Monthly Archives: October 2009

Photo Friday – Halloween Edition!

The great holiday of free candy is upon us so let’s celebrate Halloween in style with some fun pictures!

This is my husband dressed in one of the least flattering costumes you could possibly find.  The best part?  He had to do this for work.  Yeah, his is a real tough job.  (Shameless Husband Plug: If you’re in the NYC area, you can catch him Saturday evenings on channel 11 on a show called “Toni On! New York”)

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From Shanna:

“My husband loves Halloween. He plans on a costume months in advance, and works hard to, in the words of Tim Gunn, ‘make it work.’  Yeah, this is my very special husband. His love for Halloween costumes knows no bounds.”

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From Andi:

“My husband is an engineer and actually is a nerd.  he decided to dress up for halloween at work one year and the best thing he could come up with?  Being a nerd.”

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From Jenni:

“Last year we knew weeks in advance that we were going out with friends for Halloween.  My husband didn’t like any suggestions I had given him and put off costume shopping until the day before.  The selection was thin, not only because of the deadline but because he is picky and doesn’t like to wear costumes.  He is wearing a Green Bay Packers jersey covered by a cape (from the clearance bin), a funky hat with rapper-style necklaces and glasses.  To this day, he doesn’t have a name for whatever it is…”

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From Gina:

“I don’t even know what he was trying to be, but it sure was annoying.”

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From Hannah:

“For Halloween last year my husband wore a batman costume from the junior’s department because it was cheap.  It was too small for him, so we had to cut it up and use duct tape to keep it on (if you look above his belt you can see the tape).  He wants to wear it again this year, but I have it hidden.”

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From Dorothy:

“When we were in college, my husband Alex dressed up as a ‘hick’…complete with bad teeth, a mullet and a forty in a paper bag!  The shenanigans from that night were completely over the top…”

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Hope you all have a great Halloween and remember….you’re never too old to go trick-or-treating!

Keep sending me your great pictures for future Photo Fridays; I’d like to do a Men’s Week so if you’re a guy and you’ve got funny pictures of your wife or girlfriend, don’t be shy – send them my way!  And don’t forget, if you want to be considered for a Guest Blog Post, send me your stories (those with pictures are even better!) to: myhusbandisannoying@live.com

Check Your Messages!

I don’t know about you, but I’m one of those people that when the phone rings, I answer it even when I don’t know who the caller is because it would drive me crazy if they didn’t leave a message and then I would wonder who it was.  And I’m sure I’m not the only one who always either opens or deletes email so that I won’t have that annoying number next to my inbox indicating unread messages.  Fine, so I’ve been accused (more than once) of perhaps having some form of OCD and I’ve come to accept that this may be true.

All the more reason then that it bugs the livin’ daylights out of me that my husband is the exact opposite of me in this way.  Not only will he not answer the phone when he doesn’t know who it is (and often even when he does know who it is) but then he won’t listen to the voicemail.  I can’t even count the number of times I’ve called him and left a message only to have him call back some time later and wonder what it was that I wanted.  Me: “Didn’t you listen to the very detailed and extensive message I left you?” Husband: “No, I just saw that you called and so I’m calling you back.”  So then I have to repeat the exact things I already said in the voicemail.  Sigh.

And don’t even get me started on his email inbox!  There are so many unread messages, I want to hack into his account just to delete all of those emails.  When I look at his iPhone, I literally cringe.  Those of you familiar with the iPhone know that any unread emails, unlistened to voicemails, unclicked on missed calls all leave red circles next to the app with a big number in it.  My husband’s phone has those glaring red circles everywhere.  The other day, I finally convinced him to clean out his inbox.  He had over 4,000 unread messages.  Yes, you read that right.  4,000. The red circled number doesn’t even go that high on the iPhone.  It makes my little OCD head feel like it’s going to explode.

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This picture representation is not nearly as bad as my husband's phone. I'd be happy if the red circled numbers on his phone were this low.

