Which do you prefer?

Me?

I hate Walmart.  But over a year ago someone gave Peanut a gift certificate for Walmart and I figured it was time to use it.  So, we went there to get her some boots for winter.  There were two different kinds to pick from each priced at $30 and I didn’t like either one.  There was another lady there shopping with her daughter for the same thing.  She said “I just came from Target and they had a really big selection of boots for cheaper.”  She went on to explain they didn’t have any in her daughters size but that there were a lot in the smaller sizes.

So, we left Walmart without any boots. I did buy a few things just to use the gift card up.

We went to Target where the aisles were clean and the customers and employees were nice.  (Not the conditions at Walmart, that’s for sure.)  I bought a pair of really cute boots for $20 and found the other items I had bought at Walmart were cheaper at Target.

Please don’t give me any more Walmart gift cards!

Back when I was in high school I thought my best friend in the world, Sally, would be my best friend in the world forever.  We were inseparable.  We were either together in person, together on the phone or writing each other notes and letters.  I can only imagine if we were teenagers today that we would have been texting each other constantly.  I loved high school and it was mainly because of her and my other friends- we had so much fun together.

I actually did not love summer vacation because we didn’t get to spend as much time together.  We still talked on the phone quite frequently and wrote each other lots of letters.  Every few days I was sending her a letter’s, and she was doing the same.  I still have a lot of those letters today and it’s fun to get them out from time to time and read them and reminisce.  I wonder if other people do this as well, I wonder if Sally does.

…we have to go to the store I arrange everything around Peanut’s schedule.  If we go somewhere in the morning I like to go as early as possible so we can have time to get things done without being rushed and still be home before lunch and nap time.  If we go somewhere in the afternoon I like to go as soon as Peanut wakes up from her nap.  That way we can go and have time to get things done without being rushed and be home before she starts getting cranky for dinner.  Or we can wait and go after dinner.  It all makes perfect sense to me in my little mind.

On the other hand George likes to take his sweet time and then complains when I try to “rush” him out the door.  We fight every single time.  Then we get to wherever we are going and we have to hurry up because we either need to get home for lunch and nap or dinner.  And then George gets mad at me for rushing him.  And then we fight every single time.

He complains that I am thinking only of myself when I rush him around.  In reality I am thinking only of Peanut and trying to make sure that we stay on her schedule so that she doesn’t get too hungry or tired.  For some reason this does not make sense to George.

It seems like George and I just can not get along.  I’m sure part of it has to do with both of us working from home.  We are together 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  But we very rarely really spend actual time together.  I have no idea if that even makes sense.

We are at each other constantly.  I feel like George thinks I do everything wrong.  There is nothing I can do that would make him happy.  No matter what I have done there is something wrong with it.  And if something happens to go wrong- it is somehow my fault.  Nothing is ever his fault.  And when I try to talk- I am constantly interrupted.

I am told pretty much daily how bad I am at all sorts of things.  The last time George said something nice to me or told me something he appreciated me doing?  I have no idea.