Coping with Bi-Polar WAW

[CountingCrows]

Texted W asking if she and her roommate were still sick and she immediately called me. Kept discussion upbeat and mostly to the point. Discussed the fact that neither of us felt that S7 should be exposed to the illness, particularly if he was already showing some symptoms since last weekend. I'll have to change my plans for tonight, but will do something with S7 instead. No problem, I love getting to spend time with him anyway. W asked if she could come by and visit S7 tomorrow, since it's her only day off. Agreed that as long as she let me know in advance when she would be here, I'd make sure we would be home.

I mentioned to W that next week's "allowance" would be short because of my missing days this week. Also reminded her that this support was only temporary and that it wouldn't be something that I continued for much longer now that she has a job. She acknowledged that she knew it was only temporary, and also knew that she would soon have to start covering her own truck payments/insurance as well. I didn't tell her yet, but I plan to discontinue ANY support at the end of the year.

W told me that the temporary position she was working has become a permanent position, as the person she was filling in for isn't coming back. She mentioned that she had been "laying off the pot", and was going to try to get a service job at a hotel, so she could make more money and get into school. I agreed that this was a good plan. W then started going off on some petty issues with her job, and I cut her off saying "Look, I gotta get off of here. I'll talk to you later. Bye".

S7 and I have been working on the house a lot since she left (W was/is a lousy housekeeper), and I'm sure she'll notice the difference. It's the first time in a while that I'd be eager to have someone come over and see the condition of our house. It used to be an embarrassment to me. Until now, I've left "her" bathroom alone, with all her stuff laying all around (I've always used the "boys" bathroom with S7). I started a project to re-plaster all the walls in her bathroom earlier this year, and never finished it. Today, I'm going to take all of W's stuff out of there, put it in boxes, and start working on the walls. Once that's finished, I plan on re-tiling the floor (another project never completed). Since the bathroom isn't being used right now, it's a perfect time to do a little DIY project, and it'll give me something to do while at home with S7, as well as the satisfaction of completing a project to the end.