“You’re not qualified”

Sometimes my husband will offer to do things for me when I don’t particularly want to do them.  That’s sweet, right?  But, of course, there’s a catch.  (Isn’t there usually?)  He doesn’t really offer in the nice “oh, don’t worry about it honey; just sit on the couch and relax while I take out the garbage” kind of way.  Instead, I’ll say that I’m going to take out the garbage and he’ll take it from me and say, “Sweetie, you’re not qualified to take out the garbage…I’ll do it.”

He uses “You’re not qualified!” whenever he’s “offering” to do something for me. If I’m going to go to the store to pick up milk, I’m not qualified.  If I’m about to walk the dogs, I’m not qualified.  If I start to make the bed, I’m not qualified.  You get the idea.  I know he’s just joking and he actually thinks it’s funny and yes, I know I should be glad that I have a husband who does things for me.  And ok, I’ll admit it: I’ve started to look forward to “not being qualified” because then I can just be lazy and sit on the couch.  But every once in a while it would be nice if he could do things for me without making it seem as if I need some sort of advanced degree in garbage disposal.

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This guy probably does have an advanced degree in garbage.

It’s Photo Friday Time!

Oh yeah…it’s that time again!

From Jenny:

“My husband likes to pick on our dog.  Poor thing was trying to sleep when he decided to lay on the floor with him and pretend to be sleeping too.  You can see our poor puppy opening his eyes some; probably thinking, ‘What’s with this guy?’

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From Alaina:

“We just got married this past August. We’ve been together over 5 years.  He loves to take weird face pictures of himself on my camera, cell phone and Mac (you know the distorted photos).  So here are some of his masterpieces he just took of himself the other day.”

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From Amanda:

“At one point in our relationship, my boyfriend and I lived 200 miles away. One day I asked him to send me a picture of himself for me to have and he sent me this:”

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From Abigail:

“This is my darling boyfriend, who, (like many of the previous submitters), refuses to ever pose nicely for a photo.  When a friend of mine asked for a picture of us, he promptly pretended to be asleep.  The picture was snapped while I was trying (unsuccessfully) to coax him into behaving.”

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From Whitney:

“I was looking through my wedding pictures and came across this photo. During the whole picture taking ordeal, my husband looked like he would rather be doing anything else in the world…until we broke out the booze. Not sure what to make of this face. I either get ‘bored, mad guy’ or ‘crazy eyes guy’ in my wedding photos. Lucky me! I’ve included two photos for comparison.”

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♦Ok, everybody…I know you have some laugh-out-loud, goofy, maybe even mildly humiliating pictures sitting there in your digital photo album just waiting to be sent to me, right?  Of course you do! So what are you waiting for?  Send ‘em my way: myhusbandisannoying@live.com



Guest Post: What’s His Name Again?

[Today we start a new feature: the Guest Post!  If you want to be considered as a guest blogger, send me your story -along with any pictures you may want included- to myhusbandisannoying@live.comThanks to Alison for being our very first guest blogger!  And yeah...her husband sounds pretty annoying too.]

My husband, Brian, is the love of my life but he definitely took a
lesson from the best on how to be annoying.  I’ve always been a pet
lover and grew up with them, but my husband never had the opportunity to
have a little furry friend because of allergic family members.  Well,
when he moved in with me a few years after dating, he wanted a dog.  I
thought he was so loving and wonderful towards me…how could I not give
him this gift!?

Well, my husband’s creativity, unbeknownst to me, left him spontaneously
renaming our pet.  He’s a beagle-dachsund mix that we rescued…Brian
thought to call him Hudson, because we lived on the river.  How
perfect.  Then he called him Hootang for short, hootang-bextible for no
reason, and then Sargeant Noodle for the way he crawled on the bed.  Then
he called him Uncle Reamus, Boonie, Pope Boonificent, and BuddyGadhafi.
In fact, he’s created his own twitter dedicated to the dog’s names:
twitter.com/mydogsname.

There’s also the time he tried to feed the dog a sour skittle, but
that’s another annoying entry all together.  But just for some evidence:
the attached picture is from when my husband put my dog on the side
table for his dinner time.  Oh, and the other is when I came home and
found the dog sitting in the open dresser drawer and my husband giggling
like a school girl.

At least there’s one thing living on this earth that is more annoyed by
my husband than I am.

