So what happens now? Where am I going to?

July 1, 2009

Ahhh, I am back!  I am sure you all are ready to hear the tales of the Wedding.  I have much to say so I am going to summarize:

Wednesday I arrived.  We had a list of things to do.  Michelle’s friend Ashley arrived from California.  it was  a rather laid back day.  Thursday we had an AWESOME breakfast at Zaftigs. We met some of Terry’s family. We got pedicures/manicures, more friends arrived.  The Bachelorette Party was a BLAST! We did Karaoke, since my sister had injured herself the Saturday before and her knee was still hurting. Friday we got more stuff done, met more of Terry’s family.  We had an assembly line for bouquet making.  Misk and the Minions arrived at the hotel. We went to the rehearsal and dinner. My sister gave us hand-made beautiful beaded necklaces, and the girls got “Flower Girl” tote bags. We headed home to her place and she slept in her apartment for the last time.

Saturday we woke to Sunshine and coffee.  We got to the reception hall and started to set-up.  We met more of Terry’s family.  I got my hair done.  I got the kids, there was chaos.  I cried helping my sister put on her wedding dress.  I barely had time to get my make-up on before we were in the limo.  The ceremony was beautiful.  I cried again when I saw her coming down the aisle.  She was spectacular. Suddenly she was a married woman.

Some of my Colombian family came up from New Jersey.  I cried again when I saw my cousin Geovani.  I hadn’t seen him since the summer before Misk and I married. We did pictures and headed to the reception. I met more family.   I conversed in Spanish to my Tia Trinidad, albeit poorly. Somewhere in all this Misk got lost and broke down in his truck.  He got rescued, and showed up.  I gave my speech, and everyone loved it.

We danced, we danced…West Indians know how to party!  I drank Colombian fire-water. Kaity fell asleep.  Everyone had a good time. We went back to our hotel.  Sunday Misk and I fought, but we made up.  We went to Terry’s family’s house for another party!  I saw some of my family again.  We drove through Boston to get Misk another alternator (that’s 2 in 4 years, BTW).  We got it installed.  Had a few moments with my sister and new brother before heading home. The Minions went to the Vineyard with my parents.

I thought the insanity was over.  I thought I was going to get to relax in July and mentally prepare myself for the “decision” from the Navy about Misk’s career.

I thought wrong.

Monday, back to work, which I was glad to return to.  I missed my friends & co-workers.  Misk called about 11:30…

“So I just got back from Sub School Administration.”

“Oh? What for?”

“I was called down to start my paperwork for Administrative Separation…”

“Wait, what??  Are you kidding me???  I thought we wouldn’t know until the end of July!!”

“Apparently not.”

Yep, you heard me right.  Misk is getting out.  There was a kicker though.  He had to go to Navy Legal the next day to figure out if appealing to a board to reverse the decision was in his best interest. Yesterday we went and talked to the lawyer.  He pretty much told us it would merely be a long, drawn-out end to the inevitable, but if Misk wanted to do it, he was welcome to it.

So Misk had to make a decision. Take the discharge, and we’d out in 4-6 weeks, or fight it and have about 3-4 months left.

The answer to me was easy.  But it wasn’t my decision to make.  Misk had to decide if he was dooming us to a bad fate sooner than later. There are so many worries with this decision.  Worries that hadn’t occurred to me in my initial jubilation on the idea of getting out of the Navy:

Will Misk be able to find work right away?

Will we be able to find a house to rent that we can afford?

Will we be able to feed our children in a month’s time or would it be worth it to drag out the fight and ensure we are still able to take care of the family?

Will Misk have to pay back some of his re-enlistment bonus from 5 years ago because he’s getting out a year early?

Some of these questions will have answers soon. Some we will have to find out along the way.

Despite our trepidation and uncertainty, Misk and I went to dinner last night and had a long talk.  He had to decide and let the Navy know today, whether or not he was going to request a board. I told him my thoughts and feelings.  I offered a possibility that I can’t talk about just yet for some sort of security.  I think it helped.  Misk made his decision.

He is not going to appeal. He is right now, as I type, telling the Navy.

I will know what day we are officially a civilian family by the end of the day.

I am suddenly scared, excited, happy, exhilarated and terrified all at once.

It’s really happening.

The snowball has begun to descend.

