Admittedly living overseas provides a lot of “ignorance is bliss.” I watch the news and hear about how many thousand jobs were lost in a day and see people that are stocking up on canned goods because they aren’t sure where their next meal is coming from. However, I certainly don’t have a real [...]

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I thought I had specifically requested to have our names removed from the shit list. Maybe there is some special clause in there that says the day your husband leaves your counter starts over. The first 24 hours have not. gone. well. We’ve been to the doctor twice today, called the ER once today, called [...]

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You know your son has been around Marines too much when he tells you, as you are walking into the commissary, that he “needs to hit the head when we get inside.”

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1) I love dark chocolate. The darker the better. Someday I’ll probably graduate to just eating straight cocoa powder.
2)I have an irrational fear of vomit. Hear it, see it, smell it and I go into a full blown panic attack. I start freaking out if someone even says they feel sick. I went on a [...]

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Nathan came down with a wicked bug yesterday afternoon. All of a sudden it sort of hit him that he was feeling puny and around 5pm he came in, curled up on the couch and fell asleep for the rest of the night. He complained that his throat hurt and he has a fever. Im [...]

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During the inauguration parade this morning (Okinawa time), some loser pundit on TV: ”military families are going to be Michelle Obama’s #1 priority”.  
Lisa: “SWEET!  What do we get?”

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The gray had to go. I’m still waiting on the new header but I couldn’t handle the drab gray for one more day.

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Ever since his birthday party, where we played the soundtrack, Nathan has watched the movie Top Gun from time to time. Its a great movie for Airplane Nathan because there is a lot of hot ‘n heavy wing on wing action. The problem is that it’s not a kids movie. 
Yesterday he watched the movie and [...]

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I hope everyone is enjoying their day with family, friends and a whole lotta yummy food. Everyone in these parts made a nice haul which included new space shuttles, a new bike, a jewelry box, Coach purse, pizza grill, photography classes and a new waffle maker (collectively). 
This is the first year since we’ve been married [...]

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I read once a long time ago that one of the 10 ten rules of blogging is to cuss like a sailor. Just so you know, whatever profanity I use on here is generally limited to here. I’ll admit that B.S. is thrown around somewhat frequently but I’m not one to drop the F bomb [...]

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