Naked Exposures…

So, it was brought to my attention earlier that I did not, and should have, posted an update on how things are going before I left Boone Thursday. In my defense, I wanted to get some feel for where things back East were going prior to ranting on about it anymore than I have already, but there are other factors that are more important at more within the grasp of understanding too.

So, I think it’ll be a bit simpler to give you an update on each matter of hand.

1) Scoot and I: We are going pretty good! We have talked more and more substantially than we have in a long time. This is a good thing in my opinion. There is still a ton of healing and sorting out to be done, but we’re both sitting at the table together and working on it as a team and couple. I think we’re communicating better than we have in years, maybe ever. I’m heading back to Boone Tuesday – to stay.

2) Work: Well, this has been a challenge of its own right. I was pretty much approaching the same path I’ve been down, even considering talking with the folks in Boone at the health department about going back there. Simple fact of the matter is that work was a huge issue with my psyche and I am not going back to the local health department here, it’s not a healthy, happy place for me. I’ve talked to the other Health Departments that have expressed interest in my working for them and withdrawn from the process, or turned them down. Instead, I’m going to take a cue from Wayne and play grocery boy for a while. The wage will be decent from what I understand at this point and I’ll be in a different setting learning some new skill sets, or at least utilizing some new ones. Funniest part of this being how many years I’ve been in the health arena, having just had a position paper I helped write adopted by the WHO on preventative health and sanitation in third and second world areas as methods to improve life expectancy, overall health, and population control. Sometimes, I hear a maniacal Roar of laughter raging from somewhere overhead.

3) Mom: Well, tomorrow is mothers day and this years gift for dear old mom: A new toilet seat. Seriously, it is fitting for anyone as full of shit as she was this past week; and she broke the one they have this morning. (Jenny Craig for the holidays?) On the other front, when confronted with her ultimatum and I chose Scott over her, she backed down and retorted with religion, then tears, and by this morning was quite, but more reasonable. (Prozac diet instead of JC?)

4) Dad: Damn, what a role reversal. I would have sworn for all my adult life that the roles of Mom and Dad would have been opposite in this situation, but here I find an ally in the most unlikely of all places on a Homo topic. I may need Prozac myself after this psychotic weekend.

5) Bella: Confused and loving every second of extra attention she can get.

6) Me: Exhausted. But happy to know that I still have Scott at my side to grow old when ever I decide I might be there. Funniest part of the week, I showed up nude in another blog. There goes their viewer ship!

7) Other: If it wasn’t related to Scott and I; it was put on hold till I felt like that situation in some sense of balance. Priorities please.