This is the first Independence Day I've had in a long time without Garret. He didn't like to go out to fireworks, preferring to watch them on TV or skip them altogether. If we did go out, it was because his mother invited us to a family gathering at their place. As someone who previously went out of her way to see such things, it was a ( Read more... )

Today is the day my divorce is supposed to be final. I say supposed to be because, as usual, Garret has not bothered to communicate with me regarding the details (I'm supposed to be a mind reader, remember?) I imagine I'll either hear nothing, get a txt message 15 minutes before the hearing asking me where I am, or an email saying "hey, how'd it ( Read more... )

This was in the paper today, written by an advice columnist I'm not particularly fond of. The dilemma she's responding to is not relevant, but this chunk resonated with me:

When the main reason you get along is that you avoid talking about anything substantial, it follows that a mere whiff of substance will have the power to destabilize the ( Read more... )

...and its days are numbered ( Read more... )

If you've contacted me this week over my lack of entries you are not alone. Knowing that my writing will sometimes have some mass appeal, and that a lot of my net-friendly friends and family are not bloggers (or even LJ users), I try to write publicly on a regular basis. I have no restrictions on commenting on my entries because of this. However ( Read more... )

I recently decided to use LJ Book to archive my blog all the way back to the massive-deletion I did back in 2003. At the time my husband had dropped a bomb on me and I was devastated on top of devastation. I understand why I did it ( Read more... )

We all have to do them. The ex's stock sale prior to December 31st has screwed us both. I will be doing ours this week on my own because he has expressed no interest and all the tax information came to the house anyway.

He couldn't wait to make a $2500 stock sale until January 1st. I won't see a cent of it. Nice move, Peter Pan.

Apparently my computer never had ethernet drivers installed on it. If I want to set up the new router, this is unacceptable. I do not know WHY there are no ethernet drivers anywhere on my machine OR on the XP disk, but there are none, and that is that. I can't even reconnect the old router because now it wants a network key - something I didn't ( Read more... )

It would be nice if Garret would take the $20k the escrow group gave him for the car and actually PAY the debt. It's not like he can keep the check - it's made out to Toyota. I am four days away from getting the check cancelled and getting a new one. Until that debt is paid I can't finance a much-needed new car of my own. It was a condition of my ( Read more... )

The wireless router that Garret left behind has decided to give me problems. I called Comcast and they determined it was not their service or their modem, so it must be the router. I can't tell if it's the router because I have no user manual, and I have no user manual because every other time I receive data the connection drops. It's a good ( Read more... )