25 Mar 09-Today started out fantastic. I keep meaning to post this but I found another old friend on Facebook. Mom, you're never going to believe this but it is Christopher Cohen!!! I couldn't believe it when I found him. I'll catch you up on that later. Anyway, he was posting comments to my pictures this morning and some of them just had me cracking up. Work was good. I got caught up again and that's always a great feeling. I made a doctors appointment because my back pain is getting significantly worse. I couldn't believe it but they actually are referring me to a surgeon. Does this mean I'm having surgery? No. It's just a consult but we'll see. I won't see the surgeon for a while so I will keep you posted. I had to run home after my appointment to grab the tables for the bake sale tomorrow. I managed to get 7 miles in on the bike today before my back just couldn't handle it anymore. That's about it for today.
24 Mar 09-Happy Birthday to my baby boy Miles!! <3 We cannot believe that he is 6!! Where does the time go?? After I picked the kids up from school, I took them out to dinner to a little mom and pop ice cream joint down the street. He picked to eat at Target but I really didn't want to drive there. We hadn't been to Scoops yet so I suggested we try it out. I don't know why he likes to eat at Target so much but they all love to eat there. LOL Anyway, he agreed to Scoops and said it's his new favorite. We ate and then had ice cream and he was happy as could be. :) It was a good day.
23 Mar 09-I got a little bit of a break today and had to sit at the house to wait for the guy from Sears to come and take a look at the exercise bike. The verdict is in and I did everything right!! :) The console was mis-marked for which way the batteries go in. Instead of negative on one side and positive on the other side like it said, it was positive on both sides. Thank goodness and now it works and I rode 10 miles on it so far. :) Other than that, I slept so horribly, I am headed to bed now. Tomorrow is an exciting day for me since it is my baby's birthday. I cannot believe that little boy is going to be 6!! <3
22 Mar 09-Boy did I have a long weekend. I am so ready to just collapse into bed. We went to Costco today to pick up some supplies for the Easter event for the squadron. I took the kids on base after that to grab some lunch and to get another pair of shoes. I had a whole list of things I wanted to do today but didn't get a whole lot of them done. I got done the things I had to do. I got another 100 on my assignment for my class. Now, I am headed to bed.
21 Mar 09-It's been a busy couple of days. Thursday I decided to complicate my life and buy an exercise bike. It was super easy. I bought it online at Sears.com and I went to pick it up in the store an hour later. I spent 4 hours trying to figure out how to put it together and rolling my eyes at the "some assembly required". Long story short, I got it all together and went to try it out but the console did not come on. I started to disassemble it to check and make sure none of the wires unattached and no suck luck. Friday was pretty boring at work. I headed to a dental appointment at 1 and then went to PT and to do my grocery shopping. That worked out very well. I have been so busy and I was so sore from working on that bike that I figured I would get to sleep early. No such luck. Chris and I chat a lot on Yahoo so I got to be late again. The kids woke me up quite early this morning and very rudely. Silly kids! Hearts Apart is a program put on the base to get deployed spouses out of their houses and get together. They have one main activity a month. This months activity was the zoo. We had a great time today and I got some great pictures. They are up on the website. After that, we headed to Blockbuster so we could have movie night. We rented 4 movies and bought some popcorn and candy and they stayed up until 9:30 watching movies and having a good time. Anyway, I messed up one of my nails while I was working on the bike so I figured we'd just stop in so I could get it fixed but ended up just having them fill them anyway. Harmony got her nails done again and she had shooting stars put on her thumbnails. It's too cute. I'll have to get a picture tomorrow. I still haven't gotten my homework done but I've done my reading so hopefully I can knock it out quick tomorrow. I have a laundry list of things to do tomorrow so it's going to be another busy one. I will be happy to get to work just to have a chance to relax.
