It looks like my thread finally locked, so here's the new one.
Update: The Jayhawks lost, and that hurts me deeply, but Burgbud is still going to say something he thinks is clever, so let me say, ahead of this, that I still love him dearly, even if he is a misguided azz.
Remember how bummed I was that I had to go see Andre Watts during the game? Chalk one big warm fuzzy up to Ms.Hdog, as she came up with the following solution: I dropped her off at the concert, went to my brother's house (he lives close to the venue), watched the 2nd (depressing) half of the KU game, and then went to the concert hall and waited in the lobby for intermission. She could tell by my face what had happened, and gave me a big hug in the midst of all the concert-goers. Having told the ushers in the lobby of my wife's plan, as we walked into the concert, one of the ushers said, "so, this is the angel you married, eh?" Nice.
We had a nice hike on Sunday with DD5, with W initiating hand-holding.
Had a bit of a tiff last night though, but I stood my ground, for whatever it's worth. We were watching some crime show and one of the female cops was wearing something low cut, and also probably wearing a wonder bra, as she was showing some major cleavage. We both remarked how unlikely it was for a policewoman to be wearing something like that, but I remarked, "however unlikely it might be, I still like to look at it."
Of course I knew that she would react to this, but I was thinking about Burgbud's mantra: "Yep, that's me." She got preachy about the "objectification of women" and I took the "appreciation of the female form" argument. I mentioned that I thought her breasts were beautiful, and that I liked looking at them, but that it wasn't objectification, it was appreciation.
I knew there was no resolution to this debate, but it didn't get personal until this: W: blah blah objectification blah blah H: Blah blah, appreciation of the female form blah blah. It's just the way I am. W: You can call it what you will, but I see it as you objectifying women. I don't know if I can love a man who objectifies women. PAUSE...Hairdog stares at MsHdog. H: So you don't know if you can love me because of this belief, which I've told you is just the way I am; but you want me to be happy with you the way you are when you ignore me sexually? Think about that for awhile.
I went upstairs to bed. She ended up falling asleep on the couch and didn't come up to bed until 2am or so. Haven't heard from her this morning, but that's not unusual
