December 16

From my brain

2008

Me 10:12, 16 December 2008 (EST)

I got this months ago, and it's been sitting on my Desktop since then. Had to share...

2006

I snapped.

Wifey brought up the fact that our Bishop has said he wants the Sunday school teachers to begin a once-a-month program to discuss tithing. I'm okay with that in general, but NOT for Wifey's class: preschoolers. What are they going to get out of it? Made me feel queasy like things were sounding too money-grubbing like an evangelical church.

Anyway, she has to make a bunch of copies, and she was wondering if we could make a "family trip" up to the office and shanghai the company printers. With the resentment in my voice over the situation, we exchanged words that were interpreted as person-on-person anger. Wifey tried to blow it off with humor -- an old tried-and-true tactic of mine -- but it backfired, "Hello? I'm not feeling any support here!" She said it jokingly, but I rounded on her. "Hmm, well. How does it feel for once?"

I deadpanned it without trying. She smiled nervously at first thinking I was joking, but then she realized...I wasn't. However, I backed down when she asked with a fair amount of concern, "Can...you explain that?" I sat there for almost a full minute with my eyes closed and realized it was A) not the time, B) I wouldn't phrase it properly, and C) it would COMPLETELY blow apart in our faces.

So, we went about trying to fix the label template in Word she needed to have for printing up tithing envelopes. I gotta get back up there.