Nellie's Dryer Balls

People look at us curiously. For some reason, they can give us. If you see the two of us stay away from each other in a group you do not match wedding rings. There probably are not two people you know who are so different and most people are surprised that we have been married for three and a half decades. We got married in their teens and stay married since.

In a high stress, high production of many people in California do not even try to have a more long-term relationship. They are burned. Their expectations are so low on finding their true love if it hit them on the head, they would not recognize it.

remark "Gosh people," real and long-term love is not over. And you two are so different ... "

Differenta Different is an understatement.

She paints and draws and sculpts and makes jewelry. I write and watch the ball games. She thinks the Jets are a baseball team. I was an avid sports fan since I was seven years and could debate Al Michaelson.

She loves girl, frilly stuff with streaks of pink. I like plain, simple things with dark blues and browns. She is a Republican, I'ma Democrat. Sometimes. She had seven years of formal education and I am Ivy Leaguer.

She cries at any hint of emotion or even ideas of emotion. I tear up when my team lays an egg. When she cleans and washes the dishes, she does all of them. When it's my turn, I'm hiding all the pots and pans dirty as I can. When she does laundry, she folded the clothes and puts a strong difference in their respective drawers. When I do the laundry, I leave the clothes in the dryer.

I'm ready to go. She is always checking everything and making sure that nothing on something or is seriously in his place or what she can remember.

She loves Thai and I did not. I live in the world of business and technology and strategies. She lives in a world of trust and relationships and family. She does not want to camp in the jungle with jaguars and boas. I'm looking for my nets and Brazilian machete. She thinks the Super Bowl is like Labor Day or Memorial Day. I think that Super Sunday is a holy day that should be cause for us to remember last season and how our team can not make a bonehead to lose.

She thinks that Don Nelson is a singer and she does not know who is Tom Brady, but from the name, it's probably a baseball player. Other than Emeril and Rachael Ray I do not know a single head TV. She knows all the TV chefs and their philosophies and how their personalities contribute to their culinary art. I get out of the freezer and put it in the microwave.

I think there are worse things in life than to follow in a bit of mud from the bottom forty. It does not work. I think Nellie Ball and the Warriors are incredibly interesting and thought to play football.

I can not stand and Mexican soap operas she watches one every night. She is Mexican and I am American. It is dark and I'm white. She is Indian and I am Gringo. She has long black hair and gray and my hair is short and gray, but nothing on top. I like my coffee strong and she loves hers diluted with sugar and cream. I love pizza restaurant and it does not work.

She likes to leave everything in a row and I leave everything in a heap. She loves canned jams and preserves and I buy them in a jar. She tries to find good people in not very good and I say shoot 'em. She believes that if a person is a good and honest nothing bad will happen to them. I believe that humans stoop lower than any other animal on Earth.

She is a woman and I am the man. She is my pa and I am. She sees the longevity of an object and I s.