What a dump!!!!

Quite possibly the most amazing event in my life. While moving out of our house with a 5:00pm deadline nearing my ex-wife, a friend and myself were franctically throwing endless amounts of trash into the back of a truck to take a load to the dump. I paid little attention to what all was in there as my thoughts were elsewhere. When the truck was full I drove down to the dump and starting pulling out endless bags of trash and other junk. Upon finishing I drove to the scale and proceeded to pay. The clerk tells me $26.50 than pauses while listening to a walkie talkie. She then tells me the workers said I threw food in the pile which is evidentally illegal. I told her I didn't think I did. We politely argued for a few minutes until one of the guys came up and aggressively told me I did. Once again I disagreed. He gave up and left upset. I paid and continued to drive up the hill when I realized my ex cleaned out the fridge and threw it away in a bag. I felt bad , pulled over and walked back to the dump to apologize and pick up all the food. She said thank you and I walked through the mud and trash to pick up my mistake. While doing so the worker came down, got it my face and asked me if I could read. I didn't catch his reference until he mentioned signs at the entrance saying no food. I apologized again saying I didn't realize there was food in there. He got madder and madder saying it could cost him his job and the fines by the state come out of the workers pocket. I asked what more he wanted from me as I already apologized and was obviously taking care of my mistake. He very aggressively started berating me with insults and saying "it's people like you who ruin it for everyone else," by this time I significantly raised my voice and told him " I'm *&%$#% taking care of it so don't worry about it" By this time four other workers came and backed him up as if to fight while he told me to never come back to the dump because I was officially 86ed. WOW, I had to fight to refrain from laughing about how absurd this whole event was. I WAS WRONG, I KNOW THAT. But OH MY GOD! All I can say is God bless his children, for they might have a tough life ahead of them.

Yes, I'm still alive!

Once again I apologize for the lapse between blogs. At least this time I have a better excuse. A lot has happened since my last blog. First of all, my house finally sold, finalizing the last ties to my marriage. I moved in with a friend whom I have known for about ten years. My daughter and I each have our own rooms. It is quite a step down from living in a 4000 sq. ft. house for the last 5 years. I have joint custody with my ex-wife, leaving my daughter with a room in each house. So far it is working out very well. However it hurts really bad when Madison is gone, even though it is only a few days at a time. I am just so thankful she has a really good home to go to. I am not sure how I would handle it if she wasn't in a good environment when not with me. As usual she is doing really good in school. She got straight A's as well as taking a bunch of extracurricular classes. She sure is one smart cookie. I sure do fight with the lonliness aspect late at night. I manage to keep busy until I finally go down. That is when every thought in the world spins through my mind. Fortunately I truly enjoy going to work each morning. I have so many nice customers who I really care about, making it easy to stay positive about everything. I do realize so many people are going through way more than I ever will. As long as my daughter and I are healthy everything else is really secondary to me.
My tennis team won its second match(2-0). We won as a team 4-1. I won my doubles match after possibly the strangest first set I have ever witnessed. My partner who is a very good player could not make a shot for the life of him. Neither of us could figure out what was wrong, but he finally came around in the second set. I can't remember the last time I was that frustrated with a partner. I know he didn't mean to play that way, but I had never seen anyone play so beneath their game. We came back after losing the first set and ended up winning 10-1 in a third set tiebreaker. We have probably our toughest match this weekend.