Time management - men versus women!!!

it's funny how people see time differently, well i guess i should just be honest and say men and women

my husband and i continue to have a serious bone of contention between us when it comes to the use of time....he accuses me of thinking things take just mere minutes to complete when in his opinion they actually could take hours while i on the other hand get annoyed by his negative view of how long things can take to get done....we constantly differ on this idea...
i think if you just do something and get it done it can be done quickly where as in MY opinion he takes his time, takes breaks and comes back to finish stuff more leisurely.....

case in point...he has been working on our office upstairs - doing a great job, stripping 20 year old wallpaper, patching and priming the walls, scrapping popcorn off and adding a nice texturized affect to the ceiling.....all very laborous and time consuming work, so i offered while he is away doing his training in Chicago to paint the walls the selected color and he could do the ceiling cutting in up on the ladder when he returns.....

last night i started at 9pm after working all day, dinner, tubs and 2 kids to bed....i was cleaning up by 1005pm and had close to 2/3-3/4 of the walls painted the first coat - SERIOUSLY - 1 hour later, i had accomplished so much - just like i knew i could, just like i always do!!!!! oh and to top it off, i had to interupt my groove to move a 16 foot ladder downstairs to the garage that was parked in the room i was trying to paint - and put a 6 foot ladder under my bed so i could work in the room more easily....

it peeves me and please don't get me wrong, i love mike and appreciate all his hard work and all that he does around the house, but things DO NOT take as long as he thinks they do because soooo many times he drags his ass and doesn't just DO IT!!!!

tonight the plan is as follows, after working all day, dinner, tub and 2 kids to bed - move the computer table and filing cabinet out into the room and finish the first coat on the only part i didn't get to last night - move onto the 2nd coat on the other walls and maybe by the time i'm done the first coat will be dry on the little section i am starting on and i can get that done with the 2nd coat...

then thurs night after jenny craig and nail appt and getting the kids to bed, i'll do the bottom above the baseboard and tape off the carpet to do the baseboards on friday....i should in all actuality be able to paint the entire room less the top edge near the ceiling before he returns on monday so that all he has to do is finish the top and touch up over the 2 spots i put blue on the ceiling....and i know he will appreciate my hard work like i appreciate his....

okay so the point to my rant is that it does just take 20 minutes to do most things :) This is what my husband says i think and he is right, if you just put your mind to it, it can get done in close to 20 minutes....