"What Did You Do To Me?!?"

So last night, my husband and I decided to patronize our local bar and a have a few drinks and a pizza.

When we paid our tab and left, we were walking home when my husband announced, "I don't think they charged us for the pizza...." So we went back and double checked and we were correct, they did not charge us for the pizza. So we paid the remainder of our bill and left again.

We were halfway home when my husband yelled, "What did you DO to me?!? Fifteen years ago I would have realized I didn't pay for the pizza and thought to myself, 'YES! I just scored a free pizza!!!!'"

I had to laugh. It's funny because it's true. He's a completely different person than he used to be. He used to just throw his trash out the car window until I slammed the brakes and went back and picked it up because I DO NOT LITTER!! Now he uses the car trash bag. He used to get into fights when an arguement got too heated and now he uses much more diplomatic ways to deal with it (thank goodness since he's a manager lol). And yes, if I had realized I hadn't paid for something I would have gone back and paid for it, and apparently that has rubbed off on my husband, too.

My husband has also quit smoking, although I really didn't have anything to do with that. I was certainly thrilled when he did!!! He has now been smoke-free for four years.

I think his spoken vocabulary has gotten better thanks to years of listening to me, also.

What's even more amusing is when we first decided to be together, his ex-wife said, "teach her to be the wife you want her to be" because she thought she knew everything and I knew next to nothing. I'm guessing it's because I couldn't cook ANYTHING. I could BARELY boil water. But I could raise kids and clean so I don't know why she said it (just to be mean, I'm guessing - it's hard to accept someone who's going to raise your kids for you).

But it turns out, it was the other way around. I taught my husband how to be a good person. He's such a different person from his previous marraige I'm not sure his ex-wife would even know who he is!!!

But I'm glad he's turned out to be a pretty good guy for me.

Puppy love has sure worked out for us. :)