Venus and Mars

This weekend my pastor was preaching about the differences between men and women and the fact that we each feel loved in different ways. He pointed out a number of biological difference between men and women, the one which I found most entertaining to be the difference in our need to talk. Apparently on average women feel the need to speak about 50,000 words per day, while men only speak about 10,000. And when Harvard did a study of how much husbands and wives felt they needed to spend talking to their spouse to keep a healthy relationship women averaged out at 45-60 minutes per day and men averaged at 15-20 minutes per week! Talk about a difference!

So, tonight I'm standing in the kitchen getting dinner ready and Sandor and I are chatting about the day. He gets an adjustment and massage on Mondays and I've noticed over the last few weeks that he will come home after work, hang out for a while, then go back across town to the chiropractor, which is located about 5 minutes from his work. I found this strange but I kept thinking there was a reason for this behavior so I never asked. I haven't' yet been able to find a reason, so for some reason I asked him today if he ever thought of moving his chiropractor appointment up so that it was right after he finished work. He looked at me for a minute and said 'no, I guess I really didn't'. I absolutely thought he was joking since I don't really see how that idea NEVER crossed his mind. But he assured me it did not. Really? This is something that just boggles my mind. When I have a few errands to do it doesn't cross my mind to NOT plan out the most efficient way to get them done. Perhaps it comes with the territory of running 95% of the errands in addition to working every day, but really, it's just amazing to me.

Now I'm certainly not saying that every male in the universe neither talks a lot nor runs errands in any kind of ordered or thought out fashion, but it is interesting how different people can be and that just cracked me up as an absurdly obvious one. It also made me laugh after having just had that conversation and then looking down at the garnish that was going on our chicken tonight. I had to make it in two different bowls because I hate olives and Sandor is not a huge fan of avocados. Apparently they like avocados in my section of Venus and olives in Sandor's section of Mars.
By the way, it was another one of those 'Convenient Meals' from Real Simple and it was delicious...and took me 20 minutes!