The day to dayness
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Posted:Feb 17, 2010 8:33 am
Last Updated:Apr 9, 2010 4:40 am 12220 Views
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I've been out of work since last November and I'm going to admit it: I like being back home. Being unemployed prompted the move back to my former home where my former husband and and live, but I'm happy to be here.
I like doing the laundry - even ironing his shirts.
I love to cook dinners - I love browsing recipes and trying new ones nearly every night.
I even like getting the floors spotless so that I can walk around barefoot.
I like cooking for my dog. He's put on probably 5 pounds since I moved back 'home'.
I love seeing my every day - I love his girlfriend who spends lots of nights here too.
I'm feeling so full and complete.
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Engaged
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Posted:Jan 19, 2010 8:26 pm
Last Updated:Apr 9, 2010 4:41 am 11999 Views
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I'm "officially" engaged to be re-married to my ex. I'm packing up my stuff and moving back home over the next several weeks. I'm hopeful & excited and looking for a tenant to move into my place! 
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You think you know someone
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Posted:Jan 8, 2010 10:09 am
Last Updated:Feb 8, 2010 5:26 am 12386 Views
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About 8 years ago I was sitting at my computer and got an Instant Message thru my service. It was a man who was apparently lonely and looking for someone to talk to. Just so you know, whenever that has happened, I will give someone the benefit of the doubt and only NOT speak to them if the conversation turns unseemly.
Well, this gentleman and I "saw" each other online nearly every day and would always befriend the other. It turned out that we were in high school together, one year apart. He had married his high school sweetheart who had passed from cancer the year before. Indeed, he was feeling lonely and I was more than happy to reach out to him with my friendship.
My husband & I used to go to a place to shoot pool every Friday that turned out to be very close to this fellow's home, and after about 3 months of chatting online, I suggested he come to meet us face-to-face on a Friday evening. I'll never forget how uncomfortable and shy he looked that first time.
Over the years, "Ed" (not his real name) and I and my (now) ex husband all became GOOD friends, double dating sometimes, meeting one another's (adult) & brothers, sisters and mothers, spending time in each others' kitchens, shooting pool, making new friends, encouraging, supporting and "being there" for each other. In the past 2 years or so, our friendship has kind of cooled; we no longer go and shoot pool regularly like we used to, and our contact with each other has lessened quite a bit.
Today I read a news article that one of our mutual friends sent me about Ed's arrest this week. He met what he THOUGHT was a 15 year old girl on the internet back in October. Since then, they had exchanged emails & phone conversations which had become sexually explicit. He had asked her if her parents were aware that she was 'into' older men. This 'girl' turned out to be an undercover agent. He had crossed state lines to meet her at a hotel on Tuesday morning. There was a camera & condoms in his car.
The maximum sentence is life in prison; minimum 10 years.
He has totally screwed up his life. I am so shocked, dismayed and now am saying, "I'm a TERRIBLE judge of character". I truly believed Ed was a "real good guy" and so did my ex. Both of us are reeling from this shocking news. I think of his ; how they recently lost their mom, and now, essentially, they are losing their father too. The served in the Army for 4 years and is a fine, upstanding young man. His , delicate and sweet. I worry that Ed may be suicidal as he faces prison as a would-be pedophile. I want to reach out to him, but not having seen him much in recent years, I hesitate. I don't want to make it worse for him.
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New Years Eve Plans
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Posted:Dec 31, 2009 10:04 am
Last Updated:Jan 19, 2010 8:27 pm 12066 Views
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Tonight I am going to the restaurant I was fired from a few years ago - yes! THAT one!!!
I asked my guy what he would like to plan for this evening and offered a few suggestions ~ renting a movie and making dinner at home (lobsters!). He said, "Let's go to Roberto's".
Now I saw in the newspaper that they are having one of those fancy, dress-up, good food, all you can drink whoopla's that cost $200 a couple. I said "are you kidding?" (We've never done once of those types of New Years, considering it a terrible waste of money). He said, no, no, let's just go and have a great dinner amoung friends, not in the reception hall.
So, that's the plan for tonight.
I wonder if Luigi's wife will be there, and if I'll get the chance to hug her and wish her a very happy 2010. And then ask Luigi for a recommendation! 
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Electronic Devices & Rudeness
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Posted:Dec 30, 2009 7:01 am
Last Updated:Dec 31, 2009 9:54 am 11960 Views
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Sunday after church my sister, her husband and two teenaged daughters, my mom & her guy friend and me and my guy all had lunch together.
All during the time we were in the restaurant, all I saw of my 15 year old neice was the top of her head. She was very involved in a new ipod she received for Christmas from her parents.
