Posts Tagged ‘second job’

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Ceecee had her first day at Dillard’s today. Just training, but she’s excited. She doesn’t know what she’ll be doing yet. They have to train in all the departments, then they get their assignment.

We talked more about the separation. I hate the idea, but she’s selling me pretty hard on it and I don’t know what to think. She wants to go look at some places, so I guess maybe we will. It’s weird, she doesn’t give me any hope by her actions, but her words are really pretty convincing. She still says that she thinks this could be the way for us to end up back together.

I don’t get that at all, but I don’t know what to say or do. Nothing I’m doing is making any difference.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Never imagined today could turn out the way it did. We joined a bike club here in Springfield because we heard that they had group rides for beginners and tonight was one of their cookouts, so we showed up. Everyone ignored us and it seemed totally disorganized, so after a little while, we just left.

We were hungry and in a bad mood, so we stopped at a deli to get something to eat. While we were eating, Ceecee said she thought maybe we needed a separation. She said that we just seemed to be stuck and that something needed to change to get us out of where we were. She said she felt friendship toward me, but that was all, and she wondered if spending some time apart would make things more clear.

Of course, I was devastated and totally against the idea, but I mostly just listened and didn’t know what to say. I never thought it could come to this. I don’t know what to think. Apparently, she’s already been thinking about this, because she told me that she had priced some downtown apartments and some were affordable. I just said that we needed to sleep on it and could we talk about it again another day. Tomorrow is her first day at Dillard’s and everything is changing so fast. Am I losing her?

She wasn’t angry when she talked about it, or even emotional at all. She was just calm and rational, like she’s thought this through and it doesn’t bother her. What’s crazy is that she actually seemed hopeful, like separating could be a good thing. I couldn’t tell if she really meant that maybe it could be a path for us to work things out, or if she really just wants out of the marriage and hopes that if we split up that I will just let her go.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

This afternoon, we went in to Queen City Cycles, a bike shop downtown and Ceecee fell in love with this Masi Italian rode bike. They didn’t actually have it at the store, but she saw it in the catalog. We talked about it and she’s really excited.

Then, I walked to the farmer’s market by myself and she was going to meet me there after her interview. She called me as she was on her way and told me she got the job at Dillard’s. She’s going to start at $10 an hour.

At school, she gets all of her summer paychecks in June, so we agreed that she could go ahead and order the bike and pay for it out of her school pay, then make it up out of her Dillard’s checks. It will take two or three weeks for it to get there and we will have the money by then. She’s going to let me ride the Raleigh temporarily.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

What a good day today. We have a cheap movie theater here called The Palace where they have movies that have already been in the main theater, but haven’t gone to DVD yet. They are usually $3, but on Tuesdays, they have “time warp Tuesdays” and all the movies are only one dollar.

My wife loves pancakes and IHOP had this deal where you can join their email list and get a coupon for a free meal, so we had an ultra cheap pancakes and a movie date today. We went to see Shutter Island at The Palace, then went to IHOP to eat. It all cost less than twenty dollars and Ceecee really seemed like she had fun. She’s a kid at heart and going out for pancakes isn’t lame at all for her.

Thursday she has an interview at Dillard’s for a second job. I found the classified ad for it while we were at the library and she applied on kind of a whim. They called her and now she’s going to have a shot at it.