Finally, The End is Near

Yesterday my ex-husband texted me. Normally, this makes me roll my eyes and grunt out a couple words in response. This time, though, it was good news. After shuffling his feet, my ex is finally ready to get our divorce official. After a long, slow wait I may have my freedom at last.
My ex-husband is the king of procrastinating. The man would take a two hour shower if he knew we had to be somewhere in 30 minutes. All through my pregnancies I was never on time to a doctors appointment because he would not get around until five minutes before we had to be there. So it was no surprise that the divorce was going to be slow going as well, even with his new girlfriend hot on his heels to hurry up and marry her.

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Baby, Its Cold Outside

Who knew that living in Southern Texas meant still having cold winters? I could have sworn when I moved down here that I was escaping all that coat and gloves and three layers business!
Add the weather to my list of reasons why being divorced sometimes sucks. Cold days mean my kids are bouncing off the walls inside. They hate the cold as much as I do, but they did not get my desire to curl up under a blanket and read. Instead they explode all their energy across my living room. It isn't a pretty picture.

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Ending The Year With A Bang

After feeling sad about my recent bad luck in dating, 2010 decided to end in a bang. The boy-toy came over, brought me take out food and a new CD, and rocked my world. If you know what I mean.
The boy-toy is certainly something special. He's a few years younger, and fresh out of the military. That means he is still rocking rippling muscles from all those push-ups. He's a big ball of dreamy.

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