It's Sunday and in another week I will be waking up in my new place.
I wonder how it will feel? I might go out to walk around a bit outside or hang out in the community area, but likely I won't want to leave Athena alone for awhile and definitely not the next day.
Getting pretty excited about it. A bit hard to believe!
I had a good laugh this morning when I went into the depths of my pantry and found copious supplies of 1) rice 2) boxes of pasta 3) a bunch of TP - all from the March timeframe when those things were scarce. I wasn't a hoarder, but it amused me a bit. And then I thought of how very very long ago it seemed,
Have we all aged years in the past 9 months?
Tomorrow, the movers are coming to look around and see how much stuff I have and give an estimate for the move. I feel fortunate to be able to afford for help this move, and really I wouldn't have considered doing it by myself. Couldn't have lifted etc a lone, and I still feel a lot of fatigue frequently. I don't have a lot of stuff really, times I am thankful at being somewhat of a minimalist!
After fretting about getting my own moving supplies and packing things incorrectly and breaking stuff, I also decided to have them pack. Sort of half-pack really since I have already gone thru all my stuff and have it sorted, and in piles to be put into boxes. I've removed all the things I decided didn't make the cut to come with us. They will be hauling away my old sofa (bye old sofa!!!) and a few other things. That happens the day before the move itself, the packing and the trash removal.
It occurred to me this morning that I might want to pack away any potentially embarrassing or more personal items lol before they come by.
Other things.., contemplating at picking up a pre-made smallish thanksgiving dinner from the local Whole Foods for Thankgiving.
I got the repetitive message from Luciano this morning which is really stale at this point and almost annoying.
Him(txt): Hello beautiful. How are you and how was your sleep?
[I feel as if I need to answer these for some reason, which annoys me that I feel this way]
Something is messed up with this phone that some of his outbound texts aren't working, he says, so email has been a bit of an alternative.
[I sighed to myself, and thought let me just get over answering this in some basic way. Maybe he will be able to read the room.]
Me(txt): Good. Slept well. How's it going?
[I do other stuff. 5 minutes later I get an email from Luciano]
Him(email): I assume you didn't get my text.
Oh brother. Really? I guess it's not totally surprising based on some of the red flags I'd seen during the time we'd spoken, but this puts him now on the shit list with me. Who does this, even in a relationship unless it is an urgent situation? Or unless someone has a tendency to be controlling in a relationship.
Readers, am I wrong here?
I could just not answer or ignore this , but I don't want to let this slide, and what to see what he is actually doing.
Me(email): What do you mean?
Him(email): Hello beautiful. How are you and how was your sleep?
[face plant]
Me(email): Why did you assume I didn't get it?
Him(email): Hence i told you i got a new phone and retrieved my number. People are complaining they ain't getting my text. So i got your text and i replied back and i didn't hear from you. So i assume you didn't get my response.
[For some reason the 'ain't' annoys me. But not as much as 'I didn't hear from you' only took about 5 minutes]
[I sigh to myself. Perhaps he didn't get my point. Not really worth it to get into this for me now.]
Me(email): I didn't get your response no. Hope you can get your phone issues resolved. Must be aggravating for you!
Him(email): That is why I said you didn't get my text. So how was your night?
[Guess I 'ain't' following the script - more red flags
]
Me(email): It was fine. Yours.
Him(email): It was okay. [And then he quotes Bible].
Luciano is a religious man. I'm 'spiritual' of sorts.. tending towards being an atheist, which he knows. This alone really is an incompatibility with me for anything serious. Really wish he wouldn't send me the daily Bible quotes mid-afternoon lately, but haevn't bothered to say anything.
Anna Xx