Relationships

Hello! Happy Sunday to everyone.. I find Sunday to be a tad depressing since it brings the end of the weekend. I always lay down on Sunday night before bed and Curt and I discuss where in the heck our weekend went and how did it go by so fast? I wish my work week went half as fast and I would be a happy duck. We had a pretty nice weekend, give or take a few moments. We had an awesome time last night hanging out with a group of our friends at a wedding reception back home. I think I am getting a little too old to have many more of awesome times like that.... Goodness! I hope everyone had a nice weekend also. The weather here in Missouri was so beautiful that it made it almost impossible to have a nice weekend if you were outside. I do have one complaint, my Cardinals are still driving up a wall by losing 7 out of 9.. Don't they know what this does to me?! Oh well, at least I am not a Cubbies fan and have to deal with a 100+ years of losing. :) Okay back to moral of my blog post. As always, I hope you enjoy! Leave a comment if you feel the need. I love getting them!

Relationships... To some this is a happy word, to some this is a naughty word but to all this is a complicated word.. If you are reading this and don't think relationships are complicated then you should stop reading now and go back to your fantasy land.  :) I think Curt and I have a pretty healthy relationship. We agree on all the big issues which are a must for a couple (kids, family, lifestyle habits, etc). It would be a lie if I told you that we agree on every small issue in life. For instance, I like to go to bed early and and Curt insists on going to be later.. After almost a year of marriage we still argue about this and if I were a betting duck I would place my duck money on this being an ongoing fight for the rest of our years together. I like eating dinner at the table while Curt likes to eat dinner at the couch. I like to be early to events and Curt likes to be beyond fashionably late.. UGH! This drives me nuts! I think being late to events is rude while he thinks it is normal.. I will admit he is getting a little better at not being late probably because of the many scoldings he has received over the past 8 years of hanging out with me.. Hopefully in the next 8 years we will be on time somewhere.. One can only hope..

I do have to admit that it is probably a little hard to be married to Hannah.. There is usually about one time every month or two when I go into what Curt calls crazy girl mode.. I totally deny it to his face but since he is not supposed to be reading this blog I will admit that it is probably true.. Take yesterday for example, we were having a really good morning. We go up and worked together great to do some tasks/projects/cleaning which we had been putting off for awhile.. I will admit it, I am so not a clean freak.. Dusting is not my best thing.. Sorry Mom.. Okay Hannah, back to the subject.. Curt and I were getting along fine all morning. I went to pick out an outfit for the wedding reception that evening and then crazy girl hit. I was in a sad mood because I didn't feel like I had anything to wear that did not make me look like a giant fat hog. I was upset by my closet to logically I asked Curt to pick out a shirt he thought I should wear.. He picked out this shirt that I had told him several times that I hated because it made me look fat and that was it. I was crazy Hannah with an emotional outburst.. It is funny now because the fight it over but you should have seen the look of confusion on his face when I started getting crazy emotional over a shirt he picked out in my closet.. I had to say that it was probably not the easiest job in the worlds to be married to me and calm me down at that moment.. It took awhile of us going through every item in my closet and then finally picking out a shirt.. If you know Curt, you know fashion is not his best thing so not only was my crying emotional self torture for him but going through my closet was just icing on top.. I don't normally apologize for being a girl but yesterday was an exception to the rule.. I still hate the clothes in my closet but I know it is not his fault and I can't take it out on him.. Another crazy girl moment in my life comes as the result of Facebook.. I can't help it when I see a girl get "just because" flowers and not want some for myself.. I sometimes get frustrated on why I am not getting "just because" flowers.. I feel like Curt should know that others girls are getting those flowers and it is simply just no fair that I don't get any.. I then put myself in the imaginary situation of getting "just because" flowers from Curt.. First, I would ask why he was sending me the flowers.. Were you on bad behavior? Is there something I should know about? Then, it would be well why did you spend that money on flowers which are going to die in a week? Is that something a young couple saving for our future should be doing right now? I then realize why Curt doesn't bring home "just because" flowers.. Honestly, just coming home to me every night should be enough.. Facebook doesn't always tell you why these girls are receiving "just because" flowers and I probably wouldn't want to be in their situations..

I have to admit that I do not believe in soul mates. I feel like you end up with the person who you are compatiable with but also who someone you are willing to make a life with for yourself. All relationships are tough and take worth from both parties involved. I think what I love most about my relationship is that I can be myself at all times and he embraces me for it instead of judging me. I think it is safe to say that Curt and I have an unique relationship.. I think I am a little bit quirky.. You could probably have guessed this by my reference to myself as a duck throughout the post. I don't know why I do this but I find it a little humorous to do it so I keep doing it.. Sometimes I play a game with Curt by talking to him in quacks and I make him guess what I am saying to him.. It is so strange but I can't stop giggling the entire time.. I like to sing songs and insert new words in them.. Normally these songs are about Curt.. Normally these songs are about Curt getting peed and pooped on.... I sang a song about him last week and nothing silly happened to him during the song and he said he didn't know how to react to the song because no bathroom activites happened to him during the song.. Sometimes in the car when we have the radio on I like to sing the songs very off tone in a loud voice to be a little stinker-Curt's words.. It is true though.. I have this crazy habit of when we come home I like to yell into each room I walk in and ask if there is a robber.. I will seriously pee myself if anyone ever answers my question with a yes.. There are probably a thousand other quite frankly strange things I do but I am very lucky to have a relationship with a man who lets me do each and every quirky items..

I hope to have a quirky yet solid relationship with Curt for the rest of my life. I know it will take lots and lots of work, patience and love. I know there will be lots of times where it will be easier to be grouchy than to remember to be nice to your significant other because they are there for you no matter what.. Even if the situation is when you feel like a cow in your clothes, where you are buying your first big boy and girl car (this wasn't the best day of our lives but thankfully we made it through with the help of our bro in law Justin who has had much more experience to be an adult than us), buying your first house ($100k is a lot of money to spend and thus results in stress), watching your Cardinals lose.... again.., or hopefully having your first child..

I hope you enjoyed my crazy blog post tonight. Hopefully I didn't scare anyone away and will come back for more. Leave a comment if you have a suggestion for a topic to be covered in the next coming weeks. As always, thanks for reading!

H