Good afternoon nerds.
Still dealing with the back and forth with the insurance companies for the car. Our company actually paid us out minus the deductible, and now we're just waiting for them to get her homeowners insurance to reimburse them so they'll pay out our deductible as well.
Unrelated, day before yesterday I went on a nice five and a half mile hike. we have put in an order for a pizza to be picked up, and I still had several hours to kill after my hike, so I decided to just drive around town and play Pokemon Go / listen to podcasts to kill time. Our town has a very small downtown area. It is the best place to go in town for Pokemon go. My ex's sister, who I'm still really friendly with and talk to occasionally on social media just got engaged that morning, and she lives in an apartment in the downtown area. as I was cruising around, I saw her car pull up and park. I figured I would pull over and tell her congratulations in person.
Well, it wasn't the sister driving, it was my ex who I haven't seen in like three years (her husband is Airforce..they were in TX... Now Kentucky). I figured since I was there, what the hell, and I rolled down the window and said hi. We then proceeded to have a very pleasant conversation. Found out she was in town for a funeral, she actually just got over a moderate case of covid two months ago, etc. The thing that really struck me, is I used to see her anywhere from once a week to every few weeks in the bowling world, and there's always some bad blood there. A mutual annoyance of each other. For the first time in literally a decade, that wasn't there.
Am I saying I have feelings for her again or anything? Fuck no. Do I want to be her friend? No. But does it feel good to know that I can run into her, or be around her in a bowling situation once that starts up again or say her sister's wedding or a mutual friends birthday party or something, and it not be incredibly uncomfortable? Yes, since... there's always going to be some form of loose connection to her, because of all of the mutual friends we have, including some really close friends, and the fact that I'm still friends with a lot of members of her family.