I just got home from shopping. Looong day! Kids had appts with the dermatologist at 2 so we left school early. Sydney had to have beetle juice (literally although it has a medical name too) put on her spots on her leg. Poor kid. Supposed to blister them up and then they fall off after two weeks. One was already bleeding just from me washing off the medicine (you have to take it off within an hour because it is very strong/corrosive)... However she is with her dad tonight so he will have to handle it.
Then I took kids and weighed in--down one pound but according to my trainer there was a six pound shift from fat mass to lean mass so I guess it was a good week. He was happy anyway.
After that we went scoping out gift ideas until Dan got off work and he got the kids. I was going to go home but decided screw it, why wait till the day after Thanksgiving? So I went and got a bunch of the kids' Christmas stuff tonight. Even if I spent a little more money I saved myself the hassle of dealing with the crowds on Friday...
Oh and newguy/Hockeyguy called me while I was shopping. Next thing I knew I had spent an hour talking to him while walking around shopping...we are meeting tomorrow for the first time to go to a hockey game once I have dropped the kids back off with Dan. (I get them for lunch tomorrow.) Should be fun!
That is what she has. I told the doctor it sounded like something out of Harry Potter...
Hers is not as bad as the pictures..she has about 4 papules as big as a grain of rice and then 4-5 more that are the size of the tip of a ball point pen (not big!). However the dermatologist said that if left untreated--they can go away on their own in about a year--they often multiply, and he has treated kids with a hundred or more of them. So we went with the treatment.
It is 1:30 and I finished wrapping gifts. Time to make the pumpkin bars and go to bed....or maybe go to bed and make them in the morning??
Thursday morning the doorbell rang at 8:00...then as I was getting out of bed (I stayed up till two the night before and thought I could sleep in) I hear the kids chattering. So I guess Dan still has his house key on hand...never did ask for it back. I knew I was getting the kids Thursday but I told him to let me know when they were coming over. Oh well I was glad to see them.
Spent the afternoon having lunch with my kids, parents, and some aunts and cousins. Then I took the kids to my former in-laws' so they could have dinner there with Dan and my SILs and their kids. I stayed for about 20 minutes visiting with my SILs (I know they aren't anymore, but still) and my nieces. I got my niece a bday gift because she will always be my niece. I really didn't speak to Dan. Not in a rude way, I just didn't really bother. He was in another room watching tv with my former FIL anyway.
Then I headed to the hockey game to meet my date. What a refreshing change, he actually looked like his pictures! We chatted through the whole game, then after he walked me to my car and we decided to drive over to a bar in the downtown area to hang out some more.
Total we spent almost five hours together. He texted me about 20 minutes later to say he had a nice night and wished me a good day for the following day (I told him I was heading out shopping the next day)...
Today I spent the morning working on cleaning and organizing and then headed up shopping, with a massage scheduled for late afternoon. Yay me!
While I was out hockeyguy (HG) texted me asking how the shopping was going. After a few texts he suggested we meet for wings later on if I was still in the Omaha metro by that time (he had to work today). So, I told him I would be up there a few more hours bc I had a massage booked for later. He said if I was interested in getting together to call after my massage. Rules, shmules, I decided to go because he gets his kids Saturday and then we are on opposite kid schedules for a couple weeks...
Here is the funny part--I thought it was half dorky, half genius. I was wearing cute jeans but a random comfy sweater since I wasn't planning on going out. So, I ducked into a department store, tried on some tops, bought one, and then browsed the cosmetics area. Helped myself to the makeup testers and the perfume samples as well. Quick solution when you don't have time to go home first!
So I met him at BWW, he greeted me with a hug. We had some wings and talked while watching Oregon kick butt in football. I think we may have annoyed the waitress because we sat there talking for 3 1/2 hours. He walked me to my car again and gave me a hug goodnight. I had a really nice time.
Then I went back to shopping! Got my daughter a new bedding set, some legos for Nathan, and shut down Target. After that I hit the one Starbucks in Omaha that's open till midnight, then shut down Kohls... Productive day!
As it is nearing two a.m., I should probably get to wrapping the stuff I bought...
Thanks! I think HG has promise, and I do want to go on a third date with him.
I do have one thing that has thrown me. We both talked when we were out Friday (date 2) and concluded that this week our schedules didn't really line up because I have my kids opposite of him. He made the comment, "Well we will stay in touch, and eventually a time will work out." I remember the 'stay in touch' part because I haven't heard a guy say that before...
So anyway, he has texted me every day since then (Sat thru today). The thing is though, he will text me to ask how I am or how my day was. I reply and ask about his...then he replies back. At that point he ends his message "Have a good night" or something to that effect. Anyway the way he says it, it comes across that he is done communicating for the evening. Is that weird? I suppose it is his way of 'staying in touch', just to check in and say hello?
I have made a point of not contacting him first because frankly after all the effort I put in to Dan I am ready for a guy to lead. And this one seems to prefer it--he initiated both dates (2 in 2 days no less), paid for both, and is the one who said he wanted to see me again when schedules aligned.
Just find it a little weird bc on the one hand he is texting to see what I am up to, but then he pretty much closes the conversation after a few exchanges. I do know he is super busy--his bank has been sold and he is doing a crapload of work this week as they close on Weds. So I am just rolling with it.
In other news Dan showed up at Nathan's bball practice half way through the hour. Again, they use 1/2 of a court and only one set of bleachers so we wind up in fairly close proximity. Well as soon as he got there he started with the bitch!ng and moaning about Nathan's efforts. I ignored at first but it was clear after everything he did Nathan was sneaking looks at Dan to see if he measure up. It pissed me off that he was acting that way. Finally I turned to him and told him that Nathan looked up to him and was looking to him for reassurance. He snapped back that he didn't care what I thought. (Hardly any parents stay for practice so nobody else heard us.) I said I could care less what he thought of me, but if he wanted to help Nathan he needed to stop bitch!ng and start guiding him to be a better player. That seemed to both piss him off, and shut him up.
Then after practice ended he stayed another 25 minutes, working with Nathan, encouraging him, giving him pointers to improve upon and also praising his good efforts. I stayed at the opposite end of the gym practicing Sydney's dance routine with her. (It is my night w/the kids so I needed to stay to take them home.)
I know ignoring him is usually best but in this case I was sick of him trying to intimidate him and I wanted him to know I was no longer afraid of his opinion and I won't tolerate him f@cking with Nathan's self image...
ok about the texting-- are you a big texter? Like you don't mind texting off and on the whole night? Because I looove to talk but when it comes to texting, I do a few exchanges and that's it! So don't read too much into him cutting them off (IMO). IT IS FANTASTIC that he said "let's keep in touch" and his ACTIONS are showing that he is good for his word!
the beginning of dating sucks. You are gliding through cool as a cucumber, though! impressive
me,34 exH,34 S,16 months S:3/31/09-left for OW started DBing 10/09 d final: sometime 10/10 current: http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2022856&page=1 met in 2004
I was wearing cute jeans but a random comfy sweater since I wasn't planning on going out. So, I ducked into a department store, tried on some tops, bought one, and then browsed the cosmetics area. Helped myself to the makeup testers and the perfume samples as well. Quick solution when you don't have time to go home first! 