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I see your nerve…

  • Posted on August 30, 2010 at 9:36 pm

…and raise you one.

Last Monday, I got an email from one of the ladies at church asking the hubby and I if we would sing a duet for Singspiration the following Sunday evening. I let the hubby make that call since my knee-jerk reaction was to panic and say “No way.” But I made it through the music during vacation bible school and this didn’t involve any motion (aside from playing guitar), so I also didn’t try to coerce the hubby into saying no.

Now, why am I posting it? Well, I told a couple of folks who “demanded” to see video, and if I am going to go through the trouble of converting and uploading for them, I might as well get a blog post out of it. LOL

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Not one to back down

  • Posted on August 29, 2010 at 7:54 am

After all, Mel “double dog” dared us, and then called a few of us out individually.

Except for the grouchy face, I really don’t look much different when I first get up than I do after I have been up and around and “groomed,” sadly. :sigh:

A wash

  • Posted on August 15, 2010 at 9:43 pm

I was gone last week on business, and I expected to have the perfect environment to do some blogging. Used to be, all I needed was a quiet hotel room alone and I could write up a storm. Last week, not so much. For one thing, I was unbelievably tired and that was the most comfortable mattress I’ve slept on since the hubby’s old waterbed. Second, I was doing a lot of reading. Only made it down to the fitness center once, but I did work out that one time! That said, the day we all walked over to and all over one of the other buildings, I definitely got a workout particularly on the stairs.

Right now I am reading a book my best friend gave me about 10 years ago when our marriages were falling apart. Well, actually, she was going through a nasty divorce and I can’t remember if I had asked the hubby to leave yet or not. (He didn’t leave and we managed to work through our issues and have a much better marriage now than ever.) Anyway, this was the point in our lives (my best friend and I) that we put aside our “religious” differences (she’s Catholic and I’m Baptist, so you can imagine we had some major differences, which was why we stopped discussing “religion” while still in high school), and focused instead on what we agreed on. She sent me a Max Lucado book (No Wonder They Call Him The Savior) because she had been reading his books and loved them. Only I never finished it. Shame too, because it is a very easy book to read.

Because I said…

  • Posted on August 6, 2010 at 8:01 pm

…here’s a post.

LOL

So anyway, the hubby and kids have been gone to youth camp (hubby chaperoned) all week, and got back today. I have so not realized just how much they do around the house when until I was doing it all myself. Granted, I was only cooking and cleaning for one, but I still had to take care of the 6 dogs and 2 cats on top of it.

Oh, and yeah, Mittens is back. She came back extremely skinny while I was on vacation.

I quit!

  • Posted on August 3, 2010 at 9:25 pm

I wonder just how many drafts I have. Two show up in the dashboard. Looking at the dates I can only imagine what the one draft was supposed to be about. But it remains to be seen if this post will get posted or go into the drafts bucket.

Anyway, so if anyone is still reading you are probably wondering what I am quitting. I quit my job several times a day, or at least I tell people “I quit” several times a day. I think everyone thinks I am bluffing. I guess the fact that I have yet to clean out my desk and leave when I say “I quit” gives them that idea. LOL But, no, this isn’t about quitting my job.

I have considered shutting down the blog, but I keep thinking I might actually find the time to sit down and write again. Plus, I know how the 2 or 3 readers I have left love posts like this. HAHAHAHAHA

Nope, what I quit was the Facebook games. Maybe one day I will write up a post on the complete reason why, but for now, suffice to say they are taking up too much of my time. I also went through my Google reader and culled a bunch of blogs and stuff I had subscribed too. Pretty much same reason as the FB games, except I kept a few old buddies in to read even though you can’t tell because I rarely go to the blogs and read the full posts (for those of you who publish partial feed), and certainly only comment once in a blue moon.

Anywho, so I said before vacation that I would pick it back up after vacation and I’ve been back well over a week, so it’s time. It’s a post, and even a post that says nothing keeps the old blog active. LOL

Now that it’s over

  • Posted on July 8, 2010 at 8:11 pm

So with grad school done, what have I been doing? Obviously not blogging. LOL Well, I’ve been playing Frontierville, and wishing I could remember who sent me that invite in Facebook. Oh, by the way, I have 2 Facebook accounts so of course I am playing that game on both. That sums up my unproductiveness.

I have done a LOT of housework to include things I wasn’t doing even when I wasn’t in school. There is a story behind that, but I will save it for a separate blog post. I’ve also taken to cooking somewhat. That’s part of the same story as the housework. I fixed the push mower after it hadn’t run in like 9 months. (Weed eater is still pending.)

I started scripture memorization. I’ll also give the why behind that in a separate post. I’ve finished 1 Corinthians 13, and am working on the sermon on the mount. 3 chapters, none of which are short. That’s going to take a while.