We’re going home. Finally.

cissasig

It’s a Love Story, Baby Just Say Yes

June 28, 2009

0created_at_www_fototrix_com_jpeg_smallHello Bloggerville!  It’s Janelle from Junk Food 4 the Soul.

I will be your pilot for the day and I hope we have a smooth flight.  Please, keep you hands and feet inside the plane because if not, things could get very messy.  Trust me. 

So… while we are on this flight together, what shall we talk about?

How much we love Cissa?  Well, I think it’s obvious who loves her the most.  I really thought Princess wanted to be MY best friend.  Man, was I wrong.   I wonder if she could explain why she mailed me her fingernails if we weren’t BFF’s.

Should we talk about Cissa’s amazing website? No. Whall schooled us on that and I don’t know about you, I got lost somewhere after he said, “Hi I’m Wayne.” 

I can’t tell a ghost story now because LeSombre’s picture, well, I just can’t top that!

This is what sucks about being the last guest blogger.  All the good stuff is taken! 

Well, since Cissa is at a wedding, lets talk about mushy lovey dovey stuff! That’s it… how did you propose or how were you proposed to

Here is my story:

It was my 26th birthday.  I was having a little birthday get together at my mom’s house.  I knew that Paul, my hubby, was gonna propose to me. I just knew it! I had opened up all the presents and no ring. Hum. Weird. 

I thought he was just gonna wait till dinner that night or something standard like that…

My grandma asked him to get the cake out of the microwave.  Oh! I should tell you that my grandma baked me a cake and the microwave was the ”storage” area for the cake.  Do you do that in your house too? Whenever I make a cake or brownies or something like that, I always store them in the microwave.  Surely, my family isn’t the only family that does that right?

Wait. I’ve gotten off track.

Back to the cake.  Grandma asked Paul to get the cake for her.  Paul brought out the homemade chocolate cake and from the microwave on top had the words written in white icing, “Will you marry me?”

Again, this wasn’t some store bought cake where a professional had written those words, nope, I could tell that my grandma had written it- or maybe my mom.  I knew then this was a total family thing. My whole family was in on it and knew the whole time what was planned.   That made me all happy inside.  If my grandparents and mom didn’t want me to marry Paul, no way would they have taken the time to set the stage for this moment.

As I read the words, Paul had the ring ready for me once I looked over to him to say, “Yes!”

And that my dear readers is my story…

What is yours?  

Time’s standing still, Waiting for some small clue

June 27, 2009

Today Cissa is Matron of Honor at her sister’s wedding.  The weather in RI is beautiful so far and I hope it’s just as beautiful in Boston today - because we’ve Only had like 2 straight months of rain around here now.  I know no matter what Cissa and her family will have a wonderful day, rain or no rain … but I hope it stays sunny and warm for them.

So… who am I.  I volunteered to fill in for Cissa today.  My name is Liza and we go waaayyyy back to Junior High believe it or not.  I am not a blogger, I guess I should tell you that.  Used to blog a bit on myspace (back before facebook), but haven’t written anything in quite a long time.  For well over a year I keep saying I am going to get a blog of my own and really start writing again - maybe turn something into a book at some point.  Because somewhere after I was going to be 1st girl to play major league baseball and a dancer in music videos, I was going to be a writer (that would be Before I was going to be a phys. ed teacher by the way).  Always had trouble deciding what I wanted to do - can you tell?  Now I am pretty busy being a married mom of 3 boys 3 and under.  That’s right, I have a 3 year old (well, he’s 3 and a half) and soon to be 2 year old identical twins.  So life is busy.  But the one thing I keep going back to is writing. 

If you know me you know that I am never really at a loss for words for the most part.  And I leave everything till the last minute.   Which is why each time i thought about what i would write today i said eh, it will come to me.  And here i sit and it’s not coming to me.  :)  Soooooo…. how about we talk about the year Cissa and I met.  Yeah, that sounds good!

