Saturday

Well we are having people over on Saturday for supper. Austin was able to bring some Slovakian brandy home and just can't wait to 'share' it with the guys. He also has a ton of photos to show off being that he had a whole day to play tourist in Vienna. Everyday he gets a little more excited.
I think I'm going to fix a turkey. Austin has been bugging me for one for a couple of months. They are just so much work that I don't want to prepare a whole turkey for just the two of us. Having people over to help eat it is a great idea he has even offered to help clean after everyone goes home. I am not going to hold my breath on that. I am the dishwasher so I think I am going to hold him to it this time. Afterall he always says we need to work on our teamwork. I think most of the time he means that I need to learn how to 'take an order'. Now you can get the picture of how our home improvement projects go. Him yelling because I have done something wrong and me ignoring him and doing it my own way. Sounds to me like he needs to work on his teamwork. Mine is just fine as long as he tells me how to do it the correct way the first time. Not after I have done it his way and he then realizes it is wrong. To cover his mistake he blames me on not listening. I think it might just a little bit miscomunication. I am not an engineer and do not think like an engineer. Anyone married to an engineer knows that they are a whole different breed of guy. They know how it should go and sometimes leave out some things when giving directions because as he would say it is a no-brainer. Well I guess I have a lot of brains because I didn't put 2 and 2 together and get 5. Did I happen to mention sometimes his directions are illogical. Well they are.... Now I forgot what I was talking about.... That's right... Teamwork... We don't have any. If we had teamwork my washer and dryer would be in the bathroom closet instead of in the basement.

So we are having people over on Saturday. I never thought of Austin and I as social people. In highschool neither of us had a big group of people we would have called friends. Austin was anti-social and I worked all the time. When I wasn't working I was in Ames watching Austin play hockey on the weekends. When we first got married we didn't need to have friends other than each other. Well now we have learned we NEED friends so we are in a group of 4 couples. Two of the guys Austin worked with at a part time job and thru all of the job changes and moves we have stayed in touch and do quite a bit of stuff together. The 4th couple is a friend of one of the two. We have melded into a bunch of good friends. Not like the normal maybe the husbands are friends and the wives just tolerate each other. Everyone knows what I am talking about here. All of us girls can get together without the husbands and there is deffinately no lag in conversations. We all came from small towns and just seem to connect somehow. We are all transplants to the area so when we go to area resturants we get the tourist look sometimes. Like we are intruding. This would be when the ladies we don't like come into play. I don't know if they think we are intruding on their teritory the more we get involved in the community or what but I am still looking for the right pile.