Now Fifteen Percent Less Bitter, I Tells You

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Strudel and Mali boogie down to duck town. I say I am doing things like readings to “get myself out there” but it is actually to hang out with the cool people.

I probably embarrassed the hell out of Squid because I told her that my visit there in January was really helpful. I saw a loving, kind family in action, which was exactly what I needed right then after a rough fall and wrestling with the flu earlier that month. I came home and felt calmer and less yelly and better about my monkeys in general.

I haven’t told you the BIG news because I have been processing things all slowly as usual. It’s like you can see the hourglass over my head. Anyway, QUELLE SURPRISE, Seattle Federline is not moving away, so he gets to remain Seattle Federline. YAYS! My kid came home and told me, and then started crying. I am guessing she has no concept how pissed she is at him.

I am too, really, though I feel that impotent, kind of apathetic rage like you do for things in the universe that are totally out of your control. At least after six-plus months of threatening to move, he had the presence of mind to tell her he was staying for her. She was bummed, though, because she wanted to spend more time over here.

I have my suspicions, though, as I always do. I am hearing rumors now of him working at home and being given a company car. No one would give his useless job-hopping ass a company car…except his father. I think there’s been monetary intervention, again, because a few months ago he had to move because they couldn’t buy a house in Seattle, and now that is exactly what they are doing, buying a house here. And I KNOW what state his credit’s in.

Oh, you should have seen the look on his face when we were in mediation and he was realizing that there was no way we could be fifty-fifty and then I said the words “child support.” OHHH that was almost worth the $600. I sat down and though about it today, and his “almost move” cost us about $1000. I have learned. Next time something like this comes up, I am not budging. He can deal with it all.

6 thoughts on “Now Fifteen Percent Less Bitter, I Tells You”

  2. Thank goodness (and perhaps some other powers) that saga is over.
    Sun is shining, spring is springing, here’s hoping you get at least the whole summer sans drama.
    The thermometer scooches up a couple more degrees we’ll have a BBQ, or at lest meet ya’ll in he park for some bocce.

  3. Dammit! I wish he would just MOVE and let you raise your daughter in peace. He does nothing but try to get his way and complicate things. And to tell her that he was staying put for her benefit?! What a croc. That guy is a pathetic jackass.

    Ahem. ‘Scuse me. I got a little heated.

    Congratulations on your reading! Where can I find a clip of the NPR coverage?

  4. Hey Emily, thanks, I will post when/if it airs. They spent a long time interviewing the editors, too.

  5. Glad the trouble’s over for now, and glad Frannie can stop stressing about it for a while — it’s tough to be so little and have so much anxiety. Dumb jackass ex.

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