1989.  Wow that sounds so long ago.  We met in chorus, had some classes together, hit it right off.  I can give her some credit for helping to change my taste in music at the time.  I remember being in like 7th grade, sitting in her room after school and she was asking me if I liked the chili peppers and I was all oh gross, you eat that?  Everyone laughed and then I got some lessons in who they were, what they sang and HOW did i not know that?!  But back then, I was only really listening to 92pro fm and the mainstream pop songs they played - somehow i don’t think they were playing that yet - or maybe they were, i can’t remember at this point… a little later in the conversation she asked me if i liked chocolate frosting and not wanting to sound like i didn’t know my music i was all wait, what’s that song they sing again?  No, they were Not a group - she was asking about actual chocolate frosting - like for a cake.  :)  After that I started listening to 95.5wbru and all that was considered alternative at the time.  So thank you Cissa for getting me into the cooler music way back when.  :)

What else do I have to say about us… so many memories from when we were younger.  Ooh we did a totally slamming dance to Paula Abdul’s ‘Straight Up Now Tell Me’.  We totally got robbed when they didn’t put us in the school talent show with that dance.  Really!  We had lots of fun chorus trips too - but i guess i’ll leave those stories for another time because i think i’ve gone on long enough here.  I have a tendency to do that.   Not sure how to end this, so….. 

I’ll just have to say–bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye

Wharllocks

June 26, 2009

What do you get when you cross a whall with rocks?  Wharllocks!

(someone please cue a snare drum roll with a cymbal crash to back up that horrible joke, and it’d also be nice if while doing the drum roll, the whole drum set kind of fell to the side, and then the drummer looks down and is confused, and then the drum kit fell even more sideways and just as the drummer, who should be Jerry Lewis for more comedic effect, twists his mouth sideways too and as he tries to catch the drum, it falls completely to the floor with a huge thud and the cymbal crashes on top of it and then while Jerry tries to make it quieter he accidentally kicks it, getting his foot lodged in it as it breaks through the top of the snare drum.  His sticks fall down too [clickety clickclick], and he trips and falls over the cymbal stand and just when you think the drum sound effects couldn’t get any louder or more obnoxious, another round of falling ensues, climaxed with a resounding silence as Jerry just slowly looks up at the camera and gives us a shrug and a (sorry) kind of smirk.  Yeah, that would be awesome thanx.)

Hi.  I’m Wayne.  aka whall from whall.org

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I would first like to apologize for the poor introduction joke.  I recently outsourced 80% of my Humor Resources group to a cheap outfit in France, and that’s the best I could get for the budget I set aside for guest posting.

Some of you don’t know this, but I actually host Cissa’s blog.  Yup, the words and HNT images you see before you comes from my server and I keep it up to date for her on a semi-regular basis.  I do this free service for a few others around the ‘net because, well, it’s a cheap way for me to buy semi-regular readers.  Semi-regular female readers.  Semi-regular female readers who are hot.

Setting up websites comes naturally to me, and, let’s face it, I have a large package.  Wait, I mean the package with which I serve people is ample.  No, wait, I mean the hosting plan I have with my provider has a lot of disk space and transfer volume and it’s easy for me to set up blogs.  Whew.

One of the things I’ve been lax on is some blog upkeep for Cissa.   She’s still not upgraded to Wordpress 2.8, and she doesn’t have gravatars in her comments.  Her links aren’t SEO’d, and there are some design flaws in her theme.   When she tweeted about wanting guest posters, I first figured “hmm, I should probably speak up since she did such a good guest post for me“.  Then I decided to look at it from another angle - “what’s in it for me?“  I figured a good guest post would be technical treatise on how to do these kinds of upgrades and fixes.  I could get lots of accolades just by doing what I do best!

So let’s get started.  If you’re not one for raw technical prowess to be gallantly displayed before your very eyes, you  may want to skip to the end.

First, let’s look at her comment section.  Tsk Tsk Tsk

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See that?  I know!  No pictures!  What’s a comment without a picture?  We all know a picture is worth a thousand words, so by failing to show gravatars, Cissa is, in essence, missing out on hundreds of thousands of words in her comments.

A travesty.

Now this is where it gets technical.  I want to, in specific industry terms, add the gravatar to the comments.  I hope I didn’t lose you there.  In particular, I want the graphic thingy to be displayed next to the comment thingy. 

So what do I do?  What do you want from me?  MORE TECHNICAL WIZARDRY?!?!?!  I’m explaining it as low-level as I can!  Let me try it again, from the top.

I’ll need to implement the doo-dad that leverages the techie aspect of a code whoosit, but before parsing the anti-spin factors gets to a culmination point.  Not only that, but there needs to be mitigating circumstances that secure a success scenario.

