Geographic Bachelor
When an old married guy like me is without his wife for awhile, he acts differently when she’s gone.
No – I haven’t been chasing Pretty Young Things with Skirts Up to Here, nor has the corner bar acquired a new customer. Its just that things are different.
Normally, I’m not a television sort of guy. I just don’t care about “Grey’s Anatomy” (or is it Gray’s). The Mystery Guest Blogger likes to tease me and say that if the cable TV system were to go on the blink so that all we could get was CNN and The Weather Channel, I wouldn’t know the difference.
But, it’s different when she’s not here. So what was it I stayed up late at night to watch? The Women’s College Softball Championship Series. About half way through the second game, I realized I was talking to myself - - - and telling the coach how to run her team.
Bizarre.
By the way, I don’t fart all the time either – I have some couth left.
I noticed I don’t eat “on time” either. I just eat when I’m hungry. I might eat breakfast at 10, or lunch at 11, and dinner at 8. Okay – I knew that the “Sweemer’s Casserole” took longer to cook than I had expected when I ate at eight o’clock, but still . . .
Oh yeah – I talk to the cat a lot more too. Worse, I have come to think Bao may be trying to talk back.
I hope Bao doesn’t learn to talk. If she does, she’ll tell the MGB how I act when she’s gone.
Here's an idea. Find the local Dharma Center and study Lam-Rim and/or meditation. Is meditation talking or listening to yourself? I'm surprised you don't mention what you are reading or photographing. Maybe you are photographing Bao.
I also like the girls softball. TV is soooo bad. How did it get that way? 500 channels and nothing on.
Posted by:Tom Murray | June 05, 2007 at 07:19 PM
Yeah, I'm watching this Abbott gal from Tennessee pitch right now. What a wicked curve.
Posted by:Russ | June 05, 2007 at 10:00 PM
I miss you, too! xoxo - G
Posted by:MGB | June 06, 2007 at 07:35 AM
Yes that womens softball is great. One of my friends daughter is a pitcher and Ive enjoyed the games.
Jim
Posted by:Jim Barnes | June 06, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Welcome to the Wonderful World of single living. It is not all that it is thought to be. I do like not having a time schedule at times. You can also talk to plants and sing with the radio.
Posted by:Cilla | June 07, 2007 at 08:23 AM
It's when you sing with the plants and talk to the radio that you're in trouble.
Posted by:Russ | June 07, 2007 at 06:30 PM