Wednesday
Nov282012
Honesty Is the Key to a Good Marriage
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
It is evening, and Schmutzie and the Palinode are in their living room with their laptops open and Mad About You re-runs playing in the background.
SCHMUTZIE: Don't mind me being all over the floor. I'm just stretching out my back.
PALINODE: Uh-huh.
SCHMUTZIE: I think all the travel and public speaking stress has, quite literally, floored me.
PALINODE: Yep.
SCHMUTZIE: I wish I could do all my work from this position. You know, just suspend my laptop from the ceiling or something.
PALINODE: Sounds good.
SCHMUTZIE: It would probably fall on my face and break my nose, though, and that would be the stupidest blogging accident ever.
PALINODE: Definitely.
SCHMUTZIE: Are you even listening to me?
PALINODE: Of course.
SCHMUTZIE: So, you're watching television, reading blogs, and having a conversation with me all at once?
PALINODE: Oh, no, not really. I'm actually just enjoying this picture of Frank Sinatra eating a giant stack of pancakes.
image from the collection of the Margaret Herrick Library
This is us, doing the important work. He's a keeper.
SCHMUTZIE: Don't mind me being all over the floor. I'm just stretching out my back.
PALINODE: Uh-huh.
SCHMUTZIE: I think all the travel and public speaking stress has, quite literally, floored me.
PALINODE: Yep.
SCHMUTZIE: I wish I could do all my work from this position. You know, just suspend my laptop from the ceiling or something.
PALINODE: Sounds good.
SCHMUTZIE: It would probably fall on my face and break my nose, though, and that would be the stupidest blogging accident ever.
PALINODE: Definitely.
SCHMUTZIE: Are you even listening to me?
PALINODE: Of course.
SCHMUTZIE: So, you're watching television, reading blogs, and having a conversation with me all at once?
PALINODE: Oh, no, not really. I'm actually just enjoying this picture of Frank Sinatra eating a giant stack of pancakes.
image from the collection of the Margaret Herrick Library
This is us, doing the important work. He's a keeper.
categorized in family & pets and tagged in Frank Sinatra, conversations, the Palinode
family & pets and tagged in Frank Sinatra, conversations, the Palinode 
Reader Comments (7)
Darlings, the both of ya.
This is awesome.
I've often wondered if I could suspend my laptop from the ceiling and work that way as well. Although yeah, the whole breaking of the nose thing... and given that I've had a few incidents with my phone & my nose...probably not the best idea.
He sounds wonderful.
Can see why you're star struck.
xo
I felt the same when I was on my computer and my husband asked if I had another assignment due soon and I said "yes. I'm supposed to be working on it now. Which is why I'm looking for biker boots for Eve", and he said "that... makes perfect sense."
That really is a great picture of Frank Sinatra.
Casey, I know! I could hardly pass up posting it.
LOVE the pic of Frank....and my husband and I have conversations like this all the time, however he is not looking at pics of pancakes, and then part way through he stops answering and I realize I have lost him to whatever else he is doing