PowerPresto!!!!

Mood:  cool

Morning.

Well, we ARE on blizzard watch. I mean where did this come from? Sunday it is supposed to be 60 degrees… This makes no sense.

Anyway, as you can tell I am up. Actually I have been up since 430. Flyboy couldn’t sleep and decided to get on the computer and turn on all the lights on in the house. So I woke up thinking it was 630, and well it wasn’t. I made him crawl back into bed because he was complaining about being tired. (Well, if you are still tired, you can’t fall back asleep when you are on the computer…) haha. He is more rested even though he could fall asleep, that I think is due to the coffee he had. He is in the shower doing his normal routine and so I decided I would jump on here. I have no clue how cold it will be when I get out to the car so I figured I would at least get up earlier just incase the car has a nervous break down because of the sudden change in weather.

Flyboy has water survival today; luckily it is at the indoor pool at the local college. I have no idea when he will be released from there but I sure do hope it is early. We are scheduled to be hit with this puppy around the early afternoon.

Hmm… I don’t think much of anything else is going on here. Oh! Flyboy passed his last CDC test yesterday. He didn’t take as long as I thought he was going to. I figured it would at least an hour, I mean that math is time consuming. (Well apparently it is raining now… I can hear it in the chimney. I am glad it is rain, although it might be sleet. These next few days are going to be fun! I can’t wait to see what summer will be like haha)

I think I should head out to the car now just to make sure I have enough time in case it decides not to start on me… Take care, and stay warm? =S

~NikiRose

Mood:  chatty

Good morning…

Flyboy has his last CDC test this afternoon, so he showed up at work this morning and they told him to go home. So, back to base to pick him up… He is slightly miffed because he could have slept in until 800 instead of getting up at 600, but hey, what can you say right?

The new Squadron Commander is getting things in gear and he has only been here for 2 days! It is awesome! We lucked out and got a Commander like MSgt Awesome. Hehe =) There have been changes in the P.T. schedule and both Flyboy and I like them, I don’t know about everyone else, but this guy is really serious about fitness, no more slacking! He is making it mandatory bi-weekly for the squadron to P.T. and then within the flights they have to allow for at least 4.5 hours of P.T. a week. This is AWESOME! Flyboy has been having trouble getting the time to work out because they keep sticking him as scheduler, which is slightly messed up, but he is awesome at scheduling so that’s why they keep putting him there. =)

Anywho, that is about it I guess, well besides the blizzard we will be getting later tomorrow evening!!!!!!! I mean what in the world…??? Tonight we are to have nasty thunderstorms, high winds and lots of hail, big hail. Then tomorrow and all through the weekend it is going to snow like crazy, so much that they have the salt trucks on stand by! I thought this was spring? Where are the tornados? Not that I want tornados here, by golly no, but snow? Are you serious? I miss west coast normalcy, well weather wise, my goodness.

I think I am going to make some pancakes, I am starving and I am sure Flyboy is too. Maybe I can bake the guys something and bring it in when I drop Flyboy off this afternoon. Hmmm. I finally got my dishes back so I can make wings again (they have been bugging for more wings =D) though that will have to wait until payday…

I hope you guys’ weather isn’t as psychotic as ours. Grr. Take care! Love ya!

~NikiRose

Mood:  accident prone

Good morning!

(Well I am calling it morning because technically it is still morning over there where a majority of you are) I set my alarm but Flyboy turned it off and let me sleep. Nice, but not so nice, because now I have broken a promise =(

I just got off the phone with Soldier. He called excited about a possible promotion. He has impressed Generals and high ranking NCO’s and they are shocked that he is only an E-2. When Soldier was back in the states he had put in to rank up, but it hadn’t gone through. When he opened his mail today he got a package that had paperwork saying his new rank and there were Corporal stripes in there. So he went up to his First Sgt and they had a discussion about it. Apparently they want to make him a Corporal, because he is kicking so much “behind” over there. He really knows his job, he is keeping his group in check and well he is being what a soldier should be. It is AWESOME!!! So as of now he is waiting on paperwork and he’ll know more, closer to his leave. =D =D How awesome is that?????

