Delurking is Delightful!

I am a lurker...especially lately, I go from blog to blog, rarely leaving a comment, but thoroughly enjoying every minute of my lurking! There are sooo many blogs I love and visit everyday, and now I have started checking out their favorite blogs, I mean if I like the original blog then surely I will like their favorite blogs as well..does that make sense? I am currently finding myself drawn to entertaining blogs...I love to entertain and I would throw a party a week if I had the budget... that reminds me I should blog the efforts of my "Twilight" party it was a ton of fun!

Ok so is there an intervention for lurking?? How do you stop lurking and become a de-lurker, it feels awkward and unnatural to me at this point...

With the best of intentions...

So I am right around the corner from another move, thanks to Uncle Sam. As always I start out with a "plan", typically this plan involves me eliminating half of the crap from my house. Nobody wants to take "junk" with them to their next house, and I also happen to live with a man who thinks I "collect" crap, so if I don't want to hear him complain I think it's smart to rid myself of much of my belongings.

So far my plan to rid myself of "crap" has gone pretty well...that is if you pay no attention to the additional "crap" I have brought into the house in the last month or so. I mean come on we were having a great sale, and there were things I just had to have. Apparently V does not share my need to completely re-decorate my house every time we move, but he sure does enjoy having the nice things around!

The next part of my plan usually involves following one of the many handy dandy "countdown to moving" time lines you can find online. Of course a majority of these time lines usually start 6 weeks out from a move and I like to start as early as possible and in this case 6 months ahead of time, so I have to modify the time lines to fit my craziness. I am still searching and hoping I can find a time line more in line with what I think a time line should look like if you had 6 months to plan. Maybe I should just create my own... what a thought...

I'm pretty anal about moving, I have friends who are relaxed about their moves and do not freak out if the movers put bathroom towels in with their kitchen stuff, but not me this would send me into a complete panic. I make sure everything that goes in a box is in the same "category" and there are multiple categories in our house, it makes life sooo much easier when you arrive at your new home. I have unpacked our household and had all boxes removed from the house and everything set up in 1 hour in past moves, and we have a lot of "stuff". I'm good at this I've had a lot of practice.

I am not however even with all my anal retentive tendencies mean to our movers. We always have doughnuts, drinks, lunch and good attitudes with our movers. I've learned that this has ensured that more of our stuff arrives in one piece than some of the horror stories I have heard other military families go through. We are particularly sure to let the movers know what pieces we be devastated if we lost... for me it would be my art work and my zebra mirror, for the hubby it would be his TV and electronics, and all of these things have been packed with love and care on multiple moves overseas and here in the US without a scratch due to the careful packing of some amazing movers!

So I will be filled in these next few months with thoughts of moving and getting everything ready, we need to prepare our current home to leave behind and our belongings to be moved forward, I will need to get the kids school finished up and all of their records transferred not to mention prepare them mentally for the move and saying farewell to another set of friends. I will be dreaming of decorating a new and hopefully bigger home, I will be panicked in finding the "perfect" date to say goodbye to my job, and sending the hubby off to school while we do all of this and he can just fly back to drive across the country with us (lucky guy).

It should be fun times...here's to hoping I still have a full head of hair (with no more grey) when this is over...

Playing Catch up!

The last few months have been nuts so to sum it up quickly...

We had a homecoming....

We had a Fabulous Christmas....

Awesome New Years...


We did some bowling...

Traveled to our future home and hung with historical figures...

Watched our favorite team bring home a Trophy...again!...

Threw my favorite girl a party that included a 200 year old building and a knight!

I think that pretty much sums it all up, I hope that I can be much more on top of my blogging game from now on...

Anyone know where I can get some fangs??

Ok so the hubby's still not back, I had 19 people over our small house for Thanksgiving and I cannot put out my mountains of Christmas Decorations until the hubster arrives, which is probably going to drive me nuts.

So what's a girl to do?

I am now planning a super blow out 13th Birthday for my daughter. This will be her last party with her friends here in Kansas so we've decided to do it up. I gave her a few them ideas and of course she choose the one I have no idea how to pull together...Twilight. I've read the book and stood in line with her to see the movie, and I dig it. I just can't quite seem to pull it all together in my mind. The only thing she's requested is a celtic scroll design on her invitations and throughout the party and fangs for her teeth, cool ones, not the dollar store variety. I have approximately 30 days to pull it all together...this should be interesting.

Shaky, and cold and warm, and pukey

I feel terrible today...I am actually going to try and see if I can leave work and go home, something I never do.


I feel really bad, but I read this and thought get over yourself.

You sound like crap

Why is that when you're sick people have a way of making you feel worse. Please do not tell me I sound like crap or look crap...right now I am crap, feel like crap and possibly even smell like crap, so thanks genious for pointing out the obvious. And if one more person tells me to go for the day I may scream, because I have no one here to do my job!!!!! I can't go home when I'm sick, my co-worker is a completely irresponsible nasty fully time employee with what she must assume to be part time hours and so only comes in on days she feels like and someone has to be here. so no I can't go home.

This also means that as I skulk around the building with my crappy body, you better believe I am infecting all of you...haha!

This probably make no sense at all, I've had way too much Theraflu today.

A Letter of Historical Signifigance

Dear V,

I am so very very overwhelmed by this election, what a landslide. I hope fact that Obama being such a historian that he learns the lessons of those who came beforehand him. He has the Senate behind him and it's a very historic time for all of us. I hope that if you are a god fearing man that you pray for tolerance and a will for all sides to work together because I believe that we will need those prayers. I listened to the excitement from our children tonight and my sister's excitement tonight being able to vote for the first time in her life and it all gives me goose bumps.

We all need to move together and we all need to look to the future for our children and the future of our country and this is the man who will bring this to us. After such a long long election Obama owes not one person anything he has made no promises of cabinet positions to anyone and his campaign started from a literal grass roots organization and grew to be the largest ever, look at what this man has accomplished.

It gives me so much hope and I am vesting all of my hopes and dreams in our newly elected president. I will go to bed tonight praying for tolerance from the naysayers and a willingness for both sides to come together and see this for the "new day" that it is and I will dream that we will rebuild this great country that you and so many of our friends fight for and give up so much of yours lives to leave your families and bring democracy to lands that need it, I will dream and pray that this is the new beginning that we all need, red and blue state, black and white, women and men, we are now all in this together as we always have been.


I love you and truly believe this will improve your career and your service to your country, I am proud that the highest commander you will be serving is a young man who rose from nothing and climbed to the highest position in this land. This is our Man on the Moon, this is our generations historic moment.

I hope I will wake up with birds chirping in the morning knowing that you will be home with your family very soon and we can live this excitement together.

Come home to me soon.

Love

E