Daily Mood Quote

 

Daily Mood Quote

Day 77 – July 19, 2011

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

~Rita Rudner

Gene Perret said, “Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day.” For my husband and I, that celebration continues still through laughter and a lot of it. Sometimes I will laugh so hard that I end up with the hiccups and sore cheeks.

Yesterday morning, I was getting ready for the day by doing the woman stuff in the bathroom. You know, hair, makeup, all that necessary stuff that helps us to look fabulous. Anyway, I was putting my hair up because the weather is ridiculously warm, downright hot, just disgusting out there. There was no way I was going to let my neck cook under my hair. At the same time, my husband began shaving and quite unconsciously I stepped into his path and put my elbows out wider, while putting my hair up. To this my husband looked at me with quizzical eyes and said, “Are you sink blocking me?” And, I was, Har-har-har! I had claimed the sink as my own and was defending against this “man” intrusion. Then we burst into hysterical laughter. Turns out, this was not the first sink block action of our marriage. Just the most obvious. Ok, I've done a hip check or two, the turn left “jut-butt” and several other crafty, yet completely innocent, tactics such as; the hair dryer blast, the impenetrable screen of hairspray and the ever popular “scatter my stuff everywhere domination” maneuver. Who hasn't?

Bill Cosby once said, “For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.” Normally, my husband would not have even blinked at the sink blocking, but yesterday was over the top. I guess after twenty years of bathroom checkers, enough is enough. He is entitled to use the sink too. He doesn’t have to shave or brush his teeth over the toilet. I magnanimously promised to share and no more sink blocking, jut-butting, or hair dryer hurricanes, anymore. Maybe.

To be fair my husband isn't exactly without his own sink blocking/bathroom control strategies. These include the foggy mirror option and the ever popular “I'd give it a few minutes if I were you” admonition. But, like Cameron Diaz as Princess Fiona said of Shrek (Mike Myers) in Shrek 2 “I want what any princess wants - to live happily ever after with the “ogre” I married.” And you know what, I am, sinking blocking aside, happily ever after. From this day forward, “love, honor, cherish and sink sharing.” “I do.”

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