Sue~Fonzo is coming home in 3 weeks..but time is going by sooooooooo slow!!! Where have you driven cross country to? I've only driven from Az to New Mexico..then from Az to Washington. I've never really been cross country in a car before. I do know that we wanna stop at Yellowstone and The Mall of America. But I dont know what else there is. To be honest..I would love to see something totally corny, like the largest ball of yarn or whatever, lol. Driving from Az to NM..they have these funny hotels that are Tee-pees (spl?). I've ALWAYS wanted to stay in one of those, lol. I just wish Fonzo could come home now so we could plan our trip. I've been waiting to buy maps and all that stuff until he comes home. I should probably renew our membership to AAA right now. Omg, I dunno why I didnt think of that before.

Susan~Omfg..what is up with the Starbucks chick and the Bagel chick?!?! Seriously..what crawled up their butts and died!!! You should check out Madiline Wickman (ya, I totally spelled that all wrong, lol)..look up "Cocktails for Three" Its another name Sophie Kinsella writes under. I have that one in soft back if you wanna borrow it, lol.



Okay..I have to ask a question now. Is it possible to rent an apartment or a house without meeting w/the building manager (or whatever they're called) or owners?? Because thats what we're trying to do now. I'm just freaking out about not having a place to live once we get out there. I'm having nightmares about it now!!! I'm so freakin angry that Fonzo has to be away right now. This whole move and underway period couldnt have come at a worse time!!!!!!!!!! I'm angry at the stupid loser who messed up Fonzo's papers!!!!!!!!!! :mad: I found this really nice apartment within our price range..it has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms..and the application fee is $250. But how can we apply if we're not there in person? I'm so confused. I hate being all the way over here in Washington. We couldn't have gotten San Diego!!

On a side note..Fonzo has been in the Navy for 5 years on June 6th, lol. I didnt even realize it until now.

well, we had some wicked weather come through our way today! we were just about to cook chicken on the grill and the dark clouds moved in and then it just downpoured! I came inside with the chicken and Tommy went to open the basement doors with the office manager. Come to find out, even though it hasn't been confirmed yet with the National Weather Service people, a tornado touched down two miles away from us! The temp reached 91 degrees today, so the storm came through without warning. They were saying on the news that we can expect strong storms again tomorrow....so we shall see how things go tomorrow!


SuzieQ~ I will have to switch my avatar on here to the one with her foot in her mouth! She was being a goof ball, and I just wanted to get a picture of her. And wouldn't you know it.....just when I lifted the camera she stuck her big toe in her mouth. What I wouldn't give to be that flexible!

Francie~ Have you tried contacting the people about the property and then explaining to them your situation?

Mindee~No..that thought never even crossed my mind, lmao!! I feel like a dork now.



Okay so...I talked to Fonzo today (yay!!) and he said that he'll be offically off the ship Aug. 12!!!!! So I'll have him home with me for awhile. We have until Sept. 21st to get to MD. We're going to talk more about our moving plans once he gets home. He told me to renew our AAA membership (for maps and travel books)..and I'm reading my Navy Spouse's Guide book about moving. This move is a lot different than our first move. Mostly because we have more stuff now, we'll be living off base, and he wont be connected to the ship anymore. Plus, when we moved the first time..it was right after we got married, so all of our stuff was still in their own boxes. And we didnt even own a couch or tv..lol!! Omg..this is gonna be very interesting. Fonzo is very excited. I'm excited, sad, and nervous. I dont wanna leave Seattle!! But Fonzo pointed out that I'll be closer to DC & NYC!!! And I LOVE Nyc!!! Okay ya..I'm rambling now.

Did anyone watch Army Wives tonight?? I bawled my eyes out!!! My head hurts from crying so much. Omg..it was so sad.

Morning
 

Good morning

been up since 4 :devil: however, I went to step aerobics and I've had 2 cups of coffee so all is good with my world this morning :D Good news! I ordered a new pedometer form my visa rewards website. It has a cover (yay) and counts calories burned as well as steps. When I get that i can get a better idea of how I'm doing everyday. I want to get up to 10000 steps/day, but I need to wear the pedo to know that.

My DS "graduates" from 5th grade today...and DD from kindy tomorrow. Will be a busy couple of days.

Susan- Hey you are so close to goal! Way to go! All your hard work is paying off. I've been meaning to mention that I really like the photo you found for the first post...it's so sweet and perfect for our little group.

