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.

A month later

BIG BIG NEWS!!!

We are now in Arkansas but nothing much has changed. I'm still fighting a messy house bc I can't find places for things to go and am still looking for a job. Exciting.

We found a house and have already been late on rent so we're getting pretty settled. It's not bad but definitely needs a new paint job. Right now it's baby flesh colored and glows rosy pink in certain light. It makes my gag reflex work overtime. That will for sure get changed, probably over Christmas bc all I've asked Santa for is free manual labor. I would also like to tear down all the hideous light fixtures in the house and the gigantic pieces of crown molding that are reigning on top of half the windows. It looks really stupid. But since we are renting I guess painting might have to do it for me. Well, maybe a light fixture change or two. They are really ugly. I don't think I would have bought this house but since we are just renting I guess I can handle it for four entire years. Four years.wow. that's a long long time to live somewhere with ugly paint and light fixtures.

Job hunting is just an ugly ugly business.

And that's all I am saying about that. I'm hungry and I think Rick is (will be forced to) cook breakfast soon. I least I already have a little free manual labor.

Happenings

1. We bought a new car. It's awesome. Subaru Outback 2010. It's green, has four doors, windows that roll down, and air conditioning. They gave has 500 dollars for my car. I'm pretty sure that means we drove it until it was dead. And we'll do the same to this one. Well, Rick will. He won't ever let me drive it.

2. Rick got his assignment. We're moving to Little Rock Air Force Base, not only for training for the next 6 months like most of our friends, but for the next 3-4 years. It wasn't one of our top choices for new locations but everything tends to turn out for the best. At least if you think it will. Rick will deploy from there for the very first time, he won't have to travel for all his random training sessions there, my family is close, and, maybe most importantly, we won't have to move again in six months. Did I mention our packers/movers were coming wednesday/thursday of this week? In two days. And that we only found out ten days ago. It's like pulling off a bandaid, it's easiest if you just pull it off really quick. I'm more of a slow bandaid puller-offer so we'll just have to see.

3. Most importantly, Rick finally (FINALLY) received his wings. He's now an official Air Force pilot. Or pilot if you're a Spanish speaker. I'm so proud of him. It's been a long tough year but we made it. Now he owes me thirteen months of laundry and dishes. I kept a tally. He'll probably work that off when we're about 60 years old. Oh, and I got pearls for all of my hard work and patience.

I would load pictures of all these important events but I'm on the desktop with no pictures and probably only have about 3.5 minutes left before it explodes. And I have to go pack all of our underwear so the packers aren't rummaging through it. Thanks for the effort, but I'll pack my own panties.

Plants, Pots and Plans.

So when I said I would be back with pictures of my clean house I lied. Then I was too ashamed to admit it. So I decided I would just not post and let the blog die. Kind of like when I forget to water my plants and they turn a little brown. Instead of nourishing them back to health, I just stick them outside under the brightest sunshine I can find, without any water, and check on them in two to three weeks. By then they are usually shriveled and brown; and I just pull out the plant, throw it away, and stick the dirt filled pot in the corner of the garage with the rest of evidence of my black thumb. I've amassed quite a large collection of potting equipment. I think I may just add that to my garage sale. They've hardly been used.

See, I'm rambling bc I'm so ashamed of not posting pictures of my clean house. I swear it really was clean. In fact, it's clean at this very moment. I even have pictures waiting to be uploaded. But the big news is not that I cleaned the house a month ago. It's even bigger than that. Rick finished UPT on Friday. Hooorrrray!!

Technically we still have to get through assignment night and then graduation to be complete. But he's done with all his graded flights. Nothing left to hook or worry about. Except for where our next assignment will be. Nothing to worry about at all. Only where we will be living for the next 3-4 years. Only where we'll be when he deploys for the first time. Only where I'll finally be able to start really working again. Only where I'll be killing plants slowly one by one.