hello - its been a loooong time
its been over 2 years since my last post. crazy i know but a LOT has happened in those 2 years. Safe to say i'll post some messages soon. just letting you know im back! :)
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@jakina
hello - its been a loooong time
its been over 2 years since my last post. crazy i know but a LOT has happened in those 2 years. Safe to say i'll post some messages soon. just letting you know im back! :)
Moving on, moving up!
Moving on, moving up. Yes I said it twice, its that profound. It Easter weekend and C has moved into a house yest that can accommodate the kids, I am so happy for them - now they can spend the mornings with him they so need. :) (and I get to sleep in a bit too. :)) But more than that, I finally let myself move forward, stopped being so stand-offish with people you just met at the convenient store. Its smiling and giving everything a chance. I've stepped into a bigger pool of fish, so to speak, going out laughing and feeling attractive again has been a big morale boost... Its been years since I've actually been out for dinner with someone let alone a date, but what makes it so wonderful is that there are no expectations just good company, good food and good wine and if the odd snogg or two arises why the heck not. I'm not a crazy person, no jumping out of perfectly working aeroplanes for me but I do just want to keep moving forward and have fun while I am. Lifes for the living and I intend to do just that. LIVE HAPPY FOR NOW!
After a while
After a while you learn the difference between falling in love and holding someone's hand. You learn that kisses don't always mean something. That promises can be broken and in time you learn to forget, let go and move on.
Its done.
Well today we signed the papers, eventually. Gee it has been a long road, both in time and energy trying to get a lawyer to do his paid for job. Now the wait is on for when I actually need to go for the summons then the court date. Another couple of weeks wait I suppose, but I pray not. I'm not too sure how to re-act. But I am not sad or blissfully happy, I think its a good sign when you are definitely not sad :) So who knows what adventures await. I do hope and pray for easier ones than the last decade has brought me. One thing I've learned although I'm strong enough to survive the dessert I don't particularly like it very much, and as soon as that oasis is on the horizon, its going to be let's go baby let's go.. (Mirages don't count. Lol).
Plus one
Well I haven't been on here for a awhile. I guess I've had nothing to moan about. lol strange I guess. But that's not true, I'm just too tired to let it get to me. Although, this divorce is amicable and everything has been well and truly agreed upon for over 3, 4 months already, it never the less has been trying for me. Its a roller coaster of emotions, one day up one day down. I am glad to say there are more up than down days, in fact I can't remember the last downer that lasted as long as a day. I think its because I haven't lost anything except negativity. Sure I've lost a companion but not really, for as long as 2 years there wasn't much of that. I can honestly say I am happier, with that comes freedom and with that a whole new lease on life. I see things differently. I was a wits end close to the end of last year, I was contemplating changing my career. Taking a leap and moving, even though it would financial ruin me. I was and did lose any confidence in my abilities, both at work and at home. That is returning a little each day. I am finally realising to what extent I have been played, its both frustrating and humiliating, to not see it yet see it and ignore the signs. well, that's life you live and learn. I haven't yet cried and I don't think I will, I just don't have any tears to cry. I do get frustrated and angry at thought of intended deception but I don't feel like I've lost anything, so no sorrow or pain. I feel like I've gained something, a new life. A chance to start again, now that would frighten a lot of people and make no mistake I'm deeply frightened about dating again, I mean diseases and those damned condoms again. Lol. Rejection and disappointment. Need I say more... But the prospects of meeting new and delightful people make me more excited than scared. Trust is an issue but I think I'm more open to it at face value than before. Hell I'm almost 40, gone through all this and still surviving, quite well I might add, so my confidence can only keep on moving up. I think its been worse for C. than he makes out, although he is good at playing at the heart strings, when the love is lost and the eyes are open its harder to do so. I don't have much more to say other than a phrase stolen from a facebook friend "One day you gonna wake up and realise you've lost a diamond while you were too busy picking up stones" good night everyone, sweet dreams.
What a weekend.
We'll the majority of the weekend was great. Got to do what I needed to so + 1. Although I asked for C to look after Jade for around 2 hours, so I could maybe get her birthday present without her seeing it. I haven't heard a peep - I got it done successfully non the less...without his help +1. I'm a bit peeved... What's more important is the fact that we need to discuss the way forward. That was meant to be tonight. Well... It goes to show what I'm dealing with.. We have a meet at Boo's school tomorrow, I'm sure he will pitch for that as it involves outsiders and he wouldn't want to be seen in a bad light by others. He doesn't however seem to care what his family thinks. For once I will not "baby-sit" him. I have told him once and I am trying hard not to call or bb him to remind him. Which is what I would normally do. Its difficult getting out of a habit I've been in for 17 years. But there are so many habits I've been breaking lately we'll just add this to that long long list. Watch this space for more habit breaking ;)
in addition
He passed me this morning, going towards the "house" he claims he stays in, at eight o'clock in the morning, in her car with her next to him. I know him and what makes me sooo very very happy is - he was leaning half way out of his window. and if that doesn't say it all. lol.
