He said he's seeing someone new

[Ophelia]

Well Friday is a public holiday here for Australia Day. Over the past several years, it's become tradition that a couple of our friends will have a BBQ on Australia Day, and we all play pool volleyball and get drunk on homemade daiquiris.

The couple that hosts the BBQ just had a baby girl on Christmas Eve, so they hadn't decided for sure if they were gonna have the BBQ this year, seeing as they're already flat out with a newborn and all.

So I emailed the guy who would be hosting it, asking if it was still on, and saying that I would like to come, though I knew it could possibly be tense with both myself and H there, particularly considering the OW bomb that just got dropped. I said that I really just wanted to go along and catch up with friends I haven't seen in ages, (and by ages, I mean the nearly 4 months since H left, because whenever he's hanging out with them, I can't be there as well, so I just haven't seen them).

Well I got a reply, and yes the BBQ is happening. He said that H, "has made it clear he wants to come and can't be there at the same time as you." But seeing as how they're friends with both of us, they don't want to exclude either of us, so he proposed the idea of me going along for a couple of hours until about lunchtime, and then after I've left, H will come over.

I replied and said that would be fine, and thanked them for including me, even though it's a complicated situation. I said that I hoped things wouldn't always be like this, and that I was sad it had come to this at all.

In other news, I sent MIL a txt just before to check if we're still meeting for lunch tomorrow. I haven't got a reply yet, so I'm starting to freak out a tad. I wouldn't think she'd cancel. I mean, the first time I called her last weekend, she asked if there was anywhere in particular I wanted to go, and the last time I called her, she told me not to worry, that I hadn't upset her and she didn't know what H was talking about with that. Please God don't let her cancel on me. I know it's bound to be an awkward lunch, but please don't let her cancel on me.