Spending time with the love of my life

On Friday last week I drove down to Naples FL to spend time with my love while he enjoyed a long weekend.  I left here around 9 AM and got down to him by about half past 4.  We ended up doing dinner at IHOP instead of out with his henchmen on Friday night.  IHOP turned into an experience.  We got there and they were so understaffed that the wait staff was bussing tables and doing dishes and no manager was on premisis, so it took Josh getting up and letting someone know we were at the table before we got service.  Poor waitress was so stressed out and felt so bad that we were waiting.  Took a while to get our meals as well because the kitchen was under staffed.  It was nuts, any way we both finally got our meals after waiting over an hour in an almost empty restaurant and what happens?  Lightening strikes a transformer and knocks out the power so I get to eat dinner in the dark.  On the upside dinner was free that night!
Saturday we got together with one of Josh's buddies and his fiance for a trip to the beach.  What a great location it was, nice calm area for Eric to swim and splash around.  They also have it set up as a dog park and Eric enjoyed playing with the four legged fur balls!  That evening was group dinner out.  Incredible lobster at a pound and a half for $20 couldn't beat it.
Sunday we kind of got ditched so Josh and I went to the flea market in the area and walked around for a bit.  We went into an upscale dress shop because Josh saw a dress he thought would compliment me both in color and fit.  I don't think he realized the caleber of the dress shop when he had me try the dress on.  Apparently he really liked the way the dress looked on me and the way I looked in the dress because he had no hesitation about buying the dress even after he found out it was almost $200.  He gets out his credit card to make the purchase and the sales lady is a total flake, isn't sure how to install a fresh roll of paper in the credit card machine, so Josh helps her and has the paper inserted the wrong way so when she goes to run his card and print out the reciept it doesn't print out on the paper.  Turns out the ink only shows up on the one side of the paper.  Of course she's not fluent in how to use the machine so after they get the paper turned around and test to make sure it's printing she doesn't know how to pull up the transaction we made for the dress and confirm that the transaction went through and was pending payment.  So we paid for a dress and walked out of the shop without the dress (situation resolved).   Asked Preston if he'd be willing to keep an eye/ear on Eric while he slept so we could go out for a date night.  While we were out we ran into one of the couples at one of the clubs and had a great time.  Was nice to be out and about town with my sexy husband.
Monday was a hang at the dorm kind of day.  Hang out at the dorm for a while and get a call to head over to the apartment complex of one of Josh's buddies cause they have a community pool and we can all hang out. We get there, only there about half an hour and the other two couples totally bail on us and tell us to call them then they don't answer phones or their front door. We head back to the dorm have dinner with Josh's roommate Preston and just hang out.
Tuesday I have a chance to hit the school bookstore and buy a shirt for myself and a shirt for my mom before Josh heads to class.  Thankfully he only had morning classes and we were able to spend the afternoon together hanging out and I was able to go to one of the local nail salons and get my nails done.  The person who worked on my nails tore my fingers up and didn't clean up the areas where I had lifting.  Just pissed me off didn't give him much of a tip and it cost me $25 to get the work done where as here at home for a fill and repair it would have cost me $20 and the job would have been done correctly.  Snuck in some ColdStone Creamery while I was down there as well.  Josh is located in a great area, right up the road from him is Walgreens, Publix, Blockbuster, chinese food, italian food, Subway, Starbucks, a dentist office, and a decent size hospital.  What I need to check on in the area is a public park/play area for Eric.
Life is truly good and God has truly blessed us that we are able to be in two separate living spaces and make all our bills and not have to worry about being so excessively in debit that we will be paying off loans for the next 30 or 40 years.

Well looks like I'll be taking a break!

So I was on academic probation the last couple of terms because I've taken two classes twice each so far because I've failed them.  Partially because of depression, physical illness/surgeries, and laziness.  So the school set me up to retake one of the classes for a third time and I had been in class, had started posting to the class then they totally dropped me out of school all together this term.  I'll have to talk to academic advising and see what they say about re-instating me in school.  If they say no then I'll deal with it.  Unfortunately life got in my way.  I was hoping to start off strong and I totally screwed myself.  My GPA must look like absolute hell.  Each time I take a class even if its the same one it counts toward my over all GPA.  If I was smart I would have taken a break after that Psychology class where my final grade was a D+ and just regrouped myself.  Before that I had 3 As and 4 Bs and was doing OK.  Just kills me that so much happened over those 4 terms.  Sad part is that's all over this least year cause each term is 10 weeks I have failed the last 4 terms now and who knows what's next.  Guess I'll write more about my own academic issues when I know more.

