The compliment

Today was a day to wait for servicemen to call. I have a maintenance agreement with Sears where they come out once a year and check on my treadmill, dishwasher, and washer and dryer, accounting for 2 of the servicemen required. As well, my mother recently purchased a new faucet for my bathroom, and she hired a plumber to come out and put it in for me. So this morning the plumber and the dishwasher/washer/dryer guys came and went. Then I booked a haircut at lunchtime, and that's where things started getting more stressful...

You see, the treadmill isn't at my house, it's over at my ex's. The plan was that I would take a laptop over, and hang out with the boys during the afternoon while it was being looked at. The first problem was that I didn't notice that the timeframe was 12-4, not 1-4 as I thought, so I might still be getting my haircut when the serviceman tried to come out. As well, he hadn't phoned and narrowed it down to a 2 hour timeframe, which they normally do, and getting ahold of them through the office is always quite difficult. I nonetheless made the call, patiently re-explaining why there were two addresses involved, and what went where, and why I didn't want to redraw up the whole contract 5 days before it expires, etc., etc... finally getting them to give the serviceman the message to call me to ensure someone would be there to let him in. I chanced getting my haircut, and returned home to make lunch for my boys, then sending them over to their mother's house in case he went over there, while I stayed home in case he called here (yeah, I know... better plan would have been to give them my cell #). About 3 o'clock I got a call that the serviceman was sick and the appointment needed to be rescheduled. As always, my worries were irrelevant.

Somewhere in the middle of lunch, the mother of a boy who was playing with my boys called, and I explained to her that they would be over at my ex's shortly because I would be hanging out there for the Sears guy. Out of nowhere she suddenly gushed how incredible the relationship my ex and I have is (she "can't get [her] own husband to do that!") and it was so unexpected all I could think to say was that, "yes, we're either extraordinary or nuts."

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It's too close sometimes, and I do probably bend over farther than I should, but I'm still freer and happier than I've ever been and things are generally positive, so... nuts is the verdict?

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Well, tonight I meet C3 in person for the first time. Things have cooled a bit in my head since we've moved to phone conversations, but we'll see where this takes us tonight. For some reason what is on my mind is that... I'm really hoping that we don't have sex. I don't know... it could happen, but at this point I'm not feeling the attraction enough... it could be totally different once I have this willing, possibly hot female beside me, so I'm not ruling it out, but... maybe I'm just tired and that's why I feel this way... I just don't know... hmmm....