While this isn't really related to the the Siberians, I think I need to vent.
Maybe I'm too independent, and too old, and set in my ways, and have lived by myself for too long, but, are all men like what I am about to describe?
Harry, normally works away from home from a week to 3 weeks at a time, That's great.
But, the last (seems like forever) month, he's been working from home.
I am not a drinking woman, but, if he doesn't get to the old way of working, he will surely drive me to drink!!
I swear I feel I need to tell him when I'm about to go to the bathroom, or when I'm about to sit and watch TV or anything.
He is constantly asking "What are you doing?" "How's it going?" "How are the kids?" "What's for supper?" "What are you cooking?" "How'd you sleep?" "Were you warm enough?" (I sleep better when it's freezing in my room.) The list goes on and on and on and on and... well, I hope you get the idea.
I've been cooking lots of things in the crockpot lately, because I've been bathing dogs this week.
He is CONSTANTLY opening the lid!!! I've told him today "DO NOT TOUCH", what does he do like ten minutes after I've told him that? He goes and "Just making sure the lid is on" Puleez! It's a wonder anything actually cooks in the crockpot!
He is constantly going out, and minutes later, coming back in. I think he needs to install a revolving door. And when he goes out and comes back in, he brings in more dirt and debris than the 10 housedogs do. I can sweep and mop the floor, and within 5 minutes he has dirtied it up again. When I come back in the house after being outside, I take off my shoes. Why can't he do that?
Oh, and the trash. He drinks a lot of beer. I mean, a lot. So, I set up a trash can specifically for all his beer cans. He came home one weekend, and I swear I emptied the trash 3 times in 1 day--for all HIS beer cans. And did I mention, it was I who emptied the trash? I asked him once, if he was trying to see how much trash he could CRAM into the can before he emptied it, and he said no, he didn't think the trash needed emptying yet. Excuse me, the lid has now fallen off the can, and you don't think it needs to be emptied?! What really gets me, is when I get the trash outside and he happens to be sitting there, he'll jump up and say, "Here, I can get that." Well no thanks Harry, I made it this far, I think I can make it the rest of the way to the trash bin.
And empty boxes. He leaves empty boxes in the pantry. He says he doesn't notice when he takes the last whatever it is out of the box. What? How do you not notice you have just emptied the box? And the trash can is, like, 3 feet away from the pantry.
Oh, and he feels he needs to inform me of the weather every 5 minutes. I watch the weather on the newscast each night, I know (sort of) what to expect, I don't need a minute by minute recount of the weather. I can look outside. And if the sun isn't out, he asks "Where's the sun?" I'll let him know the weatherman from the previous night said it was going to be cloudy. What does he do, whips out his little iphone and checks the weather. What does it say? The same thing I just told him.
He feels he needs to inform me of what he is about to do, or going to do sometime soon. If he has a specific project he has in mind, I wish he would not tell me about it, because of all these projects he has mentioned, 95% do not get done. He tells me when he's about to go mow the pasture. He'll go shortly. Well, his shortly is maybe 3 hours later. And when he does mow, he mows for 20 minutes, and takes a beer/cigarette break. Then mows for another 20 minutes and takes another beer/cigarette break. What would normally take maybe a day to mow, has now taken 3 days, for all the breaks he takes. Me, I just go out and get the job done, no breaks. For instance, when it's bath week here at the kennel., I get up, get the kids out, do whatever cleaning up after the kids needs to be done, and start bathing dogs. And usually do 6-7 without a break.
So, is it just me? Or all men so "needy" and "clingy"? Does your man constantly ask "What are you doing?" Or feels he needs to tell you his plans?
Calgon---take me away!
Thanks for letting me vent.
Maybe I need Dr. Phil?! But, I am open to any advice.
