Yeah, the vote has been rocked at my precinct. Strange though, the line for the Democratic primary wrapped all the way outside the door, but there were only 5 people ahead of me for the Republican primary (the line was a little longer by the time I was done). Sad.

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It was pretty busy at mine. I was waiting for my Mom but even though she got off early the traffic prevented her from making it here from Houston.

I zoomed up there pretty close to 7 with a smile.

I was almost afraid Gray would show up. But I doubted it. It took me YEARS to finally get him to register. I doubt he changed precincts in order to vote with Slag.

What a shame. Oh well, his loss. It's not my problem is he doesn't like to exercise, be it physical or his right to vote.

He should do it while he can, seeing as he might end up with a felony on his record.

I am sitting here taking a break from doing inventory and just finished talking to my DIL.

I am so interested to see what is coming up next in this saga.

Oh yeah, and I had a dream on Tuesday a.m. that made wake up suddenly.

I was dreaming that Gray (well, he was Jonesy, or pretending to be) was with me and our house was actually a house where my Mom's house used to be before it was torn down because of the fire.

I went to work and when I came home he had cleaned the place out. I was lamenting to my Mom and what am I gonna tell my Doberman, blah blah blah and my Mom said, "Don't worry, you can still....."

I don't know what finished the sentence. I woke up. Freaky deaky, ya'll!!!!!!

LOL!!!

That's 3 dreams with the theme of him trying to trick me. I guess I don't have to worry about falling for any crap he might come out with.

So THERE!!!!! Take THAT! Mr. Gray!!

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Charlotte, have you ever done stand up comedy? You're hysterical!

LOL!! Thank you, Bellevue!! That's so sweet!! No, I haven't but I've been making so many people laugh lately that maybe I ought to rethink my career!!!!!!

LMAO!!

Well, still no deposit so my Shiny Attorney prepared a fax. And signed it: with love and kisses, Charlotte!! LOL!!

Had me in stitches, he did!!!!!

So we'll see what happens now.

So curious, am I. So, so curious!!!

charlotte,

Well, you have fought the good fight.

I really, REALLY wish you well. You have come SO FAR!

And, I know you know this, but you are so WORTHY.

Don't forget this. And... we will see what happens, but you are a success, no matter what. I have witnessed such a wonderful change in you.

Love in Christ,
Miss M

Thank you, Miss M!!!

I feel so blessed!!!! So many good things are happening and keep happening and I feel so good about life!!!!

And thank you for saying so because sometimes I don't feel worthy, or I guess a better way to put it would be that I don't deserve it. I don't think this very often but it does pop in once in a while, still.

I feel like I've been granted a new lease on life. I called my situation "reinventing the wheel," but I like my sister's description: Rebirth.

I never thought it would happen, really. But WOW!!!!!

EVERYTHING is SO amazing now!! I'm so glad to be alive!!

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sorry, couldn't resist a "John McClane!!!!"

Well, Mr. Gray made the deposit today, LOL!!!!!

Now that he's been "scolded" by my Shiny Attorney he's really going to be gunning for me now!!!!!! LOL!!!

Yeah...just let him try!!!

Hmmm, must not be very happy if he's trying to disturb my peace, eh?

Didn't work, Gray! I thought it was hilarious!!

Bring it OAN, Cletus!!!!! Bring it OOOOOOOAAAAAANNNNN!!!!!!

You always crack me up, Charlotte. Mr. Gray has to be missing you.

Your Shiny Attorney? Not Your Doberman?

Thank you, believer!!!

Yeah, you might be right on the money there, seen as how he's starting to make noise and all....hee hee hee!!!!!

Hi cinderella!!

Oh yes, he was my Shiny Attorney waaaaaay before he was my Doberman! I forget how many other nicknames he has now.

Special people, friends and family always have multiple nicknames. Just one of those things!

Well, to be fair, sometimes strangers do too, like the people seen frequently around our town...there's Lurch...and we used to have Norman Bates. I have no idea what happened to him. And that guy that marches around dressed in all black fatigues. Head to toe.

One of my brother's nicknames is Ruta-Shrum-Shrum. From when he was a baby. My sister probably has about 40. My grandson already has about 20 and he's not a year old yet!

Looks like he's going to pass my sister up in the nickname department. Uh-oh!! She's not gonna like dat atall!!!

LOL!

If I had any doubt that Mr. Gray is trying to get to me, it is erased. Last week I saw the picture he put in his IM. Yeah, I know, I'm not supposed to look.

Sorry!!

I was just keeping an eye out. He wasn't online since Friday, the day Emperor Palpitine received the fax. He was on today, though. I wonder if it was related? Who knows? Who cares?

Anyway, I'm not going to check on him anymore. Today is it. Unless something compels me to check like when the mysterious headline was discovered. Other than that, no conscious checking.

