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Life: Uncle Phill is a bit of a fixer-upper

January 17, 2015 by Shari

I thought that I would miss the whole ‘Frozen’ thing, but the fact of the matter is that my husband is slightly obsessed with the movie and so we have become accustom to the songs. I thought that it would be my nieces that I would be asking to ‘let it go’…but it appears to be that ‘uncle Phill is a bit of a fixer-upper’ {who needs to let go of Frozen}.
Speaking of ‘fixer uppers’ – nothing shows another person’s ‘flaws’ more than a marriage proposal, as you try and work out if life together will be all that it’s cracked up to be.

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Is it the clumpy way he walks?
Or the grumpy way he talks?
Or the pear-shaped, square-shaped weirdness of his feet?
And though we know he washes well, he always ends up sorta smelly
But you’ll never meet a fella who’s as sensitive and sweet

So he’s a bit of a fixer upper
So he’s got a few flaws
His peculiar brain, dear, his thing for the reindeer
That’s outside a few of nature’s laws

So he’s a bit of a fixer upper, but this we’re certain of
You can fix this fixer upper with a little bit of love

 
People talk about how their partner is slow at getting things done. And I look at my partner and think about how long it takes him to complete his two household jobs {that’s right, he only completes two jobs in terms of the running of the home} – taking out the bins and mowing the lawn.
I need to ask at least five times for our ever overflowing bin to taken outside to the garbage and we are even thinking on getting a garbage disposal from the disposal zone site online, and I often also make my way through knee high grass to our clothes line… But I didn’t marry my husband so that I had someone to take out the bins or mow the lawn.

Is it the way that he runs scared?
Or that he’s socially impaired?
Or that he only likes to tinkle in the woods?
Are you holding back your fondness
Due to his unmanly blondeness?
Or the way he covers up that he’s the honest goods?

He’s just a bit of a fixer upper
He’s got a couple of bugs
His isolation is confirmation
Of his desperation for healing hugs

So he’s a bit of a fixer upper
But we know what to do
The way to fix this fixer upper
Is to fix him up with you


My husband likes to run on his own time, I can’t believe that I was never late to an event until I was with my husband. I can even run on time when I am by myself with two little boys under the age of two – but add my husband into the equation and we are running late.

And don’t get me started on him wearing cargo pants. I hate the way that cargo pants look, I hate washing cargo pants and I most certainly hate ironing cargo pants.

But I didn’t marry my husband to be my time piece or for his sense of style.  

So she’s a bit of a fixer upper
That’s a minor thing
This quote engagement is a flex arrangement
And by the way I don’t see no ring

So she’s a bit of a fixer upper
Her brain’s a bit betwixt
Get the fiance out of the way
And the whole thing will be fixed


So chewing gum and picking ones nose grinds my gears – but I am sure that I’m not perfect and there are things that get on his goat.

We aren’t saying you can change him
‘Cause people don’t really change
We’re only saying that love’s a force that’s powerful and strange
People make bad choices if they’re mad or scared or stressed
But throw a little love their way, and you’ll bring out their best
True love brings out the best

I love my husband, I love him as a partner and I love him as the father of my children. I don’t want to change him and I didn’t marry him thinking that I could change him.

Everyone’s a bit of a fixer upper
That’s what it’s all about
Father, sister, brother
We need each other
To raise us up and round us out

Everyone’s a bit of a fixer upper
But when push comes to shove
The only fixer upper fixer
That can fix a fixer upper is
True
True
True
True
Love

 
Do you know a fixer-upper? Are you in the Frozen spell? Does your partner raise you up and round you out? Do you like warm hugs?
 

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