18 Mar 09-Today was one busy but productive day. I actually had more energy today than I've had in a long time. Not sure why though. Anyway, just before I left work today, I had the coolest invitation to sing for a function. Some guy from the social security office downtown called and said they were looking for a singer at their building next month and asked if I could do it. McCain and Biden have been invited as well as President Obama!! He obviously doesn't think the President will show up but the others could and that's just awesome. I am nervous already. I have to call him back tomorrow to tell him yes. I had to check with Rich and Sheree' first to make sure they could take the kids to school because I'd have to leave an hour before the daycare opens to be there on time. This will be my first real event in the community and I couldn't be more excite about it!
17 Mar 09-I had a great day today! I got caught up with all my work and got to relax. I actually got so much done that we had time to do an 80s quiz in the shop. ;) I had a custodian from OSI (Office of Special Investigations) come out today who needed to do some paperwork that he couldn't do from his office. He's a stand in so he doesn't know a lot of the processes and it's my job to help him out. Anyway, as he was leaving, he shook my hand and "coined me". What that means is that he had a coin in his hand and transferred it to mine. That is standard practice for being awarded a coin. It's kind of like a great job or a thank you but done privately for you to look at later. I looked at it after I got in the shop and it was an awesome coin! It doubles as a bottle opener too! Brilliant design! I was so excited to get that from him. It's so nice to have someone notice what we do for them and I was truly grateful for the gesture. It's days like this that I love my job! I came home and attempted to hang my new picture frames. That didn't work out so well. I got the wall anchor in which was a feat in itself for me. I had never done that before and I got it. Then I tried to put the screw in and dropped the whole thing back into the wall and I heard it fall. LOL Oh well! I'm not a very handy person so I'll have to find someone to come over who is and put them up for me! :) Overall, it was a great day! Check out the pictures of my coin below...
16 Mar 09-Okay so today I am truly going to keep this one short. I am exhausted. It's already after 10 and I need some decent sleep. I had a good day today but it was extremely busy. Thankfully it was a productive day. I got a lot of overdue stuff done. I have one more project that has been neglected to finish and I'll be caught up and what a great feeling that will be. On that note, I am off to bed...
15 Mar 09-We had a great day today! I was lazy this morning and didn't get in the shower until 10 but I was working on my homework. I did not want a repeat of last week where I almost didn't get done in time so I wanted to have it done before I went anywhere today. I finished up about 2 p.m. and then put the kids in the truck (we drive it somewhere once a week so she doesn't get lonely lol) and headed for Ace Hardware to get a new timer for the sprinklers. I decided to make an impromptu stop at the nail salon to get my nails done for the first time in many, many years. I like them. Even Harmony got her nails painted and she was grinning from ear to ear. Miles was so good. I figured he would get bored and act up but he was enjoying watching all the "tools" they use. After a while, he got tired of the smell but he did so good. They all loved him in there and kept asking him questions. After that, we came home for a little bit until I realized that I had forgotten a paper. So, we headed back out to Fry's to get a paper and that worked out because I remembered then to order Miles' birthday cake. They are so easily amused with little trips out so it works out great. The rest of the night was relaxing. I just did the normal Sunday night getting lunches ready, laundry, bags ready, clothes laid out, etc. I did get to talk to my parents today... finally! It was so nice to talk to them. I will not go that long again. :)
14 Mar 09-We had a busy but fun day today. We went to the DM-50 picnic today at Bama Park on the base. It is put on by a committee in Tucson to show their appreciation for what we do and they do a few things for us throughout the year and it's always great. They go all out for us. This year was extra special because my friend Michelle coordinated the whole thing and it was obvious that she put a lot of work into it. The kids really had a good time and I was able to get lots of pictures that are already up on the website (see I'm getting better). We don't normally spend but an hour there and we actually stayed 3 hours because the kids were enjoying themselves so much. We had other running around to do but I decided to bring them home and let them clean up from all the junk food and relax for a bit before we headed back out. After a while, we headed to Party City to pick up the decorations for Miles' birthday party. He picked out a Cars theme and he of course wanted 2 of everything. We don't normally do goody bags but we decided to do them this year. After that we went to dinner and I don't know what got into them today (well, I guess I do... it was all the sugar) but they were in rare form and had me cracking up. After dinner we headed to Petco to get new beds for the dogs (minus Bella). Bella and Jade have been chewing the beds up and I cannot stand picking up any more stuffing from around the house. Hopefully they won't chew the new beds up because they are not cheap. Chris wanted to see all these random things that I talk about so I created a random photo album to put all that silly stuff in. :) Anyway, I think that's it for today. I wanted to get homework done but I've come to same conclusion as always --there are not enough hours in the day.
