Two, and three.

Sucks. Also why is it that I always used to dream of an afternoon alone at B&N and now that I have it I find myself bored and restless and wanting to go back to the barracks and sleep.

So we get a fourday weekend yay. And I was on google talking with a friend about his recent marrage and my kids and FFVII and Texas A&M NOT SCORING BEFORE THE SECOND HALF AND TURNING THE BALL OVER ON DOWNS ON THE ONE. and this is one of the snippets from me: "... if you get your leg cut open its like... oh well suck it up.... but if you have to make your bed a second time it is fair game to whine " The army is weird to me somedays. I still don't feel like an army guy. I just notice army things more. I notice that everyone I know can expect to be deployed in less than a year(80% of us will be statistically). I notice that a HUGE number of us will lose girlfriends/wives because of the difficulties of long distance relationships(Wulfa you are so freakin amazing you just don't know). I notice that being fit is mostly about not feeling out of breath and not about feeling super strong all the time. I notice that HOLY COW that guy has hair on his face... who let him...

First let me explain a game we play: Rule 1) If you think about the game you lose. Thats all there is to it. Of course no one really remembers who all loses only who the last loser was. So if you find yourself having just lost you should probably tell a friend who knows about the game so that they understand that you lost. And thus they lose. Great fun and all. Also this weekend we(my class) had to move from Bravo company to Delta. Which was overall a yay thing. And then this morning we were told we were going to be sleeping at battalion because Delta didn't have beds for us. Upon showing up at Battalion the Sargent asked for a "highspeed soldier". I volunteered and was tasked with keeping the third floor clean and making sure everyone cleaned their rooms and wokeup on time. In exchange I get a lovely two man room instead of an 8 or 16 man room. Yay. Wulfa let me buy a PSP from my battle for about $40 two to three weeks ago. This has been an awesome purchase. I...

Me: "You can't have coffee til you've stopped growing." Orclette: "I stop growing!"

Frequently I wonder what the heck mom used to do with their little ones all day. Clean? Cook? Wow now I'm exhausted thinking about that. We watch t.v. And throw in little bouts of cleaning and cooking (pumpkin bread ftw!) and walking and going to stores. Has anyone else intentionally forgotten an item at Walmart/Target just so you could go back the next day? I have. I had good intentions. The Orclette and Miniorc would only be exposed to the best shows and preferably only watch the recommended amount of t.v. I don't even know what that is anymore. Then I found ourselves watching tons of t.v. After a restless night with the Miniorc I just don't have any energy to be productive. At least not until my 3-4 cups of coffee (thank goodness he doesn't seem to be affected by caffeine) have sunk in. And the best shows? Well, the Orclette does love Max and Ruby and tolerates Sesame Street. She has yet to view the other kids shows because I CANNOT STAND THEM. So I switch it on ove...

My computer is going haywire this morning. It's working but ... it's off . And my iPod is not charging. And my two computer guys are not around to fix it. I knew there were advantages to having Damm's brother live with us ... I had a very bright idea last night. See, I have a friend that we walk with Mondays and Wednesdays. Her schedule changed this week, however, so now I don't have anything to do those nights. I haven't spent a night alone since my mom left. I've made tremendous efforts to be out and about every morning and every evening. Helps the time pass faster. So we went over to the mother-in-law's house (she wasn't there-she was at a meeting) and walked our usual route in her neighborhood. And then I decided to make Snickerdoodles. Damm loves Snickerdoodles. I got the mixing/measuring stuff out. Couldn't get the sugar down without setting Miniorc down so I did that and ... wait for it .... Let the Crying Begin! He cried the entire time I was...

Here are some of the things I doodle during class. They are on horrible notebook paper and the lines are about as even as a three day drunk's walk is straight but the design is there. I plan to when I get home to a ruler... good pencils... and decent paper... redo some of them. Anyways. Here they are. Comments for each picture are below the picture they are commenting on. I think it looks like a bunny. There is a myth in here somewhere... but I couldn't decide what it was. This one I'm thinking of getting a tattoo of(the cross above). This one I did for a battle. He says he's going to get it on his back but keeps putting it off. A classmate asked me to draw the word army with thorns around it. There is another nice one in the form of two rings interlinked (making a figure 8) but it has all of our real names and we're not exactly keen on sharing those just yet.