Dinner is Beef Stroganoff with sugar snap peas in lemon butter. I am an excellent cook, and my kids are home with me for the next eleven days. We will be eating well all week, and watching a movie tonight after dinner.
Why eleven days? Well, this very morning, the Wife jetted off to her Alma Mater for an eleven-day binge of quintessential Mid-Life-Crisis bacchanalia. In yet another pointless attempt to recapture her lost youth, she has leased an enormous home on the edge of campus, and filled it with a cadre of old classmates for a week-and-a-half of football games, bar-hopping, campus cruising, honky tonking and general acting out like a 24 year-old sorority girl.
She's been planning this trip since she took a similar (albeit shorter) version last year. This has been the focal point of her life for the most of the year, and she has literally been counting the days off on Facebook.
This little soiree ought to cost us about three grand, which is a lot, considering we have been liquidating our retirement savings to pay for her new apartment and nightlife. Just last week, she spent $700 at Nordstrom for Fall fashion wear. Baby's gotta have new shoes!
Frankly, a divorce is going to be cheaper in the long run.
Me:52 Wife:49 Married 19 years Son:16 Daughter:14 Bomb dropped with ILYBNILWY: May 2013 Wife moved out 2Jun13
