that when my husband was younger he was a Massachusetts State Champion of bowling?? I know it's not much to brag at-well I think it is but I average less than 100 each game. Well he leaves Friday for Iraq and one thing we wanted to do was go bowling one more time. We usually go every Monday and on Saturdays my kids bowl on their league but tonight I bowled a 156! That's right-156 and my husband had a completely off game and I WON!! I never win! I have a year's worth of bragging rights! Yes he beat me the two other games he played but those don't count....I beat him, I beat him, nanny nanny boo boo!
Everyone is gone! My in-laws have made it back to their own abode! I am ready for just US again....normal hours, normal nights, normal eating, normal interaction, normal normal. Soon it will be completely not normal. We are counting down the days and they are coming quicker than we would like. We are not sure if Shane is leaving Saturday or Sunday.....tonight is his work Christmas party and I am in charge of taking polaroids of all the little ones with their daddys. Then once I have produced photo we will be making ornaments for the kids and ornaments for the dads to take to Iraq for their Xmas tree over there! Should be a little chaotic since most of the kids are a little small but hey it will be fine right? Hope all of my adhesive dries quickly and everyone is happy! Did anyone watch the Oprah where she made her favorite Pomegranate Cosmo?? Well I followed her recipe and Delicious! I'm not a vodka fan either but they went down quite smoothly! Enjoy your Tuesday!
So we got all caught up in the holiday hoopla where the XBOX is concerned. I was out at midnight to two stores trying to find an XBOX. Waiting in line after line only to be turned down. I even saw people sleeping in tents, in line, outside Target waiting for their 8am opening. Can you believe that? I thought man. This is what it was like for my parents looking for the ever elusive Cabbage Patch Doll. In the morning woke up and went to the PX(military mall) and there they were. We got one! So Christmas morning we didn't put it under the tree...my son opens his gifts, which consisted of clothes, board games, DVDs, nothing high dollar. His sister is getting her IPOD....so we ask after everything is opened if he had a good Xmas. His answer-a little...then he goes to the restroom no doubt to cry while we bring out the box, the XBOX. He comes out claiming he's okay and everything is fine, which I'm sure he's wondering where's my effin IPOD and sees he has one more box. And this is what I got... How sweet it is. He wasn't expecting it. He thought he'd be one of the ones waiting until January to get one. He didn't even ask for it. He had saved his own money for it. Man he must've been thinking that was one big IPOD!! On another note-realized why I get such shadows on my photos....my hand blocks the flash!! Duh!! At least I finally figured it out!! I thought it had to do with lighting and such and it was user fault all along! Whew-I thought my house had bad lighting! In-laws are gone and everything was fine...missed my parents tho'. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I have gained some weight this weekend!
My white tree is here...It is white...it is bright...it might be considered tacky to some...but I love it. The great thing is that when you turn the white lights off and just the colored ones glow-the tree looks..... PINK!! A perfect pink, a beautiful pink, a pink like the ring I want for Christmas-not a natural color by any means but pink just the same. I feel good around pink. What color makes you that happy? If they had sold a pink Christmas tree at Target today I would have a photo of that one instead. Enjoy your holidays!!
Okay so I'm off to find a white Christmas tree today-I have never done white before but I've always wanted to! Usually we do real ones but seeing as our Christmas is Nov. 25th I don't believe a real one will last long enough until the real Christmas! On another note went to a small family run Circus that came through town and can't post any photos because it was almost pornographic!! The women all wore see through leotards!! I could see nipples and there was a blond russian contortionist.....even my 12 year old son was drooling and clapping wildly during completely silent moments-CRICKETS anyone? She was putting herself in spots my husband can only imagine-I felt bad I could'nt stand on my hands and spread my legs like no woman should be able to and hold it for minutes. It was obsene. I always wonder what type of people are traveling around performing this way and not in Barnum and Bailey?? Are they prison escapees? Pedophiles? Drug Addicts? Or just normal people who love what they do? I would like to know. Has anyone noticed Cathy Z. is an instructor for Albums Chicago...so is Becky Higgins, HS, Ali E., and others I don't know that well-I am excited! I saw that Donna Downey is going to be the new SS QVC guest! It seems to fit completely. Have a great week everyone-my in-laws arrive tomorrow so that should be.....exciting? Take care!
I'm home!! It's been a long week. We had to empty my childhood home of thirty years of memories, memorabilia, and junk. We had a major sale, gave most away, and really learned who were friends. I could not have survived without my family, my friend Kelly, and my new good friends who were there all along-my neighbors. The work they will continue to do I can never make up for-EVER! That's a hard thing to swallow. I can only try and be so nice to someone else when they need it! I am ready to retire this whole depressing attitude of being parentless and I'm starting tonight with the perfect margarita. I just sent Shane to the store for some Cointreau and I will gather the rest. Tonight is UFC on Pay-per-View.....yes my husband is addicted to it and since he leaves for Iraq in two weeks I will gladly pay the fee, supply some food, and mix the drinks! I really need a party. So to my scrapbooking friends I checked out Recollections-holy cow! I spent my allowance for the year and am still waiting on the truck to pull up with my new stuff. So this is where my parent's rest at Quantico and the next is my family home...hopefully another family will have as many wonderful thougts about it that I do. Well to the next post of happier thoughts! Oh and Mel my Christmas is Friday-I've barely started shopping-at least my house is decorated. thank you house
My Sustaining Friends That's how I feel when I think about the past month. It looks like Shane will be leaving December 3rd for Iraq. All of our weekends until then are full with things that must get done. We must go back to Virginia to close out some things, we have a function we must attend the following weekend, the next weekend Shane's family will be in town and then the following weekend he leaves-Can I make time stop for a minute-everything is moving way too fast-I need to catch my breath-WAIT! I feel so down, not jovial-my dad died and then I will be dealing with the absence of my husband-HOW can I get through?? I've thought alot about it and I realize that I will be SUSTAINED by my friends. My life long best friends will get me through by phone, my CKU friends I will party with twice next year but I will have a group of girlfriends here that will get me through as well. My sustaining friends. The ones I will be crafting with, eating with, laughing with, crying with, and we will be there for each other for all of us will be without our husbands and some of us don't have fathers to help support us. I will be sustained. I've been telling myself this for days now. I will come out okay-sustained, sustained.
