Let the games begin

Our 25Th anniversary dinner was awesome. He loved his present. Here we are celebrating and no I'm not tipsy just very happy!





Now, its time to crank into last minute Christmas. Did we miss anyone? How much more wrapping? Dinner what are we having at dinner? Which birthday is coming? The answers to all the above:
No, after numerous recounts and list checking everyone is done.
Wrapping....bahahahahaha can you say up all night for the next three days?
Dinner? See Sh1ts and Giggles, what goes with macaroni salad?
G-daughter #2, 13Th birthday, Tuesday, 6p, Pizza Hut kids eat free. Dammit I gotta get that cake in the oven!!!

Merry Christmas everyone...Let the games begin!!!

Whewwww

I want to send special kudos to UPS! Husbands' present arrived, its wrapped and bowed! My dignity has been saved and I hope he loves it!

He made me cry.......

Well the big day is here...we have been married 25 years. Husband made me cry. We got up bright and early as usual and as a personal gift just for me he slept on my side of the bed and snored like a freight train all night. But, that's not what made me cry....instead murderous intent clouded my vision for the umpteenth time during the night.
He gave me the most beautiful snow globe I have ever seen. Inside were a silver key and heart and when you shook it little tiny hearts and keys floated around. It sits on a carved silver base and he had it engraved with a very special message just for me. Its musical and plays "Love me tender". I cried like a two year old that dropped her ice cream cone. I'm not a fragile, foo-foo kind of girl but, I love snow globes an this was just so damn sentimental! There I go again....

As per my luck because he is a banker and can check the checkbook and credit card transactions a gazillion times I had to wait to get his present. It SHOULD be here today. I have been tracking the hell out of it. But, I had a back up plan. I have a very old picture of us when we first dated. We are hugging and we look so young and in love. I tried to get it restored but takes several weeks and because its a wallet size and has been toted around for 30 years its a bit worn. No guarantee. God bless Walmart. Took picture, colored, edited, cropped and put in a silver frame that said "Memories" around the edges. I felt so tacky this morning. He loved it. I felt awful after that totally awesome snow globe and crying, jeez Grammice...SHAME!

I am praying the UPS man will hurry, hurry today and I can still salvage my dignity.
See, that's just the kind of guy he is, thoughtful, romantical continually spoiling me.

Can we postpone Christmas?

Today for the 1st time in 3 days my head & chest are no longer my enemy. We are now working together as a team. The head is thinking and the chest is expanding without pain and vicious coughing.

Feeling better I decided to open the door to the "Christmas room". Actually the extra bedroom where I load all presents after Thanksgiving so I can sort and count and wrap. Promptly closed it and thought "OMG! how am I going to get done wrapping and sorting by Christmas eve?" I have decided to wait until New Years eve. Due to the economy Santa's reindeer went on strike and he just negotiated a new contract for 2009. There...I'm feeling much better now.......

Something to talk about

Next Thursday, December 18th the husband & I will celebrate 25 years of wedded bliss. Yep! We have been married 25 YEARS!!! 2-5! Holy sh1t what did we ever find to talk about? No, I don't get up and put my make-up on before he gets up like my mom did after she married daddy. No, I don't run the water when I pee like my mom did. Sometimes in the early years dinner wasn't on the table at 6 or 7...sometimes you had a sandwich.

I still wear sloppy t-shirts and jeans 'cause they are comfortable and when I do dress-up and wear pantyhose he really appreciates it. When we were dating he cracked the first fart, by accident, forgot I was sitting next to him....which meant open season for me! Yes, I was the first one to pull the sheet over his head! Naaa,naa!

We have been through a lot. Kids for one. I already had them when we started dating, kept them after we got married. His finest achievement? When he adopted the kids they changed the birth certificates. On daughters it shows "fathers age at time of birth" he was 15. LOL He is still proud to this day! Yes, I'm older, 2yrs and 2weeks. Not much, just enough to make him look good. In the early years I threatened divorce after one particularly ugly fight, he said "Fine, but the kids are mine and you can go". I had to think about it......LOL
They are HIS kids! People say my son looks just as much like him as daughter does me. They both think more like him than me. I think God knew what was going to happen in my 1st marriage so he stole a gene from husband and gave it to them.

We very rarely fight anymore. Not like we did those 1st few years. We would throw each other out then sabotage the vehicle so the other couldn't leave. I threw a giant trash can at him 1 time. Ahhh back in the day when I had a temper like a wildcat. He loved me anyway. He says I can piss him off faster than anyone else. Wonder why? Could it be the time I scrubbed the bathroom with his toothbrush, then forgot to put under the sink? He used it for a week before I noticed. Or when I had my own checkbook and I rounded up all the entries so I would always have more money than I thought. He spent 3 hours trying to balance the account before he realized what I had done. No more checkbook. Seemed perfectly normal to me, remember I'm a bookkeeper LOL!

