"Just got back from weekend political event #1, Meet the Candidate and Give Her Money. Yikes."

I saw the problem right off the bat without having 2 read your post: It was WEDNESDAY. That's as far from a weekend as you can get, pretty much.

No WONDER you had all kinds of twilight zone events going on... ...I wouldn't be surprised if you told me that you'd tossed a dime in the til and it s2d on edge the whole time you were there. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


Speaking of which (not that we were)... ...for some inexplicable reason, I'm goofy about afterlife movies and books. Loved Ghost (saw it many times), loved the book "A fine and Private Place" (Peter Beagle) - probably the best such around.

But your political event story (and my twilight zone read of it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) reminded me of one of my favorite Jennifer Connelly movies on that kind of subject: "Waking the Dead". Hard 2 describe, so I won't. You've gotta see it.

-ol' 2long

2L, since I am operating on 2 hours sleep and don't care if I sound like an idiot, what is OOSP? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Oh, FF!! I don't know what to say. I wish I did but I don't. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" />

Part of me wants to spout off at him every scummy name I've ever heard, but I know that won't help.

I am so sorry. Sooo sorry, Luv. All your time. All that dedication.


Lifting you and your little ones up.

Thanks, SLH

FF,

I'm lurking....and nauseated by your recent discovery. I can only hope that someday.....something......ANYTHING positve can come about from this for you personally. It's tough to be a "glass half full" person under the circumstances. I don't know what else to say.

Blech!

Out of State Property

Binder, thanks. Yep you just described me. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Thanks 2L, too obvious huh <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Binder, you still around? Been thinking of you and your sitch. Give us an update, will you?

slh

Well, she was uncertain today. I went by to pick her up, so we drove to the lawyer's office together. When I got there, she wasn't dressed (at 2:30). She looked GOOD wearing a pink camasole kind of thing. I waited while she changed. While we drove, we talked about what would do if we stayed married - and she was still talking about that when we drove up in the parking lot. She said she felt "stomach sick".

We went in, the secretary showed us to a tiny conference room. We sat at the table, the 3 of us. DD4, blissfully unaware, was drawing on some kind of magnetic sketch pad that they offered her to play with. W said "Are we really doing this? It doesn't seem real." I just looked at her. We signed, I paid, and we left. As we drove, she asked what it takes to stop it now. "Do we both have to agree to stop it?" My reply "I don't know." She wanted to go somewhere and eat. I declined, on the basis that I needed to get back to work. When we got to her place, she even looked a little sick.

Whatever.

To stop this, she's got to appeal to me with full force, not with hints. She's got to say plainly "I want to stay married to you. This was all a mistake. I will do whatever it takes." But, GC, it ain't gonna happen.

-AD

AD, posted on your thread regarding the D.

2long, hope the memorial service is nice and I know it will be. Can you post the poem here which you wanted to read? I hated to say goodbye to my parents, so I didn't. Still talk to them all the time. And in my dreams they even talk back. I love it when I dream of them.

Gray, how about that link?

Weaver, I'll talk to the guys, see what we'll need to set up to do it more official-like. Sit tight just a bit, 'kay?

This weekend, some of my work will CULMINATE. My boss is dropping off a compressor and a nailgun, and I'm putting up the crown moulding in my living room. For the first time since summer '03 the room will look right.

Feels great to be getting some visible results, finally.

Another political thing this afternoon. Hope I don't get freaked out this time.

GC

Indulgent GC! Do I abuse this resource?

I went to my political thing. As expected, the November Girl was not there. Least I wasn't nervous.

Something occurs from me from time to time. Despite my own suffering this past year... I think I had it easy. Fence-sitting, dishonest, relapsing WS like FF's WH put their loved ones through a meat grinder, over and over. Good golly.

I never have written about this, but a few months ago, I had a phone conversation with Dr. Harley. It wasn't a coaching call. The tinman had, in one of his hysterical affadavits, attempted to portray MB as a subversive organization, and I wanted the Dr. to be aware of it (esp. since it happened in his very own home state). I made a few calls, and eventually tracked him down. We spoke for about an hour.

