A Stinky Surprise

Mark leaves for work a lot earlier than me.  He leaves about 7a and I sometimes don’t wake up until 7:20a.  This morning as I was sitting on the couch putting on my make-up as normal I get a text from him saying "Stinky left you a surprise in the laundry room"  Ugh, I knew it wasn’t good right away.  Stinky is my dad’s cat, formerly my cat until I gave over custody.  We’ve been cat-sitting for several weeks now and he’s kinda driving me crazy.  He’s mean.  Very mean, but just to me mostly.  He attacks, bites, scratches me, Terrible.  Anyways, the laundry room is where we keep his litter box.  I peek inside and found out obviously his paws were in the litter box, but his ass was hanging over the edge and he crapped on the floor.  Geez!  It was actually funny, until I had to clean it up.  Of course Mark just left it for me, how nice.  I was practically late to work, but luckily the rest of my team usually gets in after me anyways.

Then I got another surprise tonight.

Earlier tonight I was sitting here on facebook, typical, and I get a message from an old friend/former family member, I guess….

Subject: hey fays next to me she says hi n come see her over the holidays wen ur n town
i jus wanted to tell u that …i did jasons hair las weekend an he was talking about u it was sooo sweet…he was saying u were his 1st true love n he messed it all up…an he hopes to take u to lunch one day an see how u been cause he still always thinks of u..lol…jus thought i let u kno cus your still my favorite..haha:)

Wow, like a blast from the past.  My old high school sweetheart coming back to haught me.  The message was from his little cousin.  Fay is his mom, and I really have missed her throughout the years.  I haven’t seen her in… probably 7 years now. 

The first, easiest and most obvious answer that comes to mind is, aw that’s nice of them to think of me (all 3 of them) but it’s not worth putting the strain on my relationship so I can reach out to people from my past.  I know it would make Mark feel uncomfortable and I don’t blame him bc I’m sure I would feel the same way.  After more thought it kind of makes me sad, because at one point in my life Fay was a really important person to me.  I loved her.  She was always there for me, someone for me to talk to when I was going through those hard teenage-love years.  She did what she could for me, considering I was dating her son.  She loved me too, and I’m sure of that.  She always told me to keep in touch, and I tried to when I first left for college, but it was hard when we started dating other people.  It just got too weird.  It came to a point where it was best to go our seperate ways. 

So basically the bottom line is, I wish I could but I can’t and I should really leave it at that!  No use in thinking about it when I know it’s not the right thing to do.  It’s usually best to leave the past in the past anyways.  I can’t imagine what kind of emotions, thoughts, and memories this reunion would bring back, and I mean mostly bad.  Sigh.  Enough for tonight.