juliana, I don't mean to imply a hit. Maybe a slight smack upside the head.

Just a little light cluesticking and subsequent evil laughter, that's all I personally want.

I love sleeveless dressy stuff, so y'all can blame me.

He wants what he can't have, and he wants to be the good guy. He's also aware that he gave up more than he knows.

Yup yup yup.

Ahem. My ex-husband emailed me last night to tell me that he misses me and loves me.

I'm with Steph in saying " that took less time than I thought it would"

Glad you have the buffer of distance. I think for Z's sake - he really needs to lose someone that he could have had forever. He really needs to learn to appreciate what he has. I'm sorry it had to be so hard on you.

Sigh.

I just tried to answer the phone, but my voice doesn't seem to have made it into the building this morning.

Juliana, just out of curiousity, can you hear me biting my tongue all the way up there?

How about you, Steph?

You mean can I hear you biting your tongue? Or am *I* biting *my* tongue? (I'm clearly not biting *my* tongue, because I already snarked about how quickly he pulled the "I miss you" routine.)

I think you just answered your own question, Steph.

Juliana, he has just pulled Exhibit A for "Why It's Good You Moved" out of his...

Well, wherever.

Have I mentioned I'm glad you moved? Because, man, I so am.

Sigh.

I don't consider arms to be a factor in decent coverage.

That's because your arms could not be mistaken for small beached whales.

Sure, I go sleeveless from time to time.

Then I see photos.

And, well, ouch.

I think you nailed it on his motives, Juliana. My Ex-DH pulled the "I miss you and love you" stuff after he cheated on me and dumped me, for the same reasons as Z. This went on in every (infrequent) phone call for the first five or six years after we broke up--years, may I add, during which he married someone and had two children with her. I kept trying to be friends with him. but after one phone call where he started crying over "the biggest mistake of his life", I told him he had to live with it and I wouldn't talk to him again until he stopped trying to get sympathy from me for his decision to end our marriage. Apparently he STILL mentions me with longing to mutual friends--and we broke up 15 years ago.

Continuing whine about Cipro: in addition to the barfyness, it's giving me horrible heartburn. And what is specifically contraindicated with Cipro? Goddamn Tums, that's what. Because it reduces the amount of Cipro that makes it into your system.

Irony: take twice daily and call me in the morning.

Actually, I called the Dr.'s office to tell her that my GI system doesn't seem to like the Cipro and could she please call a new Rx into the pharmacy. So I might as well take the goddamn Tums.