meat hooks

the first time i was called a handful i was floored. what did he mean when he said it. it was a friend of mine who said it. i will call him kevin. he is more like family to me so i know he was not blowing sunshine or smoke up my ass. he was teasing me to make a point. he told me to ask my husband if i didn't believe him.

i was not sure what kevin meant. i have always thought that i was low maintenance. you know, easy to get along with. do whatever as an activity with friends. not fussy about eating or sleeping. i do like my girly things but i can hang with the fellas and talk baseball, etc.

so back to a handful. what does this mean. does it mean i am hard to handle? out of control? a petulant child. my exhusband called me a control freak. which was not true. it was the other way around. but it serves his life well and he seems to be very happy these days. so i couldn't be happier for him.

i have always thought, (and blogged) that the person you wait for has the control. that is obvious. i am always doing the waiting so that couldn't be it.

my husband uses a handful of hair product on his head and i barely use a dime size so that couldn't be it. the grooming differences between the comic and myself are amazing. you would think he had more hair than fabio. and he never ever throws out the container. i humor jeff and buy expensive goop for him to put on his hair. it is about an inch and a half long and receding. please don't get me wrong, he looks very cute. but does he need to use that much. hell no. so he has all these almost empty jars of wax, putty, pliable molding stuff and defining whip on his side of the cabinet. maybe he is collecting them. or he feels like will smith in 'i am legend' and somehow he will be the last survivor in the city and he cannot possibly run out of product. his hair would be tragic.

i really do like it when he spikes his hair and it goes in all crazy directions on his big old head. he looks put together is a messed up sort of way. his hair reflects him. it has got some wisdom and a lot of humor to it. just like him...

sometimes he will shower and exit the bathroom sans spiked hair. we will be just hanging out at home. just the two of us...not going anywhere. no trace of product in his hair. it just lays there flat on his head. he looks like an enormous child. (which is what he is). i will ask him if he is gonna put some stuff on his hair, you know, spike it. he will say 'no, we are just hanging out.' you see the flat, lifeless hair drives me crazy. so i will say 'go put some wax, paste or pliable molding goop on your hair it is driving me nuts...'

so anyways, back to what my friend kevin was saying about me being a handful...