Washer Woes…
My washer is broken and it really sucks. I have a ridiculous amount of laundry to do but I can’t do any of it. On the bright side the reason it is still broken is because the maintenance guy at my apartment told me that if I can hold off until Tuesday (well Monday technically but schedule dictates Tuesday) I can get a brand new washer. Apparently the ones we currently have are so old the parts are going obsolete and are therefor more difficult to find and the complex just got a budget for new appliances. Good timing for my washer to die I think. So, I am sucking it up until Tuesday, then I will come home from work, bask in the awesomeness of the new washer and do boat loads of laundry…yay? Is it sad that my life has fallen so low that I am excited about a new washer? I guess that is an entirely different matter.
My sister is coming out in less than a week! I am excited and so looking forward to it. I need a break from life and this will hopefully be exactly what I need. I feel bad because I can’t get days off from work but the reason is valid and I will explain it sometime later, whatever the case I have sadly limited how we can spend time here but my sister is awesome with finding stuff to do even in time limits so it will be great. We at least have some basic plans already set up, the fair, a free concert, I am sure she has found a bunch of other stuff. It also kind of depends on the weather, she is excited for the rain but it can limit our options as far as stuff to do goes. I am sure another cooking adventure will take place, I think there was a deal that this time she would cook for me and I will absolutely call her on since I love home cooked food but I hate the effort it requires. I am a generally lazy person, I get bored with it but the output of energy usually just isn’t any fun. Of course it always depends but my preferred thing to do is sit on the couch and watch movies or play games, things that don’t require much, its sad but true. Anyway, sister’s visit…should be good fun my current challenge is to get that room straight (also made worse because of the washer situation), she says she would be good so long as there is a bed and a path to it but I really want to do better than that so I am trying. I have made a decent amount of progress, at this point I can probably get the space for the bed and the path but I am trying to do more, it is not so easy, husband has a bunch of stuff that he *still* has not sorted even though he keeps telling me he will be getting it done. I think I am just going to try to condense it down into the minimum number of boxes and just throw it somewhere…like at his head 
We will see how it all goes I guess.
New Phone
Woot! I got my new phone a couple of days ago. It is awesome! I got an Iphone 4 which is nifty but it is so great to be able to get signal inside of my shop and all over the base. I am really excited about my phone even though I don’t know all of the nifty things with it. I am also super excited because my sister has more solid plans to come out to visit which is fun times. I think it is going to be an annual thing, come out and play at the fair and kick back in Washington, maybe this time around we will make it to Canada.
Silly People…
So I just got my second part of the month’s check and I am trying to get a hold of someone to verify that my travel plans have me home for fun festivities but no one is answering! Very frustrating, I have called my sister and my mother as well as emailed my sister. I want to buy the plane ticket because prices for now seem to have dropped and I want them before they go up again. Saving money is always a good thing for me. I am about to buy the tickets and just hope that I don’t miss anything fun but I want to hold off if I can. Silly people, making things difficult.
I was also supposed to get my books today in the mail but they haven’t shown up yet and I am a bit bummed. Today would have been the perfect day, hubby is stuck at work until 8 so I am home and I have already cleaned up some and I still have a couple of hours. It would have been a really good time to start the classwork that I need to do. Oh well, guess I will just wait and hope they show up soon, I guess I can also check the office before I take off to pick him up too, maybe the delivery guy is just late.
I’m Done
I have family issues. I have spent the past however many years bending over backwards and biting my tongue and even groveling and apologizing for things that aren’t my fault and hurt me so that I could keep peace in my family. I have spent a lot of time jumping through my mother’s hoops so she can be happy with me and we can have a decent relationship and with her hoops comes her husband’s. The fact that I should have to jump through his hoops at all is stupid but I did it. Now, I’m tired of it. I have reached my limit. We finally got it set, the former room mates have no problem with my husband and I staying at the house, great, all should be good because that was the only issue. Now? Guess what, dear mother’s husband refuses to attend if my husband attends…really??? My husband can suck it up and tolerate the dude if he has to, he can be civil and he can deal with it but this supposedly grown man is going to stomp his feet and say I’m not going if he is….ugh! I don’t want to make my sister’s graduation a battle ground, I won’t do it, I will not have her be upset about the day like I am about my wedding but I am also determined to do everything I can to be there. I am broke so this may be a struggle and a very short trip but I want to go to be there for her. I sent my mother an email which quite possibly will start a war between us but I think at this point even my father would agree that I have done more than enough to try to keep the peace, I have gone to extremes and sacrificed myself and my happiness for her and her stupid little husband…I’m done.
