And, of course, I wish the same to everybody else who's following my thread of MLC madness...You are all in my thoughts.
I haven't posted in a while since I was ramping up for Christmas, and then went out of town for the holiday. I spent Christmas with Chris and his family. He hadn't seen his family in AGES, and since they invited me to come down as well, I took them up on it. It was bittersweet- it was really nice to see them again after all these years, but they live in the same general area of where my W and I first met and spent the first several years of our R together. It really wore on me emotionally after a time, and I think I left just in time to avoid a meltdown.
When I got back home- more fun with MLC! I found another bill for my W in the mail. To be fair, I did receive yet another bill for my W in the mail before I left, but that bill was for a calling card that she uses so rarely that I could chalk it up to her having forgotten to change the billing address over to her apartment. But the newest bill is a different story. It's from the same folks that sent the first bill that W came over and picked up along with her coats while I was out of the house. She KNOWS that the billing address on that bill hasn't been changed, since she was the one who set it up with the house address originally.
So what is happening here? Who the hell knows. If she is expecting to use the same tactic again to have an excuse to come over while I'm not at home to take more stuff back with her, she will be sorely disappointed, and will just have to come do it without an excuse.
I will continue to write "Please Forward" on these, and any other bills I receive for her, and stay dark.
PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE CONQUER ALL THINGS. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
DBing and MLC take their toll....Please provide exact CHANGE. -Jimbo
Secondly.....Are you quite done yet ? Seriously dude, you know what I hear in this? Wife,wife,wife,wife,wife, blah.blah,blah,blah, BS !
CC bills ? I thought we did this last month?
Soooo....rather than focus on what didn't happen, or didn't happen the way you would have liked it to.....what did you do that put a smile on your face and led you to another day of living and experiencing the true meaning of the holiday?
That is who Jimbo needs to be now...It is situations like these that you will look back on in a few months and either be proud of the way you handled it or not so proud.....the best part is that YOU get to chose.....
When is the guest speaker going to be at SBux again?
After the vehicle my beloved bride is driving was hit in the parking lot, she called the insurance company (naturally) and explained that we were getting a divorce and that she no longer lives at home. Well now! She forgot to tell them that when she moved out, so now I get a call from the insurance company informing me that my rates are going up because we no longer qualify for the multi-car discount since the car she is driving has been moved to a new location. So the question is- do I send her the bill for the difference that was newly created by her actions or do I eat it? (I have already paid the original balance for both cars for this year.)
Sending her the bill might serve as a reminder of the reality of what she's doing, but it might also piss her off. And since I'm dark, I don't want her one and only contact with me in the past 2 months to be a negative memory.
Opinions please?
PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE CONQUER ALL THINGS. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
DBing and MLC take their toll....Please provide exact CHANGE. -Jimbo
Do nothing when you are angry. Sleep on it. If I recall that discount was almost nothing like maybe $15.
As for the contact that will have to happen...when you're dark...it will almost always be bad news of sorts. It's not like you're going to call her out of the blue to tell her to check out the full harvest moon and have a good memeory. It's usually going to be about money, and usually money going out.
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis
Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
Listen without defending; Speak without offending - FaithinAK