Flyboy is studding his heart away and I’m trying to figure out what to make for supper, because nothing sounds good =/

I lost train of my thought, Soldier called again, some dummy out there was well, being a dummy and Soldier needed to vent about it. There is always that ONE guy who thinks he is above the Regs, ya know? Grr.

Anywho, I am going to wander around the kitchen and see if anything jumps out at me screaming “eat me for supper!”

I hope all is going well with you guys. Take care! Oh and Soldier said that we can go ahead and leave E-2 on his mailing address, until we know more. =) Love you guys!

~NikiRose

Mood:  bright

Afternoon!!!!

Sorry this is so late; it’s been a crazy morning! I took Flyboy to Sick Call this morning to get taken off of DNIF and was stuck in the car until 830. (Doing flash cards of course) haha. He is doing better and I think that I will have him schedule an actual appointment with the Flight Doc to see if he can get put on some allergy medication. He has been doing GREAT with the stuff he’s on, but the kicker is, as long as he is on it, he can’t fly. So I am hoping that the Doc can put him on something that would help him breathe, but yet still allow him to fly. We’ll see.

I dropped him off and headed home then decided I wanted to make chicken noodle soup tonight. So I headed to Wal-Mart to pick up some veggies and as I was checking out the cashier and I got to talking, like for over and hour or so, and her husband is joining the military and is heading for MEPS next week. She and I both have the same type of “girl” issues but her doctors are saying she may have something else. So pretty much I made a new friend!!!!! Yay me. We switched numbers and I have been answering her questions and we might hang out in the near future. She was really freaking out because when he goes in they will be taking a big pay cut and they just bought their first house, and being a man he totally forgot to ask about it when he was talking to the recruiter. I didn’t have much of an answer at the store but I came home and did some research for her, since she was still at work, and eased her mind a bit. =) The awesome thing is, she just graduated high school in 2008 and she has her head on her shoulders! There aren’t too many like that out here. Plus her and her hubby are a team like Flyboy and I are, not too many marriages like that out their either. =) Not to brag or anything. hehe

I am sorry this is so brief, but it is noon-thirty already and I am SO behind on coloring it’s not funny, plus my shoulders/neck/upper back is killing me.

Tomorrow will be an early day; it is the day before Flyboy’s final CDC test!!!! The whole day will be nothing but studying, so I will make point to post early. Then Thursday will be a later post because he will be taking his test and I will be stuck waiting in the car. I have a feeling this will be a longer test because there is a lot of math involved. It is the kind of math where he has to convert binary into hexadecimal and octal and multiply them and a bunch of other weird stuff. Friday he has Water Survival, poor thing, and I have no clue how release time will be with that. Fun. =)

Anywho, I REALLY need to color. Blah. I have emails to respond to and I will do that asap, promise! Hope you all are doing well. Take care!!!

~NikiRose

P.S. (I made a friend!!!!)

~NikiRose

Mood:  accident prone

Good morning…

I hope everyone is doing well. =) There isn’t too much going on here, though we do have a storm rolling in and a nasty dry line that will most likely cause trouble tonight.

