We went to a friends house for Thanksgiving dinner. The same friends that we used to visit frequently. I was kind of irritated all day. Mostly because no one got a lot of sleep but also because I kind of suspected what was coming. Sure enough, we brought 2 bottles of champagne and by the end of the evening we were on the third. And by we, of course I mean mostly W.
On the way home was one of those semi-coherent conversations that really take me back. When we used to come see these friends a lot years back (before S was born) there were a lot of these conversations where we’d be driving home and W would try to explain something to D and get caught up in knots. I’d be driving along in silence thinking, “just knock it off” in my head. This was one of those. I didn’t say anything because I could think of nothing useful to say. Believe me I tried but all I could think of was, “Hey, look! A UFO!” and that seemed a conversational dead end once everyone had looked.
Of course the conversation ended badly. Mutual fault there. Then W became engrossed in her phone. She started making Facebook posts and I thought to myself, “this is usually the point where she finds a work emergency that needs dealing with, but happily it’s Thanksgiving. But I forgot how many of her coworkers are outside the US. She found a situation that needed to be dealt with. When we got home she said she needed to go take care of it.
S fell asleep in the car on the way home so I got him in bed, where I’m writing this, and she’s outside with cigarettes and a glass of wine. I assume the later but she would not be sitting outside if it weren’t for the former.
Guess I’ll go to sleep. There are lots of things I’m thankful for.
Update: At 4 in the the morning W woke me up from a dead sleep and said she needed to go into the office. I didn’t think she was in any condition but couldn’t bring myself to stop her. I said be careful, then lay awake thinking of all the awful things that could happen. A while later she came in and got ready for bed. Said she was able to solve it remotely. I was relieved. Not great for my sleep though. And in contrast today (we had the day off) was great.
