Mood:  caffeinated

Good morning…

Yesterday was a “pro” day so Flyboy had it off, that is why there wasn’t a post yesterday.

This weekend has been primarily used for catching up on sleep and attempting to fix sleep patterns. I think it was somewhat of a success. I am up early without agitation, Flyboy is in the shower at the last minute as always and it is really cold in the living room. (That is where the computer is) Needless to say, I may have to leave here in a few to attempt to start the car. It hates the cold apparently. I think I may wait until Flyboy gets out of the shower so I won’t get annoyed at his mindless running around looking for something he can’t remember. Haha.

Oh I have a…

***SOLDIER UPDATE*** He messaged me the other day in between missions and his leave dates have changed from June 2 – June 20^th to May 26 – June 13. Which conveniently is the day we are leaving from Cali. We may make some minor hotel adjustments so he can save a shiny penny and drive back with us. So now, I have to write another letter updating him on cost and what not, basically a budget. He greatly appreciates it, so I know it isn’t a waste of my ink. =) Though that last letter was like 11 pages on one of those giant-yellow-steno pads. I can tell by his letters that he is changing again, as horrible as it is to have him over there, he is gaining a lot of life experiences from it and I can see that just in the way he writes. (It is a good thing, don’t worry.)

Ah, I hear the electric razor… must mean that Flyboy has emerged from his ridiculously scalding hot morning shower. Now he will go into the bedroom, turn on the light, look for his work clothes (which are in the same place as always. Then he will look for undies and socks, then find his way into the kitchen, turn on all these lights just to make coffee. Next he will wander back into the bathroom to look for something that isn’t there, then he’ll be back in the bedroom putting on his flight suit, wander into the living room to look for his boots which are staring him in the face (he had to walk over them).  He will leave his boots, go back into the bedroom and look for his phone, keys, tags and ring, since they are in 2 different places. He will tell me good morning and then find his way to the computer. Though since I am on the computer at the moment it will problem throw him off enough that he is going to do some extra wandering this morning, I will estimate it around 5 minutes, which of course will cramp him for more time. lol, Silly man.

Well I better throw on my jeans and head out to the car. Don’t worry; I will be back after I drop him off. I have yet to talk about our trip to get the DTV converter box…..

Bye for now,

~NikiRose

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Dear Lord! Its like 19 out there with a windchill of of 9.. so it is like 10 here. That totally explains why I was shivering so bad that I wanted to vomit, also the odd feeling of frost bite... The car is warming up right now, and so am I... in the house lol. Be back soon!

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I’m back for now, doing laundry again. Flyboy and I have decided that I am allergic to our dryer sheets. So, now I am rewashing and drying without them.  I hope it works, being itchy is no fun. =/

Flyboy messaged me this morning (1/2 hour ago) saying that he was morning scheduler again, but then things got switched around and now he is afternoon scheduler, which means 1630 release time again. He brought his P.T. clothes and he has a CDC test he has to study for, so he doesn’t mind staying at work until his shift starts at noon.  Fun times I guess. Tomorrow he has to be there at “o’dark thirty”, everyone is getting together then to surprise the rest of the squadron who is coming home from deployment. =) Once the sun starts to rise, the commissary opens, which means I will be off to another day of grocery shopping. Thursday Flyboy flies, so I have no idea when I will be able to post, it all depends on show time. Friday, I have no clue what is going on there, he is figuring that out right now. (I just texted him about it) Then there is another weekend and Monday will be yet another day off then Sleeveman’s birthday and then February. This year just started and already it is flying by. I hope the next four years do the same and I hope they are painless and our constitution will still be intact.

Anywho, DTV converter box….  What pain in the bum. I know, I know, if we paid for cable it would be a problem, but we don’t because the only time we really watch the television is during tornado season, which is pretty much the only channel we get on analog anyway. FEBRUARY 17, 2009, blah, blah, blah.  So we applied for one of the coupons a while ago and realized it had an expiration date and decided we might as well head down to Wal-Mart and pick one up. The box cost $49.95 and the coupon is for $40, but with a 7.8% tax on it at $49.95, we paid 14 bucks for it. This thing is chinsy too; I mean China was slacking when they made this thing.  Lol.  Anyway we get it home and I set it up (Flyboy was with a friend of his), well at least attempt to with the instructions that came with it. The instructions don’t instruct very well and I felt very much pressured into having to buy cable. First off the instructions said that if it doesn’t have an on and off switch on the side of the box that it will turn on (the little light will turn on as green) once you plug it in to an outlet. Okay, I did that… nothing. So after figuring we bought a broken one, I decided to try using the remote that came with it (that is of course lighter than a butter knife) Yay! We have a little green light!! No where and I mean no where in the instructions does it say you have to turn it on with the remote. Grr. So I hook the antenna up to the converter box and then up to the television, turn both the TV and the box back on and it seems like we have success, I mean it started me with the “setup wizard”. Cool. No, wrong. “No SIGNAL” error pops up. I adjust the antenna and still nothing. Now I know in some places once you switch over from analog you won’t have any signal because of how strong the frequencies are and such. I know that my exact address WILL get signal when we switch over, I have research on it to make sure purchasing a converter box was even worth it. I don’t see the point in buying something that won’t be needed. The instructions said nothing about this, of course. So after being fed up with this I tossed the instructions aside and went through the “advanced” settings. I credit my success to helping Flyboy with his CDC’s (career development course); otherwise I wouldn’t have known what any of the vocabulary meant or how to answer the questions they were asking. (I haven’t read the books I only do the flashcards from the questions and answers he gives me. I keep myself from retaining it which I have been very successful at doing such. You could say I don’t keep the paths “lit” to that information and the questions lit a candle on one of the roads. I think I am going to stop trying to explain this because I am confusing myself.

Wow, he is already bored with studying, it is barely 900. (He texted me saying he is off to the gym to work out. We kind of decided that we will workout separately for a couple weeks and then start working out together, that way it doesn’t start out as a competition, and there isn’t any arguing. Last time… ooh I tell you what… Anywho, my house smells funny, like nasty funny. I know it isn’t the laundry, laundry isn’t old and trash has been taken out last night.  The dishes from last night are soaking, but I don’t know, it is nasty. I showered last night; Flyboy is at work, so yeah. It smelled like this last grocery day, and I remember it was that day because I decided to put the extra air fresheners from my car in the house into the vent in the kitchen and the bedroom. It worked, made the house smell mountain-y fresh. I took them out the other day because I was thinking I was allergic to them, I guess not since I am still itchy. I think I am going to put them back up. I hope there isn’t a dead critter in the ducts somewhere. Flyboy thinks it may be the case since we have been having electrical issues in the living room/dining room and kitchen. Like using the microwave and the lights in the kitchen and dining room either go dim or flicker like candles, all the while the microwave is kicking on high and low like I were defrosting something. The stove, refrigerator, and the ceiling lights are the only appliances plugged in into the kitchen, besides the microwave. In the living room the computer is the only thing plugged in. I don’t leave the lights on or the fan on in the dining room, so I don’t know. It didn’t do this when we moved it or even in November. Oh, and don’t get me started on the washing machine. I have to call out someone to fix that and I need to talk to the apartment people to look at my electrical stuff. Blah.

I think that is it for now. I plan on working out right before I pick Flyboy up from work. I think I may cook some more meat and freeze some more veggies.

Take care and stay warm!

~NikiRose