We have a piece of furniture that is being delivered today between 8am-1pm, I remind her as I'm leaving for work at 7:45. She is still laying in bed playing on her phone, makes a comment about they won't come this early (no clue what she is basing this off of). I call the trucking company at 9am to see if they had a better time frame and they had 2 small deliveries and then they would be at our house, probably about 30/45 minutes. I call wife and tell her and she freaks out. "Oh shit, I got to go. I'm not dressed and the living room is a mess"
Her: What do you want for an appetizer?! Me: I don't really need one. Her: But I want one! Me: Ok...well then get one. Fast forward to the end of the meal and she's asking for to go boxes for her leftover entree that will end up in the trash in a few days. Every time. I feel like I need to ask her beforehand "are you going to eat your supper?"
For the hundredth time I tried to explain to the current lass that saying "I'm ok with whatever" while retaining veto power isn't being selfless.
I cook 85% of the time and there are always leftovers in the fridge. Unless its a fancy place i pick up what food i want on way home & she can either eat that, or leftovers. She complained a lot early on until i made her start cooking. Once that happened she seemed much more agreeable.
Chatting in the car and uses the word subtle but says it SUB-tle, strong emphasis on the (silent) B. Asked her about it and she said yeah, well I pronounce it how it's spelled, Ooooookay.
Recently found out she pronounces "saga" as "sega". I was very confused why she was randomly talking about video games.
My wife can't say Rhinocerous Pronounces it "Rhino-saurus" but knows it's wrong so isn't confident in saying it. It's adorable
"I don't like these holidays falling in the middle of the week. Why can't we just celebrate the 4th of July on the 1st Saturday of July every year?"
I should add, we were talking about lumber because my wife wants to build a deck off of Pinterest. We rent our house.
Last night we went to the fireworks in town. She asks me to go back to the car to get her folding chair, which is no big deal. I go back, grab the only folding chair in the car, which was a low sitting beach chair, to come back and get yelled at for grabbing the wrong chair.
I was more patient than normal because she had a stressful day. She held a baby shower for her bff who is going to have an advanced special needs child. Wasn't really the time to pick a fight.
2 days ago we found a tiny egg in our front yard. Couldn't have been bigger than a quarter. Later that night there's a crab outside of our house about the size of a softball. She looks at me and asks if the crab hatched from that egg.
My wife is Polish/German/Irish, that only would have ended with her beating me senseless with said chair.
Not quite as bad, but mine is always wanting to do gardening projects. We rent. Fuck no I'm not landscaping this house.
I think that speaks more to your lack of upper body strength than her toughness. Fwiw, only an idiot would go after her bare handed.
The stupid part is she didn't say the first Friday so we get a three day weekend I agree with the concept though
Walked into the kitchen this morning with the wife forearms-deep in a bowl of muffin batter. I asked her WTF she was doing, and she informed me that "the recipe says to hand mix."
Why can't you? We have a big party on whatever Saturday is closest to the 4th every year, and then do whatever we want on the actual 4th (which usually involved whoever's pool is open and being used, haha).
Everyone wants a long weekend, not a day off mid-week. If the holiday was on Saturday you wouldn't get a holiday day off. Thanks, Wayne
That's the point. She should have said "we should just move the holiday to the Friday/ Monday closest to the 4th and use that to celebrate." She said celebrate on Saturday which you can do anyway.
My employer will give you either the Friday before or the Monday after if a holiday occurs over the weekend
Same, I don't know any employers that don't do this. If they say you get 7 national holidays or whatever the standard is you get a day for those holidays regardless it falls on a weekend.
My last summer job employer let us take any day in the week prior or the week after if it fell on a weekend because our department was supposed to have a crew on staff every day of the week. The permanent employees had to coordinate to have a balanced staff each day but since I was summer help I got to just take whatever day I wanted since I didn't actually get holiday pay. I think I just ended up working instead to get the money.
Uh you would absolutely still get a holiday day off. "Independence Day is a federal holiday. If July 4 is a Saturday, it is observed on Friday, July 3. If July 4 is a Sunday, it is observed on Monday, July 5."