This Isn't the High Road.

Here's some good news...this week I have had three different occassions that I wanted to blog about! The bad news... every second of my day is taken up with things I need to do. My stress level is at an all time high, and blogging is the last thing I have time to do!

But why do today what could be done tomorrow???

I am just kidding with that last comment.

Except, I really am putting some stuff off until tomorrow.

Anyways, lets move on to the "Low Road."

I have always kept any bad words about my ex-boyfriend between myself and my closest friends. Never has a member of my family, or anyone outside my friends, heard a peep of anything negative about my ex and really why I broke up with him. And I have been really proud of that.

And really, I am still not opening up to them about him. I am just going to vent on here about him. And they do know and occassionally visit this blog. But VERY rarely, and they may not even visit this site anymore. But if they do, hey, I have every right to vent!!!

This past weekend I went to my brother's in Houston for my neice's baptism. I was very honored and proud that I got to be their god-mother. One of my brother's high school and college friends, Brian, was the god-father. The ceremony was great and brought me to tears to see the girls go through their baptism.

But this blog isn't about my sweet neice's and their being baptised.

Of course, the ex and his new wife were there. The first thing that annoyed me about him (she actually doesn't annoy me; besides her voice, which is awful.), they showed up at my brother's house just before we were leaving. Naturally, no one gave me a heads up on that one. What annoyed me about them showing up to their house before is the fact that none of the other family members showed up before, they all met us there. And none of them go to their church, so they all had to figure out how to get there on their own. In fact, the only person who has been to their church out of the rest of the family, is my ex. To make it even better how incapable he is at finding something on his own, he lives in the next town over, where the church is located. It amazes and annoys me when someone has to be so helpless in this day and age of googlemaps.

Second annoyance, the OTHER reason he came to their house before, to have my brother tie his tie!!! Yep, the guy can't tie his own tie in his late twenties. Once again, someone introduce this man to google. If you type into google "how do you tie a tie," over a MILLION hits shows up. A MILLION....I am pretty sure you can figure out how to tie a tie with at least one of those! I did have a smile on my face as I overheard my brother and his friend talking alone about how pathetic it was to not be able to tie a tie.

Did I mention that I wasn't taking the high road with this blog???

The third annoyance. At the church the planner of the baptism told my brother and sister-in-law that only a limited number of people could go to the back of the church for the actual baptism. So of course the girls, the parents and godparents would go. As well as her brother to take pictures and her mom. The rest of the family was to stay sitting. But who was back there taking pictures? The ex. It wasn't like he had a fancy camera and was doing them a favor, they have a much nicer camera. It's his second cousin's baptism and he is not a religious guy. It just annoyed me.

Fourth annoyance, and the grand finale of all the annoyances. Ever since I worked at that baby store I have always known that when my neice's got baptised, I would buy this book for them that is sold there. It is a child's prayer book and it is hand-calligraphied, 23-carot gold lined and she personally adds theirs and your names to the book. It costs $80 but I think it is totally worth it because of how special it will always be. So when gift time arrived, I was soooo excited. they opened mine first and everyone there loved them. There was one other gift for the girls, from their grandmother's boss. It was a silver case that holds the baptism certificates. Also very cute and appropriate. Then, out of no where two cards appear. Jennifer opens them up and inside it says that the ex and wife got each of the girls a $50 US Savings Bond. Which, don't get me wrong, is a great gift, but huh?

A) Baptisms aren't something most people give gift for (obviously none of the other people there, including grandma, didn't get one), unless you are closely related and you really want to. (second cousin is NOT closely related)
B) What does a US Savings Bond have to do with a baptism?
C) Don't you have a kid on the way and need to save money for him? (they are a teacher and a hairdresser, let's face it, they aren't rich.)
D) Buying a US Savings Bond is a financially nice thing to do for someone else. Which is funny, cause everytime I am around my brother and him, my brother is lecturing him about something to do with finances. Sooooooooo, was this gift something you thought would be a good baptismal gift for the girls OR is it a gift that when you heard of it, you thought would impress my brother??? Cause I, and this is my own personal opinion, think it was just to impress my brother.

(And maybe a little to make sure they get good gifts in return for their baby from my brother and sister-in-law)

And that is the end of my venting.

What made me feel the best after this past weekend and all the ex's annoyances is talking to Ryan (my new boyfriend) about it. He has such a way of calming me down and making me feel better. He has all the right words to say at all the right times. He doesn't get mad that I have been rattled by an ex, just comes to calm me down. I am REALLY starting to like him for those (and several other) things!

...and for the fact that he can use google.


***Once again, my blog hates me and won't let me spell check at the moment. The old me would've spent another hour going until it worked. But the new blogger me doesn't really care. So pardon me if a few words are mis-spelled. It's not like I am writing a masterpiece anyways. I am pretty sure y'all have been kind enough to excuse my incorrect grammer, now I just ask that you be kind enough to excuse the spelling as well!***