Mood:  cheeky

Good morning!

I decided I would take a short break from Grocery Day and write today’s post.

First off, I LOVE THIS WEATHER!!! It has been raining for 3 days now and the 7 day forecast says...

Last night I fell asleep around 2200 and woke up 5 hours later and couldn’t fall back asleep. Apparently my body thinks that 5 hours is enough for someone who didn’t sleep at all the night before. =/ Anywho, I cooked Flyboy up some Breakfast Burritos and brewed him some Orange Tea. Oddly I could only eat one burrito, but I drank all my tea. =D I dropped him off at Flight P.T. and headed for the grocery store. I was $3 under budget and could have been about $10 but I got an extra case of water (the water out here is NASTY and it makes you pretty sick. Base water is tolerable, but I am not into having a soar throat 24/7, you know?) and I also got an extra pound of stew meat. I think I did pretty well, although my goal was to be under by a WHOLE lot, oh well. I don’t think I will have to shop too hefty next pay period since we will be having Left-Overs at each meal this period. (They will be frozen and eaten later. =D )

Iput away all the food that needs refrigeration and I put some of it in the Crockpot. In a few I am going to start bagging up the fruit into individual servings (I hate how onions burn your eyes… grr) and probably eat something for lunch, though what I will have for lunch, I have no clue.

I’m sure you are wondering what is in the Crockpot… Well I am trying a new recipe I found online; it’s called Crockpot Cowboy Stew. So, I have stew meat, diced potatoes (I’m using the little yellow and purple ones, they tend to be cheaper) chopped onion and baked beans in BBQ sauce. I don’t think there is enough sauce so I added about cup of water to it to make sure nothing burns, well and cooks. We shall see how it turns out in about 8 hours. =) I think tomorrow night I will make some stir fry, and yes, I am going to do it in the Crockpot. Hehe. =P

Well before I lose all my motivation to continue my chores (I’m really getting sleepy sitting here) I am going to start bagging up fruit. I hope you all have a great day and watch out for glowing puppies!

~NikiRose

Mood:  not sure

… morning?

Well, I’m awake… again… been for I guess you could say all night. I came across some EXCITING news, kicker is, I can’t share it until after the timeline passes. So I am being eaten alive by this news, kind of a killer lol (no pun intended)

Flyboy requested I make him a country style breakfast this morning, so I should be starting that here pretty soon.  I have worked on my grocery list for this upcoming shopping trip and I am hoping I can achieve a new “under budget” record. =) I am feeling lazy so for this pay period, our meals shall be cooked by the slow cooker, with the exception of two, but even so that is like 10 days of slow cooker meals. That should keep the dishes down, I hope…

Flyboy and I have discovered his serious coffee addiction, so we are weaning him off and putting him on tea. (The natural kind that looks like potpourri… much, much healthier =) I put like 2 spoon fulls in the coffee pot and it works GREAT!) Yeah, I sort of made the mistake of having some Orange Tea before bed, so that didn’t help with the sleeping either. =/

This month is going to be a VERY busy month.  I have two dentist appointments this month, the 7^th and I have yet to schedule the next one. Flyboy has Monday the 4^th off and that day will consist of running around base updating documents. The next week (week of the 10^th) Flyboy’s work schedule is really screwy and he may not get off work until late. (Bah to training) The next week, (week of 17^th) that Monday is looking like a day off, and he has already scheduled one of his comp days for the Tuesday following. That Friday, 22^nd, is an off day due to Memorial Day weekend and the last week of the month I have to ready EVERYTHING for the trip, not to mention Flyboy is flying sometime this month too! (Knowing our luck it will probably be right before we leave too!) Somewhere in there I need to coordinate things with Soldier, BlueEyez and Bob regarding this trip not to mention talk with Radar to see if he would house sit for us.  Busy, busy, busy.

Umm… I don’t know much of anything else at the moment. I guess I shall let you all go for now. If anything else news pops up, I will let ya know. Until next time… Take care!

~NikiRose

Mood:  accident prone

Morning…

I hope you all were able to sleep last night. I went to bed around 1900 and then woke up at 230 and had a really hard time falling back to sleep, even though I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open.

I did dishes and made Split Pea Soup yesterday, Flyboy was really excited. I think the soup came out pretty decent this time. I decided to add some crushed Triscuits and a dash of shredded cheddar cheese to my bowl and it tasted YUMMY!!!

