New attitude, new thread

[ClingingToHope]

Still not where I need to be. Friday is going to be an impossible scramble with having to finish work, pick up D10 and get her home and get to the football stadium on time for my second job.

D13 has rehearsal that night and there's zero way I can get her there or pick her up.

So I messaged XW to see if she would do it since she's likely to be there anyway.

She messaged back sure, but she wanted to switch some nights. She wanted to just keep them Friday, bring them to me late Saturday and then "let" me have them next Saturday night.

Well, I'd planned on taking them to our area's big end of summer festival this Saturday during the day, D13 had a baby sitting gig at night and I have a date Saturday night.

So I don't want to mess with my Saturday plans.

As far as next week, my guess is that she's trying to clear her Saturday night next week because her birthday is Thursday and she probably wants to go drinking at her motorcycle bars with Uncle Fester.

I have consistently worked with her when it comes to her work schedule, including last week picking D10 up at her request when the bus schedule was screwed up. She's used me without my knowledge a few times to go see Uncle Fester, including back in '09 when she hadn't filed for divorce and she was still telling the girls she was trying "to decide" what to do.

That Christmas is going to be probably one of the last things I let go. We opened presents together because that's what we'd done every year. She then invited me to have dinner with her family. I took this as a positive sign, I spent a couple of hours getting myself mentally ready, and I had a great day over there.

Then at the end of the night she asked me to take the girls and the dog as well because she wanted to go to her best friend's house for a Christmas party.

That in itself hurt. She used me so she wouldn't have to drive the kids and the dog back herself. Then I found out this year she was dating Uncle Fester all of 2009 and the whole "best friend" thing was just a cover.

So I told myself back in 2010 I would not work with her on her social schedule. Figure it out. I know I probably shouldn't care and I'm working on that.

I texted back that I just need help Friday and I didn't want to switch Saturdays because I have plans. All of that is true.

If she can't help with D13 on Friday I have options. D13 is in a song with two other girls. They'll always have the same rehearsal times. I could get in touch with them and see if I could just drop her off and pick her up. A coworker said if that falls through she can get her.

Petty probably, but some things are going to take more times than others.