Date night at La Foret
Highlights: Jen and I had a wonderful date night at La Foret. We took one of the wines she had shipped back from Italy, which was the best part of the meal. I like the place, but it's not "that" amazing, but the wine was perfect with the quail appetizers, prawns and the medium rare truffle-butter-soaked bone-in ribeye. Damn good! The day was a bit of a roller coaster day. I slept pretty well and wanted to work on the garage while Tommy was out with Vinny but instead of doing that, I went to drop some stuff at my mom's and help her with an email issue. Her Comcast account got hacked, and she's got some virus issues too. I'm already overwhelmed with trying to whack moles in my own life, let alone manage others' needs. But we managed to get her set up for iCloud at least, and Lindsey helped get her through the reset issues with a call to Comcast. I returned home, worked on the garage solo, and worked with Tommy on it. He wanted a clear space to work on a friend's car, and I tried to support him. But he's so pre-disposed to make smart-ass disparaging comments. In my current state, two things make my life miserable - the workload and his utter disregard for any grace and consideration I afford him. I was proud to ride it out as best as possible and even point out how we should work together and not do or say things that didn't move us forward. I'll never fully understand how he can't see the damage he's doing. It's the same as he did to his mom; she never lived to have a better rapport. I doubt I will, either. I had to try my best to apply all the 'coping mechanisms' at my disposal and take a 'time out' of my own to just get 'out of the ring' and chill out before dinner. I'm glad I did. The garage ended up working out well, and I'm hoping to put time tomorrow into further thinning out and organizing. It's overdue. There's a lot of 'stuff' still to sort out. Linda's things I struggle to discard. Camping gear I want to get into the hands of the scouts or others that can and will use it. The "free on craigslist" movie might be where I go, though. It works well. I also need to put time against some 'leave of absence' paperwork and research. There's a lot to align if I make this happen.