New attitude, new thread

[ClingingToHope]

About the laziest weekend ever. The girls were pretty beat from all the travels the last three weeks so they just wanted to veg.

The only thing we did was go swimming at my developer friend's mansion, which brought up some interesting discussions.

After swimming in his pool, he gave the girls a tour of his house, which is worth about $10 million.

After, we cleaned up and went to church where, coincidentally, the series is called "The comparison trap."

It was a great message, because both girls are struggling with comparing themselves to others. Shoot, I do it too.

So we talked about being jealous of the mansion. It was a good discussion.

That was it though for actually doing anything. The girls played a Wii game together just about all of Saturday night. Sunday, D13 sang and dance in the basement. D9 played video games.

I got D9 up for a couple of bike rides and a short swim. I made D13 go on a longer bike ride and a couple of walks.

In two weeks, I'm having a swimming party for D9, who will become D10, and then we are going zip lining. A week after that we leave for Canada, so we have fun, stressful stuff coming up.

XW intruded on my lazy weekend with an email. It was scheduling stuff, but she slipped in the fact that she's going back to Sturgis with her motorcycle buddies.

There was absolutely no reason to include that in the email other than to make me angry.

And it did. It stirred up the emotions from her trip there in 2009.

But I'm handling it well. The trick, at least this week, is to keep singing to myself, "Something great is going to happen to me" over and over and over.

I just want to be free of the emotional weight.

Messaging with two women on OKCupid. There interest doesn't seem to be too great -- and they don't live too close anyway -- but they keep responding. So I asked one if she'd like to come into town next weekend and I'd take her around downtown.

I figure I might as well take a chance and I have a free weekend.

There's another one I was messaging on OKCupid, but she's the one who dropped off but said I could message her on Facebook. So we exchanged a couple of messages. She's extremely smart. Probably much smarter than I am. I am interested in seeing her in person. If the OKCupid girl from out of town shoots me down, I'll take a run at seeing if the FB girl would like to go out. I just want to go out on a date again, especially before the fall when everything gets busy, busy, busy again.