So it has been a pretty quiet week at the new digs (now known as the Bobcave). After a nice phone call with my mom on Mother's Day, I went into domestic mode and did some serious cleaning and straightening up. The large common room on the upper floor of the Bobcave seems a lot bigger now - and the kids like the feeling as well.
School is wrapping up in a couple of weeks so the kids are starting to get into final exam mode. D is helping to run a teen con at her church next weekend - right in the middle of finals. Hopefully she will not lose too much sleep but somehow I doubt that!
Had a phone call from W this morning to catch up on a couple of things. W's L received the draft language that my L came up with on the issue of overnight visits while the kids are in the residence. W didn't object to the idea of this but wanted to restructure the language into more of a guideline rather than a "thou shalt" - which I did not have a problem with. I told W that I would contact my L next week to see what she could do about that. W did mention that she could foresee us in a separated status indefinitely due to the financial advantages of filing joint tax returns and cheaper insurance among other things.
Ugh - where's that rolling eyes smilie when you need it...
It seems that W does want to keep those tethers of control, doesn't she?
But things are finally moving on the old house front. The painter that I contracted over two months ago called and said that he should be starting on the house (exterior and interior) in the next one to two weeks. W is going to call someone else to replace the garage door. Everything is out that we aren't planning to give away. Hopefully when it is time to list it won't take too long to sell...
Me 52, STBEX 52 D 17, S 12 M 20 years Em Sep since 2002, Phys Sep Sept 2009
