Working Nine to Five

LL




How's it going over there? Still working nine to five - Monday thru Friday? At least someone has retired who you know. Celebrated with a lunch at our first restaurant, I hear. Ash and I were there last year and I told her about my first time there....well most of it!

Can't imagine working for someone else at your age! I bet you often think how your life might have been, if only....and there's your fella on last Friday night up on the banks of the Dee. Not the way to treat a woman. I nearly said lady but quickly corrected myself!

You have no idea how good my life is now. From the depths of despair at losing G, passing through what you did to me (hope you are proud of that - NOT) with your affairs, the lies and the theft of the trinkets (not forgotten). That told me all I needed to know about your character. Your actions certainly spoke louder than your words. Of the latter there was a sad lack of any expression of fondness, loyalty or, as I found out....honesty. Not a good epitaph to the time you spent with me is it.

In the end you lost out enormously. In monetary terms, millions of dollars, in quality of life and in the devotion I once had for you.

You chose a working class 'soccer nut' and the very odd life that goes with it. From what I am told you still work all week and just get weekends with him. You have had, by my count, pretty much 9 years of that. I asked you to come back in 2006 and I knew what I was doing. I was not going to desert you as you had me (or as you thought I might), despite what your twisted mind thought. I am not that kind of man. You chose not to and when I married Ash in July 2006, you really had lost me.

I see he's been straining at the leash, or rather the belt, recently. I cannot believe that you chose to play around with such a lump in 2005, and since. His gift of the gab undoubtedly impressed you. Do you believe he didn't take up that offer when that woman in Spain came onto him back then? If you do you were mistaken.

I have spent the same 9 years very happily with my second wife. We lead a very good and active one in all respects. She keeps me very young :) Physically, I have hardly slowed down, weigh about the same as I always did and able to keep up my end of the bargain... so to speak ;-). You know pretty much all there is to know about our travels and most of our homes dotted around the World, my sailing and my writing etc. 

Maybe all of that was too boring for you and you actually prefer working for the Government and grasping weekends as being 'special'. You use that word a lot. 

You gloated a lot after you left, but I think you have realized that there was nothing at all to gloat over. You just plain....lost everything that would have given you a life that you will never have now.

At some point you accused me of flaunting. You bet! I have a lot to flaunt about and I wanted to drive home that fact and the loss you incurred in 'apparently' leaving me. Your urges drove you into actions that brought short term pleasure but a big long term loss. 

The quote below sort of sums me up, too, particularly back then. You used to laugh at me when I said I had been thinking. Well there was always a reason behind it and I knew far more about your activities than you realized - I still do....and I noticed far more than you ever gave me credit for, including things you should have hidden a little better

FK6

This is also very appropriate, as is the lettering under the above quote and also later in the next blog I write.

Don't want all of this blog to be serious so thought this might bring forth a smile:

BJ or Blair Jonny R (BJ) and family were with us until yesterday. We've had a great time together and also been out and about here in New England. He's ex US Navy and still works for the Government in Washington DC...or close by. We met many years ago during my RN days - the days you didn't believe existed. I was over here on an exchange at Norfolk, Virginia way back in the late 60's. He's quite an important guy these days. Brought a friend along, too - 2 star. Sorry, no further information can be given on him.

Incidentally, the mall I showed you the other day is in Manchester.....here in New Hampshire.

We are coming over to Europe very soon - hope the sun is shining in London. Here's a few photos to keep you entertained. As I said once before, it would be interesting to 'talk' and compare 'notes', but I doubt you have the courage. You know how if you wanted to, but I guess it would all be a bit too much for you.

 Franconia Notch State Park

 Shore Somewhere in New England

 Someone Else's Baby - The Dog That is!

 That 'Thinking About it' Look

:)

I see he has been up the glen where there are eagles - you not with him? Shame. 

Luxury hotels are the 'norm' for us, no slumming it. I never did in fact, always had standards and kept to them, unlike some people.

Funny isn't it that I fell for a person such as you...once. When it came to interests and tastes we were poles apart. I think I might have introduced you to some of the finer things in life and you would have enjoyed it...a little like Eliza in MFL:). But you chose to stay in your comfort zone. I always knew you would - you are neither a risk taker or a person with any great ambition.

In the absence of any communication or anything positive from you...... a final thought....

We all want what we can’t have, and don’t appreciate what we do have. We fall for someone we know will hurt us, but ignore the people who care about us so much. We love when we should hate, and vice versa. When we get what we’ve been wanting, it never meets our standards. We can’t make up our minds.

That very last comment is you to a 'T'! As someone once said to you over here:

Ma'am!

Ciao...................... LL..........we'll be over soon.