Well, he'll be 52 this month and he hates Daylight Savings Time so I guess it's now his mission to attempt to make me miserable.

Well, I laughed. I saw it for the pitiful thing it was. I guess he's not very happy, eh? Or he needs to think I'm miserable so he's happy? Well, it won't work.

All he's doing is shooting himself in the foot. It makes me want to NOT talk to him, ever. As long as I live. Even after she dumps him.

He's only hurting himself. I guess he hasn't gotten the help he needs. Maybe he never will. I don't need to be around that. I had no idea he was so damaged.

So that's the latest report.

I feel that he is not through making noise yet. I suspect my Doberman will receive another letter from the Dark Side soon. More demands, etc. Off with her head, etc.

He jes' doan know who he's foolin' with!!!

I'm not afraid of him. The Goblin King has NO power over me!!

Rock on!!

LOL...you call your atty "The Doberman"! I call mine "The Pitbull" and he laughs when I call him that.

LOL! Yeah, his M.O. is totally Dobie!!

I've never had a pit bull as a pet friend but Dobies I've had, hence the nickname.

Dobies are sleek, handsome, silent and DEADLY!!

They'll have Mr. Gray by the throat before he even realizes they are there! Yep!

Well, I went into my eBay account today to get an incense order ready for a customer. I decided to delete Gray's account out of my seller favorites. I had been meaning to but hadn't got around to it.

I didn't think he was even using it. I figured he had another account by now or maybe even before "Brave New World," so he could sell things on the sly.

I decided to take a look, just for grins, and lo and behold!! He's been back to the usual: buying, buying, buying. He's going to run through his half of the bonus money and hers really quick.

Heck, he may have already run through his. Tomorrow the second support payment of the month is supposed to be deposited.

We'll see if he'll be up to the dickens again and not deposit it right away like last time.

His XW echoed me about feeling that he's not done yet causing trouble. Her words: "Get ready."

I'm ready, Cletus!!! Bring it OAN!

Have a great weekend, All!!

Hi all you Beautiful People!!!

I just had to drop in with an update.

Still "Livin' it up on Friday Night" in Plan B!!

If any of you out there are afraid of Plan B, DON'T BE!!!!!

Plan B is the best thing you can do for yourself!! I didn't want to believe it at first. I was told how necessary and good B was and while my lips and vocal cords formed an agreement, my mind was holding me back. I knew I had to do it, though.

Yeah, it was tough at first. I drank too much vodka for a while. But one day I woke up and I had no desire for booze. I wasn't going to let them turn me into an alcoholic. Well, I would have been the one responsible for turning into an alcoholic but I wasn't about to do that! It would have just allowed them to keep controlling me, in a way. Now I am back to my nearly teetotaler self...once in a while but not often. I even had a Bloody Mary one day with my meal because I know the restaurant has FANTASTIC Bloody Marys.

Anyway, now the money that would have been wasted on alcohol goes towards dance lessons. And I'm getting pretty good! My teacher was so excited the other day we did a "high 10" and he gave me a big hug.

Who knows? Maybe I will even compete someday. Well, my legs will be in fantastic shape by the time we have to go back to court, so I am happy about that because Mr. Gray always had a thing for my legs. Well, now he can "read 'em and weep!"

I was joking around about doing a promenade up the courthouse steps with my Shiny Attorney...of course that's not proper courthouse decorum but it would be fun! LOL! Just to see the look on Gray's face would be priceless!

Oh that would be so funny! I guess I'd better not even THINK about it, I'll be in too much of a jovial mood in court when I need to be somber.

Well, this coming week I'm starting belly dancing just to add to the fun. I want to learn EVERYTHING!! Even tap dancing, but I'll have to find another studio for that. Mine teaches everything BUT tap dancing. Even Adult Hip-hop. LMAO!!

Gray is going to be sorry he never took dance lessons with me. Wow! It's so much fun!!!!

He would dislike it even more because my teacher is at least 20 years younger than him and he's very demonstrative...I have no idea if all dancers or all teachers are that way but mine is. I don't mind. It's not sexual at all. Just a hug and a kiss on the cheek after a wonderful dance session.

I finally got my Boogie Shoes last week so now I'm dancing in heels instead of flats. And I can still dance! Woo-hoo!! I'm going to have to build up some heel callouses, though. Terrible blisters, but I kept dancing!! Luckily our session was over before I wore through another layer of flesh. LOL!

So...in other news:

Mr. Gray didn't make the support payment again when he was supposed to so he got yet another "scolding" from my Doberman. Gray's XW said that Gray is going to do this until it's time to go back to court. Yeah, he'll do it until my Doberman gets fed up with the game and hauls his butt in. LOL!

