My ramblings-Jan 09

14 Jan 09-I am still alive. I am just worn out beyond belief from this exercise. I have some news to share soon but it will have to wait until this weekend. For now, I just wanted to post to get something on here. It's taken it's toll on me working these long hours. I'll post more this weekend!

11 Jan 09-Sorry I haven't posted. Work has been nuts. We have an exercise coming up next week and the prep for it has been a little crazy. I don't know how much I will post next week while I'm working 12s but I will certainly try. We had people over for football again today which is always a lot of fun. I really don't have much to talk about yet. Besides busy, life is a little boring. :)

7 Jan 09-I am beyond exhausted today so this one will be short. I was able to get my homework finished with 30 minutes to spare. LOL I think I'm going to like this class but I'm definitely going to have to think a lot more than the last one. I really want to keep my 4.0 so I'm hoping to kick butt in this one too. Today was just super busy and I'm so ready for bed. Until tomorrow... (Forgive the worthless post but I just want to make sure I keep my promise and stay with it this time!)

6 Jan 09-Oh the joys of preparing for an exercise. We had briefings today and then even had to go to the squadron to "dress up". It was nice to make sure we had everything but I'm an old pro at exercises. LOL Chris was a little "off his game" today. Normally he is the one that walks around the house scaring people. I don't like it so I don't know what came over me but I got him back today. He was walking out of the bedroom and I clapped and yelled behind him. LOL It was hilarious but I still don't know what came over me. The reason he said he was off his game was because Miles was able to scare him later in the hallway. I guess that's a little bit of payback. Nothing else interesting to report today. :)

5 Jan 09-I survived my first day back to work thankfully. It was actually kind of fun but I was sure busy. We were doing all of the prep work for the upcoming exercise. I got some of my class work done today and finally read through the syllabus. This class should be a lot of fun but I have A LOT to learn. There is just a lot of terminology that I don't understand. I am just proud of myself for keeping up with it. I can't stop this time until I get my degree. It was freezing today. I am so ready for winter to be over already. The kids had a good first day back at school. They were wiped out tonight but they were happy to be back in school. I think that's it for today.

4 Jan 09-Today was relaxing. We just hung out at the house and watched football. I did a couple of loads of laundry and that was it. It was a cold and rainy day though. I am ready for warmer weather. Unfortunately that's not coming for a while. LOL We did get a new Wii game today. The girls on my mommy's group were talking about Outdoor Challenge and how much fun it was. So, Chris went and bought it today and they were right! It's a blast! It's a great workout too. (Sorry I didn't get a call in to you today. We had company most of the day and then it was bath/bed time.) Tomorrow will be the kids first day back at school in a couple of weeks. I've been off work for a week too so tomorrow is going to be a long day for sure! I start my next class tomorrow too. Back to stress city! :)

3 Jan 09-Today was another good day. I headed out early to go shopping this morning. Little Thomas was having his birthday party today so I wanted to get him a gift. Turns out though that he and Katie are both sick so they canceled it. :( I hope they feel better soon. I had to get a few other things too and ended up picking out something for myself which is something I rarely ever do. I am always on my desktop computer to blog, play on MySpace, chat with the girls, etc. When I do my schooling, I use the laptop because I can take it somewhere quiet. It was quite the pain to do my homework without an actual mouse so I bought a laptop mouse today. It's pink and I love it! :) I got to get a coffee this morning too which is always a treat for me. After that, I just took the rest of the day to relax (and of course do some laundry because that is never ending in my house). :) I signed up to do fantasy football for the playoffs so I watched it to try to learn how it works so I can play the whole season next year. Anyway, Chris had to go to work on Friday for a little bit because he was being "coined" by the 3 star general! I am so proud of him for all his hard work with Santa's In Blue and I wanted to show off his 2 coins he received. One is from the 3 star general and the other was from the 12th AF command chief. Both of these coins are by very important people and are a HUGE deal! :)





2 Jan 09-Whoo hoo! We actually made it through 2008! Thank God it's over too. I wanted to do a kind of year in review thing but I think I'll save it for this year and keep track of all the cool stuff that is going to happen. I can only stay positive about how this year is going to go. No more negative for me. I predict this to be a great year and I'm going to keep up with that thinking as long as I can. It's been good so far. Granted it's early but all I can do is take it one day at a time. We had a great day today. We went to Mt. Lemmon today and let the kids sled and snowball fight. We also brought home our usual truckload of snow and put it in the front yard. It is amazing to me how many it attracts when it's sitting in the front yard. :) I managed to actually take a bunch of pictures AND post them all in the same day. It's amazing! ;) I got some really great shots of the kids. We took a picnic lunch up and just enjoyed all being together. I hate that ride up and down from there but it was still fun. I'm going to try to enjoy the next 2 days off before starting the month of hell. Wait, I said I'd be positive. Well, you'll just have to give me that one because exercises suck! There's no denying that! I will be beyond stressed out but it will be all good in the end. I hope everyone had a wonderful New Years and I hope that 2009 brings great things for all of you!!