It must be love, Russian style

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

Yes the frenetic line of thinking,

When are we going to the grocery store, are we going to paint the kitchen, I want to buy aleksandr's sandbox. Do you want to look at the tricycle?

Classic Whatever pops into the head comes right out the mouth. It is your job, as a man, to organize and keep track of all that stuff. Lord help you if you forget something that later proves to be important. Important is subjective (as we know) and will change with the mood.

My wife posted this big long list of things on our refrigerator. At the top it said - "VOZHNA!" in Russian. When I asked her what vozhna was, she said "It's means what's important. It's list of things in my life that I must be do and it's list of stuff you must take care about."

So, I guess not even she can keep them straight in her own head there's so many "important" things floating around in there.

I'm sticking to my nothing box. I have four days off for this holiday weekend and I'm going to do NOTHING!!!!

The list I give is on top of the normal things like she will send me to get the groceries, I buy everything on the list come home and she starts asking where things are, disappointed and angry look, you didnt buy bread or mushrooms or beef or cookies!!! Honey they werent on the list and you told me to buy only whats on the list( I get fascinated by glittering packages at the graocery store) so if its not on the list I dont buy. Her response you will have to go back, and I say make a list. Then we start the cycle all over again.

Thomas, you have forgotten basic American premiss: Man work, woman shop

She learned early on that I only shop for food(hunter gatherer primal thing).

I explained to her one night that the difference between the way men and women go to the store. Women shop - i.e. they look, try stuff on, go to more than one store. Men - Buy, one store, same thing I got last time and for the last 15 years, no trying stuff on, Im buying what I got last time so I know it fits.

[johnj 0]

Yes the frenetic line of thinking,

When are we going to the grocery store, are we going to paint the kitchen, I want to buy aleksandr's sandbox. Do you want to look at the tricycle?

Classic Whatever pops into the head comes right out the mouth. It is your job, as a man, to organize and keep track of all that stuff. Lord help you if you forget something that later proves to be important. Important is subjective (as we know) and will change with the mood.

My wife posted this big long list of things on our refrigerator. At the top it said - "VOZHNA!" in Russian. When I asked her what vozhna was, she said "It's means what's important. It's list of things in my life that I must be do and it's list of stuff you must take care about."

So, I guess not even she can keep them straight in her own head there's so many "important" things floating around in there.

I'm sticking to my nothing box. I have four days off for this holiday weekend and I'm going to do NOTHING!!!!

The list I give is on top of the normal things like she will send me to get the groceries, I buy everything on the list come home and she starts asking where things are, disappointed and angry look, you didnt buy bread or mushrooms or beef or cookies!!! Honey they werent on the list and you told me to buy only whats on the list( I get fascinated by glittering packages at the graocery store) so if its not on the list I dont buy. Her response you will have to go back, and I say make a list. Then we start the cycle all over again.

Thomas, you have forgotten basic American premiss: Man work, woman shop

She learned early on that I only shop for food(hunter gatherer primal thing).

I explained to her one night that the difference between the way men and women go to the store. Women shop - i.e. they look, try stuff on, go to more than one store. Men - Buy, one store, same thing I got last time and for the last 15 years, no trying stuff on, Im buying what I got last time so I know it fits.

Uggg, Man get food; Woman, eat! Understand. I can buy that (pun intended)

[slim 1,514]

I can't stand going to the grocery store with my wife. We've gone to the same run-down, ghetto-@$$ Kroger store since she's arrived here yet she still can't find anything she's looking for. I like to get what's "on the list" as I walk by the aisle and if I know it's in that aisle, I walk down, get it, and then continue up the next aisle.

She likes to wait til we're all the way at the end, by the milk, to remember she needs coffee. Then, once we have the coffee, she likes to remind me that I forgot to get eggs so we go back and get them. Then, on the way to the checkout, she likes to check one last time to see if any fresh bread has come out yet. "Nope. We're in the hood. Still no fresh bread. Plenty of value saver white though."

I absolutely refuse to go to the mall or any other retail stores with her. "Call Tamara, maybe she'll go with you."