Eight Months Gone

Today marks eight months since Hubby officially left home on his journey to the sandbox. What has happened and changed over the past month?

- Number of meals cooked this month: 0 
   Running total for deployment: 0
   (Note that I do not count frozen pizzas, chicken nuggets or baking a hamburger in the oven as cooking.)

- Special Note: While I DID make baked beans for a day out on the lake…they are not a full meal, therefore they do not rank in the meal-counter.

- Scrapalooza…seems to be at a rest. I didn't scrap any pages this month. I just didn't seem to have the motivation this time around…

- Mechanical Emergency Number Five: My computer crashed. It just up-and-decided not to start on me one day. After I emailed Hubby to let him know that my internet access would be very limited until he returns home to fix the computer, he rode in to the rescue with a new laptop. Totally unexpected! Now I just hope that he is able to get the old computer up and running long enough to pull all of my stuff off of it…

- What, oh what have I done to deserve the tormenting of the Automotive Gods? As I was driving on the freeway one day, a rock popped up out of nowhere and dinged my windshield. Now I have a little asterisk just of the left of my field of vision in the windshield. Dammit! AND THEN, I was walking Sadie Marie one day and happened to see a little "glint" from one of my tires. I had driven over a screw! Turns out that the Automotive Gods were just toying with my emotions that time…it just stuck itself in the tread and didn't actually penetrate the tire. I really don't want to dump any more money into this car…I just want to sell it and have my Jeep already!!

- I've finally given in and decided to follow through on a promise I made to myself at the beginning of the year, when I started my new job. With the addition of more money to the check, I told myself that I was going to splurge and get myself a fresh pedicure every pay period. Until this month, I hadn't followed through. I finally did, and am in love with the pedicure again! I'm definitely keeping up with this…now if I can only make myself immune to my hatred of the nail file…

- Reports from the Front...summer has brought back two of our college-bound employees. They're in town for the summer, bringing some much needed relief to the office. We've also got a "newbie" on board, so the staffing situation seems to be temporarily resolved…for the time being. The major oddities this month are the capture of a goose and two adorable baby gray foxes. All went to the local wildlife rescue, which was wonderful. And if you think that snakes can't come up your plumbing and through your toilet, guess what. They can! We had a 4-5' constrictor come up into a toilet in the city this month…I never thought those stories were real! But we went and picked up the proof!!