Hey Kat, thanks for asking--It was challenging and good!
I am taking a class right now and it is really, really challenging. I had a 20 page report due on Tues (with charts, graphs, tables--OMG it was HARD) I spent HOURS over the long weekend working on it. I called a couple of the girls in my class and they were just as miserable, so that made me feel better.lol.
H took S to the beach on Monday so that was nice. Oh, and Sunday we did spend the morning with the neighbor girl and another girl from my S's school who is an exchange student (she is Russian too, and now friends with our little abandoned Russian) and went blueberry picking. It was really fun--never done that before. The kids loved it!
My H was VERY supportive of my working so hard--well--at least he didn't start any fights or drama. I was really worried about that, since he had such a fit about my goig back to school. And this class--YOZAA!
So worked all day Tues--again H took S out (nice!) and I finally finished the report 2 hours before I had to go.
Then on the way to class, another truck side-swiped mine! and broke my mirror!! I debated turning around for about 10 seconds, then it's like, and I was going to do what? even if I found the other car, am I going to hunt the (probably) redneck down and demand he do something about it?
And what about my paper? I was NOT about to not hand that in! And I didn't want to make a claim with my insurance either. So I kept going and figured I'd deal with it later.
So my usual way of "dealing" with anythng like that is to sneak it over to be repaired and not even tell H (because he will have a complete meltdown). But, I figured, let him have his meltdown--I get to say scripts this way.lol. So the next a.m. I told him and he went completely nuts--Swearing, you stupid ^$&#--the usual. And of course he is not paying for it. I could have sworn he said "you guys can just deal with it". You guys meaning S and I??
So I said, it's unfortunate you don't care about your S, since I obviously will drive him around with a missing mirror. He said "I don't care about YOU".
So I gave a different script as I left --something like "I need a man that reacts to things calmly and rationally and makes sound decisions" and got a F%%K you as I left the house.lol.
First I went to my Cs who are back now (thank god) as I didn't really know what to do about the mirror--it is a $300 mirror!!
They said "GET IT FIXED". Like, duh.lol.
So I did and when I got home I told him and .....nothing. No reaction whatsoever. I was pretty stunned actually--I had left my books in the car in case I had to leave again I could go study (8 page paper due NEXT Tues!!)
And he was pretty decent the rest of the day! I made blueberry puffed pastry and chicken with blueberry sauce for dinner--both pretty good!!
You know, I DON'T go on and on about how awful my H is --it would take too long to write every nuance of his ugly behaviour. There are lots of snide comments, lots of baiting for fights, lots of ugly looks and deep sighs. I worry for my animals as he has threatened them many times. He has been physically abusive to them and me in the past.
