He said he's seeing someone new

[Ophelia]

Thanks guys! I have to admit to feeling a bit silly posting it, so it's nice to have it received so well. It hasn't solved all my problems of course, but I think just the process of envisioning the bitterness, anger and jealousy seep out of my skin and being washed away and soaking into the ground has been like having a weight lifted off me. Here's hoping it stays lifted!

What a lovely post Ophelia! I adore it! What a wonderful image.

I would love to quote you in my blog about the rain washing away the crud (you'd be in good company: I've quoted Grasshopper, ToughLover and AmyC to name a few of the 'famous' here) - all anonymously, and with permission, of course!

Wow! I definitely didn't expect a response like that! Yes, of course you can post it in your blog if you wish, BI. I'd be honoured, in fact. You can take the little snippet from the beginning of this post as well if you so desire.

I agree that it was a very nice post Ophelia. The weird thing is I can see it in my head while reading your post. I would like to do it here the next time it rains but it's kind of cold right now LOL and in the summer I didn't want to get hit by lightning so I think I still to do the shower

Yeah, I don't think you wanna try it in the middle of winter or in the middle of a storm. Getting struck by lightening probably wouldn't make you feel a whole lot better.

Excellent. Well one. That's a perfect reaction. (I'm also very jealous of Bris getting that much rain - it hasn't rained here for months)

On the rare occasion it does rain, it usually passes over pretty quickly, and of course it never falls over the dams, so it never does much good to ease the drought.

Do you have Australia DAy things planned?

Just the BBQ I mentioned a few posts back, where I'm taking the morning shift and H is taking the afternoon shift so we can both go without having to be there at the same time.

I've decided that I'm not gonna let that ruin the BBQ for me though. It's his issue if he wants to be that immature that he has to have our friends arrange a schedule just so he doesn't have to run into me. I realise that my relative psycho-ness last weekend is a contributing factor to him not wanting to be around me right now, but you know what, he didn't have to drop the bomb the way he did, when he did, (I'm half wondering if he chose to tell me a week before the BBQ in the hopes that I wouldn't want to go to it after that), and he didn't have to go hooking up with someone else to begin with. He made the choices that created this situation, so he's the one who has to live with that, so I'm gonna try not to beat myself up over it and make myself feel bad. I'm just gonna go along and enjoy the couple of hours I'll have to catch up with friends I haven't seen in ages, have a few drinks and have a good time.

I hope you have a good Australia Day, too!