There is definitely still a huge gap between the amount of work most women handle, and the work most of their their male counterparts handle. There are so many days I wish i could just leave home in the morning, go to ONE JOB all day long, and come home, eat dinner, play with the dogs, browse the Internet, and go to bed. And gripe about how hard I work.

We don't even have kids, and the gap is there. I can't tell you how much I admire American women who manage to juggle job, house, and kids. That's amazing to me.

Still, I drew the line on the bicycling. I said this is for ME, and I am going to wedge this in, no matter that I have to get up at 5am and don't make it to bed until 11 to do it. But if we had kids, I can tell I'd only be able to ride on the weekend, when I could convince the hubby to take the kiddos for a few hours.