Matias & his A380

Did I mention this at all? We saw the A380 take off AND land when we were leaving Argentina??

Very exciting - even for a hater like me. Matias was so excited he even put it on YouTube!

OK, so I just watched this myself, right? And I had no idea he filmed our entire take-off - at that point, I'm white-knuckling the armrests, eyes closed way too tight & repeating certain phrases in my head and to think - he was holding Liam the entire time too!

And I also love this man.

My husband tonight: "how come rice is so unmanageable?"

Followed by "oh, fuck! Rice is so unmanageable" along with "No fair! Not supposed to happen!"

Not my husband!

Matias' mother has taken to wearing colored contact lenses & Matias thought it would neat to see what he looked like with different colored eyes. I, personally, could not stand it - couldn't even look him in the eyes - this was not my husband! Liam couldn't even look him in the face either!

OK, now it's just plain creepy.

I got a new shirt at Target the other day & I just tried it on & asked Matias what he thought of it...

..."it looks fabulous! It makes you look skinny"

WHAT THE???

Again with the husband...

...about 5 minutes after posting the Moment of Crap post, he walked into the kitchen & hugged me & said "why do you look so cute today??". And I'm wearing a t-shirt, jeans & my hair is pulled back with a headband.

I think I married the right guy.

And sometimes my husband REALLY gets me.

I should have written about this when he gave me the gift but I have a number of excuses to give as to why I haven't & you don't want to hear those, you want to hear How My Husband Gets Me, don't you?!

I'm staring at the card, that I've taped to my monitor, the card that he made me to go with my most awesomest gift. It's got Nixon on the front with a reel-to-reel recorder and the words "On the Record". The inside reads "Jen, Thanks for being such a great mother to Liam & such a great partner in life to me. Don't ever stop being a geek! Love - Matias" AWESOME card, right??

What could my gift be??

It was an ashtray from the WATERGATE HOTEL!!!

They are revamping it into condos & auctioned everything off & my wonderful husband managed to snag me an ashtray!! It's silver pewter with the Watergate insignia in the middle and Watergate Hotel, Washington DC written around it!!!

You have no idea just how excited this gift made me :) I need to take a picture of it to show off it's awesomeness :) So sometimes Matias is romantic in our own What Makes Us Perfect For Each Other kind of way & it's most usually out of the blue, which is extra points in just about everyone's book!

I've got it up on my bookshelf standing in front of all my Nixon books, proudly displayed for me to see throughout my days. And also, please note, in between my Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil monkey candles :)

At least he stopped snoring.

How come on every.single.other.night. Matias can stay up till all hours but come Friday, he's on the couch, zonked out, SNORING.

And I'm sitting here with my wine (no seltzer, the bastard drank it all at dinner), playing around with StoryBooks, checking my emails for the eleventy-millionth time kind of waiting to do something. Anything. The TV isn't even on.

And he's asleep. And has been for over 2 hours.

But at least now he stopped snoring.

But, of course!

Just so you know, the Fork Lift did not bring the table down for me ;)

But it did bring it back up later...

Rolling my eyes

So we have this community yard sale tomorrow & I am putting out a bunch of "vintage" and "oldies but goodies" CM stuff, right?

I need a table brought down from the living room/crop room to put out in the driveway so I can sell my wares, right?

I asked Matias and said please and didn't get a response which is 110% typical. It can usually mean two things - 1) he heard me & will do it or 2) he didn't hear me and I'll have to ask again.

So, I 'asked' again & by 'asked' I mean I said "I need you to bring a table downstairs for me tonight" & he said, "I'm not your fork lift, you can at least ask me & not just demand it of me". Bless his little heart. I suppose option 2 occurred and he never heard me ask him politely and properly the first time. So I asked him politely again. Now, let's see what happens...let's see if he "remembers" to bring a table down for me tonight ;)

I'm a Soccer Wife

And I don't mind one bit. Meow.

WhatEVER

I got pissy with Matias the other when he made the following comment/observation:

"You used to read National Geographic now you read Martha Stewart & Parenting magazines. What happened to you?"

Yeah, thank you too, buddy.

Lordy.

Matias is outside watering the grass with Liam & the fat kid down the street is also outside playing with Matias.

We call him Master P and when he yells at us for calling him that we call him Wu-Tang. It's the same kid that's in the first videos from taking Liam swimming...

I think Matias is running some sort of racket where he's got the kid actually working on helping him water the grass but the poor Master P thinks it's a game...

Just so you know

I can sit here and blog all night while listening/watching DMB. I can blather on about just about anything they do, say, look, touch, move, gesture.

"well I am swimming in your seas & in your oceans"

also, Matias has mentioned to me in a very cute, subtle Matias way that he "misses" having me around him in his office space/basement. We would normally always be together, listening to music, talking about music, bothering each other about this that & the other but now that my office is upstairs that has not been happening...sometimes we just sit on the veranda (front porch) and talk it all out but without the soundtrack of Our Life playing behind us & we both miss that.

and to quote Dave from earlier in the show (I had to write it on a post it note & stick it to my monitor) during Pig - "just look for love in here - no more hate"