12 Mar 09-I had a good day at work today even thought it was super busy. After I got home and relaxed for a little bit, I took care of the dishes and started dinner. After that, I started on a project that took me all night. Goodness!! I bought a pipeline (well 2 of them). I was so excited to get it but wow, was that a pain. I got it put together no problem but there are 13 picture frames per... contraption for a better word. Each one of them had sticker paper to remove from both sides of the plastic that the picture sits behind. That took me forever! I can't wait to get them up on the wall though. It is going to look really nice. Okay, how boring is my life?? LOL Oh well, it kept my time occupied. The kids weren't so good today. They figured they would just get in their PJs and that they weren't going to take showers. Wrong answer. :) I had to remind them who was Alpha in this house right now. Thankfully I didn't have to tell them again. They had a long day because they went on a field trip to the Desert Museum. They were talking non-stop about it on the way home and they had a great time. They go to the Botanical Gardens tomorrow. It's been a fun week for them.
11 Mar 09-Another fun day of figuring out discrepancies from our inventory today. What fun stuff. :) After I got home from work today, the neighbor came over to give me some mail that I guess fell out of our trash can when they picked it up yesterday and it blew in his yard. He let me know that he just had his house treated for termites and that I should look at ours. I did and saw a termite tube so I have to have someone come out to treat it. :( It is mighty expensive to get treated for termites. I don't really have anything else to report today. It was busy but uneventful. :)
10 Mar 09-Yesterday was another busy day and I never got around to blogging so I apologize for that. Our LAN went down at work yesterday about noon and totally destroyed the input of numbers from our inventory. I did end up getting some errands done because we couldn't do any work so that was nice. I was able to get to the post office, drop the movies off, go pick up Miles' prescription and pick up pop tabs from one of the offices on base. However, once it was finally time to go home and nothing had come back up yet, I brought all the count sheets home with me. They needed to be done so we could free stuff up to be used again so I was fine with that. I didn't have any homework or anything to do so it worked out. Today was equally busy but not quite as bad of a day. We just spent most of the day cleaning up the discrepancies and starting the paperwork to get everything fixed. There were just a lot of silly problems here and there. It made for quite the stressful day. I was thankful to not have to come home and cook. I had made pasta last night so we just had leftovers. I ordered a 35mm film to digital converter and it showed up yesterday. I finally got a chance to check it out today and it's pretty cool. It doesn't work all that great (not worth the price) but it's nice to get some of those pictures that I didn't even have anymore in digital format. It's a great concept. I know there's more from today but I am completely brain dead. Ha ha! Until tomorrow...
