Where to begin

Well, as is typical after one my absences from the blog, I have many excuses, err reasons, swirling around my head. I won't bore you with most of them. The biggest one was that the day after we got home from Ventura, Brandon woke up with a cold, two days later, I did. Mine hung on and on and last Saturday was the first day in nearly two weeks my snot wasn't green. You're welcome.

Here's a link to our photos from our trip - click! Not all of our fun is represented because I didn't think to bring my camera the first night when we had dinner with Chris and Brad and saw their giant new house and I hadn't had a chance to download all my images when my purse (holding the camera) was stolen. Yay. Now that was fun. I highly don't recommend it. :)

I'll add more later! We're off to DHL back to the dealership the bank draft we used to buy our new Subaru Outback which we didn't properly endorse. Oops! Our big thanks go to Angie for not calling the police.

Happy Birthday Honey Haku!

It's my dad's birthday today. He celebrated by getting his teeth cleaned. Why not?

Sorry to have not posted in a while, I'll get to it soon, I promise. Blame it on my laziness, or perhaps the fact that I'm suffering from this.

Recap

So, as you know, things went as planned last Monday when I picked Brandon up at Camp Lejeune. He came home, saw the puppies, took a shower, had a beer, and then did this:
I woke him up a few hours later for dinner and to try to make sure he could sleep that night since he had to be back at Lejeune at EIGHT THE NEXT MORNING! Man. I wanted to drive him which meant getting up at 5:45 since Lejeune is more than an hour from home. Luckily, he felt comfortable driving himself the following day. :)

So, yes, he had to be there Tuesday and Wednesday at 8am. Thursday he thought he was supposed to be there at 10am, only to find out when the phone rang at 8:15 that it was, in fact, supposed to be 8am. Luckily a phone call got him complete for the day and he was free to go to Scrabble with me. Oh the ladies they were delighted when we walked in together. He got to meet Sue, Patti, Pat, Nora, Helen, Lou (not a lady), and the oh-so-delightful Terri. They loved having him there.

He was back to Lejeune Friday morning at 10am, then Saturday at 8am. That was to check out for a 96-hour leave which ended with a check back in at 6pm yesterday. If that doesn't sound right, it's not, it's not 96 hours any way. He was back there again today from 8am until after 2pm. All of this to say he hasn't exactly had a chance to relax and get back in the swing of things.

We are, however, leaving pre-dawn tomorrow for a week in Ventura and that will give us a nice chance to get back to normal. And eat delicious Mexican food. And eat delicious sushi. And see our delicious friends. All the things we can't do here. Yay!