MonsterMustDie is in town this weekend. Yesterday was my birthday and between that and the move, I have an obligatory family visit starting this afternoon that he has agreed to accompany me to.
I
am getting a strong indication that he does not want me in North
Carolina with him. There
is a sunroom in back that was once a back porch, now closed in and
windowed. I had already put in dibs on that one room in the new house as an area for myself. Just as expected, he is already saying "The neighbors can see
what's in there" as if to say he does not want me making a mess, which
means he prefers I don't use that area for anything. This is a room that
already houses the laundry machines and a big hole in the wall for an
unplugged dilapidated window unit AC. His latest comments on things I like are "Great. Another expensive thing to sit around." I wonder if this is how he split with his first wife - through passive actions pushing her until she could not take any more.
Update:
In spite of good efforts to work in a trip to Home Depot on
the way and still planning to arrive early, we got to my mother's house
five minutes late of the absolute deadline she had given me at 2:05 pm.
Or so we thought. There was no on at her flat but her and the dogs. She
had forgotten to tell us that plans had changed. No one in the family
was coming except my brother and sister-in-law, who would be picking up
my mother (thank God she's not driving!) and taking her to a place my
brother had picked out in midtown called "Poor Calvin's" for dinner.
Reservations for dinner had been made for all of us at 7:30 p.m.
We
had not eaten yet, planning on the late lunch/early dinner gathering,
and had otherwise planned to do a lot of work on packing and meeting up
with people who had purchased used items at the house in the early
evening after time with the family. Those plans were now effectively
trashed. We agreed that we would all just
meet at the restaurant this evening. Then, MonsterMustDie and I headed
back to the house to accomplish what we could at the house in the small
amount of time we might have before heading out again for time with my
family. On the way home, we stopped by Steak and Shake, where he got
something he'd been craving for a while - chilli and a grilled cheese
sandwich. Then we ran home. He got filthy working in the shed to pull
things out and dismantle boards for a couple in the neighborhood to pick
up later, and I pulled a few more things out to pack and did a tiny bit
of laundry.
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