H still acting like a control freak. (journaling here...) I bought two boxes for S14 when he cleaned out his room and was dismayed to find the just-right-size boxes were $7 each. Since S14 didn't use both, I have kept one in pristine condition to return.

S12 sharpened a pocketknife and wanted to test it on the box and I said no, that box cost $7 and I plan to return it.

H came down from upstairs to get in the middle of this conversation between me and s12. "What? You paid how much? what kind of box? Where is it? Let me see it. Why did you pay $7 for a box?" omg. I was calm but a little frustrated and just said "I paid $7, which I feel was too much, and I'm going to return it." again.

BTW H made a funny the other day that reminded me one of my favorite things about him. I have that meetup group for guitar, and talked to H about it on our walk this weekend. He said I should combine a bunch of meetup group ideas to save money on group fees.

[Just overheard H telling S14's friend "my life [censored]", nice.]

anyway, his meetup group idea was playing guitar while only talking in Japanese and then walking dogs together. He does crack me up!

So, flash forward back to today. H brought his friend over because they were getting his car from the shop together, and friend asked me about my meetup group, so h must have told him about it. Friend wanted to know how it was going, and what the male to female ratio is. smile It's pretty good; so far I'm the only female that's made it to a meeting. I think that's just the demographics of the hobby though; the hiking one has more like 50/50. I felt good to have this thing that's just mine to talk about with them that they appeared to be curious about.

Adinva 51, S20, S18
M24 total
6/15/11-12/1/12 From IDLY to H moving out
9/15/15-3/7/17 From negotiating SA to final D at age 50
5/8/17-now: New relationship with an old friend
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Happiness is a warm puppy.