A Most Interesting Thursday

Thursday, February 16/17

I woke up expecting nothing out of the ordinary to happen and found that to so not be the case in the end.

I've got a post pending that will give a little background on something in this post but didn't want to delay tonight's entry while I finish the other one........it will make sense in a moment, trust me

So my son spent last night at his mom's as she got back from her annual winter getaway on Monday and because this took place over her custody week she didn't get to see too much of our son, me being the all around nice guy that I am, I offered up the opportunity to have him one night this week so she picked Wednesday night.

All that being said to say that I wasn't in my usual rush this morning for that reason as well as the optometrist appointment I had booked for 8:30 this morning.

Upon checking in I was shown back to have my eyes checked and dilated, but before that happened the technician smiled at me and said she loved my blog.

Yes, she came right out and told me that and you can imagine my surprise and slight embarrassment as well. She mentioned she had come across my old dating profile a while back and on it I'd placed a link to the blog, long since taken down so don't bother searching for it, and followed it to see what it was all about.

I sort of laughed and I'm pretty confident I might have blushed a bit too.

The best part came when she told me that reading it made her think about things. I don't think anyone who writes for the public could ask for a better outcome, and this guy was walking on clouds after that.

The last thing that happened to make this one interesting Thursday came about after I'd gotten to work and been toiling away trying to complete the January results binderw.

My ex and I had been texting over the course of the morning about our son and his upcoming trip to Europe, trying to decide how much spending and meal money he needed in Euros and Swiss Francs, who was going to get it, and how much the other would owe for their share.  We are pretty good about sharing the costs of raising that boy, even though we have shared custody with no child support to one another, we still split the major costs equally and do a settlement at month end to make sure things are in balance.

Well around 11:45 my cell pinged I had a new text message so I looked down to see it was from her and had a series of smiling faces....no words, just the smiling emoji's, a lot of them.

I opened up my messages just in time to see a group message from her to me and our kids with the following "Guess who just got accepted to Carleton in his first choice program?"

I let out a whoop and fist pumped the air in excitement, momentarily forgetting where I was and attracted the attention of our CEO as she was walking by our group. She came over and asked what was up and I just smiled and said my son had just been accepted to university.

She told me that was amazing and gave me a quick hug of congratulations. She's kind of a touchy feely boss but means well so we let her get away with it lol

My coworkers all offered me smiles and one asked if those were tears she saw in my eyes........

I did have some and not afraid to admit it, colour me one proud father.

Back in 2015 I commented on how things happen in 3's and here we are in 2017 and I've now had another string of 3 good events.......my grandson, the comment about the blog by Wendy, and now my son getting into University.

My name is Marcus and I'm doing pretty damn good right now :)