Showing posts with label i live where?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label i live where?. Show all posts

Monday, August 29, 2011

Will he ever leave???

If you recall this post, it was about a huge blowup Vx & I had about a year ago, I kicked him out, let him come back to recover from his surgery, he was supposed to move out after he recovered, but he didn't.

Christmas time comes, this post talks about how I wanted either us to move or him to move out. Neither happened, I got a voice recorder instead. 

May 23rd, another blow up, he said that a month from that day, he will be moved out & to put the date down in my phone. June 23rd came & gone, he was still here! In July, he was too sick to work most of the month because of his kidney stone. Nothing could be done about it at the time because he also decided to fuck up his Tri-care. He gets kidney stones every year, he knew it was coming, so why did he mess up his insurance???

About 2 weeks ago, another blow up. Mom & I told him he has to leave (yes, we still live with her!), he said his new place would be ready last Wednesday, it wasn't (typical), but he's been staying with someone & moving out what he could. I took away his apartment key, but he magically still has a copy. This coming from the same idiot who frequently lost my keys & his keys at the same time, but couldn't be bothered to look for them!

Numerous times in the last 4 years, he has said he would do things that he never did. He keeps sending me messages about how much he loves me & how he doesn't want to be apart from me. TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE!!! I told him he's trespassing if he uses a key to get into the apartment, he did at least once when I went out of town w/my mom & "step-dad" (they're not married, but they might as well be, they act like a REAL married couple, unlike Vx & I). The laptop he "had to have for his deployment" that he never went on is also gone, 3/4 of the storage containers in the bedroom where he kept some of his Army crap in are gone, he had the newspapers laying on the couch, with a picture f/our wedding & the cake topper on the kitchen counter. His desktop computer is still here on his huge-ass desk, some of the stuff that was on it is still there, I have piled on stuff I have found in other areas there for him to get. Some stuff will be easy to split up, others not so much. My mom keeps insisting on me getting the fancy cookware out of storage that my brother gave us that we never used (we have mom's stuff, it's crowded as it is, why have more than what we need here?), I don't have a key, so I'll have to try & get it from him. We bought a set of tables, the coffee table is what I use as a computer desk for my laptop, the other 2 side tables are still in pieces in the storage unit. Towels & some bakeware my friend in AZ sent us are also in there. His younger sister bought us a few dishes (storage), some friends of his bought some kitchen cookware utensils, his former Sifu bought us a set of towels & some bathroom stuff (towels in storage, other stuff in bathroom), someone bought a comforter & throw blanket for the bed, one was from the older sister, the other may have been from my former boss, idk (no gift book was purchased, & my memory was still fuzzy partly f/dealing w/morphine withdrawals). The other wedding gifts we received were cash or they were waiting to give them until we moved (almost 4 years later, we still haven't moved or received those gifts).

I'm keeping the cat, no questions asked. He didn't clean her litter box for over a year because he wouldn't tell me that I was buying litter that aggravated his asthma that according to the Army he doesn't have, he didn't refill her food or water dish when asked to, so why would he take good care of her on his own now? He never took her to the vet, either. He never had the joy of being in the car w/her (constant, loud crying, especially while driving in a construction zone).

He has not paid any rent in the last 4 years or so, he hasn't paid his cell phone bill, either. He thought I was taking care of that, there never was enough money in the bank to cover the cell phone bills, rent, car insurance, internet he had to have (I went to the library & used my phone before that), & everything else. Then he wondered why I got so mad at him for buying useless crap.

He said he would fix my air conditioner, it hasn't worked right for over a year, he never did. Some of the last hockey games we drove home from in my car, it was raining. When the wipers were turned on, we saw they needed to be replaced. He said he would do it. I want to say 2 months later, it rains again while I'm out driving. The wipers were never replaced, so I had the guy at Auto Zone do it for me. We had numerous days over 100 degrees outside, one of those days, Vx drove my car to do stuff when I needed to do things with it instead. He said he was working, so I kept asking him, "Why didn't you drive you work van?" when he finally returned home, I left just to find out my car was about to overheat! I took my car keys away from him. Earlier that day, I had also asked him to refill P's food dish, either she ate a whole lot more food in those few hours then she normally does in a day or he didn't do it. That day, it was just one thing after another.

Numerous times, he has said he was sorry & he wouldn't do it again, just to turn around & do it again, or he would say he would do something, and then not do it. I've had it!

I may not be married into the Army much longer, but then again, I have no job, he won't get a "real" job, so we may have to end up staying married, just living separately, idk. If your asking "why doesn't he go full time?" he said he tried that, there are too many active duty soldiers, while the Reserves are short-handed in certain areas (just not in his area, considering units in our area have more CBRN's then they know what to do with them). He also said he's not qualified to join the HAZMAT team the fire department has. SERIOUSLY?!?! I don't doubt Vx on this, it just seems real fucked-up his Army skills can't be used for anything in the real world. The security company my mom works for is short-handed, I have asked him to go to work for them, he has a conceal carry license, military experience, he should be more qualified & make more money then my mom (who's unarmed & in charge of her jobsite) does. Her boss at the company heard about my security experience & asked me if I wanted to get my CLEET & work for them. TSA wouldn't hire him because of his credit, but this place doesn't care about that, shoot they only drug test employees when they hire them.

