Last night Hubs and I were having a conversation in which I was--predictably--emotional and over-reactive. Hubs was--predictably--calm and rational and (dadgummit) right. When it was over he looked at me with something resembling a smirk.
Hubs: You know I love you, even though you're kooky.
Me: Of course you do. Can you even imagine if you were married to somebody...
Hubs: ...sane?
Me: [Something resembling a glare.]
Hubs: Yes, dear. It would be very dull.
Me: Thank you.
That Hubs of yours?? He seems very sweet with just the right amount of funny thrown in. I think you've got yourself a good man! (why do they always have to be right in those conversations???)
Posted by: jenny | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 06:26 AM
Well put Hubs of Shannon. Sane is such a cop out.People claim sanity when they simply lack imagination and creativity. Funny Shannon, funny.
Posted by: Linda Sue | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 06:27 AM
...and WHO would want a dull marriage?
Posted by: ukrainiac | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 06:34 AM
"Dull", "schmull".
Give me kooky and insane anyday. That's where I'm most comfortable.
Or should I say "we" are most comfortable . . . all those multiple personalities my DP has to face each day.
Posted by: pam | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 07:12 AM
Your stories always put a smile on my face!
Posted by: Kilikina | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 07:31 AM
** grinnin' ** with a "knowing" grin...
(kinda like the Cheshire Cat)
:)
Posted by: Robin (the pensieve one) | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 07:57 AM
He SHOULD have said, "I love you BECAUSE you're kooky."
Really, it's not a character flaw! It's an asset!
Posted by: Activities Coorinator | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 08:36 AM
lol! I think my husband and your Hubs are cut out of the same cloth
Posted by: Liz | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 08:48 AM
Sounds like a conversation at my house. My husband is the sane one, too.
Posted by: Melanie | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 08:52 AM
This struck me SO funny!!!! Of course, sane would be dull. :)
Posted by: Kay | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 09:17 AM
Oh Shannon. This just proves all the more that we are sisters cast from the same mold. Mr. Right has his life full of all sorts of surprises due to my insaneness and vitality. (And though I very much resent the fact that Mr. Right is well... right most of the time, I really wouldn't want it any other way.)
Posted by: Shalee | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 09:35 AM
Hee, Hee! Sounds like a conversation from my house! BTW, I was reminded of you and your trip while listening to Steven Curtis Chapman's song titled "Yours".
to quote a little:
"I walk the dirt roads of Uganda, I see the scars that war has left behind. Hope like the sun is fading and they're waiting for a cure no on can find. And I hear children's voices singing of a God who heals and rescues and restores. And I'm reminded that every child in Africa is Yours..."
Posted by: Sheila | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Hi, my name is Jamie, and I'm insane too.
Posted by: Jamie | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 09:55 AM
J calls me "Lucy" ala Lucille Ball- he claims to be Desi, the sane one...
Posted by: LeeAnn (AKA FrazzMom) | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Shannon- I have been reading your blog now for a while and thoroughly enjoying it. This entry is a page out of my own journal. :) God bless your day!
Posted by: Amanda | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Hi Shannon - yahhh, we women sure make problem soup out of things. Our husbands just don't get us - LOL! :)
Posted by: sandy | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Sounds like something my husband would say...
Posted by: Sally | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 01:09 PM
Regarding your BlogHer posts, I wish you would remember that woman =/= mother. Women other than mothers are reading your blog(s) too, you know.
Posted by: | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 01:10 PM
Hee hee hee hee hee hee..... Sounds like many a conversation at my house. :0) Angel
Posted by: Angel | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 03:35 PM
That's the story of my life, me crazy and chad sane!
Posted by: Jenny | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 04:09 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!
Too cute. Reminds me of someone...oh yeah, me.
Posted by: Minnesotamom | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 05:29 PM
hehe! very wonderful!
Posted by: Crazy Daisy | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 06:06 PM
amen for patient and adoring husbands. I'm a rather wretched little wife with a charming, unassuming, patient and easy-going hubby that loves me for all my anxieties and pet peeves and tendencies toward OCD. I might just go crazy without him, even though sometimes he himself makes me crazy with his easy-going-ness!
Posted by: kj | Friday, March 07, 2008 at 08:54 PM
Cool! I had a similar experience this week--When my husband started talking about finance and economics for the umpteenth time, I told my husband he should have married someone like a friend of ours, who is very analytical and cerebral, and he said "But I don't think she'd be much fun." I told him that was the nicest thing he ever said to me!
Posted by: Julie | Sunday, March 09, 2008 at 01:05 PM
I love it. I told my husband when I married him that I promised he would never get bored. So, on those times, when he just doesn't get it... I remind him. He never knows what to expect ! :)
Posted by: DeeDee | Monday, March 24, 2008 at 02:21 PM