Clueless
I love my husband, I really do, but there are times he can be a little ... dense.
And while we have a great relationship, I have a bad habit of not telling him the little things. I'm not a great verbal communicator. I'm much more comfortable with the written word than the spoken word.
So, the little things. Like me finishing my first book. I write mostly when I'm alone in the house, so he really hadn't seen how much I'd been writing the last few months. And he doesn't read my journal here either (unless it's espn.com or his email, he doesn't much use the pc). Oh, and I probably haven't mentioned to him that I keep an online journal either. But anyway, here's how this conversation went :
I say to him in my we're-having-chicken-for-dinner-again voice "Did I tell you i wrote a book?"
And he gives me a blank look and says no, you wrote a book?
"Yes, and I entered it in a contest." I'm still trying to be casual.
"How long is it?" he wants to know.
"It's a short book.... 11,000 words."
"Oh. why didn't you write a longer book.?"
(He's wondering about how long it is? Trying to figure out how long it will take to read it maybe?) "Because the contest had a limit of 12,000 words."
"So why didn't you write 12,000 words?" (???)
"Because i wrote it, and it ended up 11,021 words" I tell him.
"Oh. Guess i'll go cook something to eat." And that was the end of that.
Maybe I should have written him an email...
And while we have a great relationship, I have a bad habit of not telling him the little things. I'm not a great verbal communicator. I'm much more comfortable with the written word than the spoken word.
So, the little things. Like me finishing my first book. I write mostly when I'm alone in the house, so he really hadn't seen how much I'd been writing the last few months. And he doesn't read my journal here either (unless it's espn.com or his email, he doesn't much use the pc). Oh, and I probably haven't mentioned to him that I keep an online journal either. But anyway, here's how this conversation went :
I say to him in my we're-having-chicken-for-dinner-again voice "Did I tell you i wrote a book?"
And he gives me a blank look and says no, you wrote a book?
"Yes, and I entered it in a contest." I'm still trying to be casual.
"How long is it?" he wants to know.
"It's a short book.... 11,000 words."
"Oh. why didn't you write a longer book.?"
(He's wondering about how long it is? Trying to figure out how long it will take to read it maybe?) "Because the contest had a limit of 12,000 words."
"So why didn't you write 12,000 words?" (???)
"Because i wrote it, and it ended up 11,021 words" I tell him.
"Oh. Guess i'll go cook something to eat." And that was the end of that.
Maybe I should have written him an email...
Posted by K.A.S. at 10:48 PM::
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4 Comments:
He probably thinks you should be grateful that he waited to fix something to eat until after he let you tell him about the book. He showed interest by asking questions, then moved on.
/stupid man
Ahh men. Can't love 'em without wanting to kill them. :)
M
BWAHAHAHA! That sounds like a conversation I might have with SoundGuy. Instead, once a week, I get, "Finished that book yet?"
my hubs is the same way. I wrote a short story but did he ask me to read it, no I had to ask him if he wanted to read it and Sure was the response I got.
Where do you enter contests with that many words??? I go to writers journal online and enter their story contests but its hard for me to write with their small word limit. lol
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