It was December 19th…I was tipsy, as always. Matt and I were looking at upcoming events in Atlanta. We saw that two of our favs were coming in town. We both were stoked and of course called our favorite couple Whitney and Ryan (yes Rye Guy Austin.) We told them about both events and they were both on board. My words exactly……

“I’ve got this guys. I will buy both and you can just settle up later. Buying them all now.”

Fast forward to Naughty by Nature. It was great. Great show. We met the band. We had a blast.

Fast forward to this past Sunday morning. I decided to look up the email with the ticket info and print out the four Dropkick Murphy tickets. The email is no where to be found. I looked at my other accounts and still nothing. I pulled up my bank statements and realized I NEVER BOUGHT THE TICKETS. I only processed Naughty By Nature. I quickly looked up tickets. Sold THE FUCK out. Panic set in. I looked on Craigslsit…one person selling them. Double what I thought I originally paid. I emailed her. Sold.

Now keep in mind my husband is like beyond stoked for this event and he has had a rough few weeks. He LOVES this band. This band sang our wedding song. He didn’t have many wedding requests but he wanted one of their songs to be the last song played. So I said yes, emailed every guest and asked them to learn the words. So at the end of the wedding night, when the song…his song…”End of the Night” came on, our entire wedding serenaded us. He loves this band so much that his dad based his vacation around this show so we could have a full night off with zero babysitting worries. He loves this band so much he has listened to them non stop preparing for this show. I HAD TO FIND TICKETS.

I had to break the news to Ryan. He was and still is super bummed. I told him what I was about to pay for these tickets and he just couldn’t. It was a lot. Especially since originally they were super cheap. So Ryan and Whitney aren’t going. Shitty move. I know. I should have offered to pay theirs, but I am a broke ass Shitty Housewife. I know….I AM THE WORST.

So last night, I found some tickets. I paid triple what they were going for. I didn’t tell Matt any of this because he would have been bummed I paid so much and didn’t let him just fit the bill. But damn, he pays for everything, I just wanted to do this one thing! So we are going. Just us. But let me tell you…DRINKS ON HIM!

Good luck…..Let’s go…

xoxo

The Shitty Housewife

Well, I had to e there at 8:45 am. At 8 am Matt suggest we pack the kids up, he drives and drops me, they do breakfast and then they scoop me, after that we could have am entire fun family day ahead of us.

“Do you know how long you will be there?” He asked.

“Probably like 45 minutes to an hour.” WRONG!!!!

After an hour we had not even started the 3 30 minute segments. I was having so much fun with Denna and the gals, I completely flaked on telling him that we were going to be WAY longer than an hour. He was sitting in the WSB parking lot for nearly an hour over with three very restless toddlers. Finally I remembered to text him….. 45 minutes later telling him we would be wrapping up in 30. I could tell he was very irritated, but was trying to hold it together. I mean 2 hours with no word, no ides and again…3 VERY RESTLESS TODDLERS. In a parking lot.

When we wrapped up he had moved on to Target and went on a shopping spree. It was my turn to wait in the parking lot. Although, I was “stuck” with one of my BFF’s who hooked up the podcast and we caught up on life.

By the time we all met up, he was over the day, the kids were disasters and we just went home. I guess I know better than to ever be correct about timing. Or I should read emails more thoroughly…..

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Here is the deal…I don’t get jealous of much. Like, if a girl checks out my husband, I am proud (he is mine and someone else wants him, why be jealous? Be stoked.) I don’t get jealous if he gets to go out and I am home with the kids. I don’t get jealous that he makes way more money than me. I just don’t get jealous. Except for one thing. One major thing. I get jealous of SLEEP. Like full on, pissed off, fuck you, I hate you jealous.

Since I got pregnant with my first child, my sleep has suffered. So seriously, since 2012, I have not had a good night sleep. Every noise, every baby cry, toddler whine, dog bark, EVERY FUCKING NOISE wakes me up. Matt can sleep through anything. Like, he can wake up, have a full-fledged conversation and not even realize that his sleep was interrupted. While I am over here awake for hours after, wondering when I will get my z’s again.

Earlier this week we had to take a quick road trip out of town for a funeral. Of course my kids are already a train wreck because they are traveling, but even worse, they aren’t sleeping. Like at all. I felt like in a span of 4 days I got about two hours of sleep. And not because I was out partying, but because my kids were being out of control. And who slept through it all? Yep, you guessed it. My husband.

Well, the last morning I had had enough. They woke me up at 5:30 am. After kicking and crying and whining all night, I felt atrocious. I got up and played and got them breakfast and settled them down as much as possible, and Matt slept. My anger increased and rather than just being a rational human, going over to him and waking him up and telling him I was tired and needed help, I decided to just be a bitch. An angry, overtired, crazy bitch.

It was our last day, so I packed everything up and sent it down to be packed in the van.

Except his clothes. (I packed his toiletries just because, fuck you, you are sleeping, you don’t get to feel fresh.) His parents popped by the room to see if we needed help and I talked shit to them about him (I know, BAD!!!) Then I made sure to get the kids out of our room, into an adjoining room and wake him up with only 5 minutes to get ready.

For a funeral.

It was low. He asked why I didn’t wake him up sooner, but I was too angry to even talk to him. And it wasn’t real anger, it was just exhaustion. Pure tiredness won the battle of Cool Jan vs Crazy Jan. I know it could have been worse and I could have been meaner, but this was shitty given the circumstances.

It was a funeral. For his Grandmother. Ouch, I know. Once again, I am the worst.

But don’t fuck with a woman’s sleep. I think his Grandmother would have understood. A tired woman is worse than a scorned woman in my opinion. Lack of sleep will make you insane.

There it is, my worst move this week. Better luck next time I guess!

A quick side note, his grandmother was the epitome of was a perfect housewife, mom, sister, mother should be. What a beautiful women was never stopped learning and loving. She had 9 children, 26 grandchildren and now her great grands are growing all the time. She received her masters when she was 62!!! She never stopped. She raised kids and educated herself and just continued to grow. I feel so lucky to have known her and have her love me. She welcomed me into her amazing family right away and never made me feel weird about having her grandkids out of wedlock. On my wedding day (pictured below) she told me she was proud of me and proud of how happy her grandson was. I hope I continue to do that forever, as shitty as I am.