I was having the strangest dreams this morning. The only one that I can really remember involved a frat house on our street and the guys from it causing trouble with our house, hanging out in the yard, and annoying the landlord. In the same dream, we awoke to find a big “FOR RENT” sign on our front door, advertising that our apartment would be vacant in 2 weeks, and yet no one had told us we needed to move out. It was all very strange.
When I went to pick up Eddie at work yesterday, he wasn’t in his normal department, and I was told he was in a meeting in the office. Naturally I start thinking of all these horrible scenarios where he’s been fired, and we’re going to be completely screwed, but he came out and told me he still had a job but that we needed to discuss things. He was offered a chance to move to a different department within the store, one that doesn’t involve any customer interaction. While this is what he’s always wanted, the downside is that the hours are from 5am-2pm, meaning that our 1-car household would be getting up and on the road at about 4:30am every morning (or at least 3 days a week, so long as my hours don’t change anytime soon). On the plus side, two days out of the week I wouldn’t need to get up with him, and on the days that I do, I can go back to sleep when I get home. I told him I’d think about it and let him know tonight. So we went home and had dirty sex in the middle of the afternoon while there were people right outside the bedroom window. And later, we went to Boston Market last night so he could have his Canadian Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner. It was actually pretty good, and I’m completely in love with their cheesey au gratin potatos.
I’ve started my year-end crochet marathon. With any luck, a few lucky relatives will be getting some afghans for Christmas. I also picked up a hairpin lace loom over the weekend, and have some grand ideas on projects to make with it, like lacey afghans and maybe even a jacket.
And now, to preserve this for posterity, I present to you the geekiest conversation a couple can have during dinner:
Eddie [doing a Jedi mind trick hand gesture]: You will order the veggie pizza.
Me: No.
Eddie [more hand gestures]: You will like the veggies.
Me: Your Jedi mind tricks only work on the weak minded.
Eddie [again with the hand gestures]: You love the veggie pizza.
Me: Knock it off before I encase you in carbonite.
Eddie: I knew there was a reason I married you.
Total nerds we are.