I’m getting a bit stressed over here. We have got the Cali trip coming up and the chance that we may have to put it off to July because of “Training” but now I have no idea what is in store. Saturday night my knee started killing me, the same knee that I injured and needed stitches for, I mean severe pain. It has been doing this off and on since I injured it but each time it decides to hurt it has been getting progressively worse, pain wise. So I decided to feel around where it hurt, you know, maybe I could rub out the pain, well I was wrong and I found what feels like a bone chip, that I can move around in there. It really freaked me out so I had Flyboy feel it and he isn’t too happy about it. Neither his knees nor my other knee has this “moveable piece”, nor is it a good sign that the more I am touching it (making sure its not a figment of my imagination) the more it hurts to the point I almost passed out. Yeaaaah, I found the source, now I just need a medical professional to check it out. I wouldn’t be as stressed if it wasn’t for the fact that I don’t know how much is going to have to come out of our pockets if I need surgery. I don’t know if they need the lump sum all at once or if they will be alright with payments. You’re thinking, but you have insurance through Flyboy, I know, but I have no idea if they will cover me because this came from a work injury in 2007. I don’t want to and I won’t go after my previous employer for this because I really don’t think it is fair, and it’s not. So yeah, a little stressed here. My wisdom teeth on the bottom are coming in and will be a problem, the top ones, eh, it’s debatable, and so that is on my plate too. We have dental, and oh my goodness if that isn’t a confusing mess. They sent is a booklet to inform us about procedures and what I am covered for and how many times a year and what standards I have to meet mouth wise before I can do this or that. Aaahh. Honestly I think we would be better off without it because I really think the out of pocket costs are cheaper with out it. My word… So yeeaah…  Being broken isn’t so much fun. I really hope it won’t push into the Cali trip. The whole point for us to come out in June is because it is before Flyboy gets told he can’t leave the local area and plus Soldier will be coming out and family reunions are fun. July is our last chance this year because August until, I want to say April, Flyboy won’t be able to get leave. (I will explain more, closer to that time or if we are lucky and can come out in June, I will explain it then) But yeah, just a little stressed, I don’t want my broken-ness to cut into all the work we have done building up for this trip. I won’t know anything for sure until my doctor’s appointment on the 3^rd of April.

On a lighter note, I heard form Soldier yesterday, and the day before, literally. He called!!!! It was pretty cool. I haven’t heard from him in a while, although the first connection was pretty bad and I could barely understand most of what he was saying. The second call however was pretty dog on clear; I think it was because he was at his duty post and not in the barrack tent. He is doing alright, getting annoyed with the sandstorms, they had three yesterday. He says that the food over there, chow hall, is alright but it is nothing but fatty, unhealthy food; which is slightly ironic because the keep getting lectured on how they need to eat healthy and count their calories and blah, blah, blah, and yet all they serve at the chow hall is unhealthy food. He was telling me that they have a cooler over there full of ice cream treats and by the time he can get over there (his duty shifts are horrible) all that is left are the mango ice cream with caramel filling. The yummy chocolate or vanilla ones are gone. Haha, poor thing. His second call was regarding his cell phone and trying to get pictures off of it and what not. I had no answer for him because, well, his state side phone won’t work overseas, so I suggested getting a disposable camera, right? He started laughing and told me that was pointless because they don’t have a 35mm film developing station there, all they have is a Kodak stand, like at Wal-Mart, but yet they still sell disposable cameras. That is AAFES for ya…

I don’t know what all we talked about it went form anything to everything. We did talk about my knee though and he wanted me to know that he would rather I stay out here and be healthy than come out there and have the chance of an emergency room visit. We talked a long while about it and between him and Flyboy it has been pretty much decided that I have to get fixed first. I mean I knew that, but I was trying to put it off In the back of my head, and I didn’t want to admit it. But I do feel better that I was able to talk about it with him, Soldier, (I already knew how Flyboy stood) and him saying what he did. It just bums me out. Like I said though, I won’t know for sure of anything until my doctor’s appointment. The waiting game is not fun at all. Soldier said that he would feel bad if I came out there instead of getting fixed first, and really I can’t send him back over there with that kind of mind set. =S

He is really excited about coming back to the states; the drivers over there are crazy. He was saying that the drive ALL over the road, like on the sidewalks and on the wrong sides of the road. He is mainly stuck on base, so I am assuming that on one of his missions he had to convoy off of base or something. And I though the drivers here were bad… I asked him if they drive on the opposite side of the road like they do in England or if they drive normal (aren’t I arrogant) like they do in America, he said it is like stateside.