I believe that parents are responsible for training their and teaching them manners - something that is just not done enough, even in "the church". Now I will tell you that my sister is learning disabled with a very, very low I.Q. - similar to the fictional character, Forest Gump. She's able to get on in life - met a guy, married and went on to procreate. The oldest seems to be of normal I.Q. - perhaps even 'gifted' as she takes all college level courses in science & math in high school. Her younger sister has some problems, but the school works diligently with her and has brought her along very nicely.
Because my sister may not realize she needs to convey certain things to her , I feel it is my family duty to step in when ncessary as a concerned Aunt. I did address the top of my neice's head and said, "Emily - you are being rude by ignoring everyone here at the table and paying attention to your new device". Her reaction was to look at me, then ignore me, going right back to her device. Later that day she posted a FB comment that "Some people need to mind their own business".
The thing that concerns me is that now that we have all these electronic devices and we can be in touch with each other constantly, we need to think about etiquette and come up with some manners we can adopt. Just as saying "please" and "thank you" was drilled in to us at early ages (most of us, I'd guess), we need to teach our tweens & teens that when they are at the dinner table, their devices don't come with them. Or shut them off...focus on the people that are there. Engage them in conversation. Learn about what is going on in their lives. Laugh with them, cry with them - BE with them.
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Do You Attend Services on Christmas Day?
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Posted:Dec 24, 2009 1:30 pm
Last Updated:Dec 28, 2009 9:27 am 12304 Views
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
About 40 years ago, my pastor was visiting in New York City and met a Rabbi. They got to talking about the Messiah, and the Rabbi said to him, "I tell you the truth: that if MY people believed Jesus was Messiah and was our King, you can be SURE that we would be found in church on his Birth Day celebrating Him and worshipping Him". Four years later when he started his first church he began the tradition of having a Christmas morning service of worship and celebration of our Savior. Tomorrow, we expect about 500 to attend.
I think it's a terrific idea.
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Jealous Woman
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Posted:Dec 19, 2009 5:44 am
Last Updated:Jan 29, 2010 8:00 am 13945 Views
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A few years ago I worked as an office manager for a dentist. The owner of the building we worked in also owned a restaurant adjacent to the office building. A nice Italian restaurant, named after his , Roberto. Luigi, the landlord was a patient of the dentist, and Luigi & I became fast friends.
When the day came that I needed to work part-time (as I was a full-time student of massage therapy), I took a bartending class, then asked Luigi if I could work in his restaurant a night or two a week. He said, SURE, I'll hire you!
I worked there about a year. You know why I was let go? Luigi's wife saw him grab me around my waist and plant a big sloppy kiss on me. He said, "now that you are single, I can have you!" I nearly screamed! I said, "NO WAY, Luigi! YOU are a married man!" Stella made sure that I was out of there within two weeks.
Now that I'm unemployed again, I'd love to be able to work there again, but she blames me for her husbands roving ways...
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Pedicure Gone Bad!
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Posted:Oct 4, 2009 5:48 am
Last Updated:Oct 17, 2009 10:27 am 12843 Views
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After working for my first Saturday, I went to a new salon that just opened that I went to once before to treat myself to a pedicure and manicure.
We started with the pedicure. The owner had done mine the last time I was there and did an awesome job. It's a young couple, just starting out in their own business and they went way out of their way to make my experience very pleasant. I knew I would go back again. Yesterday, someone else was going to be doing the job. I was ok with that.
She finished removing old polish and trimming nails on my left foot and she was beginning to work on the right and she actually snipped my flesh under my big toe.
The cry was of a wild animal.
The blood began to flow.
I couldn't believe it. This has never happened to me before. The owners came over and were very concerned - they stopped the bleeding, applied anti-bacterial ointment and a band-aid. I told them that I wanted to just get out of there, that I was uncomfortable continuing, that in the future, I wanted only the owners to work on me.
I re-scheduled for Monday after work.
The poor girl that did this was SO upset that it had happened. She actually had tears in her eyes when she realized I wasn't staying. I just couldn't let her continue.
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A Funny for a Sunday
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Posted:Oct 4, 2009 5:36 am
Last Updated:Oct 4, 2009 11:53 am 12224 Views
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A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband.
Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen. "Careful," he said, "CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my GOD! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW!
We need more butter. Oh my GOD! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER?
They're going to STICK!
Careful...CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you CRAZY?
Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!!! THE SALT!!!"
The wife stared at him. "What in the world is wrong with you?
You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?"
The husband calmly replied, "I wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving."
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