I still have my vox blog, totally forgot about it. Go figure. Not a big surprise since I keep neglecting my own website blog. I really need to put some work into that too.
Not too much going on today. Waiting to here from the lady thats supposed to take Shadow, the dog we're pet sitting. Waiting for Monday to get our furniture and 81 boxes. That's alot of boxes. At least I don't have to unpack them all. The movers do...hehehe!! (Sorry Lizz...lol)
The kids need to go outside! The griped the entire time at the hotel that they couldn't play outside. Now that we have housing the gripe theres nothing to DO outside *baffles*
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 comes out today woo!! That's my next order of business after my blog entry. Hubby is home already, he had to go in for a big half hour today...lol! We got up, I made pancakes and sausage for breakfast, and his coffee. I made myself a butter pecan latte. I made eggnog lattes last night after dinner. It really sounds harder than it is. Instead of steaming milk you steam eggnog, or for my butter pecan I steamed butter pecan creamer. I'm going to try pumpkin spice next, I have leftover pumpkin pie mix, and a recipe I saw mentioned steaming that to mimic Starbucks. I also have pumpkin spice creamer if that doesn't work. The dishes are washing, the yard is cleaned up, and I'm showered, dressed, have my hair up and my face on.
The Unit is on tonight, I'm anxious to see if hubby likes it as much as I do. It's been fun showing him what new shows have started, and he usually likes what I do. It's also been fun trying new types of music he's introduced me to. It never fails, I say I don't listen to or like a band, he plays something without me realizing who it is and sucks me in. This is how I went from only 80's rock to listening to country. How I went from hating to loving Ozzy, saying I don't like Skynyrd to squealing every time I hear Sweet Home Alabama, and now listening to bands like Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, and Creed. This tactic has worked for movies too. I seldom sit through a chick flick. I'm more likely to be sucked into action/adventure and war movies. Even thrillers. They keep saying opposites attract. What they don't tell you is that eventually they'll bring you around...lol!!
I should be getting my butt out to the store to grab my movie. I still have the living room and kitchen to clean, and I'm making enchiladas and spanish rice for supper tonight. I might even whip up some dessert. I have a recipe for chocolate cherry bars that sounds yummy. On that note, I'm outta here. Have a day!!
I got a pic of hubby the day after he got home, How easy it is to have a happy hubby. Dogs, remote, beer, and a cigar. I bought the cigar as a celebration I can't stand the smell. The idea came from "Independance Day" with Will Smith. His "victory dance" was a cigar after each mission. So hubby had his victory dance too.
Life Is Good
Have I mantioned I'm bipolar? That's important info if you're going to make any sense of this entry. Do you know what happens when I go off my meds? Not on purpose, but stress makes me forgetful, and that's one thing I forget. I need to start using my calender. Where was I? Oh, when I forget my meds I start getting anxious. That leads to mania. That's where we are now. When I'm manic, I'll get totally focused on something. In this case preventing Roaches. By the way when did this become such an issue? I'm hearing about the everywhere around base. Wtf? I haven't seen one here...ever. Construction must have disturbed the mothership or something...oh...sorry...focused, we were on focused. So, I am cleaning my kitchen tonight with Clorox spray, because my research turned up that they hate the stuff. That's another thing I do, research obsessively. Boric Acid works really well too, but guess what? I can't get the friggin stuff up here! GAH! I can't wait to get to the lower 48. Anyhow, I turn the oven on self clean, I clean my counter, rangetop, and start to clean the front of the oven door. Before I know it the stove is pulled out, I'm scrubbing every side of it and the floor behind it, scrubbing the range with a toothbrush and cleaning under the hood. By the way, almost four years in this house, a couple sticky spots and a knife, pizza pan, straws, and paper bag were all that was back there. Ok dust bunnies too. Well more like hair tumbleweeds. All squeaky clean now except the inside. Unfortunately I've increased my cleaning now, since I made a mess of everything else.
All the food is in sealed bags or containers, surfaces are cleaned and scubbed, just gotta run dishes and sweep and scrub the floor. Weeeeee!! And the stupid snow plow made the road slippery, there was a rollover accident on base, even my truck started sliding all over the place at friggin 10mph all because they can't just leave the nice, hard packed, textured snow on the friggin roads. BAH!!
ETA: I moved the fridge too now, and scrubbed behind and beside it. Ewwww. I guess the inside is next. That's for tomorrow. Fridge and floor. Oh, and I need to go to petco and get ratty food.
"âHe was for the joke before he was against it,â Vice President Dick Cheney referring to John Kerry's "slip"
As Larry would say...I don't care who ya'are that's funny right thar! *laffs*
OCTOBER IS OVER!!! Yay!!! another month down. And what a day it's been so far. I got up and talked to Hunny, got slobbered on by a couple dogs, and got grossed out. I got a notice on the door about pest management for my quarters. Apparently someone in the building found roaches. EWWWW!!! But I told them I haven't seen any, and not to bother. However, it's left me with the insane urge to clean everything from top to bottom. So once I'm done posting this, I'm going to get some totes, cleansers, and I'm going to grab storage containers for our cereals and other dry goods. Call me paranoid, but just the thought of those things ewww. I have never seen a roach up here and I don't want to. I've been told they don't really live up here, but can get in if they move in with you. Either way, I'm getting spray and hotels just to be safe, in case they run from the other quarters into mine. *shivers*
I also need to stop at Lizz's house and pack a box and take it to the post office. I think I'll do that first, and make all my stops in order. Paydays are always pretty busy around here. After that you know what I'll be doing....clean clean clean. Oh and I ordered 2 new belly rings and some special soap for my piercing. It developed the dreaded "bump" this week. It's almost gone now thank goodness. I am not taking this one out. I know I don't have the guts to get it repierced again. The second time it was worse than the first.
