We have the strangest conversations

It is not uncommon for Hubby and I to have the majority of our conversations over Instant Message.  We’re busy during the week and often end up seeing each other a few minutes in the morning and, maybe, a few minutes at night.

We try for a few phone calls during the day, but between his meetings/IT problems/general awesomeness and my classes/crazy kids/general awesomeness we tend to miss the actual talking part.

So, whenever we can we’ll send a quick word or ‘hello’ over Instant Message.  Sometimes, though, we try to say hello but end up somewhere else entirely.

Now, I need to preface the rest of this post with a little fact:  Hubby normally has an avatar connected to his Instant Messenger that looks like a happy pirate.  But, today he changed his avatar to the following image:

I’m sure you see a jelly fish.  But, when you look at this in the middle of class and the picture is actually about the size of a small button, you tend to see something different.  Thus comes the following conversation:

Me: from a distance your avatar looks like a small veiny penis.  
Him:  WTF?  
Me:  Well, it does.  
         I’m just sayin.  
         I’m in class staring at your veiny penis.  
Him:  Wow
          I just changed it.  
          I’m all freaked out now.  
*changes picture to some landscape*
Me:  Looks better now.  
        More mountain-y, less penis-y.  
*changing picture again*
Him:  That’s good.  How about now? 
          More stormtrooper-ish?  
Me:  Dom dom dom dom dom dom dom dom dom.  
Him:  That’s got to be perfect pitch.  
Me:  Imperial March!  Love you!  
And that is how a marriage works when you have one in a doctoral program and one working 80 hour weeks.  Who knew that a teeny, tiny, veiny penis could signify true love!