EXCERPTS FROM AN EMAIL, AND MY RESPONSES

You ever get the feelings that sometimes you don't know people as well you think you do. I moved away from Waukesha, partly because of the bad history I have there, partly because I didn't want to be running into people who I simply didn't want to see anymore but mostly I moved away simply because I hadn't been happy there for a long time. Yeah it took my ex dumping me to make me see that we both already knew that it wasn't going to work out. She just said it out loud before I did. But we both knew where it was headed long before that final fight. So time passes, and usually the only things we talk about are money (you see my car is in her name as is the loan, but almost 2 months ago we finally got that semi-straightened out) and that all. I was ok with that. I know that if you go back you can find the posting of said breakup and my somewhat jaded comments about it. I will admit that all of them are honest, but some are a bit more bitter (with everything being kinda fresh at the time) than I wanted them to be. It's been a year. It's been a one whole year since the fated question and answer that brought me here.

So now I know you are all wondering why I am here talking about the past? I got an email from the ex about a cell phone bill and after the cell phone statement she said

"How are things with the vehicle? How bout with your girl, you don't talk about her on your blog anymore."

so I said

both are good, and I didn't know you still read it, kinda figured you didn't care about what was happening in my world

Figuring that would be the end of it. Well as usual I was wrong. It seems to happen a lot. Cus the ex responded with this...

You were a part of my life for 8 years, I can't just walk away from that and not care anymore. I still check out the blog from time to time.
I told John and Other John about it too. I know John has checked it out but I don't know about Other John. I think John was looking for something about him and the "comic life" you left behind to be mentioned.
He askes me how you are doing when I see him and I get my information from your blog so you really gotta update it more.

Me

well this made me rethink a lot of things. Not in the I made a mistake kind of way, but in the we spent 8 years together, good and bad, and I don't know you at all kind of way. So I guess I'll be do a whole lot of updates, simply because i have a lot to talk about now. I was tenative to talk about certain things (my past) because even though I do share a lot of things here, I was very worried about how they would be taken by the people who they were about. I'll be honest, I was ready to kill this blog tonight. I had opened it and wrote my farewell speech. Than I got an email notice and read it. That was the above portion written by the ex...and than I realized one simple thing. I'm not done or dead. I have many many things to talk about, discuss and say. So at this moment I actually have to thank the ex, John and OJ (that's Other John) for making me realize one simple thing. The story is never over, it continues on and on.