A Little Advice. Some Counsel. Guidance, If You Will

Here's a little marriage advice for all you non-single-ladies out there. Because we could all use at least one more piece of advice.

Don't ask your husband to do something for you while he's 65% asleep, unless you don't want it to get done. Because in his not-so-awake state, he either won't hear you, or he won't remember. Which is fine if you don't actually want him to do it. Then go right ahead. Tell him, at 7 AM, to do something for you at 4 PM. I promise you, it won't even register in his brain.

Say, for example, you gave your house key to a friend so that friend could take care of your mail for you, while you are on vacation. And then you get back from said vacation a day early, which means you won't have your key for at least another day, because your friend doesn't know you're back yet. So you don't have a house key, and you're going to work, so you kindly ask your husband (who is quite groggy and thoroughly enjoying his pillow/bed/blankets/dreams) to make sure the door is unlocked when you get home from work.

Guess what happens when you get home from work: yup, you guessed it. Nobody is home, and door is locked, and you can't get inside.

Here's a second piece of advice: if you insist on asking your husband, while he's practically asleep, to leave the door unlocked for you 9 hours later, make sure you have a book with you, and something to munch on, so that you can spend the next hour on your front porch with relative ease. You can satisfy your hunger pangs a little, and you have something to occupy yourself with, instead of staring out at your neighborhood, wondering if those people looking at you think you're a stalker.

Last piece of advice: when your husband finally does come home, and says to you, sheepishly, "Honey, I'll unlock the door for you now", make sure he also says something along the lines of, "And I'm going to make you dinner" before you forgive him and give him a kiss and compliment him on his new haircut.

Not that this happened to me today or anything like that. ;)


I promise I will blog about my trip. We've only been home for 24 hours, so there is still a lot of unpacking to do. And we just filled our house with groceries again. And I've been catching up on blog reading, whenever Art is not simultaneously begging to get onto the internet that we've missed so much.

I won't promise pictures right away, or even within the next week, because the pictures are on other peoples cameras. But I swear, someday, you WILL see those pictures. I will try my darned hardest to get them on this computer.

Aaaaaaand...We're Back!

We got home a day early. It was a long drive, and I am just delighted to be able to sleep in my own bed. It was great vacation, but I didn't get nearly enough sleep. I don't sleep well in strange beds. Or in moving vehicles.

But we're home now. And I get to go to work two days this week instead of just one!

Anyway, we're tired. We haven't unpacked. And we stink. And we're going to bed now.

Very Quick Post

Free WiFi at a motel we're staying at. Yay!

Cali is great so far. I'm loving the heat. Not everyone shares my opinion, but that's okay. I like it. I've been meeting a lot a family. I like them so far. We've been staying with Art's great-grandma. I'm glad we have a free place to stay, with enough room for all of us to be fairly separate. But I think she's getting kind of sick of us. She's very old, and a little cranky. Everyone else is able to laugh it off, which I'm glad, because I'm almost scared of her.

We've driven a little west of our original destination, Art and I got to see my old college roommate, along with her husband and toddler. We're going to the coast tomorrow, hanging out with more of the family. Then we're seeing ANOTHER family on Saturday, and then Magic Mountain on Sunday. It's an amusement park, for those of you who did not know. We're probably not going to Disneyland after all, just because there are so many families we have to see. We won't have enough time to do Disneyland.

But that's fine. I'm excited for Magic Mountain. I love roller coasters. I think. I've only been on one, once, at the West Edmonton Mall, on my 20th birthday. And I LOVED IT! So I hope I still feel the same way now that I'm 24.

Well, I've spent enough time on the laptop. Each of us only get a few minutes. So I'm going to get ready for bed. I'm glad I got to blog though. I also caught up on some blog reading, so I won't have so much to read when we get home next Thursday.

P.S. I've been recording our vacation so far, so when we get back, you are going to get a nice long post about EVERYTHING we did. And no, I'm not taking pictures, because Art broke my camera on a mountain, but Mari has been taking some, and so have the parents. So you'll get to see a few.