Calling out the Piecers

[dday101798]

And........ just some journaling I guess.

Had a household version of a G8 meeting last night to discuss the household finances now that everybody is all moved in.

Cousin is charging a fixed rent now, that's fine. A little bit high I think for the accomodation, but I understand where she's coming from.

Then I got talking to about he past weekend. Seems my cousin thought I stayed at W's all this past weekend because her son and GF moved in. Couldn't be farther from the truth I said. I stayed because my kids wanted me to. End of conversation.

All in all it went well. But put my finances on a even bigger strain as now my truck has suspension issues and is getting half it's gas mileage and tearing up my tires. Great. Then S12's b-day is rapidly approaching and W wants to seomthing 'special' as he's entering his teen years. Uggh, I need a winning lottery ticket I swear.

On the R front, W was disturbingly distant yesterday. I called her to see if she knew what the occupancy allowment was on a hall we often used for b-day and stuff during the winter as a possible alternative for my aunt's 90th b-day. W was very quiet and moody. I asked what was wrong, got "nothing". I said I know her better than that and she finally cracked and said she'd have to tell me later. Her general tone said it was something OM related as she said "I'll tell you later, it's stupid, but I'll tell you later".

Anyway, her normal 'ride' to work got laid off, so offered to pick up the slack. She gratefuly accepted and said she'd call back later on, was out getting dinner.

Then the meeting with my cousin and all took place and by the time that wassaid and done I was ready for bed. Still never heard from W, so figured she was sleeping or had something going on. texted her good night and I'd see her in the morning.

Woke up this morning to 2 texts from W, one apologising for as figured, falling a sleep and the next to call her in the morning. So I did. She had a pretty nasty attitude, wanting to know why I didn't call her last night. I said 'you said you'd call me', she said "no, I wanted you to call me". Meh, whatever hon, it was a misunderstanding, not the end of the world.

She seemed a little better when I got there, but still distant. The boys were giving her a hard time and apparently I've gotten her hooked on needing to have coffee in the morning again so that could explain her grumpiness.

Anywho, took her to work and all is well. But can't hear from her as her phone has been apparently shut off too.

We're going to go out to, hopefully, or make dinner tonight and I'm staying over again. Kids are excited.

One other note, her friend that took some nice pictures of us last Friday still hasn't sent them to me, but we became FB 'friends'. So I glanced through her pictures as she did mine an dmade some comments. Of course there are pictures of her and W having fun and W looking all calm and collected during our period of seperation that kind of stings. Then again, W was always able to bury the fact she was upset or angry about something for the sake of a good picture and so that everybody else could have a good time, so maybe I'm jsut looking into that a bit much.