Apr 30 2008
This is the one about Mr. D’s idiosyncrasies.
People that use the line “opposites attract” are usually trying to desperately justify why they are staying in a relationship with someone that has very little in common with themselves.
I’m lucky that I’m not in a position where I have to convince others (or even worse, myself) that me and Mr. D share common interests. There is a long list of things that we enjoy together. There is a small list, however, of very odd idiosyncrasies that Mr. D. possesses that make him queer (this isn’t a list of things that make him “a queer,” I’ll save that for another post).
He can save candy for months - Seriously, in the back of one of his cupboards he has a bag of candy from Christmas 2006. Yes, over a year old. The other D in my life, diabetes, has made it difficult for me to devour sweets like I used to…but I could easily eat an entire bag of candy until my stomach hurt. No problem.
In the grocery story last weekend Mr. D. even uttered the following sentence, “I like ice cream a lot, but I don’t like to buy it because it always goes bad before I can eat it all.”
I was confused. Ice cream goes bad? I guess a carton has never been in my freezer long enough for me to ever figure that out.
He likes the Renaissance Faire - He claims that his love for the faire is based solely on his desire to eat the big bbq turkey legs that they serve there (which is kinda gross already), but I think that Renaissance Faires are to extreme nerdiness as marijuana is to extreme drug addiction.
It’s a slippery slope. Some people can smoke a joint here or there, and they never even touch anything harder…but you’re playing with fire (as if this example needed another analogy). You start attending renaissance faires for the food, and the next thing you know you’re dressing up in costumes, watching Jabberwocky every weekend, and calling yourself a “renny.”
He freaks out if his TiVo isn’t put into standby mode - Mr. D. and I are both TiVo addicts. And when we say “TiVo,” we are talking about real TiVos, not some knock-off DVR you got from your cable company.
In the 8 years that I’ve been using my TiVo, I never even knew that a standby option existed. Then Mr. D showed me that every time he turns off his TV he also switches his TiVo into standby mode which does very little…I mean the TiVo is still active; it records and updates and does all of the normal things, except record the 30 minute buffer on the current channel.
And he’s a freak about putting it on standby. He’ll go to bed (upstairs) and realize that he forgot to put his TiVo on standby and he’ll get out of bed, put his glasses on, climb downstairs, and switch to standby mode.
I think he even told me that one time he was driving to work and realized he had forgotten to switch modes, and turned around and drove back home to switch over. That may or may not be true.
I hate the US Open for screwing up my TiVo and not recording Big Brother.
How can you stand the torture? A bag of candy just sitting there. I would have caved by now.
Attending the Renaissance Faire in 1998 does not constitute a “like” for them. But I do confess that I love me some turkey legs… YUM!Well, if TiVo didn’t want you to put it in standby mode, why would they give you that option?! I’m sure it does something helpful… right????Oh, and yes, I have some jelly beans from Easter 2006.
If he has a brother, I’m moving to Arizona.I can’t buy candy because it won’t last the night. Even if I go to sleep I awake to find myself surrounded by golden tinfoil and brown paper cups in the morning.Renaissance fairs are evil. I was DRAGGED to my first one two weeks ago and saw three of my friends descend into madness over corsets and cloaks that look like they were made out of upholstery fabric.And lastly… TiVo has a standby mode? And it matters? Tell Mr. D he needs to explain this one in a blog. I’m confused.
I think the main reason I put it in standby mode is so the lights aren’t on. I really do hate all the GD LED lights that blink and flash at us these days. Why should a TV have a glowing red light to let you know it’s off or even a glowing green light to let you know it’s on? Duh, I am watching a program, of course it’s on! Anyway, read what TiVo says the standby option does here.
Ice cream goes bad?
Like you I never knew this.
Ha! Until this blog I never realized how much I actually have in common with D. So funny. My husband and I actually got in a strangely heated fight because he ate all of my chocolate candy one day…candy that I purposely buy once a year and have it last until Easter rolls around again. True, also, the random bits of candy I have in a box on the kitchen counter…I like the comfort of knowing it’s there in case I *need* it.
Also…that’s why I shell out more cash for the small things of ice cream because otherwise I, too, have the difficulty of it going bad. Those weird ice crystaly things that grow on ice cream taste awful.
And now I’ve realized I’ve probably shared too much. Oh.G-d.
Heh. Hope to meet you one of these days, Mike. Glad you two are all gushy over the 4 month cuteness.
Ice cream goes bad?!?! Actually… it probably does. My mother used to buy ice cream that I was barely interested in and then would never eat, so I figured after about six months or so… it was time to go.I guess I’m a little like D? I have some candy that I haven’t eaten since… 2006…. Christmas… *ahem* Though in my defense, I’m not really saving it; I just don’t always feel like eating it.Okay.. that TiVo thing is a bit odd. But maybe I don’t understand it because I’ve never had to deal with TiVo.