One Busy Summer

I’m sorry for not posting since APRIL. Jeez, I hadn’t realized it’d been that long until I stopped by my blog the other night. I thought for sure I’d posted in May or June.

Updates – lets see. First off, my brother and his wife came to visit us back in May. I cannot express in words how absolutely WONDERFUL it was to have them here. When it was time for them to head back home, of course I sobbed like a fool. I just hate having to say goodbye to family. Both my babies are truly my offspring since they cried too lol. They arrived on a Saturday morning and stayed until Thursday evening. I enjoyed them being here so much and can’t wait until we can either take a trip to see them in Tennessee or they can come back to Dorothy’s neck of the woods .

Husband took a job on post. I think the first few weeks were hard for him…but he’s liking it more now. OR he’s telling me he’s liking it more lol. I’m sure it will take him a while to get used to civilian life, but we’re on our way. He’s technically not “out” yet, but he will be shortly. Gotta love terminal leave I guess.

My health problems are still going strong. I could write a book, but I won’t bore you. All I will say is I feel truly blessed to have a civilian doctor now. And, one Tricare will pay for. We started out paying for me to see him out of pocket since we didn’t live outside the radius where they’d ok me to go off post. Once we had a huge influx of new soldiers to this post, I guess the system got overwhelmed and they ok’d me to go off post and have them pay for it. So now, I see THE SAME DOCTOR every single month, use the same small town pharmacy…and it has truly relieved some of the stress that goes along with having a chronic health problem.

The babies played sports this summer. Son played baseball and had a great time. He was a home run king in almost every game lol. He also just finished a football camp. Daughter played softball. She wasn’t too crazy about her coach this year, so I’ll be surprised if she wants to play again next year. I hope she will though, but it’s her decision.

The babies and I headed out to Georgia at the end of June. We met up with my Dad outside of Atlanta and spent a few days at my Aunt’s house. Then, we all RV’d down to Lake Wells Florida for 4th of July weekend. Dad took his air boat and son and I followed him down in my car. Riding in a truck does me no favors. Daughter stayed back with my Aunt. Her granddaughter is about daughter’s age – they are second cousins, so the girls rode down in their big RV. We all had such a great time – and it was wonderful spending time with family.

The Mustang – well, it didn’t do so well. I’d taken it in for an oil change right before we left and had Ford check it over. On the way down, we had water dripping into the driver and passenger floor. Guess the air conditioner drain was clogged. On the way home, we went through the WORST rain storm just south of Mobile. Twice we were hit where you could only go 25 mph on I 10. You had to have your flashers on just to see the car in front of you. We stopped just across the Alabama line at a rest stop so we could use the bathroom and get a picture of the Welcome to Alabama sign. When we get back in the car, the cruise control is out and the AC adapters won’t work to charge my GPS OR my cell phone. So, we’re on this back road in Mississippi and it’s 10 pm on a Sunday night and I know water has gotten into the electrical system somehow to crap out the cruise and the AC adapters and NOW we notice a quarter inch of water in the glove box….UGHH.

I get the freaking thing home and get it back into Ford. I have them print out the service record for the car and in less than two years it’d been in the shop 17 times. I went round and round with the local Ford dealer. We are GREAT customers – it was our fourth car we’d bought from them and they got ALL of our service work…and I felt I shouldn’t be the only one taking it up the ass on this car. Well, they wanted to act like I was wanting a brand new mustang for nothing. They broke the windshield when trying to fix the apparent leak and when we got it back it was half-ass put back in. Then they had the gooey black sealant stuck on the hood…. So, we went down to a bigger town and got a GREAT deal on an 08 GT that is a California Special. The only thing I didn’t like was it didn’t have a rear spoiler so they tossed in a FREE Roush spoiler. So, our local Ford can kiss our ass. I’ll drive the 35 minutes every three months and they’ll get my business on oil changes and anything else we end up doing to this car. This one’s interior is a lot prettier too – it has the dark charcoal gray with light gray – and it’s a five speed in the floor. Hopefully this one won’t give us any headaches….my fingers are crossed .

Whelp, guess that’s most of the updates. Just been a really busy summer. Husband finished our kitchen project of painting the cabinets. I’ll try to get some pictures posted in the next few weeks. Now we’re going to try to do the living room. Husband and I cleaned out the huge desk we had in the back of the living room Saturday and then yesterday, he ripped out this ugly shelf thing that enclosed the radiator in the back of the room and had some book shelves over it. All that gone and this room is HUGE…now I just have to clean the wall back there…fifty years of dust behind those shelves and the wall looks filthy, so I’ll need to wash all the walls before I paint them. I’ll get some pictures and update the blog as we go…

Hope everyone is having a good summer….I’m so ready for FALL and some cooler weather!!!