Lord of the Castle

My wife loves watching movies. Me…not so much.
Well, that’s not entirely true. I like watching GOOD movies. But so many of them aren’t very good…
In my opinion…
And while I am watching one of those “it’s oh-kay” movies, my preoccupation with time starts rearing its ugly head and I get restless. I try, but it is hard [...]

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When my wife made the big weight loss bet with me, I had two thoughts: if she does it, she will look great and that will be fun, if you know what I mean! If she doesn’t, I don’t have to get braces. Either way, I win.
When she said that she wanted to go back [...]

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On the way home from church, I drove by the little frozen waterfall…
As I drove by, I thought that it was worth taking another picture. So…
I started backing up…
Made sense to me. Evidently, my wife didn’t think so.
As I put it in reverse, Bunch said, “What are you doing?”
“Backing up.”
“You can’t back up! That’s illegal!”
I kept going…
“You can’t [...]

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I should be more of a butt to my wife…
I mean, sometimes I am just too agreeable!
I told you that she was going to go on this radical diet to lose weight. I also told you that she if she succeeds in hitting her goal, I will have to get braces.
I have also told you [...]

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Chivalry is not dead!
At least not here at the castle.
It is snowing right now. I know, what a surprise!
It has been snowing since noon and it is snowing hard.
She gets off from work from Costco at 8:00. As I pictured her walking out to her car and seeing it covered in snow, I decided to drive [...]

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New Year’s Eve isn’t really that big of a celebration in our household.
We don’t really drink.
Our television is in the storage facility. Besides, even if we had it in our apartment, I am just not that motivated to stay up a few extra hours to essentially watch the clock tick. You can dress it up with [...]

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Last night at 8:15 P.M., my wife informed me that she needed the electric roaster to cook the Christmas turkey.
There was just one problem with that…
The roaster was in our storage unit. My son drove down to get it and confirmed what I suspected: the storage facility was closed for Christmas!
When I woke up this [...]

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I still don’t know what I am going to buy for my wife! I am running out of time!
But, then again, I am a man. Men are supposed to wait until the last minute.
If I bought her gift early, I could be found guilty of “shopping”! Not good! I don’t like shopping. Shopping is not good [...]

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My wife sent me a text message informing me that she got called in to work and that she had made a meatless pasta dish for dinner.
I texted back a “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” response: “What do you mean you didn’t make no meat?”
“Ha, Ha.”
When I got home, I headed straight for the kitchen. [...]

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For nearly two decades, I had TOO much to do. I was building a custom car, reading and studying for my life calling, mentoring younger men at church, working very hard at a job I didn’t like and remodeling and adding on to a house that I lived in with my wife and four children!
…all [...]

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