Way to freakin' go, you big ol' hairy puppy doggie!!! Yay, hd, ESQUIRE!! I'm positive you are one formidable legal eagle!!
Your wife's comment would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic. To wit: you're happy about something good that happened to you. She's (as usual) tired from her enormously stressful day/week/life. So she gets mad because you don't shove your good mood to the back burner and get down in the dumps with her. <shaking head>
But that doesn't change the indisputable fact that you are one cool dude! I say put together a party of people to go out to celebrate and don't invite her: "I know you're tired, honey, so I won't ask you to get up and get dressed and go out. I've invited several other people, so don't worry that I won't have a good time." Sorry... my fantasy engine is working overtime these days...
I am definitly making my congratulations expressed. Congratulations Hairy!
Just in case we are on opposite sides of the table someday, I can say Hairy, remember that day I gave you WOA. I really need some AOS now in order to prevent some unwantted PT in the PEN. ROFLMAO The feds you say.
Oh yeah, i agree earmark that money for Hairy stuff and needs. The following is NSFW! (Not safe for work!)
Thanks again. Regarding the "stunt wife"...if I wanted something made of plastic who just laid there and didn't react, I never would have divorced my first wife.
Badum, crash. I'm here all week, folks. Try the pork chops.
Congrats on the raise...and even more so, congrats on not letting your W pull you down to her level!!!
You so deserve the raise, and I am very happy for you.
Your sitch reminds me of not too long ago when my H didn't get excited about the wheels actually starting to move on a promotion for me. I'd ben told and told and told, things would eventually happen, but finally someone came through and did what they said they would.
When I told my H I also received a luke-warm response. I took a slightly different approach though than yours (although I like yours too)...but I called him on it and asked "why he couldn't be happy for me when it came to something he knew was so important to me". His response was...I didn't really know it was this big of a deal, I knew it was important to you, I just thought they were telling you things, not actually doing them this time.
I just wonder (wonder mind you) if she simply doesn't realize really how much of a big deal this is to you. I'm glad you didn't excuse her b*tchyness though....just saying you're sorry for it doesn't make that behavior ok.
I have to tell you HD, that sometimes I'm chintzy on the WOA when H is recognized for something because it awakens some primitive abandonment fears ( kind of like..." Oh, now he's too good for me" type thing). Takes me a few days to settle down and get on the bandwagon.
Anyway...Congrats from me...you're not going to leave the board, are you????
Quote: Poster: Greeneyedlass Subject: Re: Vent of the week
Choc,
Would you believe my late fiancee' is co-writer of that song? It hit the charts just before he passed...I couldn't listen to that for the LONGEST time.
My fiancee and Bobby Braddock wrote that one night in a bar. He called me the night they were writing it and I got to hear the "Premier" version of it sang on a cell phone LOL.
Get out . . . really?? How cool is that?
That song reminds me SO much of my W, I just had to share it with good ol' Hairdog. If she brings up a problem she's having, I'm expected to listen to it and not change the subject. If I bring up a problem I'm having, on the other hand, I get a predictable comment like "Welcome to MY world!" or "Tell me about it, I . . . ." etc.
Why would I leave the board? I'm still in a SSM, I'm getting a raise for the exemplary work I'm (not) doing, and y'all are some of the best friends (and free entertainment) around.
Even if my W miraculously joined me on the dark side of the force (or is this the bright side?) and we ruled the galaxy, it would behoove me to stay and be an example for the CeMarians among us.
Congratulations on the raise. I work for the government, too, and my W never thinks I make enough money. She keeps asking me to go and get side jobs, all the while demanding that I spend every possible waking hour at home painting the basement, etc.
What a pain, your W! You could have just not reported the income (to her, not the IRS) and bought any number of love toys. But no, you, ever faithful husband you are, donated your raise to the family coffers.
Quote: I have to tell you HD, that sometimes I'm chintzy on the WOA when H is recognized for something because it awakens some primitive abandonment fears [snip]...you're not going to leave the board, are you????
I think she was making a joke... well, anyway Ithought it was cute and laughed out loud.
Congratulations on the raise, Hairdog. I just got one myself last week; now, instead of "underpaid," I'm only "somewhat underpaid."
To keep this on topic...I conjecture that financial difficulties may exacerbate an SSM. (Certainly, they're not going to do anything to help it!) Does anyone have empirical evidence to back this up, of awareness of financial difficulties eating into desire?
- "A"
"Everything that happens, happens. Everything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Everything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again."
