Well we are in the closing process of a house. YAY!!!! I love it :) It is a quaint 3 bed and 2 bath ranch house on a 1/4 acre of land not far from base with some gorgeous trees. The things I do not like are minor compare to the things i do like. It was the 2nd house we saw, the first being udder crap and the next 5 or 6 being so-so. We loved the 2ndhouse so we put in an offer because it looks like a good deal in a good neighborhood and we didnt want to lose it. Compared to the other houses we looked at it was priced low so we think it needs to be sold ASAP. So tomorrow is the home inspection. Will is still here, Hubbs goes back to work tomorrow and I have a shitload of work todo but in 2 weeks we should have a home :)

ugh I just lost everything I wrote and it was a shitload

ok the short version.
Friday was my Grandfathers Funeral. It was nice to see everyone and enjoy the time with them. The service itself was terrible but Gramps didnt want one so I am sure he is in heaven laughing his ass off cos the sermon sucked. For future reference regurgitate, masticate and sheep should not be mentioned in a sermon at least not together. I was so lost. Thankfully afterwards we all reminisced about how much it sucked. Seeing everyone was nice and meeting the new family was also great. I got to visit Grandmas grave as well and I am glad the 3 of them are so close together. Yes we are sad at his passing but like Martha (his fave waitress and friend at Dennys) said t is purely selfish. Now he can sidle up to the bar on 2 good legs with one arm around Betty and one around Grandma and buy the 2 loves of his life a keoke coffee abd tell a great story, all without the pain. Afterwards we went out to dinner with all 25 Roberts' (as the preacher said we were) and it was great. I had a Keoke coffee in rembrance of grandpa and found out they are actually damn tasty. Oh yeah and besides getting our name wrong he also said Gramps fave hang out was Dave and Brewsters not Busters. I am sure I will write more later too but that is all for now.

The next morning we left on our trip. The firsty day we made it to El Paso and in doing so passed fewer Walmarts than I passed everyday on the way to work. Driving into El Paso the Texans through way to many signs at us. There were so many rules shit one sign was so wordy you couldnt read it as you drove by. The was also one that said Observe Signs Its the Law but I swear some said Obsessive signs its the Law. Well in a day and a half we got outta texas (thank gawd) and had little Police trouble. we decided they take Sundays off. Monday took us from Dallas to Atlanta yes it was nuts but we did it. Sat to Elpaso, Sun to Dallas, Mon to Atlanta and today we rolled in about 2pm (yes we left late). Today was frickin crazy or stupid I dont know which. so we get in and go to the Soldier Service Center since we know that is where the army checks in maybe they could give us directions, since we didnt get a sponsor to tell us anything. So the guy at the helpdesk can barely find a map, he sent hubs to Pers where some woman looked at him like he had 2 heads since he was out of uniform, she sent us to the wrong lodging place and then when we got to the right one the help they gave us was a list of hotels in the area. shit they could have given hubbs that 2 weeks ago when he called so we could have reservations. Well thankfully we found a place and it is nice and will has a bed cos he sure as hell wasnt sleeping with us. I am glad he came with us cos the drive would have been hell without him, I think it would have taken us 5 or 6 days without him.

ok I am going to try and post again sorry this is short the other one was so great. ggrrrr argh

The week has been crazy. Saturday with mom and Don (lunch, zoo, dinner). Sunday with Dad. Monday with Gram and Grandpa for lunch then Hubb's best freinds family for dinner. I should use today to get ready and do stuff I may not be able to do later this week due to my other grandfather's passing but now at 2pm I havent eaten and I just dont want to. I havent showered or eaten, but hubbs will bring me lunch when he is done with his errands. can I just say ugh? Thankfully I was finally able to cry because I sure as hell felt like a heartless bitch. I guess it is the not being used to having hubbs around or maybe the medication or even both I just wasnt able to until he left. ugh ok I must do something today. I think we are meeting up with friends soon but I dont want to. we will see.

Gramps :)

So it has been a busy work which was unfortuantely made a lot less busy by the death of my grandfather. He passed away last night and as I sit here typing this we should be sitting in his room talking to him but God saw fit for it to be another way. Dad says they are trying to have services before I leave but we shall see. They all understand that I am not changing our plans too much. He was gramps, not my real grandfather but the only paternal grandfather I ever had. He came into my life when I was about 6 and it gave my grandmother such joy when I started calling him grandpa. Nothing in my life was ever simple and neither was my relationship with grandpa and explaining it to people. Unfortunately if services are not soon Hubbs and I cannot afford to delay our trip. He cannot delay at all and if I choose to it will double our moving costs as well as result in me driving crosscountry by myself. Truthfully I dont want to go anyway. I loved that man and I was so looking forward to seeing him and he hasnt seen hubbs in 7 months but I know he knew I loved him. I would do anything for him and continuosly felt guilty for not doing enough and he loved me for it. Thankfully now the pain is gone, his suffering and sadness is gone, his worry for being a burden on us and his loneliness for outliving 2 wives and then moving 3 hours away at the twighlight of his life. It is all gone. And he is in a better place and I thank god for that. Goodnight grandpa I will see you again someday many years from now but I will join you and grandma and we will all be together again.

