Journal mcgrew's Journal: July the 4th be with you 6
I don't often get too horney any more, but very often I get lonely. I woke up lonely this morning, and don't know why. It's not like I spend all my time alone, I have lots of friends, and probably more than half are women. Tami was over last night drinking with me. If you're in a committed relationship, I envy you. You have what I'd give almost anything for.
I'd made plans to make dinner for the kids the previous weekend, but the plans got cancelled on account of Evil-X; she was off work and Patty said she hadn't visited her much since she's been home. And Patty's going back to Ohio next Friday. We'd changed the plans to this Friday, I told her to bring her sister.
Thursday night I was drinking with Tami, whose boyfrind was drinking in a bar she'd been barred froom, when Patty called. "Mom's off work tomorrow and she'll come over and cook if you want. It's been a long time since I had a mommie dinner, and I know it's been a long time for you."
Yeah, it's been since November when Linda went into the hospital. That woman could cook rings around Evil-X. Tami's not that bad a cook, either.
I didn't much like the idea of inviting the ex wife to dinner, and I certainly didn't want her in my kitchen. "I'll think about it", I told Patty.
I didn't think about the calendar until the next morning. Since Independance Day fell on Saturday this year, we got Friday off work. I brewed my coffee, listened to the live concert they play every Froday morning on WQNA, and tried to figure out why I had the blues.
Then it hit me - this was my wedding anniversary. I called Patty. "Patty, I really don't want to have dinner with your mom on our anniversary of all days!"
"Oh gee, dad, I'm sorry... I forgot this was your anniversary. I'm really sorry!"
"Well," I said, "since your mom's off work tonight, why don't you and Leila have dinner with her tonaight and I'll cook for you tomorrow."
The door knocked a while later. It was Alan, wanting to borrow beer money until his boss showed up later that afternoon to pay him.
"I can't," I said, "I forgot to take any money out of the bank yesterday, and the banks'll be closed today."
But they weren't. I called the bank, and someone actually answered. Alan rode to the bank with me and I took out drinking money, and loaned him a ten. I spent most of the rest of the day cleaning up my filthy house and watching TV. Tami called wanting to borrow my lawnmower, and John called wanting a ride to his dope dealer cousin's.
I took the lawnmower over to Tami's, and she said she was going to mow my yard for loaning her the mower. I think she forgot; I'll have to mow it tonight. John gave me some pot for the ride to his cousin's. My housecleaning kept getting interrupted.
Tami dropped by that night, and we did some more drinking. I needed a drink -- I hate July 3. Patty called, saying she and her sister would be over the next night, and she was sorry about the anniversary thing "and so is mom, she forgot what day it was."
"Yeah, that's not surprising,", I said. "She never rememebered our anniversary when we were married, why should she now?"
Tami and I watched Saving Private Ryan. She'd not seen the whole movie before. When it was over I took her home.
The fourth was completely uneventful. I did some more house cleaning and went to Felber's for a pizza, not really feeling like cooking, especially since I'd be cooking dinner for the girls.
That evening the kids came by and we had a nice dinnner; I baked some chicken and nuked some veggies. When they left I went to Felber's, and forgot my phone. When I got back there was a missed call on it; Tami's boyfriend. I called back.
"No, maybe Tami called, I'm up at the bar" he said. Which explained the call, he was driniking in the bar she was barred from and had left her alone at home again, and she'd sneaked his phone, as she was out of minutes, to call me to come get her. She called again the next mrning.
"Man", she said, "I can't figure out why he's so jealous of you!"
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Amen to that. One year on my birthday we got up and drank coffee, and I kept waiting for the "happy birthday" that never came, until the kids woke up. "Happy birthday, daddy!"
So she says "Oh, it is your birthday, isn't it?"
What's worse is the media shows man as philandering adulterors with the suffering housewife, while surveys show that half of married men have had at least one affair, while 75% of married women have. I have no idea why the media wants to demonize men, but they obiously do.
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because bumbling idiot men that think only of themselves are funny and its what society expects of us after decades of having that image perpetuated.
note how older tv programs depict the father character as wise and thoughtful, complimenting the mother as a parental figure. now check out any modern sitcom -all the dads are functionally retarded that would live in filth and die of malnutrition if their wives didnt take care of them like the big children they are.
when did the term 'fairer sex' get coined?
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when did the term 'fairer sex' get coined?
Long before my time. I remember an episode of Star Trek (circa 1965 or so) where Sulu calls Ohura a "fair maiden". She replies, "Sorry, neither." I'm sure the term is centuries old.
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Dark & Lovely
Not "a maiden" was a revolutionary admission for an unmarried female on '60's television. Bet the bastards still wouldn't have had a white girl say that one.
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Why do all the TV shows give men shit about forgetting anniversaries. I remembered anniversaries and birthdays, but the bitch didn't.
My first wife didn't either after I took her to Roppongi (at her request) on her birthday a month before. That did not bore well for the relationship ...