I have pictures to post - and things to write. Jack is home! yay - but, one of the first things he did was break our PC. And Blogger won't let me post pics or write "pretty" on the Mac. So, you'll have to wait until I look at the PC and see if I can fix it, or get the other laptop hooked up.
We are very happy to have hime home, though!!
Only 9/12 more weeks or so until the new baby. : )
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Cranky?
Maybe Doing This Would Make Me Laugh.....
I don’t know if you have noticed from my last couple of posts, but I have a little case of what doctors call “the crankies.” I’m hoping that it gets better after Jack gets home. No one wants to come back from Afghanistan and be faced with a pregnant, cranky wife! (He’ll be all, “I came back why?”) I am just in a state of general pissed-offness. It is almost funny.
It’s not all bad here. The flowers are blooming everywhere and lots of fruit is in season now. Since we’ve been back I’ve probably eaten about 6 lbs of cherries (and have 2 more in the kitchen, calling my name), 4 lbs of watermelon, and countless peaches. Normally, eating all this fruit may cause a problem – but since I didn’t have that “problem” for the ENTIRE month that I was in Kansas, it is oh, so welcome. : )
Well, let’s hope that Jack’s plane is on time tonight and that we get to enjoy a romantic meal together. I can’t wait to see Sammi’s face when she wakes up and Daddy is home tomorrow!
I don’t know if you have noticed from my last couple of posts, but I have a little case of what doctors call “the crankies.” I’m hoping that it gets better after Jack gets home. No one wants to come back from Afghanistan and be faced with a pregnant, cranky wife! (He’ll be all, “I came back why?”) I am just in a state of general pissed-offness. It is almost funny.
It’s not all bad here. The flowers are blooming everywhere and lots of fruit is in season now. Since we’ve been back I’ve probably eaten about 6 lbs of cherries (and have 2 more in the kitchen, calling my name), 4 lbs of watermelon, and countless peaches. Normally, eating all this fruit may cause a problem – but since I didn’t have that “problem” for the ENTIRE month that I was in Kansas, it is oh, so welcome. : )
Well, let’s hope that Jack’s plane is on time tonight and that we get to enjoy a romantic meal together. I can’t wait to see Sammi’s face when she wakes up and Daddy is home tomorrow!
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Not The Only One!
Today at the Carney Park restaurant there was a table of about 8 people, and the entire conversation they were having was about how annoying the Neapolitans are and how messed up they are. It was nice to know I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Going back to last Tuesday at the bank. I left there with a Canadian lady who also couldn’t get her rent money. I was venting my frustration and saying I didn’t even know why God made Italians, as they are the most annoying people on the face of the earth. That I would rather live in Iraq than here, as the Iraqis are way friendlier, hospitable, and the food is better. She thought the part about the food was crazy talk, but not to me. I would rather eat a lamb roasted underground on a bed of rice and spices any day than a bowl of pasta. I could happily go the rest of my life without pasta. And even though the Iraqis hardly had anything, what they did have they shared. One day one of the men brought in the biggest goose I have ever seen. It was a roasted goose on a bed of rice and it was so good!
The Italians would rather just live in their own filth and steal your stuff than share theirs. But, good news: They have made “a resolution” to fix the trash problem! Yay! (Oh, wait, they’ve been making “resolutions” since I got here and there is still no progress. To help matters, a key witness who was going to testify for the State against the trash mafia guys was just gunned down, shot several times, in BROAD DAYLIGHT in a busy business area. So, yea, that resolution ought to work out great!) In the meantime, let me tell you that summer heat + huge, heaping piles of rotting garbage + the heightened sense of smell during pregnancy = unpleasantness!
That Canadian lady also defended the Italians saying, “it’s not them, it’s the system.” Well, I’m sorry. It’s not like aliens came and inflicted the system on them. They made it, they should change it. So, it IS them!! (I think they just need some vigilante justice and the cajones to open a can of whoop-ass. Another reason to love America and the 2nd Amendment.)