-Alison

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Stay in Your Lane

Here’s something I learned about my husband only after we got married: he has this recurring dream in which he’s swimming.  Now, I’m no psychologist so I couldn’t even begin to tell you what kind of deeper meaning that dream has. What I can tell you is that this dream has often ruined many nights of sleep for me in the past few months.  See, my husband not only dreams that he’s swimming but while he’s dreaming, he also makes the swimming motions with his arms.  I don’t actually see this, I only know it because I’ll wake up in the middle of the night to a hard elbow jab to my jaw.  I don’t know about you, but I don’t particularly enjoy waking up to a punch in the face by my swimming husband at 3am.  The worst part is that after this happens and I yell “OW!” (as loud as I can – just so he’ll wake up and feel bad) is that he’ll mumble an apology and go right back to sleep whereas I lie there wide awake, annoyed and with a sore jaw.

I wish that he would just stay in his imaginary swimming lane and stay out of mine but in the meantime, I’ve been contemplating sleeping with one of these on:

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Hey, Hey, Hey…it’s Photo Friday!

What’s not to love about Fridays, especially Photo Fridays?  Let’s get right to it…

From Kimberley:

“My husband agreed to let me take this picture with my cell phone for your site as long as I didn’t include his face. This is his idea of what to do with my hair clip!”

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From Cortney:

“My husband is a frustrating man. In the 4 years we’ve been together, I have close to 3 normal pictures of him. The rest? They all look something like these:”

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From Audrey:

“We recently went to England to visit my husband’s parents who are temporarily living there.  While over there we ventured to Bath one day to check out the Roman Baths.  The museum only offered hand-held audio guides that looked like remotes on a string that you held to your ear to listen.  2 minutes into the tour I turned around to find my husband standing in the middle of a hallway listening to the audio guide AND talking back to it.  He says he was trying to be funny.”

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From Julia:

“Everytime I try to take a nice picture of my fiancee and I, he takes great joy in ruining it with ridiculous faces.  Here we are at a friend’s wedding, all dressed up and looking snazzy.  A great opportunity to take a nice coupley picture, right?  Wrong!  You can see where I just give up and then he tries to make it up to me by actually looking nice.  Harumph!”

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From Kristy:

“Attached is a picture that shows my boyfriend wearing is favourite hat.  This hat shows up whenever a beer is cracked and has even been worn in public to bars much to my embarrassment.  Arron thinks it’s hilarious of course.  PS–the moustache is fake which is even more annoying!”

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♦Thanks for the great pictures and definitely keep them coming!  Also, I’ll be looking for guest blog contributors so if you’ve got a great story about something YOUR annoying husband/fiance/boyfriend does that drives you crazy, send it to me! (Those with pictures are even better…)

Also, for all you male readers out there: what about you?  Should I do a special “It’s the Men’s Turn” week?  If so, I need you!  Send your stories and pictures of your wives/fiancees/girlfriends; if I get enough, maybe you guys can get your own week!

Send all stories and pictures to:  myhusbandisannoying@live.com


Recalculating…

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A few months ago, my husband and I bought a GPS for the car.  Living in NYC, we don’t really drive much but figured it would come in handy for when we have to go someplace and we have no idea where that place is.  For that purpose, it’s been great.  For some reason, though, my husband also turns on the GPS even when he knows exactly where he’s going.  And this is when all the problems start.

Let’s say we’re driving to see his family in Connecticut.  Now, he’s been there hundreds, if not thousands, of times; he could probably drive there with his eyes closed (though I obviously wouldn’t recommend it).  Yet, he’ll get in the car and immediately punch in the address on the GPS and let it guide him.  Here’s the kicker: it always gets it wrong. And even knowing this, my husband will begin blindly following the directions the GPS is giving him every time, almost as if he’s hypnotized by that silky, robotic female voice coming out of that little screen.  Last time we went, it seemed determined to take us completely out of the way – on a route that was jammed with traffic headed to a baseball game.  I asked my husband why he went that way even though he knew it was going to add an hour onto the trip and he said, “Because the GPS told me to.”  Now I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to program the GPS to tell him to wash the dishes, clean the bathroom and stop hogging the covers.

