Happy Sunday!
Hope everyone had a great weekend because here it comes again...MONDAY..ugh! I'm hoping that this week will be a better one at work and that everyone is satisfied with the bail out (please let us have one!)
I had a fun weekend. Friday I just stayed in with a couple of girlfriends and 2 bottles of wine to watch the debate. Oh and I made a chicken pesto pizza for us. It was delicioso!
Yesterday I work in the yard pretty much all day long (except for my call with Lis). Last night I went over to a friends house where we played Rock Band until 2 in the morning. So much fun!
So today I'm tired and I'm sore and tomorrow I start a new dance class. Not exactly a recipe for success. I'll make it through. I don't have any other choice since I couldn't get out of it if I tried.
Oh I almost forgot. Last week my son called to tell me that his Dad's picture was in a fly fishing magazine. He must have googled him. So I looked it up and sure as shootin' there he was. He was standing there with a big proud smile on his face holding his fish. I hope his fish is keeping him warn at night!
He called (I'm sure to see if I received his check) but I didn't answer. I just may have been tempted to tell him a fish story!
Have a great week!
Love,
Bethie
OMG I love Rock Band.
YAY
I will have a Pinot Please.
Rainy here all weekend.
Somebody smells fishy. Parum pum
Hi, Bethie!!! Can I have a top shelf margarita?
Bethie,
I play rock band with the kids. They think it's great that I do.
As long as your X is happy, what the heck. But he knows he screwed up. So I guess it's semi-happy.
I'm off to work this week after 4 days in Vegas and will pay for that.
Please, don't tell any fish stories. Best to let those phone calls pass. Have a good week Bethie.
Hi, Bethie,
I'll have a little Eiswein, to go with the apple slices I'm having for dessert right now.
Hey Bethie!
Just glad your here
Hey Ms. Beth..
Happy not quite Monday. I hope you enjoy the last vestiges of the weekend. I'm taking notes on how to have more aspects of life based on how you do it.
Right now I just walk around the house singing.. I don't know what.. but it's melodic!
*hugs*
Hi Bethie!! Any wine around here to share? Oh yeah...go lite on the serving cause I got work too in the morning. For some odd reason, they think I need to have my brain cells working first thing tomorrow.
Bailout...ugh!!! I'm dreading this cause Lehman Bros. was an investor in our company and guess who's holding employee stocks? Mois. Good grief...all I can hope is that folks like you and these financial folks can find a way through or out of it.
Any left over chicken pesto pizza? Ummmm sounds good.....was eating on the run most the weekend.
Hey, Beth!!! I thought the last debate was pretty much a tie, but I really can't wait until the VP debate. That's going to be fun I think!!!
Karen
Hi there Beth, been thinking of you. This should be a better week but no less busy than the last 10 for you. Certainly high entertainment value watching Wall Street try to put itself out of business. I have no, and I mean less than zero, respect for what they did. They should all end up washing dishes which would be good for them.
Glad you are well. I had dinner this evening with the sister of my X and her son and his wife and SIL's new beau. That was interesting and fun. I am still friends with my SIL. Her husband died suddenly a couple years ago, they were a wonderful happy couple and he was a wonderful person and they both helped me through my difficulties. Hard to describe how much they helped. It was devastating to the entire extended family when he died. But she has made a new life and I am so happy for her.
The interesting thing is that as horrible as it was for her, she was able to make a new life in less than half the time it took many of us to even be divorced. I would like to talk to her about this some time. But the point is it was so final. As much as we loved him he is gone, and he left loving his wife and children and we can always respect him and love him back. And she can enjoy the company of someone else now and is open to it.
I guess I'm trying to say that being abandoned by choice is different. Or something along those lines. It takes longer for the person to go away, no doubt about that:) All is well here, just up late. Wonder
Wonder! I was coming on to bust Beth but saw you here and thought I'd say hi. I think of you at times and wonder how you're doing. No pun intended.
I think it's great you still have a good R with your ex SIL. I do also with mine and it's really nice. In fact, all of his family still is in contact with me and some of them have expressed to me their dismay and shock that he'd do what he did.
