Dial Tone continued. . .

Mike called me and said, "I just did something embarrassing. . ." the next thing I know- I hear a dial tone.  So I call him back. . . nothing.  Again. . .nothing.  I leave a message Call Me! Nothing!!!  What is a girl to think??  
20 minutes later Mike calls, laughing.  "Sorry," he says, "My phone died."  Then he precedes to tell his brother Nathan about how funny it was that his phone died and what he said shortly before I got the dial tone. HELLO I'm right here, tell me!

  I can um. . well freak out sometimes.  My mind begins to wander and the next thing you know I have blown things out of proportion.  I think of the worst possible thing that could happen, magnify it by ten, and blow it up to the size of Texas.  I think one of my talents is creativity, but seriously ~ sometimes I wish it could just chill!

  Let me just give you an example: While I was pregnant, which should explain a ton, Mike was in the shower and I heard him puke.  Sick, I know ~ but it is my best example of Texas size proportions.  Anyway, I heard him and incorporated it in my dream and woke up furious.  Why you ask?  I was absolutely positive that he was bulimic.  Not just bulimic, but he was trying to hide it from me.  I jumped out of bed and marched into that bathroom and said in a bit snippy voice, "What are you doing?"  He told me some story about not feeling well.  I was not going to let him get away with that, so as soon as he got out I asked him, "Mike. . .are you bulimic?"  He started laughing and grabbed his fat and said, "Yeah honey, I'm just really bad at it."  I then realized I had accused my husband of being bulimic after hearing him puke only once.  I told you I can um. . .well freak out sometimes.  (I still blame that story on pregnancy and the affects it has on the brain.)

   Back to the phone. . .He apologized for his phone hanging up and told me he had just made $1700.  You see he had gotten in an accident, another story for another time, and the side of his truck was beat up.  He got an estimate and a $1700 check for that estimate.  He said he was embarrassed that it would cost that much.  I can think of a million other words to use besides embarrassed.  Think of the phone call over again if say he used the word fun or amazing or even if he had said, I got an estimate.

  The moral of this story is: You never know when your phone is going to die or when your wife is going to "freak out" so just use appropriate words to describe your day.  Imagine how many embarrassing  things I had to think of in that twenty minutes, I'm still blushing!