More husband stuff

I am sure you are all getting v bored with stories about my husband, but I had to share this story with you.

For the past 4.5 years we have been dealing with IF my husband has let me run the show. I tell him when to pitch up and do his, um, thing. I consult with him around major decisions (e.g. “BTW we will be doing another IVF in April, make sure you don’t travel around dates of retrieval”) but the arrangement has been pretty much I run the show, which works for us. Other husbands are more involved, mine isn’t, it suits me fine.

However I do wish that he would read more. More about infertility in the past, and now more about babies etc. I think it is fascinating and l love being educated about things. He doesn’t feel the need to. Suppose that’s also ok.

So last night he comes home with a stack of print outs (about 50 pages) in his hand and says “I found some really interesting info on the net today, you must read this”. I glance at the docs and see the bold typeface of the heading, something about ‘Common misconceptions about…..’, the rest I cant quite see. I immediately make the word association – Common Misconception = Uncommon Misconception = Julia’s blog = infertility/babies/pg etc.

Well my heart swelled with love and pride. I thought eventually, after 4.5 years, the man is reading up about babies or whatever. It’s a miracle!!!! Hallelujah!

And so I start reading….. ‘Common misconceptions when it comes to buying Plasma screen TV’s’. It is fifty effin pages on Plasma screen TV’s. I had to laugh. I said I thought it was about babies. He said ‘why would I want to read about that, you are doing the research, we can’t have both of us researching the same topic’. I just laughed. I told him I have to blog about this, he said he was going to shove a blog up my ass if I kept blogging about him. He says the sweetest things that man, adores me.

He has decided we need a plasma screen TV. Why on earth I don’t know, we have a perfectly fine NEW big flat screen TV that most people would love to own. But no, that is now apparently very last season. A plasma screen TV is THE thing to have. Never mind it costs a flipping fortune. Sigh. I’ve said I don’t think it’s a good idea so he brings home fifty pages for me to read why owning a plasma TV is actually a very smart idea. I told him I would read the info about the TV if he read one chapter of the baby book. No deal.

Men! Can’t live with them, can’t kill them.

Comments

[Tracy]

Hee hee! My BIL is a technophile who lurves television, and he says to avoid plasma screens like the plague. They're just not there yet.

[eM]

Oi Marko ! Well, the kids will be well balanced and broadly educated.......and by the sounds of things will watch way-too-much-tv.

[Tracey Dixon]

Maybe the plasma screen T.V. is for you to watch while you are on bed rest. Maybe it really is about the babies.

[Mandy]

Tertia- I would have been sorely disappointed to miss that story. Maybe you can blame your now SLooooow internet connection on the fact that you now need him to do some baby research? Perhaps to look for the coolest buggy or some such thing.

[chris]

That's so funny. Sounds like my husband. Personally, I like men who let their wives run the show. Saves the wife from cleaning up their mistakes. Because, while they mean well, they're kind of lovable buffoons.

[Neishia]

I agree with Tracy. My other half thinks they are overpriced crap and he is quite the entertainment system guy..I know nothing about it but he will sit down and talk ANYONE out of it. He basically told me they are a fortune and as soon as something goes on the TV, that's it. It's done. Do not pass go, do not pay $2K to fix the sucker. That's what I got out of that conversation. However, he does love his rear projection flat screen HDTV. He loves that thing. So ya.. Had to comment cause he feels so strongly about it.. and the money. WOW.

[Moxie]

A friend of mine lived in Japan until a few weeks ago. She says there's some technology over there that makes plasma TVs look like an 8-track tape player, and will cost less, too. We just have to wait a few months until they hit the English-speaking (or in our case here in the US, American-speaking) market. So don't let him by a plasma TV yet, or he'll be really sorry and really pissed (=angry, not drunk) when that better technology arrives.

[KathyH]

"But honey (or whatever you feel like calling him at the moment), my faithful blog readers say buying a plasma screen TV is a bad idea."

I bet *that* would go over really well. ;)

[Toni]

I did all the research on my side too...but as soon as the babies come...you won't be able to touch them. It's amazing how much they change (but he'll always want a new TV).

[Sanorah]

Haha.. the newest thing that MY husband just had to have... which arrived while he was away on this trip is not a plasma TV.. but an actual projector! it's mounted on the ceiling and projects TV or Computer or whatever right onto a blank wall (in very nice resolution I might add).. but has my husband read the one little book i asked him to read on infertility?? noooo...
I feel for ya, believe me.

[Veronica]

Have you checked out daddytypes.com? It's a blog for men, mostly about gear, written by a man's man sort of dad in the same sort of lingo in which those XY types discuss cars and electronics etc.

Maybe that would be a more Marko-friendly introduction to reading up on babies...