Ok, so I know i promised to journal everyday during this 400 days...but clearly life is going to sometimes going to get in the way of that goal. I was hoping to blog through the holidays, butthe opposite of having freetime happened and i found myself wrapped up in my parents visit, spending a night with my sister (who gave my dad jaegermiester!!!) and then getting abck into the swing of work and school after almost a week off!
So where are we now...most of you i talk to on a fairly regular basis, so i think i've caught you up on life since thanksgiving (which by the way is a sucky day to have a birthday!!)
We attempted to welcome santa up on the base with a pancake breakfast that ainslea hardly ate, and as the time drew closer for santa's arrival via coast guard chopper my patience was thin and there was no possible way of waiting in a line that stretched halfway across the airplane hangar.
So we took a quiet picture of the kids on an elf's lap instead and left after the helicopter landed delivering a very relieved looking Santa. It wasn't ideal, but with no significant other to hold a place in line while we watched the landing, there really wasn't any other way to hold back my "joy" standing in a long line of happy military families who are all together for christmas! BAH HUMBUG
Unfortunately life didn't get much easier the rest of this weekend. Ainslea flat out refused to do her chores of putting away luandry, sweeping and emptying the trash. I had planned a second holiday outing this weekend with her friend brandie but took that away when she hadn't produced results in time to go. I didn't however reneg on the sleepover with brandie, mainly because i don't like disappointing the other kids, but also so i could have the reciprocal sleepover from the other mom next month!
Sunday was our first snow so AInslea and Brandie went for a romp in the snow for a while and had a good time. Lorelei has a cold so i wasn't going to let her outside in 20 degree weather for an inch of snow! Not much to report, but really glad it happened on a sunday so we could sta
y inside make a fire and do nothing! AInslea was finally done with her chores around 2pm sunday so we did have a decent afternoon of playing on the red wooden slide that i had as a child.
So where are we now...most of you i talk to on a fairly regular basis, so i think i've caught you up on life since thanksgiving (which by the way is a sucky day to have a birthday!!)
Plymouth Plantation was an interesting adventure, but not an annual "pilgrimage." Travis has safely arrived to Kuwait where he's essentially in a holding pattern until they make "room" for his unit to get to work...seems odd, but hey, its the us military!!
We talk on the computer as often as we can, but now Lorelei equates ALL goings on involving my laptop as talking to daddy, which makes it difficult to get anything internet related completed unless she is strapped in a chair or asleep (hence the lack of posts)
And now I find us hurling through the holiday preparations at what needs to be lightspeed in order to survive everyone else's merriment.
We attempted to welcome santa up on the base with a pancake breakfast that ainslea hardly ate, and as the time drew closer for santa's arrival via coast guard chopper my patience was thin and there was no possible way of waiting in a line that stretched halfway across the airplane hangar.
So we took a quiet picture of the kids on an elf's lap instead and left after the helicopter landed delivering a very relieved looking Santa. It wasn't ideal, but with no significant other to hold a place in line while we watched the landing, there really wasn't any other way to hold back my "joy" standing in a long line of happy military families who are all together for christmas! BAH HUMBUGUnfortunately life didn't get much easier the rest of this weekend. Ainslea flat out refused to do her chores of putting away luandry, sweeping and emptying the trash. I had planned a second holiday outing this weekend with her friend brandie but took that away when she hadn't produced results in time to go. I didn't however reneg on the sleepover with brandie, mainly because i don't like disappointing the other kids, but also so i could have the reciprocal sleepover from the other mom next month!
Sunday was our first snow so AInslea and Brandie went for a romp in the snow for a while and had a good time. Lorelei has a cold so i wasn't going to let her outside in 20 degree weather for an inch of snow! Not much to report, but really glad it happened on a sunday so we could sta
y inside make a fire and do nothing! AInslea was finally done with her chores around 2pm sunday so we did have a decent afternoon of playing on the red wooden slide that i had as a child. Today was another story....after a night of waking up to every cough from lorelei, i was RUDELY awoken by the burglar alarm at 545am! I instinctively walked out to shut it off in the complete darkness....not a good sign that thats my instinct, but whatever. Unfortunately, i was too freaked out after i realised i didn't know what area of the house set it off or if it was a true alarm. The girls didn't wake up (another bad sign for real emergencies) but in this instance it was ok. SO i turned on the lights indoors and out and looked in the snow for signs of outdoor footprints. I was hoping travis was going to be online so we could chat about it, but no luck there either. SO i called ADT to find out where the trouble was from, and it was from a window in my bedroom. These windows have caused us many issues in the recent months so i was only somewhat concerned that it was an actual alarm and not a fault signal as in the past. The woman on the phone offered no sympathy at 545am for my "alarm event" and just nailed one more nail into the "i hate ADT" coffin. If only i had more time, i'd find another solution to this predicament!