He's been more like a brother to me then a husband, & we were both living w/mom, sharing a bedroom. I want to be a real adult, & actually move away f/home! Why hasn't he got that??? He says its because he was kicked out when he was 15. Still, he was on his own, I never have been, his deployment was supposed to be my chance to actually be on my own, but like everything else he says he gonna do, he doesn't.

He wouldn't let me give up on my dream when I was trying to, now there are fewer job openings now then there was when I was fresh out of school. I don't want to go back to school & get a bachelors, even those w/that degree aren't getting jobs. I applied for "my boss" job after he left the hockey team for another hockey team, I was the least qualified candidate (no one has been announced yet as the new person), but the GM wants to help me gain more experience, so I'll be back with them next season, not getting paid. I need a paying job that I'm qualified for (very few out there), won't interfere w/the hockey team (games played on some Tues. nights, weekends, & some holidays, when newbies at most jobs would have to work), & that my body can handle (bad leg aggravated by cold temps).

I just wish things would get better already, instead of worse & worse (like they have these last 4 years)!

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Six Word Saturday


Will my allergies act this way?

Yesterday, while waiting for my future boss to come into work, I decided to go walking at a park near there. It was a beautiful day, sun was shining, but the wind was crazy! After I got all the pre-employment stuff done (also renewed/fixed my library card in the process), I stopped by a roadside attraction that's been having work done to it on my way home. I guess being outside in the wind as much as I was aggravated my allergies, I'm feeling it today, & I was planning on meeting some local social media people at the park, next time I guess.

My job (starts in June) will be outdoors, is this how I'm gonna feel the whole time? I've worked at this job before & didn't feel this way, I won't be driving a golf cart around this time, so maybe I'll be ok. I hope so!

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Have a great weekend! 

Friday, April 15, 2011

MilSpouse Friday Fill-in



1. With PCS moves happening every few years, do you take the time to paint and decorate your home? submitted by Life as Mrs. JPT
N/A

2. If you could live in any home on a television series, what would it be? submitted by Standing By Him

I thought Monica & Rachel's apartment on Friends was pretty neat.

3. What inspired you to start your blog?  submitted by Pink Combat Boots
Combination of things; being awake when most people are sleeping, being shy, ability to express myself in writing more than I can w/my voice, & "I'm deploying in a few months" bs.

4. What is the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen on base? submitted byAdventures in Life
A stop sign at FLW is written in Arabic? & English is the only thing I can recall seeing that I thought was weird.

5. Which historical figure (politician, writer, artist, scientist, actor, etc…) would you like to have dinner with?  submitted by Army of Two
I really have no clue on this, I've had about a day to think about this & I still can't come up with any names, really.

Round 2 of the playoffs start tonight, hope the team does well! Have a great weekend!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Who would've thought...

Wifey's taking a break this week, & I haven't blogged in too long, so I thought I would write a quick post:

Who would've thought...

...an ice rink would be warmer than a dirt floor arena???

...the only employee that was not allowed to step outside to warm up would be the non-smoker!

...my former supervisor would be the one more likely to die than her very-ill husband.

...14 inches of snow would make my happy to be unemployed!

...I would love hockey!

...my cat would bark like a dog!

...we'd get 14 inches of snow at one time! (normally we might get a few inches that melt away immediately, most of those 14 inches are still here about 2 weeks later!)

...I would consider applying for a job w/the baseball team who moved & caused me to lose my awesome summer job somewhere else.

...my husband would still not deploy after 3 years while other are on their 2nd/3rd tour.

Yeah, some random thoughts. I blame cabin fever! Hockey game tonight & tomorrow night, so maybe my sanity will return soon. Have a great weekend!

Friday, January 28, 2011

MilSpouse Friday Fill-in

Yay! It's Friday, hockey game tonight, online tomorrow, shopping should be done (hopefully!) and...



This week's questions are:

1. If you were a famous movie star, what types of movies would you star in?
Comedy definitely!

2. What is a vacation you would like to take if money were no object?
Hawaii, NYC, Italy, England, maybe Japan, I haven't really thought about this much, but off the top of my head, those seem like neat places to visit.

3. Did you have pets growing up?
Before I was 10 (we moved), I remember we had a black dog, a black cat for a while, then a gray kitty w/black stripes we found at the park. The cats ran away before we moved, the dog escaped afterwards. They were outdoor pets, dog was chained up in the backyard, cats mainly stayed by the back/main porch. We had a cat for a short time after we moved, then we found out who it belonged to. We also found out that many cats in that area have died of cat leukemia, so we never had pets again. Two years ago, a white cat I saw attempting to catch a peacock "was waiting at the door and told (my husband) that she lives here now" so she does.

4. What do you do for exercise?
Not much, I'm lazy. When I go shopping for groceries or whatever, I tend to walk the whole length of the store, sometimes twice instead of just walking to where I need to go & leave. When I'm doing the media runner thing, we park on the north end, media area is half way on the east? end, I walk all the way around the building at least twice a night after the 1st & 2nd periods, every goal sends me from one end of the section to the other & back,. 