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My husband: the self-appointed King of Comedy

My husband: the self-appointed King of Comedy

My husband has a rare gift.  Not really a talent so much as a skill, perhaps honed over the last few months as a newlywed man determined to drive me up a wall.  See, my husband has the unique ability to run a joke completely into the ground.  Not just until it’s dead (if it were ever alive in the first place, which is an assumption you can rarely make about his jokes) but until it’s so far underground that you might begin to feel as if you’re in a bad dream and your only salvation is to wake up.  Ok, ok – that might be a bit of an exaggeration…but just a bit.

It can go one of two ways:

(1) He tells a joke that’s actually mildly amusing.  I laugh in appreciation of said mildly amusing joke. He’s so encouraged by the laughter -weak though it may be- that he will continue to tell this joke in some form for the next few hours (or possibly even days) hoping to recreate the laughter.

(2) He tells a joke that’s not at all funny.  I look at him in puzzlement either trying to figure out the joke or trying to figure out why he would tell the joke in the first place.  He spends the next few hours (or possibly even days) hoping to save the joke by telling it a few hundred different ways to somehow make it funny.

So you can understand my dilemma, right?  Whether I humor him and laugh at the joke or whether I respond with a blank stare, the result is the same.  It’s a good thing I find his determination to make me laugh so endearing or he might actually drive me insane.

Photo Friday…Men Behaving Badly

Ah, men…They’re so inappropriate yet so darn cute that we can’t help but love them.  Right?  Right?  Well ok…usually. Sometimes they’re just inappropriate.

Here’s my husband at the zoo where he just had to take his picture in the ape cutout while kids were looking on and waiting to have their own pictures taken.

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Now, let’s check out some of your men behaving badly…

From Shelley:

“I think my husband takes the cake for cheesy poses…and this isn’t the worst of them.  I didn’t realize that I’d be acting as his personal photographer on the cruise he booked for our Anniversary.  Two weeks before the cruise he started doing the Power 90X program (from the infomercials).  He couldn’t wait to show off his ‘hot bod’ on the cruise.  He checked himself out in every reflection (windows, mirrors, even doorknobs!), flexed his pecs while we were out on the beach, and looked for every opportunity to take his shirt off!  Poor guy…laughter is the response he gets rather than whatever attention he is actually looking for.”

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From Krystal:

“This is a picture of us at a club for my girlfriends birthday a few years ago. We were all on the dance floor having a good time. My girlfriend came up to us to take our picture. What does my annoying husband do? Bends me over and poses for this amazing classy picture. I was mortified—(and again, a husband with a beer in his hand–so original).”

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From Sarah:

“My husband is from England but we were married in the states and apparently his friend that is also English remembered that on a man’s bachelor party they dress him as a woman.  So imagine how very happy I was that this same friend had his then girlifriend (now wife) that worked at a magazine post a picture of him like this in her weekly magazine… that is a national magazine.  Do you want to guess how very excited I was to be awakened one morning to phone calls from my girlfriends about my groom’s beautiful picture in the magazine!?!  He then made ME go buy a copy so we can frame it and HANG IT ON THE WALL?!?!  I don’t know HOW to explain this to my children (when we have them!). I must admit I love that he pulls off fishnets with playboy boxers and chucks!”

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From Lee:

“My boyfriend and I took a weekend trip to New York City back in April. This is the picture I asked him to stand and pose for a picture. Once I readied my camera and looked up I found he was no longer standing but running at me like a mad man laughing with his arms flailing! Luckily I was able to snap a really ‘great’ picture at the last second.”

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From (another) Sarah:

“My husband and I have always had a lot of fun together. I can’t ever seem to get him to be serious when we are with friends though! It always makes for an interesting time let me tell ya! This picture is from when we were dating in college. He is obsessed with Knights, Kings, Queens, and anything of the like! He decided it would be funny to take his blanket, tie it around his neck and get his machete and act as a ‘noble.’ This was the end result! I still crack up every time I see the picture!!”

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Thanks for continuing to send me your great pictures…it’s getting harder and harder to decide which ones to use!  If you think you can top these, send them to me at myhusbandisannoying@live.com.