Stopped by the place I am going to rent again tonight. It is soooo nice. My budy told me that there were some people looking at it again today. I hope no one buys it out from under me. Just gotta get my sitch wrapped-up so I can buy the place.
I found a couple of what appear to be decent bedroom sets on craigs list. The guy is going to hold them for me until the weekend! 2 twin beds with nice hardwood head and foot boards and 3 hardwood dressers and 2 mirrors for $275. I think it is a good deal. Everything else I have seen is junk or way too expensive. At least now I will have beds for my kids!!
W and I divided-up our stuff tonight. I think it went better than I expected. Since I got the truck, she got most of the furniture and wall hangings. I don't really need that stuff anyway. It is a bit lopsided in my favor in the values we assigned, but she said she is ok with it. We are going to try to split the tools and tool chests at some point. I asked her if she was just going to sell them and she said no, that it might be nice to have some tools around, but she doesn't even know how to use most of them. Maybe hanging onto them for when another man comes around or to give to S. I know, stop mind reading.
She is also going to keep the lawn tractor to help even out the $. I told her if she sells it, to let me know how much it is going for. She said she would keep it and learn how to use it.
Then we talked about the house for a bit and she said she thinks we should keep it for a while until the market recovers. I told her that doesn't make any sense, because then anything we want to buy will recover also. She seemed to think about that a bit, so maybe I got through to her.
She talked about living here after and I said that while technically, she may be able to afford it, I wasn't sure if she really wanted to spend that much of her income on the house and have nothing left for anything else. Plus, I told her that one of us would need to buy out the other to get the name off the mortgage. She said the courts are giving 2-3 years for that to happen, which my atty also told me. I said that neither one of us should really want that, because that will prevent someone from owning a house and having to rent. I hope she will be sensible about this.
I've got to fill out my parenting plan to take to mediation on monday. She said that hers is filled out, but didn't give me any clues as to what she is thinking and I didn't ask.
It was actually a pretty good night, considering what we had to do. None of it seemed to bother her though. She was willing to take whatever and sell it if she had to. The problem with that is you never get what it is worth.
I showed her the bedroom sets I was going to get and she seemed to think they were pretty good. Not sure if that shows that I am taking charge and making sense or not, but I will have it done and a place for my kids set-up VERY soon!
W is going away with the kids this weekend, so I am going out with my friend who got divorced an re-married to his ex. He said he had lots of women in the interim, so he will help me learn to fish!! Going to flirt with some women and see how it goes.
W also wants to take the kids away the following weekend when I am moving. Says it will be too hard on them to be here. I told her maybe they want to help me and swim in the new pool. Try to turn it into a positive event rather than a negative event. She said she asked them if they wanted to help and they said no. I said, you asked them without me being here? I showed her I was disgusted and walked to the next room to continue dividing our stuff. I thought that was pretty bad of her to do that.
Alright, I've got to get some sleep tonight and get ready for another day.