I think maybe for your SIL and others who have lost spouses to death it may be easier to let go. There's a finality to it. We didn't have the luxury of closure. I'm not saying it's easy to lose someone through death b/c it most certainly isn't. But you said they were happy and loving. That makes a difference. In our Rs it was much different. They left for whatever reason, real or imagined.
I hope you're doing well. You sound as though things are going well for you. I wish you the best.
SE
PS Oh yeah, hi Bethie! I missed you this weekend!
The interesting thing is that as horrible as it was for her, she was able to make a new life in less than half the time it took many of us to even be divorced. I would like to talk to her about this some time. But the point is it was so final. As much as we loved him he is gone, and he left loving his wife and children and we can always respect him and love him back. And she can enjoy the company of someone else now and is open to it.
This is really a tribute to her H. He must have made her love being M'd to him and wants that in her life again. I truly hope she gets it.
BETHIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i wanna play rock band with you
Oh man figgy,
I really got into it. You know, I bought 1 for each of my girl for Christmas and they're always begging me to play it. Now they'll be sorry.
I AM A ROCK STAR!!!! hahahaha
WOW!!! You've got it all goin on. A rock star and a porn star!!!
YYYYYYYYYYYYYUP!!!
I'm the real deal. The total package! That is if you like a rockin' ho...........
Oh Jill,
I got such a kick out of this whole thing because it transforms people. Everyone gets so caught up in it that it makes it fun and crazy!
that and the wii fit are going to be gifts to ourselves this year!!!
Wonder,
In someways I do think it's easier. When a spouse dies you only remember the good stuff. They didn't leave because they wanted to, or leave you with all the junk that we have to sort through in order to find ourselves again.
I have a girlfriend whose husband died and 3 years later she was remarried. I just think that that's the difference. We're down for the count and it takes awhile for us to regain our footing.
Glad you stopped by. It's always great to get your imput. As an outlaw with a family that I was always close to (or thought so) I think it's great that your inlaws have remained close with you. That speaks volumes towards their character.
Love,
Bethie
Morning Bethie!
I hope your Monday goes better as you hoped.
You are the Poster Girl for "Gettalife.com". WOW - what a fun weekend you had.
So - Fly Fishing Magazine, huh? I'd better get me one of those for the cottage.
Have a great week, girlfriend.
By the way - Iowa played Northwestern on Sat (the game I was at). You don't have anyone attending there do you?
Barb
Rock star!
Love it
I am saving up for that Wii fitness, which is no fun. But the goal of having the stomach of Janet Jackson still is close to my heart.
I will watch chick flicks with you. (ignore figgy, she cries at other stuff at the drop of a hat, jeeepers)
I have to admit my fav movie is not a chick flick, but a guy flick. I love Fight Club, I have seen so many times my DVD is scratched.
I can't wait to go see the new Sparks movie, maybe this weekend if everything is ok with papi and surgery.
So when you come to NJ already we can Rock star it, wine it, and cry at the sappy movies.
Mickey will buy whatever girlie things we need from the store.
Have a great day mamma!
I want to get Wii Fit too! Happy seems to love it. Ashley thinks she'd use it too (she is a fitness guru). I should get on it this week!
Barb
Hi Barb,
Well I don't knoiw about being a poster girl but it was fun. My days were quite because I had lots of work to do both outside and inside my house and I did manage to make quite a dent. So I felt I could go out and let loose.
Nope nobody at Iowa. It's a great place to visit though isn't it?
Hey Bethie, you'd sure make one heck of a poster child! lol What were you doing all weekend? I sat by the phone with glass in hand, just waiting for a ring.
Which never came...
If you can find time in your busy schedule give me a call. Ooops, you already did.
SE
Greetings and Salutations, Ms Luscious..
I do hope this day finds you divine. We have Rock Band but cannot play it because my fiendish son has spirited it away to college.. the prankster!
My sister lives outside of Chicago so when I send her good wishes, I'll toss a few your way too.
*hugs*
Hey Miss Beth. I better be wrong, were you banned??? I need you!!!!