Well I went to a workshop yesterday and learned a little bit about how to do Flash animation...which was fun. I need to practice a bit and see how to put it in a web page...maybe add interactivity...
At the workshop I overheard someone talking about how he went back to school after a divorce. He said, "It beat drinking myself to death...It was a lousy marriage anyway!"
I know we all have been in the place of grieving our marriages. But I wonder, really how much of it is worth grieving over? When I think back to much of the way things were w/ Ex and me, I just have to say I am glad it is over and I don't have to deal anymore.
Ex took the kids on a short trip this summer, and all I can think whenever I hear any stories of how the travel was planned and how it all went, is "boy! Am I glad I don't have to deal with that in my life anymore."
I actually talked to Ex on the phone about 2 weeks ago. There were a few things we needed to discuss. The business part of the convo went fine...then I asked about the trip he took w/ the kids. He was very negative about S, who had just been given 30 days to move out of his apt. right before they left for Iowa. Ex was saying how S should have hustled and found a place in the 3 weeks he had (when you take the trip out there were only 3 weeks left). I thought that S did a very reasonable thing by putting his stuff in storage and staying with his GF while he found a place to live.
I mentioned the convo w/ DD and she wisely said that S is much more negative with his dad and more positive w/ me. So we are seeing different sides of S. I would say this pattern is one that has been going on for much of S's life, really.
Anyway, it looks like S found a place of his own to live. So he has been at his GFs (and her roommates) for about a month. It was really nice to have that little bit of breathing room to deal with one of life's unexpected wrinkles. School started for him last week, so this is not a moment too soon!
While I really love summer, and the academic schedule that allows me to have a nice long summer vacation, it will be good to have school start up again. I think next summer I will schedule a few longer trips so that I don't have so many days in a row without something to do.
SG
Survival Goddess "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -Alice Walker
