The reality is this: When you subtract time spent on domestic chores, take away days usurped by teacher's conferences or sick children, and factor in seasonal drains on your time, like the endless holiday errand list, there's precious little left.
Unluckily, for me the errand list is the first category to print so there is no missing it and I'm stuck picking up her dry cleaning, shoe repair and anything else she desires.
(This in a culture where injectable face gel and liposuction are listed on a Beverly Hills' errand list along with skim milk and acai berry).
Your bright future might well contain a super cool synergy of Star Trek, Star Wars, James Bond and the Jetsons, with cars that fill up an empty tank and pay for gas automatically, not to mention sophisticated bots that can handle all of your shopping errands, from list preparation to finalizing payments.
There is even a national association, the American Errand Runners Organization, which lists errand services nationwide on its Web site, www.errandinfo.com.
Astrid has long offered users the ability to share tasks with family and friends, but, as part of its new look, users can now outsource individual to-dos to TaskRabbit, the fast-growing personal assistant that lets users list errands or tasks that needed to be completed in its marketplace.
The list included errand runner, dog walker, and baby sitter, proving Blue Star Families, Military Spouse Employment Partnership, Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden — all of whom work tirelessly to promote the hiring of military spouses — still have a tremendous amount of work to do.
On our second day, while Craig headed out with a list of errands from his ex-wife (picking up her dry cleaning, her prescriptions, more cat food), I stood in the shower and stared at her shampoo.
Like many of the other 181,690 married men in the county, at some point over the weekend, I am handed the list of errands that need to be taken care of.
As we leave I rattle off a list of errands at Anthony, stuff that must be done this minute, nine, 10 random things, paint samples, pants for Elon, milk, bread, broad beans.
Conversely, it states that a body in motion will be kept in motion with a list of errands, written on the back of an envelope, before that body "becomes one with the couch for the rest of the day," which seems like an unnecessary characterization.
