Thank you (((Friends))) for your supportive posts. My week has already started out awesome!!! By tomorrow when I go into my regulatory body for the profession I work in when I’m working, I will once again be registered and have a practice permit. That’s a huge thing to get that back into place, so now I can start looking and applying for positions in my field. And with any luck, I’ll have a new windshield as well today. (((Liz))) I saw V yesterday as she wanted to borrow luggage from me for her trip back east. I invited her to go for supper with my granddaughter and I. I could tell she is quite angry at me. She told me that if something is bothering me, I should tell her, and I did. I didn’t expect what I said to become a full-blown thing with her. That is the second friend who has become angry and turned it around on me. Ingrid got angry at me when I asked her to return the tables she borrowed many weeks after she had her garage sale. That was one of the tables I dropped on my foot when I myself went to pick them up, as she was not returning them. V got angry when I said that it occurred to me that she was saying negative things behind my back. She said she was upset and that after 28 years I didn’t know her at all. I told her of three of her friends that she had talked behind their back, and that I was sensitive to negative talk about me. So now she’s really upset and I don’t know if we’ll be able to patch things up. All I wanted was a "sorry."" She says she can’t remember saying that as I was leaving her place, but she has not said that she spoke to the other 4 women there, and that nobody heard what she said. I think people are used to me allowing myself to be used and abused, and are surprised when I speak my truth! My Aunt told me that at this rate, I’m going to lose friends. Danny got upset with me yesterday on the phone, as he wants us to move to southern Alberta together and buy a house or a motor home and go travelling. Nothing would be any different so I said that I wasn’t doing that, and he said "well stay in your sweltering one (bed) room place! I have no plans to reconcile with him as I can’t live with him and his negative behaviors. Carole
