Just Keep Livin' #3

[JKL2009]

Been several months since I have posted here. It is hard for me to carve time out to write with work and life, but the good news is I am doing well and feel good about how I handled 2009. I am ready for what 2010 might bring, no matter what it is.

Overall, things have been fine. I have my place, WAW has her place. I love spending time with S and things have been smooth with handling it all. I am a way better father, and WAW has acknowledged that, as well as overall being a better person. WAW has not brought up any legal talk or discussions on moving this forward, so perhaps to some that is limboland but I am fine with it. For all intents, we are no longer married so the legal stuff can happen or not happen but I don't really care right now.

My weekend was interesting. WAW and I had talked about going to Ye Old Warehouse Store and splitting some stuff like we have been doing. Anywho, she came over and we went shopping and grabbed lunch. We came back, and she had work to do so I had also said just bring your laptop over and I will watch/do something with S and you can just work at my place instead of running all around back and forth.

So WAW worked while S and I went to hang out at a local neighborhood bike shop my friend owns like we often do. We got back, it was getting close to supper time, so I said hey want to eat here and I can cook something up? Sure thing that is fine says WAW. So I opened up a bottle of wine and cooked up some chicken marsala and we ate dinner.

It was getting to be after 7 by now, and S said "can I stay here tonight" and WAW said something like "you have to ask daddy." I said of course, in fact you both can! I told WAW I would bust out the aerobed and we could have some more wine and watch a movie. So she said why not.

We enjoyed some more wine and watched a movie with S. He fell asleep on the couch, and we left him there. A bit later WAW did too, so they ended up both sleeping there. (Saved me from setting up the aero bed!) The next AM S got up at 6 like he is known to do, much too early, but then he fell back asleep on the couch (as did WAW again) while we all sat there enjoying morning TV.

Around 9am WAW said she wanted to get going to go to the gym and stuff. Not sure exactly who had the idea, but it seemed like she quickly needed little push to bail on that idea and we all went to grab breakfast and do a little shopping.

Maybe there is nothing really positive to read into it all. Maybe some would say I am allowing the cake eating to occur here. But at the end it seemed like WAW was OK with spending a fair amount of time with me, and seemed to enjoy it. Who knows, I at least banked some good karma and I feel good about myself.