I did try. I succeeded in DBing in the respect that I am a much better father than I ever was. I still have a lot of work to do on myself. I've been in a fairly significant depression lately but have resumed my meds (Oct. 6th).
I've had a lot of hand grenades thrown my way as have we all. I handled them as best I could at the time. I must have done OK as X remarked a couple of weeks ago she told someone I am, "a really nice guy who has gotten his act together". If that is a valid observation then I have accomplished something.
I'm thinking of planning a road trip for one of the holiday breaks, either Thanksgiving or Christmas. I've always wanted to stay in some of the old themed roadside motels along the old two lane highways. The kids would love it. If there is snow nearby this winter I'm taking the kids to it. DS has never seen snow and DD doesn't remember seeing it. The opportunity presented itself a couple of years ago but I didn't go. Next time I will.
"Fear is the mind-killer" Muad'Dib Me 53, XW 44, DD 14, DS 12 Bomb and OM 12/15/06 Separated 01/02/07 Divorced 05/13/08 X married OM(OMH) 08/2009 Married 06/09/13
Lots of weird old roadside attractions still hanging around those old motor lodges.
Yep. I wanted my parents to stay at "The Wigwams" in Cave City, Kentucky when I was a child (pre-interstate highway system....ouch!) We would eat there sometimes but never stayed because we had relatives who lived nearby and we stayed with them. I looked them up a couple of years ago and they were still open.
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Are you okay?
Oh yeah, I'm great. I had a root canal today. Seriously I did. Didn't think of any of this mlc crap the entire time I was in the dentist's chair. I have a high resistance to novocaine (takes a lot and works very slowly with me). So on the second try the dentist ran the needle right into the nerve. The side of my face and sinuses on that side felt like they had burst into flames. It got better after that.
I was very depressed for a couple of weeks, not sure why. Maybe it was so I would fill the scrip for antidepressants I've had since mid-summer. Then after I started them I had a small cluster of migraines. Don't know if it was related but I'm better now.
This past summer was difficult; Mom fell and broke her hip, I moved to a new apt, X got married.
Now Mom is home and has progressed from a walker to a cane (she's a tough old bird), I and the kids are in a bigger, quieter apartment and X is married to OMH and experiencing the end of the honeymoon and the reality of the life she has chosen.
I'm okay.
"Fear is the mind-killer" Muad'Dib Me 53, XW 44, DD 14, DS 12 Bomb and OM 12/15/06 Separated 01/02/07 Divorced 05/13/08 X married OM(OMH) 08/2009 Married 06/09/13
OK Breton. I thought that was you and decided to stay when you made the above request.
Thank You.
"Fear is the mind-killer" Muad'Dib Me 53, XW 44, DD 14, DS 12 Bomb and OM 12/15/06 Separated 01/02/07 Divorced 05/13/08 X married OM(OMH) 08/2009 Married 06/09/13
OUCH! You don't have red or reddish hair, do you? My sister usually needs 2 X the anesthesia a normal person does-- it's a common thing with redheads, although nobody knows why. Yikes.
