Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Vent

I'm working my way through some pretty tough stuff. I'm still trying to come to terms with the fact that Lucian's dad seems to want nothing to do with either of us. I haven't seen him in 7 weeks and the last I heard from him (which wasn't even a conversation it was a one line text message) was 2 weeks ago.

I don't understand what has happened and I feel completely powerless to change it. It is a horrible feeling that I can't describe. I don't understand how someone, who takes care of kids for a living and teaches them martial arts outside of work, can plan to have a baby and then abandon them. I feel lied to and tricked. The person I wanted to have a baby with no longer exists. And I get very upset with myself when I am sad that he's gone.
On top of that, it's been a really hard month. I took over a classroom and have been playing catch up with lesson plans and work. Lucian has been very sick twice and then this weekend I got very sick. My life on the day to day literally takes everything I have to make it work. So any normal bumps are disasters for me, I don't have anything extra to cope with them.
And I don't know where to go from here. I don't really have any good options. I can move to NC with Mom and Dad where I wouldn't know anyone, be in a place that I don’t' want to be, start all over finding a job building friendships. But I would be financially better off. Or I can stay here and keep struggling, take Rudy to court to try and get some child support, but he has no money.

I'm sorry I've gone on like this! There is just a lot to process in my head and I don't really have anyone to talk it out with.  I know that in the end things will work and I'll be ok...it’s just the process of getting there is SO difficult and I'm tired of struggling. Just once I want something to be easy! :-)

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Skydiving

After jumping out of a plane at 17,000 feet today I feel like I'm myself again, finally alive again! I remember who I am. And I’m just starting to allow myself to accept that....I’m amazing! I am really, honestly and truly just starting to realize that everyone else is NOT like me.

I have a lot to offer the world and maybe someday to offer someone special. But they had better be pretty damn amazing too. And they better be able to keep up!!! I’m not bring anyone along anymore; maybe for a change someone could bring me along, or we could walk/run/skydive side by side!

Saturday, March 6, 2010

car accident

I had a car accident on the way to school today. I was driving down Santa Fe, 3 cars in front of me and the light turns yellow. The first car, which was practically in the intersection, stops dead! Everyone starts to slam on their breaks and I can’t stop in time. I hit the red Jeep Grand Cherokee in front of me. I exchange info with the lady I hit. Who by the way was the nicest person I’ve ever hit with my car! She said she was so sorry that it happened and that she was lucky to have been able to stop in time. She hugged me and wished me a better day! I love Colorado!

I sat in my car deciding if I was gonna go on to class or not. I was in shock and just beside myself. My mind was racing about what to do and how I was gonna be able to take care of this. The first person I thought to call was Rudy. I hate that he’s the first person I thought of to call. But he had Lucian and I was thinking how thankful I was that I didn’t have him in the car with me! Why do I hate that Rudy’s the first person I thought to call? I guess because he’s hurt me so much. The stubborn brat in me doesn’t want to admit that I needed him, no I wanted him there.

I called Rudy and he talked to me and calmed me down. Then he offered to come pick me up (I’m a good 30 mins away and he’s got the baby and he has to go teach a class in an hour and a half). I was floored that he offered to come help me. At first I said I don’t know. I didn’t know if I really wanted to accept help from him. And I was worried that it would just add more emotion and drama to an already emotional and dramatic situation. But he asked again, “do you want me to come pick you up?” I said yes. He came out and looked at my car. Told me it was drivable if I wanted to drive it home and follow him. I didn’t want to leave my car there and I trusted him. So I said ok.

I called him on the way back and thanked him for coming and helping me out. I knew he had to get to class and offered for him to just go on and I’d watch Lucian while he was in class. I asked him if he would please come back though and take care of Lucian while I took care of getting my car fixed, getting a rental car, etc. He said he would.

We got back to my apartment and he wrapped his arms around me. I felt safe, and small, in a good way, ya know what I mean? I cried. I’ve tried SO hard to put up this front with Rudy. Like I don’t need him, I’m doing just fine on my own; when really I’ve been hanging on by a very thin thread. But today I felt safe enough to let my guard down, be vulnerable and cry. He held me tight and said Just breathe. He left for class and I called his parents. They were in the area because they thought they were watching Lucian while Rudy was at class. They came over and helped me with Lucian while I took care of insurance and what not. Bob, Rudy’s dad drove me to get my rental car. He asked about my deductable. I told him it was $750…that I don’t have. He said “I’d like to help you with that”. I was speechless. I thanked him and told him how much that meant to me; I didn’t know what I was going to do. It was a HUGE weight lifted off my shoulders.

