updates

Rick is still at SERE and I haven't spoken to him since Saturday afternoon, BUT I think he will call on Thursday afternoon when they get out of the field. They've been "camping" since Sat. in the snow and rain. I think they are actually "surviving" without tents or s'mores. Not so much fun.

So much more importantly though (i kid, i kid) I started a new semester of school on Monday. I'm working on my master's in middle childhood education. I'm taking 12 hours in a course that runs 5 weeks. It's going to be awesome. That's why I'm on here instead of doing my homework-which there is a ton.

P.S. I think it's a hint that you are wearing too much deodorant when you look down and wonder when you got all these little white skin tags in your arm pit. Then you realize you can just brush them off. TMI? I think so.

My first...

day of really feeling like a military wife. Yes, we've moved 5 times in two years. Yes, Rick's been in training for two years. Yes, we've been adjusting our schedule constantly to meet the demands of the Air Force. Yes, we haven't really been on vacation since the honeymoon. But today was the first time I've dropped him off at the airport with his gigantic camouflage bag full of flight suits, BDUs and combat boots.

He's just going to survival training, not deploying, and I'll see him again in 3 weeks. Seriously, no big deal. He's already done a couple of TDYs so we've been separated before but not since we've been married. It's just weird to have all this time ahead of me alone. As of now, I'm fine with it. I know I'll see him soon, we can talk for the most part. I'm just not really thinking about what goes on at survival. I think his mom might be having a harder time with it. From what I've heard from some other wives, I think that the moms are the ones who struggle most with hard trainings like this. To your mom you are always her baby and no one is going to hurt her baby. It's hard to see your child as an adult capable of taking care of themselves first and foremost. On the other hand, as a wife I see my husband as tough and able to take care of himself and me. I love him and worry about him but he's not my baby. I know that every thing he has to go through as part of his career is just that, part of a career he signed up for and he can handle it. And I love him even more for that capability.

Anyway, like my friend whose husband is also going said, we're going to be single ladies here for awhile. Wine, sushi, chocolate, the Babies movie, and lots of pink - here we come.

hmmm....

Rick just told me he didn't love me enough to teach me the Vulcan death grip.

I'm really hurt.

Especially because I ask him to teach me.

Why I don't twit? tweet?

My kitchen closet (where the trash, recycling, cookbooks, and air popper live) looks like a bad episode of Hoarders.

This is what I would say I twittered...tweeted? This why I don't.

P.S.

There were lots of complaints about my last post. By lots I mean two and that's like 50% of my readership. Let me explain:

1) These were abbreviated lists. I could not type fast enough to post all my likes and dislikes.

2) My friends, family, and, most importantly, Rick are not on the list because it is a like list not a LOVE list. duh.

Very Important

Instead of telling you (the internet) what's going on in my life, here's a short list of likes and dislikes. The mainly office stuff version (because I'm sitting at my desk).

10 things I dislike:

1) Wide ruled paper. I hate HATE it.

2) The ruffles when you rip out spiral notebook pages

3) Non-clicky pens

4) Pollen strands or pods or whatever is all over my floor

5) Our hairy mohawked mutt being all territorial to anyone within a 50 foot radius of our fence.

6) Doing dishes, putting dishes away, anything involving dishes.

7) Taking the recycling to the recycling place by myself.

8) Painting...especially with an ugly color I don't like all by myself.

OK, it's only 8 because I don't want to get all negative this early in the morning. By early I mean 10.

10 things I like:

1) Copy and paste functions.

2) Pens with good ink flow (to keep with the office supply trend)

3) Yellow legal pads and small notebooks

4) Successfully getting 8 seeds to sprout. It might just be the power of prayer that keeps them alive though.

5) Our deaf, 20 year old Boston Terrier being all territorial with the giant (but lovable) Doberman next door.

6) Writing quotes and notes on little bitty scraps of paper.

7) Sleeping in.

8) Pasta and cooking and eating it.

9) The awesome light my house gets. It does make it easy for the whole neighborhood to see when I have to streak across the house to get a shirt from the pile of laundry on the couch but it's the only thing I really LOVE about this house.

10) Garlic. and BBQ sauce. Yes, I'm starving to death. Literally. If I don't post for another two months you'll know why.

Please resume your previously scheduled important stuff you were doing.

Reflections

Let's see if I actually achieved any of these possibly achievable goals. It's only been 8 months so don't expect much. I like to stretch my goals out until I forget about them.

1. Write on this blog more than one more time. - Well, it happened more than once.
2. Write on this blog more than once a month. - But not this often.
3. Keep going to the gym multiple times a week. - Definitely did this pretty often in Corpus...until fall came and then it slowed down drastically.
4. Take more pictures.- Nope, I even made a resolution to take a picture a day in 2010. I have taken 2. On the same day.
5. Learn to use other features on the camera besides the automatic button. - Nope.
6. Clean and use the FILM SLR. - Didn't clean but I did take it out of its case and take a couple pictures.
7. Take a sewing class. (I meant to type sailing but this sounded like fun too). Caitlin taught me a little about sewing. That counts.
8. Go camping with Rick more than once. -Just once and not until we were back in Arkansas9. Don't kill the dogs on camping trip. - They survived.
10. Take a sailing class. - Took a sailboat out once. Tried to convince Rick not to tip us over.
11. Keep cooking (and eating...duh) - Cooked a lot and ate a lot. Homemade bolognese sauce. Delicious12. Keep sneaking more and more veggies into Rick's diet. - Homemade bolognese sauce has more veggies in it than our regular no meat sauce. Hahhaha. He loves it.
13. Grow something. - Failed miserably. Killed four plants.
14. Go fishing - nope. Bought rick a fly fishing gift certificate.
15. Take a seafood cooking class at the aquarium (ahhh, the irony).- didn't happen either. I did go to the aquarium 7 times.
16. Go to sandcastle building competition- Nope, but our friends taught us how to build an awesome sand castle.
17. Do a successful hurricane evacuation.- No hurricanes. I was disappointed.
18. Volunteer at the CC Science and History Museum. - We toured it one day, including an exact replica of one of Christopher Columbus's ships down to the wooden "nails" and building methods.
19. Purge more of our stuff. - Apparently we lost 900 lbs between Corpus and Little Rock and I have a box of stuff in the garage to get rid of.
20. Love Rick more (just cause I know he will read this and I'm a sweetheartOngoing.

Not bad if I do say so myself. And I do. Now I'm subbing and continuing to get settled in our house. I know you want pictures, preferably not when it's a mess. I'll see what I can do.