Clara - Welcome! We are a fun bunch...but you probably noticed that already ;) I look forward to getting to know you better.

Sassy - I hope your new manager helps you out with your schedule. It sounds like you have a well thought out proposal, so he'd better listen, right? Your shadow box is so pretty... I never did anything like that with my wedding stuff.. the dress is floating around this house somewhere...I alwyas kept it because my mom made it for me.

Mindee - hope you and your family are staying safe through the storms...are things calming down at all?

Francie - I like the Navy picture... and your shadow box.. very nice. I am sure that you will have a nursery to hang it in one day. I had my kids at ages 31 and 36 - so it ain't over 'til it's over! Sounds like you won't have to stress the move for a bit yet - that has to feel good.

Sue - I hope you can get to Goodreads soon..I love seeing what other people read and what they think of the books they read. I could spend hours on that website, lol! Beef stew and biscuits sounds really good - I'll have to make that soon. It keeps raining here and that sounds like a perfect meal for a rainy day.


Cristina - wow - you have clocked lot of miles --I'm gonna have to run to keep up with you!

Jules - Happy Anniversary! DH and I have been living together for 20 years, married for 18. Our anny is one week from today. Here's to "living in sin" haha....and they said it would never last:dizzy:

Well, in addition to the school events, I offered to sew up 80 beanbags for VBS. I fired up the serger and it is going pretty quickly, but I am going to need way more beans than I thought I would. I finished up the knit and sent it off, so I am glad that is done. That's about it for me --- how's everyone else doing?

Don't forget...The Bachelorette is tonight - and the boys SING!

Happy Monday!!
Just in case you missed this post! I have to do some quick emails before I can play around. I have to be responsible.....*eyes roll*....so bbl.






Post from Suzanne

We frequently get asked what the difference is between the Misc Clubs forum and the main Support Groups forum. Well.. nothing, just location We're not sure how or when this happened, but it really doesn't make any sense to keep confusing the newbies. Both are miscellaneous support groups and none of the groups are defined by specifics such as age groups.

So to simplify things, we're moving the threads from Misc Clubs into the main Support Groups area. We're just merging two forums. Nothing is lost, but you're one click closer

We'll start moving the threads in a few days after you've had a chance to see this notice.

Thanks

Sassy~Okay, I had to laugh at the employee surveys. I love that you & your dh were totally honest. You should write something like.."working here is like sticking a spork in your eye over and over and over" lmao. I'm keeping everything crossed for you. If my eyes get stuck this way, I'm blaming you, lol.

Katy~How exactly does your DS "graduate" from 5th grade?? I dont remember doing something like that. Can you make me a beanbag??? Do you use real beans?? LoL!! Omg..I had a dream that I was on the Bachelorette!!! Only, I was just a friend of the girl..and it was totally weird. Like they had a garter ceremony. If a guy caught the garter, he was safe, lol. And then there was this other ceremony..where the guy had to follow a trail of popcorn in order to get a daisy, lol. Totally weird!! LoL!!!


OKay..nothing new with me right now. I just woke up not too long ago. I dont understand how a tiny cat can hog an entire side of the bed, lol.

Happy Monday Again!:dancer:


Francie - Does the Navy have a dept that helps w/ relocation? I am sure the landlords are use to Navy families having to find housing from out of state.:?: Is the Navy's spouse guild helpful? Cute cartoon clip! :)

Mindee- I will go search the pictures at myspace in a sec as soon as I am done here! Scary about the tornado, I am glad you and the family were safe.

Sassy - Proud of you for speaking up to the weasel supervisor!! Hope you get some positive results from it.

Katy- Thanks, I will probably change the goal whenever I get to 150, I was thinking 145. I just don't want to do it now because I really want to reach the goal. lol Gaby has her last day tomorrow, I am going to try real hard not to get too misty eyed. I love that picture too of the little girls...if anyone does a new thread and wants to use the photo I will mail the code thingie to you.

:wave: to Cristina, Sue, Clara, Tammy and Miss Jules!!

