You said WHAT?

Anonymous Poster · Mar 16, 2003

My hubbie just wandered through and gave me one of those looks.

"You still on there? How can you just sit there hour after hour?"

Oh, no. I know you did not just go there.

I got on at around nine, this is the third time today that I signed on. In the meantime I did four loads of laundry, washed dried and folded, fed the pigs, goats and chickens, both morning and evening feedings, cleaned the house, made a huge thing of orange jello that barely had time to set before it was gobbled up by these locusts that call themselves my family, ran an errand to drop my son's fishing poles off to him at a freind's house, cleaned out the refrigerator, made a big pot of Texas style chili beans, bar b qued two slabs of pork ribs, paid the bills, balanced mine and his checkbooks, and cleaned out the ice maker. And this is Sunday, the day of rest?

Know what he did today? Went turkey hunting this morning, watched a bunch of race cars chasing each other around in circles, and then went turkey hunting this evening.

I didn't even look up.

"Just pretend like I'm sitting here waiting for a deer."

(Besides ::whining:: I like it here) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Boondox · Mar 17, 2003

Ah, the age old game of husbands and wives! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

My bride will spend HOURS on the computer tweaking her Webpages and checking out the work of others. I swear the house could be on fire and she wouldn't notice! Small wonder when I come home the dogs go crazy with anticipatory delight! So I spend an hour or so outside with the dogs, throwing balls and rolling around with them in the snow. Feed and water the livestock. Fire up the woodstove to pre-heat my shop. Cook dinner and serve it to her at the PC. Finally I'll go into the shop and begin a project that takes a couple of hours...and she picks THAT MOMENT to log off and want my undivided attention! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

There must be a rule that she only notices me after I've spent two hours warming the shop...and at the moment I've opened a fresh can of very expensive paint she pops in with a cheery "Pay attention to me!"

Maybe I'll teach her to sandblast so we can do things together! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Or maybe I'll put a secret switch somewhere so I can shut off her computer at 7pm /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Seems like our best moments happen when the power fails. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Pete

mikim · Mar 17, 2003

Seems like our best moments happen when the power fails 
Ain't it the truth?? I raised 3 kids on my own and whenever the power went out, we'd bake a cake by candlelight. (gas oven) It kept them entertained and rewarded for being good all at the same time. More than once they'd get bored and say "Dad - can we turn out all the lights and bake a cake?" At which time I'd have to come up with something else 'cause the cake trick was saved for power outages only. It created special memories for them today - but was just my survival instinct at the time.

PhilNH5 · Mar 17, 2003

Cindi,
Here's a joke for your hubby that was floating around on the net a while back:

A man comes home from work. Walking up the front walk he sees tricycles, balls and other toys scattered around the yard. The screen door is banging on its' hinges. He goes inside and things look worse. The living room is strewn with toys. The TV, VCR, Radio and PC are all on. The dining room looks like a party for 100 guests had been held - Dirty plates, leftovers and spilled drinks.
The kids are still in pajamas or underwear. Their hair is unkempt and their faces dirty. Thinking something is seriously wrong he asks "Where's Mom?" Upstairs is the reply.
He climbs the stairs and finds his wife napping in the bedroom. "What's going on? What happened?" he asks.

"You know how every day when you get home from work you ask me "What did you do all day?"" she answers, "Well today I didn't do any of it"

Anonymous Poster · Mar 17, 2003

Oh I saw that one and found it very amusing. The thing of it is, when I'm online I am dead to anything other than the electronic world, that's why I try to reserve my online times to very early, very late, and mid day when everyone is gone. I do my work in between.

Anonymous Poster · Mar 17, 2003

Amen to power outages! No internet, TV, open the windows for cool air. We're building a house now and they tried to sell us on the all-house backup generator deal -- I told them I wouldn't give up a power failure for anything! ('course, maybe I'll reconsider during hurricane season).

sendero · Apr 20, 2003

( The thing of it is, when I'm online I am dead to anything other than the electronic world )

I'm the same way - my wife will walk into my 'office' and start talking and 20 seconds later I'll say *whut?* I will literally have not heard a word she said.

She understands my preoccupation, because she spends a fair amount of time surfing for various information.

But the kids are another matter /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Anonymous Poster · Apr 21, 2003

I know what you mean. It is impossible to read and listen at the same time.

Anonymous Poster · Apr 21, 2003

Yeah,but think about all the work he had to do in the beginning to train you to do all that. RICHARD GAUTHIER

wroughtn_harv · Apr 22, 2003

It is impossible to read and listen at the same time.

We must be related. That's what my father always says. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Of course he's always said that. He had a brother two years older than him, looked like two peas from the same pod. Anyway, grandma used to tell the story about the time dad walked into the room where the boys slept. There was his brother reading a book and listening to the radio.

Dad didn't like the music and brother was reading. You can't read and listen at the same time he thought. So he changed the station to one more of his liking. An argument ensued. It escalated.

Brother told dad that if he, brother, had a gun he'd shoot dad right on the spot. Dad went and got his gun, loaded it, and handed it to brother, then called him a liar.

Grandma stepped in about then. Everyone agrees she saved some bloodshed. They were brothers. And they not only shared common looks, their skull thickness was about to exactly the same.

I grew up on that story. Mostly because I was born an avid reader. Reading irritated my dad more than watching television bothers parents today. Especially when I was reading and listening to the radio. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Uncle was a hero. He did his thing during WW2. He came home and worked at the same company for forty plus years. He was married to one woman and raised two wonderful daughters.

Then he died of silicosis. Corporate greed is an evil thing. It is especially hard on heroes.