True to form, Spin has spun the tables on me.
Gifts # 1, 2 and 3 are, at best, questionable in nature. They’re supposed to be for me – but that’s debatable.
What do you think?
GIFT #1
An ornament. For the tree. The same tree that is up altogether too early. It’s a little ‘in your face’, would you not agree?
Freak.
GIFT #2
A Christmas candle, (pine scented, no less, to exacerbate the fact that there is A FREAKING CHRISTMAS TREE in my great room.) A pine scented Christmas candle I can handily argue Spin bought with selfish intent. Did I ever tell you about the time he came home from Yankee Candle Company with $80 worth of candles?
For himself??
Freak.
Have I ever lied to you?
GIFT #3 (and this is the biggest stretch so far)
A giveaway.
Not for me.
And don’t get too excited. It’s not for you either.
It’s for someone’s man.
That’s right. A $50 giftcard to Home Depot. (He wanted it to be $100 – but I vetoed that. He’s got 11 days to go, y’all.)
I’m still not grasping the whole concept…. but somehow in his Spin Doctoring mind, he would have me believe that a giveaway on my blog is a gift for me.
You know – because it’s my blog.
Okaaaaay…..????
So here’s what he wants you to do to enter his $50 Home Depot MAN Giveaway.
First, he would like you to know that, in his opinion, he is not a freak.
Second, he would like for you to share in what way your significant (b)other tolerates your blogging.
Third, he would like the winner’s man to spend the giftcard on Christmas lights.
Heh.
Actually, he doesn’t care how it gets spent. The point of this being that he wants to pay it forward to some other blogger’s man who has to go through what he has to go through in accommodating his blogger wife.
Whatever. I fail to see how this benefits me.
But, as stated, I’ve got 11 more gifts days to go, so I’m willing to let this one slide.
Spin will choose a winner on Wednesday night from comments posted by 7pm, Eastern. Don’t ask me how he intends to choose. It’s his giveaway, not mine.
Lastly, he was pretty vocal about the gross injustice of having to produce a gift a day AND sleep on the couch. So I’ve relaxed the rules with the allowance of one…. *ahem*…. “pardon” per gift.
To which he replied, “Good. You owe me three.”
The 1 Corinthians 7:5 fast is apparently over.
That was short lived.
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And before the rest of you come rushing to his defense, you need to know that all this banter is purely flirtatious in nature.
Sheesh. Sometimes I think y’all might love my husband more than you love me.
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As we speak, rather, as I write, blog, etc….my husband is playing hide n seek with the kiddos. In the last few minutes, he has hit his head on a shelf, had his finger closed in a door, hit his shin on the toy trunk and bit pounced on….wounding the only area men dread getting a kid-pouncing. Good thing there are no other little ones in our future.
This is his gift to me….he plays with the mini ones…and I get to blog peacefully (except for the yelps of pain…especially that last one)
Thanks for the contest!
ExtraordinaryMommys last blog post..What recession?
I thought about your Christmas tree debacle numerous times today and laughed out loud to myself. I tried to explain the whole ordeal to my man and he just rolled his eyes (Because he understands Spin so very well). He puts the lights up Dec. 1 but leaves them up until February!
My hubby tolerates my blogging by falling asleep on the couch while I type away on his laptop. That way he has no idea just how much time it consumes. I like it that way.
Elizabeths last blog post..Gifted
My husband quietly tolerates the time (and money) I spend on my blog. I asked him about it and he said, “It makes you happy. Besides, you tolerate my golfing.” A little give and take.
He also listens and pretends to be interested when I tell him about the minute details of other people’s lives.
People that neither one of really knows.
In fact, in many cases we don’t even know their real names (ahem), but he still listens.
And, occasionally, if the story is a good one (like Christmas trees three weeks before Thanksgiving), he laughs along and, for a few moments at least, genuinely seems to enjoy this blogging thing.
Even if he still doesn’t understand it.
But heck, I’ll never understand what a golfing handicap is.
Like I said, give and take.
