People Are So Obvious

I usually don't deal in gossip. I find that nine times out of ten, the gossip is way off base, particularly if somebody says "Don't tell anyone I told you." However, there are a couple of people at work that everybody says are having an affair. He is single, but she is married. None of my business really, but co-workers have to have something to talk about.

Personally, I've not noticed anything suspicious. They have lunch together every once in a while. Hey, I've worked with people whose company I prefer over others. Still no big deal.

And then....the fella catches me in the locker room one morning. He says something like "Hey, you have an iPhone don't you? How do you erase pictures on there?" I'm a little confused at first and ask him a couple of questions. The gist of his complaint is that he plugged his iPhone into the computer and iTunes pulled all of his photos off of his computer and put them on his phone when they synced. I explained the whole tab system to him and told him to deselect the photo portion of the sync. Boom. Problem solved nice and easy.

I didn't think anything of the conversation until forty-five minutes later when the female half of the supposed couple caught me in the hall and asked me the same set of questions. I answered them in the same manner and didn't think anything of it.

Until about thirty minutes later. That's how slow I work folks. Now I'm laughing my ass off (on the inside of course) because I realise what must have happened. Now my imagination is running wild. I'm guessing that she got a new phone, plugged it into his computer, iTunes automatically synced it and now she has all of his pictures on her phone. Hard enough to explain to a significant other, but if they did what many couples do (not me of course) there are some very compromising photos on her phone. Can't explain that away!

How obvious do you have to be that even my dumb ass catches on to what you are doing?

City of New Orleans

Kitten came to town this weekend. We had a great time Saturday night starting with dinner at Bound'ry. We shared a seafood and cucumber bisque that had a side of seared scallop, squash blossom stuffed with goat cheese, a fish, whose name I can't remember, and creme brulee. The bisque and scallop was my favorite! After dinner, took Kitten over to the Ryman. The Grand Ole Opry is back at the Ryman since their normal place is still under repair from the flood. I had a great time and I think she did too.

So why the picture of the train? We decided on our next trip! We booked a flight to Chicago where we will board "The City of New Orleans". After an overnight train ride, we will spend a couple of days in the Big Easy, mostly eating and doing the tourist things. I'm excited to travel with Kitten and I think she is excited too. I can't wait!

More Tickets?

I was given tickets to the Jeff Fisher Charity Softball game this weekend. Unfortunately, I volunteered to take call for a buddy on the day of the game. I have been unable to find any takers for them, so I'm afraid they will go to waste.

Under better circumstances, I know that the ex-girlfriend would love to have them. She was a fanatic for that kind of stuff, but after the way I was treated, no way in hell would I do something nice for her. Those days are over.

Sadly, this kind of thing is very bad for my psyche. I am with Kitten now and she is everything I could ask for and everything the ex was not, but for some reason I obsess over how bad I was treated. I have reached a point where, normally, I don't give her a thought, but every time I get news about her or have reason to think about her, my brain goes into overdrive. Last week it was somebody telling me that she was getting fat. It was funny at first, but I couldn't stop thinking about every conversation we had about her weight. This week, it's the tickets. I love doing things for people. I come across as a tad curmudgeonly, but making people happy does make me happy. However, I've found that if you do things for people and they don't appreciate it, it just means they are taking advantage of you.

Bless Kitten's heart. She listens to me. She really listens. It isn't about her all of the time. I know she will get tired of me bitching about how I was done wrong. The saddest part of the whole deal is that the ex could have had the friend in me that she says she wanted if she had remotely tried to ease my pain. Instead, she did everything she could to make me feel like I was going out of my way to please her without any appreciation from her at all. It's an old and tired subject, I know. It's gotten so bad that at night, instead of dreaming about Kitten and how lucky I am to have her, I dream about the ex. Not those kind of dreams! I dream about things she did to hurt me and even worse, in my dreams she finds new ways to hurt me. I know this will all fade eventually, but it's taking forever. In six weeks it will be a year since she dumped me for somebody else. Intellectually, I know that I'm so much better off. The only thing that really attracted me to her was the fact that I thought she loved me. Now that I know it wasn't true, I can't think of a single reason why I was with her. So, emotionally I continue to struggle with how I got suckered into that relationship and why I allowed her to hurt me so bad.

I'm so lucky to have Kitten.

Sooo Busy

Gosh, where does the time go? I've been very busy lately. Memorial Day weekend, I drove to Kitten's to hang out. We had a blast, but didn't do anything special. Mostly just spent time together. We did buy a smoker and make "Bacon Explosion". Let me tell you, "Bacon Explosion" is worth the one or two years it takes off of your life. The basic ingredients? Two pounds of Italian sausage and two pounds of bacon. I got the recipe from the Today show. Look it up if you feel you don't get enough red meat in your diet.

I drove back to Kitten's this weekend. She had an elective procedure done on Friday and I wanted to be there to take care of her. I kidded her, but she was actually a good patient. She is up and feeling much better now, so maybe I did some good.

I got a phone call from the travel company I'm trying to use. They found a job for me in Cheyenne, WY. Not exactly the urban center I was looking for and waaaaaayyyy to far away from Kitten, so I told them to keep looking.

There is more, but I just got off of the road so I'm tired. :P