Hmmm

 

Quirks.  We all have them.  But to tell people?

 

Thanks Jean!

 

These are the rules. Link the person who tagged you. Mention the rules in your blog. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours. Tag 6 more blogger's by linking them. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger's blogs letting them know they've been tagged.

 

1.  I absolutely love flamingos. I think they are beautiful and graceful.  Until they fly. Then they just look plain silly.

2.   I talk to people everywhere I go.  Elevators, whatever.  I can't help myself.

3.   I am terrified of walking over a drawbridge.  Stepping across the small space between the halves scares me to death.  Talk about irrational.

4.   I hate when people say "shrimps" instead of shrimp.  Drives me crazy.

5.   I always have a song running through my head.  Sometimes I get theme going, like show tunes or bad 70's songs.

6.   I have to eat my food in order on my plate.  I can't mix it up.

Well, that's not very exciting, but there you go!  Now I'm tagging, Faerie Queen, the other blonde, Jennifer, Lee, Mum, and Ziggy.

I decided to get a bird feeder.  And I thought, well, I'll put it up on one of those Shepherd's hooks and maybe it will be safe from the squirrels.  Now, I don't mind if they eat some of the seed, but they always destroy the feeders in the process.

 

So I put it out in the garden area Sunday Night and filled it up.  Went to work Monday, came home and not only did they get into it, they chewed through the cable that held it up (and together)!  Now it's laying on the ground in pieces.  Didn't even last one full day.

 

Oh well.

 

Last week I got another bit of joyous news in the mail (insert sarcasm here).  My ex had requested that I be found in contempt and placed in the care of the local jail.  Because I hadn’t bothered to remove him from the title of my car.  In all fairness, it was in the divorce decree and I just plain forgot.  And I was reminded and still forgot.  But that still seems a little extreme to me.  And I was mad. VERY mad.

 

Coincidentally, I received this bit of mail on a day when my ex and the Stepford Wife had the girls for the evening.  So I had a couple hours to ruminate and become angrier and angrier.  By the time he dropped them off, I had worked up a good head of steam.  Truthfully, I was so mad I could barely see straight.  So I sent the girls into the house and told them I needed to talk with their father.

 

They went in, I turned to him and said, “I got your legal papers”, to which he replied, “OK”.

 

I asked him why he felt he had to handle it this way, and he said, “I’m doing the same thing you did to me”.

 

?

 

I said, “this is totally different.  You were lying and hiding that money”.  Then I looked at his wife and said, “you really should have checked him out before you married him.  Do you even know why we’re divorced?”

 

And she replied, “well, I know a little….”

 

I said, “We’re divorced because he got drunk and beat up the girls”

 

She says, “well, I heard a little something about that….”  And my ex looks at me and says “You need to stop now”.

 

I replied, “That’s the beauty of not being married to you, I don’t need to do anything for you”.

 

Then one of the girls came out.  I looked at her and asked her to go back into the house, but he grabbed the Stepford wife by the arm and walked away, saying, “we’re following everything to the letter of the law.  THE LETTER OF THE LAW.”

 

Sure.  Now that it suits him. 

Then today he emails me wanting to know if we’re expanding visitation to include Fridays starting this week.  What?  So I emailed back and said no, we haven’t even discussed that yet.

 

I should point out that we had a meeting at the girls’ school with a speech pathologist (which, ironically, is what the Stepford Wife is), I follow THE LETTER OF THE LAW, and gave them all of the information, they said they would be there, than didn’t show.  And since he doesn’t work, he had no reason to not be there.

 

Crap.  I’m turning into one of those bitter divorced women.

Our first truely beautiful day.  After running a variety of errands this morning (with the sunroof open and the radio blaring!!), the girls each had a friend over, made a craft, we went to two different parks, did yard work and flew a kite.  Well, tried to fly a kite.  It's a really beautiful black, green and pink butterfly kite that seems to want to fly, but as soon as it's airborne, it flips over and dives headfirst into the ground. After trying for about an hour and a half, we finally gave up.  Now the girls are off at yet another park and I'm just sitting enjoying the fresh air.  Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend as much!