5. What is the best piece of advice you’ve ever received as a MilSpouse?
None that I recall, but I can give out some to others that I learned on my own the hard way. Orders mean NOTHING!!! Orders can & will get changed or cancelled at the last minute. Not everyone in the military deploys, the ones that do seem to go on multiple deployments. Military ID's are NOT easy to get, so don't tell me it's not a "real" ID. Those "cushy" benefits that full-time military families seem to have is not what all military families have (this coming from a spouse w/no job, no schooling assistance, no insurance, & we have to live w/my mom since he can't seem to get a "real" job, or a housing allowance). Not all of us live at or very near to a "real base" (I don't count the NG "base" on the north side, the BX is only useful to buy alcohol, & that's not worth the drive there).

Does that cover everything???

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Hope your weekend rocks as well!


Thursday, December 16, 2010

Uh, Christmas

I hate trying to buy my husband gifts. He usually wants something I feel is too expensive, or he doesn't like what I get him. I still haven't got him a birthday (September) or anniversary (October) gifts for this year, or a Christmas gift. Last year, I bought him pants for Christmas that he hated, he griped about needing some, but he wouldn't go out and buy any, so I did. Granted, one pair was not what I expected, the other's he called "gay looking" so I returned them and he never bought any pants or anything else to replace them. For our anniversary/his birthday, I bought him a RC Tank. First, I got the wrong color, so we went to the store & exchanged it for a color he liked better. Then he broke it, he keeps saying he needs to send it in to get it fixed, it still sits on top of the tv, broken.

I didn't like all the gifts he's purchased for me, either. One birthday, I got a guitar, while its neat, I don't care to learn how to play it, and I don't want it sitting around if its not going to be played. One Christmas, I got some sound equipment "so I can record demos" as he put it. I received that a few years too late! Now both sit in his storage unit, w/many of out wedding gifts as well.

Yes, wedding gifts from 3 years ago. Things that aren't needed right now since we still live w/my mom!

For Christmas, I want Vx to get a real fuckin' job, so I can have what I want for Christmas, to live in my own place like a real married couple!

I can't believe this is still our life 3 years later!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Random Tuesday Thoughts

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So last Tuesday's hockey game wasn't as much fun as the last cheap beer night, but it was still a good game. Friday's game was the start of a 3 game stand w/this one team, last time both teams played each other, the other team slaughtered our team (idk if it had anything to do w/our team wearing special jerseys that night or not), so I'm glad they paid them back by winning the first 2 games in the series. I listened to the second game online since it was at the other team's home, so I got to hear my facebook friend again. The third will be played tonight at home. Our team has won the last 6 games in a row, & the last 8 out of 9 games (the pink jersey tops weren't lucky for them either, could this be a sign?). 

My sister is driving my mom nuttier than she already is, lord help me! Luckily this sister lives far, far away and no one has heard her say anything about visiting for Christmas. Mom's bf said something about her moving back here, I believe mom's reaction was NO!!!!!!!!!!! 

See why I'm her favorite?

Also, our brother is dating her first ex-husband's sister. They've been together for a while now, it still cracks me up! Our brother lives closer to our sister than mom & I do, so he can deal with her & her craziness. 

Incase you were wondering about my Christmas stuff, no presents have been purchased yet, I won't be making any, the meal will probably be at the same place we had Thanksgiving at (Chinese buffet) since there's a game that night as well. I think the last time a Christmas tree was really set up was 4 years ago. That first non-tree year, between starting to walk again after breaking my femur & a severe ice storm in our area, we were lucky to have presents, & I did have to purchase most of the ones I gave out in January (no car+unable to walk=buying gifts difficult). After that, the cat w/her anry ways, was the main motivation and still is.

Have no fear, when presents start appearing, a Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake will be placed on top. It's a tradition I started about 10 years ago, my parents had presents wrapped up and sitting by a window, but no tree up. The tree did finally go up, then when my aunt felt bad about hosting a Christmas meal w/o a tree, I brought the Little Debbie tree to her house, placed it on the edge of her computer desk, the presents people brought were sitting beside & under it, so they were placed "under a tree" that year.

The club Vx flies with is having their Christmas party as a nearby buffet later this week. I guess I'll get to meet some more wives that put up w/the same "toys" that I do. Of course, most if not all of the other members are rich, &/or live in their own houses w/garages, while we live in a 2-bedroom apartment w/my mom & her bf. The members that are kids, one of their parents is also a member.

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Friday, October 8, 2010

MilSpouse Friday Fill-in



This week’s questions are:

1. What is the longest road trip you've ever taken?
Montana, according to google maps, the distance between the small town I grew up in and one of the places in Montana I remember visiting a few times as a kid is about 1500 miles one way, & (mostly) my dad drove it in a few days. It was a long trip, but we would stop in several towns along the way, sight see, stay the night, etc.


