Some semblance, sadness surplus

Last night after work I made an effort to maintain a sense of normalcy by going out and shooting the demo video for this month’s Bar-barian challenge. It felt good to remove myself for a short while from the upheaval associated with the upcoming separation process.

Last night Ali and I worked some more on packing up items, focusing primarily on our large pantry. Our pantry historically has been stuffed to the gills with stuff.  It was amazing looking at it after we packed it up.  Since a ton of the stuff in there was cooking/baking items I would not be utilizing anytime soon, most of it is going with Ali.

Ali again last night was very sad.  Her demeanor has really flip flopped in recent days.  At first when we decided to split her attitude seemed pretty good, almost excited about the prospect of a fresh start, living in a nice place on her own for the first time in her adult life. She was the one that was worried about me since I didn’t have a good aura at all.

However more recently she has become much more sad about the reality of dissolving something we both worked on for something like 16 years.  Unfortunately there isn’t much I can say to ease her sadness other than to assure her that one way or the other we will both be ok in the end.

I did some more prep for the move by pulling the mattress out of the sofa bed and removing the roll up screen assembly we normally have in the front door.  We need every inch of available clearance and it is almost guaranteed that either the screen track would get damaged or somebody would trip over it if it remained in place, probably both actually.