She might think she's won, not sure if all "other" woman think that, but what grand prize did she really win?
Happiness is knowing I don't have to have that booby prize ever again. :P
so happy
see one day off and three days on. love today. so very very happy. I am the winner in this situation, and what grand prize did i win - freedom. : )
Dear C
C your response to an argument we had on Friday ended with was its unfair that you don't have anything, a place to call your own, a bed to sleep on, a fridge in your kitchen. etc. well my friend, you lost whatever you thought you had when you chose to ignore my feelings, love and our marriage commitment for your own selfish needs. You decided that all on your own, mighty fine decision, that one I might add. So the old saying goes, you made your bed now sleep in it. ironic isn't it. I don't feel sorry for you, C, not at all. You took everything that was given to you for granted, including your family, what did you think, it will just always be there, even with no effort being put in. Let me tell you - everything, yes everything that fills these walls, including the walls, I have worked long and very hard for. Every cent and purchase was made by my hand, every wall painted and every room decorated, every smile cracked, every toy played with, every pot scrubbed and every plate filled with food. You've had all this and more given to you for nothing (maybe that's the problem, you've never had to work for it) but now that you have to work for it you're having a hard time. Well boo hoo, life is tough. Its a lesson you in your 45 years has never had to learn. Its a pity it didn't come earlier. I do however feel sorry and extremely sad for the children, their father, doesn't seem to care. if you did you wouldn't feel like you were filling a duty by pitching up here on the days you are meant to and then only for the shortest while possible, brushing them off for who knows what reason. What could be more important than your children? You know you talk about fairness, well is it fair that this last 42 nights I've had to watch our youngest cry herself to sleep, is it fair that that our eldest asks questions I have no way of answering? is it fair that when you do visit you rush off the minute they are ready for bed leaving utter chaos behind, is it fair that J, smilie, cries the minute she wakes up and has taken to sleeping in my bed since you left, is it fair now that N, boo, is doing the same, is it fair that they are so excited to see you they won't eat, listen to a word I say or go to bed when they should, that the next morning all hell breaks lose. Is it fair that all their expenses, their washing, their school activities, their happiness is resting on my shoulders. You tell me, whats fair in this situation, sir. This entire situation stinks. I tried to tell you that on Friday but you wouldn't listen, you only heard what you wanted. Thinking back to the weekend that was yours last, for once you surprised me and chose to take the kids camping - My jaw literally dropped. wow. the C I know would've said I'm going camping, sorry I can't take the kids, I thought, you know, this is going to work out fine. He does care. I was so delightfully surprised. I defended you to many, your family and mine. but that was very short lived the C I come to know over the past five plus years came back this weekend. : ( I have known you for over 17 years, the problem with that is C I know you have two sides its really a pity you let the selfish i'll be what and whomever i want to be tonight one win over the father, family loving man you had always dreamed you wanted and were going to be. Sadness engulfs my heart again. Again you you put you first. So much for missing them. So much wanting to spend all the time you can with them. All they seem to get is some guy spending time with them because he feels like he is meant to or because some paper tells him he needs to be here at 18:00 on Thursdays and 18:00 Friday till 18:00 on Sunday every 2nd weekend (which roughly translated to you is whenever I fit them into my plans). I would love to know what was so damned more important than your own kids? I mean really what were you doing ten minutes ago at 9:10 while Smilie was still up crying next to me? You know you said something to me on Friday which really got me thinking and coming to this conclusion - and if you don't know what that is here's a reminder " if i knew that you were planing to go out I would've made other arrangements, and come baby sit them for you!" - you said this rather annoyed'ly. All truth spoke in jest. well you said it all in that one sentence. There is a multitude of wrongness in that sentence. I ask you this question? Do you want to spend time with your children because you miss them and genuinely want to see them or is it because you feel like you are doing me a favor by baby sitting them? I mean you never call not even to say goodnight. You didn't even do that while we were away for Christmas, the only time you did call was like two days before we came home. You know you never even ask me what they doing at school or how they are coping at home. I tell you some of the stuff, but I get the feeling you don't really want to know, from now on if you don't ask I'm not saying. You don't know the half of it anyway. Please tell me if I'm wasting my time trying to keep our children's father still in their lives, or if you are not genuinely interested or you have better things to do with your time then tell me now for their own good. So far your actions aren't doing anyone any favors. This last weekend you were meant to be with them for 48 hours which was cut to roughly 8. Need i say more. On a more selfish level do you think I just sit at home waiting for you to bring the kids home. I have tones i want and need to do, the fact that i don't do them on your time line has nothing to do with you. I don't ask you what you do on the 11 out of 14 days you have free. I have made and have had to cancel plans this and previous weekends - why - so you can do what you want - sorry that was the last time. I too would like to meet someone and move on with my life, like you have with yours, but how am i supposed to do that when you're so selfish with yours, I ask to please give me the same curtsy and let me have those 3 maybe 4 nights off. I mean C you have 11 out of 14. Out of the last 42 days I've had 2 full days and another 2 nights off. talk about fairness. really?
