so, you want to hear a secret?

[i'd have made a really good 1960's housewife.]

actually, i'd make a really good housewife in general, and here are a few reasons why:

-i can cook. i mean, not just make hamburger helper cook, but actually cook...especially if it is mexican or tex mex
       such as: taco soup, fajitas, taco casserole, hashbrown casserole, spinach manicotti...
      [basically, i should live in texas, but i don't.  whoops]

-i like kids. i mean, i really like kids. like--i like them for a living--or at least, a part-time living. and i actually enjoy it--the feedings, the dirty diapers, the peekaboo, the snotty noses, the crying, the rocking, the leaving drool spots on your shirt from where they've been breathing when they lay on your chest...

-i'm domestic. i clean, i organize, i plan.  and...i actually enjoy all of that.

so, here's the thing:
      i'd make a really good 1960's housewife for someone, but...

      i could never marry someone who only wanted to be with me for that.

because--as much as i like the housewife stuff--there's the other side of me, that's fiercly independent and stubborn and take charge.  the side of me that believes in equality and partnership, not oppression and subservience.