Ciao, tutti! I have been absolutely slammed lately. Aren't I the one who ends every post with "take care"? I should have lost my license to say that after the past couple of weeks... stressful work sitch, stressful club sitch, bad drug reaction, no sleep, and a sinus infection. The one bright spot has of course been that wonderful man whom I married... remember him? The one I used to b!+@# about.
Somewhere in the midst of all of my illnesses I had a conflict come to a head in our Italian group.
I have to say that for all of the abuse this woman has dished out at me over the last month, I managed to keep my cool (when she was around) and only respond nicely to her harangues. Initially I took the pounding heart and sleepnessness to be a result of the stress this woman was causing in my life... nope that turned out to be a drug reaction causing me to react even worse to this woman. H spent a lot of time peeling me off of the ceiling, but at least I was so keyed up that I knew better than to try to talk to her. [The day we found out that it was a drug reaction keying me up, H and I started a joking that I was "mentally ill" for the day. It wasn't too far from the truth.]
So... in the midst of all of this turmoil, I was completely shocked when H told me that he thought I needed to tough out the club situation. This was quite a 180 for H, because he used to tell me to quit when I got upset.
Since I am the "leader" of the group, I had to sit the other woman down for a long, grueling talk. Calling people on the carpet is not my strong suit. H, rightly noting that I do not handle confrontation well, spent days coaching me. I can't say it went perfectly, but I did get an apology out of her and she did agree that she should be more careful what she says in e-mails. Of course, it's been four days since then and now she's switched to sending her poison pen letters to H. [rolls eyes] I had a feeling it was too easy.
I was named Organizer of the Week by the website that we run our Italian group through. I was mostly impressed that I was only the third honoree since they started the program. I have been doing a great job with the group; and H has been helping me. In fact, he will be facilitating a very important planning session for us this weekend. Stop the presses!!! We have a common hobby!!! The Italian group takes most of my time nowadays and I probably have some kind of function or meeting or class for it every other day. I try to dedicate a few nights each week to H, so he seems to be okay with my unavailability on the other nights. The housework went downhill this past week, but over the weekend H and I got things cleaned up and I've been energetically keeping things orderly. I also continue to impress H by hiding chocolate around the house, so that he can have some whenever he thinks there is none. Gee, I really am nice.
I hope everyone is doing well... and taking care of themselves. I'm going to bed. Buona notte! --z
