Second roller coaster ride (part 3)

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I'll lay off on trying to throw her some confusion this week with today's event, and her having to travel 11 hours away for her grandma's funeral. But I'll keep thinking about how to respond differently in future situations.

I'll give myself a B- on limiting responses. I've had a few moments where I fired out a lot of quick reactions, but I've left most of her texts without response,

I will say, when we did the house walk through a couple of weeks ago, I used your advice and threw out the idea of a sexual favor in exchange for something in the house she was wanting. She genuinely laughed at it. Makes me want to try some other things and see her reactions. Unfortunately not a lot of chances to interact with her in person. With S1 hand-offs being done at day care (she'll drop off & I'll pick up, or vice versa), we probably won't have very many in-person interactions right now.

Personal updates:

- Have not missed a gym session and am doing extra work at the house at night. Arms feel a little bigger, but that still might just be the extra blood supply while the muscles repair
- With the loss of weight due to stress the first 2 weeks, I'm finally able to fit a bunch of shirts I bought about a year ago. They're really nice dress shirts that were on clearance. So that's like a free 4-5 shirt upgrade
- After getting the upscale, white leather sneakers I've been wanting, I've now also upgraded my casual sneakers and scored a cool pair of boots for the fall on clearance
- Playing around with some modifications to my facial hair. Experimenting with a fade of the top portion of the beard. It makes my face look a little younger

To-do this week:
- Need a new aftershave, it's still my old scent.
- Also want to find another new cologne