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The Post-it note
I am newly, and happily, married.
I leave parties early and dedicate a good portion of my weekend to “my relationship�. I even put the toilet seat down. Most of the time.
Okay, some of the time.
I can’t lie. Life is good and I am not afraid to be put into that nauseating newlywed box.
Here is why.
My wife is an overachiever. She was head girl at school and hates it when I tell anyone. She now bosses people twice her age around for a living as she creates great TV.  Her colleagues  are happy for her to do it as she is a director. The downside is that she travels the country from top to bottom, regularly  leaving me trying to decipher the controls on the washing machine and experiment with different combinations of fillings on brown bread toasted sandwiches for weeks on end.
She left again the other morning, psyched about the new project and a week in a hotel room where the toilet seat would remain the way she left it.
But before she left she took 20 minutes and some post it notes, to tell me she loved me. (Pause for “Awwww” from the girls and retching sounds from the boys).  I came home to discover notes on the bread-bin, on the fridge, on my computer screen, on my pillow, on the music system. The little yellow notes were everywhere. I am not totally naĂŻve, and realize that it was also an opportunity to remind me to pay the bills, buy some groceries, water the plants etc. but at least she took some time to disguise it.
Half an hour later, I was in the middle of a post shower, “nobody is around, naked flexing session� in the bathroom mirror, when I realized there was a little yellow note slightly obscuring the view of my Clint Eastwood impersonation. On it were the words, in capital letters with at least two exclamation marks, “YOU ARE HOT!!�
Well I couldn’t deny it. She was right. I had a good chuckle, asked myself if I was “feeling lucky, punk,� and carefully put aside the note on my pillow with another more private message scribbled on it before falling into a happily married slumber.
It could have been worse. Check out this You Tube Video: