Hi Terri, how do you feel today? Being a brave girl and keeping the positive attitude?<br>I am afraid it's too late to get into any sort of coherent writing tonight ( today?), I am dead tired, it's report card time, and with all that has been happening in my life I'm afraid I left it for too late.<br>But I wanted to know how you are doing, and also to ask you if you received my e-mail. We are having problems with the e-mail and I can't be sure if it went trough or not. Please tell me if you received it. If you want to e-mail me at lwnd@ivillage.com please do, I don't know if I'm having problems only with sending or receiving as well.<br>As for me I had one of the "down days" today untill he called me from work just awhile ago. But I'll tell you about it tommorrow.<br>Hang in there,<br>Katya

Katya, I'm doing as okay as can be expected. Yesterday I was a little down, but not too bad. I'll try to email you ... I didn't receive an email from you as of this morning at 8am eastern time, though, but I've noticed that sometimes it takes a long time for email to wade through the maze of servers across the world!<p>I took care of some automotive things last night after work - had new tires put on the car and had a lube and oil change done. It felt good to accomplish something, and I got a pretty good deal, too, and no dirty hands! <p>I had to call him at work last night though, because he'd been in the apartment when I wasn't home. I was polite but told him "Please don't come here unless I'm here or unless you've asked me if it's okay first." And he got hurt and defensive and I said, "This isn't your home anymore - you made this choice, not me - I wanted you to stay." I know it's not technically "Plan A" type conversation, but it's not fair of him to assume that he can leave but still come and go as he pleases.<p>I called him again later about something else and I think we ended on a better note than the first time. Although he was supposed to come over to get some more things after work and didn't show up by the time I decided to go to bed at 12:30am... Too bad. His loss.<p>terri