Cliff Notes
RQ = Rocket Queen. That’s me! 32. Strangely obsessive compulsive with a tendency to get involved in sports that allow violence.
PC = my husband. 36, with the body and face of a 22 year old. It stands for “Pad Chad,” as aptly coined by our neighbor who observed that my husband didn’t seem to be going out much anymore. I like it because it rhymes.
DH = see above.
TD = The dude, our stepson. Newly 13 and pubertied. Tall, white, and handsome. Aptly sullen at varying, unpredictable times and ridiculously smart. Shrewd observational skills and a penchant for ice tea diet drinks kool aid.
TIS = The Incredible Sulk. 16 and worldly. Also tall, white and handsome. Has a flair for the dramatic with a tendency to play the victim. In love sporadically, but not with his family.
The Island = our place of domicile. Kwajalein, a lovely little piece of the Marshall Islands.
2 Responses to "Cliff Notes"
March 4, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hello,
My Name is Kay, and i sit here trying to catch my breath, with a heavy inexorible feeling in that I believe I am experiencing what you did in googling Carita.
I really don’t know where to begin.
I read your words, your letter to her and am crying hysterically. perhaps by writing you this i will feel a bit closer to her i don’t know…
I knew Carita from our university days in aussie, we were very close and she too shaped my life.
I last saw her in 1993 and we kept in touch through occasional phone calls and as life does…currents of circumstance took us in different directions.
In this google journey it has been surreal and intense to see glimpses of the woman she became. Never one to tell me anything too detailed or personal except in short dedicated glimpses of intense emotional beauty…we shared an experience in our young adulthood of a sweet and powerful nature. In recovering from this, it took me around the world and has made me into who i am today. To begin this journey I had to let her go, and suddenly i feel she has come back in a way and so here I am, aghast as to read about carit. Her passing. well, perhaps you would be kind enough to contact me, i feel this might help me get through this, to talk to someone who knew her …I don’t know who else to reach out too…
~kay
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February 15, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Thank you for stopping by. We’ll gladly be your support group (and see to it you have places to go to discuss your PEW once I get to know her via your blog).
The Psycho Ex-Wife
~Mister-M