Back to "normal?"

I guess things are kinda back to normal at this point -- we're getting back into the school routine -- but we've still got enough "extra" going on to screw things up. We hosted JN's staff party at our house Sat. night, and while everything leading up to it was HELL, the party was good. I know if I stayed on top of stuff better all the time, it wouldn't be as much of a last-minute nightmare for these things, but hey, I'm doing better than I was. Bite me. We've also got his company party this Thursday, and then we head outta town to see my dad this weekend. No rest for the wicked....things should calm down after that.

The couch saga has reached its conclusion, but not after a couple strange turns. The day after INSISTING we get a new couch NOW (and convincing me to do it despite my explanations of how SCREWED we are money-wise), JN suddenly decided we shouldn't get one. I'm literally walking out the door to go check out a couple, and he says forget it -- no explanation, just forget it. I pressed him as to why the sudden 180, and he just kept saying, "We can't afford it." (Very true, but keep in mind I said that same thing multiple times leading up to that, which he'd previously disagreed with/ignored.) No reason was ever given for the abrupt change in attitude -- he was even looking at me like *I* was crazy for repeatedly questioning why not. If I know anything about the man I've been with for almost 15 years now, it's that he doesn't change his mind like that about anything once it's made up -- unless either he had an outta-the-blue schizophrenic episode, or something happened that he didn't wanna tell me about (plus he seemed pissy at me too). WHATEVER -- if he's gonna play those games, there ain't nothing I can do about it but deal. So then I go out looking for couches anyway, and find a couple good ones at resale shops, and convince him to just go look at them....he goes, finds one he likes, and we buy the damn thing. So the good news is we have a new couch we both like a lot, we got the nasty broken one outta the basement (moved our old one down there for the boys), and spent only $250 total....the bad news is we can't get each other presents for birthdays or anniversaries this year, and I have the feeeling he's hiding something from me that pissed him off. As usual, it's gotta be good and bad for us -- can't be just good.

The scale stayed the same this morning as last week, which I guess is fine -- I was BAD the last couple days with all that party crap in the house. But still -- shit. Gotta do well this week, so I can maintain through the upcoming festivities.

Happy Monday! Yeah right.