Rudy came by after class and his parents were still there. We all chatted for a bit and just hung out. They helped me get some of the cat stuff out of the apartment. We laughed and were light-hearted. I caught a glimpse of the life that Rudy and I could have together but never will. It was a tease, a mirage. It wasn’t real, it didn’t matter. It almost would have been easier if he would have just blown me off but he didn't. And I don’t know what that means…probably nothing.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Dating

I went on a second date last night with this guy that I didn't really want to go on a first date with.  Haha All these years and I'm still too much of a people pleaser! I feel bad because he's SUCH a nice guy and seems like he'd be a great friend.  He is accepting of Lucian. No it's more than that; he thinks its GREAT that I have Lucian and he enjoys seeing how happy Lucian makes me.  And that's AMAZING to me... I just don't feel romantically about him. It sucks, because he's a great guy. I know I have to tell him, I just don't really know how...no that's a lie.  I just don't want to deal with it.  God that's awful!

I don't know if I'm really ready to start dating.  Is my heart really mine to give to someone else yet? I love when I ask myself questions I already know the answer to.  But I ask hoping the answer will be different...it never is! haha

I want to be ready.  I want to move on, to start healing.  I want to finally find the person I can grow old with.  I'm so tired of thinking I've found that only to find that the other person isn't ready, willing, healthy, or straight!

Having said that, I'm happy.  I'm content and fulfilled in the rest of my life.  I LOVE my son, and I wouldn't change a thing about him.  I love my job and the people I work with.  I'm happy where I live and with the friends I have.  I have SO much going for me that I'm ok to wait.  I think I'm finally at a place in my life where I can wait for love to come and find me.  It's a good place to be.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Been Forever

Wow I can’t believe I haven’t written anything since December! I'm sorry it's been so long since I updated my blog...I need to learn to write shorter blogs more often. Haha I'm still figuring all of this out and it's VERY hard to find time to do much of anything these days!


Ok the quick and dirty. I’m back at work and loving it! Things are going REALLY well there. I am enjoying the kids I work with and am SO incredibly thankful that I get to nurse Lucian twice a day. He’s right down the hall and I get to see him whenever I want to! It’s wonderful!

Now Rudy. I don’t really know what happened. But he’s not talking to me at all. Here is what I can remember of how things went last month.

I started a class for ECE (early childhood education) that runs on Saturdays. It’s ALL day, from 9 until 3. I had asked Rudy a while back if he wanted to watch Lucian while I was in class. He’d said yes, but then things went south again and I wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. So I set up for a friend of mine to watch Lucian. I thought just to be safe I should contact Rudy to be sure he didn’t want to watch Lucian. I hadn’t heard from him in weeks and got no response anytime I’d tried to contact him. So I was fully expecting the same, no response. But I got an answer and it was yes, I want to watch him.


So I thought I’d give him a chance…remember I hadn’t heard a WORD from Rudy for literally weeks before this. So I was a little nervous about leaving Lucian with him. I went to drop him off that morning. As a nice gesture I brought breakfast from chick-fil-a. I used to do that when we worked together so I thought it would be a nice thing to do. I get out of the car, breakfast in hand and say “good morning!”

Rudy says “what’s that?! I have food! I don’t want that”

I look at him disappointedly.

He says “why did you do that? I have breakfast”.

I respond, “I know I’m such a horrible person, I brought your breakfast”

“you are a horrible person.”

I can’t tell if he’s joking or being serious

He begrudgingly goes to take the food inside and I say to him, “my food is in there as well”

He comes back and doesn’t want me to come inside, he wants to carry everything himself. This is a huge red flag to me. Why don’t you want me inside? His apartment building has an access door before you can get to his actual apartment door.  Now my food is inside too and I want it! He doesn't even want me to come in to get it.  He runs inside and brings it all out and won't take what I got for him.  And it’s freezing outside and there are things I need to tell him. I’m so thrown for a loop that I can’t really remember what I needed to tell him about the car seat and feeding times and tricks I’ve learned to help Lucian sleep. I remember to tell him that this is hard for me. I’ve never left Lucian this long with ANYONE. I tell him that I’ll call in the middle of the day to see how things are going. Not because I’m worried about him or that I don’t think he’ll do a good job. But because I want to know how Lucian’s day is going, what he’s doing, how he’s eating, etc. I tell him specifically “when I call and ask how his day is please give me something more than ‘fine’.” Rudy says ok that he will.
Well as you can guess this doesn’t happen. I send a text on my lunch break (4 hours later) to see how things are going. I ask “how is Lucian’s day going? How were things are the dojo?” Rudy teaches a sword class Saturday mornings at the Dojo and I knew he had to take Lucian with him. This was the first time anyone at the Dojo had seen Lucian. I was SO excited to hear about people’s reactions to Lucian and to hear Rudy be proud and excited about Lucian.

