A Volcano of Rage

My husband is such a blazing idiot. I so want to deck him right now. And over the stupidest thing too: his cell phone. But it's not just his cell phone, it's what a blazing idiot he is about the cell phone. Here's the deal: He goes through a new cell phone about every year and a half; he's hard on them. I get that by now and it's fine. So he broke his today and needed to go get a new one. I knew as soon as he said that that I was in trouble.

He went and bought a new one. A $250 new one!!!! And normally that wouldn't be a big deal. Except for the fact that I just told him the other day that we are $600 short this month and I don't know how we are going to pay for everything. And Christmas is coming up really fast and we have kids that actually like that holiday and want stuff. I really don't know how we are going to pay for it.

And to put the cherry on top, one of the offices that he works for dropped him this past week. (He is self-employed and works at several different businesses). That was $1000 that we are used to that is no longer going to be there every month. Chalk it up to the recession. That is a big hit to our finances. But apparently, he didn't get that message and went and spent half of our gasoline budget for a month on a stupid new cell phone.

To make it worse, he got the high end, super high tech one that has a full keyboard and can apparently do so many things that he just couldn't live without it. Too bad I can't program it to smack him upside his head. But here's the kicker: he doesn't even know how to text, nor does he even have an email address; he's not very technically inclined (as it is, he is over there on the couch trying to figure out how to use the fast forward button on the new remote to the DVD player). He said that he would just use my email address. Whatever, craphead. I really don't want to have to sift through all of your work crap to get to the good emails from my friends.

I know, I know, I can just set him up on his own account. But I'm not going to. You wanna know why? Not because I am the angry, evil bitch of a wife, but because he didn't want to have to pay extra to have internet service on the phone so he only has it free for one month because he "knows we don't have the money". As it stands, our cell phone bill is already over a hundred bucks a month. But he said that he would use it for that month. Well, there you go. That totally makes up for the $250 that we don't have. Idiot.

But secretly, I am glad that he didn't sign up for the internet service for one simple reason: porn. I am worried that if he has access to that that I don't have the ability to filter that he will become addicted to it again. And frankly, our marriage couldn't handle that level of mistrust again. It's still - and always - in the back of my mind. But that is a whole 'nother post for another day.

I just wish that he could see that we don't have that kind of money for that damn cell phone right now. Food and gas seem a little more important than a fancy schmancy phone, that basically is only really gonna do cool stuff - that you don't know how to use - for a month and then, you'll be stuck with just a regular ol' cell phone that just does boring stuff, like make phone calls. You know, he has lived with "just phone calls" for years and years now, it just seems asinine to drop all that money for the damn thing that he'll just break in a year and a half anyway.

Besides, that $250 could have easily paid for two months of the therapy that I sure as hell need more than ever now. But that isn't as important apparently as having a full keyboard and emailing for an entire month. He is such a blazing idiot.