September 18, 2007

  • War of the 300 Thread Count Roses.

    My wife is a thief. 

    A dirty, rotten thief.  I did not know this before we exchanged our forever vows, but how well can you truly know someone before you promise to spend the rest of eternity with her?  Of course, in the beginning everything is all nice and La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La-La , but eventually the truth comes out like a lion with a tattered wedding veil leaping out of a cave at you with fang and nail aiming for your left jugular, and then Smurfette turns into Gargamel on a Monday morning without a venti.

    You married men know what I am talking about...

    In the beginning when I would get the cold shivers around her I would shrug it off as nothing and press on, but incidents soon turned into coincidence which turned into the absence of innocence once I figured it out...

    BLANKET WARS 2007!

    The reason why I would get the cold shivers is because while sleeping she somehow would always end up with the whole blanket, giving me the eskimo oven.  (I'll take that over a dutch oven, tho!)  Feeling more frigid than a Canadian's buttcheek on a cold December morning, I would wake up shaking like Beyonce on Red Bull, curl into a fetal position like Britney in rehab and go back to sleep.  After I figured out that this would be an almost nightly fight, I told her about it one morning.  Being the sweetheart she is she apologized profusely and asked why I don't simply pull the blanket back or wake her up.  But what would you do?  I'm lying there watching my wife warm and wrapped up like a--excuse the expression--kim chi burrito sleeping (and dreaming of me, of course ) and I am thinking...I can't steal blankie from her!  I don't think I could ever take comfort away from my wife to increase my own.  (Well, unless you're talking about the last piece of extra crispy KFC.) 

    It's all a part of being married, I guess.  The more I think about it, being married is like being on an airplane.  Getting married for a guy is like upgrading your flight to first class...you have the best seat in the house, it's cleaner, the food and service are better, but you still have the woman in the skirt telling you when you can sit down, stand up, eat and go to the bathroom!  Bwahaha!

    So sorry to disappoint you, dear subbers and stalkers, no "real" fight between me and the Happily-Ever-After, but it made me think about the nature of our relationship and how it has changed.  Like any other couple we have our fair share of fights (and by fights I mean arguments/disagreements).  Previously my pride would always take over (I am always right, you know ), which inexorably led to an incessant barrage of logic on my part until I thought that I had presented sufficient evidence to win.  (Arguments to me are like intellectual enemas...satisfying but not always pretty.)  But now it is different.  Don't get me wrong.  We still have discussions in which we disagree and I still try my best to get my point of view across, but if I elevate myself to the point where I'm right but pushing my wife away, I haven't really won anything.

    When you are arguing with your Happily-Ever-After, it is no longer about winning or losing...it is about trying to find what is best for the other person.  Because, really, if that's not what you want, then why are you with that person?

    So waking up once in a while in an eskimo oven and looking over to see her safe and warm?  That's a fight I'm okay with losing.  

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    Sorry to those of you on facebook (especially those who super poke me, etc.).  For some reason on my computer all the advertising links are superimposed on the applications/icons so if I try to do something I get sent to the ad link.  So I don't really do much on that site or respond to things.  (I still haven't figured out what are the benefits to having a facebook over myspace?)

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    Once in a while I feel the urge to take an intellectual enema and write about something going on in society, but I avoid doing that on this site (it decreases the amount of Haterade being served).  So I made another xanga that I'll splatter my cognitive diarrhea on once in a while.  You can find it here if you're bored.  

    Have a great week!  I'm out like Notre Dame football! 

    Edit: And this week's sign that the apocalypse is not upon us....it looks like karma is a biyatch, which is what OJ will be in prison!

Comments (60)

  • Ahh...I do this too.  I throw all types of information and facts from a logical standpoint until I drive my point home.  To me, if you have evidence to support your argument then it makes your case stronger.  I guess I can be a bit obsessive about it, depending upon the severity of the argument.

  • Is it ever cold in Hawaii? Forgive me to being unsympathetic, as I live in a much colder location... : P

    And where's the picture of the wife????

