Mike has a product launch next Wednesday.  As a result, he has been working crazy hours- staying up until 4:00 am some days and waking up at 8.  It’s not pretty.

Of course, even a crazy workaholic has to find some time to do something other than work.  Mike’s favorite way to relieve stress is to cuddle up on the couch with the most important person in his life and ponder his relationship with said individual.

Oh, you thought I was referring to myself?  That’s cute.

In addition to being consumed by work currently, he is also deep in the clutches of a major OCD attack.  You know how manic depressives experience phases of wildly oscillating moods?  Mike doesn’t really ever get particularly manic, or depressed for that matter, but he does have his own special mental problem- sometimes, when he has to make a decision, even a completely hypothetical one, he finds himself at an impass and experiences total mental paralysis.

We’re in the midst of one of those phases right now.

And before you go and get worried, let me assure you that you shouldn’t.  We’re fine.  We aren’t in the middle of any crisis or even any major life decision.  There is no life-altering issue threatening to turn our lives upside-down.  We don’t even really have any REAL decisions coming up at all.

So what is Mike stressing about?

m3 vs gtr

Mike is trying to decide which of these two cars he likes better.

Are we currently looking at buying a car?  No.  Are we helping somebody else make a decision about these cars?  No.  Mike is simply trying to reconcile WHICH EFFING CAR HE LIKES BETTER THAN THE OTHER.

We’ve been through this before.  Every couple of months Mike gets so obsessed about some random detail of life that he totally shuts down.  Sometimes it’s something we are actually going to use, like when he had to decide whether to order a matte or glossy screen on his Macbook Pro.  Sometimes it’s totally random, like when he can’t decide whether he thinks a celebrity is attractive.  This is definitely more team Random, but it’s just as consuming as if it was actually important.

For example, on Friday night we went out for ramen at Samurai Noodle.  The ramen was fantastic- thick, porky, salty brothy goodness.

But I don’t think Mike really appreciated it, because he spent most of the meal doing this:

important internet research

Ugh.

So maybe if I post it here and some of you weigh in, Mike will actually be able to make a decision about which of these stupid cars he likes better.  Because I don’t really care.  I drive a Mini with a passenger door you can’t open from the inside.

Please comment, if only for the sake of my sanity.  Please help my severely OCD husband decide which car HE LIKES BETTER:

m3

gtr

Please.