Oh... wow... I just made farting sounds with my hands… I am sure you really don’t care but it really threw me off. When I am thinking I tend to fiddle with my hands and it’s cold so I stared rubbing my hands together to warm them, but I put my palms together so my fingers were on opposite sides and warmed them that way. Like I said, I fidget when I think. Well I guess there is just enough space between my palms and when I rubbed my hands back and forth it made, sounds. Haha. I have rubbed my hands this way before and never heard a noise, that is why it really threw me off. Sorry… Though you have to admit, it is sort of funny, in a random sort of way.

Tonight I am making lasagna; Flyboy really wants me to make some. I have been putting it off because I didn’t feel up to cleaning the Crockpot. (It was being used to soak some silverware at the time) Saturday morning, I guess, Flyboy decided to surprise me with an empty kitchen sink =) It was nice to wake up to, so I made him breakfast. =) haha. But it really was sweet though.

Wow, I must be writing in slow motion, because I haven’t written very much and yet I have been on the computer for just over and hour. I guess my subconscious doesn’t want to finish the flash cards. Haha. I ended up turning the last 10 flash cards into a mini comic. (The answers just seemed to work out that way) It kind of started with a joke about the answer “Packets”. When I first read the answer I thought it said “pockets” which made no sense… and the comic was born. (In reality it has something to do with modern computers) On the guy’s flight suits, on their left arm they have this really cool pen pocket. It has a Velcro close, and when you open it you can put like 2 pens in it. It also has a side zipper that works awesome for keeping your cell phone in right underneath the pens, or a little note book. Anywho, It started off with this guy wanting a 2^nd pen pocket ( I don’t recall what the answer was) and then it just turned into this story about this new airman who got is pen pocket stolen (or so he thought) and started freaking out because they had a uniform inspection in 5 minutes. The rest of the older airmen tell him to calm down, but he is new so he is freaking out. He calls up Life Support (what Cousin Rich did) and he explains the situation and they hang up on him. So the poor guy is so freaked out that he gets sick to his stomach, they guys give him Pepto and he gets this genius idea to draw his pocket on his uniform with a sharpie. However he missed the inspection, but the captain who notices that he is missing. Then the next thing the newbie knows, (his name is Airman Peters by the way) he is strapped to this chair with a metal spaghetti strainer strapped to his head hooked up to electricity (I can’t draw that well) and there is this nurse with a needle telling him that the military doesn’t tolerate the drawing of pen pockets on uniforms with sharpies. Then his wingman, the one who told him to calm down, comes in with an alien skewered on a spear stating he found the infiltrator and that Peters is innocent. And it ends with the life lesson of “Trust your Wingman”. It really is quite dumb, but it made Flyboy laugh and I know the guys in the flight will, plus he remembers the answers to them all, and it only took one read through!!!!! I think I have a gift… lol. Honestly I had no idea it was going to go that far. The answers after the first joke about pockets just seemed to make it unravel into a weird story. It was kind of fun really, but now I have to color them all. =P I am almost done though!!!! Hehe

Well I better head off for now. Like I said I need to color. Hope you all are doing great! Take care!

~NikiRose

Mood:  special

Morning!

Well, not much to talk about today. I finished the first set of flash cards and am halfway through the second set, just need to color them. I did half the dishes yesterday, my hands started to get irritated and dry form the soap so I decided to call it a day. I picked up Flyboy really late in the evening from work then we grabbed a tuna sandwich from Subway. We came home, caught the new episode of Bones and that was about it. Oh! We also caught the tail end of Lethal Weapon, the first one. (Now I see why there are a lot of women who have crushes on Mel Gibson. =)  Haha!)

It is still stormy out and they only call for a 20% chance of rain, which means it is going to pour. Out here everything is backwards, so if the weather guy says there is a chance of precipitation 40% or below, it will pour. If he says that we have a higher percent than 40% with the exception of 90-100% it won’t rain at all. Very weird, I say.

