Why don't you come to your senses?

[2Times2Many]

Thanks, Job. I always appreciate your input. The truth is his name came up maybe twice on Easter and both times it was totally innocuous.

I get a day off tomorrow. When we remodeled the master bath a few years ago, we put in floor heating. The thermostat died and I had to call an electrician. He comes tomorrow between 10 and 2. A good reason to take a day off. Yeah! But, not happy about the potential cost. Oh well. I've come to accept that I live in a money trap.

I also got things scheduled to put down mulch now that the weather is warming up. I need to check out the sprinkler system and am hoping they all work ok because I know nothing about sprinklers and couldn't repair/replace one if I had to. That would be another repairman call. I'll tackle that this weekend. Keeping my fingers crossed.

On the MLC front, H is acting strange. Ok, I know that's par for the course, but ...

A few weeks ago I was posting about him not asking anything about what is going on here, and now he's asking all kinds of questions. He's asked about my sister, what I'm up to, stuff like that. He doesn't say much about what he's doing unless I ask. This is totally opposite of how he was behaving until a few days ago. When I did ask about how his weekend or day was, he downplayed and told me a bunch of boring stuff. He also sounds "down".

All of this is totally opposite of how he's been behaving recently. He usually shows no interest in what I'm doing and talks about all the great things he's doing. I get it and expect it.

So he downplays what he's up to, then he changes his profile pic on WhatsApp to one showing him with a big smile while participating in a holiday festival they do over there. Huh? He's telling me one thing and then posting pics that portray the exact opposite. My "watch out" radar is going bonkers.

He also changed his "status" from "busy plucking chickens" to "Shashlik or Hasenpfeffer." (Shashlik is Russian for shish- kabobs and Hasenpfeffer is German for rabbit stew.) I never asked about the chicken one and won't ask about this latest one either.

I'm so confused. It's like he tells me one thing and then puts something out there that he knows I will see that tells me he wasn't completely honest. What am I supposed to do with that? Is he trying to peak my curiosity ... get attention? Is he trying to get caught in ... well, not a lie ... but in misleading me? It doesn't make sense that he would portray leading a somewhat boring life and then post a pic that says the opposite. Did he just think his friends would get a kick out of the pic and forget that he didn't tell me about his festival?

Not that I really care about some festival celebration, but still???? What the heck is going on here and am I supposed to notice? Does he want/expect me to ask about it? My gut says ignore it but maybe I'm wrong. I think I'll resume my spot in the backstage shadows unless someone has another, better approach.