Caution! This is Friday the Rant-eenth

I am not in a good mood today. Even though I slept late this morning, I still feel so tired from last week’s non-stop activities. It took me quite a while to get myself motivated to take B for a walk this morning, but we finally got ready about 10:30.

So I was all suited up with my coat, scarf, gloves and iPod, and I went downstairs to tell hubby we were leaving. To explain a bit...hubby has his own business and works out of the downstairs of our house. He has 3 people who work for him, including one very nice lady who is his bookkeeper. Since this is a pretty casual work environment, the lady (I’ll call her C) occasionally brings a grandchild or two with her to work. The kids can watch TV in the extra bedroom downstairs, or play outside, or just hang. She has many grandkids and I don’t know them all…and I’m not a “kid” person so to be honest they don’t interest me at all, but they also don't bother me because they are downstairs and I'm upstairs mostly. Well, this week, C brought along a teenage grandson (I’ll call him J) who is at that awkward, monotone stage, which makes him even less interesting to me than usual. lol

So, as I said, I went to tell hubby that B & I were leaving for our walk. And out of the blue, he says to me…”Hey, why don’t you take J with you?” Fortunately, C & J were not in the room, but they were right in the next room and may have been close enough to hear. If looks could kill, hubby would be laid out dead now. One of the other guys who works there piped up and said… "This is her quality time to walk with B and listen to her music!” HE understood, but my own dear sweet hubby, who has lived with me for 20+ years and who knows I’m not a kid person, doesn’t? No to mention the fact that I’m SURE a shy teenage boy would be SOOOO thrilled to take an hour-long aerobic walk with a middle-aged lady that he doesn’t know.

So then hubby apparently felt compelled to make a smart aleck remark…”Oh that's right, she can’t talk while she walks…she has to listen to her iPod…it’s permanently implanted in her head.” At that point, I just turned and walked out.

Anyway, B & I had our walk and now I’m ranting. Hubby is normally pretty sensitive, but occasionally he loses his mind. Now, in trying to analyze what he said, I think the flippancy of that remark was because he realized he had talked out of turn and was kind of embarrassed. But… I am still so mad right now!

So…to all you single ladies out there who are looking for a partner…just remember, it’s not all sweetness and light, even in a long-term mostly-happy relationship. This is just a blip on the radar, but today I’m just not in the mood for blips.

Update: Hubby came upstairs and rather sheepishly asked if I wanted some lunch. I’ve learned after 20 years that’s his way of saying he’s sorry...he won’t actually say it, but he’ll be super nice to me the rest of the day. So for lunch he made a delicious pasta salad…. okay okay …Apology accepted!