  • so cute!

    anyway what's your facebook account?

  • huh? you're married?? i stop reading for one second!...

  • Hahah! Thanks for making me laugh. I especially love the pop cultural references. You and your wife seem like a really adorable couple. It's really nice to read about people who love each other, at least, a nice change for me. I agree about there being certain times when arguing isn't about winning or losing. It's also about being able to open up and being honest to yourself and to the person you love.

  • LOL!!!  That is Robin, he often stole my blanket.  We ended up getting two sets of blankets.  One for him and one for me.  It works!  No one is left out in the cold and you still can snuggle.

  • luckily for me, meanie doesn't require blankets.  he actually shuns them so i can have them all! muahahah!  tho once in a blue moon, HE will steal them from me so that's when i crumple into a tiny ball next to him hoping for some warmth.  it's quite pitiful.  i can't grab them from him cuz he's rolled up like an eggroll. 

  • When we disagree on something, he always says, "You're right."  LOL.  Glad to hear you're loving married life.  =)

  • I always steal the blanket, and the fiance says I push him to the corner of the bed. I tell him to just take the blanket back and push me over, but he says he can't do it .

  • Get another blanket

  • you are soo sweet. lucky the wife! myspace? you do myspace? ive got one too. lol

  • dood. do the euro style.

    this has saved our marriage!

    we use separate twin size down comforters. then when i'm hot, i can throw it off. he can't steal mine. and when we want to snuggle, still can.

  • I agree two blankets. That or two beds, but one is much cheaper and more likely to not upset the marriage than the other.

  • awwwww.... sweet. :D

  • ...and the cryin' begins!

  • franksabunch, you have the best metaphors ever. made me laugh out loud =)
    and oh yeah, buy a bigger blanket!

  • it started off juicy and then it just turned sweet. Damn, where's the drama for yo mama.

    don't miss fresh laundry tonight at 8:30pm PST at xanga.com/midnightAM, sir!

    Jen from midnightAM

  • haha i had to read it to hubby and he totally agreed with you!!! he's forever in the eskimo cave while i am totally wrapped up in all the blankets! hahah LOL it's so true!!! hehe i do it all the time! i don't mean to, and i asked him the same thing! why he doesn't just some blanket back? heheh  then to facebook and myspace....what do you see as the benefit of myspace? i haven't figured it out. i like facebook because it has all these apps you can add and it's fun. i dunno. i sent you an email there, but not sure if you got it then. happy days being married!! isn't it fun??

  • I knew the beginning of your entry would be deceptive!!

  • ryc - yes, i've subscribed to you before under feng123.

  • hahahahahaha

    and dang.. how many xanga sites DO you have??

  • haha sounds like you're pretty happy even with the lack of bedcovers!!

  • I love your comparisons. Especially the one with the first-class flight part. AND I'M A GIRL! Hahah, you kick butt.

    Btw, why don't you just get a second blanket?! Or cuddle her! That's sweet.

  • You know, that's an interesting turning point. Recently I've been realizing how competitive my relationship is with my boyfriend... we're both pretty stubborn and independent, so sometimes our arguments get pretty heated.

    ... and he's the one that usually ends up all rolled up like makizushi. Good thing Honolulu is pretty warm.

  • ryc:  You two work out at the gym together?  Aww...how sweet.

  • wait. i'm confused. what's the purpose of creating another xanga account w/o ur profile or pic but linking it to this page that has both?

  • get another blanket lol problem solved

  • Woah!  You got married?  Time flew!

  • Rule # 1: The wife is always right. Rule #2: if the wife is wrong, see Rule #1.

    Get your own blanket.

  • my man says he is part eskimo.  he loves it....or not.    he always makes sure i'm wrapped up like a wonton rosette regardless.  we are not married, which explains everything.