Flyboy is doing a little better, although the medicine is messing his system up, poor thing. Yeah, also because NO ONE told us they were sick as well as everyone else, this upcoming flight he was scheduled to be on, well they took him off because he would still be DNIF when it came time to fly. Yeeeaaah, so he gets NO fly time this month because these people care more about this silly game than they do about the health and welfare of their friends. (They are obsessed about this game, I am not kidding you. It is to the point where I think they actually believe the pretend world, really does exist. Sort of freaks me out. I mean its one thing if you dream about it but it is another to act like… okay, I should stop. I apologize, I am just really frustrated. I feel like they got my hubby sick on purpose because we like never go over there anymore. That seems like a large accusation to you but can assure you that it is not, that is precisely the type of people they are. I don’t like “mask” wearers and I wish I would have figured them out a few years ago. =/ )

Anywho, on a lighter note, I have less flash cards to do. Oh! Today Flyboy is practicing for the up coming Change of Command. I think I may have told you, but the Squadron Commander is being sent to a different base and oddly they new guy we are getting used to be an ex-fighter pilot, so this should be interesting. We are also loosing a bunch of guys from the flight, they too are being sent elsewhere. Oh, and don’t get me started on the two guys who got their dreams crushed. One of them is a top tech in the flight and the other is new, like new, new and they both got told they couldn’t fly. The first guy, he is Our Asian, (I say it that way because one he is and two he tells everyone that he is The Asian and he enjoys living up to his stereotype, and is proud of it. He flaunts it around too, really funny) Anyway, he has been diagnosed with a heart murmur and is never allowed to fly again. He is really bummed about that as is everyone else. The new guy had been trying SOOOOO hard to get switched over to become a P.J. (Parachute Jumper) because he really wanted to be out there saving lives. He didn’t want to be behind the scenes doing it; he wanted to be actually responsible for saving lives. (He is the A1C  in charge of A2D2) well, he got his test results back from his physical, to see if he was qualified to cross over, and they found out that he has hyperglycemia. They will never let him fly. So yeah, poor kid, just crushed. I mean, why can’t the guys who hate their job here get stuck with these conditions instead of the guys who want to make a difference and kick serious butt at their jobs? It is so, so cruel, you know? I know The Asian will be fine, he left a 7 figure income to join the Air Force (we all think he was crazy for that, in a teasing way) but I am a bit worried about the new guy. We can’t lose him, he loves my wings!!!! (Yay! For a totally self-centered and completely insensitive moment!) But yeah, so anyway…

That is about it over here. I should probably start getting my flash cards together and put some food I the crock pot (its chicken noodle soup from scratch night) and I would like to make it to the desk before Little House on the Prairie comes o, I love that show. I am going to search for the books; I think they would be very fun to read. =)

But, I better go for now. Take care! Have a Great weekend!!!!!!!

~NikiRose

P.S. Congrats on your homerun All Star! ^_~

~NikiRose

Mood:  hug me

Good morning!

I apologize for not writing yesterday. I wasn’t feeling too well after waiting in the car for 3 hours for Flyboy to get finished with sick call. After sick call I mailed off Soldiers taxes (a long story for another time) had a sandwich from Subway and came home and crashed. I don’t even know if I ate dinner or not. Haha

Well Flyboy is on 7 day DNIF, although he can come back to flying status before then, which of course requires another sick call visit to get approved. The diagnosed him with a cold but prescribed him allergy medication, Allegra and Musionex, oh and they also sent him off with a slight fever, though they don’t seem to think that 99.9 isn’t a fever.

Hmm… other than that there isn’t much going on. He is feeling a lot better today though. =) I am VERY upset with Mr. 2yr Old’s family for not telling us they were sick or that everyone who was coming over would be sick. I find it a tad on the rude side. I mean it is one thing if we were babysitting sick kids for them, but we weren’t, the adults were sick, kids were too, but you know? Flyboy has missed out on his scheduled flight today because of it. I told you he missed the one in the beginning of the month due to scheduling issues, which is completely out of his control (it was the ‘higher-ups” fault) and he needs two flights to stay Current and well, he just missed this flight because he is sick and now stamped with DNIF. Thoughtlessness is a pain! I mean I know they are getting PCS’ed in May (the dad has decided to become and officer, because it is a requirement in the church they are members of. Everyone who is in the military that attends has to be an officer or they can’t “participate” in the leadership positions of their church. The Enlisted are looked down upon. I have BIG issues with that reason as to why he is crossing over. But it’s not my place to voice an opinion in that matter) Anywho, but still, courtesy, you know? It just aggravates me, oh and don’t get me started with the kids… I know I don’t have any, so I don’t really have the right to voice my opinion, but I sure as heck have a really BIG one.

