Monday, September 24, 2007

Monday Morning Musings

When I said to my dear husband, "Honey, we really need to start getting the house ready to put up for sale" I meant something along the lines of finish grouting the tile in the bathroom, actually install the bathroom sink correctly, finish putting in the bottom part of the vanity, put the wood down in our closet, fix the lights in our bedroom, fix that big hole in the floor by the front door (the list could go on and on forever). This is how he interpreted it:




In case you don't know what his interpretation means here is the translation:

"MAKE YOUR WIFE ABSOLUTELY FREAKING CRAZY"

For some reason he thinks that to actually be getting something accomplished you have to take something that is perfectly fine and totally destroy it and then take (don't listen honey) your own sweet little time putting it back together. (Stephen, I love you more than anything in this whole world!) (just wanted to make sure you knew that).

Is it bad to start a sentence by saying, "The next time officer Olsen pulls me over...."??? I mean he has only pulled me over 3 times. In the past year. In the same place. You'd think I'd learn by now.

I am sorry if your children are going to be exposed to my hacking coughing children in school today. They just really needed to go. We have had 3 very quality days smushed up in the house together. It's time to get back to real life no matter how sick we all still are.

I have come to the conclusion that I am not going to get anything done until I finish my book. So I am just going to give up on everything else and read. The problem is it there are 2 more books after it in the series.


PMA (positive mental attitude) is not helping me feel any less sick at the moment.

It is Monday! Time for a fresh start. Everyone have a GREAT week!

14 comments:

Candice said...

I did the same thing and sent my children to school still coughing about 2 weeks ago. They were over everything but the cough.....Atleast I think.

Unknown said...

HOLY COW! What was Steve thinking????? That would freak me out to. Is this what he meant when he said he was working on the house all day?

Anonymous said...

i am laughing because that is how your house looks everytime i come. except for the last time i visited. i don't mean this in a bad way. it is just that he is always working on it.

Allyson said...

Well, he started this last weekend. He did a LITTLE more work on it on Saturday.

I guess I shouldn't complain because he IS doing SOMETHING. It is just that his idea of something and mine are so different. And each time he destroys something to start a new project, he can't understand why I get so upset.

It will be nice to have a brand spankin' new house with NO UNFINISHED projects......Ahhhhh....That will be the day.

Allyson said...

Thanks Kristy.

But you see what I mean???? We finally get a little bit of normal going on around here and POOF!

Allyson said...

And that's ok Farrah. It's not like I am waiting for you to say something about my cast/chopstick comment on my Flashback Friday.

It is getting harder and harder to start a fight with you as you get older.

Wuss....

Megan said...

I've heard great reviews about Twilight. I'm on a waiting list at the library. Even our babysitter said it was really good! Now you are making me want to just go buy it!

Clinesville said...

Gordon and I decided it's time to put our house on the market and now my already busy life has become CRAZY and I don't know where to start on the house.

Allyson said...

Megan, you should just buy it. The 1st book is in paperback. Put the next 2 on hold at the library.

Coren, good luck with that. I know how it is.

Unknown said...

I am sorry I didn't post about the chopstick incident. There is still plenty of fight left in me as I get older, it is just that it happened to be geared toward something much worse on Friday.

The chopstick thing still makes me laugh, I got you good there! And I do miss all the crazy times we had when we lived in that crazy state.

Allyson said...

What happened on Friday? If it is something you want to say all out here in the open like this.

Kathy said...

Good luck with the house thing. We went through that with our 1st home. We thought once we moved we would not be doing any thing like that. We were wrong, yeah its not exactly the same but there is still a lot of work that goes in to every house. Have fun.

Ashley said...

Hey Allyson I ventured over from Farrah's blog. I am thinking you are lucky to have a hubby who actually works on things. If I said all that to mine, he would reply, "So are you asking me to vacuum?"

Allyson said...

I know, I know. I SHOULD be thankful. He actually has everything almost back to "normal" now. That is record setting time.