His mom said our marriage was like Cyndi Lauper being married to Robert Young (for those who know who they are).
He is conservative. I have a mouth like a sailor, alot, he usually only says sh1t and damn. Daughter and I would yell at each other when she was teen, he spoke to her.
He says he is "damn lucky to be married to someone as caring, loving and special as me". I checked the marriage license to make sure my name was written there.
He remembers the day, the date, where we met, where we had our first date and when we had our first sex. I remember to buy beer at the grocery.
No, its not one sided. I adore the man. He has taught me patience, how to be (reasonably) politically correct and spoils me. I look forward to him coming home everyday. He understands when I cry for no reason and when I'm so angry I could spit nails. He always tells me he admires the fact that I would "defend my children, grandchildren and my beliefs to the bitter end, right, wrong or indifferent". I just figured I was bull-headed like my mom said.


We totally compliment each other. I'm pretty sure he is my soul mate. I can never imagine what my life would be like without my strongest supporter, the one person who totally accepts me for who and what I am and loves me because of it.
In honor of our 25 years I am so glad we did "find something to talk about".

Just a quickie

Been a little swamped lately but here are some catch-ups!

Two weeks ago I hurt my neck...MRI....bulging discs, one really bad. Had little to no use of left arm...I am left handed. Missed dancing at the Bradley Days show the culmination of all year long practicing. Today I have been released by my chiropractor and all is well. As he put it "you dodged a bullet, don't do it again."

G-son has lost two teeth! He calls and will only tell me not g-pop. Why? Because g-mom makes sure the tooth fairy comes to her house too. Last night our conversation went something like this:

Him: G-mom I lost another tooth, can the tooth fairy leave money at your house again?

Me: That's wonderful! I will leave her a note and ask her.

Him: Ask her for $2. I really need $2 this time.

Me: Why $2?

Him: Because its at your house and grandpa will give it to her.

Me: Well, we will see. The amount of money depends on how big the tooth is and how many you lost and how much money she left at your house.

Him: G-mom just tell her OK? Its a big tooth and she only leaves me change at my house. Just tell her g-pop will pay her back.

Me: OK, I'll tell her.

Meantime g-pop is cracking up over this whole thing because as he puts it "Now I have to payback the tooth fairy?"

I'm already for Thanksgiving! Yep, everything is prepared, turkeys are prepping for frying and I have Knob Creek bourbon and Canada Dry ginger ale sitting in the wings!

So HAPPY THANKSGIVING to everyone! Make sure you count your blessings, especially this year...its been rough on everyone directly and indirectly! If you can have your family and friends close to you then this is something everyone should be Thankful for, even if you don't like them. Above all else even the ones we really can't stand have taught us something....SELF CONTROL and PATIENCE!

Sitting down to pee....

Last Tuesday I went into the master bathroom to pee. We, meaning both husband and me use this bathroom 85% of the time. After all, it is "our" bathroom....unless of course it needs cleaning. Anyway, as I'm sitting there I glance over at the tub....hmmm why is there dirt on the floor, I just swept. Hmmmm what is that dark spot on the baseboard? Hmmmmmm. Get a damp paper towel to wipe up dirt....
WELL SH1T!!! there is a .50 piece size hole in the baseboard and its about 2-3" deep. Take husbands toothbrush and poke around in hole. Pieces of sheetrock and the back of the tile on edge of tub start falling out. DAMMIT! Hmmmm who do I know that can tell me what the F%^& this mess is? Call daughter, they have friend who is contractor he will come over and look at it. While on the phone with him he mentions it "could be" a burrowing spider, bee or beetle they sometimes get into walls then burrow out. Now as I'm poking around this hole, still using husbands toothbrush I wonder just how big this "thing" might be. Being a horror movie fan I have seen what spiders, bees and beetles can do. No way in hell am I sticking anything in that hole other than the husbands toothbrush.

We have had some problems with the handle in the tub since we moved in. We have had plumbers come out 2-3 times. Our neighbor told us the previous owner had said he was glad to "finally be rid of that bathroom". Gee, do you think you could have mentioned that before we paid for a plumber three different times?

The guys come out, look at my hole. Poke around in it then promptly start peeling off chunks of sheet rock. They pull the turn on handle off the tub. Well here is the problem... the valve has had a s-l-l-o-o-w-w drip forever. It has finally done enough interior damage that it was heading for the outside world. Ready to rot anything in its way to devouring my walls, baseboards and wall tile. Two weeks before Thanksgiving, one week before old stinky, smelly carpet in hall and three bedrooms being replaced and one week before my folks come up to visit before Thanksgiving. Are we having fun yet?

To make a long story short...knock out about 15 tiles in around the faucet handle in shower, replace valve, install new handle....$250.00.
Knock out sheet rock, pull off baseboard. $200.00.
total $500 inc. extra material...not bad. But wait theres' more.... husband has decided that we need to re-paint the bath and vanity area. We have to paint the new sheetrock anyway, miswell get rid of what he deems "that awful green" right? Sure you bet...gonna get right on that. This Saturday I am painting.

I have decided one very important thing....I am going to learn how to pee standing up! Yes sir. If I had been standing up my back would have been to the wall and like my husband I would never have seen the dirt or the hole. Maybe just maybe he would have discovered it first. Hell who am I kidding. He would have seen it, called for me and I still would have called the plumber and dealt with the repair man and I would still be painting on Saturday.

I'm just glad it was his toothbrush I used to poke around in that hole!