I talked to Soldier yesterday morning. He got the packages I sent and had to fight off his buddies from eating the goodies I sent. Don’t worry, I packed a couple magazines for them to flip through, so they got something too. He is still coming out at the end of May, but as of when he gets to Cali, he has no clue. They are making him take HOPS rather than going commercially, so he may be there on schedule or he may be there after we get out there. I am crossing my fingers that he gets there before we do, otherwise that will really screw things up for him. =/ He is doing pretty well out there; he has discovered that he likes Lotus Seeds. (They were part of the nut/trail mix I sent him, you know, the mix I make for Flyboy…) That is pretty much it for Soldier.

I am hoping I can push having Left-Overs for dinner tonight. Flyboy isn’t a big fan of Left-Overs, but I think after an intense Squadron P.T. a nice hot, thick bowl of Split Pea will hit the spot.

I STILL haven’t found the cause of that smell, so I am going to conduct a follow up investigation. Grr. Well, I better let you go for now. I am really thirsty and need to find my water bottle… Take care!

~NikiRose

Mood:  hungry

Hey there everyone!  Flyboy here! 

Ok. So I got the day off today for getting up at 0430 yesterday to work the City’s Marathon.  It is very nice to get some days off when we work on the weekend.  Sometimes I feel as if I work in a very thankless work environment.

For the past couple of months, I’ve practically been the only scheduler, and it had fallen upon my shoulders alone to take the task of keeping my office operational.  I will admit that I had gone in over my head, and I began to make mistakes.  I suppose that I had protected myself from repercussions with my integrity; I owned up to the mistakes I made and pointed out the things that were out of my control.  Finally, over the last several weeks, I made several suggestions to Leadership to hire some new schedulers and get new people trained up.  I am now the Scheduling Trainer, and am on the backburner to schedule.  In a way, I am glad to have the break, so I can refocus on managing my weight issues, but at the same time, I can hardly handle the idle time that happens on a daily basis.

Now, normally, when things start going like this, I would take some leave, get some R&R and come back to work somewhat refreshed.  But right now, of course, I am saving up my leave for a big, true vacation; our trip to Cali. I have some reservations, however, to the trip.  I suppose that I can’t help but be critical, I suppose that I can only handle so many of the troubles in Niki’s past.  I just get the thought that I need to vent all this out, because Niki is extremely stressed and struggles with a very deep depression and general distrust of everyone.

It bothers me to hear of all the manipulation and downright childishness that had occurred when Niki’s father passed away; his death occurred in a very vulnerable period in both Niki and Soldier’s lives.  This was a time when they needed a family to cling on to, but I feel that in all of the emotional distress that occurred in the aftermath of his passing, my wife and her brother were almost forgotten in the feud that waged on.  I can see that her dad was truly a gift to all of you, and the void that he left behind is a reminder of how much love he had for all of you.  The problem, however, is how divided the family became in his absence.  I can understand the frustration, the disappointment and the sadness that filled all of your hearts.  I can understand how you felt when Mississippi Mom moved on so quickly, but I can assure you that she too was grieving, and that is the path that she turned to; I feel that she had fallen into a deep denial that she is just beginning to recover from.  She has admitted to me that she regrets some of her decisions as she was blinded with pain.  On the other hand, I must say that the way that she (and my wife and her brother) was shunned away from all of you is a very unfortunate choice. Mississippi Mom was left with no one to lean on, and the choices she made were an attempt to find some comfort and peace in the absence of her family. I understand that you all felt betrayed, that you felt, “this is too soon”, but to turn it into a feud has created deep emotional scars in my wife; scars that I will end up spending the rest of my life trying to heal.

What saddens me the most is that the rift in the family continues even today.  While I can see that many of the negative feelings have faded, I sense that it still rages underneath the surface, a raging fire that burns all of your hearts.  This fire has consumed much of the family: it has divided where love should have conquered.  It breaks my heart.  What’s worse, I know that this rant of mine may not even begin to heal the wounds.  I know that this will also take the entirety of my life to repair, and I may also be isolating myself.  But I feel that I must take a stand: for the sake of my wife, for the sake of her brother, for the sake of everyone involved.  All this resentment without forgiveness is sin in its finest…

I don’t mean to be rude about all of this, I just want to make this family whole again.  I am really concerned about all of it; to have Niki partially dreading a trip home speaks much about her pain.  It says to me that things are dysfunctional, especially when she was raised in a Christian home.  The fact that a family has broken apart so badly tells me that Niki’s father was an especially great and loving man.  I can see this in Niki’s gentle determination to make things right in this world; in Soldier’s desire to protect the ones he loves; in Niki’s dad’s own writings and teachings about the bible and how we all should live as Christians.  They all speak to me, and tell me that this would not be the way he wanted things to be.  He lived a peaceful life, an example of who we should strive to be.  I think that he would tell us all that it is time to forgive each other, and remember how he lived, and love each other with the same passion that now burns in his children’s hearts.