Sorry if you get dragged in to this sister, I am trying to keep it all separate, if she calls you just tell her it isn’t your problem and you are staying out of it…
Tsunami worries…
I am 136.7 pounds! Woot! I love actually losing weight, it feels so good and what is even better is actually being able to see a difference in my body. I didn’t used to feel like I could see much of a difference, at least not where I wanted there to be but right now, I see a difference. I am super excited. So to mix in with losing the weight I have started something for toning which will also be helping lose weight…my secret? Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred…it is kicking my butt. I have had it for three days and unfortunately I have only been able to use it for 2, the other day time just didn’t allow for it at all, but just in the 2 days I have lost more weight than before and I have been hurting! It is quick 20 minute workouts that you look at and don’t think they would do too much or hurt too bad but they do. I am just using level on for a bit then I will start level two and probably mix in one and two to keep my body from getting too used to anything. I really like Jillian Michaels and I stumbled across the 30 day shred a couple of times but this last time I actually checked it out and saw nothing but positive reviews (ok, so there were negatives but they were from people who hadn’t actually tried it and were just upset about trainers in general being on DVD’s and saying they never work and are just stupid, I don’t count those) and the reviews talking about people who after 2 or 3 weeks had seen big changes and were losing inches already. It wasn’t just one person who said that, it was a bunch so I figured I wanted to tone and I wanted a good workout and all it really needed was hand weights so why not? I am so far glad I made the choice. Even hubby was watching the workout yesterday and he was surprised. We ended up scrolling through the other exercises and he is going to try it, he is going to adjust it to make it harder, use level 3 first then just start doing all of them together, but he still thinks it will be something good to try. He is only going to use it for about a month until he can get a hold of his P90X but the fact remains he is going to try my girly DVD so it obviously can’t be too bad.
As ever I am broke. I am tired of being broke but hubby has said that he will start chipping in more to me since I am paying our bills. He can’t afford a lot but at this point anything really helps. He is kind of bummed because it means he won’t really be able to save but part of that is because of a big payment of his we have to make, hopefully after that final payment in June we will both actually be able to save. We also hopefully are still on track to have the stupid extra car payment paid off by November which will give us a lot of extra money so I am excited. I also have a debt of mine getting paid off in June, it is small, only $50 a month but even that little bit helps. Part of the problem is gas…gas money is killing us. We have to get me to work and then also take him to work and switch the car in between somehow because he usually gets out way later than I do. I usually end up just getting off of work and going to his work and just hanging out at his shop for a couple of hours until he is off so I don’t use a ton of gas going home. Luckily he is at a shop that is in the mall so I am going to start bringing a change of clothes so I am not spending all of my time in uniform and then I will go wander the mall or something. I can’t really shop but hopefully I can keep myself busy for some hours. There are game stores and electronics stores and housewares stores and I am still trying to hunt down a kitchen store because I could lose myself in one of those for a long time but there doesn’t seem to be one. I am also reading, yay books! I have missed them.
Speaking of books…I finally have time to read them! Can anyone guess why? I finally took the stupid test! I no longer have to study for it! Unfortunately I only got an 85% and I really was hoping for a 90% minimum but I still passed. I just was so angry about not doing better, the practice tests I was taking I had been getting 95% for the most part and I was confident. It seems that review questions should give a person a fairly good idea of areas they actually need to study and some of the important things and yes they did that a lot, however, a large chunk of questions were out of absolutely nowhere. There had been no real concentration on them or even vague mention of them, I was asked them on the test and wondered if they had even been in the books! I was really unhappy at myself for not doing better but it is done now and I can relax. Now I am looking toward taking some college classes and getting my CCAF associate’s degree. I have kind of missed college classes so hopefully it will be fun plus I should be close to my associate’s anyway with the classes I took before. I have to wait a couple of months for my transcript to get sent in and for them to process it and once that is done I can really see where I am.
And now the event of the day: I woke up this morning to a call from hubby saying call your mother, there was an earthquake in the Pacific and they are going to get hit by a tsunami (further search of the news it was an 8.8 in Chile if anyone hasn’t heard yet). Wonderful! (sarcasm people, I don’t actually think it is wonderful so don’t take it wrong and think I am horrible) So I try calling my mom and her phone goes straight to voicemail so I call her house. Her husband answers and let me know she is at her new apartment building but very nicely without me even saying anything he tells me they are not really in a tsunami area and should be safe with no worries. I was happy to hear it and thanked him but called my mom anyway. She said pretty much the same thing, supposedly her part of the island hasn’t really gotten hit badly before and she isn’t worried about it, there are sirens going off on the Marine base but that is about it and it makes sense for the military to be on high alert with something that could be so potentially damaging , they need to be ready to offer assistance if necessary. As I said, my mom wasn’t worried at all, I got off the phone with her so she could go on about her day and the construction on the apartment. After that I called hubby back who tells me there is warning all across the west coast, awesome! (sarcasm again) so I flip on the news check out the internet and it looks like anything that hits the coast shouldn’t be too bad, mainly they are worried about harbors and the boats and whatnot in the water. Whatever the case I sent a text to my sister telling her she had better be ok since she is so close to the water and to let me know especially after 1235 which is when they are saying it should be the last time for the tsunami to hit. Who knows, it is Saturday and she may be asleep and she might just sleep through it, here’s hoping it really won’t be that bad.