8 Mar 09-I am going to keep this short tonight. It's already 10:30 and I have just finished everything I needed to do and I still need to try to unwind so I can get to sleep. Today should have been a relaxing day but it wasn't at all. I made breakfast for the kids this morning. I had to take over Chris' duty of the "big breakfast" on Sundays and that took me a while. It was 10 a.m. before I even got in the shower. I needed to dye my hair but I realized that I was out of hair dye so I had to run to Walgreens to get it. I decided to take Chris' truck out for a little spin so we went in it. I forgot to mention this to you, Chris, but the neighbor (the guy that does painting-I can't remember his name), looked at me kind of funny when I drove by in it. Ha ha! Anyway, the kids are on spring break so I had to pack their lunches. Well, I expected that I was going to have to pack them but Harmony, bless her heart, took it upon herself to pack them for me. :) What a sweetie. Chris' grandma called today to check in on us and see how Chris was doing. I had to get laundry done today. The biggest shock of the day was knowing that I had homework to do and can usually knock it out in a couple of hours after the kids go to bed. Well, about the time I was getting them in bed, I realized that I just lost an hour today and it was due at 9 my time instead of 10 like I was used to!! Ouch!! I managed to get it done and much to my surprise, I got a 100 but talk about stressful!!! I just cannot do it on the last day with it just being me. It does not work too well. Anyway, on that note (and so much for short), I am going to attempt to go to bed. My back hurts the worst that it has in a LONG TIME tonight so this ought to be interesting.
7 Mar 09-Today was a fun day. My plan was to take the kids to the base for the heritage conference (air show) but they decided they really weren't that interested in getting out and going on the flightline. They said they just wanted to watch it from the car. LOL We had plans to go to lunch and then grocery shopping and they were more interested in that. We went to Burger King for lunch and that should have been smooth sailing. Well, of course, something was messed up with the meal as usual. This time it was only that my chicken sandwich didn't have cheese on it. I paid for the cheese so I took it back up and asked them to just throw some cheese on it (no need to wait for a new one). The girl apologized and said the guy making the food was new. No big deal. Well, the idiot girl that was back there when she asked for some cheese, chucked it across the kitchen and it landed on some piece of equipment on there where they wrap up the food. It wasn't dirty or anything (at least I hope to God it wasn't) and they put it on my sandwich and the girl at the register apologized again. I explained as nicely as I could that I knew it wasn't her fault but that I saw Lauren (I heard her say her name) throw my piece of cheese across the kitchen and that I was not happy about it and would be complaining on Monday. I asked that she make sure she let her know that was not appropriate behavior. Thankfully in my "old age" I have learned some self control. Besides being on base and having the kids, I just did not feel like making a scene but it really pissed me off. Anyway, I continued to enjoy my lunch and forgot all about it until I started typing this tonight. We went grocery shopping to get some things I forgot when I went last week and to get them some sandwich stuff, Lunchables and some snacks since they're on spring break for the next 2 weeks and have to take their lunch every day. I figured it would be fun for them to have a movie day so we stopped at the shoppette to get some candy and rented some movies. Overall, it was a good day.
6 Mar 09-Boy did today suck!! LOL I started my day out by walking the flightline.... again. My feet hurt so bad this evening but the cool part of being out there half the day was getting to watch airplanes practice. They have what's called the "heritage conference" every year and they have all kinds of planes that fly around. Thankfully I got the whole count done and everything came out good. I felt so bad when I had to leave while everyone else was still there. I have done my fair share of inventories but I hate leaving when I know everyone else is working late. I know we're all just anxious to get it done. We do it twice a year and it is not fun at all but it's such a feeling of accomplishment once it's finally done. Anyway, because the inventory, I didn't have time to do anything else. I made popcorn for the kids tonight and they laid on the couch with their blankets and played Halo. They were getting along so well tonight. It was wonderful!
5 Mar 09-Today was quite the busy day. I almost got a break and got to go to lunch with Michelle but she ended up getting called away. :( It was nice to get to visit with her for a few minutes though. Once I got home from work, I made pork chops for dinner and then had to help Miles do his project. They were making "Leprechaun catchers". He had to design and decorate something to catch one in class tomorrow. That was fun but I'm just not very handy with stuff like that. He was happy with it though and he can't wait to show it off tomorrow. :) Tomorrow is going to be extremely busy. We are starting our 100% inventory which is never fun and I get to go do the flightline again. Normally on the first day, we are there until usually around 9 p.m. trying to finish up so we don't have to come in on Saturday. Fortunately and unfortunately, I can't stay late because of it being just me and the kids. It will be a nice change to not have to work that late but I always feel bad when I have to leave the shop hanging. I am sure I will be beyond stressed out by the time I get home tomorrow. I just hope I can dump it on the way home so the kids don't know but I'm pretty good at doing that.