another feuding weekend
my time - well there doesn't seem to be any around. It got canceled on sat which was cool as i traded a Wednesday evening for it. no problems. but then Sunday rolls in, he was taking the kids to butterfly land well that changed to… well i got a visitor all day which i have to feed and water. not to mention he tells me he is off at 2:30 - well its now 2:20 and we've done the goodbyes and let him out the gate and i have managed to go do my "business". so tell me when exactly did he leave? p.s.. Friday night wasn't even mentioned. He told me he had to leave at 2:30 because "CHICKIE" was picking up the car as she has to work from 3 - 11 today. does she work everyday. he was like i think she does, like he doesn't know what she does. - i figure he most likely is going to be stuck at her place and does not have transport back. why not just say so if that is the case. instead of just no. I mean really really dude I'm not stupid… he got 3 phone calls at about 2:12 one after the other. think she was a little ansie. Most probably couldn't wait to get out, we had a hell of an argument, about this specific thing. my time. it isn't working. I mean really. he gets 11 out of 14 days off. so the 3 days I'm supposed to get off i should get off. but it hasn't worked out that way. then he questions me. I asked him to if he could come back, he says no. I say why? he just says no. I say " well i have some work to do" which he says well i guess you saved all that work for Sunday afternoon. so convenient. of you" I'm like what: how dare you question how i spend my time off i could be sitting on the couch picking my nose if i feel like it" it has nothing to do with you at all. its my time off" - and he has the gall to say to me - "ja it always has to be your way. you're never happy unless it fits into your schedule?" - I'm like what, what have you been smoking!!!??? All of this is compounded by the fact that he has now mentioned that he is "contemplating" moving in with CHICKIE. yip the girl that caused it all - i mean really i don't think its a good idea, and that's not the ex-wife talking its the mother and friend in me. I mean she is 21 - he is 45 somewhat employed and has two kids. He still proclaims that there is nothing romantically going on and that its a good solution a way out of the bad house he is in at the moment. is a bad situation he is in. but really. yesterday he tells me he is contemplating it. today its all but when. then i press him and its again, I'm still contemplating it - i haven't done it have it. (now i ask should there be a yet in there?) I'm not telling him what to do but man i see a train wreck waiting to happen. (maybe i should've held on to the life insurance a bit). It still doesn't solve the fact that the kids need somewhere stable to visit him and i did warn him that he needs to be close to drop the kids off every Friday morning he was like huh? I'm like did you forget? Yes i ask too many questions? I should really try not too. but i don't ask him where has been or with whom etc i just ask him questions about things that will impact the kids. I used the same line on me. he is just asking questions. I'm so not happy. this entire situation sucks. I don't think I'm wrong in asking about the living arrangements as the kids need a stable environment to stay on. I'm also not wrong in asking why she wont come here - if she is going to be involved with the kids she should step up the mark, grow some and face the music. I'm not going to kill her… much. but i will warn her she lays a finger on my kids and she will be dead. permanently so. The last i said to him was - i think i was wrong to think we could be friends. we can't he said yes we can. I'm like that's only going to happen when stop lying to me. - honestly i think that's the truth this friend thing is on hold till further notice.