2. Do you collect anything? Tell us a bit about it.
I used to collect bicentenial quarters, I have some shirts from bands, I'm sure there are things I collect, but they don't come to mind right now.


3. What is your favorite part about being an adult?
What?!?! Your calling me that A word? If being that A word means legally going to all concerts, driving, buying liquor, going to bars, clubs, casinos, etc. then I will continue being that A word.


4. What song brings a tear to your eye?
Different songs bring tears to my eyes at different times, there's not one song that does it all the time. 


5. Describe your first plane ride (how old you were, where you were heading, etc).
Despite my dad working for an airlines growing up, my first flight was after leaving his home, at 20. My friend in Arizona was getting married, I was her maid of honor, and since there are very few direct flights out of Tulsa, OK, my first flight was from there to Dallas, TX. A few hours later, my second flight was from DFW to Tucson, AZ. The flight to Dallas was delayed, but the person at the gate was able to get me a seat on a later flight to Tucson, I missed the wedding shower because of this. The 3 trips I've taken trips by plane (4 flights each trip), at least one flight has always been delayed, so don't fly with me if that bothers you.

Have a great weekend!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Yikes!

This was originally intended to be a Random Tuesday Thoughts post, but I didn't publish it, so now it's a "normal" post. 

According to big event #1's website, about 8 Days, 14 Hours, 56 Minutes, 50 Seconds until it officially starts, but who's counting?

I'm excited.

Send me to the nuthouse.

NOW!!!

I still have no clue what task I will be performing, job I did last 2 years has been eliminated, previous jobs have been taken over, so who knows.

Also come November it will slow down again, this time I need to get a real job, I've said that the last several years but didn't/couldn't so this year I HAVE TO!

This financial bullshit can't continue any longer!

A few weeks ago (give or take), Vx's unit held a board, he keeps checking his AKO excessively! To be in his unit, they are supposed to be E5 or higher, Vx and a few others were E4's, Vx has the points now (last board, not all his points were counted, now they should be), I assume the same for the others, so he should be Sargent soon, and hopefully WLC & the teaching classes will follow as well.

Since the new fiscal year should have either already started, or is about to start, please let there be no more drill/pay issues! If someone decides they want him to deploy w/them, they will actually let him deploy w/them (instead of using up all his active days preparing for nothing).

No more useless gear taking up every inch of our bedroom! It's better now that most everything's stacked in either plastic containers or out of the way at least, and more of the non-Army crap is in his storage unit, but its still crowded.

I'm still struggling to stay awake as early late as I need to. It's about 6:30 and I want to go to sleep. Depending on the job I do for big event #1, I may get to leave around 7am, I may have to stay until about 11:30am.

I'll quit before my head starts typing.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Incase it wasn't crowded enough w/the deployment crap...

My mom's boyfriend has now officially moved in (I guess you could say that). My mom works security at a warehouse, a company he works for is leasing part of the building, he was mainly living in a trailer parked on the lot. He was told to move his trailer, so it's now at some storage place and instead of spending 3 nights a week at his trailer (the nights my mom work), he's now sleeping here when he's not gone for work or visiting his family. Those used to be the nights Vx & I had the place to ourselves, now we don't really have those.

I hope this will encourage Vx more for us to MOVE OUT!!!

We'll see how this goes...

Friday, August 13, 2010

MilSpouse Friday Fill-ins

It's Friday again, the weekend is coming, while its not a big deal for me, I know others are happy, and it's time once again for:



This week’s questions are:
1. What is ONE thing you’d like civilians to understand about being a military family?


As Wifey said on hers, civilians need to know that our housing and healthcare isn't free. OH, IT ISN'T! Her reasons are different than mine, but we agree on this. My husband's insurance comes out of his pay, what's left over doesn't cover my cost, so I'm not covered on his. I get healthcare through the indian clinics, I won't get into their crappy care. Housing, well the only reason ours is free is because my mom is nice. She has allowed us to stay in my bedroom rent-free since before the wedding.


I would also like for full time military spouses and such to understand what all of us "part-timers" (or as Hellcat Betty puts it, "Civilitary" and yes, I've been waiting for a reason to use that word!) really deal with. This isn't a one weekend a month, two-three weeks a year thing for us. Military screw ups for us mean screw ups for numerous civilians that don't understand the military way. My husband has had to take off work for long amounts of time (at the last minute) just to come back sooner (or not go at all), while he's self employed, for others, this really screws them up. Their jobs rushed around to have people cover for them just to return sooner (or not go at all) as they said they would. Also, when its time to promote someone, guess who's gonna get it? The civilian who doesn't need time off at the last minute for missions, classes, or weekends for drill (which sometimes get changed or they're 3 day weekend)!


Also, not everyone is in units close to their homes, we live in Oklahoma, Vx's current unit is in Washington state, one of his former units was in southern Texas, another was moved to Arkansas.


There's probably other things, but I'll stop there.


2. What is your favorite mistake?


I remember thinking at the time how that mistake probably worked out better for me than it would have if I did a task correctly, but I can't recall any of those right now.


3. What indulgence could you give up for a year?


Alcohol, I barely drink as it is, so it shouldn't be a big deal.


