Thanks, I have missed you Brian. For some reason I am having trouble finding you lately, and I keep forgetting Mike from Tennessee jumped to a different section. I need to catch up with you guys...
I decided going with the bubbly approach is best. My nature, my "real me" has always been a bubbly person. Well, at least, looking back, I was always happiest with myself when I was a sarcastic/witty, outgoing, "fun", smart girl. In college I would go up and talk to any body at the bar or at a party, I was a pretty good flirt, etc. After some bumps and bruises in my marriage I retreated a little, then I have been back/forth in my personality with the various "dramas" H and I have had.
So tonight, instead of brooding over whether or not H would call from Canada, the kids and I called him from the car on my way home from night class. I held out the phone and the kids yelled from the backseat, "Good night Dad, love you!", so then I mimicked them and yelled "Good night Dan, love you!". That was the extent of the message we left...
H just called 10 min ago at home. Kids are in bed already. He sounded upbeat but in a weird way, said he wanted to punch the people in the face that he went to dinner with in Montreal tonight! But said it in a voice that sounded like he was smiling. Then he said lucky him he gets to go down and meet them at the hotel bar for drinks now...So I was light and flirty and he was in a similar mood.
As my old buddy and big brother Woog would say, I am going to be happy freakin' cheerleader from this point on.....
Which is appropriate b/c Friday is HOMECOMING! Such a big deal in my town....get out of school at 11 on Friday, have a parade with 40 floats and 6-8 marching bands, etc. Then a real old-style coronation of the Homecoming King and Queen on Saturday night, complete with scroll bearers and gift bearers from Kindergarten, and middle school pages and high school attendants. All in all it is about 25 people up on the stage when they crown the king and queen, who are in formal gowns and suits....followed by a dance. (The dance is for high school only but the coronation is open to the public). I have my 15-yr reunion dinner on Friday. Woo-hoo!
But said it in a voice that sounded like he was smiling. Then he said lucky him he gets to go down and meet them at the hotel bar for drinks now...So I was light and flirty and he was in a similar mood. 
