OK - interesting developments - First off I went flying today at 1 - 3 (instructor said I was doing very well - should be able to solo again real soon.) after the flight I went to the gym and worked out til about 4:30. While working out I was thinking about calling parents of grandkids and neice and nephew and thought that before I called them I should tell C I was going to give them a call.
Point of interest - the airport and the gym are really close to C's home (about 15 minutes) After I left the gym I called C at home. At first I said I just wanted to call and say Hi and after a little chit chat I told her that the zoo trip last weekend with the grandkids reminded me how much I missed seeing them and I asked her if it would be ok with her if I called parents of each and asked if I could babysit as needed. C said that there was no problem with that and that she did know how much the kids liked there granddad and uncle. We chit chatted a few more minutes and said good bye.
within a few minutes I came upon a traffic accident that completly blocked the road and looked like it would take awhile to clear. This road was the only way home without going way out of the way. Not having had dinner, I called C back and told her that the way was blocked and I was going to get me some dinner near there and asked her if she wanted to join me.
She said that she had just had a bowl of soup. I responded with "well it was an Idea." She then said that she had more and that I was welcome to come over and have some if I wanted. I have never been able to turn down a bowl of her home made soup.
After eating the soup we chit chated some more. I asked her opinion about a major decision I had to make (an attorney friend of mine approached me with the Idea of merging our firms)
After some more chitchat it was kinda obvious that our conversation was strained and she said "I know this is kinda ackward for you" and I agreed.
At that time I really started to feel some anger toward her and started wondering why I was trying to get her back. After a few more minutes I said I need to get on home and she said she would walk me to the car.
when we got to the car and I put a few things in that she had given me to take home I told her that I had found something at the store that I though she would like and got it for her (a Magnetic plastic holder for 4X6 photos for the refrigerator) it cost less than a buck each but she has lots of photos on the frig door and I thought she would like it so I got her two of them. We chatted some more and I started remembering why I wanted to make the R work. After talking some I asked her if she would like to do dinner sometime this week. She said that that would be nice and that she was available any night. We settled on Tuesday night.
Wow - since the hot tub thing, and even some before, every time I would ask her to do something with me a few days later, she would reply, "well, lets just do one day at a time". I would not ask her for that same thing again and I got the idea that she would say that all the time. But this time she said yes without the one day at a time thing. And when I said that I would see her on Tuesday, she said "it's a date".