4. If you could be a winged animal, what would you be?


I'll answer this as I apparently did after suffering head trauma and being on heavy amounts of morphine: "We're all evolving into penguins!"


5. What is one question you’d like to see asked in a future MFF?


More questions that all of us "part timer" wives/significant others can answer, as a Reservist, I thought Wifey would get this, but since she's married to a full time Sailor, it doesn't always seem like she does.


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Have a good Friday! 

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Random Tuesday Thoughts

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Last Tuesday was my mom's birthday. I got her a funny card (something about me being the cute and smart one, he just signs whatever I stick in front of him), and some cupcakes w/different colors of frosting from Wal-Mart.

A little warning for all of you (it could be tmi for some of you): the blue frosting will turn your poop blue.

Saturday, Vx & I went to Pei Wei for dinner, since his favorite sushi restaurant was closed when we got there. Like we usually do when we dine here, we grabbed tons on fortune cookies, here are the fortunes:

Life is full of little decisions-like white or brown rice. (We had 2 of those)
A crab wonton a day keeps the doctor away.
Honesty and friendship bring you fortune.
Relax and enjoy yourself.
One learns most from teaching others.
A sound mind & healthy body bring many happy events to your family.

Another joy of apartment living, smoke detectors. Sunday, ours started beeping excessively. Apparently, you can't do a simple battery replacement on it, so Vx unhooked it from the wall, and advised me not to start any fires. I hope he said the same thing to my mom, she's the one that always has firefighters visiting her at work (something about screwy alarm system, sure).

Tomorrow, it'll hopefully be Vx's final dr.'s appt. w/the surgeon! Everything's looking normal again, he's still hurting a little if he moves the wrong way, but overall he seems to be in great shape. He did work for a few hours one day, it was for an old family friend of Vx, he runs his own company, but sometimes has Vx do smaller projects, he also paid an assistant to help out so Vx wouldn't have to do any lifting. Good thing, considering the possibility that the surgery was needed because of some work Vx did on his house.

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Wednesday, uh!

Wednesday morning, I was going to stay up to pick up my final paycheck from this June event (to avoid having to pay me overtime, they've been paying me 80 hours at a time, this check was for the final several hours) but was too tired, so I set an alarm to get up before the office closed, little did I know Vx was making other plans. His post-op was supposed to be Thursday morning, but since he was running a fever (that he wouldn't take Tylenol for) and having pain (he wouldn't take his pain meds for, he could've taken both together), he moved up the appointment to Wednesday afternoon. When I woke up to get ready to go, he informed me that he moved the appointment. So fuckin typical of him! I told him if he was in so much pain he had to move the appointment up, then he must have been taking his medicine, so I didn't allow him to drive (if he really was taking his medicine, he wouldn't let himself drive there), I dropped him off, he got mad at me,
"Your not coming in?"
"No, I have things to do."
"I didn't bring my cell phone, so I should be done in an hour or so, just wait inside for me."

So, I left him and drove in the opposite direction to get my check. At work, I did get a nice surprise, my final check was double! Not too shabby for the people who don't "believe" in pay raises anymore, or overtime.

Did I mention this was all during rush hour? Me, being the genius I am, I took this street that some major construction is occurring on and around it (the highway that runs over it preparing to be widen). I needed gas, so I turned on a street that I knew had my preferred gas station (Quik Trip), bought gas and a snack since I hadn't ate anything, and then turned on another street to head to the turnpike. Despite inserting the correct change, the coin machine didn't act like I inserted money in it (hopefully no one fines me for it) and made my way back to Vx.

As soon as I walked in the main door, he was sitting right inside it, in pain. He claims that the doctor played ping-pong w/his balls. He has an infection, but the doctor didn't know if it was from the surgery or if it was something he may have already had (like a cold or something), told him to take his pain meds, and informed him that this surgery wasn't as simple as Vx seemed to think it would be, even saying some patients having heart procedures recover more quickly than others do from hernia operations, let alone double hernia operations (like his). He wrote him 2 prescriptions, one for more pain meds, the other for antibiotics, and he has another follow-up next week.

Not to sound like Stan (f/South Park), but I learned something today, my car's a/c needs to be fixed! I guess my check(s) will go to that, &/or my state income tax refund (came in the mail the other day, not sure how much it'll cost or what exactly's wrong, it blows air but not as much as it should).

While our temp has only been in the 90's, the heat index according to my phone while at the restaurant was 115. Yeah, my car's going to the shop, sooner than later. This heat is especially hard on Vx, and his vehicles a/c's are in worse shape.

I believe this statement escaped my mouth as well: "I'm not the Army, I actually plan out things instead of trying to do everything last minute." I keep making this point to him, hoping that he'll also do the same, especially when it involves me. He has improved, but I don't know if it'll actually stick.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Seriously?! One in four?

