Mood:  caffeinated

Forever By Papa Roach

Morning!

Happy Mother’s Day Yesterday!

Guess what… It is raining… again, YAY!! Speaking of that, I have been meaning to check out NOAA for the past, well since I got home this morning actually. I jumped on the computer with my first intent being checking the weather, and then I noticed I had emails, and I spent the rest of the morning, up until now of course, answering Soldier’s questions. =) (He is doing alright, just getting really annoyed with the random additions to his uniform he has to make and purchase from his own pocket. It really isn’t helping him save Haha. This time it was a Camelback and a different pair of gloves, last time it was something else, can’t remember, but it is really starting to get under his skin. Poor thing… just wait until they promote him, he won’t know when he actually has to have the stripe s on, because of paperwork confusion and then he will find out at the last minute and he will have to scurry around trying to find stripes… kind of like Radar, poor guy.) He is still scheduled for his trip, I am sure I will find out more, closer to when he leaves.

Hold on, I really need to check the weather… eh, weather looks alright, we are missing the storms and apparently sending all the severe stuff to Mississippi Mom, I am sure she will enjoy that =/

Not much has been going on over here. This weekend we watched the Lord Of The Rings trilogy did some dishes and failed at making a grocery list. I need to work on that because Flyboy reminded me this morning about our tires. I had gotten them replaced before winter hit (when ever that was…)but I only had two replaced, costly at the time, and I need to get the back ones replaced, then of course put the new ones on the front, I know.. But, back to what I was saying, I need to budget tires into this mess. I knew I wanted to get them rotated, I just completely spaced on the fact that I need tires for the back. The care is pretty much good to go. It is up to date on the fuel filter (thank you The King) and I replaced the cabin air filter (that I had no idea I had until CarMax told me I needed one. I had no clue that my particular make, model and year had one, go figure). I replaced it, too expensive for them to do it, you know? The air filter is clean and was replaced like an 3k miles ago, coolant looks good, tests good too, all I really need are the tires, rotation, and oil change oh and of course I need to top off my wiper fluid. Oh, and wiper blades are good too. Man I LOVE RainX Latitude Wiper Blades, they are sooo awesome! My battery is good, I replaced that I think last year I do need to check on my spare tire, make sure it is up to par and we are good to go, in regards to the car.  Just need to pack and then close up shop here.

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Sorry, I was distracted there for a bit by the Base Paper and my mind started pondering… I noticed that Information Tickets and Travel have specials and of the sort for local attractions here and near by. I am curios if they have anything “goody” wise for what we want to do in Cali and if not, if the base “near” Cali has an ITT and if they do, if they have discounts and specials for the stuff we would like to do. I think I may be doing a little research in the very near future. =) It is just a thought, but hey, if we can save just a little, that would be great!

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Anyway I don’t think the shopping list will be that big at all, so that should be a big help. I had us inventory the freezer, since I freeze meals, well I freeze a lot of meals apparently and we have 52 individual meal servings, that isn’t including straight up veggies. So we are going to deplete that this next payday and we have even discussed filling our cooler with ice and putting some meals in it for our trip. We would of course need to bring our bowls and eating utensils, but we would be set. That would save money in the long run too, plus we would be getting something healthy on our trip since I don’t have a kitchen at my disposal. Haha. We can stop at truck stops or gas stations and use the microwave and then when we get to our hotel, we are set there too! Plus that would also make lots of room in my freezer =) I am excited. We are thinking about buying a Ricky’s pizza before we leave, and put it in our Food Saver bags (since I will bring it with me for this) and we can have pizza on the way home. =) grr... I am getting hungry just thinking about it. I already had breakfast. I should probably go brush my teeth now and use that nasty mouthwash so I won’t have the desire to snack. *shudders*

I am getting really excited, still really hesitant, slightly having not such a good feeling about it, but I am sure that is just anxiety. I hope you guys are okay with all the fires that just popped up again. I got to watch that as they were drilling in my mouth. I know the fires were like an hour or so away, and I know I don’t know which way the winds were blowing, but an hour for us is like 20 minutes or less for a blazing fire. Even less out here, especially with our crazy winds, *shivers* I don’t want to deal with that again. There’s nothing like being surrounded by fires and having winds that like to randomly change directions at a moments notice.

Anyway, happy thoughts. =) I better let you all go for now, I need to put last night’s dinner in bags, start a load of laundry, budget, unload the dishwasher and wash everything from the weekend, not to mention tidy up from our wild weekend of watching movies. =P  Haha. Hope you all have a Happy Monday! Take care!

~NikiRose