New attitude, new thread

[ClingingToHope]

Awesome trip to the baseball game Monday night. Had club level seats. Tickets to club level restaurant. So we watched a couple of innings next to the window in left field.

I had fun catching up with my old boss. Twice, he's tried to get me to move into his company. I can't leave the girls.

In the 8th inning, a foul ball was hit right to me. I caught it and handed it to D13. Her first major league game and we get a ball. I've been to a couple hundred and it's my third ball.

After, she said the night was fun because she said my eyes "lit up as soon as we got" to the ballpark.

She was going to be a Cubs fan because that's what her mom is. XW is a Cubs fan because of her dad, who died long ago.

I told her she might as well become a Reds fan -- my team -- because I doubt her mom will ever take her to a game. By the end of the night, she said she was a Reds fan and my plan now is to take her to Cincinnati next year for opening day.

D10 stayed the night at her friend's house and had a great time. I picked her up this morning, gathered up some of their stuff and dropped them off at XW's. Their grandmother was to pick them up and take them to the campground. They are stuck with her while their mom is in Sturgis parading around in leather with her tubby biker boyfriend.

D13's feelings about the guy are leaking out more and more. I don't have to worry about her adopting the backwoods Bubba lifestyle. D13 and her mom are going to have issues if the boyfriend relationship advances to an M or a live-in thing.

Anyway, D10 was excited to be going to the campground. D13 was dreading it. She's tired of being dumped on her grandmother all the time by XW. Both D10 and D13 said they are going to try to get the grandma to bring them back Saturday so they can come and stay with me. We're leaving Sunday for Canada and the wrap up trip of this summer.

More messages back and forth from a lady on OKCupid. We have opposite kid weekends so I can't see anything come of it. But we've continued to message each other -- because I'm sure it's just nice to have someone show interest.

She asked if I had anything fun planned this weekend. She has her son so I'm not sure if she's hinting around at anything. I responded I didn't have anything planned Friday or Saturday night.

Perhaps she'll propose something. I just want to go out on a date again. I haven't been on a date since January.

Part of that is that I'm just not aggressive enough. I was over at the county building getting some records for work and talked to a couple eligible -- at least no rings -- women. In my head, I was thinking I should try to do something to strike up a conversation. But nothing came to mind and I let it go. They both work there so maybe there'll be an opportunity in the future -- or maybe not.