I think I want to change the topic before I get to frustrated and skip out on doing the dishes. It snowed last week, was in the high 70’s last weekend and today we have thunderstorms until this Sunday. Fun, fun, I just hope we have enough of a cold front that tornadoes won’t pop up. I can handle the cold, but hot, sticky thunderstorms, make me too nervous. Though I will day now that we have a bottom apartment, I am not as worried, but that really isn’t the point.

I took Flyboy to work today, he may be on 7 day DNIF but they didn’t put him on quarters, so he has to go to work. He was feeling a lot better this morning, but he also slept most of the day and all of the night. (Why am I getting a headache? I just ate? Grrrr) I am glad he is feeling better though. He is having a salmon steak (they were actually on sale and looked half decent at the store when I went shopping last week) some asparagus and I think some strawberries. He also packed one of the granola bars I made and I insisted he take some apple juice too. (I am all out of orange now… =T) I think I may just have a tuna sandwich, those have been sounding really good lately, yet so does spaghetti o’s. I am not a big fan of spaghetti o’s, so that is a bit on the odd side. Hmmm. Maybe I just need some good ol’ hearty spaghetti or something…

I should probably go. I am getting to the CDC deadline and I have SO much coloring to do =P bleh. Hope everyone is doing well and getting better!

Love,

~NikiRose

Mood:  spacey

Good morning!

I promise I am not getting into a “no-write-on-Monday’s” trend. Yesterday we were at Mr. 2yr old’s house (he is like 4 now). Flyboy apparently made plans to go over there sometime early last week and never told me until they called Saturday afternoon asking what we were bringing. !!! You know, it would be nice to know these things on or the day after payday, before I set money away for savings… men.  

So yesterday I spent the day at a place I really didn’t want to go to (I have a few issues, that I wish not to get into) and we played D&D (dungeons and dragons, ((a role playing adventure type game))) with a house full of sick people. I wish they would have told us they were all sick to begin with. Mr. 2yr old’s parents were coughing and hacking, as well as Mr. 2yr old, who of course had to be Flyboy’s and my shadow the whole time. Then the people who came over were coughing, and sneezing, and I think one had a fever, she really didn’t look well at all. THEN they opened the back door to breeze out the house, since it was getting really warm with 9 people in there. Well this is pollen season, and it has been really dry out here and yesterday although it was a pretty day out, it was windy. Poor Flyboy, he is definitely coming down with something. =/ He told me that if he wasn’t feeling any better by tomorrow morning, he would go to sick call and see the Flight Dc. That may not sound like anything, but he fears the Flight Doc. Well, every flier fears the Flight Doc because the Flight Doc can make you DNIF (Duties Not Including Flying) with the click of his pen. When you’re DNIF you are not a very useful asset to the flying community and if you are DNIF for too long it gets harder and harder to get back to flying, even if the Doc gives you a “clear” to return to flying status. Anywho, Flyboy is willing to risk it, he feels that awful. I think he left with a slight fever this morning. I know, I know, I should have dragged him to sick call, but he has a training class today, which ironically is a bunch of lessons on ORM, Operational Risk Management. In a nut shell the course is about how “up-to-par” you are feeling on a fly day or really in general, so you know if you are able to handle the day or operation’s events. The better you score (like on a scale of 1-10) the more “okay” you are, the worse you score, well you probably shouldn’t “risk” it. *no pun intended* It is ironic because Flyboy is scoring really bad and yet he has to take this course because it keeps him current with, I have no idea what the next word I am needing is. It just keeps him current and the next class open isn’t for a few more months, you know? Don’t worry though, Flyboy said that after the course (which shouldn’t last too long) if he is still feeling the nasty, he’ll talk to leadership and see if he can come home. I did pack him some chicken noodle soup for lunch just in case. I also packed him some orange juice and apple juice (I have no idea how his throat or his tummy is feeling, so I gave him both that way he could choose. I gave him some fruit and some of my granola bar. (It really boosts his energy)(This time the granola bar has his nut mix, some Grape Nuts ((ew)) some peanuts and I added some smashed mini wheats. I think there might be some more stuff in there, but I can’t recall, it was another one of my experiments)