EDITED: I forgot to say anything about myself... :yikes:....I am fine, had my slim fast and banana for breakfast. I went to a different Starbucks....because I didn't want to get pissed off so early in the week. haha.....I went to the Village and the people seem more down to earth and not as snobby......they are almost organic. lol
Oh Francie - Just to answer you to the 5th graduation.....the school goes from k to 5th and middle school is 6th to 8th...and after that is high school, so Katy's son is leaving his school and will go to a new school next year. *sigh , ok I had to really answer that question...lol. just call me bossy ....or anal...lol
What else?? I guess nothing...need to get my hair trimmed and get all these split ends cut off, I am addicted to my hot iron, I couldn't stop even if I wanted to....

k- adios!!! Chat later...

well, it is hot now, but they are saying that we could have storms like we did yesterday. so, we shall see how they are going to play out today! hopefully they won't be as bad today.

they said that it wasn't a tornado, but a derecho. which just means a fast moving storm, and this one had plenty of wind and they were straight winds at that! so now we just get to sit and wait it out again.......to see what this one brings. Tommy had to run out and get some milk yesterday......he had to go about a half hour away to find a store that was open and that had power!

Hello ladies and a HAPPY MONDAY to ALL!

HI & :welcome: CLARA! Looking forward to getting to know you.

SASSY & FRANCIE...love the shadow boxes...they are pretty! I have two...had them out for a while but they are sitting in the closet now. One is from our wedding and then on our renewal ceremony. We renewed our vows on our second because the first wasn't a happy one and we didn't do anything.

SASSY...our song is Now That I Found You by Teri Clark which fit us perfect. Our wedding song is Give Me Forever (I Do) by John Tesh w/James Ingram singing. Love them both, of course now I think DH has made Amazed our new song! Keeping my fingers :crossed: that the hubby gets the job. I know you've had your share of the dummies where you are now.

SUSAN...what the heck was wrong with those women? Geez...most of the time I can't even get a good morning out of people, lol. I definitely don't think it was you are all.

MINDEE...will have to go check out the pics. Was on there (myspace) this morning but for just a couple of minutes. We have had some crazy weather lately haven't we...the midwest is being hit hard.

FRANCIE...love the frame! Fonzo sounds like Josh...I think deep down he is proud but doesn't want to make a big deal of it so I do, lol. I am like you...have to buy all this stuff, he thinks I am silly. Just a proud momma of a soldier that's all.

SUE...you are doing great with your walking! And glad you were able to get a walk in between raindrops. I was loving the rain a while back, now...not so much. Beef stew sounds delicious and I bet it was!

KATY...CONGRAT'S to both kids! :carrot: They are growing up aren't they? Speaking of running, lol...I have tried to jog in the past, kind of funny but anyway...when I did I felt like I had a body suit on and everytime I did EVERYTHING moved up and down it was weird. Now...I am toning things and it's funny because now it doesn't...feels good.

Nothing much going on today. I actually was lazy yesterday and spent 3/4 of it in bed. Yes I did! Of course I slept in this morning as well and even though it felt good mentally, physically...my body was hurting, not a good thing for me to lie in bed for that long. Anyway...had to run to the store and get a couple of things. Was out of bananas and salad...can't live without those two things. Got some gas, ugh! And mailed some letters. Didn't walk until I got back. It was cloudy and really cool so it was actually nice. Really sick of all this rain and humidity...hate feeling sticky.

Hoping everyone is having a wonderful day!

FRANCIE...almost forgot, I've seen the teepees, so cute. Have pictures of the kids in front of them, lol. There's a crater, Meteor Crater just before Winslow can't remember what it is called. We passed the sign to it on our way from CA to AR once and the kids wanted to go see it. I told them on the way back, ugh. I had seen it before and on the way back I told them it's just a freakin hole in the ground. They were sad so I had to take them. What do you think they said when they saw it? "It's just a hole" :lol: But there is a gift shop and a couple of other things there now. Of course the Grand Canyon is yet a bigger hole, lol...but a pretty one. Of course, you guys probably wouldn't go that far down south to go to MD. There's always the Black Hills in South Dakota. MT. Rushmore is kinda cool as is Crazy Horse. Oh, something really corny, no pun intended, lol...The Corn Palace, lol..in Mitchell, SD. Of course it all depends on the route you guys take. Once you guys figure that out you can find all kinds of little stuff on your drive...might as well enjoy it right?

Susan~I cannot remember how the Navy helps with relocation..other than moving our stuff to a new place. My guide book is helping. I sorta skipped a bunch of stuff and moved right to the relocating part. Right now its just talking about what the movers have to do, lol. As for the 5th grade graduation thing..that is kinda weird to me. I went to a Catholic school, and it was K-8. But I switched to public school for junior high. And that was 7-8. But the school changed after we graduated from 8th grade. It became a middle school from 6-8. Everyone who went to that school thought it was weird, lol. The schools my mom taught at were also K-8.

