Last Week Jitters

Wow...the past few weeks have been a complete blur. My sleeping schedule went so out of whack I was going to bed at 8 PM and waking up at 5 AM (which I actually preferred).

My mother in law came and we took her around San Deigo and out to the O-side pier and the diner and then we went to Sea World. Then my parents came and we went to Disneyland, which was totally AWESOME. Then we went down to La Jolla and saw the sea lions and seals. Aaaaw (they smell terrible though).

We acquired and then de-acquired a roommate, DH taught my how to shoot guns, we purchased a handgun, went boogie boarding in the ocean, ate sushi, had a pre-deployment brief, had a pre-deployment fight (or 2...or 3). I had to re-schedule our photography, so that is all taking place this weekend.

And in all of this I STILL haven't been able to make the cakes in a jar or flat husband. It feels like I don't even do much all day, but my mind is just racing so much that I can't even concentrate on doing anything. Take today for instance...I woke up at 6 AM and spent the first 5 hours of the day catching up on last week's TV Shows. Then I took a shower. Then I made a list of things I had to do this week and by the time the list was finished it was far too late to even do half the stuff on it.

I'm selling my car today, which makes me really really sad...so I've been putting off cleaning it. I still have to go to the grocery store and there's just so much I need to do but either a) can't concentrate long enough to do it or b) can't figure out HOW to do it. I pretty much haven't answered my phone in 3 weeks, and I haven't gotten the mail in 2. The only reason we don't have a month worth of newspapers on the front porch is because my dad loves newspapers and came by and scooped them up and read them (meaning we now have a week's worth of newspapers on the table, and another week's worth in the recycle bin).

*sigh* This sucks.

3 more weeks left :(

We acquired a roommate the other day. A guy in DH's shop was in a housing crisis, so we rented out our extra bedroom to him. Honestly I have to say, its kinda fun. I like having a 3rd person around because it makes me feel like I have friends in CA (LOL...random).

Well I think he's only staying a few weeks, so once DH leaves I'll be back to being alone in the house, but at least I can now say I know someone here.

I'm very excited for next week. DH has the entire week off and then my parents are coming to visit, so we're going to go to Disneyland. His mom was here this past weekend, so we took her up part of the Coast Highway and to get some authentic California Mexican Food. We ruined her forever, since there is no way to get food that amazing in the inland states.

We also went to Sea World. I enjoyed it, but I have to say...Sea World has gotten REALLY commercial recently. They almost seemed to care more about advertising and drawing people in and then making them pay atrocious prices to see animals. The San Diego Zoo is so much better. Sea World is just all one big advertisement geared towards children. The Shamu Show, although cool, was hilariously sappy. They staged this whole thing where a girl in the audience got to come down and touch the whale and then the trainer "passed the torch" to her by giving her his Orca tooth necklace. They went way too "Free Willy" on us there. And the sappy movie playing in the background was just terrible.

Sea World has the potential to be really amazing, but I just see it now as a destination for people to gawk at sea animals, rather than a platform for people to actually learn about animals, conservation, biology, etc.

I still need to make Cakes in a Jar. Perhaps I'll do that today. Until then!

Deployment Photography

I'm so excited! I scheduled an appointment with a photographer in the area to do some couples shots of us on the beach! Woo! I just want some recent pictures before he goes, since it's going to be a whole year until we can do any pictures together.


I can't really think of anything specific to blog about on this lovely Tuesday so I'll leave you with a picture:

Oh wait! We went to Best Buy yesterday and bought DH a new computer for his deployment. $600 laptop and YES I'm aware its going to get trashed, but if it helps him stay in contact and gives him a way to entertain himself for 12 months, I'm all for it.

DH also said he wanted to take Flat Husband to Afghanistan. He said it would be hilarious to take pictures of a little flat guy doing things around base lol. So it looks like Flat Husband will be joining Real Husband for a few months.