I have a bad habit of wanting to talk whenever something pops into my head. Alec works all day and doesn’t always have the time to be interrupted with my every thought. We both agree that thoughts like:
- “the baby pooped 4 times today”
- “the front windshield is still chipped”
- “we really need an arrow at the intersection of San Pablo and Ashby”
- “we are out of bananas”
can wait until the end of the day.
Our compromise was to find an inexpensive mp3 recorder for me to carry around and share all my non-time-sensitive thoughts. We got ours on ebay.
He still gets called when it is urgent (“Ummm, your son just barfed on me”). So everybody wins, right?
Ha! How do you get him to listen to your collected thoughts at the end of the day?
Well, I don’t know if I can get him to listen to them just like that… but… I can review them, make sure I didn’t forget anything (that I once considered) important and have stuff to talk about over dinner.
You can do the same with Jott.com and have it sent to his phone directly rather than handing him the recorded at the end of the day. It really comes in handy when you want to send him things to remember, or for yourself when your hands are full and can’t write it down. Its free- just need a phone.
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