The BBC has released a report that partially explains the frustration my husband and I have been feeling these last 2 years or so:

Frustration for the US soldiers who never went to war

It says only one in four actually deploy, seriously?! Then why are there so many going on multiple deployments? One of those other three can't go in their place? The military doesn't want to waste time re-training them? They sent my husband to the east coast in hopes he could walk on to a class that they a)sent him to the wrong place for and when he got to the right place b)the class was full, so he couldn't get in after all. The unit did let him stay on as another CBRN because he's also an expert saw gunner. Then he didn't get to go after all. There were people in this unit jumping out of windows, having doctors say their girlfriends/wives were having difficult pregnancies, everything they could think of to escape deployment, then my husband who VOLUNTEERED TO DEPLOY was kept behind because of some lazy-ass Army dentist didn't like the work another Army dentist did on my husband's teeth, so he was sent home to a civilian dentist to fix the problem?

I'm reminded of all of this several times a day, especially now since my husband's had surgery and we had to switch sides of the bed again (first time after my broken femur & surgery). Every time I walk into our bedroom over to my "new" side of the bed, I'm having to step on or over this deployment shit. He refuses to stick it in his storage unit, he claims security risk, but he won't try to find a more secure unit. He doesn't want to work hard enough to afford to pay rent on a two bedroom, and he won't get rid of anything! I want to move into a studio apartment by myself just to show him how little I own! Several times in the last year, I have asked, begged, and yelled at him to clean up his shit and he hasn't. That was the straw that broke the camal's back a week and a half ago, causing me to kick him out after spending the morning playing on his computer after he had said the night before that he would clean up his stuff and stick some of it in his storage unit.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Am I a bitch?

Friday night, the blowup of the century! (Story time:)

In this corner, a wife who is tired of hearing excuses from her husband, and him saying, "I'll do that" and he hasn't.

In the other corner, a husband who's preparing for surgery, but won't get paid for his work, or try to do anything to help out beforehand.

Wife made plea for husband to finally clean up the deployment crap and all his other crap Friday night, Saturday around noon when she finally gets up after he's left, nothing has been done.

Text messages were sent with no responses, one stating, "Don't come home tonight." A phone call was made without answer, finally as wife was leaving one of husband's hangouts, she calls again, he's at another hangout. She tells him, "I lost my keys, I need to borrow your copies of the apartment and car keys. " She arrives, he handed over the whole key ring, kept trying to get wife to go somewhere so they could talk, she refuses and leaves.

She refused to answer the door when he came home, but he came in behind wife's mother. Wife gives other keys back, continuously made the point, "This is her apartment and she purchased my car!" while pointing towards her mother. Wife went to work w/mother and forced husband to leave at the same time. Husband stopped mother on her way to her vehicle, wife yells out car window, "Leave her alone!" several times.

He finally did.

Wife goes to work with mother, hangs out for several hours, tells mom's boyfriend some details about what happened (he also lives there) then comes home.

The End (of that part at least!)

Yep, I kicked my husband out!!!

Big part of me wants nothing to do with him anymore! But a very small part says I should let him back until he recovers from his surgery.

A very small part.

I worry if I do let him come back to recover, he'll try to change my mind, and being the weak person I can be, I would probably end up taking his sorry ass back. I don't want to give him that chance! He thinks I did all of this because I don't want to take care of him. The point he kept making towards me was how he stayed by my side when I was in the hospital, and how several people told him he should leave me, but he wouldn't and how his relationships w/them are strained. If they really were friends or whatever, they wouldn't have done that! Apparently BQ never visited (I knew she was having car issues, and lived about 40 miles away), but I remember Buddy, some cousins, my dad and MIL. And obviously Vx and my mom.

He told me one person today, I knew she wasn't too crazy about me, I just thought it was because Vx helped her daughter out so much, she was worried that me being around, he wouldn't. He continued to be there, he kicked her rapist's ass, and had to get the a & b dropped before he could go to basic, which was no problem at all. The rapist had also visited the same recruiters Vx used, when they found out Vx kicked that guy's ass, they literally worshiped the ground he walked on. This woman loaned us some stuff for the wedding, set things up, but left before the ceremony! I haven't seen her since. Vx has talked to her a few times, I think.

The point I was trying to make is that he has done NOTHING since. He doesn't seem to make any money, we still live with my mom, he doesn't try to keep his shit out of the way, he won't get rid of any of it (says he can't since it belongs to the Army and they won't let him return it), and he's brought up other personal issues I won't discuss in too great of detail, I'll just say that I'm making an effort to fix this and the quick fix is something he refuses to do.

Just in these last several minutes while trying to type all of this out, he has texted and called.

Oh, NOW he does!

Anyways, he asked for his sleeping bag, I said no, he has slept in his car numerous times, its hot outside, so why would he need a sub-thermal sleeping bag?

So, am I a bitch? Is it too much to ask that we live in our own less-crowded place, like a REAL married couple? Is it too much to ask that my husband gets a real job, instead of trying to build up a business that partially involves people wanting to build houses or remodel them? Is it too much to ask to see the money that he's making instead of what he's buying with it? Not to foolishly hurt himself in some way every time I turn around?

Comments please!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

blah

Yeah, that's how I feel. Blah. I am so frekin bored with this whole damn life! Once I get past an aggravation, another one comes up.

