WOW! I can just SEE my hectic thoughts going on way back in 2005...

3-7-2005
Today~
The usual, I can't be a little tired and short....BUT, if HE is, I'm supposed to just take it.

Errant text message came to his phone (a wrong number). What does E say? "Eric did it", "seems like something he'd do".
Maybe, maybe not...but speculation and assumption is the INSTANT response (for him)

Every hang up phone call used to be his ex....for years, she's going to BOTHER? Maybe, maybe not....

E always finds a scapegoat without consideration...BUT, if he is made the scapegoat? HORRORS!

He hears things wrong, even his sister has said that....but he CAN'T be wrong, he HEARD it!

The problem is that he may hear, but he often doesn't LISTEN! (I remember the ONE time I told him that to his face. OMG....he blew up and I got the silent treatment and evil looks for a couple of weeks.)

I bring up something that bothers me and I'm "always complaining & bitching...". He brings up something that bothers HIM and I'm supposed to agree wholeheartedly.  HE is the one who's always picking at everything and most often doesn't have anything positive to say.

He is always analyzing everything other people do and say with having been in their shoes or at LEAST knowing the whole story or all the facts. I've stood right next to him and heard him "fill in the blanks" as he sees it and when confronted about it, he insists that he is CORRECT!

He doesn't like himself although he frequently comes off as a puffy pigeon. "Know quite a bit about most things", you know......

E gripes about the way I do things, organize or whatever, but he's got an unholy mess and can't find things. (Sometimes I lost them or threw them away or put them in the "wrong place", he says....)
How can there BE a "wrong place" when he never puts things away????

E will NOT take a n extra couple of minutes to put stuff away and straighten up, sweep or whatever...
BUT, he's got plenty of time to spend 45 minutes PLUS to find something that SHOULD have just been put away. He lets the mess go until it takes ALL DAY to pick up. How's that for Mr. "You don't organize the kitchen right...I would think it would be this way"...and on and on and on.....INTO INFINITY!