Category: General

Since I can’t get a ticket to go there in person, at least I can watch Times Square live on the EarthCam! Hey Kathy – be sure to wave at one of the cameras for me! *sigh* I sure wish I could be there!

I came home tonight, got some stuff done, started my lasagna for my New Year’s Eve dinner (I like it better reheated the second day) and then I decided to check my e-mail, post here, and so forth. Usual routine, right? Well … not so usual. Out of nowhere was an e-mail from the IO sent this afternoon.

Just reading your “Blah Blah Blog” and other related sites such as “BDIB” ……only really one word…….”Unbelievable”

What is unbelievable? That I have feelings? That I can hurt? That I can laugh? That I can have a life without you? That the world goes on? Who knows. I don’t. I honestly don’t even want to know what he thinks is “unbelievable”. I left it alone when he walked away. I had to write something back to that e-mail though, so I did.

That’s nice.

That was it. No name. No chit chat. Two words and a period. Because while my mind is going through a million scenarios of what on earth he is thinking, I DO NOT want to know. As Naomi said, it was a toxic relationship, no matter how much I loved him.

Ironically, when I posted last night the whole New Year’s Eve saga, and I said at the end how when I do things now that he would have hated … this blog is one of those things. I don’t know how he found my site, and I don’t want to know. It’s been here well over a year – why today? Who knows. If he wants to follow my life that’s just fine. (FINE. Just FINE.) My first reaction when I read his e-mail was “Ooooh no, I am going to be in SOOO much trouble.” WHAT is THAT??? What does that tell you about the relationship? Exactly. I have no desire to walk on eggshells and I won’t edit myself. I am out of that relationship. Obviously for good reason. Whatever. (I tossed that in just for him in case he does read this.) Read away. Maybe now you can see me for who I am TODAY instead of holding over my head who I was 9 years ago. Maybe you’ll like me, maybe you won’t – and either way, I don’t really care. You can’t hurt me any more.

Mar has a great idea with her Barter, Baby!” project. I am swapping soaps with her for Angela’s Ashes, The Red Tent, and Summer Sisters. What a fun way to move out things that you don’t need anymore! Thanks Mar!

I woke up this morning and the kidney stone pain was worse then it has been, but thanks to the joys of modern medicine I was able to go with my parents & Jason over to Beaumont to see my cousin Jeanette, her husband Brad, her kiddos, and my Aunt Marge & Uncle Ron who are down visiting from Minnesota. We had a really nice lunch and a great time visiting. It was a really good day. When we saw Marge & Ron this summer on the 4th of July it was a little bit shorter visit and there were more people around – so less time to visit it seemed.

I was so amused when they shared with us this joke that my great aunt (about 80 years old or so) told one day. Seems she was quiet, not really saying anything. She doesn’t talk a whole lot. And out of nowhere she said “Did you know they caught that Bin Laden guy? Yep, they dropped Viagra all over Afghanistan and the prick stood right up.” …yeah, now you know where the sense of humor comes from! Hehehe…

Snort laughter isn’t pretty, especially when you hit that point where you laugh like a hyena, but that’s what I did when I read 20 Ways to know you’re on “Ghetto Airlines” over at Mike’s site. Oh, I am snorting again just rereading it! It’s great!