We finally got the air conditioner, burners on the stove, oven, fridge, bathroom sink, fan, and the toilet fixed. We had to clean up, that was an undertaking, Vx's deployment shit is EVERYWHERE! Out of fear that maintenance would have to replace the fridge and stove completely, his stuff had to be moved into our bedroom, on top of all of his other (mostly deployment) shit that I have to trip over to reach the dresser or open the window.

Since the Army rather send soldiers on multiple deployments instead of sending my husband (who WANTS to go) on his first, can I pack up all this deployment stuff and send it back to Fort Dix or that other base he got the shit from? (the mob site in Georgia)

The a/c was fixed immediately (outside company, it was out of coolant), the rest took a while. A maintenance man came to work on it, he fixed the bathroom sink (there was a hot water stream when it was turned off all the way) and all the burners work (2 didn't work before), tweaked w/the toilet (its better now than it was, the tank fills up after flushing it most of the time), made the fridge colder (like having frozen food on the warmest setting is gonna be fixed by making it colder?), said there wasn't anything wrong w/the fan (Vx made him stand in the bathroom w/it on until it started squealing loudly), then he said he'd have to order a part for the fan and stove (electric coil exploded). The office called Vx about the repairs, he told them everything, the maintenance man wrote on his work order that he fixed everything. He's now been reassigned. A new maintenance man came in and fixed everything! He's wasn't sure about the fridge, but it's keeping things cold now (NOT frozen), we can cook again, and the bathroom smells disappear much quicker and quietly now.

Right about the time everything was fixed, Vx's friend asked him to do some work on his mom's house, she's moving out of it, the friend and his girlfriend (together maybe a year) are moving in. The thing that bothers me about this: Vx and I have been married for over 2 years (together about 5), we still live with my mom in her apartment! Is it just me, or should the rolls be reversed?

Vx has orders now (not that it means anything), he's in a new unit on the west coast, he won't be going to drill once a month (not that he has been since the whole deployment bs), after completing some classes, he'll be an instructor. One possibility is we'll be living at FLW (would it be appropriate to call it the chemical mecca?) for a short time while he teaches some classes. I fear if this assignment doesn't happen, we'll never move out of my mom's apartment. I WANT OUT OF HERE!!!

I made the mistake a month back, I asked Vx to call someone about these garage apartments near this area we agreed to live in, there condo's and they were asking as much for it as what my medical bills were about 2 years ago (six digits), now he's stuck on the idea of getting a place w/a garage. I found some other garage apartments, they were newer and further away from that particular area, they were asking 3X as much! Now he's stuck on the idea of garage apartments.

The place he had a storage unit at before the deployment bs, he's renting a unit from them again. One of the people running the place before may possibly be a "tag chaser," I'm not sure. She told him she's dated Marines, and she sent him a picture of what appeared to be her boob. He had a talk with her about it, so hopefully I won't have to do anything to her! He says there's stuff in the unit, and he'll put some of the army stuff in there as well, he says a lot of stuff but doesn't do them, so I don't have much faith in what he says or in anything involving him.

Summer time's coming, I don't know how last summer's job will work this year, ES changed the rules on work hours and pay, I assume it also applies to FMT as well. While I don't want to work about 60 days straight again, I'm curious how all of this will work with the others since this is only a 2 or 3 month job that some need to work more than 40 hrs a week at. Are they gonna have to hire more people for a temporary job? Some of these people work there every year, so if new people need to be hired, then they'll have to be trained, and pass background checks, and maybe even IRS (some do, some don't). That's something else that worries me, I made a mistake on my taxes last year, your taxes have to be in good shape for my department, so will the mistakes affect me this year? Federal said I had a mistake, but my refund was still the same, and the state kept what was supposed to be refunded.

The other night, I was looking at canes online. I feel so old. I'd like to have a fold up one that I'll keep in my car or whatever bag I carry around at work so when it starts raining while I'm there, I won't have to struggle to walk around as much. The other day, my husband and I went to Wal-Mart while it was raining outside, I could hardly walk into the store. I was okay when I got inside, I sat at a bench while he tried on some pants, we walked around a little bit, and when we were leaving the weakness started again. So this is what life will be like for me, hope that new unit doesn't want Vx and I to move there (I believe it rains in that area a lot, its also colder there)!

Friday, July 31, 2009

Pardon my ramblings...

If you've read my recent blog entries, you'll know why I'm literally in love with this blog entry! What a life saver, a sigh of relief, I'll just have to wait on my tri-care to kick in. So far there hasn't been any changes in dates and such, so we'll hope it stays that way. Yesterday my kitty's behavior got to me, but my reaction was very minor compared to Monday's blow up.