Right now as I finally cry since I have been unable to I am thankful for many things. I am thankful for his love and the love he gave my grandmother. I am thankful he stood witness to some of the great moments in my life (college graduation and marriage) that my grandmother could not see from the same perspective. I am grateful how he embraced our family as our own and how he cared and loved us all as his own flesh and blood. I am grateful for the stories even when told ad nauseum for the 100th time because without them I would not know of the war and how he was recalled, he survived polio and learned to walk again, he lettered in baseball in high school and almost went pro but his father would not allow him to play on Sundays. Or that even in her 50s or 60s my grandmother was afraid to let her parents know that she had spent a night in a hotel with a man she was not married to even though as I was told many time nothing happened. I loved this man as my own and I was his granddaughter and to that I am thankful for the love and the light that he brought to my life.

yay most of it is over and hubbs is finally home.
Wednesday he missed his flight and then his connection was cancelled but 9 hours after he was supposed to be home he fianlly made it. Unfortunately we still had a ton of stuff to do by 8am. So I put him to work :) By 7:30 am we were down at the storage unit and ready to go. It was a VERY long day but at least the packers seemed to do a good job and I approve of their inventory system. We did learn while the truck was loading that they had forgotten some things but the driver took care of them and was able to tag them himself since the packers did not. The only thing we are taking with us is my fencing mask since it is to risky to not have packed. The driver seemed like a good guy too and I agreed with his assesment of things with a few minor changes :) Hubbs sat there through it all with me. it was nice just to be near him. Then we went to dinner with his parents and got home close to 10 and I passed out. Today is my last day of work. I am looking forward to my "vacation." yes I am calling it a vacation because unemployed makes it very stressful. I will look into a new job after I get to Augusta. Right now I just want the day to end so I can see be with hubbs and have fun with my frineds and family :)

I am exhausted.

I did as I planned and it all worked out but it was hell. I left for work friday, went to pepboys afterwards and got my tires taken care of. Then I went to my cousins for some fun, crashed on their couch and left around 7:30am the next morning. I drove 2 hours north to visit Legion and GW, that was great getting to see them. Spent the evening with Kym (her mom cooks great for me :)) Drove back to dads on sunday morning we went through all of my stuff there. Found out rats had attacked some stuffed animals one I really liked ( a gorilla from dad's late boss) was ruined. A few others had to be seriouslt cleaned. Got through everything loaded up my car and dads truck to drive home and unload at storage. That was all done around 12:30. I grabbed lunch and went over to the inlaws and started going through stuff. Roy and lydia came over and we got that all into the storage unit. I was passing out tired at that point. On my way home I went and pincked up my boots (they fit much nicer now). Stopped by the NEX and Commisary to get upholstery cleaner, ended up with pet stain remover. I got home around 5. and preceded to clean the 3 daolls and 3 stuffed animals I had saved but had been invaded by the rat. I used pet stain remover on the animals and bodies of the dolls as well as the stained clothes of one of the dolls. Washed the clothes in woolite and then sprayed it all down with lysol. Oh yeah and I did this all with gloves on becuase it was all fairly gross (cleanble but gross). Then I finally got to take a shower (first one since friday). I then curled up in bed and promptly passed out before 7pm. I was so exhausted that I slept through my alarm for 30 minutes (thankfully I was clean from last nights shower). And now I am at work and stii exhausted. More to do tonight like get the TV moved to the storage unit and nything else.

Ok so now that there is a general rundown of my weekend from hell I can expound on it all. Friday night I sat down and watched the debates with my cousins. Well they did what they were supposed to I finally made my decision. A woman asked bush wht his 3 mistakes he has made as president and he said he did not make any mistakes. Now come on man that is a basic interview question you find 3 mistakes and you show how you turned them around. I have no respect for someone who claims they have never done anything wrong. He didnt even talk about what he had done wrong but about what others thought he did wrong. come on Mr President I am not a moron. I also didnt like that he sat there looking like a moron with a blank expression on his face like he had no idea what Kerry was saying. What do I like about Kerry? honestly not much but he does seem to understand the difference between beleiving in something yet not forcing others to beleive it. Although he may be personally against things like abortion he does not legislate it to make it illegal.