“he took up all of my time”

What does that mean?! So now I’m getting a little nervous that things aren’t going well. Maybe Rudy is resentful that Lucian is even there.

“I’m sorry to hear that….was it a huge pain?”

No response in more than 5 mins so I send another text with more questions. By the time I’m sending it I realize I have to be back in class in 5 mins. So I say I’ll just call him and talk. I send the text and then call. He doesn’t pick up. A few mins later I get a text “Can you relax?”
I tell him No I can’t relax I’m worried, this is hard for me, I want to know what’s going on. How is Lucian?
“he’s fantastic”

Is that sarcasm? What does that mean? And PS that is only a variation of ‘fine’ which I had very specifically asked him NOT to do! I’m dying at this point. I’m late back to class and when I get there I can’t concentrate to save my life! I leave class and call Rudy again. He doesn’t answer. I send a text and tell him that I’ve left class and I need to know what’s going on. He beats around the bush and really tells me nothing more about what’s been happening. I reluctantly go back to class and try to focus.


When class ends I send a text to let him know I’m on my way. When I get there I send a text to let him know I’m there and ask if we can talk. No response.

10 mins later Rudy appears and says sorry. I suppose for making me wait. He has Lucian and all of his things in hand. He still doesn’t want me to come inside. I say “I guess this means you don’t want to talk?”

“I’d rather not”
“Ok, then I’ll find somewhere else for Lucian to be next week”
“why?”

REALLY!? You don’t know why!!!

“because this is not ok. You won’t let me come in, you aren’t communicating with me and now you won’t even talk to me about it”
He walks away and I leave.

Here are the emails that transpired after that….


if you don't want to talk then please just listen...today was REALLY hard for me. I have NO doubts that you did a good job, and that Lucian was in very good hands with you. That's not what was hard for me today. I'm used to knowing when he breaths funny, when he goes cross-eyed, when he poops, and everything else that he does.
today wasn't hard because I was worried about Lucian being taken care of, today was hard because I'm selfish with him. I want to know everything he's doing, how he's eating, how he's feeling, how he slept, what people at the dojo thought about him. Today was about me. I know I have to let him go and let other people take care of him sometimes.that's really hard to do when I've taken care of him for the last 3 months. Do you understand?
I needed you to help me get through that today. I thought I had communicated that when I dropped him off, but I guess I didn't do it well enough. I needed to know about him, not because I thought you would do a bad job, but because I don't know how to be without him anymore. I got upset when i couldn't know everything he was doing. Also I was really excited to hear you be excited about having Lucian with you I wanted to hear you talk about him smiling and laughing, funny things you guys did. I didn't handle that very well. But all of this could have been avoided if you would have just told me some things about the day Help me feel like I'm not missing out. Do you think you can do that in the future?


I didn’t expect to hear from him but got this…

Help you feel like your not missing out??

yes, help me feel like I'm not missing stuff when i'm not with Lucian by telling me things you guys do, telling me about his day so i feel like I was kind of there in a way

When was that done for me

I've tried to do that for you...I even remember asking you if you would rather I not tell you things about his day...I never got an answer. If you want me to do that more i will...
also though baby doll, when i don't hear back from you (like when I told you lucian was sick) it makes me think you don't want to know these things...does that make sense?
no response....

I don't know where the line is between keeping you involved, and bothering you....most of the time i just feel like I'm bothering you, like you'd rather I not talk to you at all about anything. And I don't want to push you any further away....I'm figuring this out as I go love

no response.....so the next day I sent this
I know I've gone back and forth between being really upset with you and trying to help you be around lucian. I want you in Lucian's life and I try to make that happen...but when that doesn't happen I get upset. Or if i feel like I'm being taken advantage of I get upet because I'm hurt. I've decided that from here on out what I want and how I feel doesn't matter. All that matters is that lucian has his dad in his life. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help make that happen...I'll do it
just wanted you to know where I stand


I haven’t heard from him since….that was 3 weeks ago and he didnt even respond to me when I asked if he wanted to watch Lucian this Saturday.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Surgery and Getting Sick

Well last Friday morning I went to the Dr because I was still bleeding from delivering Lucian. They did an ultrasound and found I still had part of the placenta inside me. The Dr said I needed to have a D&C. A D&C is when they dilate you and then scrape out everything inside your uterus. It’s outpatient surgery; you’re put to sleep and the whole nine yards of any surgery but you get to go home pretty soon after everything is done. We scheduled it for the next day but then his office called and asked if I could do it that night instead. So we scheduled the surgery for Friday night.