WHAT YOU WANT MORE?!??!  FINE, I’ll teach you more.  Most open source themes written for WordPress use a php script called comments.php, which iterates a for loop, displaying each comment from the MySQL database table with HTML wrappers for div tags, classes, li items, paragraph tags.  It checks for a get_avatar function and if it exists, runs that function, passing the $comment scalar variable and a pixel size directive. It generates the HTML needed for the browser to fetch the appropriate avatar, be it a gravatar, wavatar, openid, etc, and then the browser also fetches the CSS code to display the class called “avatar” with a left float, proper padding, width, height and margins in addition to displaying inline.  That means editing style.css and adding the appropriate section.  Of course, whenever you edit text files, you always want to have revision control, so first you create RCS versions, check in the code, make your edits, test and troubleshoot and then check in the edits.  Oh, and if you don’t edit your text files with a real editor like vi or emacs (or their extended clones line vim, gvim, gemacs) then you are a wooosah. 

What, that’s not good enough for you!?!??!?!  What?  You want my secrets?  ARGH YOU’RE SO NEEDY!

Fine.  I’ll tell you my secrets.  Cissa told me never, ever to divulge the inner knowledge gained from our craft, but you leave me no choice.  I do what all good witches and warlocks do. I wave around a cheap wooden stick in the air and say a Latin-based spell, Harry Potter-style.

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and sure enough, sparks fly from the wand, they coalesce into the computer monitor and then travel over the wires and hidden train platforms and all of a sudden there are avatars on the comments!

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I hope this was as enlightening for you as it was for me.

Why Cissa and the Princess Should Be BFF’s

June 25, 2009

So I met our darling girl Cissa in the chatroom of Karl’s radio show back in…I’m gonna say the Fall (sounds reasonable) and I thought that she was just the most darling thing ever.We totally bonded over our mutual love of Dave2 and I fell in deep smit.

So I went to her blog and get all stalker-ella because I was convinced that we should be bff’s. I mean clearly we have the same sublime taste in men, so wouldn’t we have SO MANY other things in common?

In summary:

Cissa:

Married, mother, navy, American, blonde, has now met Dave2

Princess:

Single, childless, navy – that’s the one on water, right?, Canadian, brunette (ish), still waiting for Davepeg.

Crap.

But I persevered. I mean, all that stuff up there is so surface right. You have to dig deeper to get to really know the essence of a person.

Oh! Cissa hates housework! Me too! (Oh Ehm Gee! It’s like we’re the same person! Cause everyone else loves housework right?) Crap x 2. I live alone and am making my own mess. She has a family. What’s my excuse for all my pet dust bunnies again?

Hmmm.

Cissa is pagan! Well. My other bff is pagan. And I totally went to that ritual that one time. And I absolutely know what Beltane is! (Cause I’m all about the holidays devoted to sex. Oh? It’s not just about sex? Damn. Well it should be.)

OK perhaps I should take a different tack on this. Cissa, here are all the reasons we should be besties, OK?

  1. The fact that I’m unmarried means that you can look pityingly on me for still being single at *cough*34*cough*.
  2. The fact that I have no children means that I can totally agree that yours are the cutest. No competition right?
  3. Navy. That’s the one on the water right?
  4. Canadians are very polite.
  5. Brunette- well hello- blondes have more fun right? Again, no competition!
  6. Dave2: Well, since he’s met you- I guess for now he probably loves you more. But my time is coming! Uh sometime. Whenever he makes it up to Canada.
  7. And I’m totally all about swapping info on happy pills. I love me my pills. And chocolate. I’m totally willing to share pills and chocolate. (Did this post judees-chest1st go in a totally weird direction??)

Cissa just call me OK? I’m really cool and not at all creepy. Honest. :)


Oh yeah, and it seems that I have to include a HNT photo – since LeSombre decreed it.

Witchless Wednesday

June 24, 2009

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Hi, I’m LeSombre - Canadia’s Blogger, a.k.a Mike, a.k.a. Michel a.k.a. The Canadian Polar Bear, a.k.a. “You know, that guy”. You might remember me from such great guest posts as “The roast of Wayne Hall“, “The best of LOLPolarz” or “Avitable does Ottawa“. I run this little corner of the web called LeSombre.ca - please feel free to come and visit sometimes, eh?

