I haven’t blogged in a bit, mostly due to an overwhelming amount of life getting in the way. However, Jeff ‘n I had some interesting stuff going on this last week, so here I am to chat about it.
First off, if you’re reading this, odds are you’re on my Facebook so I won’t bore you with pics you’ve seen and info you already know regarding the end-o’-the-world nightmare that was redoing our floor. That’s not what I wanted to talk about.
Typically, over the last few years, if we took our vacation time together it was to do something- travel, an event of some kind, etc. It was always something that distracted us from the usual- y’know, what a vacation is supposed to do. This last week was different.
Apart from a couple of hours where I shooed Jeff out of the house, we were pretty much joined at the hip 24/7 for the entire time. This isn’t unusual- we tend to be together most always except for work hours. But that’s the thing, exactly- typically, we get 8 hours a day, five days a week to get Jeff-free-time or Chris-free-time to take a deep breath and enjoy a distinct lack of togetherness. At least, I always thought was how it worked.
You hear about this sort of thing all the time- “there’s such a thing as too much of a good thing”, “be your own person”, and my personal fave, “familiarity breeds contempt”. Wow, whoever coined that last one had some issues.
My point is, I was wondering if I, or he, or we would go snaky by day three and flee the house screaming. Not so much, as it turns out. We talked a lot, joked around, spent an ungodly amount of time, money and effort on getting our domestic shit back together after the ass-hat floor installer left, and not once did we fight or encounter one of those uncomfortable silences that drag on.
I joked in a tweet earlier that we got through the week without any murdering going down, but I was only half kidding. Without the distraction of travel, family visits, etc. I expected this to be a true litmus test for us in terms of getting along. It turns out we did pretty good, all things considered. I’ve been stressed out of my head about a variety of things and not the easiest to live with and Jeff has a lot on his shoulders at work on the best of days, but we managed to keep the needle where we usually do, squarely in the green. After the past few days, I’m reminded (again) about how very lucky we are.
The dog, on the other hand, spent most of the week pissed like a bear about the removal of his carpet and spent his time sulking until we bought him a rug. I’m not even kidding about that, and will be relieved when he goes trotting back to the office with Jeff on Monday.
