Not much going on...

Things are pretty boring around here. Matts work schedule is crazy. On the days he doesnt have to work, he has training or PT. We have been spending alot of time with out friends Ron and Providence (we went to highschool with them, and now they are here). Ron deploys to Iraq in 2 weeks so we are trying to spend as much time with his as possible before he leaves. We got a fish, his name is oscar. I was cleaning out his tank yesterday and i accidentally dropped him on the kitchen counter. He started flopping, I started screaming and Matt was laughing too hard to help me pick him up. Oscar survived the ordeal, in case you were wondering.

Missions and Windows

Matt got to ride in a helicopter yesterday. They had to do some kind of mission which involved spending most of the day circling the island in a black hawk. Of course i spent the whole day worried that he would crash. However, he came home safe, looking like a kid in a candy store. He had a blast. He also informed me that he got "blown up" by a fake bomb, which is why he came home covered in baby powder. He was supposed to have to work from 9pm to 9am after spending all day on his mission, but his supervisor was nice enough to let him take the night off.

I have also come to the conclusion that my house is not safe, which is why i lock myself in my room when matt leaves for work and only come out to go to the bathroom (since he works 12 hour shifts, my inability to go downstars alone leaves me starving by the time he gets home in the morning).

Why is my house unsafe, you ask. Many of you may not know, but most houses in Hawaii do not have central air conditiong. Since the trade winds blow pretty strong most of the time, some genius (and i use that term loosly) decided to put windows made out of slats of glass in the houses so they can be twisted open and air flows through the house. I guess in theory it was a good idea...except the slats come out. Yes, you can stand outside and literally take my windows apart.

I decided to remedy this problem by closing the windows...which didnt work because the slats still come out when the window is closed. Now, i dont really think someone is going to go through the trouble of taking out 20 slats of glass so they can climb though my window, but these slats of glass are also on the back door. Remove one slat of glass and you can reach through and unlock the door.

I realize i am being paranoid (im on an army base, how much safer can you get?)...but my windows come apart!!

Today we organize

Matt and I decided to clean today. We have spent the last 4 hours organizing and scrubbing and all that good stuff. I can think of other things i would like to do today instead, but its nice to have a clean house. We are taking a break and watching Speed Racer and then we are going to tackle the car. Hope everyone is having a great day!

Pictures?

At the end of august Matt and I were lucky enough to get to spend the weekend at Turtle Bay Resort for a marriage retreat. We spent alot of time in seminars learning how to communicate (they even gave us a magnet that looks like a floor, and when youre holding the magnet during a discussion you have "the floor" so youre the only one who can talk), we did the 5 love languages and heard testimony from couples who had been married for 14+ years. They taught us how to deal with deployments and explained how some things that apply in normal relationships have to be altered to fit military relationships. The overall message was good and i think matt and i both got alot out of it. We also got alot of free time to spend together on the beach and in this gorgeous hotel. The parrots were just sitting on rings in the lobby! It was the time of the month when the jellyfish come to shore so we didnt spend any time in the ocean but we did take advantage of the hotels pools and hot tubs. It was nice to get to know some of the people Matt works with and their wives. The army does this every few months so hopefully we will get the chance to do it again.

Its official! My mom, Greg, Katha, Kevin, Nick, Nicks parents and my moms best friend will all be here in March! I dont know where we are going to put them all but i am just glad they have the oppurtunity to come. Hopefully Aunt Tina and Granny will be able to come later in the year.

Starting on the 19th Matt will be working only at night. His schedule is 3 days on, 2 days off, 2 days on, 3 days off. It going to be a little confusing at first. Supposedly he will work all nights for a month and then all days for a month but we'll see.

We are slowly moving down on the housing list. When we got put on the list to move to the other base on May 1st we were number 156 on the list, 4 months later we are number 44 on the list. I just hope we get moved by christmas.

Hard night!

We didnt quite get our schedules switched back over to days in time. I can already tell that matt working half days and half nights isnt going to be easy. He had to be at work at 6am which meant he had to leave the house by 5:15. Poor matt didnt fall asleep until almost 2:30 because we have been on a night schedule, and someone with a wrong number called at 4 and he didnt go back to sleep. Which means that he is working a 12 hour day on and hour and a half of sleep. I got up and made him breakfast before he left in hopes of giving him enough energy to atleast make it to work without falling asleep while he was driving (he did).

Ive been doing everything possible to keep myself awake so that we will both sleep tonight. The house is clean, the laundry is done, my myspace is updated, the dvds are alphabetized and now i have run out of things to do.

I guess i can go make cookies :)

Lazy Weekend

We havent done much this weekend, we are trying to get back on a nomal schedule (we have been sleeping all day since matt worked nights). He has to work during the day on monday so we have to get back to sleeping at night.

Matt cleaned out the lanai this weekend after we found that a stray cat had kittens in there. We called the hawaii cat foundation and they came and got the kittens, they will bottle feed them until they are old enough for someone to adopt them. The mama cat is a little sad that her kittens are gone, but i didnt want to leave them out there to become strays.

First nights alone...

So i have never spent the night alone in a house...EVER. Well last week matt found out that he has to work night 2 out of every 8 nights. I, needless to say, was not happy. But what can you do? Last night was my first night alone, it was rather uneventful. I worked on my real estate classes and watched tv and tonight looks like its going to be more of the same.

So maybe staying alone wont be so bad. But i still havent gotten the guts to go downstairs :) im locked up in our room!