Aug 192005
 

I sit and wait. Not for a phone call. Not for an email. Just for the relief of this Vicodin kicking in to relieve the throbbing, stabbing pain that is invading the entire left side of my face. Something always goes wrong when hunny goes somewhere. Not usually the SAME day. Thank goodness our ER will deal with acute dental pain. I’m going to take my first penicillin later tonight before bed. Hopefully tomorrow I can manage the pain with Mortin. The doc gave me both vicodin and motrin to use for pain. The motrin for management, and the vicodin for breakthrough pain. Right now, the pain is bad enough I’d like to break my head through a wall. Gah.

As for the other stuff. I’m doing ok. Thank you ALL for your support, and your hugs. I’d reply to everyone, but I’m too sore to sit here much longer. I’ve had a few spells. The biggest one coming as I was cleaning the living room. I picked up the mug he had his coffee in this morning. And it was still warm. That didn’t help my jaw at all. It wasn’t much later I headed to the ER.

Aug 192005
 

I didn’t say good bye. My last words as he walked away were, as they always are “I Love You”. I didn’t cry, I fought it all the way. I had to. My 2 girls set a good example. I gave Brenna the choice to either go with us to drop him off and have me drive her to school, or say her goodbyes here and catch the bus. She chose the bus. Alyssa chose to go, and get dropped off after. They both held up great. No fussing, no tears, I’ve raised a couple of tough cookies. Thank goodness for short goodbyes. I’m glad they did it this way, instead of us being there for an extended send off. It wasn’t easy. But he’s doing what he trained for, what he joined to do. And knowing that makes it bearable. I have to send his laptop, it didn’t fit in the box the used to measure by. I’ll ship that on the 1st. So it’s phone calls and letters until then.

The girls are both in scool now, which is good. Keep things as normal as possible for them. And my task at the moment is just get the house clean and get through the weekend. Monday I’ll start going back to the office as regularly as I can. I need to tie my yellow ribbon out on the porch light, and hang my service flag in the window. Last night, I sat here and restrung my deployment bracelet , the original string broke the first day I wore it. So I took fishing line, doubled it over, and restrung the beads.

Aug 182005
 

At 8:33AM the house is ALL mine. The kids are off to school. *dances*

I’ve been waiting for this day all month. They were getting on my last nerve, each others last nerves, they were getting bored playing outside, ahhhhhhh!!!

hubby is on his way to formation. It’s odd seeing him head to work in Civilian clothes, but it’s a quick headcount then back home for them. hopefully we’ll get a new date and time. Then I’ll start this whole preparation thing again. In the mean time I’m still uploading past photos to Photoflections I added some Animals (farm type), A cute on of hubby under humorous, and a few from the Flight 93 memorial. I’m thinking with a whole day with no kids I might drag hubby out to do some shooting. I just don’t know where yet. Maybe I’ll try the gardens again since…drumroll please….We have no smoke today!!

Aug 172005
 

So this delay thing isn’t so bad. The guys report to formation in the mornings in Civilians, then they are off for the day. Not bad. That’s how yesterday was too. It’s nice of them to give us that extra time. I got my living room cleaned up, now I’m ready to start editing my flower shots from yesterday. I have 4 I hope to get uploaded as prints. After that I’m going to try cleaning my camera’s sensor. I’m sure it needs it. And I hope that’s part of my problem. I’ll post a few shots later:o)

Aug 142005
 

:cry: We’re smoked in again. All I wanted was a nice clear day to take my camera to the botanical gardens before fall hits. I love going there in August, everything is in full color, yet there are some early bloomers that have started dropping off. Yes, I even like shooting those. But no, we are in the worlds largest outdoor campfire. I can’t even tell if the sky is blue or cloudy. *pouts more*.

I have twosparrows.net almost rebuilt. I got 9 of my original 12 pages back up. Only 3 left, and whatever else I add. After that it’s time to start on the photoflections site. It could use a revamp. I found some very cool gallery templates. The prices are fairly reasonable, I might end up purchasing one in the coming months.

Today is kind of a sad one, Hunny will be calling family one last time, and repacking his bags. I have a little anxiety going on, but I’ll manage.