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anyone wanna go to a party or two or five?

May 18th, 2006 @ 9:05 pm | love | Post a Comment

Every good relationship has a certain yin and yang balance to it. For instance, in my relationship, I do all the nagging, and Andrew does all the stuff I nag him about.

Just kidding. He would have you believe this, but it’s simply untrue. The amount he nags me about leaving unopened junk mail on the counter would astound you. The amount of junk mail I leave on the counter astounds him.

But we really do balance each other out. I pay the bills. He deals with car maintenance. I do the dishes and any surface scrubbing. He does the picking up and the laundry. I buy the gifts for holidays and occasions. He…opens gifts? He buys the diamonds. I wear the diamonds.

It’s a perfect match, really.

If I had my way, I would spend the entire weekend at home doing nothing. I would read my backlog of magazines, watch MTV until my head exploded, and fiddle with an arts and crafts project. If Andrew spent a weekend like that, he would feel like he had no life and no friends and life is no longer worth living, please kill me now.

So Andrew is the “cruise director” of our house. He usually plans out the weekend, and I go merrily along. Before he recently started working twelve hour days, he would plan our weeknights as well. I often plead for mercy. The mercy of pajamas and the couch.

This weekend just might top all the other busy weekends. It goes something like this: Hockey game, dinner and drinks, and a party. More hockey, graduation party, even more hockey, some soccer, and a barbeque. Basketball game and another barbeque.

I count five sporting events and five social events packed into 2.25 days. Then today, Andrew instant messaged me to suggest we go see a movie sometime this weekend. And I think he was serious.

I don’t think I’m doing my job of balancing him out this time around. Anyone want to grant us a few extra days so we can make it through our weekend alive?

comments

  1. I go through phases–sometimes I want to go out all the time and sometimes I want to stay in. It’s good that you two balance one another out.

    Also, do you even like hockey?

    written by Sarah

    May 19th, 2006 @ 6:52 am

  2. We had a weekend like that too. We have another one like that coming up, starting at oh..whenever I get off work. haha I’m blaming it on graduation season. Too many parties and graduations and weddings and blah, I just want to stay home and watch tv. :) haha I feel your pain. :)

    written by Paige

    May 19th, 2006 @ 8:52 am

  3. I get very cranky when I don’t get my couch time (although I prefer Law and Order reruns to MTV). My weekends this month consist of traveling to NJ for a birthday, traveling to MA for a graduation, and hosting my family for the weekend while we all attend a wedding in Baltimore. I am eagerly anticipating the return of weekends spent sleeping late and watching waaaay too much tv.

    Maybe you should recommend that you see a rented movie — then you can watch a movie AND be on the couch in pajamas :)

    written by Jennifer

    May 19th, 2006 @ 12:00 pm

  4. Just so you feel bad, and since I don’t care for Hockey. I’m gonna do you a favor and sit on my couch in shorts, munching on snack foods and watch TV all weekend long. If I get really gung ho I might run the dishwasher while i’m at it.

    written by Dale

    May 19th, 2006 @ 12:01 pm

  5. Ha! That sounds familiar - I’m a total homebody, while staying home on a Friday night is hell for my husband!

    written by Melissa

    May 19th, 2006 @ 3:01 pm

  6. FYI… I finally got my 100 things posted on my blog. thought you might wanna know. :)

    written by Dale

    May 19th, 2006 @ 4:32 pm

  7. I totally need my own social director. The couch and I are good friends. Have an excellent time this weekend.

    written by Bebe

    May 19th, 2006 @ 6:06 pm

  8. This is so true about you two. I think I fall somewhere in the middle, if I spend too many hours with just Matt I start thinking I have no friends. He has to tell me it isnt true…sound familar?

    I know that your friendships (and Alli and Liz) have saved me from many a “have no friends,” tantrum this year :)

    written by Alexa

    May 20th, 2006 @ 11:55 am

  9. So, my husband totally calls me the “social director” in our family. I hate it.

    He says I cram too much into our lives…but HELLO…we have friends that we have to keep. And in order to keep them we must actually spend time with them. Doh.

    And I love the part about Andrew buying the diamonds and you wearing them.

    PERFECT match.

    written by Isabel

    May 22nd, 2006 @ 6:19 pm