Bluebird
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Nothing like having to pee in the middle of the night and then not being able to fall back asleep. Ugh.
So yesterday my living room furniture was picked up and hauled off. It was even worse out in the sunlight - I should have got new stuff way earlier! DarkKnight ran the robot vacuum and got the floor all clean now that half the room is empty. Apparently he didn’t do by the litter box in that room though, so I am going to do that once I am up in the morning. The real morning - not this 2 am garbage. Lol The new furniture is supposed to be delivered 11:30 am - 1:30 pm.
Yesterday MisterMoonbeam went into work early for a meeting with his director - she’s his boss’ boss. Well, he was so UP and wired that he drove back home immediately afterward, called me on the way, and then was so energetic and effusive in the afternoon - I hadn’t seen him boosted like that for quite a while.
Apparently his boss is leaving in September after the big audit they do every year. The director basically told him the position is his if he wants it. The lowest raise this would come with is $12,000 a year, and with his knowledge base, he’d probably be looking at a $30,000 boost. The salary range for this position extends up to about double what he is making now. He’s already over six figures a year so the numbers are just stupid.
He says he has a lot of imposter syndrome going on, but does admit that he thinks he could be effective in the position. He started his master’s degree program this week and has his first paper due this weekend. Apparently the degree is in leadership and this position perfectly aligns with his goals with his degree.
I am so very excited for him! We talked in the evening about what this would mean for his debt and our day to day, and he was really jazzed and wired. So much so, that when it was after dinner he fell asleep in bed, drooling on me and snoring. At one point he threw his hand out in a dream, knocking my phone out of my hand and launching it directly into his face. So then he woke up crying and rubbing his face, shouting “sorry, sorry” and being very confused.
Lmao it was cute and he was more startled than hurt. I actually gave up on having an overnight with him because he was clearly completely wiped and I left him to sleep, and went down to be with DarkKnight. I felt a little out of sorts about it because Friday night here, DarkKnight and I are having a date night and a sleepover because we will be leaving for Pittsburgh early for our weekend together on Saturday. So I probably won’t be sleeping with MisterMoonbeam again until Sunday night. So I was bummed to miss out but it was clear he was drained. All the excitement and emotional processing had him just passing out with no energy left!
I was also sad because I discovered that OldSchool unfriended me on Facebook. We’ve been friends there before we dated, for like 5 years. He told me several times that he wanted to remain friends but it’s been radio silence since he bailed on our date, so I am not entirely surprised. However, I really have no real clear reason to why he suddenly flip flopped on every single thing he told me.
My thought is that after telling me he wasn’t getting back together with his ex, they actually did. And she didn’t want him maintaining contact. Which is understandable. I don’t know for sure though, maybe he just freaked out or something? Whatever.
I actually wasn’t thinking about him or hung up on him or anything, so I was shocked when I saw him posting on our mutual friend’s page, and seeing his profile pic different. I clicked on his name and then discovered he had unfriended me. I was like, uhhhhhh. Okay. It made me sad, even though I hadn’t thought about him. Feelings are weird. I wish I had some clear closure here, but we literally only had two dates, though we had been texting every day for quite a bit.
Anyway, I was in my feels and with MisterMoonbeam snoring away, I texted DarkKnight and he invited me down for a snuggle. We talked briefly, and then he read to me (as he does) and I fell asleep. Now that I am awake here in the middle of the morning night, I find that it isn’t bothering me anymore. Still, I thought I’d write it down.
The other thing that made yesterday emotional was that the little 9 year-old girl that passed away a little over a year ago - her mother came by. I hadn’t seen her since the death, and my post about her went viral. She immediately started crying when she came up to me, and we hugged. Her 4 year old son was with her, and I gave them both a freeze pop because it was crazy hot and they had just walked like 2 miles to come to my house.
They stayed for about a half hour. They got food from the Blessing Box, and some board games that were in the toy bin. I had texted with her on Wednesday, and she picked up a set of the books that I buy frequently in her daughter’s name. (I put them in Little Libraries around town with a “In Memory” sticker in the inside cover.) She talked about both keeping some of them, and taking her son to put them in other libraries herself.
