Yesterday was 24 hours of pure hell in some parts. I woke up doing okay despite the cold from hell that just won't go away. It's still here and while I can feel it tapering down it's still bugging me. But that's nothing compared to everything else that happened yesterday. The first part of the day started off okay but it went downhill at around noon and didn't get back on track until almost 10pm.
I was feeling like shit most of the morning but I had promised TD I would go to the city and spend the day with her. I planned to head out around noon and then we were going to come back here, get the truck and go to the show together. As I was leaving I went looking for the truck. Um... no truck. How do you lose a 14' UHaul?? I freaked out. I started calling people who had been with me the night before and we all confirmed that my co-head said he dropped it off at my house Friday night and 'parked it down and across the street' from my place. That should have been easy enough to locate then right??
I spent the next three hours trying to track him down to determine where he had parked it. Couldn't reach him. He has no cell phone currently, wasn't online anywhere. The kid and I drove in circles for 2 hours trying to figure out where he parked the truck. I was on the phone with the police to see if it had been towed. I walked up and down neighborhoods. I finally reached him and he swore on his mother's grave exactly what he had said the night before that it was parked across the street and down a little bit. I told him that it must have been stolen then and he needs to get over to my place to file a police report. He said he would be right over. At that point I informed everyone on cast that the truck had been stolen and we needed to scramble as EVERY ONE of our props were in that truck.
During all this, TD was getting more and more pissed because I essentially blew her off. This made me think about our relationship and where it was and where it was going. While she was trying to be supportive, she was being TOO supportive. I keep drawing parallels in my head to how I behaved with J way back when. How I slipped right back into husband mode. TD I think was pissed because I was keeping her at arm's length during all this shit. She isn't part of the 'family' and we haven't been going out long enough where I wanted her involved. I was basically radio silent from 2pm until about 7:30 at which point I texted her to see if she wanted to meet me at the theater. She was very upset and pissed off at me for blowing her off and decided she didn't want to go. In my opinion, she threw a bit of a tantrum and acted like a girlfriend versus someone I have just started dating. But we will come back to that...
So everyone on cast is scrambling trying to come up with props and my co-head shows up at my house. He looks at me and says 'Give me the keys, I know where the truck is, I will be back in 10 minutes'. WTF?? I put everyone on standby. THIRTY minutes later he comes back with the truck. YAY! As I go to check things out, he is walking away. Not a word, nothing. I run down the street after him and the bottom line is he honestly thought he had dropped the truck off but in reality left it where it was parked. He was either so high friday or so wrapped up in other stuff he had convinced himself he had brought it to my house. Wow. Okay. I get everyone relaxed and calmed down about props and we all breathe.
An hour later he sends me and the directors a blunt email saying he quits the show. That's it. We think he just felt so stupid about this that he decided to quit. My director and I are both pissed as hell at him for this. No warning, no plan to leave - just quits.
At 9:30 I head up to the city to do the show. Show goes great actually. I was happy with the show, happy with everyone's performance, and had a good time. BUT in the back of my mind I was thinking about TD all day and if I should end it with her. She sent me an email at 6am which may also make this decision for me. It's what I need to think about today. In the meantime, I have to get ready for another show tonight...
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