I had dinner with Leanne last night at Muang Thai on Hanover Street. After my holiday stories and Leanne's great news around her job (and, of course, a totally cool update on all the new things baby Ella can do since I saw her last), Leanne confessed that she'd recently checked Jen & Gary's blog.
You may remember Jen & Gary as the couple I slated in one of my previous entries. At the time, Leanne and I had a good old bitch about Jen and how pathetic she was. That was before Leanne read their blog in its entirety and informed me that they were struggling to conceive and Jen really wanted fertility treatment but Gary said she had to get a job first.
We went from feeling sorry for Gary having to put up with her, to agreeing that he probably got some sick pleasure from encouraging this in her. Poor Jen!
Anyway, last night I found out (from Leanne) that they are going for the fertility treatment. "How lovely!" I said. "I hope he never leaves her."
"So do I," Leanne agreed, "but I suspect he probably will." I nodded in quiet agreement.
"But," said Leanne, "by that time she may have her baby and the dogs she loves, and be perfectly content without Gary"
"I think that might be the Nirvana an increasing number of women are searching for," I said having read an article on this a while ago. "Kinda like 'I love you, thank you, goodbye'."
Getting back to the subject of lovely togetherness, congratulations to Careth & Mark who got engaged a few weeks ago. Luckily, Mark got a very good review in my blog. I will encourage them to start up a 'Careth & Mark' blog where they can update their readers, much in the same way as Jen & Gary do, on home improvements, weeding the garden, lime-squeezing and other lovey-dovey stuff. Oooh, oooh, oooh, maybe they'd be up for a transatlantic 'wife-swap' for a TV special. Yes, I think it just might work.
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Friday, September 29, 2006
Saturday, May 27, 2006
The good life
As told by Jen & Gary .
What do you think?
To be fair, I have issues too but I tend to keep them to myself and I am working on them. I swear, I haven't killed someone for their liver since last autumn and that's pretty good going.
Anyway, the blog in question is entitled 'Jen & Gary' but I'm not convinced Gary does any posting. My hunch is that Gary probably doesn't even know about it.
The tagline reads: 'We are a young, vibrant couple who enjoy life', but from reading the post headed 'Are we spoiled?' I think it should really say 'I desperately want a baby. Like, NOW!'
"Having the extra time and energy to spoil the man I love makes the best marriage I can think of! [Ahh, shucks] We can devote all of our time to each other, instead of splitting our attention among three kids and their after school activities [which she so desperately wants to do].
I love making breakfast in bed for my husband and he likes to make breakfast in bed for me too!. [Aaahhh! int that cute?]
I rub his back several nights a week. [How romantic Jen. I hope it isn't on account of indigestion because when that trapped wind starts to move ...]
I make his favorite meals. I am truly interested in his hobbies ....for the most part (which we can indulge in because we don’t have kids to spend our hard earned cash on!) [Oh how she wishes she had kids so she doesn't have to spend her weekends fly-fishing or attending Star Trek conventions.]
And I am just as spoiled as he is [Really she is]. I get regular foot massages. Last night I asked for a squeeze of fresh lime juice in my water, and he happily obliged [Oh how lucky she is. Surely most men would not have honoured such an arduous request and instead rubbed the lime into her face James Cagney style.]
We love doing special things for each other that I don’t usually see parents doing, simply because their schedules get filled up with other things. But if we want to go to bed a little early for some “couple time,” [Oh my God! They actually call it 'couple-time'] we do it. [Moreover, I'd be worried if she did see 'parents' having 'couple-time']
If we want to take a long bath together on a Sunday afternoon, we can. We can be spontaneous without calling a babysitter. Marriage isn’t about each partner giving 50%. I’d say it’s close to 100%. [100% leaves no room for anything else sweetie.]
And it sure is easier to do when you don’t have kids. Yep, I guess you would considered us SPOILED! [I can think of far more appropriate words than 'spoiled' honey.]
What do you think?
To be fair, I have issues too but I tend to keep them to myself and I am working on them. I swear, I haven't killed someone for their liver since last autumn and that's pretty good going.
Anyway, the blog in question is entitled 'Jen & Gary' but I'm not convinced Gary does any posting. My hunch is that Gary probably doesn't even know about it.
The tagline reads: 'We are a young, vibrant couple who enjoy life', but from reading the post headed 'Are we spoiled?' I think it should really say 'I desperately want a baby. Like, NOW!'
"Having the extra time and energy to spoil the man I love makes the best marriage I can think of! [Ahh, shucks] We can devote all of our time to each other, instead of splitting our attention among three kids and their after school activities [which she so desperately wants to do].
I love making breakfast in bed for my husband and he likes to make breakfast in bed for me too!. [Aaahhh! int that cute?]
I rub his back several nights a week. [How romantic Jen. I hope it isn't on account of indigestion because when that trapped wind starts to move ...]
I make his favorite meals. I am truly interested in his hobbies ....for the most part (which we can indulge in because we don’t have kids to spend our hard earned cash on!) [Oh how she wishes she had kids so she doesn't have to spend her weekends fly-fishing or attending Star Trek conventions.]
And I am just as spoiled as he is [Really she is]. I get regular foot massages. Last night I asked for a squeeze of fresh lime juice in my water, and he happily obliged [Oh how lucky she is. Surely most men would not have honoured such an arduous request and instead rubbed the lime into her face James Cagney style.]
We love doing special things for each other that I don’t usually see parents doing, simply because their schedules get filled up with other things. But if we want to go to bed a little early for some “couple time,” [Oh my God! They actually call it 'couple-time'] we do it. [Moreover, I'd be worried if she did see 'parents' having 'couple-time']
If we want to take a long bath together on a Sunday afternoon, we can. We can be spontaneous without calling a babysitter. Marriage isn’t about each partner giving 50%. I’d say it’s close to 100%. [100% leaves no room for anything else sweetie.]
And it sure is easier to do when you don’t have kids. Yep, I guess you would considered us SPOILED! [I can think of far more appropriate words than 'spoiled' honey.]
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