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I wish I could say that I have had some prophecies, some EUREKA moments or experienced some great enlightenment that I could share with you......but I haven't.
Mostly I have just noticed some things about myself.
LIKE;
I have learned that I like to be the center of attention, or at the very least be able to include myself in a conversation. I hate when people talk about things that I don't care about or cannot contribute to. I need to be better about this, I need to learn how to let others be center stage. How sad is that I am 28 years old, and am just now realizing this?
I can't seem to eat JUST ONE string cheese.
For every day I spend with people or in high energy mode, I need one day to recharge and recover. Was I like this 10 years ago, or is this part of getting old?
Also, after my last blog.....I have learned.....Happiness Take COURAGE.
And I have noticed some things about others, which has made me notice more things about myself.
LEGS and I, are really happy. NO. We really are.
I have noticed its hard for me to spend time with other married couples who don't seem to be as happy as we are. It starts getting weird when they squabble, bicker and fight over things in front of us. Or have you ever been in a situation when everybody has had a couple of drinks and one spouse crosses over to the dark side and starts bashing the other? Or when they fight over something super personal......AWKWARD!
I mean....what is the answer or solution? Do you ignore it? Take sides? Offer advice? Laugh it off? Give moral support to the WIFE because you are one? Usually it results in the sound of crickets.......and that is LAME........
Things aren't perfect between LEGS and I. For instance....
Last week, we lent our friend MY TANK. Or rather, LEGS lent MY TANK out to HIS FRIEND.
I put the recycling out on the porch in hopes that LEGS would behave something like this:
IN LEGS' MIND:
'Oh- hey.....there is recycling on the porch. ARMS doesn't have a vehicle, so.....maybe........ I should drop it off. I mean.....its not like she can carry recycling on her bicycle. YES!
THAT'S IT!
I WILL TAKE THE RECYCLING IN FOR HER!' (Sound of a SUPER HERO!)
Do you think that this is what happened?
NO.....
The recycling sat on the porch for a week!
Disappointed......I verbally said 'You know LEGS....I didn't leave the recycling out on the porch for fun. I was hoping that you would think to yourself, ARMS doesn't have a vehicle so I should drop it off. '
(Insert blank stare)
Another few days passed, and now we had two bags of recycling instead of one.
How I made my point.
LEGS needed me to pick him up from work. I promptly left what I was doing to pick him up.
I put the two bags of recycling in the passenger seat of the car. When he opened the door to get in, I just stared straight ahead like I had no idea that two bags of recycling were holding him up. He had to move both bags of recycling in order to get in. Once he got in the car, he said
LEGS:' Do you want to drop off the recycling?'
In my mind: 'Yes......yes, babe, I want YOU to drop off the recycling.'
Or....sometimes, I will ask him to pick something up (that belongs to him) but he won't. So I'll just stick it in the bed. At night, when he goes to put his feet in the bed, and he is tired, and ready to sleep. Suddenly!!! He runs into the item that I asked him to pick up, when he was awake, alert and available. Now he actually has to pick the item up, when he doesn't want to.
And we usually giggle about it.
And me? Well.....I am HIGH MAINTENANCE....mostly verbally....
So in the end....we aren't perfect.
But we try, to fall in love, OFTEN.
Lately, it seems, people are talking about marriage.
Whether to do it?
Whether to end it?
Whether to stay with it?
And I think this quote pretty much sums it up.......
I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person, but I do know that many people have a lot of wrong ideas about marriage and what it takes to make that marriage happy and successful. I'll be the first to admit that it's possible that you did marry the wrong person. However, if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. On the other hand, if you marry the right person, and treat that person wrong, you certainly will have ended up marrying the wrong person. I also know that it is far more important to be the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person. In short, whether you married the right or wrong person is primarily up to you.
Zig Ziglar
GUILTY PLEASURES:
Four Cheese Pasta at the Italian Restaurant we love in Bad Windsheim- I ATE THE WHOLE THING!
Saltines with NUTELLA, its my new favorite snack.
ARMS' Mailbox:
LEGS came home with a package on Friday.
He was hoping it was his bike parts.
But it wasn't.
It was for me. I am kind of a big deal.
It was from my friend RED.
And it was a shiny, sparkly.
I like shiny, sparkly's.
She had a necklace made for me, with an APACHE on it. I have already worn it, and received many compliments and requests on where I got it. Here is the website www.HERHEROSTORE.com
Check it out!
(Okay, so this is why I haven't posted pictures- much to RED's disappointment. I have this camera that I carry around everywhere for my blog. And I drop it. A LOT. Well...I finally dropped it for the last time the other night and now its broken. So.....I tried to take a picture with LEGS' fancy billion dollar camera tonight. Yeah. I spent like a half hour trying to snap one picture. Not happening. So I PROMISE to post pictures of the necklace in the next blog. SORRY!!!)
Last but not least. A sincere, heartfelt thank you to RED for thinking of me in such a unique way. I LOVE the necklace!!!! And- I don't deserve you.
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Random Thoughts:
I was riding my bike with a friend the other day, and when she went over the curb (said friend hasn't been on a bike in a LONG time!) she immediately put both feet on the ground. Not sure if you can picture this, but my view from behind- it was pretty funny.....
On that same bike ride. A car passed us with two dudes in it. They were starring and slowing down. She said "Please tell me you know those guys because they are kinda creeping me out." I did know them. It was LEGS and his friend.
The other night we went to Bad Winsheim for dinner with friends. LEGS decided to drive, and I decided to drink. It had been one of those days where I was too busy to have a full meal, so I had small snacks, by the time we arrived at dinner I was starving!!! I drank a glass of wine or two and next thing you know- I was plastered. We left the restaurant. We turned out of the parking lot, and saw the Politzei. I had a feeling when we saw them we were getting pulled over. Sure enough, blue lights in the rear view mirror.
I started to panic. LEGS hadn't been drinking, but its scary getting pulled over by foreign police in a foreign country. Its not like you can say- "I want my phone call!" You don't have the same rights!?! So I start freaking, and LEGS tells me to calm down. But I can't.
First thing we did was ask if they can speak english (in German). Luckily they were able to speak English. They asked if LEGS had been drinking. He said he had not (because of course he hadn't.) But I drunkenly announced 'I HAVE!' The Police Officer looked at me, and said smiling 'Your Allowed!'
OVER & OUT
Just another day in the life of an unlikely military wife.....**
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