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August 27, 2005

SShhhhh, I’m hunting wha’bits

Actually, I’ve been drinking wine, a lot of wine. I can’t be responsible for what I post tonight.

I can hear my husband rummaging around in the bathroom. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that he’s going to surprise me with having cleaned it. I just heard the beeping of my Tanita scale!

My husband is not too heavy, but he is for HIM. He’s 6 feet and weighs about 215. When I first met him I swear he was 155 (he says he was 175)! I even asked him as we were eating at a diner (not a date, but our first night hanging out), “how long have you been anorexic.” He laughed, but I was like “seriously, I know about these things”. I can’t believe he didn’t just walk out.

He’s been gaining weight for about the past 4 years, the amount of time we’ve been married. That’s also about the time I started gaining my serious amounts of weight. It was so frustrating that so many people would say that “marriage agrees with him” and imply that I was making him gain weight because I was heavy. Let me just say that I didn’t weigh more than him I was just overweight for my size and he wasn’t. It drove me nuts because we ate because of him. He loves to eat (mostly unhealthy) and prefers sedentary activities like watching movies.

As I’ve been doing so well lately, he’s become a little more self conscious. I hear the Tanita going off all the time. He listens for me too. Whenever one of us comes out of the bathroom the other one has that “I know what you just did” smile and asks what the damage was. The Tanita’s beep has a freaky ability to reach some decibel that supersedes everything else. You can never sneak a weigh because the beep carries throughout the city. You can’t fake a sneeze or cough or flush the toilet, it doesn’t help.

He better be cleaning that bathroom because he’s still not out. I haven’t heard hide nor hair of a fart, flush, or shower.

I’ll post later why I feel the need to indulge in the vino tonight, I don't want to lose my buzz. I can't hold my wine and type at the same time.

Posted by hopeful @ August 27, 2005 9:44 PM