Monday’s Updates - May 16

I just wanted to through out a couple of updates.

#1 – My brother got of job!  I know, if happened much faster than expected and apparently he has to move to Pakistan (insert Bin Laden joke her).  Actually he got a job on the night shift janitorial crew, and while this isn’t  very glamorous, it’s perfect.  He gets to work hard physically, it gets him out of the house when my brother’s home, it brings in $ so he can pay his way at my Dad’s house, and it doesn’t have him interacting with the public, which is NOT his strong suit. 

I called him yesterday to get a general update and talked to my dad for a bit.  Dad’s fine and he told me that brother had an announcement.  He hands the phone over and I ask brother how it’s going and he says great and I say so what’s the big announcement, and he says what? And I say the big announcement that dad mentioned, and he goes huh? And then he goes, “oh yea, I start a job tomorrow”  AAAAAgh this kid is clueless.  Duh, that’s a huge announcement since you’ve been out of work for 3 months and until yesterday you were broke and living in dad’s basement.  Soon he’ll have enough money to help out his kids and pay his child support and after that he will be, granted, still broke and living in dad’s basement, but at least he won’t be freeloading.

I chatted with him a bit and then had to leave to play taxi-cab for my oldest so I handed the phone over to my wife and left.  (I dropped of D1 and her friend and had a lovely conversation with a friend of mine, I love hearing her voice, it’s just so cute and perky and, when the mood kicks in, rockin’ sexy.  And I want her to know that I love talking even when, or especially when, it’s just talking.)

When I got back my wife just rolled her eyes and told me that my brother “has issues.”  True, I agreed, but what to you mean? She recounted her phone call and it’s just so hysterically different than my interaction with him.  When he told me he was “great” I took that at face value and moved on.  When he told my wife that, she said, “How can you be ‘great’? You just got divorced and your 200 miles from your kids?”  She then quizzed him on his child support, visiting arrangements, social skills, counseling ideas, personal improvement, spiritual matters, etc.  She is just so wonderfully different than me.  It’s almost good cop/bad cop.  I get the rundown on the facts, she goes in an digs, and never in a mean way, she just asks all the questions that would normally be found in a TMI column. 

He’s looking forward to dating, forgetting how much he HATED dating and how little he did of it before meeting his wife.  He is living the good life now, ensconced at dad’s house, only has the kids every other weekend, is going to be working with almost no home expenses, and, in the most telling comment to my wife, he said, “It’s nice not to have her around bitching at me all day.”  No one outside a marriage knows what’s really going on inside it, so  it’s a dangerous game to start judging others.  I try not to, I just wonder if my brother is enjoying being single too quickly.  It feels like he’s bringing a date to his spouses funeral. 

Update #2 – after tossing my cookies (actually, tacos and a funky salad) on Saturday afternoon, I slept all Saturday evening, slept in late Sunday morning, chatted with some friends after getting up an showering, and finally got out of the house.  While chatting at my desk, a friend of mine started to heat up a bit an the conversation turned spicy until I got the single word “Shit” in the chat window and she vanished.  I’m dying to find to what happened…  I was feeling well enough to go to the gym this morning and, if you’ve paying attention, you’ll know why, Monday is “the class” with “the instructor” who’s fun, beautiful, witty, and as sexy as any supermodel except that my friend could, and would, kick your ass in almost any sport and certainly as an aerobics’ teacher.  I’m almost to work now so I’ll be able to let everything settle.  The best part is that I’m still down three pounds since Saturday morning! 

So those are my two updates. 

Brother working, I’m not puking. 

I guess I could have put that at the top and saved you reading 728 words, but what’s the fun in that?  I’m almost to work.  I should change the name of my blog to “blogging from the bus” since that is where I’m doing a lot of my writing these days.  I have a meeting in 30 minutes with my auditors.  I audit others, and still other’s audit me.  The weather is cool but beautiful, I have a healthy lunch in my bag, (salad with Tilapia), and I’m going to the market to get cereal to mix in with my yogurt. 

OK, update #3 since it's now 3 hours later.

Breakfast was yummy, I have new flower on my window will, a purple Orchid, and my audit meeting went well but they have a lot of things for me to work on.  That's fine.

Have a great Monday!!