I'm waiting for W to ask if we have money for a mediator so we can get divorced. Of course one problem I have is that now I am making money I may be forced to file to protect myself financially.
On another note, W took D13 out to dinner last night. After she dropped her off she called me to tell me that D13 hadn't done her 3 homework projects yet. Then went on to tell me I have to keep better track of her homework, and that SHE would also call her every day. Now D13 is in 8th grade and should be dealing with these things on her own, and face consequences when she doesn't.
So ok, I get the blame for this round.
On friday I bought D13 a laptop. She has been aski9ng for one for the past year and since I got a bit ahead financially I decided to take her shopping and she got what she wanted.
So she showed it to W and I asked W what she thought about it. She said it was nice but she wouldn't have "done it the way I did", then said "well it's your money so I don' have any say in how you spend it. I just hope you don't go on a big spending spree and buy a bunch of expensive toys then go broke and not be able to sell any of them".
I said that I'm not buying anything for me. Just a car for D17 and a computer for D13.
She sure seems upset that I'm making money now. I know she's always broke but I've also been paying some of her credit cards down for her.
This morning she's over and I'm lying in my bed instead of going downstairs because I need to back off a bit. So she comes to my room and asks me what our local tax rate is for retail because she's filling out a form to order graduation stuff for D17 and it has a line for local sales tax.
I told her that I wasn't sure exactly, but just look on one of the store receipts and it'll be there. So she thanked me and left.
This is my life. I started to pick up the rope and now I'm dropping it before I get rope burns.
