I’m going to try and make a sensible post. No promises though. While I’m not quite as frazzled as I was earlier today, I’m not exactly calm either. blackpantheras and kethrybp near about tried to kill me with letting me think Master’s flight was landing tonight and not tomorrow. It really was confusing though, the whole IDL and time change. It’s sorted now though, thank God, and thank you both for reminding me to breathe. :D
One good thing about thinking Master was landing 24 hours earlier than I expected was that I busted ass getting some stuff done. Even after I had the time figured out, I was working myself into a tizzy. All I’ll have to do tomorrow now is a quick trip to the grocery store and shining myself up.
I noticed just a little bit ago, as I was putting away some cd’s that I’d had out, that I hadn’t turned the radio on all day. That’s very unusual for me, to work in a silent house, but it’s also indicative of things boiling away in my head. I can sing or I can think, but not both together. Today I thought.
During my cleaning spree today, I’d gotten so agitated that I made myself nauseous. I was hot, pouring sweat, making quick running trips to the bathroom ‘just in case’ and then pushing myself back to work. Even after I knew I had until tomorrow evening before He’s home. It’s 1am and I’m still thinking of what needs to be done.
I kept asking myself.. why. Why am I doing this to myself? The house isn’t dirty. It’s never dirty. At most, it gets messy but I’m a fairly clean person, even without any chore schedule. I’m prepared for company (not that I’ll answer the door or let anyone in, but the house is acceptable) most of the time.
And it’s not as if Master expects perfection. He’s never done the white glove treatment, nor would He ever (I don’t think). He *always* compliments me on my housekeeping skills. (Is that a skill? A talent?..lol. I can’t sing but by God I can wash the hell out of some dishes.)
kethry asked me something, in the midst of my mini-nervous-breakdown today, something to the effect of “is He coming home to see you or to see a clean house?” At the time, I shrugged off the question because it doesn’t matter which He’s coming home to see. He’s getting both, whether He likes it or not.
And then magdala posed this to me, in response to my routine vs. His routine. “might be that there is some part of us that wants validation that what we do matters that it is important and that we are recognized.”
I tried to apply that to why I was fanatically scrubbing walls and trying to hot glue a rug to make it stay in it’s place, to the tune of making myself physically ill.
Do I want to knock His socks off when He walks in the door, with a brilliantly clean house? Yes. Do I want recognized for it? Of course. Do I want validated, want my hard work praised? Yes.
And I get all those things. Always. Master may be a hard ass and He may be strict and mean and all those other things but He also piles on the praise for me on a number of things. I am not ever lacking in recognition.
And I don’t think thats why I do it. I think I’d get the same praise if I just did the standard house cleaning. I’m not even sure if He really notices washed walls or cleaned out cupboards. He certainly doesn’t know if I wash the floor with a rag on my hands and knees or with a mop. (Hands and knees just get the floor cleaner. No way around it.) He won’t know, unless I tell Him, that I took everything off of, and out of, the entertainment center so I could pull it out and clean behind it, organizing the various cords, and dusting. Thats no small job when you realize there are probably 100 VHS movies crammed into the bottom cupboards, all of them taken out and dusted, which lightened the unit enough so that I could move it.
He’s not coming home to see dusted VHS tapes that we never, ever watch. He’s coming home to see me. Yet even when I thought He was going to be in tonight, I still pushed myself to clean and hadn’t yet gotten into the shower or shaved or worried about my own appearance.
I do this every single time before He comes home. Every day that He’s supposed to be home is a day of marathon work, of sweating, of stressing, worry and panic. Panic that I won’t get it *all* done when there isn’t anything that I *need* to get done that isn’t already done in the first place.
I dusted His fishing lures. Why??
Maybe I’m afraid He’ll get sick of me. Tired of the responsibility, the extra work that is me. Maybe I’m trying to make up for all He has to do by wowing Him when He walks in the door. “See Master? I’m worth keeping around! Who else will organize your winter boots and line them up according to the coat they match?”
Like that’s an accurate measurement of a slave. I can wipe fingerprints off walls and keep the stove shiny.
