Retiring?

LL

I hear you had  a weekend without soccer. Hope you enjoyed it. What are you going to do when you retire? Move, buy that 'little place' in Spain that was promised 11 years ago, or just carry on as now until you pass on?

I often wonder what you will do. But that's all. As you are fully aware, or should be by now, my life from an age younger than you are now has been one of interest, fun and dare I say it luxury. Never in a thousand years thought I'd get 'here' though. Comfortable yes, but extremely wealthy, no. I didn't expect that and from fairly modest beginnings too.

I know you realize you made a big, big mistake back in 2004/2005. Partly why I write these blogs, to rub the fact in. No malice just a sweet sense of satisfaction...and I've had plenty of that, if you know what I mean!

Someone sent me a recent photo of your man. How you tolerate a body like that beats me. Round as he is high. Some of your 'activities' must be very interesting. I must remember to include a photo of a far fitter guy.

In Miami for a couple of days, not worth driving back along Alligator Alley. Am here for a TV program. I'll leave you to figure whether it's about cooking, my books or business. Any which way, it beats all that talk of soccer that you have to suffer.

Spent most of the weekend and Monday on Sanibel/Captiva and the boat. Not a bad life. January here is cool, relatively speaking,. In the 60's and 70's F.

By the way, I thought I should clarify something from way back regarding a court appearance. It never happened. It may appear to have done, but it didn't and there's no record. I'll leave you to figure out why - a clue, think back to one of my previous careers.

I am sure you look at what I tell you about my life since 2006 and wonder if it's really true. Don't wonder - it is. I tested you every way I could and you failed miserably on each and every count. So, I knew I had to move on in 2004 (not 2005) following your first episode of 'playing away', although I gave you quite a few further opportunities until March/April of 05. Another revelation derived from your shoddy attempt to cover your tracks, and I knew I was wasting my time.

That was when I decided once and for all to make a life of my own, without you. Not you doing the opposite. The rest of the time I was playing you like a fiddle....and you thought you had hoodwinked me. How I laughed.

I'm a fair to good 'actor', so I knew how to convince you I was heartbroken. You swallowed it hook, line and sinker.

You thought I would leave you 'high and dry' if you came back. Well baby, you'll never know.

That left you where you are now and where you were then. Nothing has changed much for you has it. Ten years of what you have been doing since the first day you met him...and you once said I was boring!

Too late you learned I am far from that and too late you learned how secure you could have once been. That, as you know, was a test too. I will take no women into my life because I happen to be wealthy, hence I kept that from you. Luckily I met a person to whom wealth didn't matter - she had her own - and that person is my wife of nearly ten years.

Birthday soon - not that young these days are you....photos show it quite well.

Ciao