After a week of adjusting to a bachelor's life, I figure its time to jot down some notes.
First all ...
From Bets:
Quote: Maybe you can make a grid and put it on the fridge (your funny suggestion brought to mind D11 and my days with potty training her), and title it, "KAW's Potty Training Progress" and put those stars in it as they apply?
Bets, I don't find it all that appealing to revert back to my early childhood years, but I did consider a chart titled "KAW's Potty Mouth Training Progress", but even that brought back memories of the days of getting my mouth washed out with soap.
Raindeer thanks for the support and Mooka thanks for dropping by. I only hope that CAW may eventually follow the path back that your H is taking. In the meantime, I have gone a very dark gray. The only conversations I've had this week with CAW are a couple about arranging D11's schedule for this week ... nothing else. We had set up that D11 would take the school bus to come over after school on Wednesday and we would spend time together all day Thursday too as there was no school. At first it seemed a bit awkward for the both of us, but we got thru it. Played a couple rounds of chess as D11 signed up for a 6th grade chess tournament and wanted to get some practice in. I had hope she would spend the night, but she said she was still trying to get used to sleeping at the apartment and wanted to stay there until she can sleep thru the night. She seemed pretty adamant about it so I didn't push it. Thursday morning I picked her up and we had a full rich day, which we both enjoyed. She helped me make some corn muffins and with moving the aquarium to where CAW's dresser use to be. (My first major rearranging in CAW's absence to free up a corner to put a new computer desk.) Then we went to the local library to return some books and so D11 take out some new ones. She wanted her own library card so we got that too. Then we did some shopping for dinner and I bought myself a belated B-day gift ( a totally frivolous item ... an OCC diecast model chopper) and D11 got a "spider" yo-yo she's been searching for and finally found at this store. We got home and preceded to make dinner together. Sweet & sour chicken with rice, fried egg rolls, mixed veggies and fried cornbread balls we made from scratch. D11 commented how we make a good team. D11 watched a little TV as I cleaned up the kitchen and then we played another game of chess, then she wanted to watch "Joey". I had to check with CAW as I was suppose to drop D11 by at 8:30 and the show wouldn't be over until then. So I called and she was OK with it.
I only have seen CAW twice. Each time being when I escorted D11 back to the apartment. After I would put down the armful of stuff carried in, and giving D11 a big hug would CAW appear looking kinda sullen as D11 would give her a rundown and CAW wouldn't really say anything so after saying my goodbyes to D11, I would excuse myself and leave.
Previously, I mentioned that CAW's D24 and her BF ( of about 6 months) were arranging to move in from Pittsburgh, PA by the end of the month. D11 brought up that D24's BF has decided to stay in Pittsburgh. Since they were getting along very well, this had D24 pretty down and D11 mentioned that CAW is feeling guilty about being the cause of them breaking up. Interesting .... (Bets, could make a sarcastic comment or two here, but will let it go...)
Anyway, work has been extremely busy and some evening have been spent with D19 as well. (Will post about this later.), so there's only been a couple of nights alone at the house. That really sucks tho, but I'm managing to get thru it.
Quoting Mooka:
Quote: Meet new people or hang with those that make you laugh/smile. That was great medicine for me.
Yes, over the past year, I recognized I need to do this, but I never was any good at it. I have always been very introvert and feel very uncomfortable approaching a group of strangers I've never seen before, so I tend not to be a very good conversationalist. Guess I need to make this my number one goal. Any suggestions would be helpful.
