mildly retarded.
While I have been known to call from the store to ask, "Why did I come here again?" I am a reasonable intelligent and self-sufficient human being.
Due to his previous career in the military I have in fact maintained our household in his absence for up to six months at a time, all by myself! It is true that I lack his attention to every fricking minute detail of life but that is ok. If you had two people who were that uptight in one house the resultant tension could rip a hole in the time/space continuum, and then where would you be, or when for that matter?
Now see, I can remember completely useless trivia. The immediate usefulness of any information evidently dicates how my brain processes and stores it.
"Spouse's cell phone-toss it, it's crap!"
"Cultures responsible for Cuniform, Linear B, and Hieroglyphs- queue for critical retention."
I swear I don't do it on purpose! I have other little foibles as well.
I've tried to convince him it's all just part of my charm. The extent to which he is charmed seems inversely proportional to the amount of aggravation said tendencies are currently causing.
Anyway, we are working on year 17 of this marriage, so clearly we are successfully negotiating all this so far.
The reason I even bring it up is because I got an email asking me to do a couple errands and this was at the end of the mail...
PRINT THIS PAGE PRINT THIS PAGE PRINT THIS PAGE PRINT THIS PAGE PRINT THIS PAGE PRINT THIS PAGE PRINT THIS PAGE PRINT THIS PAGE
O.K., drive careful and I'll see you when I get home. Love ya lots.
In BOLD, underlined, red text he informed me he thought I would benefit from carrying the list with me.
Isn't that sweet?
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Me wants to be thankin you for your visit, Me appreciates the advice, but me is the Scary Monster! STOMP!
Me eats grammar and poops it out in the literary sandbox. Voraciously Me nibble on misplaced modifiers and has been known to, gobble dangling participles in the brightest moods.I drink down and slake Me thirst on beverages and libation of a redundant nature again and again. Me frantically frowns on frivolous alliteration and uses metaphor and simili like a samurai weilding a pen.
Me truly thanks you for your visit and Me hopes to hear from you again.
STOMP.
P.S.
Me will drive careful when flitting from blog to blog during new years.
Were we separated at birth?
MuNKi does have some "certain ways" of doing things, but for the most part, he's not really that orderly either, so as you can imagine, we pretty much live in chaos. ^_^
I have a reasonably decent brain (IMO) and I still have been known to do things like "losing" the baby while nursing (OMG WHERE'S THE BABY?!?!?! Oh, yeah, stuck to my boob.) and putting the phone in the fridge. O_o
i have been trying for the last few years to convince my family of how critical it is for them to WRITE notes for me if they expect me to rememeber anything they ask or tell me. i have repeatedly informed them that if they pass information as they are leaving the room or house i cannot be held responsible if i forget. they still don't and yet they become irate when i forget. i commend mr logo
at least the person who spends oh ... about 16 ish hours a week with the kids while you spend all but 4 with them doesn't tell you how to parent
::smack:: -- that's for mr. logo and his pretty red font
How's his new job treating him? More importantly, how's it treating you? Is there a reason you don't remember the lists?
hahahaha! That's a classic.
My memory weakness is names. There are people at work and at church that I have known, liked, talked to, for three years, and yet trying to write Christmas cards this year was impossible - didn't remember the names. Sometimes I knew one person's name but not that of their spouse or children. Hopeless. :)
Scary Monster~ Have yourself a merry little new year.
Candace~ We may have been. Mr. Logo continues to rage against the machine, or the chaos, as the case may be. Unsuccessfully, but you have to admire that kind of consistency.
Lime~ I've told him that too, he took it very literally.
Snavy~ I occasionally am told about what a spoiler I am, etc. etc. But I make talk to the hand gestures (which he ADORES) and we move on.
Seamus~ heh heh, I know, aren't I gracious? I allow him to live unbruised.
Egan~ He loves it, and is very happy, consequently I am very happy. I don't have enough RAM anymore for shopping lists.
Chosha~ I am bad with names too, its sad really. I am great with faces, hopeless with names. I love those photo directories!
You and I have so much in common and our households are common as well except I am the uptight , cleaning, forget nothing freak and my husband is the one that remembers what you call "useless trivia" and he never remembers what he went to the store for . I have to leave him notes such as the afore mentioned note and sometimes he still forgets . I am a good sport about it when he forgets because I know and respect how his mind works . You have a good weekend! Happy New Year !
I'm great with children's names, but I suck at adult's names. I do try to avoid addressing people as "Sam's mom" or "Joey's dad." :-P
Aaaaw. What a great guy. I don't see the problem at all.
Me neither. Everyone knows women are so busy thinking about puppies and pressing flowers and cleaning the kitchen that they forget everything else ;)
I have to learn 150 new names every August. I dread it.
Have a Happy New Year, Logo!
Breazy~ I got such a giggle from that note I had to share. He is getting more adaptable and I usually remember to shut the kitchen cabinet doors. It all works out in the end, eh? Happy New Year!
Candace~ I'm slightly better at kid's names but not great. In my classes at the co-op the kids are all "sweetie" or "hon" :p
Dorky Dad~ he IS a great guy, he tells me so all the time.
Mr. Jones~ Yes, that is exactly what we are all thinking about, how did you know? You must be one of the most insightful men EVAH!
Fred~ That has got to be tough, "You there" just doesn't work very well. Happy New Year!
The usefulness of the printout would depend on the errand requested - whose singularity might be inversely proportional to its forgetability. I would probably remember to pick up, for instance, the portabello mushrooms at Paisano's sooner than, say cottage cheese at Publix. Unless I was hungry. Although I'm rarely hungry for cottage cheese, but be that as it may... aw fuck.
oh dear, this happens to me...not in an email but the skeptical question accompanied by the raised brow....'did you write that down Laura?'
Men!
Happy new year sis!
I'm printing this page right now. What should I do with it once I print it? :)
Hey! Congratulations on 17 years of marriage! And Happy New Year to the both of you! With lots of love!
Husbands are just the most adorable little puddings sometimes.
Perhaps extremely forgetful which would be my hubby, maybe not extremely, maybe a glosser of details.
Happy New Year Logo, best to you and the family. xox ~ G
He he he!
No comment, just get over here now! Youstill hve time tomake the Taj Mahal and Delhi part of this adventure!
Love YOU!
S
Toss the cell phone for sure.
Teehehehee... awww.. Adam says ''love ya lots'' to me too.. :)
OH.. lol.. that reminds me.. whenever I have something to tell him, but don't want to sound like a nagging bitch, I always preceed it with, "I love you, hun, but.."
He's heard it so many times now, he beats me to the ''but'' part..
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