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I'm sure you've heard the term "can't carry a tune in a bucket".  Well, I can't carry a tune in a bathtub!  That sure didn't stop me from singing in the shower last night.  I started off with Kookaburra then went right on into The Itsy Bitsy Spider and brought it on home with Sally The Camel Has Five Humps. 

I won't deny it, I'm losing my mind! 

Just ask Angie, she CRACKS UP when I play music and dance around the living room.  Should I A) take it as a compliment that I'm hilarious or B) be offended that I dance so horribly that a 9-month old realizes that and laughs at me!  

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Angie waved "bye-bye" today, it was so cute!  I can't believe she is still up, she'll really sleep in tomorrow!  She normally is in bed between 7:30 and 8:00. 

The boys are back "cleaning their room".  In other words, making a bigger mess.  James fixed Josh's bed when he was home one leave.  Somehow, nobody knows how, Chris' got broke last night.  Guess what...the bed is being taken apart tomorrow and put in the shed.  The mattress is going right on the floor.  My brothers shared a room and never had a quarter of the stuff happen that these boys do.  No damn Brady Bunch room sharing in this house! 

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Older men declare war.  But it is the youth that must fight and die.  ~ Hoover

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I hope everyone had a great weekend!  We went to Deb and Keith's yesterday to hang out and BBQ...here are a few pictures for your enjoyment!

The kids before we left:


The boys eating some monkey bread:


Daddy's little princess:


Is it just me, or is this look a little evil:


I don't know who invited these guys:

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Thank God James only has a little over six years left in the military.  I am sick of being alone.  A few years ago if you would have asked me, I would have said this..."Those women that leave their husbands because they are gone a lot are a bunch of wimps."  I can see now the other side of the coin.  No, I'm not planning on leaving James, but damn, being alone is very tiresome after a while.  Being alone 811 miles away from family and friends is even worse.  Yes, I have the kids to keep me busy but you can't hold adult conversations with children.  (Not even Chris, though he tends to think he is an adult.)  I actually get stupid when James is gone.  Lack of daily interaction with someone my own age is the cause of that.  I do try to find things to keep me busy while James is deployed (thus the current Bollywood facination) but it only takes my mind off of the loneliness for a short time.

The other side of that is my worries about handling James' retirement.  My whole adult life has been spent surrounded by military gear, military rules, military time schedules, military people.  How will I handle James being home every night?  Wearing colors other then desert?  Not having a closet and shed space devoted to gear?  What will we talk about when 75% of our current conversations center around something, anything to do with military?  What am I going to do when someone else is there to help raise the kids, do vehicle maintenance, make decisions?  I see me "giving up the reigns" as being a big problem.  I'll admit it, being in control has become my forte.

When you get married as a child (I thought I was grown up at 18 but I wasn't.) and spend twenty years being the one that "holds down the fort" so to speak, how do you change who you are?  How to you switch, almost automatically, from one lifestyle to another?  From military to civilian.  I have six years to figure out the answers to those questions if I'm to survive "the civilian world". 

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Angie's 9 month check up was this morning.  She's 20 pounds and 27.5 inches long!  (Which is roughly 50th percentile for height and 75th percentile for weight, little chubbers!)  Had one immunization, so she's good to go until 12 months.

After that, I went to the Chevy dealer to have the oil changed in the Tahoe.  They come out with this estimate for the "seeping" rear seal they found:

Part:  $34
Shop supplies:  $10 (This blows my mind, that we have to pay for the rags they wipe their hands on.)
Labor:  $600
Total:  HA HA HA WE GOT YOU NOW!

Yeah, I'm not getting that fixed any time soon.  From what I've heard, I can run it a while with the seep, so run it I will!

The boys are doing well health and school wise.  They ignore about 95% of what I say, so that's becoming a big problem for me.  I'm going to open a can of whoop ass on them!

I mowed the grass today.  I let it go too long so it was pretty tall.  Last time, I ended up having to rake it and then made the boys put it in the plastic swimming pool.  Then, I drug it into the woods and dumped it.  I decided to use the bag this time and just dump that into the swimming pool and so on.  No, it didn't save me any time at all.  The yard looks nice though.

Chris is getting sick of my movies.  I'm into Bollywood movies right now.  If I could speak Hindi, I'd be all set.  As it stands, I have to read the subtitles.  I have picked up a few words though. 

For those of you that know me "in real life", it should in no way surprise you that I have chosen Bollywood movies as my new hobby...when have you ever known me to be anything other then unusual?!

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I DVR Tori & Dean and I just watched the one from last night.  The season is over now, what am I going to do with my Tuesday nights?!  

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I just did a little Christmas shopping on Overstock!  Josh will be getting "Prehistoric Planet:  The Complete Dino Dynasty" DVD, a boxed set of seasons 1 and 2 of the television show "Dinosaurs" and a computer game called Dinosaur Hunter.  They didn't really have anything that would interest Chris, other then "Lego Loco", the computer game I ordered him.  I did however get the CUTEST outfit for Angie's year-old pictures.  So anyway, that makes me about done Josh's gift gathering.  I've decided this year to put myself on a strict budget for Christmas.  Not only because I'm trying to save every penny I can for when James retires, but because they have way too much crap.  They don't pick anything up (which means I'm going to be taking another trip to the salvation army with a bag of toys). 

I actually wrote out a complete budget last night.  I'm going to try to stick to it, with a few adjustments for things like groceries as they come up.  The main goal I have for my family is a minimum of $8,000 a year put into the savings account.  (Sorry James, that means no motorcycle next year.)  That amount will go up when the Tahoe is paid off in 2010.  James makes the money, I have to do my part to make sure we have as much as possible saved when we move back to PA in 2015!  I don't think my parents want us living in their basement (well, not permanently anyway)!  When I get these wild hairs up my ass, I make lists.  There are lists everywhere on the refrigerator.  Now I am exhausted and am going to bed!          

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Paris Hilton for President?

I don't normally waste my time with this kind of stuff, but I did think this was pretty funny!

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