Seeing Legion was great I saw pretty much everyone I care about. missed a few people but it is bound to happen. Got a new tshirt from ulf. and tormented the ugly bugger. :)

ok back to "work" :) I will be done Friday and hubbs will be in Wednesday.

Ahhh Friday
So yes I have not written again, I think I see a trend here. I have been hella busy all week and havent been on the computer much at all this week. Right now I am fighting the ever growing short-timers disease :) I am getting so excited for the move and I get to see hubbs and he is mine all mine as of next wednesday w007 and a half. So Tuesday was Shauna's Bday so we all went out all 4 parents and everyone else that is "family" and me to Rock Bottom. It was fun and so great to get to see them all at once and not have to worry about squeezing them in while Hubbs is here. Wednesday was just funny. I got my housekey stuck in the bolt. It was dirty I know and I just needed WD40 but I couldnt think of who to call. Thankfully I know Barb is always there for me and she drove out and then when I took her to diiner she insisted on paying and me being the person I am couldnt fight too hard I mean a cross country move will be pricey. So door is fixed laundry finally got done and then it was Thursday. I hit up the optometrist, went to happy hour with the people from work and my usual coffee night. Ugh woohoo it is Friday. Today I need to get the car checked out and setup and ready to go to Georgia and hangout with my cousins while watching the debates. Sat is the airshow sho traffic heading north will be a bitch but I have got to get to Chino to see my brothers and sisters in legion (dont know when I will see them again). Sat night I will hangout with kym and then gawd knows what. I guess sleep is for the dead again. I have hardly slept at all.

I am so excited to go to Georgia it will be a culture shock but it will also be wonderful. We are going to buy a home most likely which I am just flabbergasted at it is just amazing to me. I hadnt even comtemplated being a home owner. Having hubbs on shore duty for 2 years will be a total dream. We still do not know when our packout date will be but hopefully i will know soon. yay yay yay we are off to somewhere new :) ok back to work having to fight the slacker urge big time but I am pretty decent at it.

I know every few days I have an excuse for not posting but this one is legit
Sept 28 - We found out we are off to Georgia and we have to be there before the end of the month. So I scrtambled and started planning move stuff
Thursday - nothing as far as the move changed but hubbs timeline for getting home changed greatly I realized I had to basically do everything myself and almost had a break down. I even made it to coffee where many of my friends were surprised I didnt break down. Even Lynn who has been with her hubbs for quite awhile in the navy said she would have had trouble with all that was hitting me head on. As I was leaving coffee Amanda called and wanted me to take her and baby to ER. I got to her apartment and the baby was turning purple but breathing. At one point I did think she stopped breathing. Of course as soon as we got to the ER the baby was fine. So they sent us home and scheduled an appointment for first thing in the morning. At 2:30 AM I called in sick to work and then called in and talked to a person at 5:30. by 11 on Friday we were back at the hospital. Amanda got some reassuring words and she is now much more secure in her momminess. So that in and of itself made the whole exhausting ordeal worth it.
After all that I went to AAA got my DMV stuff and the maps for our trip to Georgia. I also got my headlight replaced and I am sure I did something more. After one more check on Amanda I went home. Of course couldnt sleep so I packed some.
Saturday I packed everything.
Sunday my friend Christine came down with her husband and we loaded up their truck and went off to throw everything into storage.
Today is Monday. Thankfully I have calmed down but I feel like shit and I am still mad at the husband. I feel like I am breaking my back getting shit done I am totally stressed out and he wanted to help but so I gave him a very important job, procure hotel, line up places to look at when we get there and continue relationships I have already started with realtors. Did he do a damn thing? No in fact he hasnt done a single thing I have asked him to in the last 6 days EXCEPT get his airline ticket and even that he didnt call the airline to see if he could get a discount. I want to ring his neck. He says he has been busy but cant tell me what the fuck he has done. Well what do I do sit on my ass all day. I have been working my ass off getting this arranged taking care of stuff that needs to be done and also holding down my fulltime job. I dont see how hard it is to look shit up online and not have the time. I put 100 miles on my car every couple days not counting work with all the errands I run. A part of me wants to leave it all up to him but that will screw me over too and I know yelling doesnt help ergh I wish he would just help me out. I hate being mad at him but goodness quit being such a lazy bum and do something dammit. We have about 16 days until we leave give or take a few days and he is driving me nuts. this shit cant wait until he gets home