4 Mar 09-Today started out a little scary. I was eating breakfast and heard something on the news that stopped me in my tracks and I had to rub the "sleepy's" out of my eyes and rewind so I could actually pay attention. It said there was a "bombing at the front gate of the main base in Afghanistan". Holy crap was all I could think and I immediately e-mailed Chris. Thankfully he was at a computer and e-mailed me right back. He had no idea that had happened. He heard it from me first. LOL How ironic is that. Boy is the shoe on the other foot now. Now I know what it's like to be at home and hear something on the news and just know that I had to get a hold of him to know that everything was okay. Thankfully the rest of the day was uneventful. I still didn't sleep well last night so I'm off to try it again.
3 Mar 09-Today was a day that I would not choose to do again at all. It started out as a normal day for the most part. I had a plan at lunch today and that was to go get the new video game Halo Wars for the XBox 360 for Miles. He has been so excited to play it. I had 3 meetings lined up today and a full plate overall at work. I went to Best Buy and ran by Burger King on the way back to work. I had to scarf down my lunch so I could make it back out the door by 1230 to get to my 1300 meeting. That did not pan out. The school called to tell me that Harmony had been accidentally tripped at school and she was complaining that her leg hurt. She wanted me to come pick her up and I called the nurses line and they told me to take her to urgent care to be seen. Two and a half hours later and x-rays taken and she's fine. She's probably just got a bruise from where she hit the ground. Thank God she's okay but boy did that make my day stressful. I had pork chops out to make but it was too late when I got home. So I improvised and we had breakfast for dinner and the kids loved it! The great news from today is that my instructor graded my final paper and I got an A on it. I was a little worried because I put so much into it. Now that it's graded, that makes my final grade overall in the class an A!! The coolest part is that she asked me if she could use my paper as an example for future classes!! How exciting is that?? :) I was grinning from ear to ear.
2 Mar 09-I am tired today. I am still not sleeping well. I walked 3 miles for PT today and my feet are really bothering me. When I got home I had to drag the trash cans out and mow the yard and my least favorite chore, cleaning up poop. Ha ha! I made it a week without having to ask for help. Our mower is about 5 years old Chris said and the stupid thing doesn't turn off when you let go of the handle. When he was gone last year, I figured out how to turn it off but I couldn't remember it this time. I had to get Frank from across the street and he couldn't figure it out either. He finally got it but it wasn't the right way to shut it off so I may be making a trip to Home Depot this weekend to purchase a new one! That will definitely be something new for me. My American Government class started today. I read through the syllabus and did my initial introduction post and that was it. I needed a day to brain dump and that's exactly what I did. Now I am just going to relax before bed.
1 Mar 09-Today was a good day. We all slept in a little bit and had a lazy morning which was nice. The kids played in the PJs until almost 10. :) After that, we made a trip to Target to get the kids some new shoes and to have lunch. They really enjoy eating lunch there and they have the best Blue Raspberry icee I've ever had. :P We went to Petco after that so I could get a mouse for Ali. After we got back, I continued to work on my final exam and finally just stopped over analyzing and hit submit and.... I PASSED!!! Whoo hoo! I will post my final grade once she grades my final paper and extra credit. Hopefully I keep my 4.0. Other than that, I didn't do much of anything else. Well, nothing blog worth. Just my normal cleaning, laundry, dinner, dishes, etc. I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Chris got his address today so if you would like to send him some notes or some goodies, I know he would appreciate it:
Christopher Naylor
455 ECES/FP
APO AE 09354
