{"id":1678,"date":"2008-08-19T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:27:00","slug":"kickin-ass-and-taking-names-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"kickin ass and taking names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve been thinking\u2026<\/p>\n<p>it seems that the major thorn in the side of everyone over this holiday was me\u2026<\/p>\n<p>the very fact that I was even there seemed to be more than &#8220;he&#8221; could bear<\/p>\n<p>he was civil\u2026.but obviously unable to be comfortable or friendly towards me&#8230; and although I have done nothing to him, he continues to treat me with open derision&#8230;he who professed to be my closest friend&#8230;.now he&#8217;s accusing others of &#8220;choosing to take my side over his wife&#8217;s&#8221;\u2026<\/p>\n<p>not so<\/p>\n<p>and yet another assumption has been made by one of them\u2026for people who stress that they will no longer make assumptions&#8230;they are too busy assuming to simply ask&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think I may be done and I think I may be leaving the club that became a club when we left the other club&#8230;because I will not be abused by people who said they were my friends&#8230;and can&#8217;t understand the breadth of what they did to me&#8230;and are still doing to me&#8230;(and he has the nerve to talk about the people that stabbed him in the back? what is he&#8230;.fucking 12?)<\/p>\n<p>I am tired of feeling hurt&#8230;.and I&#8217;m tired of trying to couch my words and gestures on the off chance that they might be taken in the wrong way by them because they are so fucking defensive&#8230;they can&#8217;t even return friendly emails&#8230;apparently no matter what I say or do I&#8217;m gonna be wrong&#8230;so why fucking bother?<\/p>\n<p>I gave &#8220;her&#8221; every opportunity to apologize to me face to face &#8211; something she only did via email once I asked her to via this blog&#8230;but again&#8230;they are above reproach<\/p>\n<p>I gave her every opportunity to take me aside and talk to me about this&#8230;she chose not to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I &#8220;allowed&#8221; her to talk to me and another of my friends like we were something that should be scrapped offa the bottom of her shoe when she decided to &#8216;straighten us out about Idaho&#8221;\u2026because I&#8217;m willing to admit that I may have been wrong in my &#8220;interpretation of the facts as listed&#8221; (funny that there were several others that had the same understanding tho)<\/p>\n<p>and I even spent an uncomfortable afternoon as a captive audience in her car while we were in Idaho in an attempt to allow for smoothing things over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>not so much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have repeatedly gone outside of the bounds of my personal comfort levels in an attempt to &#8220;make it good for the all&#8221;&#8230;because a couple of friends asked me to&#8230;and because right from the beginning of this I have been focused on &#8220;saving&#8221; a friendship&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>but it didn&#8217;t work&#8230; apparently it was a mistake&#8230;I can only surmise that it didn&#8217;t work because they don&#8217;t believe that there was a wrongdoing&#8230;but I hate to surmise&#8230;so I will go by my gut&#8230;.and my gut says that so far what I&#8217;ve seen is that the best defense is an offence on their part&#8230;so&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In the end\u2026.I&#8217;ve just suffered thru the worst holiday of my adult life&#8230;through no fault of my own&#8230;I think I&#8217;m finished feeling like shit and having my friends be treated poorly simply cos they are my friends<\/p>\n<p>What I do know (yet again) is that I didn&#8217;t do anything wrong&#8230;I&#8217;m tired of having to remind myself that I did nothing wrong&#8230;but I do because I am a people pleaser (it&#8217;s a curse!)<\/p>\n<p>I will say this&#8230;.at no time have I asked anyone to take my side &#8211; you can bank on that&#8230;.I simply told anyone who asked me the truth of what occurred&#8230;and actually I&#8217;ve requested that people make their judgements based on their own experiences with him and her\u2026. not mine (try asking them if you have the balls &#8211; they&#8217;ll set you straight)&#8230;.but they are so busy making accusations they can&#8217;t spend the time it takes to clearly communicate with the remainder of their friends&#8230;let alone me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>From what I can glean\u2026him and her are upset that I let others know what she&#8217;d done&#8230;well gee&#8230;that&#8217;s just too bad&#8230;shoulda thought of someone besides themselves in the first fucking place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>People can only hurt me this deeply when I open myself to them by loving them&#8230;I won&#8217;t make that mistake again&#8230;my only solace now is that I am not alone in feeling like the wool has been pulled over my eyes&#8230;.I am, apparently, in good company&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>and while I&#8217;m making myself clear&#8230;..know this&#8230;..there isn&#8217;t any chance in hell that I would have not called him and her to let them know about Bull&#8217;s passing if I knew&#8230;I&#8217;d have moved heaven and hell to make sure they got you the news&#8230;.not let us find out 24 hours later via some fucking text message&#8230;.cos there&#8217;s some kind of fucking pissing contest going on here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>IMHO that&#8217;s just childish and vengeful&#8230;and I guess there&#8217;s my proof<\/p>\n<p>My Grandma used to say\u2026&#8221;the thing about lying or being mean behind some one&#8217;s back is that people will always talk and the truth will come out in the end&#8221; and she used to also say that &#8220;if you&#8217;ve done nothing wrong..there&#8217;s no danger in speaking your mind&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>so going forward&#8230;I am officially kicking ass and taking names\u2026I&#8217;m through being shit on from lofty heights\u2026and I\u2019m through taking the high road\u2026<\/p>\n<p>him and her have made their bed\u2026and now they can lie in it\u2026with themselves\u2026they&#8217;ve burnt their bridges&#8230;.<br \/>their doing<br \/>not mine&#8230;..<br \/>they&#8217;ve made their choices\u2026and now I&#8217;m making mine\u2026.do ya remember &#8220;Wyz choices&#8221;? <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wyzwmnsworld.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/wyz-choices.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><strong>http:\/\/wyzwmnsworld.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/wyz-choices.html<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><strong><\/p>\n<p>it still rings true&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FXjNVtlLsSQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FXjNVtlLsSQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking\u2026 it seems that the major thorn in the side of everyone over this holiday was me\u2026 the very fact that I was even there seemed to be more than &#8220;he&#8221; could bear he was civil\u2026.but obviously unable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}