Maybe I just don’t know *what* I’m supposed to be doing to impress Him anymore. The things that I do specifically for Him, His laundry, cleaning His apartment, cooking for Him when He’s home.. none of those things require that I stay home all day every day. None of them.
But pulling carpet and painting and wall-papering and organizing and reorganizing the various shelves and bins that line the basement walls do. Do you know how many times I have done that? Numerous. More than I can count. And we’ve only been back here for…. 5 months. In 5 months I’ve sorted, binned, stacked, restacked, and moved “stuff” probably 10 times.
I’ve ripped the carpet out of two rooms. We’ve knocked down a wall (at my request). I spent days and days scraping wall paper off the kitchen walls so I could paint it properly. I’ve rearranged the furniture in every room multiple times. I have other projects lined up. My son’s room, the bathroom, hallway. I have to keep adding to the list. I have to keep the projects stacked or…. or what?
He realizes He doesn’t need me here anymore.
I think it’s the consistent separations that do this. That whittle the value of my slavery down to such mundane things. I’m not able to regularly show Him my worth as a slave. The every-day advantages aren’t optional. No daily blow jobs, no home-cooked meals every night, I can’t bathe Him in the morning before work or make His coffee. I can’t do His routine for Him every day like He’d prefer. I got nothing to show off for the time apart except for some raunchy badly aimed photos of a woman who’s rapidly getting fatter and more wrinkled and feeling old, and a damn clean house.
This isnt another post lamenting the woes of living apart. Not really. The choice is made and it’s not going to be changed. I’m not moving the kids and thats that. Master is not changing His job (that I know of..lol) so this is it. I’ve gotten used to the idea of Him having His own place. The furniture and dishes were spread out. That was hard.. it was a punch in the gut every time I thought about it. His own place. That’s what couples who are splitting up say, His place and my place. Splitting up the valuables. Knowing it wasn’t like that did little to quiet the fears. It’s better now. I’m able now to just set things aside, things that need to go to His place. I call it His house. I refer to it that way, ask Him when He’s going home when He’s here. He always corrects me, says “I am home. This is home.” and I nod impatiently and repeat myself, because I still need the answer. “When are you going home?”
It wouldn’t be quite so bad if I didn’t think He would rather be there than here. Sometimes, between the kids and the constant stream of friends and children at the door, on the phone or in the yard… the animals… the kittens are climbing the front of His speakers and that is so NOT going to make Him smile. The noise and activity and chaos can make even me wish for Calgon to perform it’s magic. When He has a whole ‘nother world of peace and quiet to go to, I suspect He longs for it. Then I get anxious about the noise and mess and try to minimize it or eliminate it all together so that He doesn’t wish He were there and not here, which keeps me on pins and needles, worried about stupid shit.
Maybe the obsessive need for perfection when He comes home is to prove to Him that in spite of the chaotic home, His slave can still keep things clean?
I don’t know! Any of you know? Are any of you still awake?? I haven’t bored you to sleep yet?
I would write more (whether you are awake and reading or not…lol) because I have lots more in there, I’ve just scratched the surface of my current angst but my ass and legs are done for for the night.
If the house should catch on fire, I’m kicking this fucking bench into the flames. And He keeps talking about “doing the washing machine” too. The washing machine was a little move He started doing with the other bitch bench. You know, the “nice” one. The padded footstool with the gentle 60 grit sandpaper. He would take it, while I was on it of course, and jerk it around really fast, the way a washing machine agitates. It hurts like a mofo and would leave me bloodily abraded and that was with the *nice* one! If He does that with this one, it’ll be like skidding off a motorcycle and getting road rash.
*sigh*
This jumbled, messy post is dedicated to daddysgirl because she said she liked them. Send all complaints pertaining to length, boredom, nonsensory(its a word in kaya’s world) and having QWERT imprinted on your sleeping forehead to her. :D
Thank you and have a nice day.
(I don’t know if I’ll be back this way tomorrow or when. Everything depends on how severe the jet lag is, what He wants to do, etc. I’m more than content to curl up next to Him and sleep for three days. I miss that so bad.)
So have a great weekend if I don’t make it back before then. Bye!
~cunt