Five Ways

My Husband

Drives Me Nuts

Let me start off by saying that I am married to the most wonderful, hard working, dependable, lovable, and sexiest 54 year old man I know.  I love him and he loves me.  We have been married going on 30 years, so it is fair to say that I know him pretty well.

But ya know, there are times that I have to remind myself repeatedly, I love my husband, I love my husband, I love my husband over and over in my mind to brain wash myself.  Don’t get me wrong, I do love him very much but sometimes he just drives me nuts.

Here are just a few of the reasons I love my husband:

1.  He likes to buy some things in bulk at Sam’s Club.  One of those being his favorite soap Irish Spring.  That is the only cologne he wears.  Irish Spring!  If you have ever shopped there, you know that there are at least 20 bars of soap in one package.  Right?  Then why does he feel the need to stop using the bar when it is about a quarter of an inch thick and keep it in a zip lock bag under his side of the vanity?  ”I might run out one day.”

2.  He is a huge help with housework.  I couldn’t ask for a man that does more around the house than he does.  You may know from other posts, he is more organized than I am.  Every day when he gets home from work, he sweeps the kitchen?.?.?  Seriously how many husbands do that?  I appreciate his chore, as he calls it, but why does he leave the broom out and the little pile he swept up still on the floor?

3.  Every Summer, I wear pony tails and hair clips most every day.  So every night before I go to bed I take my pony tail holder and clip out an put it on my nightstand.  One morning when I got up, the “two” untidy items had mysteriously disappeared!  After a while it got to the point where I didn’t have any more in my drawer.  I am thinking to myself, I know I put them on the night stand, where are they?  Well, I found them when I dusted my bedroom!  I have two candle sticks on my nightstand.  One had about 10 pony tail holders running up the stick and the other had two big clips on it.  Why had I not noticed that and when does he do it???  I asked him to quit, but he still does it every day.

4.  The older I get the blinder I get.  I literally cannot see without my glasses “readers.”  I have readers I use at the computer, readers I use to read and readers for watching TV.  All different strengths.  I also like to buy these in bulk at Sam’s if I see a pack of cool colors.  Needless to say I have a million pairs of readers.  I keep them in my desk, in my nightstand, and my ONLY pair of TV readers are usually  left on top of my night stand since we like to watch TV in bed.  Why do I only have one pair of readers for TV?  Because I can’t remember what strength they are or I would buy more! lol  Here is the rub; I started noticing my readers disappearing.  One night he went to bed early and I wanted to watch TV in the den.  I went quietly into the bedroom to grab my TV readers.  I felt around in the dark and nothing!  Hmm I don’t want to wake him up so I get the emergency flashlight out of my nightstand drawer and turn it on.  Just as I was about to turn the flashlight off, I noticed all of my missing readers circling the top of my lamp shade.  At least 10 pairs.  I was real tempted to hit him in the head with the flashlight while he slept!  He is a lucky man.

5.  He loves to do laundry.  I know right?  He will look everywhere in the house trying to find things to wash so he will have a full load.  I am so grateful for this.  He washes, dries and folds the laundry.  His favorite place to fold laundry is in  one of the chairs in the den that has a big ottoman.  The only thing is, he never puts anything away except for his stuff.  Now I am not complaining here, I have a husband that does laundry!!!  Well to make a long story short, I came home one day to find a friend that had come to visit.  I was embarrassed that he had done some laundry while I was out which made the den look messy.  Then low and behold there was my underwear and bras neatly stacked for all to see.  Okay, that one caused a fight!

So, as a result I am always on the lookout for ways to get him back.  Like I said, he is very organized.  Even to the point of neatly laying out his clothes before before he showers.  He lines everything up in the order in which he will put them on.  I swear it’s like military.  One day I decided to pick on him by messing up everything he had laid out on the bed.  Lawd, you never heard such fussin. 

I am thankful every day for my man and for all of the things he does.  I wouldn’t trade him for the world.  For your information, he knows I wrote this.  Just not this picture!  lol

Okay, I have had my fun…

That will do for now, I have to pace myself on this topic or I might get mad at him all over again!!!

What does your husband do to drive you nuts?