WHG: And so we file...

[workinghardguy]

Well remember we don't have a divorce decree, heck we haven't even filed so nothing really to revise I did get my S though on Father's Day. W was perfectly fine with it. I picked him up after lunch and we went to a play. The first play he's ever been to. W actually texted me before I came over warning me that S had been begging to stay overnight with me because it was Father's Day. So I ended up having him the whole night. When I got over there W gave me a wall hanging from the DIY pottery studio we frequent that says "We love you Dad". S's and SD's fingerprints were on it and decorated. It was cute. S had made a card too.

Actually it's been a good week. Had all the kids last night. I offered, she didn't request. W worked at 8 am this morning which means the kids would've had to get up at 6:15 to be to my place so W could leave for work. So instead I had a sleepover so the kids could sleep in this morning if they wanted to.

I also asked their dad if I could have them this weekend, knowing its the big town tractor pull, and he was happy to not have them. So I get a weekend with all three.

I've been working harder at keeping dark. It's easier since I don't see W nearly as much as I did during the school year.

One funny moment from Sunday... right after S and I got home and settled the home phone rings. S answers it and gives it to me, it's W. She is all flustered because her new printer isn't working. It wasn't working a few days earlier when I picked up S and at that time I offered to take a look at it (I know... it was instinct... I regretted it as soon as I said it). W declined so I said ok. So now she's calling because the new printer is still not working. She says, "I'm wondering if you can look at it... I mean I don't expect you to come over right now". For once my brain actually kicked in before I said anything. And what it told me was the rest of that statement "but I do expect you to come over". I actually got a little mad. Who is she to expect me to cover over and fix her crap? Especially when I offered a few days earlier when I was already there. So I told her that the problem she described sounds like a broken piece or faulty sensor. That I wouldn't be able to do anything with that anyway. She replies, "so you're not going to come look at it?" ... "no point really". She gets cold says she'll talk to me later and hangs up.

S and I went back to having fun together. And for once I didn't have a twinge of guilt about the interaction.

The coda to this is even more poetic... she finally takes the printer in the next day to return it. Oops... she's one day past the return period. She's stuck with a worthless $90 printer. Now she's fighting it out with the printer manufacturer.

She did remind me the other morning as I picked up S that we need to meet and notarize our D paperwork. I replied with my standard line, "whenever, you just let me know, I'm pretty available during the day." I figure a little retribution for not rushing to her aid on the printer. Funny woman.