But then again, maybe these modern day Italians are the proof of alien life forms I have been searching for. Before, I was pretty sure aliens had been here and built the pyramids. Then, I see the pyramids and they are so obviously built by people. *sigh* Maybe, though, the Roman rulers were aliens. I just don’t see any way that these people are the descendants of the ROMAN EMPIRE that RULED THE WORLD. It is impossible. Sure, I have my lead poisoning theory, but no matter how lead poisoned you were, wouldn’t it have worked itself out by now? Aliens are the only other answer. Prove to me that they don’t exist by showing me examples of Roman excellence in these modern day Neapolitans. Go ahead, do it!! (Good luck with that waste of time, Mr. Challenge-Taker-Upper!)
Going back to last Tuesday at the bank. I left there with a Canadian lady who also couldn’t get her rent money. I was venting my frustration and saying I didn’t even know why God made Italians, as they are the most annoying people on the face of the earth. That I would rather live in Iraq than here, as the Iraqis are way friendlier, hospitable, and the food is better. She thought the part about the food was crazy talk, but not to me. I would rather eat a lamb roasted underground on a bed of rice and spices any day than a bowl of pasta. I could happily go the rest of my life without pasta. And even though the Iraqis hardly had anything, what they did have they shared. One day one of the men brought in the biggest goose I have ever seen. It was a roasted goose on a bed of rice and it was so good!
The Italians would rather just live in their own filth and steal your stuff than share theirs. But, good news: They have made “a resolution” to fix the trash problem! Yay! (Oh, wait, they’ve been making “resolutions” since I got here and there is still no progress. To help matters, a key witness who was going to testify for the State against the trash mafia guys was just gunned down, shot several times, in BROAD DAYLIGHT in a busy business area. So, yea, that resolution ought to work out great!) In the meantime, let me tell you that summer heat + huge, heaping piles of rotting garbage + the heightened sense of smell during pregnancy = unpleasantness!
That Canadian lady also defended the Italians saying, “it’s not them, it’s the system.” Well, I’m sorry. It’s not like aliens came and inflicted the system on them. They made it, they should change it. So, it IS them!! (I think they just need some vigilante justice and the cajones to open a can of whoop-ass. Another reason to love America and the 2nd Amendment.)
But then again, maybe these modern day Italians are the proof of alien life forms I have been searching for. Before, I was pretty sure aliens had been here and built the pyramids. Then, I see the pyramids and they are so obviously built by people. *sigh* Maybe, though, the Roman rulers were aliens. I just don’t see any way that these people are the descendants of the ROMAN EMPIRE that RULED THE WORLD. It is impossible. Sure, I have my lead poisoning theory, but no matter how lead poisoned you were, wouldn’t it have worked itself out by now? Aliens are the only other answer. Prove to me that they don’t exist by showing me examples of Roman excellence in these modern day Neapolitans. Go ahead, do it!! (Good luck with that waste of time, Mr. Challenge-Taker-Upper!)
(PS: as always, when I say Italians, I just mean these Naples ones.)
Saturday, June 07, 2008
We’re Back!
Well, we’ve been back for 9 days now, but it takes awhile to get organized and back in the groove. I finally downloaded my pics tonight and have mostly everything unpacked. (I have to figure out how to get 2 kids’ clothes in Sammi’s room now, so I am still sorting that out.)Our trip back home was so fun, even if the weather was pretty bad most of the time. Nothing like a lot of WIND, thunderstorms and tornadoes to remind you that you are in Kansas.
It was weird being transported from utter chaos to such silence. It made me realize how much sleep I am NOT getting. We live on the busiest street up here, so there is traffic, honking, yippy dogs barking, chickens crowing and who knows what all night long. In Kansas, there was just silence. Broken by maybe the dog barking at some coyotes, or else there was thunder and rain. All much easier to sleep to than honking, crowing, fireworks, and sirens.
Of course, the downside of such relaxation is the return to CHAOS. It makes it even worse. The Tuesday after we got back I went to the bank to get the rent money (Monday was yet another holiday here.) I could not get the rent money because the bank had no money to give. No sense in planning ahead and getting some cash when you know everyone needs it that day! (Anger…..) It is always something here. I will not be sad when we leave here next summer.
The good news is that Jack gets back on Tuesday evening! Yay!! That is also our anniversary so it is a very good gift. Sammi will be so happy when she wakes up on Wednesday morning and Daddy is home!!
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