Topic : Is This Normal Social Discussion

Hello! I haven't been here in a while, & I would want to get to know all of you very well. I hope everyone has a Happy Independence Day (4th of July)! Right now, I'm having a cookout right now & that I'm having lots of friends & family invited, & it's pretty nice from where I live. I hope that everyone has a good day, & know that I'll be kind of busy as well, because there are a few things that I need to take care of. Cheers to everyone!  

   

Garland  

Like Garland, I just wanted to wish all a very happy 4th!!! The 3rd is J-bs b-day, he was 12 yesterday!!!! Eeeeek happy for him but where have the years gone????? Anyway we are lazy lazy and today cooking the big dinner for him! He chose the big meal over a trip to the movies...hmmmm. That says something just not sure what. lol Really it says there wasn't one he wanted to see on! 

  

Anyway hope everyone has a wonderful day, thinking I may grab my crew and head to Stone Mountain tonight to see the laser and fireworks, though if I could get on my roof I bet I could see them from here!! Bet we all hang out and play Everquest instead!! Yeah, yeah aka Evercrack I know! ;P 

  

Hugs to all, 

~Ami 

Oh Juss.  I just realized that I neglected to mention that we had a team of huskies pulling the car all the way through the Rockies...  it got pretty crowded in the backseat when they got tired and and my brother had to take over the driving.  All ten of us with our heads stuck out the window, panting and letting the wind whip through our fur. 

  

I'm going to have to teach you some French if you ever come to Toronto.  Did you know that we have a "hors taxe" shop at the airports here?  I can only imagine you going into a shop expecting one thing and coming out with a bottle of Canadian whisky instead.   (Okay, "hors taxe" means duty-free in French - wouldn't want you to get a headache trying to figure that one out!) 

  

Good to see you back!  Until later, reservoir and la plume de ma tante. 

  

Hugs! 

  

  

Happy 4th to  you as well.  Can't believe J-Boy is that old!   A hug to him. 

  

Hope all of you have had a good weekend.  Now, I'm thinking that Vicki is the one who got to celebrate it twice.  (Hey V,  please tell me that you and your family haven't been affected by the fires in Saskatchewan...) 

  

Hugs. 

  

  

Happy 4th of July!!  Erin and I just got back (verrrrry late) from a Rockies baseball game, followed by fireworks.  Of course, this is Colorado and never mind that we're in a drought (again), tonight we experienced our second huge downpour in a row, complete with thunder and lightning.  Yep, I do believe the game was delayed for almost two hours.  But, we stuck it out and all for the good, since the Rockies won 6-1 and the fireworks were fabulous, even if there wasn't a great big fairytale castle to look at.   

  

Things are going well, job is good, diving (Erin's of course) is fantastic; there's a couple of meets coming up.  We're going sailing on Thursday.  Might have jury duty next week; I'd love to hear everyone's stories on how they get out of that fun little task -- I bet there are some great ones.  Juss, I'm talking to you, and it's great to have you back. 

  

In other news, it's time to get out the stinky flower arrangements again.  The wedding is back on and scheduled to take place in late August, out of town, and Erin is not invited.  I think some extra big, extra stinky flowers are very much in order.   Anyone want to tell me why I should wish my ex well with his new marriage?  jerk.   

  

Anyway, I hope everyone had a wonderful day -- we certainly did.  : ) 

It's morning and the birds are singing, and I realize that I sounded pretty bitter last night.  But I am really mad at my ex and as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter whether I hope good things for him or not, he's making his own karma.  However, I heard something really important a few days ago -- "Holding on to anger is like taking poison and hoping the other guy dies."  I don't have any bitterness about my marriage; I'm just glad to be out, but it's hard not to be angry when he hurts my baby.

I don't have an ex so I may be off base but when my sister's ex got remarried she had some mixed emotions.  She was the one who wanted out of the marriage (for all the right reasons) but it upset her when he was the FIRST to remarry.  He was such a jerk to her but was soooo wonderful to the new woman in his life.  Of course the honeymoon period ends and a jerk is still a jerk.    

  

And when it comes to Erin is she really hurt by it or do you think she should be hurt?  I say that because of something that has occurred with a family member of mine and I thought that my daughter (8 1/2) would be hurt and she really wasn't.  I, as a grownup, would have been upset but it didn't even bother her in the least.  I learn so much from my kids!!! 

  

Now jury duty, I have always wanted to sit on a jury so when I got a notice for it I was happy.  Only problem was I was nursing a 3 month old who refused to take a bottle and even though I asked they said I couldn't bring her with me.  They thought it might be distracting!!!  So they give me a postponement and wouldn't you know by the time they call me again I've moved to a different state.  My hubby served on an attempted murder and kidnapping trial about a month before our wedding.  He ended up being sequestered for 4 days.  Drove me nuts trying to make the final wedding plans and I couldn't even talk to him.  Like he cared about the details anyway!!! 

  

Anyway, glad to hear that the new job is going well.  And to everyone else, hello and hope all is well.   

In all honesty, I wouldn't mind doing jury duty.  Just a thing I have about courtrooms.   Perhaps the fact that I was once married to a lawyer has severely tainted my view of them, but the legal system in itself just intrigues me.   I'd never get past the voir dire (oh hell, here we go with the French again!) as I would be too concerned about the shadow of a doubt.  But sometimes when I'm in the midst of a story that I'm trying to write, I sit in the back of a courthouse, just watching expressions and people. 

  

If I were you, well you never know.  You might just meet your Alan Shore!  With my luck I'd meet Denny Crane. 

  

Don't sweat your ex-husband's wedding.  Loretta's right.  Ignore it and take Erin out on that day and do something wonderful together so she doesn't have to think about it. 

  

I'm not going to waste stinky flower arrangements on him or anyone!  It takes too much energy to be angry. 

  

xoxo.