I guess that I have ranted enough for one day… after all, I do have the day off! Lol…

Flyboy out.

Mood:  irritated

Morning.

I hope everyone’s day gets off to a good start.

There isn’t much going on here. Flyboy landed safely last night and had a good flight.

I’m sorry this is so choppy, but I am in a bit of a bad mood, and really don’t want to get into it. Hopefully this weekend off from driving will help.

Take care, have a great weekend.

~NikiRose

Mood:  accident prone

Morning,

Not much going on here, which is more than fine with me. Today I have a feeling will be a BEAUTIFUL day, definitely a day to head to the beach, but apparently we don’t live close enough.

Flyboy is doing his “thing” today, hope he packed himself enough food in his lunch =S I was so out of it this morning, I am surprised that I actually got him to work alright. Yesterday we worked out at the gym near the squadron again. I really like this one, it has a very comfortable atmosphere and it smells like dad’s shop in Cali. Hehe. (Very happy smell) Anywho, we were going to run for 3 miles, but Flyboy was, lets face it, a dummy, and didn’t bring the proper clothes for running, so he had us do some toning instead. I didn’t find this out until AFTER we were heading home. If I he would have told me earlier, I would never have had us jump on the treadmills. He is lucky he didn’t make this mistake on Squadron P.T. day. Haha. I heart my dummy. =) For some reason though we were there for over 2 hours, it was pretty fun really. I think it is because I shot some hoops while he was still stretching. (I stretched while he was changing out of is uniform… a good 20 minute stretch) Tomorrow I will make sure he packs everything so we can run again.

We had spaghetti for supper, with salad of course. My last shopping trip I decided to buy a jar of Ragu, just because I am getting tired of making spaghetti sauce from scratch, especially when I am starving. I got the veggie mix one, It was pretty good, but waaaaaaaay too sweet. I like my sauce with that rich garlic smell accompanied by a nice spicy kick. Not what I got though. Flyboy packed what I didn’t finish last night for his lunch today, I just home the ovens are working on the plane.

I really need to wake up… I get plenty of sleep but every morning with the exception of one a week, Flyboy wakes me up in the middle of a sleep cycle, so I am more groggy than I should be.

Anywho, I think I may get the laundry going, that always seems to make me wake up. Hope everyone is doing well, Take care!

~NikiRose

Mood:  smelly

Good morning,

I hope you all are having a decent morning so far. =)

I got a call back from the Med Group yesterday and apparently I have a perfectly normal knee. Go figure… Anywho they wanted to know if I wanted to do therapy for it and I think I will pass. The pain is very intermittent; it was just that the last time it was horrible. That moveable piece didn’t show up on the x-ray and they have no idea what it could be.

My dentist appointment went quite well. I REALLY like these people, they know what they are doing and are very nice, not creepy nice either. I am really excited with that, well as much as I can be. Due to unforeseen factors, they weren’t able to do the cleaning, so they rescheduled me for May 7^th. Yay? The Dentist looked at my wisdom teeth and said that he could pull the top two no problem, but the bottom two would definitely need an Oral Surgeon. Yay? So I have to call the Surgeon up later this morning and schedule a consultation appointment, and then go from there. They aren’t too worried about my wisdom teeth, mainly just the cleaning. Though he said that if my wisdom teeth were my number one priority to go ahead and get that taken care of first. I am really glad I didn’t feel pressured to do anything; you know how they like to guilt trip you and everything. I am more at ease, well as much as I can be.  Right now I am crunching numbers to work it into our budget.

Other than that, our trip to Cali is so far still on for the set dates. I haven’t heard anything out of Soldier, but that reminds me. You will NEVER believe the odds of this…

Flyboy’s flight just got a new guy and he is married to a gal with my first name. We knew this for a while, no big sweat, right? Wrong. Flyboy brought up our Cali trip, and then how he couldn’t wait to have a nice piece of Tri-Tip, my hometown style. The guy totally agrees thus sparking a very interesting conversation… Ready? Well she and I both went to the same high school, when I was a freshman she was a senior. Yeah, and we both have the same first name, and lived a few blocks from each other. That is pretty ironic, but the fact that we both have the same first name, each married an Airman, that both wound up at this base, in the same squadron, in the same flight, and yeah, the EXACT same job class. (There are two different job classes in Flyboy’s flight, the computer nerds and the jocks who pedal the exercise bikes that turn the rotor domes, Haha. ((Not really but basically yeah))) He, like Flyboy is the nerd. At first, I didn’t believe them, so I looked her up in the year book and yeah sure enough. I think I had a class with her, like a math class or something. I specifically remember that name because the teacher had to use our last names to separate us. But yeah, what are the odds on that?!? Really kind of freaky... Luckily his name isn’t Flyboy( Haha), that would be a little over the top, and I think Flyboy has a much higher I.Q. *cough* 145 *cough* Though, they have kids, and we don’t yet, but still, I mean, come on… They are going out to Cali after we get back, should be interesting. Haha.

