Life with O

After a couple weeks of heavy posts, a break is needed or a change in direction.  For now those confusing thoughts are organized, categorized and put away for another time and place.


Last July when Omega and mouse married, his mother came to the mouse and gave her a bit of advice. The older woman relayed that mouse would be a very smart girl if she kept certain things hidden from her new husband.  Like magazines on health, diet, money...Of course the older woman, who mouse adores, doesn't know about our dynamic and how could she?  The older woman warned if mouse did not, she could very well end up eating cranberries and almonds for a month and nothing else because O read something about it in one of those magazines.  


That type of behavior is impossible for mouse.  In the lifestyle we call it topping from the bottom, however in a married couple, it might be called self preservation.  In this respect the lifestyle won.  The mouse dutifully would collect the mail from the box, and sort it, the way O liked.  Magazines into one pile, bills, etc into others.  Only the truly junk mail gets tossed.  It needs to be said he must get around 30 magazines a month, and not one is Master's Digest.  Roughly 10 of those are medical related, 5 probably have to do with finances, the remaining are work related more or less.  Mouse gets magazines as well, only two.  One on healthy cooking (a gift subscription from O), and another on just about everything else.  She dropped most of the decorating and architecture type magazines she used to get and thinks O was sad to see the one on organizing stopped.  


As mouse started to explain she doesn't hide or throw away those magazines as she was warned to do by the older woman who has known O all his life, and admits she's probably partly to blame for he is.  What mouse does, is bury them somewhat below the work related magazines he receives.  Naturally there is a routine to how he reads his magazines, starting first a look down the table of contents, if nothing catches his eye, he puts the magazine into a pile.  Mouse will call it the bordom pile, because that pile will continue to grow for the month until they are dragged out to the recycling can.  Until that time they reside by his side of the bed, and if he has nothing else to read, he will grab one and give it a second pass.  If he still finds nothing worth delving into, the next morning it will be gone.


If after scanning the magazine he finds an article worth reading, he will mark it (he's forever making notes), and put it on a different pile.  O never reads anything just for fun. 


So, mouse should never be surprised when O comes to her and says..."I've been reading mouse about the medical benefits of daily cold showers and decided that we should start doing this."  For a moment mouse thinks her mother in law was right...those magazines....arrrrgh.  Sir does this, for a month he ate nothing but dark leafy vegetables, which mouse had no problem with except it got boring, then the following month he read something about the benefits of broccoli.  You can see how this went.  


Part of the mouse's brain just shut down at the mention of cold showers, the silent part wanted to scream...no way.  The other part of the brain just whined silently.   Of course it's his wish that this be done, and mouse too has read about the health benefits....sighs...and it's better than eating nothing but cranberry and almonds.  All mouse could to do was grit her teeth, smile and say, "Okay Sir."


To top it off they're really not so horrible.