my hair and other things.

These ladies just look so classy. I do have my 1950's house wife sweater. I found a pill box hat at wal mart, so I need to go buy it. Now all I need is a skirt. Then I am off to the commissary to shop like I am 1950's house wife! George said that she want to go along so that she can take pictures. Rusty said that he wont know us on that day. Whatever.

Over the weekend Nikki and George picked on me about my hair. Nikki said that I need spend more money on my hair care products. George said that I need to dye my hair so that it will all be the color and the dye will cover up the gray. So last night while Rusty and I were laying in bed I told him what Nikki and George said. Rusty grabbed one of my curls and said "I love your hair just the way it is." Well that settles it. I will do nothing to my hair.

Nikki called me last night to tell my that her boyfriend Chris had been kicked out of the house. Nikki rattles on for a while and then says "mom the sad thing is Chris does not know how to survive on his own. His mother has always controlled him and he is never allowed to make any decisions for himself." How sad is that. So Nikki asked if he could come stay at the house for a few days.

Now Rusty can't stand this kid. I am trying to be open minded but it is not working all that well. So Rusty and I agreed that he could spend one night. Then we would talk to the children's youth pastor and see if he could help.

Now I thought that was reasonable and I thought well at least we did not look like we did not care at all.

The boyfriend never showed up last, and Nikki just called me to ask me not to tell anyone at the church what is going on. See if this gets around then the boyfriends mom looks bad. Whatever. I told Nikki that I would not say anything. I am still trying to be open minded and to keep my mouth shut.

All of us got some good news this weekend. a guy call squid, because he is Navy. SIDENOTE: Rusty started calling this guy squid after Rusty found out that he was in the Nave. Rusty asked him how in the world a squid snuck into a house full of marines! LOL Anyway squids wife had a baby this weekend. The little girl is so perfect. I think the biggest blessing is that squid was in port when the baby arrived. So today I will finish up their blankets and then next weekend everyone is going to pitch in $10 and we are going to give them a wal mart gift card. I just love babies..... mainly because they are not mine and I don't have to do the 2 a.m. feedings.

I decided the other night that this Saturday I am making all of the marines a sit down dinner. I am going to make shepherds pie, cheese cake and I am thinking fresh fruit. This will be the last weekend that most of the marines will be here, so I thought this would be a good send off. The marines said that they would love to have a sit down dinner before they leave.

Today I just need to do a few thing around here. I think the sun is trying to peak out, but I don't think I will be spending any time outside.

Here is another old song for you. I was listening to this song and I told Rusty that this would be us! LOL He just laughed and agreed with me.

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can you believe?

Can you believe that all of the laundry is caught up?

Can you believe that I still can't fold thong undies.... or are you even suppose to?

Can you believe that all the marines help clean the house?

Can you believe that I actually unpacked the rest of our bedroom and got it scrubbed down today?

Can you believe that ALL of the children are out with friends tonight?

Can you believe that Nikki asked if her boyfriend could spend the night since he got kicked out of his house.

Can you believe that Rusty agreed to one night?

Can you believe that I am actually starting to notice the tan that I have been working on?

Can you believe that it is hard to see a tan when there are no tan lines?

Can you believe that there was no drama this weekend?

Can you believe that.........

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here I sit

So here I sit on a Sunday afternoon. I just got done sun bathing. Beth, George, Rusty and I all went outside and soaked up the sun for a while. Man that felt so good. We were going to go to the nude beach but the weather on the coast was not that great.

Last night the marines closed down the bar. Just for the record I did not. Anyway they are feeling it today. They guys said "We are getting ready to leave in nine day's so we might as well live it up now." I don't blame them.

I have one quilt that I need to get done next weekend and then everyone that is leaving will have one. I can't believe that I have gotten them all done..... with Lyns help.

Last weekend I gave out three blankets. Well yesterday one of the marines said "I washed the blanket you made me. I thought it would fall apart." I did not know weather to be offended or not. I just ignored her.

There is absolutely nothing else going on around here. The marines are trying to get over their hang over's and I am going to go play some book worm.

Life is good and life is moving at a slow pace right now and I just love it.

I promise that I will take pictures of more of the quilts. I am going to go see everyone off so I will try to snap some pictures of them carrying their blankets off to war.

Lyn, from Brits blog, I am sorry to see you go. Don't be a stranger! Who else am I going to ask about stones and cookers and paddington bear!

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a blue cat

When I was a child one of my grandmothers lived with us. I often listened to her stories, but only believed about half of them.

My Grandmother told me a story of a blue cat. A blue cat? There is no such thing.

Then I fostered and later adopt Buddha. Buddha was a very sick kitten and I brought her back from the brink of death twice.