Ok, so I don’t blog myself but I am a blog reader. He kind of sighs when he sees what I am reading, shakes his head then watches the DIY shows. I think his addiction to Blog Cabin and This Old House are as bad as my blog snooping. What a pair we are. They only l blog he likes and reads over my shoulder is The Pioneer Woman Cooks because next to DIY, that man has a great appetite!
I am ready for the tree and all the holiday cheer that comes in a glass, oops, I mean that comes with Christmas but not sure if I could do it just yet. I am more of the first week of December kind of girl. Have a cup of cheer and enjoy your LONG holiday!
My hubby could care less…as long as I let him play his Xbox 360 and ride his Motorcycle, he’s ok that I blog. It’s a give and take relationship here!
Now see, if I had my way (and my house clean), I’d be digging through the Christmas stuff myself…shhh…don’t tell Soliloquy I said that, she might think I’m agreeing with her hubby!
Annabelle@Christian Mommas last blog post..Spoken to
The Irishman puts up with a fair bit. He lets me call him the Irishman on my blog. He put up with having (all eight or so) readers vote on his Halloween costume. He has come to accept that most pictures will be posted sooner or later. His friends and family spy on him from across the pond through my blog.
Then again I think the worst may be that I commented here that he was watching QVC in October because they were showing a Christmas special.
Although come to think of it…I showed him the “My Husband, The Freak” post but conveniently did not scroll down to the bottom to show my comment. Does that count? = )
Jennys last blog post..My Hero
My hubs puts up with me telling how he’s a ‘bad influence’ on the kids – and then posting proof – like this:
http://momsmagic.blogspot.com/2008/10/mirror-mirror.html
and this:
http://momsmagic.blogspot.com/2008/10/overheard.html
Hee hee!
RLRs last blog post..Did I just SEE that?
I’m going to just be the typer here. HD is talking over my shoulder. We feel invested in this ‘fight’ since we’ve been laughing over this for 3 days.
“I’m technologically challenged so it is all very foreign to me. I don’t get it. The screen is a big whirlpool that sucks her in. But what the heck! It makes her 30 bucks every 3 months. But, because I subscribe to the belief of ‘happy wife, happy life’ I let it go.
That said, you’re a little bit of a freak, Spin. If I had a day off to do nothing, Christmas decorations would be last on the list. How about golf? You play, Spin?”
Headless Moms last blog post..150
Dude, I don’t even know what to say. I wanted to be like all the other cool kids, so I named my hubby Captain America on my blog. He doesn’t usually read it even. Sometimes his dad will call him and tell him I’m a good writer and laugh over some story I shared about our kids, and he won’t know what his dad is talking about. He started his own blog called Beef Trifle for about 5 minutes. Hasn’t posted since February or something.
So basically, my blogging is a complete non-factor to him, but I’d still like him to win the gift card. Then I can be all, “LOOK — this is what blogging can do!”
Sarah at themommyloguess last blog post..It’s beginning to look a lot like…
My husband has decided that he can only keep up with what I’m “up to” by checking my blog
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And poor guy will probably be wrestling our 1 year-old son away from our Christmas tree (which couldn’t be put up soon enough if you ask me!). Needless to say, I’m sure we’ll lose some ornaments and lights to that little kiddo. He MAY even knock over the tree once or twice before he figures out what’s causing it!
It sure would speed up my husband in his tree buying if he had a g.c. to apply towards the tree
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Gretas last blog post..Listening: It’s for Your Own Benefit
My husband is the truest supporter of blogging.
He reads it every day.
He gives me post ideas and asks about a hundered times a day ‘is this going in your blog?’ (if you ask-then it is)
When we fight he tries to trump any comeback I say with “save it for your blog”…and in my warped mind I take that as a compliment and support of my blogging.
When I leave the bed at night to go downstairs to blog…he never even asks why I left. he just says “is it a good post?”
He has been known to pass out my blog-cards to people he knows.
