Mood:  energetic

Ello everybody!

It is really cold out this morning, but I have a feeling it will warm up to about 40 sometime today.

The split pea soup turned out really good, and Flyboy loved it. (Well not as much as he loved the beef stroganoff) Yesterday we went to the Asian market downtown to see if we could find more of the nut mix he was given in WA. No luck there, but we did come across a different kind of nut mix, and he is happy with it. I think this weekend I will make some pumpkin bread (out of season, I know, but it sounds good!)

The gym was packed, so we couldn’t do everything that we had wanted, but we will have to double up or something this afternoon, whenever he gets off. (He is doing the competition thing today, and his BDU’s look AWESOME! Thanks to me and my super ironing skills he has creases that could slice your finger open if you touched them. =D hehe) I wish I was able to watch it, but this is just a military thing and the spouses have to sty home, or whatever. It makes sense, but I think it would be really fun to watch.

Flyboy is REALLY excited about his upcoming TDY. Besides the fact that it will return him to currency, he will be flying with his mentor from the squadron, MSgt Awesome. (He got promoted and sent to a different building where he is doing waaaay more important things than before in Flyboy’s flight. Everyone misses him, he was really cool and would stand up for the low ranking guys, hence the name Awesome…) Anywho, no one has heard from him in a year or so, he's been THAT busy, and Flyboy is stoked that he gets to fly with him.  MSgt Awesome gave him a lot of advice and helped him with some of his frustrations. (This is the same MSgt that wanted to meet me to thank me for supporting Flyboy and being a team, a while back. It was in regards to the flash cards I made, he REALLY liked them and thought they were a great idea, especially since a bunch of the guys were using them too and their scores on the tests were going from average to above average…) But yeah, Flyboy can’t wait to show off his accomplishments, not in an arrogant way, believe me, but in a “see you were right to believe in me” kind of sort of way. I think you know what I mean. Now the kicker is… he is flying with Capt. Trouble too. He is one of those guys that seem to have it out for everyone in the flight, in particular, Flyboy. (MSgt Awesome helped shield some of the unessential, morale busting, nonsense that Capt. Trouble would throw at the guys in the flight, also why they miss him.) It is a long list of nonsense and really it is a bit petty to list it out, and also you aren’t suppose to talk bad about leadership,  but I think it is really funny that Flyboy gets to fly with Awesome on the condition that Trouble comes with.

I am really excited, however that we are almost to our Cali trip goal! We are 2 months shy of making the goal, which would give us an extra month and a half to cover unexpected expenses, like gas prices go over my estimated $3 a gallon… I can’t believe how fast time has flown by, it is February already! I mean Soldier has been overseas for 58 days now! (I have a counter… here (you can click on the “here” and it will take you to the counter)

I wonder what Flyboy is up to, if he is in the flight or if he has to watch everyone’s events. I know opening ceremonies started at 830 and the first squadron up is at 910. Flyboy’s squadron doesn’t do their thing until 1010… hmm well, I think I am going to wrap this up for the day; I have more dishes to do. Yaaay…

Take care!

~NIkiRose