And congrats John Kerry, you just keep getting yourself in that hole deeper and deeper. Why not just say "Here Mrs Clinton, you take the democratic nomination for president, I'm an idiot." But leave it to our troops to answer back. And the official army statement was something like "we do not get involved in politics and parties, but we are always amazed by the creativity of our soldiers"...lmao! And to quote my friend Ms. Mo, " John Kerry must not think much of himself, he too served. I don't want somebody with such low selfesteem running my country... :P" I 100% agree. I think he just destroyed his political career. Even if it was an accidental botch, our troops in Iraq are nothing to joke about. EVER. Now he's dropping out of the public eye again. Oh and he apologized on his website. Big man huh?
You know feet, if you bend at just the right angle, and work out your jaw daily to increase flexibility and strength, can indeed be put in your own mouth. Just ask John Kerry. Who said....
And his excuse for that comment?....âYou know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you donât, you get stuck in Iraq.â
Frankly, either way he insulted our troops I don't care what your intent was, it was sickening. And to top it off he does THIS . Way to go Mr Kerry, you just convinced your own party to vote for the other guy!! I sure hope he had clean socks before he put his feet in his mouth."Mr. Kerry said that he botched a joke that his aides said had been prepared as follows: âDo you know where you end up if you donât study, if you arenât smart, if youâre intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.â
And kudos to John McCain for his comments.
"Americans from all backgrounds, well off and less fortunate, with high school diplomas and graduate degrees, take seriously their duty to our country, and risk their lives today to defend the rest of us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
"They all deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service. The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks.â Didn't Mr Kerry ever learn to think before he speaks? Dumbass.
You know feet, if you bend at just the right angle, and work out your jaw daily to increase flexibility and strength, can indeed be put in your own mouth. Just ask John Kerry. Who said....
And his excuse for that comment?....âYou know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you donât, you get stuck in Iraq.â
Frankly, either way is insulting to our troops I don't care what your intent was, it was sickening. And to top it off he does THIS . Way to go Mr Kerry, you just convinced your own party to vote for the other guy!! I sure hope he had clean socks before he put his feet in his mouth."Mr. Kerry said that he botched a joke that his aides said had been prepared as follows: âDo you know where you end up if you donât study, if you arenât smart, if youâre intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.â
And kudos to John McCain for his comments.
"Americans from all backgrounds, well off and less fortunate, with high school diplomas and graduate degrees, take seriously their duty to our country, and risk their lives today to defend the rest of us in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
"They all deserve our respect and deepest gratitude for their service. The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn't live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered and uninformed remarks.â
Didn't Mr Kerry ever learn to think before he speaks? Dumbass.
View will be shared in this post. You've been warned. Disagree if you must, but I'm not arguing any points. These are my beliefs and your arguments will not change them.
Why on earth is it so awful to NOT be angry about the extension? Why isn't it ok to just deal with it. To carry on and wait? There is an overwhelming attitude that if you don't loudly disagree with this extension, you are less of a wife, you're blind, you're blindly following the government. That's bull. All the websites that popped up, what purpose did they serve? Have they gotten our brigade home any sooner? No. They have not. They've given the wives a place to vent, a place to ir their grievances. And that's great. Everyone needs that. That's why I have a blog. Or four. And every time an article is published at strykernews.com, the "against" readers attack anyone with a different view, and accuse them of insulting the troops, or of not being supportive. What is wrong with that picture? I admit this sounds paranoid, but I believe in it, and I'm not going to budge. The enemy reads these sites. Strykernews I'm sure is read by them. They see families, and soldiers alike voicing their unhappiness. Which they have an absolute right to do. But it gives them propaganda to use against us. Anyone remember Tokyo Rose? The Japanese/US citizen who along with a group of other women broadcasted stories of defeats, of cheating wives, etc over the airwaves after luring their American GI listeners onto the station with American music? Of course they already know we have unhappy troops. That's a given. But seeing it over and over gives them more hope, to them it makes us look weak. Which of course we are not. We have the best forces in the world.
As far as Iraq goes, I'm still in support of it. The extension didn't change that. And I'm tired of hearing "we didn't find any wmd". Well of course not! We spent months wading through UN bullshit before we could even get anyone in there after the inspectors were again kicked out (which by the way violated the treaty made after the first gulf war). Now, if you had something to hide, and knew you were going to be invaded and searched...what would you do? Destroy it. Ship it away and destroy any evidence of it. Sell it. So many options there. The other thing I'm tired of is "If we had deposed Saddam the first time..." yeah we'd be in the same situation, because the country has no leadership! And don't tell me they have a PM. I know that, but he isn't much of a leader right now. And of course there's the "We need to pull out now" theory. What is going to happen if we do that? With an unstable middle east, the whole region is then vulnerable to take over by these insurgents/terrorists, our guys get sent back over, and into a situation 10 times worse than it is now. Or they get stronger and formulate another attack on us.
But you can't say those things these days. All the media wants to print is anti Iraq, all they want to interview are wives and service members with grievances. When is it going to get better? When are opposing, positive opinions going to be anything but scoffed at? What is wrong with us? Shame on us for not complaining, shame on me for driving on. No. Shame on anyone that believes that.
