I can't guarantee my blog will pull out of the whinging stage, do you need me to start a different one to keep track of this deployment? I'm losing followers...
Deployment Day one (well not really since he hasn't reached his destination): 3.45 am drove Hubby to catch his flight. Returned to the house at 7 to pack lunches and get kids moving. Kids were especially helpful today--excluding Princess Shouts-a-lot who insisted on doing everything her way and nearly made the boys miss their bus.
9:00 Began an all-day campaign of legal nightmare. This possibility of having to move in three weeks is very real.
Tried to convince Miss Ky that she was tired so that I could nap. No such luck. She finally napped around 2 pm at which time I straightened up a little. I refuse to unpack anymore until I know if it's for good.
10:00 Remembered what the Hubby said about turning the hot water back onto the program since he took it offline to run on electricity (instead of oil) to make sure I could get a shower (never got the shower, it wasn't in Miss Ky's plans for the day)
3.45 Received another Possession Proceedings notice for the house and again contacted the Base.
Remember when I told you how our road was closed the week we moved in? It was BT and since then my internet is worse than dial-up. I can't load pages, forget seeing any videos and yesterday it took me two hours to get an responding email out. BT, you've done something VERY bad to the broadband line. Needless to say, I really am not a self-absorbed jerk that cares less what you're doing in your life, I've just been cut off from my life-line....that's all.
I am typing this at 6.35 am (I would be showering but for some reason our hot water has decided to quit working) not even sure if it's going to post or not.
So today I have an appointment with the bank to stop my rent payment from going in and with the housing office who will be showing me new homes-- only A2 came home with a notice that he is receiving a certificate today in the school assembly and rather than do it at 9 am as usual, they changed it to 10 am which just threw all of my appointments in the garbage.
Husband, if you've found some free wireless and you're reading on your ipod, I have no hot water and the program for the central heating has taken a vacay as well. I'd say email, but if you don't do it before I lose this line....
The rest of you-- wow, I'm so glad you're out there. I am not curled up in a ball feeling sorry for myself, so no need for sympathy. I'm desperate to hear what's happening in your lives, if you wouldn't mind, could you give me a highlight/glimpse (or synopsis)(in all of your spare time) in my comment section?
oh... look, three more people probably just stopped following. *sigh*
Computer problems here as well. Which is why it's after 1 in the AM and I'm still online. It's sloooooooooooooooooow moving tonight. I wanted to post a blog about Lacy's second birthday party which just happened this evening, but my computer wouldn't import my pictures. Or do much anything at all. So I sat down to blog a little to make me feel better, but I was so tired that my thoughts sounded horribly drunken. So I saved it as a draft to look over in the morning when I'm feeling more like myself and less like... this. You know how it is.
ReplyDeleteYou don't sound whiny to me. You sound like a brave lady. I'd be there to help you google "how to make your eye stop twitching", but since my computer isn't much help... I wouldn't be either. And I'm really tired, so in reality, I'd just put a loving hand on your shoulder, tell you to a wet tea bag on it, and then go lay down for a snooze before you figured out that I was just full of bull.
Goodnight.
I feel for you.
ReplyDeleteHOWEVER - I'm having a good day. I've taken Peaches out for breakfast, she's done a lot of walking and is looking good for an afternoon sleep. I'm taking a blog break right now and will soon head out to meet friends at a kid's play gym. That naps GOING to happen.
Hang in there honey. It'll be good again.
I have water problems too, there is a burst pipe in the village which has resulted in low water pressure. Therefore the shower wont run properly. I am having to strip wash and wash my hair with a jug over the bath. Never Good!
ReplyDeleteHmmm...with so much 'excitement' on your side, how is it possible that followers are running away... *wink*
ReplyDeleteThings on my side have been a roller coaster ride lately, the ups are really high and the downs.... hell low!
I hardly feel the need to complain about the -40 temperatures that have kept me, ah, a little preoccupied this week. You, my dear, need some attention and love. All the best.
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I would be surprised if you lost readers. You've got a lot going on in your life! As for me, like Woman in a Window, we've got -35F temps here and public schools are closed for the second day in a row. Kids are having lots of meltdowns and I'm trying very hard not to have them as well. On the bright side no one is really sick right now for the first time since October. Man, who is whiny now?! :P Sorry about that!
ReplyDeleteI hope things look up.
