Friday

All day long clearing the vines choking all our shrubs. Yesterday he talks about cutting down bushes because they look bad. Not clean them out... Cut them down altogether. Today I realized why he says that. He knows I'll do the work if I think he'll destroy it all. Then he says I'm so funny about the plants he doesn't want to touch them. I just don't want them all cut to the ground to not have to shape them to look presentable. Finished everything except pulling the grass out of the carnations and he comes and wants to help. He saw I bought a new hedge trimmer because our old one had jamed twice and the last time I couldn't fix it. He says, "the old one is in the back of the Subaru." I said well it hadn't worked. He says, "Ive been using it." Where??? Not at our house! Our front yard was so overgrown it looked like no one lived here. I realized one thing I'd never realized before- I don't have a man in my house, I have an alcoholic... He does get out and work each day. Thank God for that. That's where it ends. He makes messes which he expects 'someone' else to clean up. He's an entitled man. I also realized why he's always so big on each of us doing something alone. He always has something to say if one of us helps the other. If we 'all' worked together, his absence would be evident and his game would be up. This week he left half empty beer bottles all over the house. They got knocked over, cleaned up and left where they were put. Three days! We are all moving along with life. I got a very good job this week. My company is coming together. I have good people on board. Life is coming back.

Nabal went to the doctor yesterday. He suddenly had to have a 'skin' doctor. So he got someone at his church to find him one. He said the doctor said he had extremely dry skin. He's had gold bruise type spots from his knees dpwn. They had pinpoint red spots. Now they are itchy and breaking out. They gave him medicine he hasn't filled yet. Ok.