Balance
Hmmmmmmm. I keep wondering what kind of balancing act the universe has for us. You see, yesterday, I got a phone call from a dear friend of mine, the lady that is the guardian of my son until the end of the school year. This telephone call set me off; not because of anything that she did, but because of the things that my (h)ex did over her 2 weeks back from Iraq. It seems that my (h)ex, the mother of my son, thinks that proper parenting includes giving in to a child’s every desire; treating other children like crap; and generally upsetting the household routine because it isn’t the way that she wants it.
So, yesterday afternoon was NOT a good time for me. But, somewhere, the universal balance noticed that my particular scale was tipped too far in one direction, and nudged me back onto an even keel.
This morning I was released early from my “getting out of the Army†class, and I had a number of errands to run. One of them was located in the same building that the Retirement Services Office is in, so I stopped in to check on my paperwork. Mind you, I had been waiting on this paperwork to be signed and given back to me so that I could deliver it for a month, and the administrative folks told me that they would do it. I have had a bad history with how they operate, and the paperwork HAD to be turned in no later than Friday, February 29th, 2008. So, I went to check.
What I found was that not only had they turned in my paperwork, they had gotten copies of my enlistment contracts to complete my packet and turned them in as well. So, today, I held in my happy little hands, the draft of my RETIREMENT ORDERS!!!!!!! I go to get them on Tuesday, and my main worry is no longer a worry.
So, thank you to the universal balancer, who-, or what-, ever you may be. You have shown me (again) that no matter what my $*&^#@!_)(*&^%%$@#(*_?â€:~!@# (h)ex does, I will survive.
Your (h)ex will not be a problem unless you let her be…
as for the other?
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
I better stop before I pee myself LOL
Congrats on enlistment retirement! As for (h)exs, I’m duly thankful that my (h)ex-fiancee had an affair before I could complete the mistake and marry the bi…uh…wench. No ties to annoy me the past going-on 14 years…
WOW, CONGRATULATIONS ON THE RETIREMENT
……and let the ex’s be what they are…know for a fact that there is no changing them….no need in getting angry or letting the stress of it get to you. It will only make you grayer than you might be getting. Enjoy the chid and let the rest roll off your back.
Doing a happy dance over the retirement. As for the other, well… you should know she isn’t going to change. Just smile and do what’s best for the little guy and you.