ReplyDeleteThat is an awfully full plate you've got there. I am thinking of you.
ReplyDeleteI am just sooo very sorry that you are having a bad time with the facilities here in Ye Olde Worlde England, and here was I thinking that we had caught up with the rest of the civilized world. Having said that, daughter number two who lives and works in London has been without WATER for four days, due to a mains bursting two streets away. Now that she has water back, the pressure is so low that she now gets up at 6.30 and goes into work where they have a gym, runs for 20mins, swims 50lengths, showers, dresses and does hair and makeup and has breakfast as is still the first in to work, and feels fantastic and toned. So something good has come out of a nuisance.
ReplyDeleteI do hope things get sorted for you soon.
I had computer issues at work. They've upgraded me to Office 2007. which I HATE! So far.
ReplyDeleteI've blogged a bit more about our trip to San Francisco and how Bob screamed like a girl. Twice!
All my memes and online quizzes will be posted at Meme-a-holic (located here: http://memeaholic.wordpress.com/
And I've ranted a bit about my Big Boss. In other words, you really haven't missed much on my end.
I hope everything gets worked out for you SOON!
I am not an official follower since I haven't figured the whole "following a blog" thing out yet. Or - I might be lazy! However, you are on my blogroll and I enjoy reading about your life - even when it isn't going perfectly!
ReplyDeleteoh. wow. i'm sorry things are so crazy. I've got no wise words, so I'll just pray instead.
ReplyDeleteI'm following, I'm following!!
ReplyDeleteSounds like things are cuh-razee on your end. (to put it mildly. Don't slap me.)
Need a glass of merlot? I've had a few lately? Probably a few too many.
My life? I want to run away from my kids, but then they tell me that I'm their hero and that I make the best skapetti (spaghetti), and I decide to stay.
It's motherhood. You know how it goes.
Steady on, my friend. Steady on.
Much love to you.
I'm still reading.
ReplyDeleteI'm still reading.
ReplyDeleteHouse full of sick kids here. Between typenol, motrin, breathing treatments, and vomit I still find time to get on the PC and read. You all are in my thoughts.
I don't know why anyone would stop reading your blog. I've lost a few readers lately, but I'd rather just delete the troll that keeps hounding me. I've had to delete a post nearly every day. What an evil little person...
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm just not understanding why they would let you all move into that house if something like this was looming in the background. How careless & insensitive can people be?
I will tell you this about Miss Ky. Good babies & toddlers tend to make up for it later on... and vice verse. SD was a wild child & never let me have a moments rest, but grew up to be a wonderful kid & now a lovely young woman. She's also my best friend. So, just look to the future... There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
My post today was about the homeless military family I talked about before. Our *online* group that's been helping them has now found an affordable house for them & we're all going over there on Saturday to clean it, paint, hang mini blinds, donate furniture, etc. I drove by the house yesterday & it's cute as a button and in a fairly nice neighborhood. It was too much for them to afford, so a nice leasing lady dropped the rent if we promised to fix it up. This should make for a really fun weekend.
I wish it was you & your family we were helping instead, but it still feels good to do this. So, keep your chin up & hang in there!
Oh Good God, that sounds brutal. I am still here. I am having a day too. But not as bad as yours. My bloody bank card has been compromised AGAIN and the bank just cuts the dam thing off without telling me. So how do I find out, I find out at the cash at Costco. UGH
ReplyDeleteGlad you've stopped your rent check. Sounds like a horrid situation. I take it your realtor wasn't informed prior to the move. No kind of disclosure issues there? Grr.
ReplyDeleteOn this front, my Little Guy and Hunny are going camping in Kansas with scouts this weekend, visiting an observatory and earning some astronomy badge. Something about laying under star in the frigid air.
My stomach is arguing with me over whether or not it can be sick right now. I've told it no, in no uncertain terms. Seems it has a mind of its own. Stupid stomach.
Still nibbling that yummy toffee. Maybe that's what the tummy's unhappy about? I highly doubt it. It didn't complain before.
Still no snow.
So now you're all caught up. Hope you get things straight on your end very quickly. And are able to beat the stuffing out of whomever stopped paying their mortgage.
