by Kevin Burton
As you know, fantasy football is over for the year. Yesterday was Tuesday but I didn’t have any waivers to do, no lineups to set, no injuries to check on.
Nothing to do really.
So over the course of the season I have been noticing there was this woman around the place much of the time. Really good-looking woman too. I have had it in the back of my mind to find out who she is. So yesterday around dinner time I jumped up out of the Mancave, found her, and introduced myself.
Turns out her name is Jeannette and she is wonderful! From the far reaches of my memory I now seem to recall that we had a wedding ceremony a while back and we share more than fantasy football teams.
I am hoping our relationship will develop and deepen even more. Now here I am overlooking her fondness for the Dallas Cowboys. Gonna look right past that.
This is the woman I want by my side always, and especially for the big moments, such as when the NFL Draft begins, 100 days from now!……
I am truly amazed this is still happening. Amazed.
‘Cuz my wife and I have been together for 13+5 years now.
Here’s an example. Jeannette and I will be eating, at a steak restaurant such as Outback, and I order a side of mushrooms We both like the mushrooms, but maybe she’s full from her loaded baked potato and whatever else.
I offer her some of the mushrooms and she says, “not right now.”
To this day, this still makes me giggle. Why?
‘Cuz I’m thinking, “Darlin’, o bride of mine, your window to get within sniffing distance of these mushrooms is closing so fast. If you said “not right now” again, by the time you said it the second time the mushrooms could easily be gone. All the way gone.
At that point, “not right now” is a concept that pertains, perhaps, to the next side order of mushrooms in two months or so.
Should the mushrooms survive long enough to get into a to-go box, they could easily disappear during a midnight snack.
“Not right now” is like a screen door on a submarine, to quote a great line from a Rich Mullins song. “Not right now” is not helping you…..at all!”
This she should have figured out at some point during our first 18 years together, especially since it’s actually closer to 19 (14+5)……
What did Jeannette get for Christmas? Well the headliner was a great big Duraflame heater. It’s a size bigger than the one that stopped working.
I am often too hot, she is always too cold. So for every heater she has, I have a fan. At this point her heaters can beat up my fans.
We think it was during our first Christmas together as boyfriend and girlfriend. One of my first gifts to her was two small matching heaters, one for my apartment and one for her house. That got it covered and got her attention.
Who knows, maybe those heaters sealed the deal for me, once I finally got around to proposing……..
Strike one up for Ronnie the Omnivore. The older of our two cats, will eat anything, hence the nickname. I think she is a mathematical genius because though we are very careful not to drop people food in her vicinity, she nevertheless hovers in the kitchen, sniffing the floor and calculating, thinking, “They’re only human. Eventually something will drop.”
So yesterday I dropped a small piece of chicken breast and decided to let her keep it. This was because of my loving heart, still full of Christmas spirit, and also because she had that chicken snapped up before I could even think about taking it away.
You go girl!
And she didn’t say, “not right now.”
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