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In a Bizarre Twist of Fate in These Foolish Things
I started Friday night with a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. Nothing to do and nowhere to go, really. I started walking and walking. I walked to the park and walked around it about t...
Bits and Pieces in These Foolish Things
I have another RAD to do, but I should tell you that I went on Date #2 with Matt last week (last Tuesday, actually), and it was nice. But he kept telling me about all the women he used to date a...
RAD - Matt in These Foolish Things
Name: Matt (name changed) Age: 53 Status: Divorced twice. First marriage = 17 years, Second = around 3? Single for 4ish years. Job: Directs three hospice care facilities Lives: In a neig...
Ten Things. in These Foolish Things
While I’m weary of talking about my love life, I do have a date tonight and I may…MAY be doing a Rate-A-Date at some point in the near future. I’m a bit leery of this dude. We’ve only texte...
A Plan. in These Foolish Things
I think I have a plan with regards to this SP thing: Operation End It All – Once and For All (OEA –OFA). I know that this is not the most sophisticated plan, but I’m leaving for China in one mon...
Stars, Time, Space in These Foolish Things
Horoscope of the Day: September 22, 2014 Welcome to the surreal world, Scorpio. Your creative and spiritual channels blow wide open as the Sun decamps to Libra and your ethereal twelfth house for...
So Here's the Thing... in These Foolish Things
Turns out, I wasn’t doing that well with the SexyPants stuff. Over the last few weeks I have been obsessing over him and the loss of the relationship as it were and what the fuck is it now? He ...
Eight Things in These Foolish Things
1. It’s a numbers thing: Weight is finally heading back to normal. I don’t know why I’m surprised that my weight inches up when I take my eye off the ball. I’ve been writing this stuff down for...
Elegant Exit in These Foolish Things
There’s a term that the new CEO at my company uses to address a portion of the business that is no longer viable and we want to get out of smoothly, and that’s “elegantly exit”. In other words, ...
Weekends = Crazies in These Foolish Things
…and I do literally mean mentally ill-grade crazy. Let’s see. Where shall I begin? Last weekend. Crazy #1: I’d gone for my big weekly walk-and-talk with SP (no grief, please – it’s therape...
08/08/08 in These Foolish Things
I've started no less than three entries this week and I can't seem to get the words out. Today, August 8th, would have been my 6th Wedding Anniversary with Bryan had we married. How strange to ...
Updates on Various in These Foolish Things
Work: Maybe I’m just bored, but I’m just not into it right now, and I really, really should be! Right now is the time I should be striking while the iron is hot. I should be spending more of my...
Action Steps in These Foolish Things
Hello. How are things? I’ve been thinking a lot about where I’m going in life and what I want to do with myself. I gotta say (over and over and over), it’s time to start living and to stop wai...
Days Fly By in These Foolish Things
The days sure do fly by. I started writing this on Wednesday. It’s now Friday. Here’s what I wrote and then I’ll continue: Wednesday, July 16th Another day, another day. We all get older. ...
Listy in These Foolish Things
Whelp, weekend has come and gone and I did have a nice one. And yes, I saw SP. And I’m beginning/continuing to feel a little bit foolish. Thing is, I do miss him when we’re apart. And I do wo...
Lost Weekends in These Foolish Things
Wrote an entry yesterday that just made me want to gag, so it’s private. Over the last couple of weekends, I’ve had amazing, amazing times. First, it was a lost weekend in a town close by – fan...
Stalemate in These Foolish Things
Let's backtrack six weeks. I was on my way to feeling OK about where I was in terms of grief. Well, maybe I wasn't. I was still on the floor and crying my heart out most nights, but when I was...
Back From China in These Foolish Things
Went to China and then came back. I normally dread the trip and this time was no different. These trips (I go to China twice a year) are extremely stressful as I have so much to get done while...
Mega Updates in These Foolish Things
So much, so much to update. I guess I’ll just dig right in. The Bulldog has been hanging around and it’s been fun. I guess the last time I wrote, he was in and out and in and out. And it was ...
Too Heavy in These Foolish Things
I am an idiot. Yes, I’ve heard back from The Bulldog, but it has been in fits and starts. In a matter of a couple of weeks, we’ve gone like this: Texts --> Innuendo Texts --> Sexts --&...
Good News/Bad News in These Foolish Things
Well, good news/bad news with The Bulldog. I saw him again on Saturday!! Totally impromptu, but totally great! We had texted a lot on Friday and into Saturday and I was just having so much fu...
Swoony and Weird in These Foolish Things
Last evening, about an hour after I wrote my last entry, I decided to take The Bull(dog) by the horns and ask him to join me for a drink! I told him that he could come or not, but I was going to...
Briefs in These Foolish Things
So yeah. What’s new? State of My Grief: I don’t know, you guys. Here’s the latest I’ve been thinking about recently – he’s taking someone else on MY vacation!! Back months ago, SP invited me...
Weekend Update in These Foolish Things
It was Easter Weekend, and that meant that I had Good Friday off of work (aaaaahhhh), and it was a lovely, lovely, phenomenally beautiful weekend. Unfortunately for me, I had the worst two-day h...
High Point/Low Point in These Foolish Things
I think that feeling OK this past week or so was nature's way of giving me a survival tactic. Just when I think I'm going to be fine, BOOM, another big wave of sorrow and grief. I had it bad la...