Why he wants to risk that is beyond me! But it doesn't bother me at all. Not like he thinks it probably does. Just a petty game from a petty mind that used to be sweet and creative. What a shame.

I'm hoping that someday he will straighten up his act for the kids. They are suffering way more than I am. I am there for them as much as I can be. I have given money to ODS and DIL to help them out and I'm going to do so again. Even my sister helped them out a bit.

Meanwhile, Gray spends whatever money he has left on his "hobby."
What a world, what a world!! Just wait until Dorothy throws that bucket of water on him and he starts to melt!!

As far as OWH is concerned, I haven't heard a thing. He can call me if he wants to but I guess he's just doing his thing. My Doberman asks about him once in a while. He said he's going to call him and see how he's doing and what's up. He knows I'm not going to call OWH because OWH will likely want to talk about the infidels and I have no desire to know what's going on in Affair Land.

What I DO know is that Gray has been online a LOT! Even in the wee hours. His IM hasn't been idle either, so he's been talking to someone. I told my Doberman that maybe he has another girlfriend. My Doberman said, "Well, she lives with him, doesn't she?" I said, "Yeah. But that didn't stop him before, did it?" LOL! "You're right!!!" he says, and we had a good laugh.

It doesn't hurt me at all to talk about that. It even came up with my Mom not long ago. She didn't know that they were living together. I told my Doberman after I got the confirmation from my DIL. And that was it. I didn't tell anyone else. Well, except for my Doberman's paralegal. Just the two of them. Because even though I knew that they were probably cohabitating, it still irked me back then when it was confirmed by my DIL. Well, not anymore!

And I can see he's still up to his old tricks with the buy, buy, buy. I'm sure that makes him really popular. Even more so when their apartment gets more and more full of CRAP!!!

I'm still working on inventory at home. It's a long, slow process but little by little, step by step, it's getting done. I thank my Guardian Angels, the Man above and my lucky stars that I gave that parting shot to my Doberman before the hearing about that stuff! And that he remembered, too. I was walking out of his door when I brought it up.

Yeah, Plan B is the way to go. Removed from the garbage dump, you will soon notice that the odor is going away! And you will come out of the whole mess smelling like a rose!!

I used to roll my eyes at those old cliches about the Phoenix rising from the ashes...the rose rising out of the manure...but ya' know what? They are SPOT ON.

My life just keeps getting better. And the better it gets, the less I want to have anything at all to do with Gray. I'm starting to think that maybe this whole thing was a wake-up call from God...that no matter what condition I was in, this A would have happened. I think Gray just can't form any lasting bond with anyone, not even his children.

One night his XW and I were psychoanalyzing him through text messaging. LOL! She thinks he's this way because he just didn't have a lot of affection from his parents while growing up. I think that because they moved around so much during his early years that that may have added to it. We are probably both right.

Clearly he needs professional help. I really hope he gets it someday.

Meanwhile, his wife keeps learning and growing while he stagnates in the Bog of Eternal Stench. The Goblin King has no power over me. If he thinks he does he is sadly mistaken. There is absolutely NOTHING he can do to me that will affect me. That's over.

I think I'll be able to...NO...make that...I KNOW I'll be able to go into court with my head held high, nimble and light on my feet on dancer's legs, (LOL!) and face him with no problem at all. I pass the plate to my Doberman, which is as it should be, and I trust him implicitly, when I should have no business trusting anyone. I will not be needled into any arguements with Gray or Emperor Palpitine. They will NOT get my goat!

And all of this is thanks to everyone here who came to my rescue when my world was falling apart. I can never thank all of you enough for giving me the courage to do what needed to be done. I don't know how to repay. I don't know how to BEGIN to repay God for all of the blessings he has given me. And that was AFTER I stopped talking to Him for a really long time after a family tragedy. I thought He didn't care about me. I was wrong. I am sorry.

He led me here to all of you. And since that day I have been more alive than I have been in years. Maybe EVER! I told a friend I was reinventing the wheel but my sister said it better. Rebirth. And that's what it has been.

Thanks so much to everyone here!!!!!!! Gigantic hugs all around!!!!!

I will be FOREVER grateful to all of you and all of my wonderful new friends that have been found because of this situation. New bonds forged out of the pit of hell. New bonds with new people and new bonds with family. All made stronger.

I think I'll be able to read that lady's book now. The one with the title that's something along the lines of, "My Husband's Affair was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me." Something like that. I'm sure we have all seen that book when searching for books on affairs and marriage. LOL!

