Well I'm going to make this quick so i can go to bed but I do want to let everyone know that I've had a really great week so far.

Let me start with this, Saturday night... well Sundday morning at 5AM my crazy ex finally insists through a text message that she has miscarried our child (which I at that point am not sure she ever carried). I was a little hurt but refused to play into her game and let it be without saying a word to her.

Sunday turned out to be great. Several awesome things happened. I saw my family for our usually monthly birthday celebrations (which included my mothers). I played with the cousins, ate a good meal, hugged everybody, saw my younger brother and had a generally great time. I also had the pleasure of watching the final quarter of the Bengals game on a 65 inch HD tv. Needless to say (snicker snicker) it was awesome and I can't believe the Bengals were able to pull of that kind of a 4th quarter drive.

Monday was also excellent because despite confusion with the ex, I was feeling pretty good about myself. I woke up and had breakfast, hit a nice bit of step work while I was doing it to. From there I went to the tanning bed and made my way to my home group meeting early. I also had the pleasure of chairing the meeting, which is always a nice surprise.

Later that day I spent time with my younger brother and his girl friend by happenstance. I missed my workout but enjoyed a great evening with my younger brother at the pool hall / local open mic night where I met some great people and did my first poetry reading ever! I was nervous and excited but had a smashing good time.

Tuesday I slept a lot based on the principle it was the 8 year anniversary since the coffee shop (Pythias) burned down and Tom passed away in that fateful fire. I didn't do most of what I set out to do but I did have dinner with my mother and her side of the family, which is always a lovely experience. We had a blast and then my brother, his girlfriend and I spent the next few hours together. We actually just sat in a car and had the most wonderful 3 hour late night chat you could imagine. I'm so proud of the man he's grown up to be.

On a side note, if you're ever in Louisville KY this season, try to find Highland Coffee and get a warm cup of their Chai Cider (so amazing it gives me goosebumps).

On a second side note Tuesday my crazy ex sent me another text insisting that she just miscarried the baby in the ER the night before and tried everything in her power to get me to talk to her again. I'm sorry but you can't miscarry the same baby on two different occasions (the original text received Sunday morning had said she'd gone to the doctor 'several days before' and found out she'd miscarried, so we're talking about two miscarriages in one week, that's a lot of dead baby (this is only funny because she really tried to act like she had miscarried and basically what she did was divulge that she was never pregnant at all, which my friends suspected all along))

Today was yet another wonderful although less productive day. I went and saw my father and his girlfriend to celebrate her birthday (my life has been full of celebrations hasn't it). From there I spent some time with a writer friend of mine that I haven't seen in too long and ended up going to the Comedy Caravan to watch one amazing comedian and one relatively okay comedian do some very funny and enlightening standup.

And tomorrow should bode well. I'm doing another poetry reading and hopefully hitting on a cute keyboardest/singer who runs the open mic I'll be reading at. So wish me luck and sweet dreams cause I'll take as much of both as I can get.