First Piecing Thread

[Hope4us]

LOL Pup. I do have a job contrary to what it seems like with my posting on here!

Weekend was good. Really good.

Friday night, W and I went to the little restaurant/bar down the hill from us. We were there for 6 hours. Just talking and enjoying the evening. W opened up some more to me. She volunteered to contribute some more money to the joint account to help with S20's school and other family expenses. I thought that was HUGE. We talked about so many things. It was just good.

Saturday we cleaned around the house a bit and watched some H.S. basketball and the first half of the NCAA Division II finals. Then S20 came home and I had to take him back to school. W was keeping us updated on the game while we were driving. Our hometown won on a last second 3 pointer in OT! WooHoo. We were all pretty excited. They finished the season 36-0. Guess you guys can all find out now where our hometown is if you really want to.

I got home from dropping S20 off and W was getting ready for us to go out. I went up to start getting ready and she was standing there in minimal clothing finishing up. And she didn't run to put anything on. Seems she's feeling more and more comfortable around me.

We went to her bosses boss' house for a party. Had a really good time. I spent part of the night talking with people I interact with in my job that W works with. I caught her looking at me a couple of times, almost with some admiration in her look. The rest of the night I was with W and letting her lead a lot of the conversations. We ended up being the last one's to leave. I really like W's Mgr and it was enjoyable just W and Mrg and myself talking for a bit.

We got home and stayed up for a couple more hours just talking.

Sunday we did some more stuff around the house. We also sat and looked online for hotels in Myrtle Beach. We're going to go there with the kids for a week this summer. It was fun looking at all the different options, etc. I went grocery shopping. Asked W if she wanted to go and she said "no, I HATE grocery shopping". I found this interesting as I've done the grocery shopping for years, but once W's A started, all the sudden she had a problem with me doing it myself. She would be really angry with me when I'd return from the store, slamming stuff around, etc. Then probably 6-8 months ago, she started going with me. And it was fun. We would connect while doing the shopping. But now she hasn't gone with me 2 out of the last 3 weeks. I called her a couple times while at the store since they didn't have some of the things she'd wanted, and she was making funny comments, etc.

The grocery thing and the money thing makes me think she's starting to let go of the "control" stuff she was struggling with during the A and the WD after.

We also had a conversation yesterday about putting a new roof on our house. W wants to hire someone to do it, but I've put roofs on a number of houses before so I'm not sure why she wants to pay someone to do it for us. She's funny that way. She wants to hire people to do stuff on the house when I'm perfectly capable of doing a lot of those things. I told her that we could get an estimate, but I would guess it would probably cost $7000 or more for someone to do it and I could do it myself for probably $2500. Nice thing is there's only one layer on the house now so I could just work in the evenings and on the weekends and it's not an issue. We didn't make any decisions, but heck, if we can save $4500 why not let me do it?

So far this morning she's been sending me emails and IM's quite a bit. Seems like the down time from our talk a couple weeks ago is going away. I also found out last Friday that she must have been PMS'ing the previous week. Missed that one. Didn't realize it was getting close, but it could explain a lot of the moodiness she was having the previous week.

Thanks for checking in on me. I'll keep ya posted.