I have come down with a full-blown cold! I’m miserable. I didn’t sleep well last night at all. Rob had got home around 10pm and he sat down next to me on the couch and I fell asleep on his shoulder. He helped me to bed and I slept good until around 3am. I went and laid in a warm bath for an hour or so, hoping that the steam would unclog my nose, but no such luck. I took a decongestant and I slept until around 8. I feel like I should go back to bed, but at the same time, I don’t. I’m so snotty right now that it’s just not even funny. Well, I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I can’t stay here.

TTFN

I’m officially a terrible bowler. Nah, I haven’t bowled in 2 weeks and I’m still sick. Scores are nothing to write home about, so I’m not…hahaha!

I have a great team though…I lost a bowler tonight. What a shame. At least, though I don’t have to worry about hurting anyone’s feelings. I didn’t ask him to go, he asked if it was okay with me if he left. I didn’t have a problem with it, but it is still sad to lose a teammate to another team (and it was even harder because he bowled better on that team than he bowled with us!)

I’m exhausted and I’m going to bed now, but I wanted to write some tonight. I saw the paper today! My pictures are all over the place! Yeah, me!

Well, TTFN.

It seems that this week won’t end. Why is that? Fast as it’s gone, why is this week still here? Aside from being constantly busy, there are things that happened this week that I just want to leave with this week and leave it here forever and ever.

I hate 2 phrases: “It’s always been done this way” and “We can’t do that…” UGH! It seems that’s all I hear these days and I don’t like it. Well, how do you know that you can’t do that if you’ve never tried it? And to be honest, I don’t care how it’s always been done in the past. This isn’t the past, it’s the present and we have to deal with the circumstances now, not then. Yes, there are lessons to be learned from the past, so that the same mistakes are not made again, but that’s all. Wisdom and experience can only go so far, especially if the situation has changed. That’s part of the reason company’s like to hire young people. Because they have new, innovative ideas for change–not because they’ve been doing things a certain way for 30 years…or whatever.

Anyway, just a few thoughts that I’ve had for a while. I just needed to articulate them and what better place to do that, but here! That’s what it’s for, isn’t it?

Well, there’s no rest for the weary. Today, I had to go to FRG Leader training and then Rob came and picked me up for lunch, which was really nice. After that, I walked over to a neighbor’s house for a few minutes. I rushed home, found a message in my inbox, responded quickly, checked my messages on the phone, called back, left again. I was home for all of 10 minutes. Poor Casey didn’t get his afternoon walk. I got home around 5 this evening, completely exhausted.

Finally got Casey to go on a walk later this evening and I decided to change it up a little bit, so we went a different route. I thought I heard Lilo crying, but I wasn’t sure, so I called her name. Sure enough, she was crying. She got locked inside an all but abandoned building. I tried to pull on the door, which was locked, but pulled apart slightly. I didn’t want to break the lock or the door, so I didn’t try that hard. I ran over to the firehouse which is a block away-knowing that they should have master keys to all the buildings. So, of course, breathless, I ask if they can unlock the door. They say that they have keys to every building except for the building that Lilo is locked in because MWR controls those keys. So, I walk back to the building because the firemen said that they would be there in 5 minutes. I waited for nearly 45 minutes and Casey was out of control, so I walked back to the house to drop the dog off and that’s when the firemen showed up. I ended up calling the MPs and then they gave me the number to the firehouse. When I talked to them, they said they went into the building but didn’t see my cat. I know for a fact she was there, I could see her and hear her crying. She was rubbing up on the glass, as well. They came right back and got the door open and I rescued Lilo.

I know that she’s not an indoor cat and she’s trying to get out right now. I let her go twice this evening, but I think that she needs to stay in for tonight. She’s pretty cranky and it doesn’t help the fact that Casey keeps chasing her all over the front room.

Well, it’s bed time. Thanks for reading!

Things in my mind get blown so far out of proportion that I make it out to be worse than it actually is. Phew!

Things are going so well. I’m so happy. So unbelievably happy. As for the FRG, I am so happy. Things in that area are just going so well. My families seem to be pretty happy and I’m getting a lot of participation. As we prepare for a chaotic time, everyone seems to be taking everything in stride and we’re working so well together. I’m so happy that it’s working out.

Whomever is praying, thanks. I count my blessings each and everyday to have the opportunity to continue to serve those who serve. I am richly blessed with 4 families. My own family, my parents, my husband’s family and my Ohana-the FRG.

Well, I must close. I have a big day ahead of me tomorrow.

Hi!

Well, it’s been a pretty dull day around here. Took the dog for a walk down to the shopping center and we had lunch there. Came home, went BACK to the shopping center because we needed a small amount of groceries.

Someone said something to Rob at the bank today and I can’t help but wonder what it was about. He doesn’t seem to know and it was so vague…My thoughts keep coming to it. I don’t know what to think about it, to be honest. Is there a problem that needs to be addressed that I can solve without airing the problem to the group as a whole, or is it something that a lot of people are thinking about right now? I don’t know. It also makes me wonder if someone is going behind my back and talking! I’m at a loss right now.

Well, anyway…Rob’s making steaks for dinner tonight and I need to finish the laundry.

Nothing interesting going on here today. I have to go.

This weekend my husband and I went to Munich! Oh, how I love that city! I could live there if I could afford to! Munich is definitely in my top 5 cities of all time!

