From the Heart
I am a morning person … well, kind of. I like the morning to start slowly.
I hear the alarm go off, most mornings, at 7:00. I hit the snooze button. 7:05 the alarm goes off again. I hit the snooze button.
I totally shut off the alarm at 7:10. Chuck says, “Are you getting up?” I say two more minutes. He says, “So you are getting up at 7:20.”
He knows me so well. He says I’m on “Janet” time, sort of an “ish time.”
Chuck says in the four-ish years that we have been married he has learned a lot about “ish.”
Whenever he asks me about how much gas I have in my car, I tell him 30ish. That pretty much tells him that it could be 30 miles until empty or 18 miles until empty or maybe less. I know this drives him crazy.
Chuck was a math and history teacher before he became a school superintendent. His idea of math is precise and accurate. My idea of math is much less precise than his. I like rounding up numbers. I like ballpark figures.
I tell Chuck that I don’t understand pi=3.14159265359. What I do know is how to make a homemade Chocolate Cream Pie. And no, I do not precisely measure the ingredients. Scoops, a pinch, and rounded measuring. I just know that the end result, when finished, is 100 percent delicious.
Chuck has a thing about being at the airport two hours before our plane takes off. A few weeks ago we were headed to Tampa and there was an accident on I-465. We sat in traffic for about 15 (ish) minutes. I watched his face begin to look concerned. We arrived about one hour and 45 minutes before our plane was to take off. BUT the plane was delayed 15 minutes so we actually got there two hours before we took off. Chuck did not find my reasoning any comfort to his almost come apart.
When we are getting ready to go somewhere I tell Chuck that I am ready but I need to finish up. I watch as I see him thinking about how you can be ready but you need to finish. He’s learned to just go with it.
Chuck is not a procrastinator. I almost said never but he would say that is not 100 percent correct. Chuck is one who checks everything off on his to do list. I would say ASAP but he says if you did things as soon as possible they would already be done. I nod my head yes but in my mind I am shaking it. I get my “to do’s” done not ASAP but WIGATI (When I Get Around To It). Again, on Janet time.
I often refer to Chuck and me as the older version of the Big Bang Theory. He is Dr. Leonard and I am … well, Penny. That may not be 100 percent accurate, but in a roundabout way it is. I just know when you add up all the fun we have and the fact that nothing ever divides us then our life is 99 percent to the good. I’d say 100 percent but I’m sure my “ishes” create 1 percent to the negative but of course my chocolate pies make up for it. So I guess I would say that our marriage is pretty even. See, I do know math!