I have been working twelve hour days in the dry ditch here in Las Vegas and lately my gal and I have missed much of our quality time together. So I come home today tired, burnt, used and abused hopefully to get some much needed TLC. She calls me on the bat phone to say she and her gal pals are going out for drinks and to see the Macy Gray show across town. Her and her crones end up going to some swank steak joint where the final bill for their little soiree of 6 is 800 bucks! So I am sitting home alone with only my beer for comfort and after my 4th hosky I have an ephemeral epiphany. I will no longer submit to her every whim and desire playing chief foot rubber, cook, and house cleaner. I will no longer hand over my money blindly for her to spend faster than the House of Representatives. I am my own master now. I wear the pants in the family. I am the big cheese and I tell HER what is what dammit! And further more.....wait...shhh!...quiet! (hunkers down, putting tail between legs, piddling on floor)....I gotta' go ...she's comin!!