Procrastination

There are many
Who would tell you
Procrastination is simply
A philosophy of
Not doing today
What you can put off again tomorrow
I would personally
Disagree with this idea
Except for one
Minor
Little
Detail:
I put off writing
This little poem
Until now

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Sorry about missing my posting yesterday. I decided to put off posting until after the court appointment I had yesterday to finalize my divorce so I could happily announce it was finally final. The only problem with this is I don’t normally post that late in the day (after 10:30 ish, in this case), so I completely spaced posting at all.

Anyway, the divorce is finally final. The judge, a nice lady with a sense of humor, and I shared a chuckle over my extreme procrastination with said divorce. My wife and I have been separated since 1993 but only now actually got around to getting through a divorce. There has never been a consideration of getting back together or any other reason to not get the divorce done; we simply hadn’t done it. It is nice to say that in the tense; “hadn’t” done it instead of “haven’t”. So I am officially, legally a single guy again.

So that brought to my roommate and I a Moment of Truth which thus far has passed without action. She has not, as promised, changed any of her attitudes towards me and I have done nothing about said lack of action. We are maintaining the status quo and it bugs the hell out of me. Will I / we do something about it? Sooner or later, yes. We’ll have a talk and hopefully figure things out.

Meanwhile, I continued to get to know a new ladyfriend better. Nothing serious; I just bought her some minor things yesterday and then spent an hour or so hanging out with her at her home. In addition, we talked on the phone four times yesterday. Two were my call to her from the store to see what she might want from the store. Two were from her, one to change her mind on what she wanted while I was still at the store and the other was yesterday evening just to chat. There’s a couple of potential issues here: She doesn’t know about my complicated relationship with Sam (my roommate), although she knows I have a female roommate. (She hasn’t asked about her yet, either.) The other problem is that my new ladyfriend–I’ll call her Wendy because she currently works at Wendy’s–said something last night in our conversation about God watching over us. Anybody who’s read my blog knows I am very liberal and my religious point of view is not particularly Christian. I believe in supernatural things, but not the Christian (or any other major religion) version of God.  At some point, this will come up, and I hope it’s not an issue, but (by my observation) most God-believers have issues with those who don’t believe in God.  To be clear:  I don’t disbelieve in His existence, either, but the lack of belief, even while acknowledging the possibility of existence, is usually not viewed well by believers.

Anyway, so the day which should have been joyful had some downer points to it.  Still, I am happy to have the divorce thing over with.  And I have posted about it today, even though it’s past my usually posting time.  That’s mostly because I got up this morning and almost immediately laid back down again and ended up getting up much later than usual.

That’s all I got for this week.  I am broiling up a rant for a political rant for Monday which derives from an election outside of Colorado.  It highlights an issue with many candidates of a certain affiliation, however, and so I should be able to foam at the mouth pretty good about it.  See you then.