Mr H has been away with work all week and came home this afternoon. All week he has been ringing, texting and emailing me to make sure that I have completed the couple of jobs that he asked me to do. And I have, and more besides. I have also had a pleasant and restful time, much needed after him being at home for over a week. On arrival home, he has a set routine, he goes to the loo, gets changed, brings his washing down, checks his post and email, rings his mum, then has a look at the garden. Then he tells me about his week. In that order always.
Today he has had to tell me in great detail about his latest ailment - itchy skin caused, he thinks, by the tablets that the GP gave him a couple of weeks ago for his possible irritable bowel. This itching, has, apparently, been so bad while he was away that he went to the chemist for advice. The pharmacist didn't look at the itchy areas but confirmed that it could be due to the tablets although very unlikely. Hedging your bets I think! On arrival home, he took great delight in showing me........nothing! No redness, no rash, nothing apart from very dry skin. I suggested he use some moisturiser, which he has done, but I notice that he has developed a new habit; most of the itching is around his waist, so he is constantly putting his hand down his trousers to scratch. It's not an attractive sight, and I sincerely hope that he manages to control himself as we have visitors all weekend, who probably don't want to watch him with his hands down his trousers. I certainly don't. He is so childlike in his behaviour, he has no self control, and no awareness of how he looks to others. If I try to tell him, he gets offended, so, as usual, I bite my lip and sit peacefully in another room.
I am conscious that my posts are all pretty negative, but we do have some good times, it's just that he can be so irritating and annoying. Maybe it's me. I don't know.
Hannah x
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Welcome home
Mr H has been away since Tuesday, he has been away with an old friend, they go away somewhere every year for 3 or so nights, usually a European city somewhere. One of the nice things about him being out of the country (apart from having the bed to myself) is that he doesn't seem to feel the need to organise and control me.
I have had a lovely time in his absence, have eaten what and when I want, have been shopping, have played music loudly and danced in the garden! I have also blitzed the house, rearranged all the kitchen cupboards (which will send him into a turmoil when he gets home), made a cake, and done loads of big stuff in the garden that he has been prevaricating about for weeks. Our high hedges needed cutting as our neighbour did his side weeks ago, but Mr H has wanted to wait to do this huge (not) job until he got back from his trip; I wasn't convinced he would get it done even then as he is very good at finding excuses to avoid jobs that he doesn't like, so Tuesday afternoon I set to and finished it in about 3 hours. It was hard work and I nearly fell off the stepladder a couple of times, (and could barely move the next day) but it's done, he doesn't know yet as he's not back till tomorrow - I wonder if he'll even notice?
He is back in the UK now, and due home tomorrow, I have already had 3 phone calls checking if I have done things - does he think I am such a complete idiot that I can't manage my life for a few days without him? Yes Mr H, I have booked my car in for a service, I have got meat out of the freezer for tomorrow, I have spoken to the builder who is coming the week after next, I have cut the grass, I have watered the plants.
Oh, and he rang me when he landed to tell me that he had an insect bite on his leg that is so painful he thinks it might burst!
He, no doubt, will swan in tomorrow, fill the laundry basket with his dirty washing, tell me how much he's missed me, then start telling me what "we need to do". I, no doubt, will bite my tongue.
Happy days!
Hannah x
I have had a lovely time in his absence, have eaten what and when I want, have been shopping, have played music loudly and danced in the garden! I have also blitzed the house, rearranged all the kitchen cupboards (which will send him into a turmoil when he gets home), made a cake, and done loads of big stuff in the garden that he has been prevaricating about for weeks. Our high hedges needed cutting as our neighbour did his side weeks ago, but Mr H has wanted to wait to do this huge (not) job until he got back from his trip; I wasn't convinced he would get it done even then as he is very good at finding excuses to avoid jobs that he doesn't like, so Tuesday afternoon I set to and finished it in about 3 hours. It was hard work and I nearly fell off the stepladder a couple of times, (and could barely move the next day) but it's done, he doesn't know yet as he's not back till tomorrow - I wonder if he'll even notice?
He is back in the UK now, and due home tomorrow, I have already had 3 phone calls checking if I have done things - does he think I am such a complete idiot that I can't manage my life for a few days without him? Yes Mr H, I have booked my car in for a service, I have got meat out of the freezer for tomorrow, I have spoken to the builder who is coming the week after next, I have cut the grass, I have watered the plants.
Oh, and he rang me when he landed to tell me that he had an insect bite on his leg that is so painful he thinks it might burst!
He, no doubt, will swan in tomorrow, fill the laundry basket with his dirty washing, tell me how much he's missed me, then start telling me what "we need to do". I, no doubt, will bite my tongue.
Happy days!
Hannah x
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