Oddities de la Tim

Here is a list of a few things I may never understand about my husband...some cute, some quirky, some annoying. I love Tim and he makes me laugh. SO, here goes the Oddities de la Tim:

1. How do you get in the shower? Most people run the water to get it to the right temperature and turn on the shower. Then, they get in. We all know cold water comes out of the shower head before the warm...so water first, then enter. Tim stands in the bathtub and gets the water to the right temperature while standing in it. Then,(This part makes me laugh)he splashes water onto his shins to check the temperature. He then turns on the shower and gets sprayed immediately...brrr!

2. Which way do you face when you shower? I think (because I don't watch people showering lol) that most people face away from the water and tilt their head back to shower. Not my Tim...he faces forward, lol.

3. Do you spread condiments with a knife or a spoon? I have explained to Tim that butter knives are called so because you are supposed to spread things like butter with it. Well, Tim always uses a spoon...then he licks the condiment off. This isn't too bizzare, but when he licks off the butter or the mayonaise I almost throw up. Also, it wastes the condiment that gets stuck in the groove of the spoon for non spoon lickers.

4. When licking fingers...he HAS to make a loud sucking sound on each finger...ew.

5. After making chocolate milk, do you leave the spoon in the cup? I'm sure this one isn't as odd as I think...but I think the spoon knocking into your mouth while your trying to drink is annoying. Tim likes the keep the spoon in the cup and so when he's done the cup falls over all the time!

6. Does your husband like girl bands? My husband likes to listen to Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and Regina Spector. Haha, he won't admit this to you...but look at his iPod.

7. Tim is not a taste tester...he will add the seasonings without tasting it between...we have had many salty meals that were not edible.

8. Nails. Tim's nails grow like a woman's. He lets them stay long...so his nails are longer than mine! In order to fix this, I am the one who clips his fingernails and toenails...haha. I also pluck his eyebrows.

9. This one is an old one...Tim used to wear girl pants. I HATED them. They got stolen once...I was SO sad let me tell you...But, girl pants don't look good on anyone but girls. Sorry boys.

10. Meat poisoning. When we have steaks...my husband literally makes himself sick everytime. He tells me after he's done to never let him to that again...but it is inevitable, haha.

11. Snot Rockets. GROSSSSSSSSSSSS. He doens't believe in kleen-ex outisde or in the shower...it's so gross!

11 seems like a good number to stop at. Now, I'm not saying that I am perfect by ANY means...his list of things he won't ever understand will far exceed my list for him. I just thought I'd share because I'm pretty sure some of these things are guy things that my friends can sympathize with. Love you, Mr. Darst...your manliness exceeds all.


Beach Countdown: 6 days!

Breakdown

This is mostly for my own mental wellness...I'm breaking down our eventful next two weeks:

July 22 (Today!): Go to Arlington to see my parents and borrow some boogie boards and chairs for the beach!

July 23: Hang out with the fam, go to the Ranger game (story on that later).

July 24: Visit the in-laws

July 25-26: Get ahead on homework for when we go on vacation/class on Tuesday night

July 27-28: Last days of work at ETBU admissions/church Wednesday night/Class Thursday night

July 29: Finish homework before leaving for Houston/drive to The Woodlands

July 30: meeting with the personnel committee, lunch with church staff, meet and greet youth and parents and Q&A session, dinner

July 31: Lead Sunday School with worship and hanging out to get to know us, meet the congregation during the service, get put on the spot for questions, get voted in or out in the evening

August 1: Drive to Port Aransas!

August 2-4: Be a beach bum...hopefully get an interview soon after!

August 5: Hear this precious prune's heartbeat (it will be lime-sized by then!)

BUSY but EXCITING/RELAXING next few weeks!

Okay...so about the Ranger game story. I give campus tours at ETBU in this oh, so wonderful heat! I love ETBU, so I love giving tours. I had a family come in to tour with a girl, her friend, and her parents. When I walked in the room to meet them, I saw the dad wearing a rangers polo shirt. I was like awesome, a Rangers fan! I love to find things to chit chat about between buildings we go into. The Rangers are a good talking point. I proceeded to look down at his hand and lo and behold there was a world series ring on it! I couldn't help myself but blurt,"So, that's a world series ring!" He told us how he worked for the Rangers as the VP of Information Technology. That opened the door to talk about how I was from Arlington and how Tim and I love the Rangers and my family did, too (run-on sentence). So, we pile on the golfcart like sardines and have a lovely tour...like 2 hours...longest one I have done. It was two hours because they were LOVING it! They loved to stop and talk about EVERYTHING at ETBU and it was fun! I love tours where people ask questions and are excited! After the tour, the girl and her friend are super excited and they are wanting to come (the friend had to intention of coming to ETBU). So, as I am walking back to my office the dad pulls out a card and says, "Here's my card, if y'all ever come to Arlington, give me a call!" In which I reply, "We're actually going there this weekend!" He said, "Saturday at 7:05 okay?" I say, "Uh, yessir!" He replies, "Your tickets will be waiting at will call" and he writes our names down. AWESOME! So, it was already a great tour, but now we get to go to the game for FREE! I'm excited...yay for Admissions!

Beach countdown: 9 days

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