Blog Number 151

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

So for the third Wednesday night in a row the wife and I hit the Starbuck's.  I am beginning to think that she thinks this is going to be a weekly thing.  Somehow I must curtail this thought as the family budget does not have $10 / week for gourmet coffee drinks.  Anyway, we ordered our drinks a sat down with a piece of coffee cake.  Now my wife has this particular thing that she does that bothers me.  She will take her fork, cut off a slice of cake, put the piece on the fork and then hold it there while she talks.  She will not actually eat the bite of cake, she just holds it there on the fork...for a long time...while she finishes her thought...and starts another thought...etc.

This has always bothered me, during our entire marriage actually.  And she is aware of it, and yet she still does this.  I don't know why this bothers me but there is something about starting a process and not finishing it that rubs me the wrong way.  For instance, if I put toothpaste on my toothbrush at home and the wife comes into the bathroom for some other reason and wants to give me a hug before I get a chance to brush my teeth, this too bothers me.  I must finish the process that I started (brushing my teeth) without interruption.  I think it has to do with how my job has been over the years.  The "tyranny of the urgent" always prevails at work and something more important is always interrupting what I am doing.  There are weeks where I will start something at 7:15 Monday morning and get interrupted at 7:30 and then more and more things interrupt and before you know it, it is Thursday afternoon and I have yet to get back to what I started on Monday morning.  Some weeks it is too much for my brain to handle.

So honey, when you start to eat a bite of cake, for God's sake, eat the bite, don't stop in between to tell me something!  Put it in your mouth, chew, swallow, and then tell me what you want to tell me.  Any other way is simply torture.  Ironically, as I am trying to finish this blog, she just came up behind me to tell me something.  So I could not even take 5 minutes to complete my random thoughts without being interrupted.  Such is my life.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon