Here’s what we’ve been doing
05 Dec 2008 Leave a Comment
There’s been so much I keep meaning to post about so let me do a quick run through so I can get you all up to date…
I made a big Thanksgiving Dinner for our friends. The turkey was close to perfect. I’m thinking of adding a recipe page to our blog.
I am allowed to exercise again. We went back to the gym this week. I thought being inactive for a month would really mess me up; but I’m already running again. Brett is trying to get his Physical Fitness Test score up. I’m trying to get my Body Fat Percentage down.
Our friend, Brad Biser from Huntsville, came down Tuesday to visit for a few days. He’s in the Navy and stationed in Northern California. He took us out to Joe’s Crab Shack, my favorite. It was nice having an old friend in town. He deploys again in January. (He might me lending us his Jeep)
Brett has decided to apply for the MECEP program. In short, he would go to college for 3 or 4 years full-time and be extremely active in ROTC. During this time he would still be given Active Duty pay, housing allowance, and benefits. After he earns his degree he would Commission as an Officer and commit at least six years to the Marine Core. If accepted we would move to Auburn, Alabama in the Fall of 2009. He spoke to his Auburn counselor today and he’s IN with them since he’s already been a student there. This week he is enrolling for Spring classes at one of the colleges here on base.
I am fully recovered from my surgery. I have my post-opp appointment tomorrow where we’ll descuss what all he discovered. I also, have an appointment next week with the spouse career counselor to get signed up for classes and hopefully find work.
Other than that we’re just Livin’ the dream. lol
Big Girl Apron
18 Nov 2008 1 Comment
Brett and I decided that even though it’s just the two of us, we still want to cook our own Thanksgiving Day meal. We asked our friends (mostly single marines) to join us, but most of them planned on going home. We finalized the plans this weekend for there to be just three of us. So yesterday we headed to the Commissary. Between our house and the commissary parking lot, (about 20 minutes) somehow our numbers grew. So now, i have a twenty pound turkey in my freezer. This will be the first year I cook an entire holiday meal. I find myself nervous about this task, even though I know that my house full of boys will eat whatever comes out of the kitchen. I just don’t want to end up with a Griswold Turkey. So, Wish me luck!
I’m back
13 Nov 2008 Leave a Comment
Yes I’m still alive. I had surgery last week. Everything went well. They removed a large dermoid cyst from my right ovary, along with some other small cysts. They also cleared up some endometriosis. The biopsy exposed NO CANCER. I’m healing nicely. Still can’t wear anything but sweatpants, but not in pain. Brett was able to take off most of last week to take care of me. Bless him. He had Monday and Tuesday off and returned to work today. We are both well. I was offered the job at the credit union and then they had to fill it before I could start. Hopefully they’ll have another opening soon. Glad to be back with the living.
Still Standing
15 Oct 2008 2 Comments
I’m back. Some of you may know we had more wild fires the past two days. Monday afternoon the fires came very close to our house. We were forced to evacuate around 1 or 2. We sat in a parking lot about a half mile away watching for a few hours. We watched as they fought to keep the flames from reaching any structures. Tanker helicopters and airplanes swooped over to drop water over our houses and then on the fire directly. Brett and I stayed at a friends house for the night. We came back yesterday morning to find that all our houses were still standing and only a few, some very close to us, had visible smoke damage. We were finally allowed to enter the neighborhood around 3pm. Everything is intact. It just smells awful. We went to Joe’s Crab Shack (my favorite restaurant) to celebrate with the neighbors. Ummm crab legs.
Fire on the Mountain, run boys run
09 Oct 2008 2 Comments
San Diego county had temps in the triple digits yesterday with less than 15% humidity. This is a scary enough situation, but we also got our first Sana Ana winds. Around 2pm a wild fire started on base about 6 miles from our house near the golf course. By 3pm ash was raining from the sky in our front yard. The news channels were covering the story so we could see the firefighters working to keep it contained. We weren’t worried. Not yet anyways. Even though the sun had gone down the temperatures had not and sometime around 8:30pm another fire started near our house. Two or three fire trucks charged up our hill followed by at least a dozen MPs. Everyone was out of their houses trying to figure out what was happening. Soon, folks were running down the street reporting back to everyone else about the fire right beside us. Neighbors started loading their cars down and leaving almost immediately. I stopped an MP in the road to ask if we needed to evacuate and all he said was “Stand BY”. Brett told me to go start getting stuff together while he went and checked out the fire. “Okay” Of course I came back inside and my mind started racing. “What do we take?” I pack the computer up. All our pictures are on it. I looked out the window and people were running past with their bags and babies. I saw a neighbor hauling their bed into a pick-up. Then came the panic attack. This was the first time since moving that I had “I want to go home” thoughts. I called my mom. No answer. I called my sister. No answer. I called the house. Daddy picked up the phone. Poor Daddy. I’m sure I made no since at all as I told him what was happening and started crying saying over and over again, “what do I take, I don’t know what to do”. And as i sat at the top of the stairs too frantic to function, Brett walked in the house. He calmed me down and took me to look at the fire. It was there. two buildings down from us; about 100ft from the closest door. Flames were shooting up and smoke filled the air. But they were working on it. Seeing it helped. We came back and decided to wait it out. Finally Brett had to get some sleep. I sat up with the doors open. Around midnight an MP reported over his loud speaker that the fire was 100% out. I still stayed up fully dress until like 3 in the morning. Today, I’ve started taking inventory of all our belongings for renter’s insurance. Last night was a big wake up call. I’ve also started a list of what to grab if we ever do have to evacuate. Today I am tired and i feel like I ran ten miles. Being a spazz sure takes a lot out of you.
What is your theme song?
08 Oct 2008 8 Comments
So I’m trying to generate more comments and I also want to learn more about you people who are reading our blog. I was watching the Ellen Show when this came to me. If you were being introduced on a talk show what song would be played when you came onto the stage?? What song says the most about you? What’s your theme song? AND If you could pick one for Me (Jessica) what would it be?
Disappointment
04 Oct 2008 Leave a Comment
I have always been a Mike Myers fan. However, I just finished watching The Love Guru. If you haven’t seen this movie yet. . . don’t!
