sleeping with the enemy

Saturday night, I called and asked Larry if he wanted to come over and watch the game. No, not really, but I could come over there. Fair enough. He is playing shuttle to Hannah on the weekends. Actually, the very late weekend nights after the haunted house closes.

And really, watching the game on a 9 foot screen in high definition from the projector upstairs in our media room beats watching at my apartment. So I went.

We had planned (or so I thought) to go and watch the slaughter the next day (Texans), so I said, OK, I will go home and get some stuff and just spend the night. OK.

So, I packed up my pillows, makeup, hat & toothbrush and headed over. My house is gorgeous, not to mention awesome freaking media room (painted almost black, including ceiling, movie posters, red velvet drapes). It is sooooo weird walking through there now. I really feel detatched from the house. But in I went.

We headed upstairs to watch the game, but both struggled to keep our eyes open. After the game, I headed to bed. He told me, don't take up the whole damn bed. I replied, I'll give you the bed if you give me the A/C! The A/C causes as much friction as anything else between us. He keeps it at 78, which is fine during the day, but at night, I like coooooool.

So, he slept on the couch until Hannah called, I don't remember even hearing him come to bed.

I wake up about 8:30 Sunday morning and watch a little tv. I start to shower about 9:30, he is up, I inquire what he is wearing to the game. He said he wasn't going, he didn't want to leave Hannah all by herself all day. I'm rinsing my hair, thinking, then why did I come over here and spend the night? But I don't, I continue to rinse. He then catches that snap and says, "I run her around all week long, she can wait for a bit".

So, off to the game we go. Hannah calls him about 12:30, inquiring as to where he was. When he told her, she said "Whatever, bye" and hung up on him!!!! That little be'otch! I promptly call her right back, instructing her to call him back, apologize or be grounded all week and have to wait to take your paycheck to the mall. (the girl has turned into a shopping FREAK! and this would just kill her), I further tell her if she ever hangs up on either of us again, I would beat her ass!

She knows she is wrong, calls him back and apologizes. After my call ended with her, I looked at him and said, "THAT is what I am talking about!" He replied, "yeah, it's easy when you're right there in the moment". Yes, I thought, and it's easy when you hear about it, even an hour or two later, or a minute later because you usually get a phone call right after it happened. But, I didn't say that to him.

Tonight he came for dinner (the weather is a little cooler and the winter menu is taking over, homemade chili). We talked about the weather in Great Lakes, cold and rainy, then debated whether Ashley was actually learning anything, or so damn hard headed that she would do whatever the drill sergeant wanted to "show him" like she did us.

I am not making any plans to return home until after her graduation, a few months after. I need to see how that goes, where we all stand, and what the future holds.

BTW -- have you tried frozen grapes? Frozen red seedless grapes? Oh - My - Gawd. They are soooooo good, like healthy candy. Try 'em