My husband is on one of his infamous week long leaves from work. The nice thing about Greece, and especially the military, is that he gets copious amounts of leave every year - more than anyone who has been working shorter than 20 years in one place in America will ever get. So he gets to take a week here and there, to serve his needs for rest and relaxation and, ostensibly, to take care of some things that get neglected in the day to day busy-ness of his working life.
Oh, we had great plans for this week. So many things were going to get accomplished. Nine days in a row for my husband to not only fly his little Microsoft Flight Sim planes, but also plenty of time to take care of other things, including finishing the hook-up of our surround sound system, which he had grand plans for over three months ago. To his credit, at that time he actually bought all (most) of the needed cables, screwed one speaker into the wall and put up a screw for a second speaker. To tell you the truth, I'm not even really criticizing him here for not getting it done. While I enjoy the results of surround sound, I do not particularly enjoy it when my husband endeavors to undertake such projects. Something usually goes wrong to the extent that he is hanging ten feet off the balcony with twenty cables, a hammer, and a small piglet while shouting all manner of curse words, both in Greek and English, at a decibel level sure to be heard in the farthest reaches of Asia and the frozen tundra of Antarctica.
Not that my husband is incapable of completing such projects successfully. He has done miraculous things since we got married, things he didn't even know he was capable of doing without his dad doing it for him. But any project always ends up being such a chore, and I hate to make him work that hard just for our entertainment, although it is fun watching my little handyman at work.
At any rate, Wednesday is now over. We haven't yet called the guys to install our new air conditioner/heater (the one that we bought, ahem, in August), we haven't yet taken care of some official business that needs to be tended to, and we haven't hooked up the surround sound system. We did, however, take care of some health related issues, watch a total eclipse, play some World of Warcraft and we have had plenty of cuddle time. So not too bad, I guess.
At this point, however, I think we should give up ever making plans for my husband's leave, and just let the mood strike how it will. We get more accomplished when he is working, anyway.
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