I was so annoyed fairly excited when I saw Cissa constant Tweeting begging pleading asking repeatedly offering the opportunity for guest bloggers to write a little something on her blog. I immediately replied with a funny comment about witchcraft - it was after all morning and I was not at my optimal level of caffeine yet - and after reading Cissa’s next DM out loud like she instructed me to do, I felt compelled to accept her generous offer.

Since I’ve beaten the Witch thing to death, let me take this time to tell you about the next best thing you can do with brooms that is not witch-related. No, this is not an Avitable sex toy review.

I’m talking - you guessed it - about Curling.

Considering there’s only 233 days left before the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, this will give you just enough time to learn and forget everything there is to know and to forget about curling. Oh, those Vancouver athletes will probably smoke you, because as you know, they’ll smoke anything in Vancouver.

Truth be told, you can spend your whole life in Canada without ever understanding what’s going on in a game of curling. But have no fear, I’ll give you the four one one on curling in 5 easy to memorize bullets (I never do six bullets) so next time you’re around Canadians you can impress them with your knowledge of the sport.

  • That’s right, curling is a sport originally from Scotland, and an Olympic one at that. Of course you’re wondering how much of a sport curling can be. After all, it involves brooms and matching tracksuits. Ha ha ha! Men in funny looking tracksuits, sweeping the ice while sliding in front of a sliding rock. It’s really one step removed from the Olympic ribbon in terms of manliness. Now let me see you say that to a Scot. Also, picture this game played in kilts, and all of a sudden you’re happy for the tracksuits, aren’t you?
  • The object of the game of curling is to stand near the house, leaning on the broom thinking about the kind of beer you’ll get once the game is over. Curling is often confused with watching hockey. Watching hockey is sitting in the living room watching the game, leaning on the television remote thinking about the kind of beer you’ll get once there’s a commercial. Completely different.
  • Curling had a brief but memorable dark age, where in order to make the sport more appealing to a wider audience, the World Federation of Curling implemented a few changes to the basic game.  ”Uphill curling”, “the electrical fence” and “sharks with lasers on their forehead” were probably the best tries. Still pretty bad.
  • The center of the houses are called buttons. It’s a source of many misunderstandings in Canadian households, especially when combined with the screaming. “Harder! Haaaaaard! HAAAAAAARD! YOU’RE NOT ON THE BUTTON!” is probably Canada’s most famous punch line.
  • Because of all the strategy involved, curling is sometimes referred to as “chess on ice”. Personally, I think I would rather watch chess on ice.

So there you have it folks, five bullets about curling. In pure Call of Cthulhu tradition, I’ll keep the last bullet for myself for when the actual madness comes.

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I want to give a big shout out to my Canadian homie extraordinaire Princess of the Universe for agreeing to switch days with me. When I started thinking about a guest post for Cissa, the “Witchless Wednesday” title popped in my head, and I couldn’t shake it. That obviously wouldn’t work on a Thursday, forcing me to use my back-up plan and do a Half-Naked Thursday instead, but I’m pretty sure no one wants to see that. So you can thank me today when you think about what you will not see tomorrow, or you can thank me tomorrow when Princess posts her HNT. It’s a win-win.

Hi, it’s me Libragirl

June 23, 2009

You should all know this is my very first time guest posting somewhere, please be kind

I met Cissa at Dave York 2009  it was April 4th to be exact  I remember because it was my mom’s birthday

We met that day and yeah I was a little nervous.  I don’t know why though  Bellaventa vouched for her saying she is great and since she is one of my best friends – I trust her

Anyhoo -   We met at Penn Station and just immediately got along.  I had only been reading her for a short time and I am pretty sure she never read my blog, which is ok.

We bonded over a not so secret crush of Dave2 and then we laughed and mocked during the NBC tour.
That’s when I knew I was really gonna like her.  She got my “Please Miss, May I have my ticket Please” literary joke.    It’s seems like it’s a bastardazation of a famous line of a book/play/movie would be recognized but sometimes people don’t get things like that.   When they do, I know they is smart.

