Living on Post

Since moving to Washington just over one year ago Hubby and I thought living off post would be best for us.  We thought wrong, we just moved on post July 29th. I have to say it was the best move we have made in a very long time. Our neighbors are what makes living here worth while. In just 6 weeks I feel as though I have made a few life long friends.

Keyboards like coffee, too.

I have an addiction to coffee. It's like my version of heroin. I drink coffee at every chance I get. Aaron finds this to be a problem, because I  also seem to have an addiction to spilling coffee. Mainly, on his keyboard, actually only on his keyboard but who's keeping track (I think he is). I don't see the issue here, I think the keyboard must have a hankering for my coffee since it has yet to break by all this coffee drinking that its been doing.


A little history on this subject, I have a laptop and Aaron has a desk top. My laptop assured me that it was not an admirer of my coffee by not allowing me to use 16 of the 27 letter in the alphabet the one and only time I tried to give it coffee. I guess it was just too hot. I don't know, but the way it let me know was completely uncalled-for.


Now anytime I need to type, to Aaron's dismay, I use his computer. We have this on-going joke that he will divorce me the next time I spill coffee on his keyboard. We both know that if he ever did divorce me this keyboard would ask for me to be the custodial parent, since he never gives it the coffee it needs. Such a neglectful person he is. Plus he knows his life would be boring without me, so divorce is out.


Now if anyone should have a problem with the coffee spillage it would be my thighs, not Aaron. 90% of the time they get the shit end of the stick considering hot coffee burns skin. The point is Aaron needs to realize that this keyboard obviously loves my coffee, and he should stop getting so butt-hurt when I give the keyboard what it wants. Maybe he's just jealous, maybe he wants me to spill coffee on him sometimes too. Then again, I'm not so sure he would appreciate this cause the few times I put a cigarette out on him (totally accidental), he was not very pleased. He's not a fan of hot things on his body, can't say I blame him. The keyboard and I just need to come to an agreement of only sharing coffee when Aaron's not home. Yay, problem solved!
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How big is the Tooth Fairy?

My Brycie-Boy lost one of his front teeth! It has been wiggling for days, and he just could not wait for it to fall out. At 7 years old a lot of kids know who the real Santa/Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy ect is. Not my little man, seconds before his tooth came out he was eating a graham cracker and asked me "how big is the tooth fairy?" I said "I'm not sure, but she must be small to fit under your pillow without waking you."  Then BAM out came the tooth! He was so excited. I love that he still has this innocence about him.

Bryce decided he didn't want to put the tooth under his pillow, just in case it got lost under there. His plan was to write her a note and leave it with his tooth by the back door. Cause this is how she must get in, logic, he has it.

Hi tooth fere. here is my tooth i will be
 good and bye a apple. good night.

I can't wait to eat in Texas!

Since moving away from Texas (the best state in the entire US) I have decided to change my eating habits a bit. Not for the reason most people do this, you know to be healthy blah, blah, blah, but mainly because of the lack of good Tex-Mex and Mexican food way up here in the PNW. Don't get me wrong, I do want to be healthy and all this healthy eating has made a world of difference in the way I look and feel but I can't wait to visit home this summer and EAT all the Tex-Mex my body will allow. I already have dinner plans for my second night in town to eat at my favorite restaurant. They serve fried stuffed avocados! I can't remember the last time I ate something fried, so my body is going to hate me while my taste buds are going to say gimme, gimme, gimme, and fall in love with me. And I'm OK with that.

The kids and I will be leaving for Texas on Tuesday 6/28 and staying for 3 whole weeks. Hubby has to stay home and work, I feel for him, but not enough to miss out on 3 weeks worth of Texas bliss! People here in Washington say "oh, you're from TX I bet you like it better here where it's not so hot." I say "Hell no! It may be hot in TX but at least they have a/c everywhere you go." No a/c, what kind of a joke is that? I have not come across a single place here in WA that has a/c. It's just crazy to me. I know it does not get hot for very long here but it DOES get hot. One thing that WA has over TX is that it rains more than once a year so when you walk on the grass it's all plush instead of crunchy. This fact is not enough to keep me here though. When hubby gets out of the Army in 2013, we are moving right back to TX and I for one am counting down the days. The only thing I will miss is the view, now you can't beat that.

Family Update

So 8/7/09 was the last time I posted anything. I guess I got a little side-tracked by life. This time I am going to do my best to at least post once a week. I know the only followers I have are my best friend and my hubby, but this is more for me, kind of like an open diary. In the last almost two years A LOT has happened.

