Guilt

I'm mainly retired - I work two days a week for a Federal government regulatory unit. My job involves working with data collected from a testing and monitoring program. I enjoy my work and the work place.
I also like being mainly retired.
I like being at home.
The guilt comes when I'm doing things other than washing, ironing and cooking which are my areas of responsibility.
My partner is a workaholic.
Watching The Little Worker is the same as watching a colony of ants... no ant seems to rest; they are always on the go. When did you see an ant put four of its legs up on a chair, lie back and watch the clouds? The Little Worker is the same. Goes to work early and comes home late; a quick bit of food then up and off again scurrying around doing "things". "Relax" is a word that has been banned from her vocabulary and positronic pathways. Even when asleep she's active. Her brain never turns off. You'd no sooner see her sitting in chair reading a book or just thinking than you would see her truck dodging on the Tuggeranong Parkway or sky-diving, nude.
Living with someone like this is wearing as well as infectious. Enormous feelings of guilt well up when I'm sitting reading or snoozing er, thinking with eyes closed. There should be some law against this, like the deliberate transmission of AIDS or SARS or Bird flu.
She's away for the weekend...zzzzzzzzzzzz