Only About 8 Hours To Go!
Woot! Hubby is finally on his way! He left last night but only got a few hours in before he stopped to sleep but he is back to driving now. He is past the Grapevine and my next worry is Mount Shasta since it will be mountain windy roads with possible rain and or snow. He is about 8-9 hours away though so I am excited. All I can say is it is about time! He kept running into a ton of problems when he was packing up the truck and he would call me all upset asking what he was supposed to do. I was just kind of sitting here most of the time wondering what the hell I was supposed to do seeing as I was in Washington. We think we seriously miscalculated the cost to fill up the tank but hopefully he still has enough money to get up here. Once we actually figured out how much it took to fill the tank we recalculated and he should be able to make it…hopefully.
I have just started to clean and get my apartment ready. I figure with another 8 hours it should be fine, this place doesn’t take a lot of cleaning. I just need to actually try to reorganize some stuff on top of the usual cleaning but even that shouldn’t take long because there isn’t a lot of ways to reorganize it. I am going to try to get some clothes out of the way, maybe put my blues and uniform stuff in the hall closet or something since I don’t use them very often, I’m not sure. I need a dreser or some plastic sealable bins to put my out of season clothes in but seeing as we aren’t sure he will have the money to keep up with gas I think I will wait before making any extra purchases.
I think snowboarding for this year is out. We were going to try to go this month but honestly I think it just won’t happen but he seems to be ok with that and even though I really wanted to do it I am fine too. At least I have the pants and jacket so I won’t have to worry about it next year. The plan at the moment seems to be get him here and then he wants to pretty much immediately try to start working again. Hopefully he can work at the shop on base to make carpooling easier but we will have to see. If not then my supervisor has already said it would be fine if I ride with her to work so it will work out one way or the other. Hopefully he can get a job really quick which will be extra money coming in. Obviously he brings in extra bills so if he is bringing in the money to cover them plus some extra it should be nice. On my own I usually have a little bit of extra money to play with so he should have enough to cover himself so we aren’t always stuck in the apartment. Other than that our new goal is to try to eat a lot healthier than we have been which may be hard on a budget but to also work out more. We have the gym in our apartment we may as well take advantage of it. With a little work hopefully we can both get to where we want to be and that will help us be happier in general, I know being more in shape is making me happier in general already so actually getting to where I want to be will be awesome. I actually ran about one and a half to two miles with out stopping the other day and the last time I did that was tech school before my waiver so yay!
I don’t know what to do with all of this…
Blarg, so Hubby got the Uhaul today which unfortunately is more money than I expected and so we will be broke for this month. Also he delayed in actually picking it up because of rain which means that he didn’t get it all packed like he planned today which means he has to finish packing tomorrow and isn’t just going to be him driving up and getting here ASAP like planned. Also, unfortunate is we think the guy who transferred our stuff to the garage stole a bunch of our stuff including hubby’s one of a kind pool cue, his speakers set he got for his computer, our XBOX 360 and our PS3. The speaker set hubby has actually seen in this guys room and he claims he just happened to buy this exact same set off of “some guy”, he also has a 360 with smudge marks and other marks that look ridiculously similar to the ones our 360 had. Irritating and frustrating, especially for me the loss of the PS3. I asked my mom not to trust this guy with our stuff and she ignored me, now hubby is angry in general which comes back at me and I am angry as well and trying not to put it on him for not sending all of the stuff up while it was being taken care of by the Air Force. I am just so frustrated in general, such a stupid situation and I am so frustrated. GRR! I don’t even know how to let all of this out…
The downside of vacations…
I don’t wanna clean…or pack. I guess I kind of have to though, anyone want to do it for me?
Hakuna Matata
The laundry is done, my room is cleaned and my bags are packed. I am not sure how I am going to lug my bags around, mainly not sure how I am going to lug my bags out of my room to the bus and drop off point when it is time to come home but I guess I will cross that bridge when I come to it. It would be easier if they weren’t planning to give me another bag on top of all of the stuff that I had to pack but it happens. I think I have everything cleaned out of the fridge that could go bad quickly so everything should be set. Now I sit back and enjoy the last bit of calm before the storm of insanity. I would try to hang out with somebody but they all seem to have left already so Disney movies will be my entertainment for now…Hakuna matata 
Anyway, so after today I will be offline for a week-ish and I probably still won’t have much to say except that I will be incredibly happy to have the week over with. This is all so high stress that it’s just making everything go so slowly, once it is done life can be somewhat normal and we can make our way to the holidays and December and everything that will bring. Actually, have to get through November first and I am really hoping to get my wisdom teeth pulled early November, I guess every month has its mountains to climb.
