Falling

She said if I didn't get my act together, that she would leave me in a year. It has been over a year and so it looks as if I am on borrowed time. I still have a monstrous collection of games.
I still don't put away laundry(other than my own), although I do wash and fold all of it. She said what's more important those games or me? If she has to ask, perhaps she doesn't think that much of herself and it is truly a self image problem. Her health issues continue to torture her.
She says communication is the key, and I guess I have been trying to communicate more, but I am simply not a phone person. Matt, who should have been my best man at my wedding, is definitely a phone person. He talked my parents ears off again for over an hour the other day.
I text her more than ever, she has the propensity for violence when I don't.

I love to play games, why can't she see that it has value to me to be able to play games. She is constantly on me to behave like an adult with the children, but if I do how will they know how to be children? She missed out on her childhood, and that's heartbreaking, why would I want our children to miss out on theirs? Our Oldest Daughter Jeanne has begun to play games with me.
In my youth it was what we did, my brothers and I. When will I ever grow up says the wife.
Hopefully never if I have to turn into a curmudgeon like her.

The Fall of the West

The "Scientists" theorized on the effect of the fallout on Hawaii and California. Gaddafi flaunted his insolence against a united UN. The Japanese economy plummeted in a spiral while the US economy started to show signs of recovery. They launched hundreds of missiles on Gaddafi's war torn nation. All of this went unnoticed in the children's room. They slept blissfully unaware of the horrors which gripped Japan and would soon grip all of North America.

When The first quakes hit Japan there was a Tsunami the likes of which hadn't been seen. The casualty estimates started to come in. 200, 500, 1000 and nearing 10,000. The Nuclear reactors started to fail, one by one. Millions without food, water or shelter, with radiation levels in some areas approaching critical. Sub zero temperatures.

Some prophesied that this was the beginning of the end.