Contract

Brooke tends to make deals with Janelle in order to get her way in an argument. She knows Janelle will probably not pay attention for the next 20 weeks to see if she is fulfilling her side of the contract, and she's already gotten what she wants. This is a juvenile mirroring of Todd and I. He always goes for the instant gratification and promises some thing he knows I can't or won't follow up on. Or he does just enough to get away with not doing the rest. And like a fool, I keep buying it, just on the off chance that this time he really means it. If his part of all our agreements had been fulfilled, you would not recognize the healthy, helpful, tidy, righteous man he would be. But I do have to give him due credit for doing two things this week that I asked him to do. Not only did he do them, he did them immediately! I was so excited! (See, that's what I've become, someone who gets ecstatic over baby steps). The problem is, Janelle and I are too nice for our own good. We need to take some tough negotiating classes (taught, of course, by Brooke and Todd) and stay away from car dealerships and insurance salesmen.