Sunday, October 07, 2007

An entry in which I don't talk about the baby, so Mom might not be interested

MariClaire: I love Olympus Spa. Fantastic. But I might wait until I'm finished lactating. The last time I took a long hot bath (at Nancy's house because she has the most FAB bathtub and never uses it), I looked down from my book to see streams of milk spontaneously erupting. Such a romantic image. Don't think the other naked ladies would appreciate it!

KEVIN STARTED A BLOG AND YA'LL SHOULD GO AND READ IT!
He's going to try to write in it a few times a week, but he starts opera rehearsals soon. Cut the man some slack. I just hope he works with my guidelines: write nothing your boss/mother/mother-in-law can't read.

I was checking out our finances this morning. Making sure bills got paid, we had money, the usual. I looked at our Visa statement. Normally this makes me hysterical. I hate a balance of any kind on it. But a few car repairs, medical bills, one or two splurges, and back up it goes. Kevin told me, "Until (confidential fill in the blank but you all know what it is), then we are just going to have a balance and it's OK. We'll pay off as much as possible in the meantime." He's been saying it forever, but it finally stuck.

Curving away from my tangent, I was surprised to see an increase. Kevin and I had agreed to not use Evil-V without prior joint approval. Upon further investigation, I see the following entries:

Pour at Four: $38.00
Paddy Coynes: $40.00

Hmmmm. Kevin had mentioned that he was going to take some co-workers out for a drink to get some feedback on show/personal performance. Cool! Takes some guts to ask for feedback. Of course, he'll be paying for their drinks. Great! But from a financial point, this was a bit much given our non-stop discussions on the State of Our Finances. I was pissed.

"KEVIN!" He walks up the stairs into the computer room. I show him the charges in question.

"A bit much, don't you think? I'm very angry at you!"

Kevin has learned much in five years of husband-ing.

"I'm such an idiot. Bad husband."

Yes, you're right.

Then he smiles at me.

"But you'll have such a funny story for your blog."

4 comments:

Alicia said...

Awwww ... what a smart husband you have! ;)

Lena said...

Hysterically funny!

And I've already linked Kevin's blog on my blog.

CV said...

I wish I could say I was mad about our expenses last weekend...all that cash we spent for his birthday...but I made those descions so I have no one to be mad at but myself!

MariClaire said...

OHMYGOSH!! That was such a funny visual! You don't think the ladies would appreciate a little extra spa treatment?! :p Okay, maybe not... Hahaha