My husband has 2 kids who live here half the week with the rest of our family. He needs lots of help finding things to do with them. So a couple of Fathers Days ago I got him a fancy set of Star Wars movies for them to watch together. It took him more than a year and some reminders from me to even open the DVD set. Finally, they have started watching them.

Please note I make it sound like I actually give a shit whether or not they watch them, but my annoyance is more related to the way my husband makes people feel SUPER special when they give him a gift. They usually go unopened and/or unused, and he gives this really fake thank you that shows he doesn't give a single crap that you thought of him. Our coat closet currently has unopened packages from last Christmas and his birthday before that. I got him a fancy chrome plated shaving kit it took him months to open and he only did that because he was nagged.

Anyway, he has ADHD. So there's a "reason" for some of his appalling rudeness. But it's still annoying.

This morning I woke up 2 hours earlier than normal because my husband had taken it on himself to WAKE HIS KIDS UP BEFORE SIX AM (we have a house rule, no kids up before 8 on weekends) to watch one of the Star Wars movies. They had whined yesterday about wanting to finish one of them and he tried to do it during "grownup time" (after bedtime last night) and I had called bullshit on that. So he broke our house rule and had them up before six in the room outside my bedroom because he is stupid enough to think that they wouldn't get caught.

On Sundays, I have to work until midnight. So this will be a nice long day for me. All because my idiot husband is stupid enough to rationalize sneaking around to please his tiny masters. When I asked him why didn't he just watch it during the 3 year old's nap today, he said "Well I wasn't sure what else I'd want to do then."

Please god let me find a way out of this marriage. Seriously.