I have a hard time believing that you are losing followers! I LOVE following you! Wish I had a witty story to share but alas--no such luck. My #2 daughter left 4, yes 4, mesaages on my cell phone last night--she has yet another by on the line that thinks he wants her to marry him (3 total)her life is SOOO horrible--come down and hold me MOm!!! PAHLEASE!! I know that was random--but it's all I got. Hang in there!
ReplyDeleteSweetheart. I have been losing people, too. Don't think it's you. It's not. You're wonderful. And, if they ditch, they don't deserve your sense of wonderful. I so hope the house doesn't fall thru. Poor poor J. Dear God. What else??
ReplyDeletePeople stopped following you??? Need to Deploy me out to hunt them down...tehe!!
ReplyDeleteI would so much rather hear about your life...you inspire me my friend. With a family and living in another country, you keep it all together. I know there are days that don't seem that way. But because of women like you devoted to your husband and country...I am able to live in a free nation! You wear a mantel like many of us do not...military does not just effect those serving, but those supporting them to serve. Am I just going round and round?..think it maybe the coke and the thought of the krispy kreme melting into my twitch...again giggle!! Hugs, Hugs and more hugs.
PS...coming to Utah anytime soon??? Just hoping..:)
You haven't lost me. I am just a bit behind with things at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe that, that house could be rented out to you when it could be, about to be repossessed. Shouldn't the agents check these things? I really hope that you do not have to move again and that things improve for you.
Ugh. What a crappy time you're having... and I cannot believe the house situation... horrid!
ReplyDeleteHang in there... your internet will come back, you'll have a roof over your head somewhere, even if you have to move your stuff again, and your readers aren't going anywhere.
Rough-and-tumble bumpy rides bruise us, gash us, and throw us from side to side, but they never, NEVER defeat us! Hang on and reap the joy of whatever goodness may possibly trickle out of this oh-so-frustrating whirlwind of the moment.
ReplyDeleteI am praying . . . always praying (and wishing you were here to sip tea and partake of my tranquil day).
Find yourself a quiet moment and fall into the Father's arms -- LET IT ALL GO! Weep, gnash, sob, flop . . . and then get up to dance with joy because your life is not a quixotic exercise, but an ordained path. Trim up the blisters, bind up the sores, and seek to find that meadow for dancing along the way. I promise I am with you in prayer, in heart, and in empathy. Though my day looks perfect right now, you can rest assured it will blow apart all too quickly for my liking. ; )
Stay the course, sweet friend and drop in ANYTIME!!
Love you!
Talk about everything happening at the world's worst time possible! I am praying for you and I will continue to pray. I'm still here.. you're not scaring me away. :) Wish I was local and could help you out.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry for all stuff going on. Hopefully you'll get some good news on the house. I'm still hanging out too.
ReplyDeleteFound your blog tonight from other blogs...can't remember where I clicked from but, alas here I am. I will follow you. :) I love following interesting and entertaining blogs. Yours certainly does not disappoint.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm not going anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could do more than hope for the best for you.
Let me know if I can help from Utah and I'm there.
Your not losing followers. You may lose your mind if this doesn't let up. Miss KY behave yourself!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry that all this is happening. What eve happened with that other really cool house? I can't believe that anyone would rent a house to a family that is in forclosure. It stinks!
Sending you a big hug from Australia, what a crappy day. Good luck with the house thing. Renting can be so stressful...
ReplyDeleteah honey, that so sucks.
ReplyDeleteOk... here's the highlights... we are moving in one month... all three kids just spent the last three days puking all over me and the house which should help it sell quicker I'm sure... dh officially resigned today... which means I don't have to keep things a secret anymore after church tomorrow morning... and I'm stressed out.
We are doing awesome these days eh?
Oh golly. Sending you big hugs, hon, and prayers going up for you and yours and all that you are going through to get you safely to the other side of all this mess.
ReplyDeleteWow!!! I can't believe this crap with your housing. I'm so sorry. I'm praying for you. I hope it all works out.
ReplyDeleteAs for me, well, I'm hanging in there. Two birthdays this week, had my mother and mother-in-law here for the weekend. It was really nice.
It's Haley's 7th birthday on Tuesday, and we're having a birthday party tomorrow, because there's no school because if Martin Luther King day. I still don't know what we're doing at the party. The theme is Ben 10--a cartoon character--I have no idea what kind of games to play. Oh well. Pizza, cake and ice cream should satisfy everybody right?