Happy birthday to my oldest daughter Michelle. She has turned into a very beautiful woman. It is a joy to watch her be a mother to her two children and a wife to her devoted husband. I love her to the moon and back! I still remember the day she was born and how delighted I was with her. She was a beautiful baby with a head full of reddish hair and bright blue eyes. Her favorite time of the day was in the middle of the night – she didn’t sleep through the night until she was over a year old.
Found the words to send a break-up email to the KS match guy. His story just didn’t add up to me anymore. The business website he sent me didn’t check out on the spam advisor site. I could find no evidence he lived where he said he did and his phone number was untraceable. I no longer felt safe talking to him so I ended it. I was going to let it play out a bit but that didn’t feel like I was acting in integrity so decided to end it. I got a response from him via text and email at 4:30 this morning. He was supposedly on a flight to London at that time. Have they changed the rules and you can now text from a flight? He was shocked and didn’t know what I was talking about. Can’t say I was shocked he was shocked! LOL! Feels good to have ended that.
I went downstairs when I got up this morning to strip two beds and detail clean one of the rooms. I have the laundry started and one of the bedrooms and bathrooms detailed cleaned. Then I got a text from the guests that were coming this evening to check into that room. They decided not to come. I was relieved to get that text. I need a full weekend with no guests in the house. I checked my calendar and it was August 5 since I have not had a guest in the house overnight. I am overdue for a guest free weekend!
One of my long-term guests found out he is getting transferred to a different work place sometime soon. He doesn’t have a date of transfer yet. He is a nice guy and I will miss having him around. I have enjoyed the conversations I have had with him in the evenings.
With Kathy leaving and one of the long-term guest leaving I will do a bedroom reshuffle. I will leave open Kathy’s room and the bedroom next to it for my Airbnb guests. I will move the Vo-Tech student to the room down the hall so she has a private bathroom. This way if my guests have a party of three or more they will be together and share the bathroom. If it is only one or two they will have a private bathroom. This should work better for all of us as I won’t have to flip a room quickly unless I have Airbnb guests checking in after another Airbnb guest leaves on the same day. Not sure which room I will put the double bed in. May leave it in the room it is in for the Airbnb guests. Most of the time they would enjoy a double bed for two people. I can always move it to the bedroom where I have the long-term guest and put the twin beds back in that room. I’ll see what bookings I get. I will open my calendar back up after both leave and see what happens.
May need to turn the A/C back on today. Since I don’t have guests I can choose to leave it off. Kathy enjoys it off more than when it is turned on. I’ll see how hot it gets today. At least at night it cools down nicely.
Went for over a two-mile walk last night. I needed to get outside and move my body. I wasn’t tired when I got home so could have walked further. I love the energy of fall time – it makes me want to get out and move my body. The ditches are full of flowers right now from all the rain we had. The grass on the hills is turning that beautiful autumn gold color. You can feel the earth preparing itself for the cold weather that will be here soon. Fall Equinox is next week – seems like it was only a month ago that we celebrated Summer Solstice.
My healing client got held up and didn’t make it for her healing yesterday. We may try to reschedule for next week.
Need to check my grocery supply – I haven’t been to town for a couple of days. Thinking I will need to run into town this afternoon and get a few things.
Still debating this whole on-line dating thing. I have two strikes against it so far. Guess I will keep going until I get three and then back off for a bit. Surely there are some honest guys out there that aren’t from a foreign country. I wouldn’t mind striking out if the chemistry wasn’t right – I just don’t like the feeling that they are being totally dishonest with me. I will need to have a face to face right away from now on so I can get a better sense of who I am dealing with. I will take it as a sign to run if they delay making that meeting happen. Both these guys did that.
Felt good to find my voice last night and send the email breaking things off. I know there is a chance I was wrong about both of them but I have to trust my gut. I am pretty fearless most of the time but am learning things are not always what they seem to be in the world of on-line dating. Better safe and alone than sorry!
Grateful for a guest free weekend coming up, grateful I listened to my gut and ended the back and forth, and grateful for a day to celebrate the birth and life of my daughter Michelle.