…I went to lunch with my friend PAUL! on Friday. We met at the restaurant across the street from my work. App!bees.

We talked and talked and made plans for the reunion of him and my best friend Judy which is coming up in two weeks. Yes, JA and I are going to double date with our very good friends one more time! I can’t even begin to tell you how romantic this is for all of us!

Anyways, back to the restaurant…when it came time to leave, just as PAUL! opened the first set of doors for me, the second set of doors opened WIDE OPEN.

And there stood one of my colleagues, Dick, then another, Matt. They were entering the restaurant.

I called out his name and threw my hands in the air like I always do when I see him. It is a on going joke we have.

Now I don’t know what it was, but he just seemed shocked to see me. You know how you can see someone every day at work, but don’t recognize them out of the work environment? It was like that.

But the best was to come. Dick and I and our receptionist have an ongoing joke about which of us is misbehaving and who is up to mischief. Always making up stuff like whispering as he walks by, “Aithne, I won’t tell anyone what just happened between us a few minutes ago.”, while other people are standing there. The jokes are hysterical mostly because Dick does the best deadpan face of anyone I know.

And Dick is never one to be at loss for words. Ever.

So he sees PAUL! standing next to me and Dick looks at me, looks at PAUL! and says, “Oh! This must be your husband!”, with a mischievous grin on his face. He is thinking he is going to have some fun with this.

But right then, PAUL! stepped forward, held out his hand and said, “No sir. I am her good friend Paul.”.

Dick went into shock. He was so caught off guard that he was speechless. You know he was thinking, Aithne is with another man. Totally speechless. Matt just smiled and smiled. He too was laughing at Dick being speechless.

He went in to eat and PAUL! gave me a hug and off I went back to work.

I laughed the whole way back. Dick was speechless. This never, ever happens. When I got back to work, I told all my coworkers, who too laughed so hard. Jessie hatches a plan. She is going to ask Dick when she sees him, if he heard the rumors about me. Another coworker was going to say she was worried about me. Our receptionist had the best line, “I told her not to go!”

We all had tears in our eyes we were laughing so hard.

Now, we all know Dick has to come back to work. When he does, he avoids all of us. Can’t even look our receptionist in the eye and silently walked back to his office looking very, very perplexed. He wouldn’t even look at me. Again speechless. This became the second round of non stop laughing from the rest of us.

We laughed all afternoon. All it took was one of us thinking of what was going on to giggle and the rest of us would just start laughing all over again. I have not laughed that hard and that long in years!

Finally, Dick came up to me and said, “Aithne. I need to see you in my office.”

Me: Why?

Receptionist: I told her it was a bad idea and now look. We thought she was so quiet too! Help her Dick!

Me: ~just laughed and laughed and laughed~

It went on like this all day. Dick does not know what to think and everyone thanked me at the end of the day for their sore mouths and stomaches because we laughed so hard.

I guess you had to be there.

I just set up a reunion of Judy, my best friend of 40 years and PAUL! She is driving up from her house, which is now a hour and ten minutes away and PAUL! will meet her, JA and I and we are going to spend the evening together just like we used to when those two were dating. We used to go on a lot of double dates back in the day!

The festivities commence in two weeks! I can’t wait!

No this is not a TTM post. It is about me.

JA’s truck is at the shop, which means he needs a ride home from work.

Yesterday his cell phone went on the kabooey.

So I switched our sim cards and gave him my cell phone for the day.

Guess who has no way of getting ahold of the wife when he needs a ride home tonight?

All I can say is there must be some type of social worker visiting over there. The Youngest is actually wearing a helmet while riding his new bike. This is a first!

Right now, my Mark is in court, sitting through a Diversion Hearing.

That’s right. I am sick over it all.

Normally I don’t post stuff like this, but today I made an exception.

UPDATE:
a Diversion Hearing is the alternative to an actual hearing. Only first time offenders with a good past record are allowed to partcipate. It is designed to scare the kids and teach them a lesson without having their permanent record blemished for their mistakes/poor judgment. After meeting with the prosecutors, the community service & fines were dropped. All he has to to is donate 75 cans of food to a charity and stay out of trouble for a year. The prosecutor was nice but scared him with their meeting. My Mark did all the talking. JA just sat there and observed the conversation between Mark and the prosecutor.

Mark has since stopped hanging out with the kid he was with when it happened.

I am still angry with him.

With the return of the Trailer Trash Mama, I have had to do some serious soul searching.

I have quickly come to the conclusion, I love to hate her drama. And that is as far as it goes.

When The Trio of Terror get involved, then I just hate it. Plain and simple.

Yesterday I was forced to admit that the Trio has been there all week. Both the twins and JA have reported to me that the Trio has been spotted all week long.

This is hard for me to accept. I had held hopes out that they were there just for visitation, but alas, the cold, hard reality has hit me.

My only hope is that it is just a few weeks for a summertime visitation. Anything else is just too scary for me to accept.

Trailer Trash Mama Drama Checklist:

The parade of unsavory characters - Check.
Her pattern of taking off every evening and leaving Ma with those kids - Check!
Cars parked in the driveway at weird hours of the night - Check.
Youngest of the Trio out stealing in the hood - Check! (he was spotted shimmying up the street sign pole and trying to take the other street sign. The one he didn’t steal last year. I mean, come on, how the hell do you ignore street signs in your garage? Especially when they are from your own street and the street on the corner?)
No one is watching the kids - Check.

I really do hope this part of it is just a long summertime visitation.