In the mean time, Josh will be starting up down in Naples by Tuesday.  We are currently at his dad's and we've got the stuff in the dorm room for him to take care of when he gets down there.  Let me tell you that drive totally sucked balls.  I sure as hell would NOT want to do that again any time soon.  Don't know how often I'll be coming down for a visit based on how much work he'll be doing and how busy he'll be.  He's got a pretty decent set up.  His room has an en-suite bathroom with a stand up shower and a full size tub, large sink, with lots of counter space and toilet.  He also has a door from his room to the third floor balcony.  He has not one but TWO closets and one of them is a walk in closet with more then enough room to put his clothes and a dresser if he'd like to have one.  The other closet in the room I think was suppose to be a laundry.  I'm guessing the school originally was suppose to be a time share space, maybe, because it's set up almost like a timeshare kind of deal, two bedrooms with common living and kitchen space.  With the full size bed he's got enough room to put his desk in his bedroom.  The livingroom area has enough space for a large kitchen table, a full size sofa with end tables and a few lamps.  His bedroom also has a ceiling fan so he won't roast.  I'll tell you what, when I come down to visit I sure as hell won't be doing the he-man drive straight through deal.  I'll probably stop every hour and a half or so to get a breather and stretch my legs and such on the trip down.  The drive back by myself is totally going to suck.  I'll be taking my time heading back up as well.

Amy Winehouse who????

Seriously WTF is wrong with people? So many people who really have no clue who the hell she is and others are getting bent out of shape because I have no sympathy for the fact that she wasted her life being a junkie. She apparently wasn't that great of a 'soul singer' and didn't have any sense of fashion either and her attitude about fame and fortune apparently didn't help her any. Pisses me off that we actually excuse her behavior by feeling sorry for her because she died at the age of 27 from over dosing! Seriously I have absolutely no sympathy for her and her stupid choices in life. I have a smidge of sympathy for the family she left behind but what I want to know is where were all these people to kick her in the ass and keep her on the straight and narrow. It's amazing how we have sympathy for those who have money, now would these same people have had sympathy for her if she had been high and gotten in to a head on collision with another vehicle on the road that was a family with 4 kids who all died because she was being stupid. I just don't get how we pick and choose who we feel sorry for. People have no empathy or sympathy for Casey Anthony because they believe she killed her child but we have sympathy for someone who chose to destroy her life without looking back. Amazing how people are upset with me because I believe she made her bed and she had to succumb to the choices she made.

Let the rain keep falling...

Not much going on.  Same old same old, Eric is still working on his potty training skills and looks like I'll be changing out bed sheets til he gets the hang of getting up when he has to go or holding it til he wakes in the morning.  I'm not waking him to make him go because I'm afraid he won't get back to sleep.  I figure when he gets tired of wetting the bed he'll stop and learn to get up when he needs to or hold it til he gets up in the morning.  Would be nice to have him fully trained by the time we see Josh for his first school break.  Was talking to a friend of mine earlier about the whole potty training situation and she suggested I cut of liquids an hour and a half before bedtime in order to keep him from having an over-full bladder during the night.
As always school work is going to throw me for a loop.  Time to get my 3rd paper for class hashed out and turned in and I'm just NOT feeling it.  I need to get my act together and keep on trucking cause I'm gonna screw myself if I have to keep retaking classes.  I have so much shit to get done its not even funny.  Josh starts working at his new job Monday evening/night and he'll be sleeping during the day.  I'm hoping I'll be able to get this paper taken care of before it has to be turned in.  Wednesday I have a play date scheduled for 2ish depending on Rian and her schedule.  As of Friday Josh and I are officially civilians!  No more boat bullshit, no more command bullshit, no more military ass kissing. Funny in all my time in the military I have 3 or 4 good friends I talk to on a regular basis. Everyone else?  They can all go eat shit and die.  Life is going to be rough for us for a while but Josh and I will figure it out.  I think that the last few days has been the most couples time Josh and I has spent together in a really long time.  It's been nice and it's going to make things that much harder when he's working nights and then gone for school.  I guess I should be thankful it's not a deployment.
Funny I titled this particular blog let the rain keep falling but didn't talk at all about the weather we've been having here that is very much needed.  We've had some brush/forest fires in close proximity to us and I have to say that the smoke from them has been damaging to a lot of the local area.  The last two or three days we've had some heavy rain fall, I'm sure the firefighters are thankful for the help, they just wish it wasn't accompanied by lightening that gets the cycle started all over again.  My prayer for them is that they can get the blaze under control and that no one has gotten hurt or will get hurt from this entire situation.

