Decided to create a blog here to have a place to empty my head out every once in a while.  I do not want to offend any women out there, I am quite capable of doing that in person, thank you.

I had no idea what I was going to write about until I saw this article on Digg.  I thought it was just me.  I thought I was the only guy out here that just didn't get it, then I read this little piece and just started laughing my ass off because it was me I was reading about.

Don't get me wrong, I love my girlfriend.  She is beautiful.  She is a very sweet person, but for instance last Friday we are set to go out.

I am picking her up at 7:00, I am dressed and on time, which is good for me. Wrinkle free just being me.

I get there, knock, and go on in.

She is still getting ready so I kick back on the couch and watch a little TV as we do not have anywhere to be until 7:45.

So far so good.  I break out the Tivo and poke around until I find an episode of Heros.  I love that show.  I figure I have a few minutes, no problem so I am watching and cruising through commercials.  I am kind of just speeding a long trying to get a whole show jammed in my little window.

Well all that was about to change anyway.

She comes out and she is in a beautiful dark red dress, she looked good.   When she wants to look good she can be dangerous.

She had this look on her face like she was kind of upset.  I get up give her a kiss and a little hello hug.  She tells me not to wrinkle the dress.

I ask her if she is ready to go while I am trying to wipe the lipstick off.  She says yes.

Head to the door and she has to go to the bathroom right quick.  OK, back in the house I go and head to the kitchen for a glass of water and turn off the TV because I forgot on the first pass.

So she is talking to me through the bathroom door telling me about her day and some stupid stuff this girl that sits next to her did that really bent my girlfriend out of shape.

I don't know the girl, I don't know anybody at her work so I am just drinking my water and listening.  We need to leave in about 20 minutes.

I don't want to go into the full story but this girl and my girlfriend were working on a project together for some new office or something.  This is killing me just to type it.

Short of the story.  The two worked hard on the project, my girlfriend carries the majority of the load and this girl gets her cut from the team after the majority of the work is done and takes credit for the project.

I told my girlfriend to talk to her boss about it, thats what I would do if I thought it was worth it.

So she goes into work today to do just that except when she gets to her bosses office, he is coming out with this girl and they are all smiley.

So the boss guy sees my girl and stops her telling her that Susan, or whatever her name is, has been promoted and will now be my girls boss because he is transferring to a different office in Florida somewhere.  It is a little more complicated but you get the picture.

My girl is not happy.  We are down to 15 minutes and she is not done talking.  She just keeps going over this stuff.

So now after all the water, I have to hit the restroom so I head to the other one in the house because I do not want to slow her down.  When I get back she is STILL TALKING.

Then she just stops.  I am just standing there thinking I must of missed something. 
She says, "Well, what do you think?" in a kind of irritatated tone.

Irritated tones before the date starts from my experience are never good, but I am working with it, so I am trying to find something to say that will wrap this thing up because we have to go and I am not about to tell her to hurry up.  She is not happy already.

"Are you even listening to me?"  She says a little bit more upset.  That is not good.

"Uh, yeah.  Look, I would just take all the work stuff you have here and all your notes to your boss on Monday and just go over everything.  Sounds like the promotion thing is done but I would think he would like to know about it."

Then there is just silence.

"We have about 5 minutes of spare time right now." I throw out there.

More silence.

Finally I hear the door open so I head to the front door to get her coat and purse so we can hit the road.

I gather up all the stuff and I turn around and she is just standing there looking at me with her arms crossed (wrinkling her own damn dress by the way.)  I knew I should not have told her the five minute thing, so I am already back peddling trying to fix this so we can just go.

"Sorry about giving you the time thing, I know you don't like it but I also know you don't like to be late so I had to make a call."

She is just looking at me.

"Sorry." and I kind of motion to the door.  That did it.

"Why won't you just listen to me?  Did you hear a word I said?  Am I so pathetic that you think you have to figure everything out for me?  I have a college degree, I was second (I don't know, maybe third) in my class, I can take care of it.  Stop being such a stupid man and treating my like I am three!"  she said politely.  Yeah right. 

Now I know this is not about the five minute thing.  "What, you asked me if I was listening, I was just answering."

Then she made some kind of growl sound and snatched her purse out of my hands and her coat.  I back up a step and head for the door.  I get outside holding the screen open for her trying to be nice and she slams the door behind me, locks it, and yells through the door, "No date tonight, I am not in the mood."

End of evening.  What the hell?

So I am pissed, try calling her on my cell, no answer.  I go back to my place and call, no answer so I give up and hit the web.  No Tivo at my house.

I hit Digg, find this article and laughed my ass off.  So my Friday was a bust, my girlfriend is mad as hell and not talking to me, but there is always Digg and a beer, but I wish I had a Tivo.