{"id":633,"date":"2011-08-19T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T09:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/08\/milspouse-friday-fill-in-54.html"},"modified":"2011-08-19T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T09:44:00","slug":"milspouse-friday-fill-in-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/08\/milspouse-friday-fill-in-54.html","title":{"rendered":"MilSpouse Friday Fill-In #54"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wow, I’d been scarce from these for a while – the last one I did was #46.  Oops.  Well our lives are settling back to normal and I hope to become a regular here again.  These ones should be simple this week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

1.  My spouse and I rarely agree on how much money we should spend on model railroading<\/u>, but always agree on our furniture purchases<\/u>.<\/b>  Sounds strange, I know, but we won’t go forward on a furniture\/interior decorating purchase without buy-in from the both of us.  This is probably why we were married 10 years before getting a dining room set.  We simply couldn’t agree.<\/p>\n

2.  If I could use one word to sum up the way I feel right now, it would be overwhelmed<\/u>.<\/b>  If you are asking how I feel THIS MINUTE, that’s it.  I was at J’s school for 2:45 hours earlier this afternoon filling out dozens of forms, keeping all the ducks in a row with what to expect for his new class (i.e., which days are gym days, which days are aren’t, which bus to ride, which road to use when dropping J off at the school on days he doesn’t ride the bus, and the homework plans.)<\/p>\n

3. One of the things my spouse does that grosses me out is pop gum<\/u>. <\/b> Not smacking, not blowing bubbles, but making those really loud popping noises.  One of the women on murdrers’ row in the Broadway play Chicago<\/i> killed her husband over his popping of gum (no, I don’t plan to do that).  From the song “Cell Block Tango”:<\/p>\n

[LIZ (Spoken)]
You know how people
have these little habits
That get you down. Like Bernie.
Bernie like to chew gum.
No, not chew. POP.
So I came home this one day
And I am really irritated, and I’m
looking for a bit of sympathy
and there’s Bernie layin’
on the couch, drinkin’ a beer
and chewin’. No, not chewin’.
Poppin’. So, I said to him,
I said, “you pop that
gum one more time…”
and he did.
So I took the shotgun off the wall
and I fired two warning shots…
…into his head.<\/p>\n

4. My readers may think I\u2019m crazy for doing this, but I really love to vacuum<\/u>. <\/b> Think really hard, have you ever seen me write a blog about, Tweet or post on Facebook any complaints about vacuuming?  Laundry, yes.  Dishes, most certainly!  But I find a certain calming effect when vacuuming.<\/p>\n

5. Frankly, my dear, I don\u2019t give a damn?<\/u>.<\/b><\/p>\n

I think my creativity meter is pegged (see #2 above)…I can’t wait to see what other spouses write tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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