Things My Husband Has Taught Me About Marriage

Since we have been married, Casey has developed a delightful little habit of trying to pants me when I wear my sweatpants around the house. That's right, I said "pants" as in the juvenile habit boys adopt on the playground to humiliate (or perhaps flirt with depending on who you ask) some poor pig-tailed little girl to try to make her cry.

One of the first weeks we were married, I tried to get up off the couch and Casey tried to stop me by grabbing my sweats and in what he views as a wonderful turn of events, discovered that the elastic band that makes sweatpants oh-so-wonderful has a lot of stretch to it and my pants ended up around my ankles in 1.2 seconds flat. Ever since, I've had to guard my backside and jet off the couch as quickly as possible to avoid this drafty fate, but more often than not, he gets that glint in his eye and he beats me to it.

Not five minutes ago, he grabbed my sweats as I got up to get my laptop and bemoaned in a most pathetic fashion:

"WWWHHHHYYY DO YOU DOOOOOO THAT????????"

To which he calmly replied, "What? Don't you know? That's what people do when they get married. It's because I love you that I pants you."

Regardless of the fact that he is totally full of CRAP, maybe he is in indeed still flirting with me after 7 months of marriage and 3 years of dating, so slightly appeased, I am now back on the couch but you can bet your butt (pun totally intended) I'm not getting back up again unless the house catches fire and even then, I'm waiting until he's out the door and my pants are safely secured before leaping up.

It's a bird, it's a plane... it's a bear?

There is a black bear loose in the city and has been spotted in Magnolia, Ballard and then Shoreline today as animal control has tried to track it down. I know bears are extremely dangerous, your kids probably shouldn't play outside at the moment and yadda yadda yadda but every time I hear about a new bear sighting I almost collapse into giggles because I get this mental picture of a bear in disguise hanging out at Cupcake Royale in Ballard trying to hide out from the authorities:

Please be my friend

{To my blog-ladies: below follows my new experiment in which I try to get people to join my book club. So far, we have one member, myself, although I don't think it is time to bemoan my lack of friends since I haven't actually sent this email out yet, but still. One. I have a general idea of who checks in here, but sadly I don't have your emails or you live too far away to come, which really bums me out because I am pretty sure that Mallory and Erin would be the best people EVER to have in a book club. But Seattlites, please shoot me an email (kate.calamusa@gmail.com) if you would like to take pity on me and join my semi-literary excuse to get to eat dessert or at the very least give me an ego boost by telling me that at least one other person will join, really.}


Re: Book Club

Hello lovely ladies in my life,

I have a proposal for you all: I have a deep, deep longing to be in a book club (perhaps its my voracious appetite for literature, perhaps it's just an excuse to get together with other women to chat or most likely an excuse to make a dessert) and am contemplating starting one of my own.

I'm thinking about keeping this simple: we meet at my place once a month (or once every two months! Or three! Or six!) to chat books and eat dessert. The format is pretty simple: each member picks out a a couple of books at our first planning meeting and we pick books for the year- whether they are serious, humorous, sassy or political. When your pick comes up, you lead an informal discussion on the book. If you can't make it one month, you skip it and come the next, or come even if you didn't finish the book and we'll fill you in.

So, here comes the crucial question: are you interested? Chime in if you are and I'll see if there is enough interest (it'll be fun, really!) and we'll pick out a day to get started, maybe a mid-week 7 p.m. gathering. This is most definitely not an exclusive invite either, if you have friends who might be interested, pass this along!

All the best,

Kate