I am actually drinking some orange juice now, I can kind of feel something coming on, and I do not like it. =S

I better go for now, I need to do some dishes and figure out something for dinner. I have yet to make the Tin Plate Special, it looks really tasty though. =) Flyboy just threw the weekend plans off so I wasn’t able to get around to it. =/ But since he is at work, I can start on it now, I have to go to the store first, but yeah. Thank you! =) I hope you all get to feeling better! Take care!

~NikiRose

Mood:  chatty

Good morning!

Well today got off to a not so great start. First off we were running behind, well at least I was anyway, since I needed to get up early to start the car. (Sudden change to freezing temperatures makes starting the car more difficult) So I head out there in a rush and guess what? For some reason we left the car unlocked!?!? I am really good about locking the car doors; I mean how many times have I locked myself out of the car? Luckily it was below freezing outside so if anyone decided they wanted it, they would have a hard time trying to start it. Plus if they were going to load it up on a trailer or tow it or something it would be a red flag to the security that drives around the complex. (I made sure to introduce ourselves) Anywho…. so yeah. Then I take Flyboy to work and as soon as I get home he messages me saying that he got kicked off of today’s flight because there were too many people scheduled for it or something.  He is really bummed =/ not to mention I went on crew rest with him (otherwise he can’t sleep very well =P) for no reason. I was up until 200 because I couldn’t sleep. Speaking of sleep though, I plan on fixing my pattern this weekend. I really liked just passing out from exhaustion at 2030 every night and then waking up at 530/600, I really hope I can get that back!

I apologize for not following up on the yesterday’s entry; I just got really busy with cooking, packaging and freezing food. I still have a lot more to cook. I am making granola bars again (Flyboy really likes them!)

Oh!

***SOLDIER UPDATE*** I heard from soldier last night, well via short email. He is doing alright, though really tired though. They have been literally breaking concrete for the past few weeks so they can set up some “something or other”. He has officially signed his leave papers, so if Army leave is anything like Air Force leave, then he has to wait now for approval. I will keep you posted on that. Otherwise his trip to visit you all has been set in motion. I just hope ours will too =/ (well for the same time Soldier is coming out of course)

Flyboy just messaged me saying that he for some reason has to work late today. Generally on Friday’s they are released after the weekly Hall Call meeting, well he has to stay after the meeting. I don’t think he is in trouble, I figure he has to fix errors in the schedule again. (He is really good at that. Leadership and leadership from other flights in the squadron have made him the “go-to” guy when it comes to scheduling. Pretty cool!) They have a new guy learning how to schedule and he is having a hard time catching on. I don’t blame him though, some of that stuff just sounds confusing, all the protocols and what not. I guess with practice it comes pretty easy, but…

Anyway, I am getting really hungry and I would like to head to the commissary. I have a Crockpot experiment I would like to conduct, food wise. (I really don’t want stroganoff tonight, but I was going to tough it out, but since Flyboy isn’t flying, I am going to do something different) I am thinking a roast, so I can shred it, then add some onions, baked beans and then I am lost from there. Its final form will be wrapped in a tortilla with some cheese, but yeah. Though maybe I can do that for tomorrow instead… I would have more time to mess around with it. But I am hungry now, since I haven’t eaten breakfast yet. Take care everyone!!!

~NikiRose