Who designed this ultramarathon course?

[jbnati]

I felt a little better Friday night after posting here, getting responses, and talking with other friends.

However, Saturday morning rolled along. Usually when my W drops my S on Saturday morning on her weekends when she has to work, she drops my S off at home around 9:15. I was trying to sleep a little late because I was exhausted, but I just happened to wake up around 9:20. No sign of S. She didn't show up until 9:45 and she was supposed to be at work at 10:00, 30 minutes away. I was suspecting a little passive-aggressive behavior. I was talking to my S when he got here, and I guess my W was trying to scramble at the last second to get her morally bankrupt friend to watch him. I guess she was going to inform me of that at the last minute. It's OK, I guess it's really her weekend and if she has to work she can make her own arrangements. Unfortunately, I can't choose those arrangments. I absolutely don't mind watching my S, but I don't think it should be my responsiblity to drive down to her apartment to get him if it's her weekend and she has to work. JMVHO.

My S then told me yesterday he didn't want me to pick him up for church because his teacher wasn't going to be there. My W had already mentioned she made some plans that were non kid-friendly after church. I didn't want to hear that, and I especially didn't want my S to be involved with that. That created some internal tension because I was going to have to deal with that.

Here's what I ended up doing: I texted her and I asked if she had time for me to give her a call. I ended calling her with a way to simplify this upcoming week. Honestly, I think it works better for both of us. I am off work all week, so I told her instead of her picking up S on Tuesday evening, he could stay with me, and I'd drive him down to her apartment on Wednesday night. It's not too terribly inconvenient for me to that on Wednesday. I also told her my S didn't want to go to church and she outright volunteered to drop him off on early Sunday afternoon at my house. She said she had plans to watch the Bengals game with a "friend". Whatever. Overall I felt a lot better after the conversation over time on Saturday.

I had been debating on running a 5K on that day at 5pm, despite having a stiff knee. I had told my W nothing more than I had some plans and would have to leave around 4pm. So I ended up doing the 5K! I got to see some holiday lights. It was a tough course. Lots of hills. Kind of reminded me of my situation.

I came home early evening. I had pretty much eaten dinner at the race. Ugh - I still had to work. We're understaffed and very busy right now. So I had to finish up some stuff for my vacation push because I'm off work this week. Not exactly the way I wanted to spend Saturday evening, but at least I got the 5K in to GAL.

Got to bed late because I worked late and did some unproductive stuff after that. I was just disgusted with myself.