Rusty said that he loved her coat and that it had a blue hint to it. What a blue cat? There is no such thing.

Rusty was right. Her coat does have a blue tint to it. So this morning I looked up blue cats and sure enough there is a breed called Russian Blue! Yep there was our cats picture on the front page. I have a blue cat.

Today I am just kinda taking things as they come. I might have to go to San Diego to pick up Beth, but if the marines get off early then one of them will pick her up. I can't wait to see Beth!

I am also waiting on a phone call. Someone off free cycle listed a bunch of stuff, so I took all of it. I am waiting for her to call me, so I can go pick it up.

One of the items she offered was a simple wedding dress. She said the dress has a water stain on it. Whatever.

So Nikki is bugging me. She wants to see this dress. Nikki is going to ask our friend Lyn to help her tailor it down and take the train off of it. Nikki wants to turn it into a formal, and if we can't get the stain out then Nikki will just embellish the dress.

I am so glad that Nikki is cheap like me. I think this will be fun. Last year nikki made her own Easter dress and it turned out so good.

I finished a quilt top yesterday and I was going to give it to one of the guys. Then the girls said that it looks to girly for a guy! Oh crap. I am trying to use the material that I have. Money is tight until Rusty gets paid next Friday! I could give the quilt to another girl, but I something very special in mind for Larry. Oh well, I guess I will just put the quilt top up or I will quilt it and sell it.

I have really gotten into the game book worm. I love playing this game and I must say that I am learning a lot of new words. When I cant find a word I just start clicking on tiles until something comes up. I will tell you that turd is not in their dictionary, but bong is. Hemp and weed are also in there...... just for the record.

Rusty comes home today! I can't wait to see him. Rusty said that he has not been sleep well. He has no cat's or dog's sleeping with him and he forgot to take his blanket! Oh poor baby.

While Rusty was out in 29 palm I had him pick up two Christmas gifts for Ryan. I know I am starting early. I saw them at the exchange and I know that if I wait to get them, that they will be long gone by Christmas. Oh well, they can collect dust in the closet.

I guess I need to go dig through my material and see if I can find some manly material.

Oh and to everyone that cursed me for it being warm here, well your curse has worked. It is a balmy 54 degrees with high winds. I guess there will be no nude sun tanning today. Do goose bumps tan?

 

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theres no sun today!

Yesterday I was sunning my body. I was just soaking up the sun and the warmth. Today it is darn right cold and it is raining! BRRR.

So I decided to make the most of the rain. I sewed the top to a quilted changing pad. The camera did not capture very well. It is actually purple and white. Next I am going to start on another quilt.

On Monday Rusty gave me my valentines gift. I got an R.Lee Ermy action figure, and it is the extra salty one, so there is a warning label on it. I know I am strange but I love my action figures. Nikki got me a candle holder and Amber made me a card. Life is good.

I talked to Rusty this morning and 29 palms got hit with a bad storm and they are even getting snow out there. The only thing I can say about all of this bad weather is that the water falls should be running this year.

We have beautiful waterfalls about 10 minutes from our house. In the summer the children and I will go out there and just hang out there all afternoon. However last year the falls were dry and I was really disappointed.

I think I am going to order pizza for dinner tonight. I am just not in the mood to cook.

So goes my boring life. It is time for me to get back to my sewing.

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show me your plate

Before I get started on how my day is going I want to post a few pictures.

Faze Daze has been talking about her collection of egg plates. Now she has way more then me. I actually never knew I needed one until mine was given to me. My mother in law gave me this plate. All I know about it is that it is carnival glass. Rusty does not remember this plate, so he is guessing that it game from his grandmother on his mothers side.

I still do not use this plate very often. Don't get me wrong. I get the plate out and I make the eggs, but the marines usually eat all of them before they make it to the plate. And why does this plate have a cut out for 13 eggs?

Betty from Koda's Corgi tales said that there is a contest for pictures of love and tenderness. Now I am sure this means different things to everyone. So here are my pictures for that.

See all of these young people. These are all marines that are getting ready to go back to Iraq. To me love is and was passing out the quilts and giving them a good time! Yes, these are children that our defending our country.

This is Jake and Larry. Larry's real name is Nikki, but since we have to many Nikki's so Rusty changed her name to Larry. The sad thing is Larry responses to her name! This picture was taken the night of the going away party. These two are not just friends they are comrades in arms.

                               

So last night did not go as planned, but then again that is no huge surprise.

Our landlord, Tim called me yesterday. When we rented this house from him, we agreed to pay to have the floors in the downstairs put in. We were suppose to do that next week.

