What have I gone and done now? Well, I was very casually vacuuming the living room and thinking about my ex reading my web log and how it was really not good to put that daily temptation in front of him like a very sweet desert in front of a fat person who is dieting. I mean, who wouldn’t want to know what kind of thoughts are going on inside the head of his soon to be ex wife, wouldn’t you be awfully curious? So, I thought, enough of that, you do not tie the cat to the bacon, as they say here. I must remove the temptation for him to read, although I kindly suggested this morning that he stop reading the blog.
It is too much temptation and I wouldn’t be able to stop either. So, the next best thing was to move the blog to a to him undisclosed location and hope that he doesn’t figure out where I am now by being so god darn smart. If I were him, I wouldn’t make the effort and let it go. I hope he is smart enough to do that. I also don’t want his paramount to start reading the blog. Yes, I wrote paramount and not paramour on purpose. Paramount means: commanding, controlling, dominating, dominative, governing, preponderant, regnant, reigning, ruling and I really have no idea if the poor woman is anything like that at all, but I liked it better than calling her a paramour which means: A person’s regular sexual partner.
What name shall I cal my ex? He is sort of a dominant person himself and preponderant and commanding, so I should come up with a good name that has that meaning in it too. No, I’ll just call them the Exfactor and the Paramount. The He and the She. I don’t have that many unkind thoughts about them, but I wish to be a little bit of mean about them sometimes, to get some of the frustrations out occasionally that I will never show in public. In public I will be a most reasonable woman who will not show the back of her tongue and who will always be kind and polite and who could Hillary Clinton look like she needs charm lessons.
I have had a most pleasant day so far, except that I asked the Exfactor to do me a favor and in his discombobulated mind he got things all screwed up and it took several phone calls to get it somewhat straightened out. At least to the point that it will hopefully be satisfactory to the people of the Social Services whom I will see on Tuesday. I should have taken care of this myself, but instead depended on the Exfactor’s stamina on his bike and his reasonable intelligence. I must remember not to do this anymore and depend on myself to take care of delicate matters, as it seems that our minds work differently. It must be the Venus/Mars thing. I will just have to try harder on my bike and not be intimidated by long distances and wind that blows straight at you.
Anyway, I vacuumed the apartment and polished the furniture and picked out a slipcover that my daughter had offered to buy for me as a housewarming gift for the new chair. I suppose I should have a housewarming party, but I think I am just going to wait until my birthday in September and invite a bunch of people over then. Hopefully, I will get very good gifts. I will start dropping very heavy hints soon. You can’t start soon enough with those things.
I filled two glass containers with different teas and one with pasta that I don’t eat, but it looks good. I have one empty glass container left for I don’t know what, so if anybody has an idea. It is airtight.
I went grocery shopping and spent 22 Euros and that should last me for the week and then I’ll have to get a few things for the weekend. Aren’t I a cheap woman? I even got very nice treats for the dog. I have to call him the dog now so he won’t be recognized by name. The Dog. The Uberhund! I bought some new cat kibbles that are a good brand, but just a bit cheaper and the cats like them very much. I always put down two bowls for three cats and one bowl is empty and the other is nearly so. Those troopers! They know we’re on a budget.
But guess what I just saw happen. The Uberhund was eating cat food! Aha! He ate all of it. Well, you know what that means. The cat food needs to be moved to the counter. That stinker, he has never done that before. I actually find it very funny, because Toby was convincing himself the other day that he liked the dog food. Well, now my wooden shoe breaks.
The Uberhund must think he has died and gone to dog heaven with all those dishes of good food and the snacks. I am trying to keep him on a diet so he doesn’t gain anymore weight, this will defeat all my efforts.
When you live by yourself, you have no dishes to wash, at least I don’t. I don’t cook for my self and eat simple food that is easy to fix. I have at the most a glass and a mug and a knife and a small plate. I rinse everything off right away. I never use the stove and I heat milk in the microwave. Milk with honey before I go to sleep.
Okay, that’s the end of the introductory epistle to this new blog. I’ve got some things left to do to it. Hope you are all going to have a great day. Oh goodness, it is Friday. remember how that used to be my favorite time of the week? Well, I have other days that are now, depending on what happens on them. I do like Saturday a lot now.
Ciao…








I’m the first to comment on this blog, yay! You see, I followed you here….
