Interesting Times

Today has been a strange day. I got an email from an ex who said that she has met someone else. More recently I think I would have been gutted, but in a very real way I feel very relieved and set free as it were.

I have been seeing someone for quite a while now who is incredibly lovely and understanding and accepts that although i am seeing her, it is difficult for me to shut out memories of the last person so soon after our split. I find it almost impossible to dislike anyone which is why things might tend to drag out a little.

The irony with the last is that although I knew for a long while (even before we split) that it was not going to work out with her unless she changed a few key fundamental bits about the way she acts and interacts with people, it is, however, difficult when you spend a significant portion of your life with someone, not to think of them, even after a split, for example especially when you experience something that you know your ex would instantly connect with e.g. a film, a piece of music you heard and so on.

The lovely realisation however, is that by knowing she has met someone else, the pure break has finally been made, where there is the possibility of being the friend you were with them before you went out with them, because they would not think that your communications with them could be anything but noble. It is always hard when ex's meet new people,and i would not suggest to anyone that they then become the ultimate soulmate to the ex again overnight...no this might mean that they feel so relaxed with you that they tell you all about their new beau - which will only lead to comparisons being made. I would not be so ungentlemanly to do that to her and would expect the same courtesy from her in kind.

Instead, I am just very content to know that i might be able to share my common interests with my ex again. I have never gone out with anyone that i didnt share a deep friendship with first, and so in a almost Hollywood cliche style, I think it might be possible, just possible, to reconnect with that person again for the common good.

Of course if I and one of my ex's were to meet in other circumstances, where we had both got more experience of life, had let the bad feelings of breakup die down, and had changed enough with these experiences to be far more compatible, then who know...in some circles love never dies and will bring the two together again.

Goodnight Wales.

the wonder that is customer service

Now for a good gripe

1)Just a got a letterom from the telly licence people stating

"We are led to believe that you bought a TV from Comet PLC recently and that you dont have a telly licence" WHen i challenged call centre they said a new recent requirement on statutory law (available to be read from any postoffice) meant that all electrical retailers now have to inform the telly licence office when you buy a tv - whats more if you buy it for a relative you have to snitch on them to the telly people too - what fuckers and no recourse to the data protection act - god i feel like a criminal and need a shower just to feel clean again

2)My credit card company will not take a card payment for my arrears because my card is not on the debt colectors register (yet) - i.e. if i cant pay the arrears cos they wont take me card, then i have to wait til they slap on loads of charges and wreck my credit rating before they will take payment by card. I had better transfer the balance to another interest free one whilst i get the chance!

look what my sis found

Good sense of humour runs in the family - try thisone thatmy 14 year old sister spotted
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end.php

Laugh out loud jokes

One day God calls down to Noah and says "Noah, I want you to make me a new Ark". Noah replies, "No probs God, anything you want after all you're the boss".

But God interrupts, "Ah but there's a catch this time Noah, I want not just a couple of decks, ..... I want 20 decks one on top of the other".

"20 DECKS!", screams Noah, "Well, OK Big Man, whatever you say, should I fill it up with all the animals just like last time?"

"Yep, that's right, well ..... sort of right.......this time I want you
to fill it up with fish" God answers.

"Fish?" queries Noah.

"Yep, fish ... well, to make it more specific Noah, I want Carp, wall to wall, floor to ceiling - Carp!"

Noah looks to the skies, "OK God, let me get this right, you want a New Ark?"

"Check".

"With 20 decks, one on top of the other?".

"Check".

"And you want it full of Carp?".

"Check"

"But why?" asks the perplexed Noah, who was slowly but surely getting to the end of his tether.

"Well...." says God, "I just thought it would be nice to have a Multi-Storey Carp Ark"