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withdiamonds at 09:31am on 14/12/2012
withdiamonds at 09:31am on 14/12/2012"Joey Fatone @realjoeyfatone
My wife hurt her foot & is a runner, so I told her I would take her place for the #GoofyChallenge what was I thinking! Lol but gonna do it!"
Lol Joey. The Goofy Challenge is part of Disney World's Marathon Weekend. Family Fun 5K on Friday, (which Erin, Nic, Ashley, me, and even Larry are doing this year!), half marathon on Saturday, full marathon (Erin, Nic, Ash and me) on Sunday. Doing both the full and the half is called the Goofy Challenge. Then you get to spend Sunday afternoon in the parks wearing a shirt that says "39.3 miles" and walking around with your Goofy medal on, while people nod at you admiringly. Not that I've ever done that, but Ash did it two years ago.
And so Joey is going to do it. He looked in pretty good shape on Dancing With the Stars last month, so maybe he'll be fine. Of course, my first thought when I saw his tweet was, wait, Disney doesn't let you transfer race entries! But I guess if you're Joey, they do. I wish him well, and assume I'll see him in the back with the slow folks, since it's hard to do marathons on a whim.
I met Colleen for coffee yesterday. It was hard. She's doing fine but is still very sad. We talked for a long time, and I stressed again that I'm here if she needs me, but I won't push. She actually thinks she may have mono, and I told her, whatever she needs. I mean, there isn't much to do except try and let go of the way we thought things were going to be. I was reminded again of what a good thing Adam let go of, which was very sad for me to think about.
She had also come up with the perfect solution for the engagement ring. Had the stone not been my great grandmother's, I would have told her to just keep it. It was my stone, and while Adam designed the ring, he didn't exactly pay to have it made, I did. So it was mine to decide on. But Colleen took it back to the jeweler who made it and had the diamond removed. So she's keeping the ring, I get the stone. I stressed yesterday that no matter how things turned out, the ring was made with a lot of love. She knows that, which is why she wants to keep it. I'm going to reset the stone into something just for me, and next time, if there is one, Adam is on his own.
She spent a lot of money having the stone certified - who knew that this stone I had reset four different times (two rings, two necklaces) over the years before I gave it to Adam is actually an awesome mine cut diamond worth a lot more money than I ever thought? She's holding the papers hostage and wants ~him to reimburse her for it, not me. She says that's just her own way of trying to get him to take some responsibility for it. I'm sure he'll tell me he can't afford it, and in the end I'll pay her for it, but we're going to try and get him to be an adult for a brief minute. We agreed he's the kind of person who wants to just wander his way through life, gratifying whims and always thinking there's something better somewhere else. I'm trying to convince myself it's not my fault. :-)
Anyway, it was sad. And now Nev and I are heading back to Cbus for the weekend, where I'm sure Erin will try very hard to get me to give the diamond to her.
I wish I had something fannish to talk about other than CBA negotiations.
My wife hurt her foot & is a runner, so I told her I would take her place for the #GoofyChallenge what was I thinking! Lol but gonna do it!"
Lol Joey. The Goofy Challenge is part of Disney World's Marathon Weekend. Family Fun 5K on Friday, (which Erin, Nic, Ashley, me, and even Larry are doing this year!), half marathon on Saturday, full marathon (Erin, Nic, Ash and me) on Sunday. Doing both the full and the half is called the Goofy Challenge. Then you get to spend Sunday afternoon in the parks wearing a shirt that says "39.3 miles" and walking around with your Goofy medal on, while people nod at you admiringly. Not that I've ever done that, but Ash did it two years ago.
And so Joey is going to do it. He looked in pretty good shape on Dancing With the Stars last month, so maybe he'll be fine. Of course, my first thought when I saw his tweet was, wait, Disney doesn't let you transfer race entries! But I guess if you're Joey, they do. I wish him well, and assume I'll see him in the back with the slow folks, since it's hard to do marathons on a whim.
I met Colleen for coffee yesterday. It was hard. She's doing fine but is still very sad. We talked for a long time, and I stressed again that I'm here if she needs me, but I won't push. She actually thinks she may have mono, and I told her, whatever she needs. I mean, there isn't much to do except try and let go of the way we thought things were going to be. I was reminded again of what a good thing Adam let go of, which was very sad for me to think about.
She had also come up with the perfect solution for the engagement ring. Had the stone not been my great grandmother's, I would have told her to just keep it. It was my stone, and while Adam designed the ring, he didn't exactly pay to have it made, I did. So it was mine to decide on. But Colleen took it back to the jeweler who made it and had the diamond removed. So she's keeping the ring, I get the stone. I stressed yesterday that no matter how things turned out, the ring was made with a lot of love. She knows that, which is why she wants to keep it. I'm going to reset the stone into something just for me, and next time, if there is one, Adam is on his own.
She spent a lot of money having the stone certified - who knew that this stone I had reset four different times (two rings, two necklaces) over the years before I gave it to Adam is actually an awesome mine cut diamond worth a lot more money than I ever thought? She's holding the papers hostage and wants ~him to reimburse her for it, not me. She says that's just her own way of trying to get him to take some responsibility for it. I'm sure he'll tell me he can't afford it, and in the end I'll pay her for it, but we're going to try and get him to be an adult for a brief minute. We agreed he's the kind of person who wants to just wander his way through life, gratifying whims and always thinking there's something better somewhere else. I'm trying to convince myself it's not my fault. :-)
Anyway, it was sad. And now Nev and I are heading back to Cbus for the weekend, where I'm sure Erin will try very hard to get me to give the diamond to her.
I wish I had something fannish to talk about other than CBA negotiations.
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