I LOVE the names you’ve found, especially the Exfactor and the Uberhund. I’m still laughing.
Have no great ideas for the glass container except maybe rice? Or dried beans, if you mix red kidney and white small beans, they look lovely mixed together. And you can eat them, too. One of those larder staples for those days you can’t be bothered to go out shopping.
I’d put colorful marbles in the empty jar, so when you think you’ve lost them you can look over and realize they are all in one place.
Gorgeous header. Makes one want to hit the road an travel, oh that’s right I need to go to work.
Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Followed a comment you made about your new blog…..
Dx
Love their new names, I just hope he doesn’t follow you via some of your blog mates. Fingers crossed. Debs x
Once again I’m amused (horrified? aggravated? ticked off?) at the parallels in our lives. I too have suggested to my soon to be ex that he stop reading my blog, and yet for some reason he continues to. And you just have to ask – Why? Why do you continue to read something that is not about your life anymore.
I asked him and you know what he said? “I read it to find out what’s going on with the kids. IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU, YOU KNOW!”
The hell it isn’t.
I like your new name for Ed. I’ve been trying to come up with my own and haven’t found one yet that works.
Hang in there, hon.
I too have been tempted to move my blog, I fear it has been infiltrated by he who must not be named. Rotten Correspondent, I don’t even want mine seeing pictures of the kids! Long story.
Anyway, Nora dear you make all this blog moving look easy and here we all are following you right along!!
You’re a trooper Nora!
I get so cranky when Ed demands things from you. Who does he think he is? The Almighty?
The empty jar holds so many possibilities doesn’t it?
I like that you have one – -
I found you too. Hope that is OK. It is good that you are moving on in every sense of the words.
I hope you find a confortable space here. Try just to forget a bad parenthesis in your long and plenty life… and hope he lets you do so…
Best from your friend
Good idea.
I visited here before you posted this, as did so many of your friends…. so lots of comments in your earlier post.
This is much less complicated than my recent solution of having a public and a private blog, neither of which I actually blog in at the moment! It also meant I had to invite people by email… so some people never got invited, as I don’t have their email addresses. All a bit silly, but that’s life.
You will just have to watch what you put in it as these things are very easy to google. In the end, I am sure you won’t be bothering to write about ‘them’.
BTW you don’t seem to have those nasty stalkers you had last year- so maybe you have managed to lose people along the way already.
See you around.
feel free to be mean every once in a while. you’re among friends here.
You have every right to put in a mean word, what a ride this has been for you. I am happy and proud of you. You really are inspiring Nora, really. Not willing to just settle. Good for you.
I hope this blog is kept private. He has no business here now. This is all about you and don’t forget that it is a good thing.
I am at a loss at to what to put in your empty jar. Symbolic thou, for all the possibilites. They are endless and it is totally up to you, you, you.
Give Jesker a nice scratch around the ears for me.
XOXOX
I love the way you’re thinking all this through. It’s methodical and measured and I’m soo impressed.
Agree with Laurie. This is as good a place as any to vent whatever you need to.
x
Nora not sure what your remark on my blog meant! Maybe I am just tired. Anyway glad you are OK.
Sounds like you’re settling in well. I hope he leaves you in peace to get on with your life and write what you like!!!
Now, empty jars….
Coppers?
I know Nora:
Fill the jar with your dreams!!!
Poor E, reading your blog. I think ol’ L is getting what she deserves in life.
Karma.
You are gaining strength day by day, my dear.
XO
WWW
Thank you all for following me over here. you are a bunch of sweethearts. So are the people who commented on th earlier post. I googled myself in several possible ways and always ended up in the blogs that were already deleted, so maybe this change worked. I just must remember not to call the characters by their true names. I may slip sometimes, that is going to be a real challenge.
Thank you dear people, for being there.
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Hi lovely Nora, sorry I’m late to comment. This is a fabulous idea and like Laurie says, you’re with friends, feel free to unload. I love how positive you are sounding and how you are making your home new and yours. I will update my reader and my blogroll. Here’s to another bright day. x
you sound good – freeedom and independent
Found you! My filters thought your new address was spam. Your girl let me know what’s happening. Very hot here today, so we’re reading and lying low. I love reading your Dutch idioms in English! Stay cool, stay calm, Laura
Exfactor … cool name … I am not sure if I should say “Hi … ” as I usually do … so I won’t …
you sound good and you will have to tell us how you fill that other jar!
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