My Idea of a Quiet Saturday at Home and Hers

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My idea of a quiet Saturday at home is to sleep in, relax over breakfast with a cup of coffee, do a little net surfing, check in on Facebook, check in on myLot, maybe spend some time in the yard with the dogs if the weather is nice, work on my latest story idea, and, basically, enjoy a day with no deadlines or to-do list. Her idea of a quiet Saturday at home is to get up at 7, hurry through breakfast, check Facebook for anything important (as if there ever is), and start thinking up projects around the house for us to work on all day until we collapse, exhausted, in the evening. She is in a tizzy right now because she worked the vacuum so much so hard this morning it overheated and shorted out. This was after she'd dusted the whole downstairs and deposited all the stuff on my side table in to the seat of my recliner with orders to throw away the junk and only keep what I needed. Then she told me my share of the chores today consisted of cleaning all the toilets, sinks, tubs, and mirrors, sweeping and mopping the kitchen, laundry room, and bathroom floors, and TBD. She sees housework as a productive way to spend time. I see housework as a necessary evil to keep the house livable. She looks at a clean house and smiles contentedly. I look at a clean house and just think the dang thing will need to be cleaned again soon, so what was the point. Whose idea of a Quiet Saturday at Home do you identify best with?