I think that is it for now. I am cooking the steak to make steak snacks and then I might put some split pea in the crock pot, I don’t quite know. We had tacos last night and I discovered the source of the smell. The hamburger!!!!!! It really tweaks me in the wrong way, because that meat hadn’t even been in my fridge for 7 days!!!!! I got jipped by the commissary again, grr. Oh well. As long as it doesn’t smell anymore, right?

Well, I better get to my daily chores. I have been informed that we are out of spoons… *rolls eyes* Take care everyone!

~NikiRose

Mood:  hungry

Good morning.

Well, I got most of what I wanted done yesterday, done. I still have more cleaning to do of course. =/

I haven’t found the source of the smell yet, but I am marinating the chicken wings and we had chicken and broccoli last night for dinner. I am going to cook the hamburger in a few and make some Noodle/veggie dishes. I steamed and then froze most of the veggies I plan on using yesterday, so today is just cooking noodles and vacuum sealing them. I think I may turn the rest of the chicken into Chicken Snacks and possible defrost the steak in the freezer so I can make steak snacks tomorrow.

I slept pretty well, I wish I would have slept a bit better, but hey, I will take what I can get.

I called up the Med Group yesterday, and the receptionist said I could leave a message for my Doc or schedule and appointment. I decided to leave a message because if it is serious enough she will have me schedule an appointment when she calls. I don’t want to waste a slot if someone needs it more than me, you know? After calling them, I called up the Dentist, twice. The first time I called up I got an appointment but Flyboy messaged me saying that he was flying that day so, it wasn’t such a good idea with crew rest an all, little too risky. So I called back and changed and the soonest they could get me in was today. (Well yesterday it was tomorrow, but yeah). I’m a little nervous, but I think I will be okay. Flyboy can’t make it to this appointment like we both wanted, because of Squadron P.T. I meet my doom at 1540 today… eek. They are going to do a cleaning (eek) and do some x-rays and what not, should be a blast. The receptionist said I can talk to the dentist regarding my wisdom teeth and they will go from there. I have no idea what I am getting myself into. I really wish Flyboy could be there. Maybe one of the guys can drop him off at the office after P.T. since P.T. will only last until 1600-ish. I will have to inquire about that, I would be more at ease if he is there.

The run… well it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I would have been able to run a lot longer (I ran 1 mile then walked ¾ then ran the rest) if it wasn’t for this crazy old lady walking on the treadmill next to me. I guess she was afraid of sweating that “old” smell so she took a bubble bath in cheap cologne. Until she left my oxygen to perfume ration was 1 to 99. Bah. I am still pretty beat today, but I am doing alright. Tomorrow it’s three miles again, today is just toning, yay me!

Anywho, I need to get started on the noodles. Hope you are all having a great day so far!! Take care!!

~NikiRose

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

Mood:  on fire

Good morning,

Take a wild guess at the temperature right now…. Yup, below 40 with a lovely wind chill of 10 degrees! I am glad the winds died down, they were NASTY yesterday and as a result, we have been on fire. If the winds would have shifted so the fires would blow westward, we would have been toast, no pun intended. Last night we were basically surrounded by fires, I would say 5 mile or so radius. (Don’t worry Flyboy and I had plans if we were told to evacuate, luckily it didn’t come down to that)

The winds were so bad yesterday I thought our bedroom window was going to blow out. *shudders* So needless to say I was awake last night waiting on updates of fire locations, I am really tired again, this morning with a decent sized crick in the neck. Yay me. =)

I don’t know if any of our friends were affected, Flyboy won’t find that out until today, at a really long brief, I’m sure. (You know the fires are bad when you barely get home from work and you’re getting an accountability recall =P) I am worried about CornFed, I think he purchased a house in that area a month or so ago. I am not quite sure yet. I know flyboy will keep me posted.

I don’t think there is any news over here other than, we are okay, though we aren’t out of danger as of yet. The winds are suppose to get as nasty as they were last night so… yeeeah.

I am going to start on chores early this morning, while I am still in the mood. Hope you all are doing well. Take care!

~NikiRose