So this weekend hasn't gone too bad.  Took forever for my husband to decide he wasn't going to light the bonfire he so badly wanted to have for his birthday.  Nobody would've had a good time, as it was about 28 degrees out, wet from a whole previous day's rain, and it started sleeting.  I don't care how hot that fire would've been, it woulda been miserable down there.  Besides, I know a few people agreed with me when I said that even if we were down there next to the fire, we'd have been out in the wet, the wind and the weather and I sure in the hell wouldn't have been holding a cold drink in my hand!  Plus, to go to the bathroom either you would have to take about a fifteen or twenty minute walk ... or pop a squat outside, again, not poppin' a squat in 28 degree weather (well, I don't pop squats at all because I can't bend my knee that way anymore).  So I'm glad he decided to keep things up top in the clubhouse.  We had plenty of fun.  I didn't get drunk, I only had 4 drinks, my husband only had like 2 and 2/3 and he was just about plotzed ... which I thought was weird.  He insisted he wasn't drunk, but I could tell he was, he couldn't talk right, couldn't walk, kept doing inappropriate things that under normal circumstances I'd have gone off the deep end about ... having to do with being a little too friendly with other girls.  I let it slide because he was drunk, also because nothing was reciprocated, everybody there knew how things were, so I didn't have anything to worry about on that end.  But it was all right, we had fun, we came in around 1 in the morning or else we'd have probably gotten frost bite anyway.  So all in all a good night.

So far as today, not bad.  We had to go over to one of my FIL's buddy's houses to clean his gutters for him, no problem, he's a good guy and I think it only took like twenty minutes.  Then we came back, continued doing laundry, ate a little, watched a movie, went to Walmart, came home, watched the last part of another movie and he just took the last load of laundry over (Only 3 loads, wasn't that horrid).  I managed to order my new battery for my computer today and I also went ahead and got another year's worth of warranty ... that way instead of being all freaked out when something happens I can call them and go 'Wwwwaaaaaaaa ... Heeeellllllp mmmeeeeeeee!' and not freak out so bad, lol.  So all in all, not a bad day, got plenty accomplished so far.  Now I'm just to the relaxing point of the day.  My husband just left to go cut some wood, although I think he should've gone and "gotten started" about four hours ago (he could've, only reason I incorporated him into my plans was just because he was there) because now he's got about an hour of daylight left.  He got started so late because a.) he was being lazy and didn't really feel like doing it and b.) this is his excuse, he never heard back from our friend who was supposed to come help him.  Tsk tsk, when will he realize he can't rely on everybody else when it comes to certain things.  They're not being offered money to help him, they didn't shake hands with anybody and say "Yes, I'll do that."  That's all on my husband, but if he wants that $1,000 then he better get to work.  I already told him that tonight I wasn't going to play that "Waiting til the last minute to call people and hang out, or tell people they can come over when it's already the end of the night.' game.  7pm is our cut off, we'll be settling in for the night at that point.  I refuse to let him screw me over for the work week, as I have to work all this week (except Wednesday, as usual), he's the one that has vacation time.  Hell, last week for Vetrans Day he just assumed me and my dad didn't work and didn't bother to ask until I called him at 8:30pm after not having heard from him and he was all 'Oh, you have to work?'  He was just gonna stay out late with no reguard to the other sleepers in the house, but oh well, not dwelling on that one, just making a point with it.

I am going to touch on something as I just glanced next to me and noticed it.  Every time he takes everything off the chair that goes to the desk next to my computer desk, first he just scatters shit everywhere.  Then when he's done sitting there he just leaves it all, doesn't put anything back.  Drives me batty.  But not as much as other things, just needed to give my mini rant, lol.  Otherwise, things have been fine there ... as I explained to him "Guess what, you hurt me, you upset me and now I'm not letting you do it anymore.  I'm not going to worry about waiting to have some long lengthy conversation with you that will feel like I'm talking to a brick wall.  I'm done with that.  Now, every time you piss me off, hurt me or otherwise and it's a legitimate reason to be upset (and of course I do think about things plenty so I'll have time to process the legitimacy) then I'm going to reciprocate that situation as best I can and make him unhappy.  Then I told him, so, if you start feeling yourself getting more upset with me or something like that, take a step back and think about how you've been acting because now I'm gonna treat you like you treat me."  So far, has been working fine.  I don't get upset over his dumb shit, or at least I don't let him see it, I process it other ways, and then I do something to send him a message.  Hasn't been much gone on lately so haven't had to worry about it.  I'm feeling a lot better though.

Here is another thing I thought about earlier though.  This should make some of you laugh, at least me, now thinking on it, and even towards the end of it happening, I think it's downright funny myself.  He actually asked me if we could buy straws at the store so he could use them to drink with instead of having to just drink things like water or milk.  He says it hurts his teeth too bad and he wants to drink from straws for that kind of stuff.  My jaw dropped, my eyes bugged and I was speechless.  Let me explain first, on the top, from one k9 to the other, all of those teeth are super sensitive to hot and cold.  I mean, when I go and drink something to cold or eat something too hot and it shocks my teeth it takes me five minutes to recover and wipe the tears before I can do anything else.  Same when I eat gummy things or really sugary sweet things (not cavities, I've had this for years, dentist knows, we've done xrays, blah blah blah).  I've probably had each of these issues since about 5th grade.  Sensodine or other toothpastes like that don't work, in fact, most of them made it worse.  So I make do, I avoid what I know bothers me and I drink smaller drinks.  When I told him no, to buying straws, he gawked at me like 'What?' and then got this mopy face.  I was like "Dude, seriously, I've had that problem since 5th grade.  I never got straws.  I learned to work with it, I adapted and I make do.  I take smaller drinks, I make sure to blow on hot food really well, I wait a few minutes between eating a hot bite and taking a cold drink."  He's just looking at me like I'm sticking the knife in deeper.  He proceeds to pour a glass of milk and drink it.  He takes this HUGE swallow.  He looks at me and goes "That hurt, and it hurts me on my FRONT teeth!' as if mine don't hurt.  So I explain to him from k9 to k9, then I tell him "Just humor me and try this, take a smaller drink."  He takes a smaller drink, does not wince in immense pain, and looks at me like "Oh crap."  I asked him if it hurt, he said no.  I said see, take smaller drinks, smaller bites, etc.  It works.  He goes 'But that takes too long!'  I had nothing to say.  So we leave for Walmart, and yes I bought him the straws, but not because I think he really needed them, mostly because I didn't feel like dealing with him being all quiet and brooding over not getting some damn straws.  Also, because I had already made my point, he knew I was right, and that's enough for me.  So he can have his damn straws, but I gaurantee you I don't want to hear him complainin', lol.

Well now he wants to run out and get a couple of CDs, which is fine, I have a couple I want to look for also.  Soooo, time to get offa here, take a potty break and get ready to go.  Hope all the rest of you had a good weekend!