My Cinderella/Hawkins Day

(Writing Prompt WWU May 18, 2013)

Ironic............I wrote on this prompt, was undecided if I was ready to post it or not, came back a couple days later and ended up losing the whole post. Where did it go? Who knows. It's out in cyber space some place I guess. So 'to post or not to post' became a lost post................I will try again to write on the topic of the writing prompt......here goes.

Waking around my usual 6:00 am I ventured downstairs to meet the sunshine if there was any and have my breakfast, wondering just exactly what I would do with this day. While filling the toaster my 'Cinderella-voice' said "You should spend the day relaxing and doing just nothing because you don't often get a chance to do that; there is always tomorrow to do the chores". That no sooner having been said when my 'John Hawkins-voice' boomed "There is far too much to be done to be lazing around doing nothing; there is laundry to do, floors to clean, dusting to be done, the kitchen to clean, the cars need washing; the list is endless" as he cracked his long leather whip next to my left ear. Wow Cinderella had her work cut out for her if she figured to come up against this fellow John Hawkins.

The muffin was toasted; butter or not.........Cinderella said no, Hawkins said yes because I would work off the calories doing my chores. Should I have peanut butter or just plain..........same argument. Hawkins won both rounds; I licked my lips after my English Muffin adorned with butter AND Peanut butter. Had I thought to throw jam into the argument I may even have had some jam on my muffin as well.

Finishing up the last of my tea, Hawkins roared "get up you lazy woman you, get the first load of laundry in the washer; while it washes you could have the kitchen cleaned up before the second load goes in" as the whip again cracked, beside my right ear this time. "Just relax, there is no hurry to get anything done, in fact there is all day tomorrow; the laundry isn't going anywhere, it will be in the exact same place whenever you are ready to look at it" chided Cinderella. I was quite prepared & satisfied to listen to this 'Cinderella-logic'; the 'Hawkins-logic' seemed altogether too harsh; the trouble was it was becoming very tiring trying to sort out the constant bickering that was taking place inside my head. I wasn't quite sure how I would reach a final decision on the matters at hand without suffering some serious guilt feelings regardless of the path I chose to take.

Soon it was lunch time; as I listened to the back-and-forth of the two factions I realized I still hadn't made a decision about what I was going to do with my day (or had I?).............

Shall I have soup, a sandwich or both; with butter or not; with cheese or not; what kind tuna or chicken; mayo or none; mustard, no mustard; shall I add lettuce or not;................the choices became endlessly silly, the arguments equally foolish. In the end I made the biggest, fattest sandwich filled with every possibility to which I added a bowl of soup......which had all been supported by Hawkins who used the same argument as he had at breakfast. I was feeling so full after lunch I didn't want to even get up but he was there cracking the whip again, urging me to get moving because I had only half a day left to get all the work done while Cinderella soothed me with her usual idea that it could all be done another time.

So..........I sat all afternoon listening to the argument as it slowly grew sillier and, as the day progressed, less intense (probably because the day was dwindling and before long it would be time to fix dinner............then time for bed if I could get through the decisions surrounding 'what to fix for dinner'). Whew what a day! Dinner turned out to be very late because preparations were impeded by indecision in fact by the time I finally decided I didn't want to make a decision, some kind soul suggested we just go out to eat.

I didn't want to do this again tomorrow so I sent Cinderella and Hawkins over to my friend with the promise they would have much more fun with her than they did with me. Just like that they were gone and I had no problem deciding when to go to bed, what time, what to wear, what time to set the clock for; all of those hard decisions seemed easy to make (knowing very well I could leave tomorrow till it came)........!!