Mood:  don't ask

Good morning everyone.

I would first off like to apologize for last week. The first two days got off to a busy start and then karma decided to come after me. For some reason, and my internet provider has no clue, but I have had no internet or very intermittent internet since Tuesday evening. Very frustrating, especially with the storms we had rolling through, luckily we didn’t get much.

Last week, Monday, well I guess we could start even before that, how about Thursday? Thursday we had the horrible fire outbreaks that wiped out a BUNCH of homes, buildings, and most of a town. Flyboy and I were really lucky that the winds didn’t decide to shift directions; otherwise we would have been toast. After a looong night, of me staying awake, waiting for the possibility of having to wake Flyboy up so we could evacuate, Friday finally rolled along. The winds had died down a bunch, thank goodness, and because of that, the firefighters were able to put out most of the blaze. I took Flyboy to work and two hours later he had me come get him because Base decided to send everyone home to be with their families. No one in our flight or squadron were affected, sure came close though. However like 6 guys in the squadron below ours (multi level building) lost their homes, but there were no injuries. They are doing alright so far. For most of the weekend, including the rest of Friday, I kept us in the house. Poor Flyboy, hates being cooped up, but I have an issue or two regarding breathing lots of ash and smoke, not to mention its allergy season, he doesn’t need to go DNIF again. =/

Monday I was really distracted with budgeting, cleaning and laundry, not to mention coming up with a grocery list. Tuesday was shopping day and I am proud to say I didn’t go over the $150 I allow each payday. (I have a hard time with that) After shopping I spent the rest of the day cooking and vacuum sealing as well as detailing the house for our “inspection”. The complex says they are “spraying” for bugs but really they are just seeing if you keep your house clean by their standards. I know, because I got sent a note that I was in violation because I had dirty dishes in my sink that were just sitting there and not soaking in water. Yeah, I know. I was a little perturbed at that, since it was breakfast dishes and I was out grocery shopping that morning and they weren’t in there that long. So Wednesday comes along and I still have no internet (It stopped working around 1500 when I went to leave a post on my blog), of course I am frustrated because I pay a decent penny for this “hi speed” service and I have nothing, nothing. I would LOVE to switch providers but AT&T is just as bad as these people, and unless I am getting money from the government, I have to chose between these two companies who like to charge an arm and a leg for one small service, that doesn’t even work half the time! They keep trying to get me to purchase cable, but what is the point? I mean the signal will still go out when it is super windy or the E-3 is flying by, so why pay for channels that we one don’t watch anyway and two wont receive half the time because some genius decided to switch us from analog to digital. Do you know how comforting it is to be watching the radar map of the tornadic storms headed to your town, on the news and at the first booming of thunder you lose all your news stations. Sure you could log on to noaa.gov and check the weather there, but your internet provider likes to steal your money and not render you the services you paid for. So you are stuck with the radio, which the program that is on rarely cuts out to give you weather reports. I never had this issue when we were still on analog. I feel bad for the poor souls who live out in the country and now have no television reception, even if they bought the converter box or cable because the signal is much weaker. Sorry, just venting… I am sure you catch my drift.

Thursday, no internet, Friday Flyboy flew, still no internet and then that brings us to Saturday. Saturday we ran a few errands, but we just mainly put more details into Cali trip, that will be a very busy trip. We finally got internet back around 2100 Saturday evening, but it was worse than dial up. I wouldn’t have a problem if I was paying for that, but I’m not. I don’t think 50 bucks a month (they just recently raised their prices) for dial up is worth it, you know?

Sunday was well, a Sunday and now it is Blues Monday again. Today I have packages I need to ship off to Soldier, some more cooking to do, search for the rancid smelling object in the fridge or freezer. (I have no clue what it is, I mean everything in the freezer is sealed in airless baggies and everything in the fridge is mainly fruits and veggies and fresh meat. I have no clue what it is, but it smells like really bad meat, it’s over powering barbeque sauce. ((I had made pulled pork and turned it into Sloppy Joe’s for Flyboy, that is 2 days old so the smell is definitely not that))) I also need to wash the weekend dishes, call up maintenance to fix my dishwasher, call up the Med Group to see if my x-rays have been examined, it’s working on 3 weeks now, and then I need to call up the dentist and inquire about setting up an appointment to get my WONDERFUL teeth looked at. It took awhile, but this place has a lot of good reviews and they do everything that I need to have done at a reasonable price, so if our insurance decides not to do its job, then we won’t have heart attacks over the bill. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this and I think I am getting a bit too worked up, but then again I’m used to getting lectured about my teeth. The dentists always have a fit because I don’t floss, well I can’t. My teeth are so crammed in there, all overlapping and what not that even they can’t floss them. That irritates me; it is another one of those “do as I say…” moments. I am hoping it won’t be like this. Flyboy and I have been talking and he said we can get my teeth worked on to make them all straight and what not. I know most of you are thinking “wow, how vain is she?” Well you know what; I am sick and tired of being teased about my teeth, my smile, what have you. I really have low self-esteem because of it. I mean it really hits deep when even the grown-ups are making comments about your teeth, too you. My Grandma-Grandma was so sweet. I was really upset about them when I was younger and she told me that if I pressed down on my teeth (the ones on either side of the two big ones, yeah they really stick up and out) for 20 minutes once a day for long time that eventually I would be able to move them back to where they were supposed to be. I would do that every night after mom would send us to bed, and I did it for a long time. Obviously I was unsuccessful, but I mean even now and then I catch myself doing it. Hope, I guess is what you call it because logically with as many teeth as I have crammed in my little mouth, it doesn’t work that way. I had like 4 teeth pulled when I was little and it is still crammed in there. Anyway, I hid my insecurity pretty well, I think, but the wisdom teeth coming in has really resurfaced it especially since it is making it even more crammed in there to the point where I have molars moving in directions that I am sure will make it very difficult to chew. Haha. (I laugh, but I am really nervous about it)

