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I've noticed a trend with the women I date. They seem to all, well most, be
the very independent woman type that is gonna do everything her self with
help from no one. It is no mystery to me why this is. I'm lazy. That's it. I
have no desire to work for a living. I want to sit at the house, take care
of the little house chores, keep the grass nice and green, and -- well I
mostly want to sleep and watch TV, but Above All I Don't Want To Work. I'll
be my wife's Houseboy.
The first time I was introduced the possibility of the stay at home dad was on the TV show My So Called Life. It was a great show about a teenaged girl and the drama that surrounds her life. Even though she was a girl I seemed to related to the drama that she went though. I think most high school students could, and should see this show. |
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Graham was Claire Danes father in the show. He was a homedaddy. The first scene I remember see him in he was doing the laundry. This didn't give away his role in life as I had seem my own step-dad do laundry, however it looked like the laundry was actually sorted, I don't think that this word was in my step-dad's vocabulary. Well I'm sure he knew the word, he was a smart man, but he was like most men and stuffed the washing machine till you could barley close the lid, pour a reasonable amount of detergent, straight from the box as the measuring cup was now in the kitchen, into the machine, and turn it on. Graham seemed to know what he was doing. Later in the episode it was clear that Graham was in fact a homedaddy. He became my hero. I didn't know then that I would seek this out in life at the time, but I was intrigued by this what this man does, nonetheless.
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Later in life I began to actually work for my living. I chose a job I thought I liked in the ChAir Force, and the Idea of the Homedaddy was becoming more popular. I didn't, and still don't like work. I once started smoking just for the smoke breaks. I avoided work at all cost. As more of my female friends became undergrads at UNC-Chapel Hill and DUKE University that were aspiring to grad school, I slowly begin to relies that the possibility of becoming a Homedaddy was closer to me than a guy on a TV show. Articles that I later read in Newsweek told of families that the roles of the parents had switched. Dads were at home cause they lost there jobs in the wonderful economy of 2003 sponsored by Bush&Co, moms we working cause she didn't. After the job market didn't improve dads became Homedaddies, mom brought home the bacon. After I read this it became my quest, I was gonna be a Homedaddy. |
My love for kids, and the desire to fill the state of Road Island with my own only fuels this desire of mine. Of course that might all change once I have my own kids. They may cramp my 'laying around the house' style. I like to get a lot of sleep too, I hear babies like to get you up at night. On the other hand pay off is when they get to keep the grass green, and help with the house work.
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The only problem I see that may through a snag in my plan of laziness to
fatherhood, Houseboy to Homedaddy, Is that I have about a year and a half
left in the military until I have to find something or someone else to pay
the bills. I'll be in afghan land for 3 more months, and then I'm in Alaska
for the remainder of that time. Alaska isn't known for it selection of
women. Although I have met a few, some that would let me fulfill my dreams
of homedaddiness. Yet I'm still single for some reason or another. Time is
running out, and I fear that I'll have to find work at some point. Unless I
get into UNC-Chapel Hill and I can start picking from some of the best grad
schools on the East coast...
My name is Caleb, I like long walks on the beach... Candle lit dinners and I'll do what ever you say as long as you pay the bills, and buy me a nice riding lawn mower... I cook too! Gotta get a head start, clock is tickin. |
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Caleb can be reached for comment or dinner in October. |
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