Homesick

Hi friends (hi mom), 


I'm feeling a bit blue lately and I've decided it is because I am homesick.... not to be confused with being at home, sick.  


Nope, instead, I miss my house.  

I don't really miss the house itself.  It wasn't anything special.  I don't miss cleaning it, or not having a dishwasher, or paying for it every month or my major pain-in-the-patootie, hoitie-toitie neighbors that ended up being part of the reason we left.  


I miss the stability we had when we lived here.  I knew when Hubs was coming home, I knew I needed to cook supper for us, I knew that we could plan for spring and planting the garden (that's lie, I actually only planted the garden one year and it was with pumpkins because they get planted so late that's all I had time to do by the time I got around to it!) 

Things in my life are in a bit of an upheaval and are unsteady and this is not at all the life I was living when we lived in our home. (Someday, I'll get into it a blog post, but today's not the day.)


What life is right now, however, is the ride I signed up for when I fell for this guy. 

This guy who likes to do silly things like this:

photo courtesy of MonsterJam.com

This guy who loves me and supports me and my dreams the same way I support him.  I have his back.  He has mine.  We're a team.


(anyone else immediately think of the Reliant K lyrics, "we should get jerseys, 'cause we make a good team" ... no...just me.... I'm ok with that)

We'll be settled again eventually, but for now, I'll opt to pay rent and not have to worry about property taxes because I know that soon, very soon, it'll all be back to normal... whatever that is  ;)


'Til then, I'm just keepin' the faith that it'll all work out the way it's supposed to.  After all, there is no other way, is there?

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." -Jeremiah 29:11  NIV

Randomness in all its glory

Hi team.  How's life been treating you?

Mine has been...ugh....random.  I've been lacking in routine since the holidays and then this big of crapshoot of a snow/ice/sleet/yuck storm has been dragging me down.

However, since Hubs is traveling for work and he had a Monster Jam in Tampa, you know I wasn't about to miss out on the chance to soak up some sun!

To kick off the ramblings, here's a bit about my trip to Tampa:
*the flights there sucked. Due to the weather, my flights got rescheduled and the day I was planning to spend gallivanting around Tampa with Hubs was spent in three airports.
*Airports give me the heebie-jeebies.  It seems like they are just a big germ-pool of compressed air passengers. Don't get me started on the actual planes and the icki-ness.
*Got there and spent two whole days in jeans and t-shirts!  No jackets or hats or gloves to keep track of!  I saw my shadow!
*But it POURED during the entire show on Saturday night.  Cold and wet for three hours...not fun. (but the guys got a freestyle win, so that was good.  Go Max D!)

*We also had our own hotel room... I peed with the door open and everything! I'm such a rebel! (I pee with the door open at the house now, too, but it's only because Little Man opens it while I'm in there and says, "What you doin', Witnee?"

Other ramblings:
*New nephew is set to make his appearance tomorrow at noon (scheduled c-section for the SIL).

Isn't she gorgeous?!
(And won't she be thrilled when she sees herself on this here Internet and I didn't ask her first?)

My duties surrounding this birth is to keep the house in order, the dogs fed and watered and be on call for whatever the fam needs.  (And to do a lot of my own laundry and cleaning while they are all at the hospital.)

*Oldest dog, the hairy one, had some sort of skin allergy or something a couple weeks ago.  Vet gave him steroids and some antibiotic to keep the areas he broke skin from scratching from getting infected.  Vet also told me to stop giving him treats and switch his food completely.  The food he and the other two were on had the main ingredients of corn, beef and poultry by products.  Guess what? EVERY freaking dog food on the planet has those three main ingredients or some sort of them.  EXCEPT (from what I could find) for the organic stuff that had lamb and rice in it... and it was $50 a bag.  That bag of food is gone and I bought them a different brand today with corn, beef and poultry by products.  Here's hoping the skin thing was a fluke... I can't afford $150 in dog food per month.  (ok, I could, but would rather not).

*My truck really needs a bath, but I'm afraid to get it washed because I'm afraid the doors will freeze shut with me inside... it's weird.  I know. I'm weird.  I know.  And, therefore, the truck's still dirty.

*I'm really missing my dishes.  Isn't that silly?  But they are all packed up from when we sold the house and moved in with Hub's bro and family.  Oh, my dear Pistoulet, I'll see you again someday soon!

*The clutter in our current living space is making me crazy.  I want to pitch everything or at least get it out of my sight.

*This snowy weather is bringing me down, dude! It's making me cranky.

Here's hoping the big warm up (and melt down) come through like the weather people are saying it will.  

Sunshine does a body good!

No news is good news....right?

oh dear blogger buddies... I need you.  (and those are not words I mutter often... I am very much a Rosie the Riveter type!)

But here's the situation... I'm missing my Hubs.

You see, he's gone to work and won't be back until (hopefully) Thanksgiving.

He's gone truckin' with a team from here...

He does a lot of work on this truck...

(that's him... the baldy at the bottom of the truck... isn't he cute!) (photo courtesy of sassyfrazz.blogspot.com)

And always before he's stayed in the country.  But this morning, he and the the majority of the Freestyle Mania team are crossing the border into Mexico.  They're en route to Guadalajara (or as he refers to it "good-a-la-hair-a")

After the freestyle mania show there this weekend,  they'll head to Mexico City for the next weekend's shows.

Then they'll book it back to the border, hopefully get across without any incident, and be home in time to have turkey day with their families.

In the meantime, I'm doing a lot of this....

And this weekend I'm going to do some (ok, a lot!) of this....

All to keep me from doing this...

(Cute pendent courtesy of Indypendants on Etsy!)

(I'll also be go to a wedding and cleaning my abode -- and the commode! ha ha ha!)

I'm only going to be talking to the man of my dreams a small amount unless there's an emergency.  So we're going with the "no news is good news" policy.

But all I can do until then is pray and try not to worry.

In the past, I never would have told the entire Web that my hubs was outta town, but I (thankfully) am not living alone this season, so I'm not as bothered by it.  (I now have 4 mean attack dogs that live with me and the landlords!)

(I would also like to mention here just how much I heart the Google Image search - It's the handiest thing eva!)

I am not one to typically push my problems or worries or religion onto anyone else, but this time.... well, it's different.  If I had to get him home, I can't do it with a quick flight.  There's another country's border patrol involved...and they carry machine guns!

Anywhoo, whenever you and your family say your prayers tonight (and the next two weeks) throw a quick one in for the Monster Jam team.

Please.

Purdy puhleezzzeee

Pretty please with a cherry and sprinkles and top.

Thanks.

You all rock.