  • haha love your analogies...aww you and your wife sound so cute together! :P
    You'll be like one of those touching, inspiring happily-ever old people stories you read about in like Readers Digest or something, hehe. Just wondering but how long did you guys know eachother before you married? Don't mean to intrude, I'm just wondering...^^

  • waited married? blanket? significant other? i need to catch up.

  • Responding to your comment...

    Kids? Already? Wow...

    Yeah, NoCal is kinda cold. I like the area, though.

    I make it a point not to end up on FFM's bad side. Otherwise, I might end up being locked up in a basement, being forcefed cla-...okay, okay, I'll be nice. : P

  • i have that problem with my man. he's ginormous and steals all the blanket. wtf. most of the time he's complaining about how hot it is. one would think that i would be the blanket stealer in this relationship, but no. i'm the freezing one. poop.

  • Having a live in gf is even better. You get all those "first-class seating" amenities, but you don't lose your shirt if you decided to take another flight.

  • You gotta have two separate sub-blankets when you share a bed. Just have to. Two of those soft micropyle "mink" blankets under the bedspread will do the trick. A third one folded neatly under your side of the bed will serve in an emergency in case wife jacks your blanket that's already on the bed. If she "teefs" three, then you have every right to go on revenge pilfering!

  • You're so sweet!  I used to get eskimo oven at the beginning but now I learn how to steal it back. 

  • nice clever writing style; thanks for the visit and come back sometime/ shalom from israel/js

  • RYC: Thanks! I'll definitely ask my doctor about that. Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

  • FIRST CLASS A$S TOO!

    :D

    jkkk

  • you had a song called Jerusalem i think
    i was just wondering what it was called

  • how do you know what a donggo is?! ryc haha i chuckled too..

  • yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooyo.

  • dude, it just occurred to me that you should write for a magazine or something like that.

  • cute....*barffff* lol =P

  • Just put on really warm PJs and all is well with the world... =D

  • Frankie!! Belated congrats on your marriage!! My apologies; I thought you were joking at first, seeing the jokester that you are

    How's married life treating ya overall?

  • lol Blanket wars-- :) cute

  • aw
    that's sweet
    i feel so outdated i dint know you're married, lucky u

  • Your - writing - amuse - me.

    That's all.

  • Yea, I got so excited that I forgot to put a S (or a D) behind the word amuse.
    I am such a FOB.

  • thanks for meeting up with me and kenny! it was so good to see you and catch up with ya. yisu is so sweet. i'm really happy for you! anyway, goodluck looking for your next step in your career! *hugs* jax

  • ryc: You're absolutely correct. That's why I enclosed that passage from Habakkuk 3. Even when things appear to be really bad, they really never are because the believer's hope is set upon that which FAR EXCEEDS anything that is in this world.

    Keep up the good work on the entries busy man! :D

  • aww how did you know? you are the best~

  • ty :)

  • AHAHA. My husband always steals the blankets. He "claims" I kick them off, onto him, but I dunno about that!! ;) hahaha

  • Ahaha, oh you sucker, you~ My boyfriend and I made the logical decision to agree to disagree...or he'll be "right" one time, then i'll be right the "next". Confuses the hell outta everyone that knows us, and hence amuses us. You know, youre being too selfless and nice. kick her square in the butt and demand your half of the blanket! Stand up for yourself, and you'll be standing up for all of mankind!

  • you saw that video before? wow! she is just amazing and yea, hubby and i hope she is still alive too! btw, i asked you this in an earlier blog, but does america have hospital for tropical disease like they do here? it's cuz the english were everywhere before trying to exert their sovereignty over all countries. that's why they still own so many. haha

  • wait you are married? i thought it was a joke for some reason. congrats!!!!! no wonder  you are not posting anymore.  show pics!

  • yeah you really haven't known her for that long. you never slept in the same bed as her (doesn't have to involve sex); you never tried her cooking; you never had her over at your house and she started cleaning it. why did you do it so suddenly? was it like in "men of honor" when cuba gooding jr asked that woman who was leaving to marry him?

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