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Oct 072006

I went to be appreciated today. It was a nice afternoon away from the kids (well my kids). The American Legion held a military spouses appreciation event today. Light food, drinks, limo rides, there was a jazz band there as well. I took an application and plan on joining the auxiliary, and hopefully get hubby to join the legion too. They also started the PGR (patriot guard riders), another thing I planned on volunteering with upon our PCS. And they have many other organized riding events. Rolling Thunder in DC, they work with ABATE (American Bikers Aimed Toward Education), an organization my father in law worked with for years. My dad was in the legion in Maryland for many many years, even had his funeral dinner there.

Anyhow, the limo ride was pretty cool, I sat on ‘s lap…lol!

we got our hard copy orders for Ft Lewis. I freaked out prematurely. I saw “separate travel for dependants is authorized” and automatically flashed back to our pcs here when I had to wait 3 months to get here to join him. Yeah, totally different thing. Then I thought we only had the option to take the ferry or plane, I missed the ALCAN reference. Duh. We’ll be leaving mid march to report in April. I’d rather stay til school ends, but with hard orders I don’t know if that’s possible. I plan to ask anyhow. I have alot to find out this week. Such as how far in advance we can request travel pay, it would be nice to put it in an interest gaining savings acct. How we get paid for a partial dity (do it yourself) move, since we plan on putting a cap on the truck, might as well load it with stuff. I need to get maps and a mile post, and see if driving out in march is even feasible. If not then I guess it’s the ferry. I really want to do the drive. We’ll have like 30 days, and I want to loop down to Oregon when we get to the states and go up the coast into WA. Why does it feel like forever til he comes home, but like tomorrow we have to PCS?? Once we get this one done I’ll have the experience. I came here and dealt with movers and stuff by myself, I’m not sure why this is freaking me out.

Hunny was back online today, thank goodness communication is back again. I hope they stay put now til the end. And I hope the end comes soon, but I’m happy knowing that we’re halfway there, and I’m getting alot done to our truck in the process. Take comfort where ya can, ya know?

Hood Slidin' Like Bo Duke

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Oct 012006

I woke up this morning to a “ding dong” on my computer. I immediately grabbed the phone as I sat up to look, figuring it was ‘s hubby. Surprise Surprise it was mine! His little trip was postponed, what a HUGE relief. I worry so much when he’s out and about over there. Even more now. There are days I would love to beg him to change his job, do something that keeps him on the camp all the time, but I know he’d never be happy with anything but Infantry. Cav guys are the same way, wtf is it about being on the front lines, on the edge that’s so damned appealing anyhow??? Anyhow, I was relieved to hear from him, and will sleep much better tonight.

So, with that Lose Weight Exercise off my mind I got started on the truck. She goes in for her new cd player tomorrow, and I had to make her presentable. Months of mud puddles and construction dust were making her look less than pretty. So I made a couple stops for supplies for the inside, and headed to the car wash on base. I gave her a good scrub down, and rinse, and a high pressure wax, pulled out of the bay and gave her a good rub down. After that we stopped at the px and BK and came home. We ate, and I went outside and started the next phase. I used some scratch off to get rid of some of the dull areas. It took 2 bottles to do the whole truck. But when I was done she was shining. Then I got after the glass. Now, let me tell you me washing, waxing, and detailing this truck is like Thumbelina trying to make out with the Jolly Green Giant. I had to get on the roof to finish that, then crawl up on the hood to do the windshield. Which I should have done before the waxing. A bit slippy. But on the upside to get off, all I had to do was turn around, sit on my butt and slide right off. I felt like Bo Duke for a minute there. So, after all was said and done….

Passenger Side after all that work.

Drivers Side

Front

interior

And this we’ll be saying goodbye to tomorrow. Baby gonna get a brand new cd player:o)

heres just one side before…taken with my phone.

All in a days work. Roughly 5 hours from start to finish. My next big project is setting up a mini gym in my basement! In other news, my oldest went to a sleepover last night, where she was up til 5am, and by 8 tonight had a sore throat, a fever and a headache. Nice. So she’ll be staying home tomorrow just for safe keeping.

Where's The Fire?

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Sep 302006

Well I finally heard from hubby about 3am. But not for long before he had to get ready to go somewhere. He finished getting ready, and was back at 7:30 but only to say he was heading out. So it’s going to be a couple days til I hear from him again. I’m going to worry until I do too. So to keep busy I started stocking up for winter. I don’t drive much in winter due to the darkness so there were some things I wanted stocked. Then I filled the gas tank, grabbed some antifreeze, a longer cord for plugging in, my new stickers, a scraper, and came home. I got about 1/3 of my basement done. I changed my decals on the truck, although I wonder why now they say Ft WW instead of USARAK. I might have put them on wrong. It’s too late now, they can’t just be peeled off and fixed. I added the antifreeze too. Now I’m considering dinner, but don’t know what I want. Bah.

Up and Down

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Sep 292006

So last time I typed here, I was unhappy. Then I went to get in my truck and my youngest daughter says “EWWWW”. Someone had SPIT on my fucking door handle. nd I mean nasty nasty stuff. What the hell kind of sick person does this! So thats how the trip started. Went to the mall and got my ring picked up. It’s a little loose but all my rings are because I need half sizes and few jewelry stores do that anymore. And my fingers swell, and shrink, gain Lose Weight Exercise and loseWeight Exercise, so a little big is a safe bet. Took the kids to McDonalds for lunch. Then I dropped my old cable box off…forgot the remote. Thank goodness it doesn’t matter, since they are out of DVR remotes and I was picking up another DVR for my room anyhow. So that was that. Then it was to the px to look at thumb rings. I did it again, hit a good sale. Not as good as sundays will be, but good enough to not bother waiting. Their 14k thumb rings are ringing up 9.99 each. Sunday they’re another 50% off. I grabbed two today, I’d use the extra $5 in gas making another trip there and home Sunday anyhow. So that was good. Then I came home to an email from our FRG leader with the only thing I’ve wanted to hear since the extension started.”Our soldiers willÂ not be extended beyond their 120 days”. Rumors can fly about early arrivals, but that’s the one thing I wanted to know. Now if mr internet guy would get them restarted that would be dandy!

DUMBASS Part 2

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Sep 262006

I’m grounding myself from anything electronic. Seriously. Talking to DH today I kept hearing this scratching sound. It’s been going on all day, and I figured something must be wrong with the inner workings of my laptop. Makes sense right? Yeah until you start closing things off from your task bar and realize at some point you clicked search in the folder you had minimized and the DAMNED WINDOWS DOG is scratching itself!

I QUIT!