He was entirely dismissive of the tinman's feeble efforts to tar his organization. But that aside, we had a long conversation.

He asked me to tell him my whole story, then he told me to get out.

GC

Wow, GC didn't know you had spoken to Harley. My sit is a nightmare.

GC, I will email you the link for something different for the minis.

StillLovinghim,

Thanks for the inquiry regarding my situation. Instead of cluttering this thread with my relatively mundane divorce proceedings, I’ll resurrect an old thread of mine and put it there to give it some context. First things first though:

still seeking said:



Thank you for the invitation to comment on MB’s own renaissance man who yet again has raised the bar for the rest of us knuckle-draggers. Now he’s a writer too….Great. I’m sure he won’t be reading this as he’s probably scouring the internet looking for some poor dying soul hooked up to dialysis with a matching blood type that he can donate a kidney to. Though it will interrupt his daily ritual of going to the veteran’s hospital to read to the blind.

Geez, GC…cool it! I’ll never get the female perspective on my stuff if they’re all ooooooohing and aaaaaahing over you!!

And isn’t this supposed to be a campfire discussion. Shouldn’t we be debating which caliber rifle is the best in a mountain sheep hunt while sipping some fine Canadian rye whisky? All of us should be smelling of smoke, sweat and gun oil. Let’s focus people!

Binder you big faker. Spelling renaissance correctly gave you away, dude. Put down that Chaucer volume and have one a those cheap Canuck beers.

GC

On my end... went out for a bit tonight. A guy I know is moving to L.A. in a week. He was there with a (fine) girl he dated for a while, but now they're "just friends".

She does some political work. The subject of November Girl came up. She asked me NG's name. Thinks she might know her.

When they left, she put her hand on my back and gave me some sugar. Nobody else could see it. Daddy.

Good god, I'm hard up. Sad, sad.

GC

No way Binder, save it for boy's night out. This is a co-ed campfire.

Well okay you can have your little beer drinking, gun polishing, hunting story night, but then us girls are going to have our moon dancing, love spell casting, flower braiding, folk singing night.

And JJ will cook for both. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Gray,

Too funny about the lower back sugar, or whatever you were talking about. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

...any loving is good loving so I took what I could get yeah I took what I could get, and she said you aint seen nothing yet. Bababababy you just aint seen nothing yet.

Y'all,

May I ask for prayers? Both my and H's entire family live in the New Orleans / Baton Rouge, LA area -- where some of the most devestation is destined to occur when hurricane Katrina hits. With sustained 175 mph winds (and gusts in excess of 200 mph), they are seeking safety but even then, "safe areas" are limited and not entirely safe under those conditions. There are scenerios where the entire LA electrical grid may be shut down for weeks, the 20 ft levees may be demolished due to the storm surge, skyscrapers could wobble and even collapse, etc. I am so concerned for my parents and sisters, and their families.

I hope to get over there and help with the cleanup, etc as soon as I can. It's 4 hours or so from here.

I'd appreciate if you guys would remember them in prayer.


slh

prayers for ya, hon.

Prayers SLH.

Good news ya'll. I got a job. FT. I can quit where I work now (from home for the company I worked for in Corpus). I might even have to check in less than I do now, but it's a GOOD thing.

Wookie called me earlier. Sit down ya'll. Fan yourselves. He told me that since I'm going back to ft work, he wants me to make a "chore chart" for him and the kids. He said he'd even do laundry - towels and whites, cos you can't screw those up, if'n we sort 'em first. I swear. I thought Rod Serling was gonna come up an pinch me (pronounced "peench").

D'ya know it's been since b4 his mom died (and his subsequent dive into depression, alcohol and the a) since I've not done EVERYTHING and worked full time? I dunno how to act.

So I pretended to have the vapors and pass out.

- Kimmy