Love and Hate

We all have things in our lives we love to hate.  But what about those things we love AND hate at the same time?  I was thinking of some today, and here they are, in no particular order. 

Love: Eating chocolate chips at night.
Hate: Stepping on the scale the following morning.

Love: Having the kids happily and eagerly pick up their toys.
Hate: The hour of fighting, cajoling, and putting toys in garbage bags in the basement before that happens.

Love: The kids playing happily together.
Hate: Walking into their room to observe them playing only to be met by a scene of destruction rivaling the bombing of London.

Love: A well-kept lawn and gardens.
Hate: The fact that I will have to relocate over a dozen trees and woody ornamentals to make that dream a reality.

Love: Bedtime (for the kids!).
Hate: The hour (sometimes 2 or 3!) leading up to bedtime.

Love: Bedtime (for me!).
Hate: That it doesn't come sooner.

Love: Big hairy dogs.
Hate: Trying to control the result of two big, hairy dogs perpetually shedding.

Love: Going on vacation.
Hate: Preparing to go on vacation (READ: laundry, dishes, packing, cleaning, lining up fish-sitter, mail-collector . . . ).

Love: Having a job that enables me to write off a significant portion of my vacation.
Hate:  I guess I could say it stinks to have to work on vacation, but since I'm hoping to visit a farm that does team penning, a vineyard that makes 100% pumpkin wine, and a farm named after the Lion of Judah, I can't really put my heart into it!  Who wouldn't want to go to those places???

Love:  Blogging.
Hate: That there aren't more hours in my day for that kind of writing.

Love: My blogging audience.
Hate: That I don't know who many of you are.  You can help me with that . . . who is reading in South Korea, for example?  And Russia?  And Poland?  And there are far more US readers than I can figure. 

I salute you all!