Listen UP, Missy Mel!

1. Stop 'rawwwrrr-ing' and get over it. Life is NOT going to run how you think it oughta....and probably darn well ought NOT to run how you think it oughta. Experience would validate that one, silly! Duh!
2. If you only did what you felt like doing and what you wanted/liked doing at the worksite you'da never learned exciting things like--ummmm (hold on, I can come up with somethin'.....).....how to run an Excel Worksheet? *rolling eyes*
3. You CAN buy too many prezzies. *looking at the overflow into the livingroom* STOP IT!
4. Himself SAID you could have any one or all FOUR of those cool shortbread cookie shapes from Scotland......taking one and pouting is self created misery. GO TO THE KITCHEN and snag a star cookie. The tree......was excellent! Or......snag another tree?
5. You're officially up to five (FIVE) hours on that card you made for Doc. SO WHAT if someone ran copies of funny sayings about retirement and thought they'd be cute in the card. DON'T DO IT! Try making the evening about RELAXING. I know you remember how. You DO remember, don't you?
6. Oh......and remember--You don't like hot chocolate.....MAYBE you'll drink it one/twice a season. Just cuz the box had a cute little whisk in it doesn't mean you need all four varieties of hot cocoa, two cups and cute shaped marshmallows! Try a kitchen gadget shop and spare yourself something you won't bother to drink. (it was such a cute little whisky thingie......) And check the grocery store--they probably have cute marshmallows......which you'll never eat.....
7. Try remembering that 'yes thank you, I think I'd like to do that' really can be used outside of the worksite. The NEXT time himself asks if you wanna go with him TO the grocery store try USING IT. a) They might have those cute marshmallows you'll never eat AND b) You'll spare yourself that wounded look. Wounded over not having company IN the grocery store........oy and he hasn't even HAD the surgery yet!
8. There's a place to put your coat. Tossing it on the couch and loudly announcing you're NOT hanging it up and no one can make you doesn't mean that someone else won't stop everything they're doing to hang the darn coat up. Hang it up! YES.....he's personalizing EVERY freaking thing. Just........hang up the coat.... AND, while you're at it...
9. NOTICE the cute little coloured candies he's bought and put in the candy dish. (Make that plural...k...try that again.....) Notice the cute little coloured candies he's bought and place in the candy DISHES. SO WHAT if you don't eat candy--NOTICE IT ANYWAY.
10. And save yourself lists.......simply remember the world does NOT revolve around Mel and what Mel WANTS.......dangitallanyway! LOL