN to have everything "spic and span" before I allow myself to sit down and prepare to immerse my eager brain in a great book. Oh, ABSOLUTELY not!! 

As for baking and making dinner, well, these are activities related to the stomach, and I for one do not like to go hungry, especially when my brain cells are munching away on an engrossing plot! However, I don't need to bake in order to feed myself (or my hubby). I can do just fine with some frying, and the microwave comes in VERY handy. So, making dinner is a necssary "evil" for me. When a plot that has me living in a fantasy land is suddenly interrupted by grumblings in my tummy, well, I really have no choice, do I? Lol. I MUST leave Hogwarts or Middle-Earth, or wherever else I might be, and see about satisfying those hunger cravings!

And now back to cleaning. I wouldn't mind this so much if only I could wave a wand, as they do in Harry Potter's world, and everything would just clean itself! Lol. Alas, that is just not possible in our kind of reality....

Three household chores not mentioned in the question above are doing the laundry, doing the dishes, and ironing. The last two are also boring, routine activities. Doing the laundry, though, can actually be highly enjoyable, because one can sit beside the washer and dryer while they do the work for you. therefore, you are able to REALLY get into a book while you wait for your loads to be done. Lol.

Seeing as how I can't get rid of these ridiculously BORING activities, I will always do my best to procrastinate on doing them as long as possible, while I bask in the glow of a terrific read! Barring the whole house falling down around my ears, I think I can get along just fine in literary worlds, while the housework can just.....WAIT.  (The alternative solution is to just very sweetly say to hubby, "Oh, darling, can you help me out with the dusting while I just finish this one chapter?")

   

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