And, I’ve started working out. This time, I am not just working toward one specific goal. I am going for a short-term goal (get under 200lbs by Labor day), mid-term goal (get below “obese” range around end of year), and long-term goal of around 155 (around next June). Last week was the first week, and it was awful. I hurt my knee (the good one, no less) last Thursday, and that curtailed my cardio somewhat for a couple of days. Naturally Saturday I was full on cranky to the point of verbal diarrhea. Hubby told me that I had both cut how much I was taking in, plus increasing activity so of course I was going to be tired and cranky. Well, turns out it was something entirely different, but I will spare you men the details, though I am sure you will figure it out just from that. If not, I expect some entertaining comments.

Now, all that said, I probably won’t even try to blog again for another couple of weeks. Next week is vacation bible school, and since I am a station leader (music), I actually have quite a bit of practice to do. The week after next I will be on vacation at my mom’s, where I can only get dial up.

Oh, and due to multiple dog escapes (Darci and a neighbor’s dog), Mittens has apparently decided to move. We haven’t seen her in a couple of weeks. *sigh* Black kitty aka Shadow aka basement cat is still kind of showing up once or twice a week. He was here yesterday morning and I petted him on his nasty head and told him to tell Mittens to come home because we miss her. I figure she is hanging out where ever he hangs out.

No, really

  • Posted on June 23, 2010 at 7:12 pm

I am going to start blogging again.

Eventually. :whistle:

I am done!

  • Posted on June 18, 2010 at 8:49 am

Key phrase “School’s out FOREVER!”

My final project/thesis/whatever was a turd, but pass or fail, I am done and ready to write about things I actually care about.

Update: The instructor has already graded my turd and gave me a B. WOOOHOOOO!!!

Memorial Day

  • Posted on May 31, 2010 at 7:20 am

This is pretty much a repost from last year. I haven’t received anything via email this year that tops this. I will add this though, the below cemeteries are identified as being just in Europe, but there are more than just the European cemeteries. Additionally, these are just U.S. troops, and (I think) just from WWII. But even if they span both World Wars, it wasn’t just U.S. troops who gave their lives. We had many allies who fought for freedom too. Those we fought paid the ultimate price also, and even if they were on the wrong side, they weren’t all volunteers (any more than all of ours were back then), and many of them also left behind families and friends. I have heard many times that Memorial Day began because of Confederate women who not only decorated Confederate graves, but Union also. One side in war wins, but both sides lose.

In alphabetical order, just Europe …..

1. The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne, France. A total of 2289 of our military dead.

aisne-marne

2. The American Cemetery at Ardennes, Belgium. A total of 5329 of our dead.

We are arrogant.

ardennes

3. The American Cemetery at Brittany, France. A total of 4410 of our military dead.

Excuse us.

brittany

4. Brookwood, England American Cemetery. A total of 468 of our dead.

brookwood

5. Cambridge, England. 3812 of our military dead.

cambridge

6. Epinal , France American Cemetery. A total of 5525 of our Military dead.

epinal

7. Flanders Field, Belgium. A total of 368 of our military.

flandersfield

8. Florence, Italy. A total of 4402 of our military dead.

florence

9. Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. A total of 7992 of our military dead.

henri-chapelle

10. Lorraine, France. A total of 10,489 of our military dead.

lorraine

11. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. A total of 5076 of our military dead.

luxembourg

12. Meuse-Argonne. A total of 14246 of our military dead.

meuse-argonne

13. Netherlands, Netherlands. A total of 8301 of our military dead.

netherlands

14. Normandy, France. A total of 9387 of our military dead.

normandy

15. Oise-Aisne, France. A total of 6012 of our military dead.

oise-aisne

16. Rhone, France. A total of 861 of our military dead.

rhone

17. Sicily, Italy. A total of 7861 of our military dead.

sicily

18. Somme, France. A total of 1844 of our military dead.

somme

19. St. Mihiel, France. A total of 4153 of our military dead.

stmhiel

20. Suresnes, France. a total of 1541 of our military dead.

suresnes

IF I ADDED CORRECTLY THE COUNT IS 104,366

Remind those of our sacrifice and don’t confuse arrogance with leadership

The unit to which I was assigned during my time in England held Memorial Day services annually at Madingly American Cemetery near Cambridge. That’s #5 on this list. I only attended one during my last year active duty, and it was a humbling experience.

John 15:13 (King James Version)

13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Never forget.

All photos from American Battle Monuments Commission.

15 years ago today

  • Posted on April 19, 2010 at 6:00 am

I was in AF Tech School with orders to Tinker AFB near (as in a suburb town away) Oklahoma City. The hubby was in Biloxi visiting me the week that the Murrah Building was bombed, and was the one who told me about it as he met me for lunch after my classes were over that day. Later, after we were at Tinker, he joined the Army Reserves and one of his senior NCO’s was in the Murrah Building the morning of April 15, 1995 when the truck bomb was detonated. She was injured, but though her physical injuries lingered to an extent, I suspect the emotional toll was much greater. She did not talk about it. There was a young lady in the 32nd CCS (my orders were for the 32nd, but that was changed to the 31st before I arrived) had gone to the Murrah Building that morning also. She had just gotten married, and went to the building to get her name changed on her Social Security card. She did not survive, and many of the friends I later made that knew her continue to mourn such a senseless death.