I call up the dentist in the later morning (its 300 now, another sleepless night due to anxiety and a loudly snoring husband) and see if I can schedule an appointment. I want to see how the teeth are coming in and how soon I can get an appointment to have them removed or however they would like to deal with them. If I can’t get an appointment until the Cali trip then we will wait until after I get back. If I can get one sooner then we will do it. Though the horrible kicker is, I won’t be able to have solids for a couple weeks. Flyboy said he actually had to have stitches when he got his removed and I know with my tiny mouth it will be the same. 0.o So all the foods I had planned to re-taste for the first time in 4 years will have to be put off for me until our next venture out to Cali, and I have no idea when that will be. I mean I would be okay if I could nibble on a piece of Ricky’s Pizza and a piece of Tri-tip (The rodeo will be in town when we come out, it will be EVERYWHERE!) but I have been told it hurts to even swallow water. This of course will make for a very interesting drive out there. Do I hear Jell-O in the cooler? = ( As you can see, I am a tad on the stressed side. It doesn’t help that the last tooth that is breaking through the gums is hurting pretty bad, and I don’t know if it is just because it is breaking gum or if it is trying to take out a molar on it’s way to the surface… I would hate to be a teething infant again! (Can I get a “here, here...” to that? Though I was really cute when I was little… hmm…)

So, that is the gist (I didn’t know that is how you spell that) of what is going through my head at the moment, with of course the occasional “ha, ha” poke from the PCOS representative in my head, but yeah.  Flyboy is doing alright. We found out due to some ridiculous technicalities he doesn’t make the cut-off to test for Staff, so he will have to wait until next year. It is a pretty big bummer because a lot of the guys in the Flight are coming up for their re-enlistment and aren’t re-enlisting, so we are losing a lot of good leadership, not to mention friends. I can’t believe how much the flight is getting gutted of people, wither due to them leaving, getting PCS’d or from some random illness that gets discovered at yearly flight physical. It is pretty depressing, so morale throughout the flight has gone waay down, and it was down already. Time to bring in wings I guess? =S

I hear the Tea Party was a success! However I am offended at the Homeland Security release stating that I am a terrorist for believing in the constitution and having an opinion on abortion. oh adn don't get me started on the whole attack on war vets being possible terrorists! Their defense to this memo was, "Oklahoma City Bombing"... I also would like to research how much it would cost me to sue the pants off of CNN-NBC for their disgusting and I mean DISGUSTING and OUT OF LINE report about the Tea Party and those their at the rally. They need to be held responsible, that was inappropriate and honestly I think they should be pulled from the air for at least a month because of it. (If you have no clue what I am talking about you can click, here...) If what was said, was said on FOX, or heck, the Disney channel, no more FOX and no more Mickey Mouse. I don’t like discussing politics because my blood boils too much and I don’t like being in a furious mood and plus with Flyboy’s career… well, I don’t know what I can say or do. I don’t want to jeopardize his career, be interpreted wrong or frankly have people after us. That may sound a little outrageous, but do you know what is going on in Mexico? I'm sure you have heard about the uprise in kidnappings because of the drug war, I mean, it’s not even safe in Cancun anymore. Oh, it also doesn’t help that I am a terrorist now apparently. I am pretty foolish to use that term as loosely as “they” do, because “they” do read and look out for stuff like that, but I am just furious about this!

Anywho, now that I am wound up, I think it’s time to lay down for a bit. I mean holy cow it’s almost 400!!! I need to get some sleep, especially with this busy day ahead of me, not to mention Flyboy is taking me on a 3 mile run this afternoon… eek!

I will let you all go for now, take care and don’t be as stressed as me! Love ya!

~NikiRose