Yesterday evening, my ES boss called me about working weekends, I told her not this weekend. I told her Vx is here, but he's getting ready to deploy, she understood, and hopefully this doesn't mean that she won't forget about me and not call me to work again for a few months *fingers crossed*. My MIL is supposed to do grounds patrol on weekends, during the week she's been working as well, then someone else has to either cover her weekday or weekend post. My boss is picky about who does those 2 jobs, she has trusted me to perform the weekday job, but not the other, and honestly I don't think I could handle grounds patrol. A few summers ago before I hurt my leg, I did the weekday job, it does sometimes run over into the weekends, which is fine, I haven't done it the last few summers because it is a bitter cold job (3 layers of clothes indoors when it's 100+ outside) and the stair walking were two things I couldn't handle (hurt leg torture!). Now that Batman is shutting off the AC at night, and my leg is better, it shouldn't be as bad of a job, even w/the bitchy snobby rich folk.

My attempts at catching up on sleep have become lengthy. Yesterday I layed in bed from about 9?am til after 11pm. I only slept off and on that whole time. I'm finally getting some much needed rest, and the depression may also be part of that as well. Vx has requested I get up by 6:30 this evening so we can go out for dinner.

I need to find a place to move to, my mom is really annoying me, this happened right before the car wreck, her behavior was better while I was recovering, but now she's got a boyfriend so that bad annoying behavior is returning, and having him around is kinda weird (we overhear things we don't want to overhear, we don't do "married things" when they're around, but have no problem doing those things when were on the other side of the thin walls). Vx doesn't want a say, so it's all on me. He said there's people at warriors I can contact that can help, but the sooner the better, so I need to get in gear and hurry up and pick a place!

One more and I'll quit, earlier when I had facebook search my blackberry contacts, my FMT boss came up, first off, I did NOT need to know about him being a fan of Frederick's of Hollywood (too weird!), second, the way I have my employers listed on there, if he did a search for co-workers, I don't think I would show up, so should I friend him, message him, what? I have no clue on the ettiquette for this. I know the other driver in that car wreck found me on there, so yeah, Facebook is a bit weird for me. Almost all my friends are people I know personally, so in that regard it makes sense to add him, but then he might also be weirded out by the fact that I know he likes Fredericks, and there may be stuff on my page that he'll feel the same way about as well, nothing comes to mind, but it's possible. Enough rambling, I got things to do and sleep to get, so good night/day.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

WTF

Incase anyone was wondering why I haven't been on the internet much in the last few days, early Sunday morning while at work, my phone decided to quit working right. Living in the middle of the fucking bible belt, no place was open that could help me out. Monday morning when one finally opened, the phone could not be repaired. The tech used the term DOA. I asked him about this blackberry that a girl from warriors gave Vx before she deployed (they do have different MOS's) he said yes, so today I took the Blackberry to the store to get it turned on, they said it couldn't be turned on since it was purchased and used by a different cell phone company. My options are to either file an insurance claim and get another Razr (my third) for $50, buy a used phone for $80, I also asked about their Blackberry's, one model was $150, the other's $180. The Razr's are the 5th and 6th cell phones that I've actually owned, all my other phones cost a penny and the Razr's were $50 each (first one was a Christmas present f/my mom, and the second was through the insurance).

There's other shit that has NOT worked out these last few days/weeks/whatever. It seems like nothing ever works out for me! It never fucking does!!! I must go to bed now, after all I do have to work every single night since no one can cover for me.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

8 Things

I got this from SciFi Mama

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To:

* Moving
* Vx deploying (I know that probably sounds weird)
* Days w/o pain
* Warmer Wx
* A good night's sleep
* Another job
* trying to make that martini I drank a few weeks ago at a restaurant
* "life"

8 Things I Did Yesterday:

* sat around the apt in pj's
* found an online magazine that could use a contributor
* read several blogs
* Emailed some people
* pet the kitty
* watched many hours of tv
* played Mah Jongg
* Twitter and other social websites

8 Things I Wish I Could Do:

* walk w/o limping
* work in radio
* play guitar
* have better computer skills
* have a college degree w/o the years in school
* run better
* cook something other than tv dinners
* lose a little weight

8 Shows I Watch:

* Poker After Dark
* Star Trek
* KRMG on tv
* some other morning news shows
* Up Late
* Boston Legal
* South Park
* Family Guy

8 Songs on my iPod:

* Breath
* Dance with the Devil
* The Diary of Jane
* Topless
* Dance of the Manatee
* Vice/Versa
* Kyla Cries Cologne
* A Seafarer's Knot
I've only put 2 cd's on my new one, so Breaking Benjamin and Fair to Midland are the only bands

8 Favorite Warm Weather Activities

* driving a golf cart &/or Gator around
* concerts
* hang out at the parks
* working as much as I can stand
* cruising w/the windows down
* cold drinks and ice cream
* swimming
* hanging out outdoors w/o coats, blankets, etc.

8 Favorite Happy Things

* music
* Vx
* P
* mom (sometimes)
* butterfingers
* cookies
* concerts
* the park? (this list was hard for me!)

8 People to Tag

* my "stalkers"

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

funny twitter message

edgetulsa Hide the kids and grab your bibles. I'm about to play some Manson! Hopefully, lightning won't strike our studios

Is it just me, or does that remind you of your dad as well? Nice way to wake up, a twitter text that makes you think, "That sounds like something your estranged father would say." I guess that also happens at hard rock stations located in the center of the frekin bible belt. Just thought I'd share that w/everyone who reads this.