My-Randa went into the 6th grade and my worries about boys and drugs were nothing compared to how it really went down. She was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. She missed so much school and went to countless doctors. I spent months crying, feeling like I had failed her somehow. All I wanted was to make her feel better and I didn't know how. It was heart-breaking. It is not something I am up for reminiscing about right now, maybe another day when I'm feeling down about it I will talk more about it. But, she did make it through 6th grade after a lot of work and summer school, now we only have 2 days left of the 7th grade.

My Brycie Boy is almost finished with the 1st grade. He's a trooper and growing up so fast that it makes me wish I could have another baby.

Aaron (hubby) joined the Army in May 2010, so now we have moved 2,300 miles away from the home town we have all always known. This has been interesting to say the least.

This was just a little family update, I know it's not very interesting. Life in the dryer won't always be exciting. :) Every paragraph has a million stories behind it and I will share them as often as I can.

6th grade....Not sure how I feel about that!

School..School..School

It's almost that time again. We are on a count down, 17 days until school starts. This is a big year for me. My Brycie-Boy is going into kindergarten, and My-Randa is starting 6th grade. Junior High! Kindergarten I can deal with, I have done it before. Now 6th grade on the other hand, I am freaking out.

This year means boys, boys, boys. I am not in denial, I have 3 teenage niece so I have seen it. My sister called me to say she caught her 14 year old sucking face with a boy yesterday. Now what do you do with that? I also remember when I was in the 6th grade. Let's call him Josh, and boy oh boy was he my world! Kids are growing up entirely too fast today. Have you seen the HBO documentary middle school confessions? In this documentary, the little girls are talking about how cool oral sex is, this scares the living hell out of me. Josh and I only held hands, and rode our bikes to the park with all of our other friends.

Let me tell you, after watching this documentary I don't think I want My-Randa going to the park with a boy. Like all parents do, (at least I hope they do) I have had THE talk with her. She just says MOOOOM. I even got her a book about what her hormones are going through right now. I hear how her and her friends talk about Edward Cullen*. Oh he is sooooo cute, I want him to be my boyfriend, blah, blah, blah. Yes, I know, he is a fictional character, but that just shows she does have an interest in boys.

She was taken with this boy in her Taekwondo class, she would just giggle and smile and ogle the entire time we were there. Until she did something to embarrassed herself, so she no longer wants to go back. Her dad, her grandma, me, and her instructor all tried to get her to go back to class, but she has not been in 2 weeks. Boys are not the only thing I worry about with her getting older, but we will leave the rest for another day.

If you have any advice for me, please let me know. I need all the help I can get with this milestone. On the other hand, if you have the same fear let's compare notes.

*Edward Cullen~ Photo above. For those of you without little girls, Edward if from the Twilight book and movie series. I am not going to lie, even at my age, I have read the books. Twice. Don't judge me, unless you read them for yourself. If you already have, yeah go ahead and judge away.

If only I could say... I won the lotto!

Last night was Texas Lotto night, and everyone has the dream to win it, including me. I am just going to have to keep on dreaming since they don't carry luck in the stores I shop at. Why do we even play? Is it just to throw our money away? I have a plan for that money, and I am not a selfish person. With this economy, everyone seems to be down on their luck. Although what's down for Dick might seem like a good life for Harry.

Now, on to my plan. Depending on how much I were to win, I would buy as many 1200 square foot homes as I could. Then I would get the word out that I am looking for families who are truly down on their luck. I would select as many families as home I have and let them live there for one year rent free, in order to get on their feet. Now when that year is over, I will charge a fair amount for rent. I bet you are thinking , well that's not very helpful, and you would be wrong. :)

I will let these families live in my homes for as long as they would like, all the while they will not know that I have a bank account that I am putting their rent into, for them. I will take care of all the homes upkeep and taxes out of my pocket. When the time comes that they are ready to buy their own home, I will say surprise, here is all the money you have ever paid to me. I want you to have it, use it any way you please. Although I would rather they use it for a down payment on a home, but hey, it's not my money.

This is just one of the things I would do for others. I have so many plans for that money, if I were to ever win. My momma always said, treat others as you want to be treated. I feel that I am genuinely a good person.... most of the time, and I believe in Karma. I also believe that I must have been a horrid person in my past life. Oh well such is life right? I will just keep dreaming. Give me your heart felt story of what you would do at lifeinthedryer@live.com