November 13, 2003 I feel like I’m living in a Hitchcock film…it appears nobody believes me. I’m not crazy most of the time. Just a lot pissed off. He lied to me about his adulterous relationship and I punched him in the mouth. I confess; I did it! No point in lying. I hit him a glancing blow in the mouth. Didn’t draw a drop of blood, didn’t break the skin and no telltale bruise was left on those lying lips. And he had the gall to have me arrested for assault after he knocked me down, toss...
Oct 17, 2003 OK! So, my husband has lost his mind entirely. Oh, yes, he has just lost it! It can only be said "I love my wife and I want to come home," was about the weirdest thing I'd heard since we parted company. My attorney relayed the message to me from my husband. I don't get it, don't care. It ain't happening. So, I arrived home Tuesday to find a huge cardboard box delivered by UPS on my front porch. God, it was a heavy mother! I struggled to lift it into the house and dropped...
October 30, 2003 The World Series & Gifts From the Groom The last month I’ve been “eat up” with baseball. I LOVE baseball! The playoffs were wonderful…I rooted for the Atlanta Braves, but they lost in the playoffs. I rooted for the Cubs…they lost. I rooted for the Redsocks…they lost. I rooted for the Marlins and finally, by God, my team won not only the playoffs, but the World Series! Great, great games! I haven’t slept a full night in more than a month, but now I’m catching zzzzs a...
November 5, 2005 Dear Diane, Well of all the things! I went to the attorney’s office today to do what? Oh, yeah! That deposition thing that is supposed to take place on November the 17th…preparing for those hard questions Mr. Passive-Aggressive’s attorney will be throwing at me like sharp pencils being thrown in a classroom. But, no, my dear, this didn’t take place, because my “husband”, and I use that word with the utmost contempt, is dragging his feet. The court date has been postpo...
August 11, 2003 For an old woman going through a hideous divorce, I’m doing fine! Don’t have any discretionary funds, but there are other folks willing to entertain me and come to my house for dinner and TV. So, life ain’t so bad……no it ain’t! Afterall, the military takes care of dependents to a small degree, so it’s not nearly as bad as it could be. My spirits are up, my house is clean, I’ve made any number of improvements and repairs my husband just wouldn’t do, and the yard looks gre...
Sept 12, 2003 Dear Bubba, Praise the Lord! You are outta jail on the work release program, and Ima Jean Sweeney is one happy woman! Hope your biscuits were good, darling. HeeHeeHeeee! Old Ima Jean called me today to tell me the good news: You all are getting married! I’m just thrilled to death! We talked about many things, or should I say, she did most the talking about the dresses she wants us to wear, shoes, food, wedding cake the location and such. I have to say, I do think the...
The Story of the Invisible Chicken "Chickens in the bread pan pecking at the dough; Granny, does you dog bite...?" ----Charlie Daniels An angry man can look like many things; however, if a guy is 5 foot nothing, got a bad case of the "Little Man Syndrome," and thoroughly pissed because his wife finished the job he started, i.e., 3 years of spousal abuse he initiated. One should attempt to maintain a dignified demeanor, don’t you think? But, NOOOOOOOOOOOO! He wanted revenge, he wanted to...
Aug. 20, 2003 Wed. Secrets Interesting….what makes a person squirm? Truth revealed, or the threat of the truth being revealed is a powerful incentive to strike at the bearer or the receiver of that truth. Funny thing, truth comes to us in strange and unexpected ways: the chance encounter with a friend whose conversation makes you blink!…What!?? what did she say???….wait a minute!! What DID she say? !! Well, she unwittingly spoke the truth about an event involving “him”. He’s now afrai...
August 10, 2003 My husband’s journal….it just buggered the crap out of me as to what it all meant. Now, I know… maybe. It appears CC was jealous of my past….how he found the names, I’m not sure….was it from my journals I’d kept for years? Nothing explicit in those journals, only my reactions and observations and the events of my poor boring little life! Did he go through my pictures in the storage room? That wouldn’t have given him names, or did he find my letters and cards I’ve kept...
November 18, 2003 He wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer! He hated being ignored and he knew she couldn’t respond. He loved it! If she initiated one contact with him, she would violate the bogus protective order and that would put her in front of the judge again. Games! The master of lies and deceit was playing it for all he was worth. For the eighth time in less than 2 months, here it was…another "gift." No, not one gift, but two gifts, books of Southern writers. Ironic that aft...
Communication 101 For a number of weeks the group had become familiar, even chummy sharing personal stories applied to the course projects. The class clown/smart ass was standing again in front of his peers to deliver a message recommending an action that would inspire us all to accept whatever it was he chose to share with us. He was a funny guy, cocky and confident, young and attractive. So, there he was, all six foot something of him, looking every bit the fresh, irreverent, all-America...
I Miss the Man I Thought He Was… I thought he loved me. He was kind and caring in the way any woman would want her guy to be…almost perfect… but there was something…just a little something flying under the radar, something indistinguishable yet it buggered me. It didn’t seen quite right; not sure what it was that made me uncomfortable. So, I ignored it. Over time, I became accustomed to feeling the “little something” odd, “can’t exactly articulate it” thingy that was banging on the sid...
November 20, 2003 A friend told me this week his wife wanted a divorce. She said she didn’t want to be married to an old, fat man. I thought you’d be interested to know my view regarding “Old Fat Men” as I’ve always had a soft spot for these fellas! My Top 10 List of Old Fat Men! 1. Santa, the guy everyone loves, because he has all the goodies! 2. Henry VIII, King of England, Defender of the Faith and THE great lover of women! Well, kinda. 3. Henry Kissinger, the diplomat & f...
Sept. 9, 2003 To Amend, or Not to Amend?….That Protection Order… So, Mr. Insignificant had “his knickers ripped,” as he is so fond of saying when anyone falls flat on his face. It gave him that secret satisfaction that someone else was having a rough time, or better yet, got caught doing something he/she shouldn’t have been doing. Hmmmmm???? It looks like he got what he so fervently wished on others and it is about high time his mean doings came to light! Yeeeeeehawwwww! Hand in the c...