So Tim called and said. "Instead of putting the floors in like we had talked about I have something else in mind. I have enough tile to tile your whole downstairs, and all you would have to do is pay for labor. That is going to be $1,500." I said that sounded good to me.

Then Tim asked me if I could give him the money that night. I told Tim that I could give him part of it later on, and that I could give him the rest of it tomorrow. He said that was fine, and went on to tell me that 9 people did not pay their rent this month. so I told him no problem, I also told him that next week we could pay March's rent if it would help him out. Tim said if we did that then he would knock $300 off our rent! Hell that is a bargain for us.

After talking with Tim for a while, he told me why they are hurting so much. This poor family has had two deaths month and all the air fair to go back east was killing them. I knew that they had gone back east, but he never said what he was going for. Oh well, I guess it is a win win situation.

Then Amber and Sam were having an argument. So I did what any good mom would do. I sat outside Amber's door and listened to the whole thing. Amber is so wrong in this fight! So this morning I told Amber that. So now I am bad mom because I am not taking her side. I just ignored her. Sam is right and she is wrong.

Miles came up last night and got bookworm loaded for me. I swear this was the hardest game to install. Now my girlfriend downloaded the game and she had no problems. O.K. maybe we are just all idiots.

Then I still had to go to wal mart. The girls have the car during the day, so off to wal mart I went. I was so tired when I got home that I just left everything by the front door.

This morning I get up and call Rusty and he is ready for his sale today. Man I wish I was there with him.

I started putting everything away while the children were getting ready for school. Start a load of laundry, clean out the litter box's, and had my third cup of coffee.

I go into the laundry room to find half a bottle of fabric softener spilled all over the floor! I forgot to not put the fabric softener on top of the washer. Well the house smells nice now.

Then one of the dogs puked. Great now I have to clean that up. To top it off  he could not puke on the cement oh no he had to puke on the carpet!

The rest of my is going to be busy. I have a lot of running around to do..... once the girls get home. So I am going to take advantage of the sun and the warm weather. Hell I am feeling good enough that I might actually walk the dogs. Oh I should go and lay down so that this urge can leave me.

O.K. here is a song that means a lot to Rusty and I. When I hear this song it just makes me smile.

 

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Damn computer

Well I got you tube to work so at least I can listen to music before I toss the computer over the edge of the loft.

I had Rusty buy me the game book worm. Do you think we can down load it? Oh no we are both way to stupid to figure that one out. So we e mailed the place and that us feel even stupider! I swear this computer is going to have a sledge hammer taken to it.

So I called CJ. He did not answer his phone. O.K. I will call Miles. Some chick keeps answering Miles phone and she is telling me that I have the wrong number. No chick you have Miles phone and you need to give it back to him before I throw this computer at you.

All I want to do is play book worm.

Rusty left for 29 palms today. I so wish I was going with him. I love that base. However if we leave the children to their own devices then they will kill each other and we won't have any tax deductions left.

I noticed today that my hair looks like it is tie dyed. I do not know what got into me, but I decided to straighten my hair. I am telling you guys it is four different colors. My hair is naturally a dark drown with red highlights. In the summer it turns red. But since I have been letting it grow out it now goes from dark brown to strawberry blond! Oh well. I guess that is life.

I have a wal mart list that is a mile long. I told Rusty that I am going to tell the check out person to not even tell me the total because I am scared to see how much money I am going to spend.

Tonight is going to be very crazy for me. I have to drop Nikki off at the church by five because she has a meeting for her trip. While she is doing that I need to go help another gal load some furniture, and then it is off to the bank. Then I am going back to the church for ladies night out. After that I am going to drop Nikki off and go to wal mart and then I need to put gas in the kids car. Why am I paying for their gas. Oh that s right because my car still is not even registered, so I do not have a choice but to use their car.

Rusty will be gone until Friday so before then I am going to take a detoxifying bath. Rusty hates the smell of my detoxifying bath and he thinks that I am crazy.

Rusty told me yesterday that he needs new jeans and a belt. I said well your jeans and belt look fine to me. Then he took his belt off and his jeans damn near fell off of him! Rusty is almost back to the size he was when he was in the corps. My man is looking so good.

I am not going to tell you guys any more that it is up in the 80's today and that I am loving this weather. So everyone who needs a break from the snow, come on over! Lets have a huge journal land party.

O.K. my kitchen has not been touched today so I need to go give it some attention.

Seven-Day Forecast

TUE

79°F 26°C
40°F 4°C

WED

72°F 22°C
41°F 5°C

THU

67°F 19°C
35°F 1°C

FRI

70°F 21°C
35°F 1°C

SAT

73°F 22°C
37°F 2°C

SUN

76°F 24°C
41°F 5°C

MON

77°F 25°C
40°F 4°C

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