Heck, maybe I'll write one myself! I've been getting a lot of that lately, compliments on my writing. I've written since I could write. Even my Doberman asked me where I learned to write like I do. I've had no formal training, though. So maybe I'll take classes in creative writing along with the culinary arts. (Because my sister will hound me FOREVER if I don't go to culinary school! She's always going on and on about how my cakes are so much better than some dude on the Food Network.) Okay, so I'll be the Dancing Chef Writer, the Writing Dance Chef...oh yeah, and I'm still going to get my pilot's license so...the Dancing Chef Writer Pilot. LOL! Something like that!

Then again, I almost went to law school some years ago until I changed my mind. So who knows? I would go into criminal law, though, probably. I'd have to be a prosecuting attorney, though. I've thought about it so much because my uncle was murdered when I was 5 years old. By his "best friend." Over a woman. And the "friend" only received 10 years probation. So that's always been a thing with me.

I don't know what the future holds but there's a whole big ol' world out there just waiting to be discovered!

Which is why I'm wondering if this whole thing wasn't a wake up call from God for ME. Or maybe it was for Mr. Gray? Maybe both. At any rate I guess I'd better sign-off for now! This might be the longest post I've ever written. (Maybe, I can't recall at the
moment...but if not the longest, then well...dang close!)

Sorry for rambling on. (There I go, thinkin' I'm Robert Plant again! LOL!)

Oh yeah, just one more thing, Columbo...I had a wonderful week because my nieces got to come for a visit from CA. They are 7 now. My Mom spent a small fortune on plane tickets for a short amount of time but it was so wonderful! So much better than the last time they visited, which was not very long after D-Day.

WOW! What a difference this time!!!

So, again, if anyone has any lingering doubts about Plan B, wipe them away without any fear!! You CAN do this! You WILL heal! With or without your WS, you WILL make it! And it is WONDERFUL!!

Have a great weekend, All!!!

Charlotte

Charlotte....YOU ARE AN INSPIRING WOMAN!!!!!

It's so wonderful to hear how good things are going. You have found a new life that is filled with happiness. Awesome.

Dancing huh? I've thought many times about taking a lesson. It would definitely be out of my comfort zone, but it looks like fun!

You keep going girl! You are amazing!

Aw, shucks, MicheleG!!!

Thank you!!!!! You made me feel so good!!!

Oh, you should take a lesson!! I'm sorry I waited so long!! I was waiting for Jonesy to take lessons with me...I should have gone ahead long, long ago!!!

It's GREAT!!!!

There's a really beautiful lady at the studio who is a dancer and she's going to be in a competition over the weekend. If I can even get to be HALF as good as she I will be over the moon!!

You know that saying...about "Tripping the Light Fantastic?" Oh, Man!! That is her!! She moves like the wind...and she's so graceful and happy...like she could dance 24 hours a day and never sleep or eat!!!

WOW!!! I love to watch her and her partner. Watching them, it's hard to pull your eyes away.

But yeah, I thought I'd be self-conscious about dancing but that didn't even bother me. I was surprised. Happily surprised! Still working on those hip moves, though! LOL! I'm hoping that the belly dancing will make me a little less inhibited as far as that goes.

Otherwise...no problem! I've even started to get bold enough to add a little flair!!! LOL!!!

Now I just need to get my Doberman back over there before he works himself to death! He told me the other day that he'd started lessons over there with his paralegal but he quit because of time constraints.

I was like...at THAT studio? You are pulling my leg!! LOL!!!

It was so funny because I researched every studio in town before deciding to go with that one. Small world I guess! LOL!!

Yeah...and I lucked out with my teacher too because he is not promiscuous like a lot of dancers are. Not all, but a lot. He even quit dancing for a while because he got disgusted with all of that nonsense. But he came back because he loves dance. We had a long discussion about that one day and I felt so much better after that and more relaxed.

I knew that I was in the right place when I found out what his name was. LOL! I told him about that, too. I told him the whole Gray situation.

He knows that if he ever gets married he'll have to give up dance. Unless his wife is a dancer. So he'll either never be married or he'll have a dancer wife! I hope it works out for him. He's such a nice guy. And so wise beyond his years.

And yeah, at this point in Mr. Gray's life, my teacher is more mature than Mr. Gray. 20+ years younger and more mature. Well, I don't know why that even surprises me. LOL!

Well, there I go, rambling again!

It's funny you posted to me this a.m. I was just messing around and went to my first post here in GQII and saw that you were the first one to post to me here. And here you are!

I don't even know why I'm still up. I probably slept an hour last night. My sister drove my nieces and my Mom to the airport and they left around 5:30 so we were all up late anyway...and that was AFTER we took the girls riding yesterday. Even my DIL came over. It was a beautiful day! One of those days where it seems like everything is in harmony. The planets are in alignment and everything is beautiful.

Well, I'd better bug out or I'll just keep "talking" and typing away! LOL!

Have a wonderful weekend!

GO CHARLOTTE!!