Ash Thoreau

My husband’s Father’s Day was rather uneventful. That’s what happens when you’re broke. That damned airfare really messed with our finances. I’m not used to purchasing for 3 people.

Anyways, we ended up at In N Out. The entire meal was more mediocre than usual. I had what was supposed to be a chocolate milkshake. It was more of the consistency of a milk-soup. A waste of money. The fries were undercooked and stuck together. And they shorted us a burger and didn’t bother to take off the tomatoes as requested. It was so busy, it was too much of a hassle to ask for our missing burger. So we moved along.

The next stop was Barnes and Noble. My husband wanted to get our kid a book. A sweet thought. The kid had other ideas.

As soon as we walked into the store, our kiddo fell and started crying from a skinned knee. It was downhill from there. She was overtired, so she was set off by every little thing. She didn’t want to see the puppets. She NEEDED the owl puppet. She wanted this book read to her NOW. Where is that $40 owl puppet? “I need it!”

She finally calmed down when she found the train set. Then I could finally look at books. The husband started zoning out on his phone.

On a side note, my husband doesn’t handle the tantrums well. So when she goes off, it’s only a matter of time for him to lose his temper. Which is worse to deal with when he’s parenting our kid because he doesn’t know how to calm her down. She usually just needs a distraction to pull her out of the upset state. The Hubby usually focuses on trying to force her to do something she doesn’t want to do, like stand up and walk. It always makes the tantrum worse. So the whole thing was rather stressful for me. How do you tell your husband to stop and do it a different way when he is half a second from losing it himself?

And don’t get me wrong. He is an AWESOME dad. I’m not complaining about his parenting. He knows how to do some other things better than I do with her. I just wish he had more patience.

After we paid for the books, we made a swift exit because she started to get upset that she had to leave the train set. She cried off and on while driving home, then promptly went down for a nap once we got inside the house.

The other thing that happened that ticked my husband off was he figured out his COD account got hacked. Someone logged on this account and started playing Battle Royale, and talking shit to people the night we had our big argument. We figured it out because he never plays that mode, and whoever it was left the whispers on the account. There also appears to be an unknown Steam account linked to account. He’s currently shadowbanned and trying to fight it. But it put him in a salty mood because he had planned to play it this morning while the kiddo and I slept. It started off his day in a bad trajectory.

Anyways, that’s my day. I didn’t cross stitch because the thread I was working off of split and tangled. It made me very angry so I’m not sure when I’ll go back to it.

Tomorrow I have to get the house key back from the girl that watched our dogs while we were out of town. I’m not looking forward to it because she had a kick back with multiple teens at the house. She never bothered to run it by us and her boyfriend ended up spending the night. She’s a minor. I’m pretty sure her mom would be pissed off if she knew. She did all of this knowing we have a doorbell cam and a living room cam. I wouldn’t have even watched it except our dog got injured (not her fault) while we were gone. I watched the cameras to try to see what the hell he did to himself. I found the issue but also found evidence of the kids hanging out. So yeah. Super lame. Really upset she had put me in this situation. Wish me luck. I’m going for a no drama confrontation. I am not sure such a thing exists but maybe I’ll invent it tomorrow.