MULTI-TASKING

I walked into our office last night (I use the word office but it's really just a small room without a bed or an alarm clock and has a lot of stuff piled around in different sorts of stacks so we call it the office). Anyway, when I walked into our office last night I'm looking at HUSBAND on the computer, on a sports chat board, with his ipod on and earphones in his ears, and the TV on. He was multi-tasking - computer, ipod, tv - THREE things. It was a moment!

Normally I think that men can't multi-task beyond two things. They can cook on the grill and listen to the game, they can mow the yard and listen to the game, they can watch the game and drink a beer, they can talk sports with their buddies and cook on the grill, they can mow the yard and drink a beer, and, I've seen it happen, they can read the sports, watch the game AND drink a beer, which exceeds the two limit. That always impresses me when I see that happen.

Men are GREAT single-taskers though - I don't want to take anything away from them. Men’s single task can be very good at times (hopefully! when the game isn't on; and their game is, oh forget I said that.) Anyway, I just don't think that most of them are multi-taskers.

Here's how I see women multi-tasking:
Women can hold one baby on our hip, have the other baby's hand, have the other baby's hand IN the other baby's hand, have our purse, our bag, our other bag, our other bag, two sacks of groceries, hit the button to close the garage door, keys in hand to open the back door, change the laundry from the washer to the dryer, change a diaper, change a tampon (aren't we grateful for those little strings!!), wash our hands if we think it's necessary, call for pizza, feed the cat, feed the dog (hope we got the right food in the right bowl), wash the baby vomit from the baby's shirt, wash the baby vomit from our face, get the video running on the tv, check the voicemail messages, hit the delete-all button (my favorite!), empty the kid's backpacks, empty the dishwasher (were those clean or not? oh well), reload the dishwasher, find the cork screw, find a glass, find the bottle of wine. All of that within 3 minutes. Women are amazing multi-taskers!

I still say that men being able to do MORE than two things is a step in the right direction. And I was proud of HUSBAND for doing three things at once last night.

I went to bed, read, painted my toenails, watched Bill Maher. I'm cuttin' back.