Monday, July 18, 2005
Sick cycle carousel...
V was bad this weekend. she didn't post all weekend. bad V, bad!
now that my punishment is over, i'll update.
the weekend was fairly good, except for having more fights than normal with mayhem. the last day of it was pretty nice, though. there are a few things that mayhem still needs to learn after all these years. like he needs a little updated V manual to keep him up to speed. little reminders of such important things as:
1) feed her within 5 minutes of her saying "oh god i'm so hungry i think i'm going to be sick."
2) do not leave her unattended with mayhem's parental units for more than 15 minutes at a time unless an emergency requires such an absence.
3) let her finish her train of thought. not getting to finish what she was saying may be pet peeve #1 and this model is trained to unleash terrible consequences for such actions.
4) never, even jokingly, act condescending to V.
5) always listen to V. always.
6) show emotion. V is an emotional being and responds better to emotion than to flat responses. "yeah, that's fine" is not an excited response and will not be interpreted as one by V.
just the really important things need to be included. a relationship has to have some spice to it, but after this many years, he needs to have cemented a few of those things into his brain. it seems to me that we fight a lot, but if you categorize them, there are a very few number of things that we fight about. occassionally #1, definitely numbers 3 and 5, and #6 with some frequency. if all the others were resolved, i could even live without #2, but i would have to be rescued somewhere down the road, and #4 has become much more infrequent now that there are some painful consequences inflicted when he jokingly does something to me.
*this post was brought to you by the third person and bob dole.
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