For the past three days I have suffered from a headache with a pressure feeling in my face along with feeling sick to my stomach, a little dizzy and just blah. It’s hard to explain. I feel fine all day long and then once my husband comes home – bam – there it is again. Isn’t that odd?? I’m blaming it on him. I have a feeling it may be due to the fact that things are quite calm here all day and then when he comes home, the kids go nuts! It’s chaos. I don’t know why, but he brings out the heathen in them.
I thought someone was trying to break in or something a few minutes ago, but upon checking I realized it was just a couple of birds. They must really dig my new wreath on the door. They sat there for over 30 minutes, hanging out, pecking at the stuffed bunny, and trying to steal the ornaments. Darn birds. I thought they were going to hold me hostage in here, but they finally left. Gotta love mother nature.
Romance … I tend to forget all about it. I think we had a bit of it in our lives before the kids, and let’s face it, before marriage and the routine of our lives kicked in. My husband was a little better back then, when we were dating. He liked to call it the “woo’ing phase”. He explained that after we were married, there wasn’t any reason for all of that. He already had me. No need to work at it. No flowers, no romantic notes, no more back rubs. Yes, he’s a guy. A typical, testosterone driven man with no clue.
I have tried to get that back though. There are times when I’ll totally be in the mood to pamper him, and then buy him fun little gifts in hopes that he may get a hint and give back – and he does! It just takes that little spark to get him started, that’s all. The real challenge for me is coming up with ideas on how to show my appreciate for him. I may be a woman, but I am also not that blessed in the romance department. I need help! That’s why sites like Romance For Everyone catch my eye and end up in my bookmarks! I especially enjoy the section devoted to romantic ideas. One of the ideas listed, ‘The Art Of Saying You Are Sorry‘, is something that I need to really read up on. I am horrible about doing that and I know it is much appreciated by the hubby when I do so. I would probably get a little more attention myself if I just let go of my hard headed ways. 
March 29th, 2007
6:04 pm
Random
I went through the Dairy Queen drive thru last night and as always pulled out a card to pay. I am not a cash girl, unfortunately, so I tried to use my PayPal debit card and the girl refused it. They said they don’t accept PayPal cards. Like it was some sort of alien kind of money. Um, isn’t that odd?? I mean, it’s just a brand name on an account. That’s like saying that they won’t accept my Navy Fed check card. Or gosh, I have a Paypal visa as well, that has nothing to do with my paypal account. What would they say then? I don’t understand the risk. The transaction wouldn’t go through if I didn’t have money in my account, right?? In the end I had another card on me, luckily, so I just used that. It was way too much of a hassle to argue over it for that kit kat blizzard that I really didn’t need anyway.
I just got some news from family. I’m apparently going to be an aunt! But yeah, I am so not happy about that right now. I’m not happy that my brother is 21 and married and now this?? I guess we have 9 months to get used to it, eh?? 
MY SIL is a piece of work. She’s only like 19 or 20 and living in a dream world.
Yesterday’s photo session was a total waste of my time. It was really bad, and now that I think about it, it’s not all my kids’ faults. I was so disappointed in Picture People’s customer service this time around. I am just shocked at how poorly the photographer did. I won’t go on and on because it will be nothing but complaining. lol I didn’t even blog yesterday because of my foul mood.
While I didn’t complain yesterday (too out of my mind from frustration), I did send an email to the company this morning. I hate to be complainer, but I feel as if a company should know when one of their locations is tarnishing their image. I have been using them for 6 years, with barely an issue in all of that time. So this was a surprise and just unacceptable. The $40 I had to spend to get that appointment was a total waste. I do hope the try and make up for it in some way.
Oh my, I LOVE my new Ali. It’s funny because when they first brought them out, I thought it was the ugliest bag, ever! But now? I see it in a much different light. After using it a few times – I’m hooked. The strap is nice and wide so it doesn’t slide off of my shoulder every 5 seconds, plus it’s huge. The inside is just so roomy!
I was just packing things up for tomorrow morning and though I had planned on taking my Speedy, the Ali won out. With kids and their crap that we have to haul, I didn’t want to be carrying anything by hand, and having to dig through my Speedy for things is such a pain.
I’m such a dork. I probably blog as much about my bags as I do my kids.
Just as I pretty much expected, we won’t be having anyone visit over Easter. I should know better and not get my hopes up as this always pretty much happens. But I did get excited and thought maybe this time they would come. My Dad can’t get the time off of work and they decided that they would rather come later when they can get more days off and stay longer. I can understand that, but I feel like I’ll only get my hopes up again and be let down.
Oh well. Not much I can do I suppose. Instead we’ll have another holiday with just the four of us. As always. It’s not as if the kids know what it’s like to have family around anyway. Honestly, neither does my hubby. I am the lone one who grew up with gatherings and all of my family pretty much within a 10 mile radius. The military lifestyle doesn’t bother me much until we get to holidays. It just hurts to only see family once every few years.
March 26th, 2007
7:40 pm
Random
go shopping when “Aunt Flo” is visiting.
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And add hungry to that! I can’t find anything for lunch. ugh.
The kids woke up before 7am, which is always a treat. ha So I dealt with that and decided to take a shower. I finish with that to find that Will had taken his pants off. Great! A puddle on the floor and .. uh.. I’ll leave the rest out. It’s nasty. Clean up and Move on, try lunch. We now have spaghetti noodles all over the place. Plain noodles. But still! grrr
I did call Picture People and managed to get an appointment there on Wednesday at 10am. woot! The only sucktacular thing about that is that they keep that slot for portrait club members because it’s “peak season”, so I had to fork over $40 for that just to make an appointment. Sheesh! It’s not too bad as you get free sheets and other incentives that make it worth it. But still. I hope they behave, or else it will be a giant waste of money.
And now I am being screamed at by the boy who is also grouchy and tired. Hmm.. maybe we should sleep until it’s light out instead of being up before the chickens?? Gotta love this job!