He lets me get like NASA fast internet speed from our carrier and has purchased 3 other laptops/computers for everyone else in the house…so I never have to get off my computer for the kids to do homework or for him to do ‘work’ (read:online gambling).
And you know what? If I got the HomeDepot card I wouldn’t give it to him. It would be mine. I love that place. I have my eye on a new cordless staple gun. That will make putting up the christmas lights this year heaven.
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You have your tree up already? Oh I would absolutely lose my mind!
dysfunctional moms last blog post..Bloggy Withdrawal
My hub likes my blog, because even he will admit that it’s a great way to document life, even all the boring details. And when something funny or random happens to us he’ll be quick to remind me ‘You better put that on your blog!”.
We’re building a house right now….so, you know…HOME Depot. We could use it.
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My husband tolerates my blogging by calling me (affectionately) “Bloghead” or by throwing out random “Blog this, Baby!” comments.
And if we win the gift card, we promise to spend it on lights. (But, can Spin come over and teach my husband how to put them up? Seriously, we’ve NEVER put out Christmas lights and we always feel kind of lame when all the neighbors do.) We do, however, put up a tree: AFTER Thanksgiving.
rachaels last blog post..Conversations with Grown-Ups
Sometimes I seriously think Hubs reads my blog only because he knows I will ask if he has read it. It doesn’t mind that I blog at all. He says it gives him more time to play World of Warcraft. As if I am interested in that!
My husband mainly reads the blog to see if there is anything about him in the daily post. Then he grunts and groans about me spending all my time blogging and no time with him.
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Freak? More like, FREAKING COMIC GENIUS…
My husband is very long-suffering in the the blog department and a bit dramatic in the martyrdom. The first 6 months he couldn’t even tolerate MENTION of the blog. The first year he refused to READ the blog. But…he is slowly warming to the idea. He did finally read and the phone call I received post-reading is here: http://www.junecleavernirvana.com/2008/11/call.html and now I am getting editing recommendations…
Disclaimer: Calling Spin a comic genius and declaring my love for him below in NO WAY diminishes the deep, undying love I have for Soliloquy…
texasholly @ June Cleaver Nirvanas last blog post..This potluck is brought to you by the letter A
The Man tolerates my blogging by keeping mum….because he knows that his silence is really good for his health. That and he doesn’t know how to operate a computer anyway.
Alicias last blog post..It’s time for him to go!
My hubby decided to shut down OUR previous blog in lieu of having a HIS and HERS blog. I have my own, he has his own so that my boring stuff (like what books I’m reading, what I am knitting or crafting) don’t have to be on him blog. Since that time (June), he has made about three entries. I don’t know what the point was…but oh well.
My boyfriend seems indifferent to my blog and any other blogs. He just doesn’t seem to understand the attraction of reading them. He does like to complain that I spend “all my time” reading blogs. Since when is about an hour a day ALL my time??
My husband initially detested my blog habits (both the reading of others and writing of my own). He claimed I was giving myself over to the “cult of the clever” (seriously. his words.), whose adherents he describes as having the constant need to impress complete strangers with self-adulating stories about one’s kids, crafts, incisive life observations, etc. Similar to June Cleaver’s comment, his views have softened lately, which I attribute to the fact that he actually reads my and others blogs which, much to his chagrin, he finds interesting. And, sometimes, after reading other people’s funny and sarcastic (not trying to suck up here, just being honest) blog posts, I am in a good mood…which you know, is always beneficial to him
mejs last blog post..Who woulda thought?
My husband tolerates my new-found fascination with blogs/blogging and even enables me by taking care of tooth-brushing duties with Sugar ‘n Spice most nights so that I can get a few minutes online before my eyelids drop like the price of gas. Since Sugar (our 4yr old) has made several off-hand comments about hoping that our house has lights on it for Christmas this year, I can almost guarantee that the Home Depot card would be used for said lights. The girls gets farther in five minutes than I could get in fifteen years, I’m telling you!