That was bad thing #1
Bad thing #2 was my ordeal at the post office trying to get travis's first overseas package off. Now we don't really know when he's set to be in his workplace, but we have a general idea, and if the mail proceeds him then all the nicer for his arrival. SO the lady behind the counter immediately tells me that my package won't arrive "in time", to which i respond, thats fine. Mind you i arrived at the post office at 9:04am to a line of at least ten people and had another 10 mintues drive to get to work by 930am. SO she then walks away to grab a piece of paper which somehow indicated that my package had to be sent by Dec 4 (4 days ago) to be in time...to which i again responded, its fine. What is she expecting me to say??? Oh ok, nevermind, i don't want to send my husband his espn magazine and some dunkin donuts coffee??? DUH lady, just take the stupid package and my money so i can go to work!! As travis would say, "stop telling me my business devil woman!" One thing after the next, she got my stamp order wrong, kept giving me subtotals after i asked for each other thing i was there for (as if i was not going to be able to pay for everything so she should warn me before ringing it up) At this point its already 925 and I just want to get out of there. I hand her my $50 bill (that'll learn her) to pay and she thanks me and my family member for their service to our country. Now of course, if that had been the end of that i would have politely smiled said thank you and been on my way.....but noooooooo....she couldn't stop the trainwreck from happening now....she then proceeds to wish me a very happy holiday season! Now i get that some of you at this point are saying to yourself (where's the trainwreck) and in a day to day business transaction that would be a pleasant adieu. However, you've already told me my supposed christmas package won't be in time, you then made the connection that my loved one is in a foriegn country far far far away and if i'm sending him something, he won't be here for xmas...so why in all thats holy would you think that MY holiday is going to be a happy one?????? FOr crying out loud lady, i didnt need to drive the remaining 10 minutes to work, late and crying!!! Last time i stop there before the new year!!!
Bad thing # 3 was really a compilation of annoying salespeople at work, not understanding the sales process for Google Adwords, having a corporate guy try to throw me under the bus during a multi-level conference call for another product i manage which is riddled in flaws, and then spilling white-out on my red sweater!!!
BAD DAY.....got a teensy bit better when i spent the afternoon watching christmas specials on my bed with the girls and didnt' put the dishes away, clean the kitchen or make any type of food product. Microwaved casseroles is the way to roll somenights!! So it wasn't completely a wash, but definitely looking forward to next weekend where pam and barry are babysitting the girls in NH so i have some one on one time with me myself and I!
That was bad thing #1
Bad thing #2 was my ordeal at the post office trying to get travis's first overseas package off. Now we don't really know when he's set to be in his workplace, but we have a general idea, and if the mail proceeds him then all the nicer for his arrival. SO the lady behind the counter immediately tells me that my package won't arrive "in time", to which i respond, thats fine. Mind you i arrived at the post office at 9:04am to a line of at least ten people and had another 10 mintues drive to get to work by 930am. SO she then walks away to grab a piece of paper which somehow indicated that my package had to be sent by Dec 4 (4 days ago) to be in time...to which i again responded, its fine. What is she expecting me to say??? Oh ok, nevermind, i don't want to send my husband his espn magazine and some dunkin donuts coffee??? DUH lady, just take the stupid package and my money so i can go to work!! As travis would say, "stop telling me my business devil woman!" One thing after the next, she got my stamp order wrong, kept giving me subtotals after i asked for each other thing i was there for (as if i was not going to be able to pay for everything so she should warn me before ringing it up) At this point its already 925 and I just want to get out of there. I hand her my $50 bill (that'll learn her) to pay and she thanks me and my family member for their service to our country. Now of course, if that had been the end of that i would have politely smiled said thank you and been on my way.....but noooooooo....she couldn't stop the trainwreck from happening now....she then proceeds to wish me a very happy holiday season! Now i get that some of you at this point are saying to yourself (where's the trainwreck) and in a day to day business transaction that would be a pleasant adieu. However, you've already told me my supposed christmas package won't be in time, you then made the connection that my loved one is in a foriegn country far far far away and if i'm sending him something, he won't be here for xmas...so why in all thats holy would you think that MY holiday is going to be a happy one?????? FOr crying out loud lady, i didnt need to drive the remaining 10 minutes to work, late and crying!!! Last time i stop there before the new year!!!
Bad thing # 3 was really a compilation of annoying salespeople at work, not understanding the sales process for Google Adwords, having a corporate guy try to throw me under the bus during a multi-level conference call for another product i manage which is riddled in flaws, and then spilling white-out on my red sweater!!!
BAD DAY.....got a teensy bit better when i spent the afternoon watching christmas specials on my bed with the girls and didnt' put the dishes away, clean the kitchen or make any type of food product. Microwaved casseroles is the way to roll somenights!! So it wasn't completely a wash, but definitely looking forward to next weekend where pam and barry are babysitting the girls in NH so i have some one on one time with me myself and I!
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