WHG: When last we heard from our action hero...

[workinghardguy]

Thanks Adinva... I agree and take solace in that... I'm just sad that I don't believe W will understand this until it's too late and then maybe never.

Today was a fun day. W worked but not until 8am so I was able to sleep in. She took care of our S until she had to leave for work since he's an early riser.

S and I had a busy day. We started with a surprise trip to an ice cream shop for shakes Then headed to the city. Once in town we went to this new "make your pottery" place where S was able to paint some pottery for his cousin and grandma. He absolutely LOVED it. It was cheap enough that I'll take all the kids there one of these days... where else can you while away 3-4 hours with kids being engaged and only spend $10 It was also neat that when we walked in the shop owner said, "Hey, I know you guys!" and then talked to my son and said "You're that great tambourine player from the first row aren't you?" Turns out the owner goes to the same church as us and recognized my S from the evening service last Sunday. My S was super-proud that someone recognized him as the tambourine player

It was also interesting that near the end of our time there a party arrived. Probably 6 or 7 kids painting. One mom comes over and strikes up a conversation with me... as I look back I now realize that I pretty sure she was hitting on me, or at least testing interest. She was cute and a redhead (I've always had a thing for redheads), but I completely blew her off. Not because I meant to... only because my dating radar is so old and out of tune I feel kind of bad that I didn't reciprocate anything... had I had a clue I probably would've at least been more into her though not had it go anywhere. I am definitely going to have to work on my social radar. Though I did cue enough to check if she was single just before we left the store.

S and I did some other shopping and errands, then headed home. Before we left for the city, my W texted me and asked if I could stop at a store in the mall and pick up a pack of stuff for gifts for her co-workers. Small stuff and inexpensive and we were going to be right near there so I said I could. Then she texted back that I didn't need to if I didn't want to have to deal with the mall crowds.

Well son and I went... I had to go into the mall anyway for something else. It was an easy in and out. W got home and was surprised I stopped. She said thank you and even sounded genuinely touched. And then I noticed that tonight when she left for the bar/gig she actually said goodbye to me. So I'm going to chalk that up in the positive. She hasn't said goodbye to me in a very long time.

W got home from work and took a nap. I was ok with it... it's "my weekend" with our son anyway. One change was that son and I had eaten lunch very late so I simply told her I wasn't making supper and she was on her own. She grumped a little about it but figured something out.

S and I watched The Christmas Carol (the Jim Carrey version) until he fell asleep. Poor guy has a nasty cold and a busy day so he just zonked out. W is at the bar listening to her friend do his set. She has to work at 9am tomorrow so she says she'll be home by 1am... we'll see.

Things seemed to have thawed since the whole bed/masturbation blowup on Monday. Nothing in our sitch has changed and I don't expect it to. I did have moments of sadness today wondering what next Christmas will be like... but that's a long way off. Hell, the world could end by then... so not worth getting wrapped around right now.