I am crabby as hell. I am sick of stuff at work, sick of the way people want me to drop everything I am doing just to help their sorry asses out, sick of people clearly seeing and hearing that I am on the phone and STILL interrupting the guy who is interrupting the first guy who interrupted me. It is obvious I have someone on the phone who needs help and they were there first. Also I am on the switchboard while our receptionist is at lunch. I only have two hands and one set of ears.

As for that last person who interrupted everyone because he thought he was so very important AND he was good looking and therefore that = everyone through themselves at his feet and worship how cool he thinks he is…don’t work with me BUCKO!

He was upset because their was food in the meeting room.

Hell yes there is food in the meeting room BUCKO! You are two hours early and there is still a meeting going on the meeting room that was scheduled before yours and it won’t let out until a half hour before yours starts! There! Did your world come to a screeching halt and you backtracked a little there when you realize it is not all about you, BUCKO?!!!

So now where ya gonna go? You have two hours to kill BUCKO! So get the hell outta my face.

She is now the proud mom of Stedman.

Welps, I am baaaaaaaaaack! I know ya’ll missed me. Ding dang, I reckon I kinda missed ya’ll too.

I know I had been done gone for a while but now I am back living at Ma’s. I moved outta there back a while ago right after the dui/lost custody/jailtime sabbatical. I had moved in with JedBob but things didn’t work out 2 good. So I am back with Ma. I hopes to find me a NEW MAN! someday soon.

I have been thinkin’ about why all my men seem to start out good, then turn bad and I have to move in with Ma again. I hate living with Ma, but doncha know that a fragile gal like moi has a hard time with men since they all get so jealous of the attention I gets from all the other men and we fight and stuf. Also being so fragile had been keeping me from finding a good job since the work world is hard on gals like me. That always doesnt work out well for me too.

Now dat I am back in here with Ma, I have to look at that damn Aithne again! I sure hate her. I know all the bad stuff that has happened to me is because of her! She forced her kiddos to call the police on my little baby son all just because he was far away and stuff and Ma wasn’t watching him for like Ma is supposed to. Ma’s watch your kids for you without asking, don’t they? Also, that Aithne…she forced her kiddo to file a police report on something called “stalking” I don’t no what that means.. It had sumpin’ to doo with me following him around a lot where he works and pulling up to him in parking lots. Geezus! People make so much outta the dangest, littlest thing. but it sure caused problems when the Baby Daddy took my babies away. SOBS! I has to work on gettin those younguns back because there was a lot of child support and I loves me some child support you know, since I can’t work because us delicate gals don’t work and stuff.

She ’s done gone lost weight and that makes me feel bad now dat I gained a couple my little ole cute self. She is always out there prancing her going to and from workstuff around. Her and that cutiepie JA seem to be having lots of company from a really big guy this summer. I think I has scene him around there once or twice a long times ago. I wonder if he has a lady friend. Like that matters. LOL! I crack myself up.

Oh an I notised that her young menfolk, well, they be adrivin’ nowadays! They have lots of young menfolk over there aaaallllll the time. I wonder if they notice me and stuff.

I has to git along here.

Aithne’s two cents:

Dear Lord, we are almost positive she is back for good. Her car is parked in the garage. I wonder if she has the p@rty plates on it. I don’t know much of what is going on, but I did notice some movement over there in the past couple of weeks that indicated something was going on. Obviously she only has the kiddos every other weekend. That was confirmed by last Friday’s “Ya’ll see me,Ya’ll?” big PDA hour in the front yard. ~gag~ Other then that, she is really keeping a very low profile. That will last about 2 weeks.

I so love to hate this stuff!

I have seen The Trio of Terror here and there, but he last time I actually, physically really saw Trailer Trash Mama was this day. Since the Baby Daddy got custody and she moved out, I have seen very little drama.

So eight months have passed. While I miss the drama, I like the silence.

Even though that much time has passed, I still am always on alert for something happening over there.

Yesterday did not disappoint.

I was getting ready to head out the door when I heard some commotion. I looked out the kitchen window and WHOA!

Ma was there, The Trio of Terror were there and so was TTM! I would have loved to stay and watch the dramz from inside the house but alas, I had to be somewhere in a few minutes and I did not have the luxury of staying.

From what I could see it was blatantly obvious that this all was some form of a dog and pony show for the neighbors. TTM actually was interacting with the Trio! INTERACTING, folks!!!!! While Ma was grinning and acting all proud like, till I thought her face would split open.

“Ya’ll can see for youselves, I is here having interaction with mah kiddos here. I’m all cleaned up now! See what a wonderfull Ma I can be now? So there…!”

The biggest part, excuse the pun, was the fact that she has gained a lot of her weight back. I guess the gastric bypass didn’t work after all. As much as I can’t stand her, that did make me feel bad. No one feels good when they are overweight like that.

Obviously she is making plans to regain custody. She might want to watch what she does a little more carefully for she threw a football at the youngest TTM while he was running in the street, headed for an intersection and not watching where he was going. He was so intent on the attention he was getting that he was watching her instead of where he was going and almost got hit by a car.

Some interesting things have happened in the past few weeks:

~ There is another car parked in the garage. Who it belongs to I can not tell unless I really gawk. But I am too much of a lady to gawk. Besides, I will not give her the satisfaction that I even know she exists.

~ The Trio has been seen on a somewhat regular basis. Every other weekend. This alarms me.

~ Suddenly Ma has cleaned up the yard, opened the drapes. Ya’ll know The Opening of the Drapes is a sign that something significant is either about to happen or is happening.

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