Hey Pen...you are right about the Magnolia bark.Fess up, are you a chemist, biologist????? Yep, if there is sedative qualities at all for me (part human) then I will tend to gain weight if anything...and yes, I have. So back it goes!
DISCLAIMER: I reread what I wrote re Wonder Woman and realized that it sounded like her H (he of whom she was once OW) had left her....That isn't true.They had a rough spot BUT they are doing well now, I am happy to say. Sorry bout that. ANd WW posted her sitch in MLC, but I guess it really wasn't my place to repeat her telling, so I apologize for bringing up a name...that was indiscreet of me. (Luckily, WW is way cool and she won't hold it agin me ) So, Bets...kidling is back home. I hope my kidling comes home soon too, though she is strangely quiet these days. JUST IN FROM FRIEND LAWYER: the bad guy lawyer (Xs) called and wanted to know if we could make an offer so that I get the house and X 'gets something'. I tried to warn friend lawyer that this man (Xs lawyer) is a gameplayer and will try to dupe her. But then she yelled at me, said some mean stuff. She is a patent lawyer, and a neighbor and doing this basically pro bono. So, I chose to say I needed to get off the phone, then wrote her an email and said: you aren't obligated to do anything here. You offered, as a friend to write an argument becausse I lawyer couldn't or wouldn't. You wrote it. You weren't paid, we don't have a contract. You don't have to feel that you must continue. I thanked her for her help, but said that I just couldn't handle getting yelled at these days..and that I thought this was putting her under too much pressure. I offered to write the argument myself and , if she didn't mind, use lots of what she had already written. Our emails crossed and she apologized for yelling and of course there was a BUT. She felt that I was criticzing her when I told her that the Xs lawyer tried to psych people (PHD in Psych) ...and that 'lately' that's all I've done. (I haven't talked with her much at all for the last month since the trial date May 13...????) I think she is overwhelmed and on edge. ANyway, she says she will write the argument, and hopefully it won't ruin our friendship as it were. I guess I need to DB her don't I? So here's the upshot: if you don't DB your runaway spouse, you will end up having to DB your lawyer, his lawyer, the other bottom feeders in divorce law anyway. So: think of it like this..is it better to DB the father of my children or some lawyer charging $250 hour. Alrightie then, Bob Barker, come on down!
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