Hygeine, shmygeine

During the past nine and a half months of our marriage, my work schedule required me to wake up, get ready for the day, and leave home early in the morning, before my husband even woke up. Two weeks ago my shift at the hospital changed and now I'm home in the morning when my husband is getting ready for work. I've noticed that he only showers SOMETIMES in the morning. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but don't the unwritten rules of hygeine require daily showering? I've always assumed it falls under the category of common knowledge, such as brushing your teeth twice a day. I would assume that the rules for a bachelor are different. He can shower maybe every other day because no one has to smell his stank behind when he gets home. But shouldn't a married man, out of respect for his wife, take a shower daily? I confronted him on the issue this morning and made a very compelling arguement. As a wife, no, as a woman much is expected of me in the way of hygeine and grooming habits. My husband (and the rest of society) expects me to look nice, smell nice, dress nicely, have make-up on, cute panties on, and keep certain areas shaved regularly. The ugliest and smelliest double standard in the world is that I shouldn't expect my husband to even shower regularly. Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not an overbearing "shower nazi." My request is perfectly reasonable: shower daily most of the time. I will gladly overlook an occasional slobbish Sunday of frenchfry headed bliss. Come on clean, self-respecting people of the world. Join me in talking some sense into my low standards husband. And please, if you spend more than 40 hours/week on the computer, do not even enter into this discussion. Don't pollute my wayward husband's mind with your bridge troll mentality.

The Stand Book Review

Hey you! Yes, you. That's right, over here in the corner. I've got something for you. Come a little farther. That's it. Inside this dark chest of wonders lies The Stand by Stephen King.

It's my first time reading it, and so far I'm about halfway through the uncut edition. Based on the first 200-300 pages alone I would say go out and buy this book. Whether fans of 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead (remake), or any other post-apocalyptic plot know it, the pages in this tome are your roots.

King's eerily accurate portrayal of a pandemic, and the ensuing panic not only hit the bullseye, it is frighteningly relavent during an era where the world is gripped by fear of Bird Flu, Sars, Chemical Warfare, and military conflict.

As with nuclear inspired fiction of yester-year, King captures an era and capitalizes on taking us to the dark corners of our brain we are afraid to visit. So far, a must read for reader's and non-readers alike.

Will make sure to write a finished review when it's all wrapped up!

The Working World

Greetings infrequent internet user, and thanks for stopping by.

The past year or so has led to some difficult crossroads - mainly work related. Learning to handle the daily stress of not just a job, but a very high stress job in a high pressure work environment right out of college, has been draining to say the least. Neither my, nor I believe my wife's, pre-fabricated ideas of what the work world would be like can compare to what it actually turned out to be. Not to complain, because it hasn't all been bad. In fact, it's been quite a learning experience, and there have been lots of life lessons.

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I hear most people's first job out of college isn't exactly what they expect. But at what point do you say, "enough is enough," and what process do I go through to look for something new. The advice of family with similar work / school experience, and with much more work experience than I, has been to stick it out, no matter how bad the job gets, because if I quit this job, every job I interview for after this will look at my resume and see that I left - which I guess to them is a sign of disloyalty.

So what do you guys think? Does it look better to stick around until you either get promoted / moved around, put in my two weeks notice, or wait until you get canned so you can move on to something else?

It's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when you feel trapped in what you are doing - but let's hear it. Sound off on your first job experiences, from the particularly bad, to the really good, and help shed some light on this predicament!

Oh Happy Day...

Salutations Internet,

The world is a scary place - consequently so is marriage. Three months in is a lot longer than it seems. Society paints a very flowery benign picture of married life, especially the ever-coveted bliss of newly weds. I mean if you loved each other enough to go through all the drama of dating, engagement, and planning a wedding, than you must be equipped with the where-with-all, the scruples, the common sense 101, to keep it together man.

Some, skeptics and jerks mostly, may say, "Listen here blogger! Where is this going - I have a short attention span because I was raised by technology!" and to those I would say, "Ok."

Through the blissful glee of internet anonymity, we (a newly-wed cyber couple) are going to explore all of the explicit in's and disappointing out's of marriage, and let you, the scrupulous saavy internet visitor, decide and discuss for yourselves, from your parent's basement, the mundaine details of what is surely a last ditch effort to plug the holes on a sinking cruiseliner built from the lumberyard of high expectations and unmentioned bad habbits.