Suicidal fish and a hormonal dog.

The other day we were sitting on the couch just minding our own business, watching a movie, when all of a sudden we hear a THUMP. We look at each other like what in the world was that. We see that our hormonal psycho dog is looking at the fish tank. We notice that the water is moving and see that one of our fish is just sort of floating around like its about to die. Putting two and two together we figure that this one particular fish, the suicidal one, decided to be bright and jump out of the water. Unbeknownst to him (or her?) there's a hood up there! That fish slammed head first into the tank hood at a high velocity and knocked itself silly. For the next hour or so it was swimming nose down, in circles, upside down, laying flat, or just floating upside down like a dead fish. It had knocked itself nuts. That ladies and gentlement is my suicidal fish.
On to the hormonal psycho pup. Well our puppy turned 1 in February, so that makes her about 16 months. Not quite sure how old that is in puppy age but im guessing teenage years since the psycho pup is in heat! She whines, she cries, she whines some more, until we pet her. Shes bleeding all over my carpet! I am going to have to go get a mastiff size tampon (joking here folks gross..ewww, yuk...gag) to get her to stop this nastyness. We have to deal with this for THREE weeks at least. OMGOSH. I told the hubby "YOU are the one that wanted a female" this is what he gets.

FINALS!!!

A majority of my day today will be filled with school work. FINALS!! Yes that is with an S meaning more than one. I have a computer networking final which should be a peice of cake. The one I am concerned with is MATH.. Now, I have learned quite a bit, but.... I ended up 4 weeks behind and rushed through most of it to catch up. I just hope I can remember that the numbers DO work with the alphabet.

So I shall eat a good breakfast and get busy. Wish me luck!

The Vacation.....across town.

At the last minute me and the hubsters decided we NEEDED to get out of this house. These four walls were slowly shrinking in on us. So we got a hotel room downtown. It was pretty darn expensive but it was worth it to just get out and away. So the first night we got there, checked in and left to go get something to eat. We went to a place where we have eaten before and love the food there, but this night, of course, was different. The food was cold and I was afraid I would catch some weird disease by eating cold seafood, so I didn't eat much. We left and ran around a bit and got back to the hotel and slept. But here is where it sucked. I still heard airplanes. OMGOSH!! Yes that was our reasoning for leaving these 4 walls of suddenly small comfort and get away from base with huge c-17s flying overhead damn near every morning. I traded in c117s for prop planes. I wanted to pull my hair out. Luckily I am sort of used to the airplane sound by now that I slept through most of them.
The 2nd day we went and watched a movie, "Don't Mess with the Zohan", It was stupid yet funny. Just what I am accustomed to from watching Adam Sandler films. It has been.....I don't know maybe 3 years since Ive gone to a theater to watch a movie.
We went to eat at Benihanas. THAT was neat as heck. Our chef was a hoot, and I am so envious of their sharp knives. The food was amazing as well. We will definitely go back!
So back at the hotel I enjoyed our in room jacuzzi tub. Watched movies on the laptop, and just relaxed. Our jacuzzi tub was in the room, you could lay in there and watch TV until you shrivel up like a little prune. Although I did do that, my reasoning was cause it felt good on my back.

We shall do this again one day, before the kids come home. Maybe get OUT of town this time. Sad thing about living in Anchorage tho is that every interesting place is really far from home. And staying in town we were still able to come home and feed the dog LOL. Yes this is my life. Go on vacation, come home to feed the dog, then go back to the hotel.

That wasn't the most exciting part about the weekend. Well, if you could call it that. After we left Ihop one morning we heard a *thump thump thump thump* from one of the tires on the truck. Hubby said it sounded like a CV joint going bad. Well upon arriving home (to feed the dog and let her potty) we discovered that one of our lug nut studs was MISSING! and that the remaining 4 lug nuts were REALLY lose. It wasn't our CV joint, our tire was wobbling! So the hubby fixed us all up, tightened the nuts real good and checked the other 3 tires. All was fine. It seems that when hubby replaced the brakes/rotors on the truck he used a limiter on the impact. WOOPS! Bet he wont make that mistake again.

Moving, a waiting game...

Well we have turned in some paperwork but other pieces cant even be worked on outside of 180 days. So we wait. We did get word that our doggy is A-OK to go to Japan. Her FAVN results were good. We just have to figure out HOW to get her there and if she cant go (expenses, size) we have to figure a way to get her to Arkansas to stay with my dad until we get back. YAY....hurry up and wait.

I am slowly getting out of my funk of missing the kids. Don't get me wrong I still miss them tremendously, I am just occupying my days with ways to keep me busy. Housecleaning seems to be the top of the list, then school work. Have I ever mentioned how much I HATE MATH! I shall get through, I hope.

We are getting off of this base this weekend. Maybe I can sleep where there aren't huge planes flying overhead at 8am. Even if it is to a neighboring town, I am all for it. I feel stuffed into these 4 walls with no escape route. So we are getting out.

Til next time....

Day 2 big fail

Well I was starvin last nite so yep day 1 was a bust. Im going to reattempt it in a couple of days. I should have known better to start something so soon after the kids have gone.

I miss them terribly. Trying to come up with a creative way for me to go down south to visit so I can see them. People think im crazy but I dont care. They are my kids, they are what makes me ME. Without them here, what am I?

My kiddos are gone :( Im off to a new me.

Saying bye was actually easier than I had thought it was going to be. Our usual goodbyes (even for them just going to school for the day) can get pretty clingy and tearful. The day before they had their moment of tearfulness. I just knew that poor Shelly was going to go crazy. She kept saying things like "But your my family we should be together" I assured her that she could call me whenever she wanted to and she could write me as often as she needed. On the way to the airport she was giving me a list of things to do "feed Andrew (her fish), make sure you feed your fish, make sure you feed Mya twice a day, make sure you put on a load of dishes and laundry every day." LOL it was hilarious. I have never been without my babies for longer than 3 weeks so this is going to be new to me.
I have thought about what I will do while they are gone and besides doing school work I shall work on me. I am going to start out the summer with a Master Cleanse.

Day 1. 178 lbs. I feel like crap. Constantly eating out while the inalws were here just absolutely left me feeling like crap. I am hoping this Cleanse will leave me feeling refreshed and new. When my kids get back I hope that they will have a mom that can play with them and not hurt all the time.

Time will tell.

Visitors, Traveling, and Loud Noise....Saying goodbye

Ever have visitors from different time zones. Yea? Well then you know how it is. They just dont work with your schedule. I really want my SLEEP back. The noise...ugh.

Traveling is fun tho....Unless you have a couple bulging disks in your lower back and your traveling for HOURS at a time on bumpy roads. Yep, that hurts...lots. Ive been in constant pain for a couple of days now and all I want to do is cry.

Well My kids will be leaving me for the summer. Im bummed. I have never been without them for that long. This is going to literally tear me apart. I will have absolutely no clue what im going to do. I guess I will just pick some super hard classes and get busy with them for the summer. I will at least be able to concentrate. Is it just wrong of me to want to stuff them in my pocket and say NO CAN HAVE! They are my life....I dont want them to go away for the summer. But I figured if we are going to another country for a few years this might be the last time that some people get to see them for a long while. So its for the best.....*cry*