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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Carlos. Sick. Bob. Sickened.


Carlos decided on Sunday, after we cleaned house top to bottom, wall-to-wall, side-to-side, to take a shower. But then, fresh from the shower, he decides to take Ozzo The Pocket Dog for a walk.

It's cold out. Carlos doesn't dry his hair.

The next morning he complains he doesn't feel well. But, like a good soldier, he goes off to work. Then he calls home at around 2 PM to say that he's coming home because he's sick.

Me, the ever-loving spouse, says, No, stay at work until 5.

He asks, Why?

Because I want the house to myself.

Okay, so I am not really Mr. Insensitive. And he says he's on his way home. He says he wants to sleep. He says he wants soup.

I got the stuff out to make a pizza, I say.

No soupy for me?

Sigh. He comes home. I make him got to bed. He hacks. He sneezes. He coughs. The guilt sets in, and I put all the pizza fixin's away, and get out some chicken to make him the soup. I dice and saute and spice and simmer all kinds of garlic and chicken and carrots/celery/onions/poblanos and curry and ginger and turmeric and curry for a nice hot spicy soup. I make rice to add to the soup. I tiptoe down the hall to the bedroom, and I see he's awake.

Soup is almost ready.

I wanted pizza.

Why God Why!!

Side note: after dinner he heads back to bed. i go check on him, and tell him that there's NyQuil in the bathroom. He says he has some Robby Two-sin.

Robby? Oooooooooooooh! Robitussin.

Luuuuuuuuuucy!

5 comments:

  1. Just got to love a sexy accent on a sick gay man, right!?

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  2. That soup sounds so good! So do you! You cook, you clean, you shop, you are funny, and you write well. Carlos is a lucky guy! Robby Two-sin! Hilarious!

    I'm thinking I need to find a housemate like you. (but who is gone a lot - I like my alone time, too)

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  3. I can whip up a good soup on shirt notice, if called for.

    Thanks for the boatload of compliments. I'm going to be impossible to live with when Carlos gets home!

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  4. Anonymous6:24 PM

    My Progresso is great. I admit yours sounds a whole lot better. Carlos sure has your buttons right in order, doesn't he?

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  5. You guys are so cute!

    BTW - do you work at home? How come you were at home when he called?

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