I had told Rudy earlier in the week that I had to go back to the Dr and I might need his help. I had a feeling I was going to need a D&C. So as soon as I got home I sent Rudy a text to let him know what was going on and see if he would come help me with Lucian.

I said, “Can you come over tonight right after work? I’m having surgery…”
A little later, “I need a ride and someone to watch Lucian, will you help me?”
A while later still, “Are you seriously not even going to respond to me when I’m having surgery? That’s really fucked up Rudy…”

He hasn’t really been talking to me at all in the last week or so. I’ve gotten maybe one or two texts is all.

An hour or so goes by and it’s been my experience that if he doesn’t respond right away, he isn’t going to. So most of what I send him is for my benefit and not his; just things I need to get off my chest.

“I’m so hurt that you aren’t even going to talk to me when I’m having surgery, there aren’t words for it. I’ve never been so let down.”

Almost right away I get this message, (prepare to get mad) “first I’m at work second you never told me about this.”

REALLY!? I couldn’t tell you the number of HOURS Rudy has spent texting at work. This has never been a concern of his; he’s just being an ass hole!

My response, “I’m sorry to bother you at work, this is kind of important. You didn’t know about this because I just found out this morning when I went to the Dr, and I told you I was going to the dr and might need your help.”

No response

About 20 minutes later I say, “But you don’t have to do anything, your mom is going to help me, like always”

After surgery I send this message, “Do you want to know how things went? Or do you care?”
No Response.

The next day he was teaching a sword class at the Dojo here in Parker, 5 minutes away from my apartment. Hoping that maybe he didn’t respond to any of my texts because he cares about me so much he was just scared to deal with the idea of me having surgery and because I figured with the message I had sent the night before he wasn’t likely to stop by and check on me so I thought I would open that door and see if he walked through.

“I hope you’ll come by after sword class, it would be really nice to know that you care, if you do. I was very hurt yesterday by your response. I was scared and felt like you didn’t care at all.”

He knew his mom was over and I don’t think he wanted to see her so several hours later when I knew class was over I said, “Your mom left a little bit ago…are you going to stop by?”

No response and he never stopped by.

An hour later, “Is that a no? Do you care about me at all Rudy? I’m so hurt, I can’t even be mad, I’m devastated, I don’t understand.”

Two hours later still no response and I need a little closure, “Well I guess we’ll see you Christmas Eve….bye my love”

His family invited me and Lucian out to dinner for Christmas Eve, it’s their family tradition.

I took a long nap and woke up feeling a bit stiff and achy. I thought I had just slept wrong on the couch or something like that. Otherwise I was feeling ok and my friend Kate was having a holiday party. There would be several people there I know and haven’t seen in a while. I’ve been isolated and cooped up for awhile and really wanted to go to the party. So I went. Ate some great food and hung out for a while. As the night wore on I felt more and more achy and stiff.

I didn’t sleep well that night and to move, even just to turn over in bed, took a lot of effort and hurt like none other. To sit up in the bed so I could feed Lucian hurt, to unbutton his clothes hurt, to slide open my phone hurt.

That was Saturday. When I got up Sunday, this afternoon, I almost fell over because it hurt so badly to stand up. So I wrote to Rudy, “I’m in a lot of pain, having trouble taking care of Lucian, will you help me?”

No response…he never responded and didn’t come over to help me. Luckily a good friend came over and helped me that night. The next day I was on the mend. So strange!

Interesting Dream

I had a crazy dream...well most of my dreams are crazy, long and very detailed. The jest of this dream was that I'm supposed to wait for Rudy to get his shit together and that I'm supposed to be with him...perhaps that's my subconscious hoping things will work out, or maybe it's really what I'm supposed to do...who knows?

So I dreamt that I was in this big room, there were a lot of people in there and we were being attacked by this octopus like monster...I just saw the tentacles. I had Lucian in my arms and was climbing up on a desk in a corner and trying to get up on the cabinets above. I was screaming for Rudy to help me as the tentacles were thrashing around me, scraping my leg. He was nowhere to be found, and it was getting really scary. Then out of nowhere he showed up and saved us. HOW CHEEEEEZY!!!! God I'm a hopeless romantic even in my dreams! hahaha Well then in my dream I heard someone say, 'see he does care about you, you just have to wait for him' I don’t know who said it....