Mindee~Omg, such scary weather. I hope we wont have bad weather while driving to MD. Otherwise, I'll be begging Fonzo to drop me off in Az where nothing happens, lol.

Cristina~Oh ya..Fonzo is totally like that. He complains about the Navy all the freakin time..but I know he's proud of himself. You should've seen him when he had to buy new medals. Omg, he turned into such a snob, lol. I'm a proud wifey, so I have to keep buying this stuff, lol. Before we move, I wanna buy a Bangor, WA sweatshirt and a Stennis hat. Fonzo probably doesnt ever want to think about the ship again. But I've been a Stennis wife for 3 1/2 years. And I was a Stennis girlfriend a year before that, lol. Oh..and thank you for the suggestions!!! I really wanna see Mt. Rushmore now!!!! And the Corn Palace, lol. I wanna see corny things like that!!!! And ya..I've seen that Meter crater before, lol. It is just a big hole. No big deal. The Grand Canyon is a giant hole, but it is beautiful. Omg, I'm so homesick right now, lol. I used to beg my mom to stop and stay at the Teepee motel..but she said they were dirty, lol. I guess that was her way of saying no, lol. Is there a way to find out about all those weird places, so we can mark them on the map? I remember somewhere between AZ & New Mexico..there was a lizard farm. And everytime we passed it, my grandpa said he wanted to see it. So one year we stopped..and a lizard jumped on me..and I screamed like non other. It was a tiny lizard too, LOL!!! That was the last time we ever did something like that, LOL!!! Oh..and on our honeymoon. We stopped at this rest stop in Gila Bend, and there was Native Americans selling jewelry..and Fonzo bought me these really pretty purple earrings. I lost one of them at 6 Flags though, so that sucked. I love buying roadside stuff, lol. Have you ever been to the cavernes before??? Totally awesome!!

I'm gonna bring back a tradition. See, my mom used to buy a spoon from every state that she visited. She even put it in this cool display case (but it was stolen when we were robbed). Anyways..I'm going to do that too. Actually..my thing was to buy a shot glass & magnet from every place that I've been. But I want to honor my mom..and collect spoons too. I'm only gonna do it if we stop at that state though, lol. Driving through it doesnt really count.

Anyways..I finally got my saint statue today. It was made in Italy, pretty!! I'm pretty sure I've seen the same statue in my grandparents house. I know I've seen it before. And the comfort cross is made from of olive wood from Bethlehem. I also have my little worry coin too. Now I'm just waiting for my necklace and prayer card. I cant wait until we get seattle in MD. Then we can start going to church again. Well..then I can start going to church again. Fonzo isnt very religious, but he's gonna be going for me. And he knows I want to raise our kids in the Church.

Well..I was supposed to clean, and I didnt. So I think I'll go through the rooms fast and pick up trash. I dont feel like vacuuming right now. I just wanna lay in bed reading my Navy spouse book.

BBL

It's HOT, someone at work said it was 102 plus the humidity is terrible...when we were leaving I was talking to a coworker and I said I thought I was wilting...

It's raining again in Tacoma and Ry is beginning to think he should have went to Portland...He is making alot of friends so maybe that will help. He loves the scenery and actually Tacoma itself when it's not raining which hasn't been very often.

Teri met a guy....I think she may be starting to like him as more than friends....he's not the most attractive guy she has ever dated but, she says he has a really great personality and he pays for both of them...(she has a tendency to pick guys she has to fix and she usually pays in more ways than one) I am keeping my mouth shut....I have never really liked Dave and I don't think he has changed as much as she wishes he would while he's in jail. The other guy has his own place and though he's not as ocd as her when it comes to cleaning..his place is clean. She's starting to remember that Dave is a big slob. She went to use the grill this weekend and he had never cleaned it after using it in December. She's also remembering how she never had any extra money because Dave was always needing something and when he had his 2 month long job he blew his money on him. Is it bad that I am really hoping that she decides to have Dave move back home with his parents until he gets his license back and a job....instead of moving him right back into the apartment and hoping that he has actually changed???

gotta go...hubby wants to go work on the garden fence and I have to pull weeds...

Just real quick about the Bachelorette. Does anyone else think that Fred looks like Jason Bateman?? LoL!!