Sunday thoughts
I've been silent the last few days, one as tumblr has had a few technical issues, I've been rather busy with work and mainly; I don't want to keep being the fool. This is exactly what I feel like after buying into all the lies and deceit over the years. You know on some level I knew immediately when lies were rolling out of his mouth and I blame myself for just brushing it off and leaving it for so long - you see it was just too easy. They started off small and white so that he would not hurt me or get into a little trouble so I brushed them off. He on the other hand thought woah she is dumb and will believe everything I tell her, the problem is that they got bigger and more brash and those I couldn't ignore. So when I started calling him out on them, that's when we went bad so to speak. Being alone where I am. I have always been scared of being on my own. Not sure what changed but I am more than comfortable now. I don't think he bargained on me being alright without him. He still has this odd sense that I need him and believes that he does me a favour just being around. Yeah I miss the company but not necessarily his company. Its especially knocks me at night once the kids have gone to bed. But there are other things I can do. And now that I got my BB, my family and friends are so much closer. As for physical touch my two little sproggs give me all the loves and hugs I will ever need. ;)
The tent in action
found this the other day. how friggin awesome would this be:
A house with a slide
so much for that
yeah so much for the not eating sweetie stuff and bread this week. kids and i baked banana loaf last night (bananas were so not making it in this heat - 37 degrees and counting) and i have just eaten myself 3 very dik (thick) slices - and that on top of these bloody waffer thin air filled vita snack rice cakes. I mean really those things aren't no snack. I feel more hungry after eating a 100 of them than i did before i started eating them!!! Who makes things like that anyway - the national dieting failure committee!
On the plus side, there is always one, i feel less hungry and the water is going down a treat! thank you mr summer. : )
after the weekend
All is good in the hood. The kids had an awesome time. I was so glad C had the savvy to bring them back on his own and stay a while to let me know how the weekend went, even though he didn't have to. N and J both said they would like to go again - so they really did have fun and i guess thats what its all about. re assuring me about all that went down or didn't : )
I still get a peeved when i want to talk, he kinda decides he is in a hurry and needs to leave. that irks me but we both going through a bit of adjustment and hopefully this will change. i broached the subject of getting maintenance this month and its was what you expect me to pay now? - that was the look anyway what came out of his mouth was i'm not sure i can afford it - i haven't been paid yet? - apparently he borrowed money to go away for the weekend. - um priorities are still not there. but he will learn really quickly when people stop offering to help or realise otherwise.
On the plus side he spent time with the kids and they enjoyed. on another plus side: i've lost 4 kilos and it looks like the other girlie found them - big bonus !!
realisation
I think i might just be looking forward to this weekend.
Its gonna be strange not having little mooonsters waking me up at 6:30 . but gonna be awesome sleeping to what ever time i want. YAY!!!
C re-assured me last night quite a bit. he is more organised than i gave him credit for. : ) a nice surprise. Plus what actually impressed me more than anything - is that he has included the kids in his plans. the "older" C would've said "well I'm going away this weekend so I'm not taking the kids." sorry. So good things are happening. The children are soo excited. J poor child was a little unsettled didn't want sleep on her own and clinged to me a little bit this morning. but I re-assured her, she will be fine and will have so much fun with dad. He has to be really attentive as there is no TV (awesome!!!)
So quality time abundance. i love that.
On another side we're both a lot more calmer and happier it seems. I've even noticed on my side with the kids. N and J expect me to get angry and lose my cool with them if they mess up or do something "naughty" and when i don't, i can see the physical surprise on their faces. its like what - what happened here. and they are responding so well. N is much much calmer and easier going - always playing tricks on us. even playful teasing. I love it. Jade, well she has come out of her shell even more. talking up a storm, asking questions and both together are understanding each other more and are more tolerant of each other too. sharing, taking turns hardly fighting at all. I think if they had two altercations this week, it was a lot. Love and enjoying them both so much at the moment : )
We spend our time now reading instead of watching TV, playing snakes and ladders, hungry hippo and laughing : )
I think this divorce thing is the best thing that could've happened to us all.
a toughy
ok. this weekend is going to be rough. I know it. C is off camping with some friends and has asked for the kids to go with. eeek and eeek again. they leave friday after school and come back sunday midday.
I knew this was coming. I just feel a little weird about it. I'm sure thats a natural feeling.
Its good for them to bond, I say trying to convince myself, after all I need me time too. again trying to convince myself that this is fine with me. but it isn't. I'm not fine with this at all. So what now? Clean that cupboard i guess. do the garden i guess to.
All I'm left to do is ask and pray that all will be fine and that they will all come home safe and sound and have had an awesome time. : )
maybe i'll go have my hair done. that should kill a good afternoon.