Anydoodle  Cissa is in Boston this week at a wedding that she has been going on and on and on and on and on and on about for forever it seems.  I can’t wait til it’s over so I don’t have to hear about it anymore  (kidding, it’s nice to have something fun to look forward to)   She gave ideas on what to post but I went in my own direction    I’m a rebel like that

I know she wants to move back to Florida soon but not until after we hit the casinos in CT.  I’ve only been to one of them once about 10 years ago or so (it was right after I got my car)

The next time I see Cissa if we don’t make it to the casino’s is Adam’s Halloween party (don’t forget to add your name to his mailing list so you can get all the party goodness)

So what I’m saying is I totally heart Cissa and while this was probably supposed to be snarky and stuff, I wanted her to know that I like her and she ain’t getting rid of me that quickly.

Edit #1

I was gonna totally change this to make it all snarky and wiseassy because that’s how I roll.  But because I have the memory of a really stupid person, I did this as a pre-dated to post today and Cissa read it so she knows what I wrote, except for this part which I just added.

Hope you had a great time at the wedding.

EDIT#2   OH MY GOD YA’ALL  Cissa is such a brat -  she didn’t want me to be the 500th post so she went and posted a 500th post - that’s so bratty.   I could have been 5o0.   I have skills though -I could make this 500 and edit her 500th to be the 501st (I was gonna say 501th, since that what I say in real life to be silly, but I changed my mind)  speaking of silly - my neice was getting out of the bath tub and said to my sister  - you have to watch me - I am going to do something cute in a few seconds.

so congrats on 501 post you brat.

And I would walk 500 miles, and I would walk 500 more…

June 22, 2009

Welcome to Heart of Fire’s

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When I went to check my account to see if anyone had posted their guest entries yet, I noticed Rachel’s was #500!  I couldn’t let that happen, so, I decided to throw myself a little blog entry to mark 500 published posts!

Wow, I can’t believe I’ve actually written that much stuff about myself, my life, my views on things….it’s a bit crazy to think that in less than 4 years I managed this many things to say!

So, I want to thank all of you who have stuck with me over the years, the new bloggers who now read me, and my friends and family for all your reading over the last 500 posts.

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Here’s to 500 more posts in the coming years!

Have a great week and enjoy the guest posts from my great blog and real life friends!

cissasig

For the Puppy Monster…

June 21, 2009


Though I was not active in the blogosphere at this time, many of my blog buddies were.

But I can relate, in a way I wish I couldn’t. Today being Father’s Day makes it all the more bittersweet to mark this date for my friend and the anniversary of his son’s passing. I remember burying Mae the week before Mother’s Day. It was the suckiest week of my life.  I can only imagine the ironical pain of what today brings for Dawg.  He gets a double whammy this year.  And I wish that I could take the pain away for my friend, but I can’t.  All I can do is show my support.

Out of respect for NYCWD, and naturally, DJ, I post this today. You are in all of our hearts and thoughts today, Dawg.

You’ll hang with the right cohorts, you’ll be good at sports! Know the slang you’ve got to knooow…

June 18, 2009

After some begging and pleading here and on Twitter, I have secured 6 guest posters for your reading enjoyment for Tuesday through Sunday!  I am super excited, can you tell?

Tuesday starts off with Libragirl, a.k.a Rachel, my newest blog best buddy. (Please Ma’am, may I have my ticket please?)

Wednesday you’ll hear from Princess of the Universe

Thursday is another Canadian in da house: LeSombre!

Friday, Wayne will be taking over the reigns

Saturday is a special treat – Liza, one of my friends since Junior High will be chiming in.

And Finally, Sunday, the sweet, sweet words of Janelle from Junkfood for the Soul!

I cannot wait to come back and read what my guests have written, aren’t you excited too?

In other news…some bullets!

  • Today was the last day of school for the Minions.  Kaity is now a 1st Grader and Emily starts 3rd grade in September.  I am so proud of my Minions!  Bloggers everywhere are having babies, and my babies will be old enough to babysit them soon enough!
  • I’m working my tail off to get the house in order before I leave.  I’ve done tons and tons of laundry, organizing, cleaning, and there’s still packing to do. I’ve been practically collapsing into bed every night and it’s been sensational to see my hard work come together.
  • Work continues to be a mental drainage.  This week has been somewhat of a lighter load though, which is a nice little break.  I am looking forward to not working half the week next week.  I need a vacation like you wouldn’t believe.

I guess that’s about it for me.  I will blog sometime this weekend, one last time on Monday and then Rachel starts on Tuesday with the guest bloggers.

Have a great Friday everyone!

~Cissa