sure... but I'm not sure I would be all that good at it!

spoke to wife earlier tonight. she's coming down with the boys. She said she got me a present. I'm pretty sure my heart rate didn't change at all... I put no stock in it, stayed polite and friendly about it... ya'll woulda been proud.

we've got a great weekend planned. gonna get wii sports and the attatchments so we can play that with the boys, do some crock potting (we have never done that before), and play Pictionary Man, which I bought as a joke but actually looks pretty fun.

I'm going to repeat, a la Jack Nicholson in the Shining...

All Work and no R talk Makes Jack a Dull boy
All work and no R talk Makes Jack a Dull boy

starting to learn that this is a lot like emotional chess, in that I need to start planning ahead for things that she will say, things that can trigger me the wrong way, so I can take a deep breath and deflect, not allow the conversations to turn the way I don't want them to.. not allow things that are said to effect me. I've always been a reacter.. working on not being that way.