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It has been a bit of a different week so far. I haven't had to deal with the kiddos other than to run them to school and the sitter's this morning and then to pick the little boys up from the sitter's. Tomorrow, I take them to the sitters as there is no school.

I went out yesterday and ran a couple of errands and did some shopping. Repeat performance again today.

It has been sort of a nice change.

I have gotten only minimal stuff done around the house, but it is better than I generally get done after spending a day with Gabe being off the hook.

Having had his birthday and with seeing the toy commercials for the Christmas marketing blitz, his autistic little world has just been launched over the top. I spent most of the day Friday trying to get him to leave the snow globe that I bought for Amanda on the mantle. At one point, he put it in his backpack and carted it off to his room when I was busy with something else and couldn't watch what he was doing.

I am undecided as to whether or not I'm speaking with that guy. He absolutely frustrates me at times. I fail to understand how you can be so single-minded that it consumes EVERY minute of your day. However, that is how he is. Though he is apologetic for being that way, it doesn't help much with the fact that after a few days, it serves to irritate me immensely.

I guess that's how you manage to get a masters degree in 9 months. lol

While the intellectual left-brain admires and respects him for those traits, my right-brain wants desperately to choke the living daylights out of him.

As he has been camera-shy, I was able to locate a photo (albeit a bad one) of him online to show Al and Genny. Genny said she could see how I could fall in love with that smile. Al thought he was very handsome and disagreed that the spawn need to have my nose. Both of them have been giving me a rough way to go about the fact that I am (and have admitted to being) "spineless jelly" when I'm around him.

It's OK though. I can rationalize enough trivial BS to be miffed about that I don't need any assistance in being contentious. So, the fact that I lose my resolve altogether when he looks at me probably isn't a bad thing. And, it does provide my friends with vicarious amusement.

24 hours or so later -

Just now hung up the phone with that guy. It would appear that I am speaking with him. The conversation lasted 11 minutes and 46 seconds. It isn't often that he will stay on the phone for longer than 10 minutes.

He was laughing at my summation of his single-mindedness. I think he was relieved that I really do get it. I will admit, it is that I simply don't want to get it sometimes.

He is very rigid and dogmatic in the way he approaches learning a new career field. Where the hell is the fun in that? That statement, in short, exemplifies the main divergence of our personalities. I wonder if he is as perplexed by my laissez-faire and obfuscation as I am by his stalwart stoicism?

I'm tired. Think I'm going to go have a bit of a lie down.