Once upon a time there was husband who thought that doing the best for his family meant giving them every THING under the sun. One day the husband asked the wife "Would you like to go on a trip?" and the wife said "No." Then the husband turned to his eldest son and asked "Would you like to go on a trip?" and the son said "No." So the husband, who wanted to go on a trip booked a trip anyway.
The night before the trip the wife, who really hates to travel, was in her usual "My plane is going to crash!" "I hate packing!" "It's still hurricane season!" "I'm gonna get MRSA from the pool!" "The plane is going to run out of fuel!" pre-travel self induced hysteria. And she realized that she hadn't posted that day. And since the wife had taken a solemn vow to post every day for the month of November she postponed her last minute packing (because why pack early when you can forgo sleep the night before leaving?) and sat down to post.
And she had nothing. Except eye daggers for the husband, who never helps with the packing and hasn't said "How are you?" to the wife for about 3 years now.
So the wife thought to herself, I need some thing to focus on, something that will bring me the peace and serenity I need to make it through the next 4 days. And she changed her screen saver, not to a kitten hanging off of a tree, not to a basket of cddly puppies, not even to a warm sandy beach somewhere she would have to hop on a plane and travel to, but to the place where her heart really longs to be.
UTOPIA
Ahhhh.
You should go on vacation when you want to and not go when you don't want to. Let the husband go alone if he wants to go.
Posted by: Laura | November 09, 2007 at 04:38 PM