Good afternoon to all my wonderfully Crazy friends.  Update on the painter situation - he promised he would be here by 8:00 - Greg gets up early on weekends so, he shut off my alarm when he got up, so I could sleep in, plus he knew I was somewhat stressed from dealing with this guy.  Anyway, I got up around 9:00 - still no painter.  At 9:30, Greg called Service Magic and told them to contact him and tell him not to bother showiing up because he was terminating the &quot;business relationship&quot; with him and wanted a refund of his money.  He then followed up with an email to both the painter and Service Magic that he was expecting a prompt refund of his money, be it from Service magic or the painter himself.  He had left the 2 gallons of Benjamin Moore paint here and so I went online to see what stores in our area carried it and called to get a price.  They said it was &#036;27 a gallon, so we deducted &#036;60 from the deposit amount and Greg said he would expect his refund of &#036;340 within a week&#39;s time.  Service Magic is actually a service that individal contractors register with.  S.M. conducts checks on each one and makes sure they are licensed and carry liability insurance.  The deposit was paid to the painter and not them, but Greg&#39;s position is that as we would not have had any contact with, nor the name of the painter, had they not recommended him, so someone is going to have to fork over the money because hubby is not going to drop it until he is paid.  I had contact with another painter but he returned my call after we had already paid the first one.  I called him back today and he said he would call me on Monday after he tried to get one of his painter&#39;s to come out that day. Yesterday, this guy took all of my drawers out and had me empty all of the cabinets so everything is either boxed up, or sitting on the kitchen or dining room table or on the countertops, so my kitchen is unusable right now.  We leave for Okla. on Thursday, so hopefully I will have some resolution by then.  My son filed for divorce this week and his &quot;wife&quot; agreed to not fight him for custody of my grandson.  He normally never talks about personal things or feelings or any of that type of thing but he has really opened up in the past 2 -3 weeks.  I realize that maybe it is helping him to talk about it but I have learned some things that really upset me and it is probably a good thing that I don&#39;t see her right now.  She lost 2 babies in the past few years and said she could not try again.  I just learned that she did get pregnant again after that and my son was so happy but she convinced him to not say anything at all until they passed that critical stage.  He said it was really hard not to tell me because he knew how much I wanted another grandchild.  Anyway, he said she was not happy about being pregnant, but he tried to reassure her that as she got farther along,<br />
her feelings would change and he realized that she was very scared about it because of the past experiences, but they were just going to pray for a safe and unevenful pregnancy and a a healthy baby, and believe that God would watch over Leah and the baby.  Soon after, she told him that she had gone the previous week and gotten an abortion because she didn&#39;t want to have the baby.  First of all, I cannot imagine how she could do that, knowing how he felt about it, and then to not tell him and let him to continue thinking there was another child on the way.   I am not going to get into the whole abortion issue here, I have very strong opinions on the matter and I thought she did too.  It breaks my heart to even think about it.  I didn&#39;t know any of this until about a week and a half ago.  He also discovered she had been cheating on him for the past few months.   He has taken her back a couple of times, but I think she has burned all her bridges this time.  Sorry to ramble on - I am just having one of &quot;those days&quot;.  Hope you all are enjoying your weekend....