Quit Update: 7 days without smoking and it remains surprisingly easy. Mucho energy, increased appetite, better sleep. Talk about a 180!! Go, me!!
Wife and stepson over to get some of wife's boxes last night. It seems (assuming, here) that since I'm now here alone, she doesn't come over alone any more. I wonder 'supwitdat?
I cooked dinner for all and we had a fairly good time. Wife talked to stepson mostly. Didn't even really look at me. I talked to both and tried to maintain normal, engaged eye-contact with both.
I pointed out to wife some of the many house prep accomplishments (And, Goodattitudegirl, I am baby-stepping the house stuff, as you suggest) and Wife said she hadn't noticed. Right.
Thanked me for dinner. No sooner had she left to drive home, she called me to ask me if I wanted BestCatInTheWorld back(?). Seems that Wife's new, ever-present lapdog is exhausting BestCat. Told her I'd consider it.
Then my wife called back (I didn't answer) when she got home and LM re some house stuff we discussed briefly at dinner.
Then, she e-mails me this morning re: same. Now she believes "BestCat would be happy back at home in big house and yard," and "Bestcat isn't happy here alone in basement apartment with just two windows." Hmmm: BestCat or Wife?
Anyway, I'm not going to do it. Love the cat but that's home for him, now. I haven't seen him in months and even then he was kinda distant/forgetful.
Besides, I think Wife finds now finds BestCat inconvenient for one reason or another and is couching it all in "Poor BestCat" terms Knowing that the old (Mr. Nice Guy) me would immediately acquiesce and say. "Sure!!"
No More Mr. Nice Guy. Good book (and good Alice Cooper song as I recall).
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac
