Hello my dears! It’s so nice to be back at PB. I have had everything that feels like home ripped from me, then placed back in a house to seem like normal so having PB to come back to (to vent, haha) is nice.
What have I been up to since I was here oh so long ago? well, moving was okay. I really miss Hawaii. Alabama from Hawaii is such a huge downgrade. No offense to AL but no one can compare to HI’s weather. I had shorts and flipflops as my whole wardrobe. I had to buy some actual PANTS when I got here. I forgot about pants. ha
and sweaters?? Yeah I can wear those here too, not that I want to, but if I had some ugly Christmas sweater I could rock it. Maybe I’ll knit myself one and claim its from one of my dead grandmas.
anyway, we went to 2 weeks of vacation in FL. Universal studios got real old after like the 5th day but it was fun. It was so weird being close the TheVuefromhere but not actually seeing her. soon enough.
I ate Panera Bread for the first time in over 4 years! Yay!! I Luuuuv that place. I also had Dairy Queen, which they don’t have in Hawaii, and Applebees too! I missed all these places. I had never heard of Kirklands before but I like it. And went to a Michaels while visiting my brother in GA bc I looked up crafts stored in AL and the nearest Michaels to us was a few hours away. I totally dropped some benjamins there thinking I’d have to stock up until I could make it over to GA again....and then guess what?? We finally get to AL and there’s a Michaels at the nearest town!!! I was so peeved, but happy too. Phew!
I took a lot of cool pictures at Universal but only have some. I took my actual camera with me but stopped taking a lot when the battery died. Camera phone to the rescue.....until my purse got stolen. Yeah
I was eating at a restaurant inside Universal with the fam and when our stroller was returned to us, it was minus my whole purse.
Later we found my purse and my theory is someone who works at that restaurant took my purse, took the phone and ditched the rest.
They found my purse inside the store so some sneaky waiter or something.....I don’t know. ANyway, It’s never coming back so all my pictures lost. oh well
I’ve been slowly building back up my telephone contacts so leave me your number in a message if you want me to call or text you. :)
So we got from 2 weeks vacation in nice timeshare hotels, to staying in an army hotel with one room for the 5 of us. Luckily we didn’t have to stay for too long bc they had a house ready for us to move into.
We stayed a few days, then ‘moved into’ the house we have now. I say moved into but all we did was take our suitcases. Our household goods didn’t come until later, at least a week later. I was going nuts without stuff.
Too much fast food! I totally was itching to make a homemade meal. but gotta wait till the pots and pans arrive!
They finally came and the house is chaotic now. Right after the stuff got here, Ben had to leave to WOC school. Warrant Officer Candidate school is where they train you to be a warrant officer, as opposed to an enlisted active duty soldier. so they take your spouse away from you for 38 days even though they keep them on the same base. So my husband is off living in the single soldier barracks but he sure isn’t living it up. Poor husband has to live under someone’s watching eye all the time with about 1000 rules to obey. They even tell you how to eat and talk. oh well, he’s a strong man. If he can get through this he’ll be golden.
He said he hates this school more than he’ll hate SEARS school. I was like what? Sears is where they drop you off in the wilderness and you have to fend for yourself for a few days. then they pick u up and torture you to get you to talk. yeah.... great stuff. He said he can handle all that. He just hates being under someones every command, being underfoot.
so he’s gone. I am left with 3 kids and 3 animals and a whole house to unpack. Did I mention I adopted 2 kittens from a shelter before he left? Their names are Kona and Kobe. They’re annoying and cute, and soft, and annoying. lol, I love’em but they came to me with a parasite so we’ve already been to the vet, after they started pooing bloody diherria. It was great. and now all is well but seriously my house is a mess. (don’t worry, the kitty’s confined their mess to the box, but I on the other hand am getting all sorts of crap out of boxes.)
I like having my own place to decorate and make the way I want. I also like having help. I also like sleeping soundly at night. I also like another adults company, someone to actually hold a conversation with. But we can’t all get what we like all the time, right?
Just one more month. I gotta keep telling myself I can do this.
On the bright side, I am going to go see family for Turkey Day. My brother who lives in GA invited me and the kids over and their house is huge so they can host us overnight. My kids have no school the whole week so I’ll be cooking in a messy house, then driving 4 or so hours, then vaca with my family and his wife’s Cuban family, then more driving and feeling fat from all the food I am inevitably going to consume.
I love my brother and sister in law. My brother is so freakin awesome. He’s one of those ppl that no one hates. He goes out of his way to help ppl whenever he can and insists on doing dishes, so he’s a total keeper in my book. Thanksgiving will be fun this year. yay!
What should I make for dessert to bring with me to Georgia? It has to have some chocolate in it somewhere. And brownies aint exactly gonna cut it. hhhmmm
Well, I do need to feed the herd so I better go make dinner. Love y’alls. Talk to you on the flip side.
-me
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