The weekend started out by the alarm clock that didn’t go off. We wanted to be out of town by 5 AM, but we didn’t get out of here until 7:30. We drove all morning and got to our hotel. We actually put the street in our GPS and it turns out that there are several streets with the same name. We ended up driving an extra 30 minutes because we went to the wrong place to begin with. When we finally got to the hotel, we checked in, dropped our stuff off and headed to the Oktoberfest. We easily found a table inside the Ochsen fest-tent where we were greeted by several older German couples. One gentleman that we sat next to said that his sister lived in El Paso and the other couple lived in Munich. We had a grand time. The waitress said that we only had a couple of hours there, so at 4 pm we headed off to some place else. We walked around inside the Hofbraeu tent, but there was no seating available. We settled in at the Augustiner tent where we met a young couple from Munich. After we were done there, we walked around Oktoberfest and Rob and I did some shooting games. Rob did well…I did not. That rifle was heavy! Not like an M-16 at all!! Then, we walked around and rode a few of the rides and around 11:30, we headed back to our hotel room.

I guess Rob had gotten a message on his phone shortly after Karee and Brandon Brown had their 2nd baby! They had a little girl that they named Ellie Grace. She’s so precious and a little bit of a squeaker! Very sweet.

Anyway, after we had breakfast at the hotel, we checked out and the gal who worked there didn’t know anything about VAT forms so, we paid like 31 euro in taxes! She also didn’t charge us for the breakfast and much to the chagrin of my husband, I asked if she had charged us for the meal (and I hardly ate anything!) so then we headed out to a BMW dealer so that Rob could get a look at the new M3. Well, at this place, they did not have an M3 to show us, so we headed off to the Deutches Museum. It was much different than I expected. I’ve been to a lot of museums, but this was the first time that I had seen a pretty modern one. I expected something else, I think, but it was fun all the same. There was so much to see, and definitely not enough time in a day to see everything. I know we’ll have to go back, but it’s taken me 6 years to finally see it, so I don’t know WHEN we’ll go back to it!

We finally drove home and a 3 hour drive was more like 4 and a half! Traffic was slow as molasses on a cold winter’s day-uphill! and the trucks were trying to pass each other, so of course that slowed the show down a lot. We were in 2 or 3 stau’s (traffic-jams) and we were moving like a herd of turtles. I was begging Rob to go see the Browns, though he wanted to wait until today to go. It wasn’t yet 8pm, but he thought that it was too late and that Karee and the baby would be sleeping. As it happened, she was walking around the hallway with Ellie and the baby was a little fussy because she was so hungry! She’s a little squeaker! HeeHee.

Well, that’s all for now, I can’t think of anything else that would be interesting. Have a nice day and thanks for reading!

Last issue of the newspaper, I had an article and a half published and this issue I have like 4 or 5 pictures and 2 stories (and one I didn’t even write alone…though to be fair, he told me 8-10 words and I didn’t realize that he was being sarcastic) and I wrote like 5 sentences. He wanted a few more than that. So from now on, I know that 10 words really means like 10 sentences. LOL!

There’s not a whole lot going on this week, but I think I am going to do a couple of stories on my own. There’s this really old guy who works at the library and he’s really interesting…then, I found out that there’s this OTHER really old guy that works as a volunteer at the USO and they’re shutting down in November. Then, I was at ACS today to get some VMIS stuff taken care of and I ended up talking to the Mob/Dep manager here and when I went into his office he had TONS of boxes of food. The USO and ACS are teaming up together to welcome home the Soldiers that are deployed. There are a few more gone than I thought, but I guess that’s just the way it is right now.

I have another FRG function to go today and I have to go into work tomorrow afternoon. Normally, I don’t work on days that I have PWOC, but if I want this video to get up on the website by the 4-day weekend, I HAVE to get it done tomorrow. There simply isn’t enough time!

Last night at the Coffee group, Laurie had given me some jeans that were (seemly) too big for her and I put ’em on today. They are SO comfy! Speaking of, I need to write a thank you note. Well, gotta go!

Thanks for reading 🙂

I’m a sicky! I have a really bad ear infection! Yea, you read that right! It’s been hurting for a week or so and it got really bad the last few days. I finally went to the doctor’s office and she took one look at my bad ear and she was like, “Oh, yeah! You have a lot of fluid behind your eardrum.” She made me pop my ear, but it really hurt to do that and she said, “Yeah, I can see that it did!” So, she gave me some antibiotics and said that if it doesn’t get better in the next couple of days that I have to come back and have it looked at again.

I found out today that my friend Phyllis, a girl I went to high school with, is pregnant with her 4th child! Her oldest is like 14 and her youngest is 6 or 7. I know that it’ll be a big change for her. She’s working as a manager at Wal-Mart, and LOVES her job, so I know that a new baby will put a crimp in her style. I hope her kids will help her out a little bit…they’re old enough, so that she can still work.

There are lots of babies that are going to be born in the next month or so in the FRG and I can’t wait! I love babies. I always think that I’m not sure I would like my own children. My pets frustrate me so much, that I wonder if I would even be a good mom. Oh well.

Enough for now. I’m going to start preparing dinner. I was thinking about breakfast for supper. I sent Rob to the store to pick up some eggs so I can fry those up. Yummmm!

Thanks for reading and have a great day! 🙂