All Hail The Non-Domestic Goddess!

I'll be the first to tell anyone I HATE CHORES!!!!  Wasn't the fondest of them as a kid and still don't like them now.  Don't get me wrong my house is messy and some might even say a tad 'dirty' but my home is bug free.  I don't leave garbage til it piles up to the ceiling, I try to pick up spills right away and I don't leave dishes all over the house for weeks on end and I try to avoid eating in any other room but my kitchen/dining area.

I'm still working with Eric on his potty training and such.  Unfortunately he's a hard sleeper and sleeps right through the night with no wake ups.  This also means he's a bed wetter.  He also fights with distractions during the day when he's got to use the bathroom.  This morning the fact that I had to wash his bed sheets prompted me to wash FIVE that's right (5) loads of laundry.  I'm getting in to the home making mode because I'll have to keep busy and keep costs down while Josh is in school full time.  Tomorrow's game plan is to wash our bed sheets and comforters as well as Eric's again because unfortunately I went to check on him and he was already soaked.  I figure he'll wake himself when he feels it.  This kid sleeps so hard he doesn't even move around when he's sleeping.  At any rate his sheets will be going in to the washer tomorrow morning as well.  On top of the five loads I did today I also did a load of dishes and cleared and cleaned off my kitchen table which happens to be the catch all and my primary work station for just about all things.  My kitchen table is where it all happens, mail piles up, school books pile up, purse, keys, some times Josh's clothes, Eric's clothes, Eric's toys, who says we need to eat meals around the kitchen table?  I really need to start making more of an effort to do things around here more efficiantly.  What is it they say about the road to hell being paved with good intentions?  I've always got the intentions to get my crap together and get organized and have better time management but I never seem to be able to do that for very long.  I'm also a procrastinator when it comes to school work as well.  So trying to do the full time mom thing and full time student thing is going to be a tad crazy.  The only way Josh and I will be able to keep ourselves above water is if I go full time and apply for the Post 9-11 GI Bill so I can collect the housing allowance to make sure the bills here are all paid and I still have money for groceries and occassional things for Eric.  Poor kid life is gonna suck for him if I'm ripping my hair out trying to get school stuff done.
So here's to hoping I can pull it all off.

The clouds are clearing and the end of the tunnel is near!

Wow hadn't realized how much has gone on since I last posted.  Josh has completed his BA in Political Science and graduated with a 3.88 GPA.  The issues from this past October were investigated and found to be untrue.  In the time all this was going on Josh decided he wanted to go to law school so they left him at a different command and he studied to take his LSAT.  He did better then he thought he'd do on the exam.  Once his scores were in he had over 80 schools contact him including Ave Maria School of Law which is a Catholic law school that Josh was looking at when he made his decision.  As it turns out Ave was the first school to send him information and the only one he applied to.  They accepted him with FULL scholarship for tuition.  The school relocated from MI to Naples FL a few years ago.  We've been hard at work trying to get Josh ready to leave for law school in a few weeks.
As for me I'm still working on getting myself through the courses I'm taking without killing myself and I'm having some issues.  Between having health issues and just plain lack of motivation I've had to retake a few courses and I feel like I'm doggie paddling in the same location and not getting any where.  Also Josh will be a civilian as of June 30th so money issues will soon follow the drastic decrease in income.  Not looking forward to that.

Hernia Surgery Post-op.

Surgery went down about 9 AM Thursday, I stayed in the hospital over night just as a precaution. Friday was rough on me. Saturday the big deal was major major gas issues. Today I seem to be doing much better. I was able to get in my car and take a trip over to the CVS and walk around for a bit. For the most part no more muscle spasms, of course when I tense up to cough or sneeze its painful, also hurts to laugh but other wise things aren't that bad at all. Now its just a matter of all the drugs working their way out of my system and my digestive tract getting back to normal. Another plus was coming out of surgery hungry and not nauseated. So Thursday evening I had regular foods for dinner, no liquid diet for me.

Josh has been going nuts cooking and keeping up the kitchen over the last few days. So we had lasagnia on Wed., Thurs don't know if he had left overs or ate out or what. Friday night he went out and got Chinese for us to eat, last night he made a meat pie with corn and mashed potatoes. Yum yum yum so far. I'm thankful I have a pretty hearty constitution. I'm also greatful that Eric has been kept busy and hasn't been jumping all over me. I've been working on school stuff here and there. Hoping to keep things up this term.