Long overdue update
Jun 21, 2021 20:19:44 GMT -5
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Post by mypaintbrushes on Jun 21, 2021 20:19:44 GMT -5
Hi all!
I don’t really come on any longer, but something told me I should give a quick rundown of what’s been happening lately.. which is a lot of good things!
I’ve now been divorced over a year and a half and am working toward refinancing my home again on my own (you’ll recall my ex nearly pushed us into foreclosure). I cannot begin to tell you how incredibly validating it is to see my credit score top 720 for the first time ever and to have available to me interest rates that are in line with market. I’ve made it as a single homeowner so far just fine!
Back at the beginning of Covid, I met a man, Prince Charming (he kind of resembles him). We passed our one year dating anniversary in April and are still going strong. He is, by far, the kindest most loving partner I have ever had and the more we get to know each other the more we realize we are very alike and very different at once. He was also in a SM and we’ve been making up for lost time with each other. 😉 Over the next holiday weekend, I have plans to travel with him to his mom’s house, where I will meet her, some cousins and nieces and nephews and possibly a good friend from PC’s Junior college days.
To say I’m madly in love would be an understatement. I am positively enamored. I love cooking with him, going on hikes, late night cuddles, surprising him with gifts… you name it. I get the butterflies *and* he feels like home. I can’t really describe nor explain it.
Between the two of us are five kids, ranging from almost 13 to almost 20. My son (my only) graduated from high school a week after his second oldest; both are heading to college in the fall.
PC came to my son’s graduation party and met my mom, brother and sister-in-law, one of my cousins and his wife and their kids and nearly all my neighbors. He also gave my son a grad gift and had helped me with both my front and back yards, so he gets huge brownie points. My mom LOVES him.
If anyone can think of something I can give his son to enhance the college experience, I’m all ears!
My ex absconded with our son for the entire month of June, so I feel like an empty nester. With the lockdown in my state having been lifted last week, I have been slipping back into my pre-Covid routine of spending time with friends playing trivia, going to karaoke night, and performing at different open mics (I did comedy last night). I took PC to trivia and music open mic; he is consisting karaoke. 😀
My ex is, apparently, getting a mail order bride from the Philippines. I know no other details except that she is almost 25 years his Junior and he plans to meet her for the first time next month. He changed his relationship status on Facebook about three months ago and has been having our son talk to her on video chat. Not my circus, not my monkeys, but I did think it was funny that our then 17-year-old laughed at his dad when he said “I’m probably going to marry this woman and have more kids with her”.
What else? Back at the end of February I I fell very, very ill. I basically contracted a foodborne illness which turned into a bowel blockage. I spiked a fever of 104°F and lost 17 pounds within a matter of 2 to 3 weeks. By the grace of God, I eventually recovered. The weirdly ironic thing is that I am thin again, which means I am apparently more attractive to the opposite gender than I was, judging by a few random comments I’ve gotten. But… other men are completely unappealing to me now.
PC stuck by me while I was going through all that, and the stuff with my ex… just as I had stuck by him while he was going through some insane stuff with his ex (and kids, and taking on more responsibility at work). And, here we are. I’m quite content! 🥰
Ok, that’s long enough. How’s everyone?
I don’t really come on any longer, but something told me I should give a quick rundown of what’s been happening lately.. which is a lot of good things!
I’ve now been divorced over a year and a half and am working toward refinancing my home again on my own (you’ll recall my ex nearly pushed us into foreclosure). I cannot begin to tell you how incredibly validating it is to see my credit score top 720 for the first time ever and to have available to me interest rates that are in line with market. I’ve made it as a single homeowner so far just fine!
Back at the beginning of Covid, I met a man, Prince Charming (he kind of resembles him). We passed our one year dating anniversary in April and are still going strong. He is, by far, the kindest most loving partner I have ever had and the more we get to know each other the more we realize we are very alike and very different at once. He was also in a SM and we’ve been making up for lost time with each other. 😉 Over the next holiday weekend, I have plans to travel with him to his mom’s house, where I will meet her, some cousins and nieces and nephews and possibly a good friend from PC’s Junior college days.
To say I’m madly in love would be an understatement. I am positively enamored. I love cooking with him, going on hikes, late night cuddles, surprising him with gifts… you name it. I get the butterflies *and* he feels like home. I can’t really describe nor explain it.
Between the two of us are five kids, ranging from almost 13 to almost 20. My son (my only) graduated from high school a week after his second oldest; both are heading to college in the fall.
PC came to my son’s graduation party and met my mom, brother and sister-in-law, one of my cousins and his wife and their kids and nearly all my neighbors. He also gave my son a grad gift and had helped me with both my front and back yards, so he gets huge brownie points. My mom LOVES him.
If anyone can think of something I can give his son to enhance the college experience, I’m all ears!
My ex absconded with our son for the entire month of June, so I feel like an empty nester. With the lockdown in my state having been lifted last week, I have been slipping back into my pre-Covid routine of spending time with friends playing trivia, going to karaoke night, and performing at different open mics (I did comedy last night). I took PC to trivia and music open mic; he is consisting karaoke. 😀
My ex is, apparently, getting a mail order bride from the Philippines. I know no other details except that she is almost 25 years his Junior and he plans to meet her for the first time next month. He changed his relationship status on Facebook about three months ago and has been having our son talk to her on video chat. Not my circus, not my monkeys, but I did think it was funny that our then 17-year-old laughed at his dad when he said “I’m probably going to marry this woman and have more kids with her”.
What else? Back at the end of February I I fell very, very ill. I basically contracted a foodborne illness which turned into a bowel blockage. I spiked a fever of 104°F and lost 17 pounds within a matter of 2 to 3 weeks. By the grace of God, I eventually recovered. The weirdly ironic thing is that I am thin again, which means I am apparently more attractive to the opposite gender than I was, judging by a few random comments I’ve gotten. But… other men are completely unappealing to me now.
PC stuck by me while I was going through all that, and the stuff with my ex… just as I had stuck by him while he was going through some insane stuff with his ex (and kids, and taking on more responsibility at work). And, here we are. I’m quite content! 🥰
Ok, that’s long enough. How’s everyone?