She said – I’ve Been Up Since 4 a.m.

Well, when you’ve been awake since 4 a.m. what else is there to do but “catch up” on overnight news.

And our government sending troops decks of playing cards with hints on how to save Iraqi artifacts, etc…just blows my mind. For heaven sakes, doesn’t anyone in Washington know that we are at war!  Apparently this war has certain rules that are fighting soldiers must be made aware of.  If we are there to preserve their history, then tell us that instead of calling it a war – actually, they can preserve their own history and let our men and women come home.  Some things regarding this war are difficult to understand and other things coming out of “our government” (prevents me from pointing fingers and naming names at individuals) are just plain stupid!!!

And is there anyone, even in government, that really, really thinks we can “win the war on terror”?

He said – Solving World Problems so Early?

She came in the bedroom this morning while I was shaving and every story that came on Headline News, she said, “yeah, did you hear about that?” and then proceeded to tell me the story and her take.  She was in her mid-morning stride, and I was still waking up.

He said – I Thought We Shared Email Accounts

I thought our email accounts were like bank accounts – they are joint accounts.  True, I sign up for lots of freebies, but I usually use throw-away accounts like hotmail.com or yahoo.com.

 She has given all our friends the new gmail account.

I use the same password for all my email accounts which she knows.

So, reader? Do you have a “secret” email account from your spouse?

She said – Have You Been In My Email?

I have a separate gmail account because of spam-blocker problems at the account we shared.  I don’t sign up for all the contests and stuff that he does, so I think he is causing the problem.

I don’t like it when he logs into my account and reads email.

He said – I Got Lucky

OK, this is where I have to come clean. I have no doubt that the battery was dead. Click…click…click, as she said.

But many people know that in warm / hot weather, sometimes the battery will recharge just enough, if left to sit for a while.

By the time it took her to find my keys, and whatever else she needed, and go to the car parked in front, I had made it to her car.

Before I pushed it out of the garage, I gave the key a little bump, just to make sure it was really dead. The engine turned over with a low groan. So I got my serious face on and gave the key a firm “I know what I’m doing” twist.

After the third groan, it started.

I did like her comment in the post about making a dead battery deader. Huh?

Smugly, walked around to the front of the house where she was backing out, and waved her in.

Yes, I gave her the guy look of mechanical superiority.

She said – My Battery’s Dead.

I was preoccupied with some important golf business when I was parking my car.
I remember putting the top up on my car and I guess in my haste, I left the keys in the ignition and turned on! So of course, it’s deader than a doornail.

I got it jumped and drove home after the round.

Told my husband about it and said I was going to Target just to make sure the car would start. Really, just to make sure the car would start! LOL Turn the key over and click, click, click. Well, I’ve done this enough to know that my husband gets ticked off if I “grind” it to start making the dead battery even deader. So I came in and said, “the battery is dead again”. I’ll just take your car.

It’s a man thing, it has to be….he says let me try. Well, of course it started! So after a lot of disgusted looks from him and me saying you’ve always told me don’t grind it and really drain the battery…..well, you see where this is ended up.

She said – Camping? Never again.

My parents used to take me camping all the time when I was a kid. If you guys have to pee in the middle of the night, you just find a tree. We would have to traipse through the campground with a flashlight.

Guys think swimming is the same as bathing. It isn’t. There never were hot showers where we went, so we put up with cold – freezing cold.

Making out with me when I was stinky and had greasy hair wouldn’t be a good memory.

I hate camping. I hate camping

He said – Great Time To Go Camping

These are the days and nights when I would love to go camping. It’s hot during the day, so you just lay around and don’t do much except drink adult beverages. Then in the evening it cools off enough that sometimes a fire feels good.

I have good memories of the camping we did together. Smores. Making out with you behind the bushes. Rubbing suntan oil on you.

I miss camping.

UPDATE: I don’t even think she would go for glamping.

Tents have Persian carpets, down duvets and even electricity. There’s a sauna and hot tubs on site, and activities including fishing, horseback riding, kayaking, hikes and wildlife-watching.

She said – only ironing one pant leg

Building the Suez Canal….yeah right. (see previous post) Trust me if he was in charge it would only get half done but in his mind it would be completed. Let me give you some examples: I’ll mow the yard for you this week (once in 12 weeks!) – however, I have to re-do it because he leaves unmowed strips, sections not mowed, you get the picture.

Hey! I’ve got it – he may be on to something – I’ll iron one pant leg, the back of the shirt, half cook meals, etc. This could really free up some time for me!

He said – Suez Canal is Done.

On his to-do list:

Clean Gutters

She said, “what you been doing, I just got up.”

He said, “cleaning gutters, you didn’t hear me banging in the gutters right outside the window?”

She said, “did you do the ones in back?”

 Here’s what he heard: “thanks for building the Suez Canal, did you get the bridge over San Francisco Bay built yet?