Poppyseeds last blog post..The Post in Which She Does Not Mention Sugar OR Spice
Well, since I got really involved in blogging my attention to some household duties has slipped a bit. Plus, I generally hop on the computer in the evening after our son is in bed and stay up way too late catching up on my reader so he almost always goes to bed before (read: without) me. But, since he know I enjoy it he doesn’t complain. Plus, he plays that lame World of Warcraft so he really has no room to talk! LOL!
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Ok. Sooo…I have a tough time defending Spin here because I do choose you first, Soliloque…I really do. That being said. I am clearly not stooping to the flattery approach as my dear friend June Cleaver Nirvana has….
There are a few ways that my dear husband tolerates my blogging.
1. He will sit on the couch and listen to me read your blog out loud to him on multiple occasions. He will laugh. Not a sympathy laugh…but sometimes a true, heart-felt laugh. I love that about him.
2. He is letting me run a business that is purely 100% blog related.
3. He doesnt question the fact that my regular morning routine includes turning on my computer before I ever even start the coffee. Or wake up the kids. Or shower. Etc, etc…
4. He kindly tolerates the constant picture taking for the blog.
5. He doesn’t make fun of me much ffor the fact that my BFF Soliloque lives in cyberspace.
Hello, I’m Darcie’s (SuchTheSpot) husband…and I have a blogger for a wife.
I’ve decided that Spin and I could be friends…which, given my vast (not) number of friends is not really much of an accomplishment. However, I think that we would have plenty to discuss given our wives affinity for providing hundreds of complete strangers with an open window into our lives. Which is odd, because my wife freaks out when the windows are open at night in fear that one of our neighbors might see us sitting down to eat dinner – gasp! My reason for submitting an entry also qualifies as an entry in itself, as I hope to try to even out the giveaway-takeaway ratio of gift cards and freebies that have been flowing out of our home since my wife first began to blog.
Rather than tell what I do to tolerate my wife’s blogging, I thought it’d be more fitting to share what I now don’t do.
- I don’t spend that time after dinner and before the kids going to bed doing anything remotely relaxing. Instead, I find myself bouncing between baths, teeth brushings, a manic wife demanding a blog topic, and reading (out loud) such literary greats as ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ and ‘I Love You Stinky Face.’
- I don’t harbor any illusions of self-esteem. I can count on a mitten how many times one of my ‘blog topics’ have made the final cut into production. That’s right – zero. The likely response I get is that disgusted look accompanied by one or more of the following phrases: ‘Nevermind,’ ‘That’s boring,’ ‘REALLY??,’ ‘How about no?’
- I don’t say anything out loud that I haven’t first evaluated in my head for ‘blogability.’
- I don’t ask why she didn’t blog today. That really only results in a diatribe about how boring our life is and how we don’t get out enough.
- I don’t ever hear the end of it when our network goes down. When that happens, I am all of a sudden expected to be a part of the ‘Nerd Herd.’ She cannot understand how I can have a Computer Science degree yet not know how to force internet connectivity to exist or turn water to wine.
- I don’t take a bite of dessert until I am sure that she isn’t going to take a picture for her blog friends (aka someone important) to see.
- Finally…I don’t go many days without hearing about how her friend Soliloquy (and countless other blogger names not quite as Shakespearean) did this or that. While it is better than hearing about Sammy Brady in her ‘Days of Our Lives’ phase, I sometimes find myself recycling the anecdotes she retells in my daily life. For instance, I don’t turn the baby monitor on without making a Soliloquy and Spin–related comment.
So there it is. That is my life with a blogger. And admitting that you have a problem is the first step.
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he barely tolerates my blogging…. occasionally he gets on my friends’ blogs and leaves outlandishly rude comments. that’s about as involved as he gets.
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Well, I realize I’m too late to enter, but just wanted to comment on the first two gifts. Ha ha ha! He’s rather clever this man of yours. I’ll bet his next gift will be one of those wooden spinny things–you know, when you light the candles the little carousel spins round. Or maybe a Christmas CD so you can play it in the car while you drive around all day, or at home so you can whistle while you work.
This is just all too humorous.
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