*sigh*

I was doing so well and then suffered a bit of a setback in my recovery from the breakup.

Won't go into details, except to assure those who received late night phone messages that things are back on more of a relatively even keel now. The pain hasn't receded, but it has subsided from the intense levels they were at last night.

It's just frustrating--I want this to be over, but I know if I force it that it won't help anything but only make it worse.

Hasn't helped that my job decided to pile up on me with a couple of choruses of "Mama Said Knock You Out."

Since Mom and Dad are traipsing about Alaska right now, I'm in charge of dropping by every few days, keeping the tomato plants watered and picking tomatoes as they ripen. I just rendered four of the larger ones into sauce to go with chicken sausage and penne in a recipe I got from a magazine. Came out pretty well--shame I don't have much of an appetite right now.

Going to finish cleaning up and probably go to bed early to make up for last night's sleeplessness.

Today I took pleasure in a golden half moon on a warm summer night.

Today I learned how much time off I still have left at work.