So on I go, wish us luck and I will write when I get back.
Just here.
Nothing like scrambled eggs and a big mug of tea in the morning. Yummy.
I think I have everything pretty much packed, just a couple of things I have to grab out of my car but for the moment I am just too lazy to go down stairs and get it all. This is really kind of a pain, this is so much extra stuff that I am not going to need and I have to lug it around now. Oh well, it is just for a little bit and then it is all over, a week left, that’s it.
Edit: I found it! I have been on a Peter Pan kick for the last few days and I kept thinking how much I wanted to watch Hook but I thought I didn’t have it. I thought that it was my sister’s or at the family house but didn’t remember seeing it in my drawers. Well I was poking around trying to decide what to watch for my mini movie night and I spotted it! I am now sitting here in my toasty apartment curled up and watching it, yay!
Sorry for the Delay…
Been a while since I posted and I am kind of surprised to see I still have some daily views, nifty. I love page views and seeing that people actually read, it’s just kind of fun and lets me know that I am at least kind of sort of interesting (sometimes at least).
I don’t know where I have been really, I just haven’t been online. I guess I just got into a mood that I didn’t want to play in the virtual world for a bit. I have been slowly but surely getting various stuffs together. I got my cat the shots he needs so he can be boarded and now both fluffies will be dropped off this weekend. I also got the certificates that state that both cats are neutered for my apartments so I have a cheaper pet deposit. My mom sent the money she owed me and some extra so now I can afford to eat, board the cats, pay the pet deposit and do what I have to do. Thank you mommy, I love you lots and appreciate it (she won’t read that, she doesn’t know about this blog but I promise you all I have told her that and she is aware of it).
Other than that it has just been work, running around stressing out and going crazy like everyone does before a major inspection. I have been promoted (kind of, not in rank yet) and have gone from supervised instructor to just an instructor. My supervisor evaluated the last class I taught which was only the second one I have taught and gave me the passing grade that lets me teach on my own now. I still have stuff that needs work but it is just stuff that comes in time. I also have more responsibilities at work now, a bunch of things that go into the training stuff and it’s kind of nice. I actually have a job and am making a place for myself. I still may not be doing a lot but I am finally doing something and slowly gaining more.
As far as socializing I got out last night with some people and it was fun. I was the DD and I am glad I was. Drinking has never been my thing but I am a people watcher and watching people drink and be drunk is hilarious. They got to shots after going through a couple beers and the conversations going around were awesome, some of those buzzed/drunk conversations that are too random to come up sober. We are having another party in a couple weeks so I am looking forward to it.
I booked my plane tickets back to Cali for the holidays. I guess the house is going to look completely different when I get there so I am excited, I like new and different things. Apparently they also have a lot to do to it though, they just found a couple of termite infestations so they have to tent and fix what is trashed. Hopefully everything will be put together by the time I get back. I decided to not cut the trip short and miss my family’s big dinner and I am happy about that. I am looking forward to it and one day, eventually I will pay for it. Maybe this year I can figure out how much it is (without being rude about it, I will have to try to be sneaky) and figure out how much to save for whenever I host. I also have to sort through all of the rest of my stuff when I get there so that I can figure out how much I still have to move up here. I love my husband but from what I can tell he totally half assed the packing and now I have to hassle with it anyway. It was something I really wanted to avoid, the Air Force was taking care of it so I wanted to just let them but in the end I am still moving myself. Bah, whatever. If he decides to move up here then he can pack it all up and move it and I will just sort it when it gets here.
That’s pretty much it, really not a very interesting bunch of stuff. I had a bunch of epiphanies a couple of days ago and I was so ready to write some amazing post but I lost it. By the time I had finished work and driven home I had no motivation left and my mind had lost some of what I wanted to write. I am hoping it hits again this weekend and I can put out something interesting for everyone before I take off for the week. Topics anyone? Questions? Anything? Guess we will just have to see what I can come up with…
Hopelessly lost…
Is my idea of marriage too old fashioned? I think I have just discovered that I am in a lower level than the rest of my husband’s family. He will work to improve his relationship with them even if there is potentially no possibility of it becoming a good relationship and they aren’t looking to improve it because they don’t see any issues, but he can’t give me the same courtesy. He will fight for a relationship with them but not with me. I married to be a part of someone’s family, not to be a little bit less than that person’s family. When I married him he was on a level of importance right with the rest of my family, I will put just as much effort into making my relationship with him work as I would with any of the rest of my family, perhaps even more in some cases. Maybe in the end I expect too much and my ideals are just too old fashioned or I am just too hopeless of a romantic. I don’t even know anymore.
