Life After The Army

Weather has been so nice

Charlotte — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:29:51 +0000

Today the temperature got up to 63 degrees!! WooHoo… come on Spring! It was nice enough for hubby to get a few minor rv repairs done to the camper after work. Soon it will stay lighter longer because of the time change coming up.

I can’t wait for everything to green up and the flowers to start blooming. I just LOVE Spring.. it’s my favorite time of the year.

We are supposed to get some precipitation this weekend but it’s not going to be that nasty, 4 letter S-word that we’ve had so much of this winter!! I hope we’ve seen the last of that stuff for a good long time!

Bring it on warmth! I’m ready for you!!

It’s a girl!

Charlotte — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:46:34 +0000

I found out, this weekend, that my son and his wife are going to have a baby girl!! That is just the best news in the world. They have a son already and this baby will make it our 2nd grand daughter. Our other grand daughter is our oldest grandchild and the other 5 are boys.

This is my son that lives in Texas and was a pilot until he was laid off in January. His wife is a teacher and is still working. I guess he has a lot of time to plan on how to keep his new daughter-to-be safe from the boys and play on the ps3.

He’s gonna have to keep an eye on her because I’m sure she’s gonna be very beautiful. Both her parents are very good looking. I can’t wait to meet her.

Yuk…

Charlotte — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:33:00 +0000

Wednesday I babysat Benton and he had been sick with the runs. He leaned over, while I held him on my lap, and decided to munch on my lip. Well the next afternoon I got sick as a dog and spent most of the next couple days in the bathroom trying to decide which end to put where 1st! I had a fever, vomiting and the runs. It was not fun. I was so sick I was thinking about wholesale life insurance because I thought for sure I was going to die.

I’ve been doing nothing but sleeping, puking and pooping.. not fun.. not fun at all. And joy of all joys… hubby just told me he’s not feeling real good right now! *cry* That’s all I need is for him to be sick. When he’s sick he’s really cranky and miserable. I just want to run and hide.

Thank goodness I started feeling better today. I’m not 100% but I’m better.

I haven’t been really sick in years. I’ve had days where I felt a little off and then I felt better in a couple hours or the next day.

If hubby is getting this.. it’s not gonna be fun *sigh*

Whew… I’m tired!

Charlotte — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:36:15 +0000

After all I just did I need to check into some Disney vacation packages because I need a vacation!

I just finished doing the dishes. Then I emptied the litter box and gave that a good scrubbing in hot, soapy water. I refilled the box with litter then I took up all of the throw rugs and took them outside and shook them out.

I came back in and swept the floor and got out my Swiffer mop and mopped the floor. My Swiffer pads have Febreze in them and it smells so good in here right now.

JoJo must not like how I smoothed the litter when I put it in there… she just came out from just throwing the litter around in the box. She wanted it arranged to her liking I guess.. hahaha!

The counter is all clean too (I say counter because we have about a 4 ft counter in this camper kitchen and that’s it). I cleaned off the table (junk collector) too.

Now it’s time to rest.. I’m done!

Online Education

Charlotte — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:51:36 +0000

Getting your college education online is a growing thing now. People are just so busy now they just don’t have the time to attend a regular brick and mortar college.

One such online university is Western Governors University. WGU offers an online mba. They also have degrees in the medical field, IT and teaching.

WGU is a non-profit online university and was founded in 1997 by 19 U.S. governors who wanted to help expand access to quality higher education and help out working adults.

WGU is regionally and nationally accredited by the Northwest Commission of Colleges and Universities and the Distance Education and Training Counsel (DETC).

Tuition is reasonable at a flat rate every 6 months and is not on a per-credit basis. Tuition is roughly $3,000 per term — $2,890 per term for most programs and $3,250 for Nursing and MBA.

This seems like a good choice for those who want to get their degree but don’t have the time to attend a normal brick and mortar college.

**I was compensated to review and give my HONEST opinion of this website**

Getting warmer

Charlotte — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:34:51 +0000

It’s finally starting to warm up here and hopefully there will be no more 4 letter S words in the weather forecast for the rest of this winter. I’ve had enough of looking at white stuff on the ground that has been there practically since the end of December.

I’m tired of having to take arthritis relief pills constantly because of the cold and nasty weather. In the Spring and Summer I only have to take them when it rains and I hope and pray that we don’t have really wet Spring and Summer. I’d love to feel halfway normal again.

I don’t feel too awful bad today. Right now it’s 47 degrees out (which will help get rid of all of this dirty white stuff) (I can’t even type that 4 letter S words without aching.. haha). It’s windy.. but March is a windy month and it’s starting out right on cue.

Soon I’ll be able to open windows in this camper during the day. I could probably do that now if it wasn’t so darn windy. The camper is swaying the gusts are so strong.

Why do I bother?

Charlotte — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:12:40 +0000

I rarely wear make up and when I do it’s usually a little bit of eye shadow and a tiny bit of mascara. I don’t know why I bother to spend money on make up that I rarely wear. I put some on for my interview on Friday and it bothered my eyes. They started burning. So I think I’m going to just give up and not bother with make up.

If people don’t like how I look bare faced then they just don’t need to look at me. Right? So I’ll probably end up needing eye cream for wrinkles too.

When I was younger I used make up all of the time. I guess I just got to the point where I just don’t care. It’s not like I go out looking like hell.. I just go out looking like me. I make sure my teeth and hair are brushed and looking nice but as far as make up goes.. I just can’t be bothered to do all that fussing around. Part of the problem is I can’t see to put the eye makeup on. I wear glasses and have to take them off to put on make up so that means I can’t see what I’m doing. I tried contacts but they bother my eyes something terrible. They get so dried out and my eyes get all red and irritated.

So no more make up for me…

Oops.. changed again

Charlotte — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:35:00 +0000

I was looking for new themes for my other 2 blogs and stumbled across this scrapbook style theme and fell in love with it. So I just had to download it and put it up here. It’s easy on the eyes and might save me some money in anti wrinkle face cream. hahaha

The middle picture in the header changes (I haven’t checked to see just how many images came with the theme but I saw 2 different images so far).

It might be only 2 columns but I can live with that with this theme. I usually go for 3 columns.

What do you think of this one?

Been missing

Charlotte — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:52:44 +0000

I haven’t run off to some Outer Banks vacation rentals because I couldn’t afford to do that right now. Depression and other life things have kept me away from blogging too much.

Internet connection problems keep me offline quite a bit and it’s doing good today so I’m trying to get some postings done before it goes all wonky again.

The weather here has been very depressing with a ton of snow, some rain and a lot of cloudy skies. Today is bright and sunny and the temperature is supposed to get up to almost 50! I hope the snow is gone until next winter. I’m so tired of seeing white. Well.. it’s kind of dirty white now.. yuk!

I had a job interview on Friday.. I’m hoping that goes well. I have everything crossed that I can cross because I really want to work at this place (I’ve worked there before).

Right now I have to get dressed, go to the store and come back and start changing my other blog.

Have a great day everyone

Something’s going around

Charlotte — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:44:04 +0000

Some kind of bug has been making the round through the family. My sister-in-law and niece were sick last week with the runs and vomiting. Then on Saturday night Andi got it too but managed to stop it with some Imodium. Yesterday I came down with the runs and borrowed some Imodium from Andi. I babysat Benton last night and he had the runs too (poor little guy).

No one needed any appetite suppressants because they were too sick to eat. That house needs to have a good disinfecting to get rid of the sick germs (it’s not that the house is dirty.. it’s kept very clean).

I haven’t talked to Andi yet today to see how Benton is doing. Hopefully he’s ok. Everyone else is feeling better and getting back to normal.