Thursday, August 26, 2010

Stepping off of the Merry-Go-Round

It's time to reassess.  Or maybe it's just time to sit down, with a strong long drink, and replay the last year.  Sounds fun!
I'm fucking with you. 
It sounds awful.
My divorce was final on August 2nd.  Talk about anti-climactic.  After two or three 'false alarms' and a entire night devoted to reveling in my new found singledom (which turned out to be the exact opposite of the truth) the actual realization of a hellish year ended with a take n' bake pizza and a houseful of kids.  It's probably fitting, really, because life moved on long ago in some ways; the kids and I moved homes--three times--I'm working full-time, Paris started another school year, Ruby learned to tell people to 'shut up', and Cam took up whining as a new past time.  Being a 'sensitive' person, read--dramatic and over-emotional--I expected some sort of symbolic closing of that chapter of my life.  Maybe a white dove would fly across my path, a rainbow would appear in the sky despite the dry weather, or a MISSING poster of a certain someone would grace the telephone poles of our fair city. 
But alas, nada.Zip.Zilch. 
This week I've decided to figure out just what I did , or did not, learn from the past ten months.
It will be the implementation that I struggle with.