Yikes! It's the 18th! Christmas is coming around the bend like a runaway train. I hope I'm ready. Right now I'm concentrating on our holiday party, but it's also my foster granddaughter's piano and voice recital this week and her school choir concert. Also, we're going to a friend's for dinner tonight, and there is grocery shopping and much cooking to do. Oh, me, oh, my.
In the spirit of Christmas I watched "Lady in the Water" with my husband last night. I can't stand the film, but my husband adores it. This, in a nutshell, explains our marriage. We are a marriage of opposites. I like to read, write and see foreign films and eat ethnic food. He likes to do puzzles, sudoku, watch Disney and Tom Clancy films and eat meat and potatoes. We practically need an interpreter for conversations and each thing we do together is a negiotiation. I feel I now have high diplomatic skills. At least I've learned to be generous. For instance, I saw "Catching Fire" with him, and he thanked me profusely afterward, knowing how Hunger Games is not my cup of tea. I have seen a couple of Harry Potter films with him, being of a noble cast. He has read several of the hundreds of books I've recommended, and even loves Craig Johnson's Longmire books now. The ethnic food thing: well, he always claims to have stomach upset after, so I now go out by myself or with friends for that. He even thinks Chinese food is ethnic. It makes for a limited palate.
But we've been together over forty years, so Mars and Venus must have some similarities.
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