I missed Wednesday

it was foreshadowing when I said I'd try to remember. Oh well, we'll try again next week.

I am so proud of DevilDoc, he has been asked to be the key note speaker at College of Lake County's Memorial day service. AND, this morning he made a presentation to the Navy League of Lake County (I think) in hopes that they will donate to the 2010 Corpsman Ball....AND THEY DID! A hefty donation too :)

I'm a proud wife today for sure!

Pogue ma'hone!

Ok, not really...unless your my brother and reading this LOL! Ha!

Sunshine glorious sunshine, OH HOW I HAVE MISSED YOU! Please don't leave me again, promise? My mood has been drastically improved in the past 2 days which solidifies my belief that I do indeed suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

There hasn't been a lot to blog about here recently, besides deals and shopping. DevilDoc is STILL in school and I am STILL going crazy missing him and being the primary parent figure. He was planning to take the week of spring break off from work to get a break but OF COURSE every other person in the clinic already asked for time off...and well, we ARE still the low man on the totem pole. I am hoping he can at least get a couple days off for a break; I dunno how he goes to work every morning and deals with all the BS and then goes directly to school afterward. When he comes home he sets up camp at the kitchen table and studies until 11 or 12 o'clock - then to bed to be up by 5am and back at work. THIS MAN NEEDS A BREAK!

That's all really...except in case you didn't know Magoo wants to see "Diarrhea of a Wimpy Kid" LMAO!

We got goodies from DevilDoc!

Yesterday Pookins got a letter in the mail from DevilDoc with a cute note in "kindergarten" vocabulary and a couple pictures that he drew. Pookins was very excited and even went up in front of the ENTIRE school to share his letter!

Then, this morning when I opened my email we had a message with LOTS of pictures! Our school had sent over boxes of candy as part of our philanthropy event "Operation: Candy Drop" and I had also sent a Thanksgiving themed box.


I think they were a little bit excited?!

And here is the Thanksgiving set up I sent to him; the little pilgrim on the wall was included lest you think he packed that on his own :)

Love the protection *wink*

And his new digs...


Which is a substantial improvement from his old digs!


And I'm pretty sure he threw this one in just to spite me, because I HATE it when he is in an aircraft (helicopter to be specific!)

A new tradition?

We celebrated our second consecutive Thanksgiving without DevilDoc. Last year we had the pleasure of sharing the day with some friends who also had deployed hubbies (and one who did not, HI BOB!) This year I opted for low key and decided to try out the Silver Dolphin Bistro on Sub base Pearl Harbor.



We enjoyed a wonderful meal of turkey, ham, dressing, green beans, sweet taters, mashed taters, rolls, shrimp cocktail and corn. There was pumpkin, apple, blueberry and peach pie, a HUGE pineapple cake with waaaaaaay too much frosting and an ice cream bar. They also had every drink you could have imagined and I am happy to report they have Coke Zero on tap ;) Oh, and let me add all THREE of us at for $6.35..total, not apiece!!!



I hope they do something similar at Christmas time because I know where we'll be going!

Oh, and here is the line of crazies at Best Buy on Kam Hwy. This was about 430p local time.



I leave you with a disturbing picture, the effects of tryptophan

Home sweet Home?

I got these pics from DevilDoc yesterday. Apparently he has created quite the "man space" in the middle of nowhere! He says the only reason he leaves his room (other than work related stuff) is to call home or use the computers! Quite the setup I guess?!

And then there were 5 or 10?

Well, for those of you who don't know DevilDoc will be headed out soon. One thing we really wanted to do before he left was get new tattoos. We intended on having the quote "My sons are my love" in Kanji characters put somewhere on our bodies. HOWEVER, the literal translation of the characters would have been "My sons are my boyfriends". Ummm, no! So, we opted for something a little bit different but still in Kanji. Mine says "mother, wife, daughter, sister" and DevilDoc has "father, husband, father, son".

He planned a babysitter for us for the evening AND an overnight (thanks Danielle!) We were done with our tattoos around 9pm and we promptly came home, put a movie in and fell asleep, LOL! DevilDoc did let me sleep in while he went and picked up the boys.

I only have pictures of mine right now...


www.tattooliscious.com

I'm on a roll

okay, so DevilDoc was really busy all fall break AND the weekend after!!! Grrrr, but he did get leave the beginning of the next week so all was right with the world. On Monday I had set an appointment for us to have family pictures taken. I have received a few of them from our photographer and I do have permission to post them :)







www.jacquieryanphotographic.com