Monday, Monday, Monday...

I have a million things running through my mind right now. I need to recap the weekend first of all... sorry, I was a bad blogger again!

Friday...
I was so elated to know how lucky in love I was. I was missing my husband terribly. We had been out of contact for a couple of days and it felt like forever. I realize how blessed I am to have as much communication with him as I do. There are some of my seabee sisters who aren't as lucky. Yes, we call each other seabee sisters, honey! :)

On Friday night, we were all in agreement on the local Studio Movie Grill so I didn't have far to travel. Getting there was the nightmare. C & L in charge of the house. We went to see "the 4th Kind" and I haven't formulated an opinion yet. It totally clicked with my scifi side, but the fact that I know it was based supposedly on true events is what makes me like... hmmm... but I had fun. SW and her 3 sisters, MM, RM, SD, AL, and AW showed up. Remind me later, baby and I will tell you the initials...
I ate spinach quesadillas, had a hurricane whatever drink and a cup of water. and chips and salsa. food, friends, and fun. It was a nice change of pace. I left right after the movie and was home by 9:30-ish but everyone else went out for a drink afterwards.
Came home and watched Land of the Lost again with C & L. And then I was out. Didn't hear from hubby all day on Thursday or Friday...

Saturday...
Boy! The alarm went off at 6:30 AM. I planned on meeting AW and TR at the base gym for a workout. I hit the snooze a few times I must admit but once I was on my way, with no coffee might I add, I was on my way. Got on the treadmill first, did some weights. Cut it short after about 45 minutes to an hour. Everyone was asleep still when I got home. Started some chores until everyone woke up. Cereal for the gang for late breakfast. But for lunch... Yummy! Made breakfast including my southwestern style eggs- love those! Grits, bacon and pancakes. Boy was it good. I made Navy beans and we had the last of the meatloaf for dinner.
Nothing amazing happened. I did hear from hubby while I was at the gym though. The gym was nice, but hearing my hubby's voice was even nicer! So a pretty uneventful day but nice none the less. I did go to the post office to try to file my insurance claim for that laptop... Run around again... Got a beautiful card and letter from the hubby in the mail! And I was so tired after eating lunch that I put all the little ones to bed and took a nap for about 2.5 hrs!

Sunday...
Woke up again at 6:30. No snooze this time. Up and at 'em. Met AW and her 18 yr old niece and TR at the gym again. Started off with elliptical this time. 20 minutes and thinking of hubby the whole time! Whew! Can't wait for physical contact with you again, babe! Weights next. Then 5 minutes on the rusty old StairMaster in that joint. Hate that thing, but I want to conquer it. They were so surprised to see me there 2 days in a row! They were like the last person (with the 6 kids and all) we expected to see showed up. I really like AW. She is much older than me. Her youngest child is 22. But she is young at heart and has a great personality.
Anyway, when I got home from the gym this time, I was full of energy! No nap today! Did chores around the house all day. Elliebear cleaned her room so she could go over a friend's house. She must have been nervous as to my reaction to learn that her friends mom was "different", as she put it. Her friend has... 2 moms. The kid must get grief from other parents about their kids coming over or something, otherwise, why would Ellie tell me... I don't know. Doesn't matter to me as long as they are good people. I talked to her (the mom) on the phone. We agreed for L to stay over for 4 hours. She ate dinner (Chicken Express) with them. I picked her up at 7 PM. Cici and I took the kids to the park. They played for about 20 minutes. Daylight savings time has it getting dark so early now though, we had to leave. Ran some errands while waiting for L to get done and got some stuff to go into hubby's care package that is taking me for ever to complete. It was supposed to be for his birthday... It's very belated! But better late than never. I just have been so busy and stuff keeps coming up that I want to send. Just taking me a while to get organized. Made nachos for dinner. Yum! Had them with some of those premade oven burritos.
Watched Desperate Housewives. Totally forgot about the Cowboy's game but they won and I heard it was a good one. They played Philly. I also missed a Mavericks game this weekend. Geez! No time for sports. How sad. I also watched Dexter. Love that show. Princess and Bruiser didn't want to go to bed on Sunday night. We finally all conked out at about 1 AM. Sad, I know... But what could I do?

Monday...
I goofed around this morning trying to figure out how to get hubby's transcript emailed to him without sending it as an attachment. I was watching the clock, I knew what time it was, but that part of my brain that focuses on logic of the order of things was malfunctioning. So after I finished, it was the mad dash to work after dropping the kids off. I made it with like 2 minutes to spare. I had an excellent day as far as revenue is concerned. My sales were wonderful. My customer's not too ugly. It was nice.
I spent my entire lunch hour at the post office standing in line to get that claim filed. It has been done though. I am supposed to call the guy tomorrow to verify it went through successfully. He gave me another toll free TN to call once it's submitted to handle the reimbursement and how long it takes, etc. He was clueless like everyone else at the post office has been. But at least he knew what form and where to send it to. So, I will check on that tomorrow.
I also must remember to call UAPB for hubby to see if they got transcripts off successfully. Took peanut butter and jelly and bread to work for lunch today. Ate a sandwich and a cherry coke. Gonna' try really hard to cut out the Mickey D's, etc. Need to save some money and pay down some things. Criminey! That's another thing I must do! figure out my budget. 197.75
was cost for kids school pics. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. The pics were all so good! I am going to get some out to Daddy in his care package.
I got at the home address today, letters for me, Bruiser, Princess, Cici and Elliebear. That was so nice. Princess wouldn't put her letter down for most of the rest of the evening. Made hamburger helper with ground turkey, cornbread and peas.
One of the errands I ran was to find the right size memory card for the camera hubby sent me. He has one like it so I am sending him one as well. Hope he takes lots of pics to show us when he returns. I love his letters telling me about what he can while he's there. I know they can't be in too much detail, but they are so very interesting. And his mushy stuff is AWESOME! (in all caps) My hubby is such a closet romantic...
And now my camera is ready! Yeah! Going to take some pics at the FRG Thanksgiving potluck. It's next weekend and I am supposed to bring a salad dish. I hope the little ones table manners improve between now and then.
Oh. On Friday, my buddy from work got suspended without pay pending further investigation. this was the one who went to pick up that dress from Dillard's while she was supposed to be home sick. I hope she doesn't lose her job. She is a sweetie and so much fun.
I must say, I had lots of energy today and my arms were really sore from my workout. I am looking forward to next weekend though. Gotta get in shape for my honey! I love him so much and I need to be able to keep up with him! :)
My love, I hope you are taking care of yourself. We are all missing you! Can't wait to see your smiling face again... Outside of a photo. "I've been looking so long at these pictures of you, I can almost believe that they're real. I've been living so long, with my pictures of you. I'm starting to believe, that the pictures are all I can feel." More lyrics from my all time favorite band, the Cure. I can so relate to their music and lyrics. Genius! Goodnight, honey!