Waiting for the storm

There's a storm set to hit the area tomorrow morning.  Right now it's cloudy, but not a flake of snow from the sky.  I imagine tomorrow it will be coming down like some kind of real life snow globe.

This is also the calm before the storm of orders.  I'm waiting eagerly and dreading the arrival at the same time.  Hubby is still (last time I knew) thinking about getting out of the service and that worries me.  It also makes me pretty pissed off.  I can't and won't discuss any of this with him just yet.  We've agreed not to talk about getting out until he gets orders.

Today was a hard day for me.  Yesterday Hubby had slept in until nearly ten am and that really pissed me off; it set me up to have a bad mood today.  We were woken up by the Little Guy letting himself out of his bedroom.  Hubby sat up and said he was going to get do-nuts.  I left to go change his diaper.  When I came back to our room, he was snoring away.  He eventually woke up and got the donuts, after I scolded him a bit.  

Today was the last day of the weekend and of course the Offspring were bouncing off the walls.  They wanted to climb all over me, screaming, sliming, and hitting me all the time.  Good Lord, that drives me nuts.  I had to get away for a while.  I had lunch with a friend and then went to the university to promote the business.  I got a coffee and made contact with a potential hostess.  

It's been a while

It's been a while since I've blogged.  We had a hell of a week last week.  The temps warmed up after many days of snow.  It also started raining like a son of a gun.  So we ended up with a quite a bit of slush on the roads.  It was so bad on Monday that Hubby and I had to call a tow truck to get out of the drive way.  

As I was getting my van out of the drive way, I noticed my car had been gratified.  The word FUCK was scratched into my driver's side door.  Damnit.  I'm working with my insurance company to get it fixed.  

Just to make Monday a perfect day, there was a power outage.  Why?  Because an avalanche took out the town's hydro-power station.  Again.  Damnit.  This just happened in April last year.  Now, it's happening again.  In the middle of freaking winter.  When we rely heavily on electric for heat and light.  Fuckin' AEL&P.  Last time this happened, I cut back on energy usage by half and still had a nearly $400 electric bill.  I'm so ready to leave this town.

Things on the Hubby front are at a standstill.  I had my own session with our couple's therapist on Thursday.  It went better than I expected.  Hubby had a separate session today.  I'm happy that he's going, and hopefully working on some stuff.  I don't know I feel still about him getting out of the service and going to college.  Almost everyone I talk to about it thinks it's a bad, bad idea.  

One thing I wish Hubby would do is to let me know about some of the improvements he's making to himself.  I've told him I've done some reading, going to make some attitude adjustments, and I wish he'd do the same.  

Sicko

I've come down with some kind of upper respiratory crap.  I've had three days of fever and coughing.  I feel like crud.  I'm the world's worst sick person, I swear.  

The snow hasn't stopped.  But why should it?  We live in Alaska and it is winter after all.  We got a foot last night and we're due for another foot tonight.  It took me about 20 minutes to shovel out my car today and that was just a half-assed job of it.  I'm ready to move out of this town and state.  I need some warmer weather.

Hubby is thinking about getting out of the Coast Guard.  He wants to go to college full time.  I guess he wants to use the new GI Bill to live off of and I'll work full time as well.  I don't know how I feel about this.  I've been at home with kids or going to school for the last few years and the last time I worked full time was in the Army.  Part of me wants to let him do it.  Part of me says hell no.  Part of me wants to make his life a living hell when doing it.  I'm really upset that he wants to get out of a pretty decent job right now when the economy is in the toilet.  I'm not going to think about it too much though.  If I do, it weighs me down.  

-8 degrees

It's -8 degrees right now.  That's freakin' cold.  I can't wait to move out of Juneau.  

That's all.  Have a nice day.  :-)

No new stuff in '09

It hit me on Christmas that we have way too much junk in the house.  The kids have enough toys, crayons, clothes, play-doh, shoes, etc to last them a while.  I've made a New Year goal not to buy any new stuff for them until we move.  Now, I'll still buy diapers and food, and things they really need (ie: if they suddenly grow out of a pair of shoes) and toiletries.  

So far, it's been going good.  I haven't purchased anything other than food that I really needed in about a week.  I was at Costco last night and saw the book, Marley and Me.  I just saw the movie on Sunday so I really wanted the book.  I didn't buy it though.  It was something I wanted, not needed.  I'll see if I can find it at the library or used book shop.  

Knitting supplies also fall under "no new stuff" rule.  I've recently wanted to start learning to make socks, but won't for a while.  See, if I start making socks that means purchasing new supplies.  I won't purchase anything new till we move out of town.  For now I'll just use up the stash of yarn and needles I have.  Less to move in a few months anyway. 

We're on day 5 of snow.  Yes, 5 days of snow.  It's frustrating.  It's a pain in the ass to sweep off the car every time I go out.  It's annoying to kneel in snow while buckling kids into car seats.  It's troublesome to have my wiper blades frozen and not cleaning my windshield properly.  I can't wait to move out of here and defrost for a few years.  

I didn't sleep well last night.  My aching back kept me awake for a long time.  I'm dragging ass and in pain, and cranky today, so I'll be headed for a nap soon.  Lord know I need one.  Then I might not be able to sleep tonight.  

three years in AK.

I'm counting down the days till we get orders.  The detailers should get to the BM rates in March, and I can't wait.  This has not been an easy three years in Juneau.  The first summer it rained and rained.  It changed to winter when we broke all snow records and marked 16 total feet.  Then, the energy crisis of Spring 2008.  This winter has been very, very cold.  I'm ready for some sun and warm weather, for sure.

The panhandle has been hit by some kind of wicked storm system.  We're on day number four of snow.  We've gotten I don't know how many inches of the stuff but I'm ready for it to be done.  I did playground duty today and walking in the playground in that deep snow really screwed up my back.  

Speaking of my back, I'm in unbelievable pain tonight.  I whole back is just throbbing, and the pain pills haven't touched it.  I don't know what I'm going to do.  Maybe hot packs and yoga tonight and a muscle relaxer before bed.