Still Tryin's new thread

[S.T. _I Made It!]

awe, thank you Nikki! That definitely makes me feel good!

not much to talk about today. It was really hot and humid today, so after taking s8 to camp and s3 to library and then the park I was pretty tired at home, so s3 and me took a nice nap!

yesterday H used the money he made on our old component stand and changed the oil/filter/etc on my car. It's really cool how he's doing all these things as a handyman now. He never wanted to do stuff before, and I'm almost certain it was because of what I did in the past. For example, if he was working on something and couldn't get it, I would say, here, let me do it, and then I'd fix it. I'm pretty good at figuring stuff out, so it would drive me crazy to see him fiddling with something forever when I knew just what needed to be done. This wasn't very often, but still, looking back (after reading For Women Only) I realized, I was just disrespecting his abilities and I wasn't building him up, and instead was knocking him down w/o even realizing it. He never acted like it bothered him at all, but seeing what he does now, I know it must have had SOME kind of affect on him.

I need to remember to praise him during these times too.

oh, and Nikki, you made me realize that I've really been slacking on the whole GALing thing more than I realized. last year I was dressing up and getting all "pretty" for him and stuff, and now I don't really do that. I know why though, because he never acted much different. I never got compliments. If he did say something, he'd say, why did you dress up? So, I'm still thinking he'd probably rather see me looking nice, but I wish he would acknowledge it or something to make me want to fix up or look good. I'm getting back in the "don't really care what I look like mode" again. that's bad.