My stuff got here, I have been unpacking. Hubby didn’t really sort it, you can tell he didn;t put much effort into it and waited until the last minute (even if he hadn’t called me during the process I could tell), he has a bunch of his stuff mixed it, stuff from when he was a kid that his parents kept. That means he didn’t even really look at the boxes very closely, just told the movers to pack it because all of that stuff was entirely separate from mine. Now I not only have my stuff that I don’t know what to do with but a bunch of his stuff too, great. I am mad enough in general that I would just throw it out, that is if I let my emotions take over, but I am logical too and know that childhood stuff can’t be replaced. I will store it until whenever I suppose, I just have to figure out where to store it. Having all of my stuff just all of a sudden seems to have put more stress in my life. I don’t really know why, all of a sudden I have furniture that I need to get refinished, glass to fix, stuff to unpack and clean, not enough space to put stuff, book shelves to buy, a ton of trash and recycling to take out…it was easier when there was nothing. Empty and lonely, yes, but easier. Oh well, not much can be done about that I suppose except to just work through it.
I keep hitting this wall, I start to work on stuff and then I just get so exhausted and overwhelmed and I just want to go to bed. That isn’t good because I have to do stuff before the family comes out, if they are coming out, I don’t even think they have plane tickets yet. Whatever.
An Early Weekend…
I have an early weekend! I am so happy, I get to sleep in and really relax and unwind without having to get up early. The day started out a little rough but it is moving better now. Hubby called me around 4 this morning and realized he had a lot of stuff to do before the movers came to pack all my stuff so I got to be with him on the phone for a while. Poor guy didn’t get any sleep at that point but he did manage to catch and hour or so eventually. I can’t feel too bad for him though, he totally did it to himself. I also had to go to an annual health check up thing. They ended up making me pee in a cup which I hate plus get an immunization and blood draw. I guess that is one of the parts of being in the military, you get poked a lot. After all of that though I got released to go home and called my husband and found out that the movers were there packing. I have been talking to him on and off during the process and they are moving fast, they should be done soon and he will have a room free of all of my crap, I can’t wait to get pictures. Supposedly I will have my stuff in about a week and a half and all of the moving nonsense will be done…unless hubby decides he is moving up here in which case there will be another chapter, but that’s ok. I do still have to take time off and drive back to pick up my cat and maybe some miscellaneous stuff but that is not a big hassle to me.
Anybody have any good (and fairly easy) recipe ideas? I need to plan out my menu’s in advance because I am trying to save as much money as possible. At this point it hasn’t really worked because I have to buy so much stuff to cook with that I still spend a ton but that should level out soon. This week has been tacos, sloppy joes and soon I will make spaghetti. It worked out pretty well and for longer than I thought it would so I am happy about that. I had chicken stuff the week before, soup, lemon caper artichoke chicken, that was all pretty good too. Unfortunately I am a little limited in my cooking skills and my amount of recipes so I need to start hunting for more so I can set up for this week. At some point I want to buy a crock pot or something and make stew and corned beef and stuff but I think that is waiting a little longer, I don’t necessarily have the money and honestly crock pots kind of scare me. The idea of leaving something cooking and unattended just doesn’t seem right and with my luck something will catch on fire (I already almost lit my kitchen on fire once, no need to do it again). I will branch out eventually just because you can make amazing things and don’t have to do much but for now I rely on the basics. I also need to buy a bread maker, I miss the home made bread we used to have.
Also, anyone have good budget ideas? I guess I already kind of know them all I just have to wait until I get really settled in to use them. You can’t budget as easily when your pay isn’t settled yet and you are buying stuff to set up for an apartment. Unfortunately I have looked at my money and I won’t have much of it soon. All of the bills leave me with very little left over cash. I can’t wait for most of the stuff to get paid off but I think it is going to take a while, I have 2 car payments (one of which is for a totaled car, must get gap insurance next time), a maxed out credit card and a bunch of stuff that hubby needs (including $9000 worth of dental work). I am already going to switch my phone plan, I think I will still be paying the same amount but overall I should be getting more stuff that makes it worth it, not to mention a signal at work. I am trying to put more where I can but it will still be a while of struggling. I have to turn in my orders to my car loan people (for the not totaled car) and have them drop my interest rate, that should help a bit. I already got my credit card interest rate dropped to 4% (I love USAA) and my insurance rate is dropped because of my area, so overall I think I have scaled back and saved a decent amount, it is just always nice to find those extra things.
So I guess I have just figured out what to do this weekend, budget, plan meals, cook, shop…honestly, it sounds pretty good to me.