Happy almost Christmas Eve!
It’s almost Christmas Eve and therefor almost Christmas! I am excited though nervous, I have no idea how this whole cooking Christmas dinner is going to go, hopefully well. Tomorrow my mom is cooking tri tip and somethings for a good tasty family dinner. I am excited, I haven’t had tri tip in a while and it is one of my favorites. We went shopping today and bought all of our stuff for tomorrow’s dinner as well as Christmas dinner and I have to say it is a lot of food. The menu my mom set up for actual Christmas dinner doesn’t seem too hard, mashed potatoes, green been casserole, turkey, stuffing and cranberry stuff. Sounds tasty so hopefully it turns out just how it sounds.
Other than the Christmas stuff things are pretty good. Hung out all day with my mom which was actually pretty fun. Obviously we did the shopping but afterward we went to get our nails done and then hung out at the house and watched some TV. We didn’t fight or stress and it was nice and fun. Tomorrow I think we are hanging out again though I may have to switch that so I can go buy her some stocking stuffers. I have no idea what to get, I need cheap but still good and I just cannot think of anything. My sister has tomorrow off as well so maybe I can run off with her at some point and she can help me find stuff for both my mom and her husband. I also would love to get something for my husband but that won’t be happening. I am way too broke and technically I already got him something, I just gave it to him early. He can deal without a gift, he will probably appreciate it, he doesn’t really have money to get me anything either. Instead it will just be trying to get time together before I head up to Washington. He is staying here for another couple of weeks so he doesn’t leave people at work hanging during their vacations. After that he should be packing up and heading up to me. I am really excited, I can’t wait to get us out there and see what happens.
Kicking The Habit
I have finally kicked the habit. What habit is that? Waking up so darn early. I have gone a couple of days an managed to sleep in (and I mean really sleep in, to about 11) each time. I think my body has officially realized that I have no reason to be up at 5 or 6 in the morning now, yay!
Went to Disneyland yesterday, knock one off of my list of theme parks. We went on a Walk in Walt’s Footsteps tour which was actually kind of interesting though I am not sure it was entirely worth it. It was a birthday gift from my mom to her husband and he didn’t seem very grateful or really interested at all honestly. Oh well, she was excited about giving it and he wasn’t being really mean about it so maybe he was and he just has his own way of showing it. We went on lots of rides, had lots of food and watched some shows. That’s pretty much what there is to do at a theme park, right? Sister only ended up working for a couple of hours instead of four which I was super happy about because for some reason time seemed to really slow down when it was just my mother, her husband and I. We wanted to see the fireworks, it was one of the big things of the night but unfortunately about a third of the way through they got canceled, it was a bummer but it still snowed. Maybe I can see it all together next year or something. I also lucked out when her husband was actually willing to leave early. Usually he won’t leave until the park closes but last night, whether it be because of a very grumpy set of sisters or my mother’s poking, we made it out about an hour before.
Overall it wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be and so far the time with my mother isn’t going too badly. There were a couple of moments where she said something that could have really irritated me but it was less than usual and I just had to let them go, or at least bite my tongue. I expected this trip with her to be a lot worse than it is turning out so far, it is far from over but hopefully it doesn’t get bad.
California!
So I got to Cali a couple of days ago and things are interesting to say the least. The family dinner was not nearly what I was expecting, not the happy fun it usually is. This year was an interesting one and we just have to see how they go next year, hopefully they stay good for some and get better for others. Talked with hubby, been talking with him. I don’t think I am really going to post anything until it is all finally set by my standards but at the very least there is a lot of stuff to work through for both of us. This will be an interesting few weeks I think. Other than that not too eventful yet, today should be visiting the house and starting to decorate for Christmas while my sister attempts to cook some random thing I stumbled her online. I will of course leave the decorating occasionally to peak my head into the kitchen, talk to her and keep her company as well as make sure she doesn’t burn the house down. We were discussing some of her cooking experiences last night and have decided she has an odd knack for creating new creatures…blobs and things that jiggle and move all on their own, lol. I will definitely be carefully watching.
I think…
I got food stuck in the holes from my teeth. Sister has reassured me and found information that says I should be ok, I love her for that (and many other things obviously but for now that is the most prominent). <3
Presenting…
Available in toy stores near you!
Hehe, got this stumbled to me and it made me laugh. I am a gamer girl and Halo is a big one (I’ve got a bobble head to prove it), thanks to my sister for sending it my way and yay stumbleupon for the random internet gifts it bestows on us.