So yeah, that happened. It definitely had me feeling topsy-turvy.
So yesterday my living room furniture was picked up and hauled off. It was even worse out in the sunlight - I should have got new stuff way earlier! DarkKnight ran the robot vacuum and got the floor all clean now that half the room is empty. Apparently he didn’t do by the litter box in that room though, so I am going to do that once I am up in the morning. The real morning - not this 2 am garbage. Lol The new furniture is supposed to be delivered 11:30 am - 1:30 pm.
Yesterday MisterMoonbeam went into work early for a meeting with his director - she’s his boss’ boss. Well, he was so UP and wired that he drove back home immediately afterward, called me on the way, and then was so energetic and effusive in the afternoon - I hadn’t seen him boosted like that for quite a while.
Apparently his boss is leaving in September after the big audit they do every year. The director basically told him the position is his if he wants it. The lowest raise this would come with is $12,000 a year, and with his knowledge base, he’d probably be looking at a $30,000 boost. The salary range for this position extends up to about double what he is making now. He’s already over six figures a year so the numbers are just stupid.
He says he has a lot of imposter syndrome going on, but does admit that he thinks he could be effective in the position. He started his master’s degree program this week and has his first paper due this weekend. Apparently the degree is in leadership and this position perfectly aligns with his goals with his degree.
I am so very excited for him! We talked in the evening about what this would mean for his debt and our day to day, and he was really jazzed and wired. So much so, that when it was after dinner he fell asleep in bed, drooling on me and snoring. At one point he threw his hand out in a dream, knocking my phone out of my hand and launching it directly into his face. So then he woke up crying and rubbing his face, shouting “sorry, sorry” and being very confused.
Lmao it was cute and he was more startled than hurt. I actually gave up on having an overnight with him because he was clearly completely wiped and I left him to sleep, and went down to be with DarkKnight. I felt a little out of sorts about it because Friday night here, DarkKnight and I are having a date night and a sleepover because we will be leaving for Pittsburgh early for our weekend together on Saturday. So I probably won’t be sleeping with MisterMoonbeam again until Sunday night. So I was bummed to miss out but it was clear he was drained. All the excitement and emotional processing had him just passing out with no energy left!
I was also sad because I discovered that OldSchool unfriended me on Facebook. We’ve been friends there before we dated, for like 5 years. He told me several times that he wanted to remain friends but it’s been radio silence since he bailed on our date, so I am not entirely surprised. However, I really have no real clear reason to why he suddenly flip flopped on every single thing he told me.
My thought is that after telling me he wasn’t getting back together with his ex, they actually did. And she didn’t want him maintaining contact. Which is understandable. I don’t know for sure though, maybe he just freaked out or something? Whatever.
I actually wasn’t thinking about him or hung up on him or anything, so I was shocked when I saw him posting on our mutual friend’s page, and seeing his profile pic different. I clicked on his name and then discovered he had unfriended me. I was like, uhhhhhh. Okay. It made me sad, even though I hadn’t thought about him. Feelings are weird. I wish I had some clear closure here, but we literally only had two dates, though we had been texting every day for quite a bit.
Anyway, I was in my feels and with MisterMoonbeam snoring away, I texted DarkKnight and he invited me down for a snuggle. We talked briefly, and then he read to me (as he does) and I fell asleep. Now that I am awake here in the middle of the morning night, I find that it isn’t bothering me anymore. Still, I thought I’d write it down.
The other thing that made yesterday emotional was that the little 9 year-old girl that passed away a little over a year ago - her mother came by. I hadn’t seen her since the death, and my post about her went viral. She immediately started crying when she came up to me, and we hugged. Her 4 year old son was with her, and I gave them both a freeze pop because it was crazy hot and they had just walked like 2 miles to come to my house.
They stayed for about a half hour. They got food from the Blessing Box, and some board games that were in the toy bin. I had texted with her on Wednesday, and she picked up a set of the books that I buy frequently in her daughter’s name. (I put them in Little Libraries around town with a “In Memory” sticker in the inside cover.) She talked about both keeping some of them, and taking her son to put them in other libraries herself.
So yeah, that happened. It definitely had me feeling topsy-turvy.