Ho Hum...2:32 in the morning.

Here it is 2:34 AM and I soooo can not get back to sleep! I so frustrate myself when this happens. I have to say I don't feel like I really sleep well here for one reason or another but, this is officially the first time I HAD to get out of bed due to my tossing and turning getting on my own nerves let along Steve's.

Hmm...what to talk about? I have all the time in the world! This might get boring for you all since I can totally ramble and there is no one to stop me. :) What the heck, it's 2:37 in the morning in Okinawa- I have the right to ramble. So, as I was repetitively rolling over in bed I had that stupid song in my head singing it over and over again "I'm in Love With a Girl". You know the one...(long pause)well I was gonna sing it to you but I'm pretty sure all I know is the chorus that just keeps saying "I'm in Love With a Girl" so I guess that will not help much. Your on your own on this one, sorry. I think I no longer really like that song so don't worry if you don't know it, it is not one of my faves anyhow!

Things are busy here, the kids have baseball practice on Mondays and Wednesdays as well as Sis has vocal/piano classes on Tuesdays. They usually have a game each on the weekend or a weekday night so extra-curriculars take up a good part of the week. It is always a task to get homework done and then out the door all while having fed them all dinner before leaving (or throwing it at them on their way out the door). I have the utmost respect for organized mothers who make it all look so easy, it is a small disaster at my house for the most part.

What else? I have actually worked a whole THREE days since arriving on island. I sub nursed 1 day and sub taught the other 2(so out of my element there) I know, I know...it is a rough life. For real! I think I might go crazy without a job and start to sing "I'm in Love With a Girl" over and over again in my head. Maybe that is what this is- the beginning of insanity!

Steve will be leaving it seems to go to a 6 week Staff Course late Oct. and finishing that up Dec. 18th so it looks like the kids and I will be bach'in it. Can women do that? Bach'it? For the equality of all women I am officially using the term for my self use (and including the kids) HA! Because that is what women can do, take something, make it their own, AND make it better by adding more to it. Ladies, go ahead and use the term freely if you must.

I have really begun to miss home. Things are well here and I am feeling more and more like we have carved a small place for ourselves here but back home we were well "rooted". We/I no longer have that comfort. I remember one day actually being stuck at work due to a critical patient that came in and I could not leave to get Marissa from school. The police department had accompanied the patient, as they do for most codes, and I was so worried because she was so small and was going to be home alone once she walked home. The Wentzville PD actually called another cruiser to follow her home and tell her that I was going to be late and why as well as give her his card with his number if she needed him while I was at work. How sweet of them. That is just the kind of people I worked with on a daily basis and I think I am missing that connection with co-workers. I am missing work in general because I LOVE what I do but I am also missing my friends who worked along beside me more than they will ever know. In some of the craziest, oddest situations that you would think you could NEVER find yourself in they could always find a way to laugh about it. I could use a good laugh right now. I miss you all and hope all is well.

I am so going to hate myself at 0530. Marissa gets up and ready for school so early here is has begun a new trend of early bedtimes for us all. I think we are getting old, although we were up until 2200 last night! WOW - We are some wild and crazy people!

OK, enough is enough. I am going to try to head back to bed. I think I am getting tired. You guys are not very good conversationalist, I feel like I am talking to myself. :)

Goodnight with Love-

I'm in Love With a Girl...da da da da....

Holy moley! Typhoon on the loose!

I have never really witnessed or have experienced a real typhoon(hurricaine,etc.).Everyone here says "Typhoon this, typhoon that" and how we need to "stock up" but I am clueless as to what to grab! I think I'm just gonna follow people around in the store and grab whatever they are grabbing. LOL. Yikes! I gotta go!

As of now it is projected to hit the with the eye going right across the island on Friday around 2100 with winds to 155 miles per hour. Wow! that's fast.

Check out the link!

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200815.html

All better!

Thank you to everyone who prayed and sent well wishes to my Dad. He is now back at home and feeling better every day. YAY DAD!! What a great eye-opener to make us all realize that there are times we take our relationships for granted and often we do not really tell our loved ones how much we really love them and how grateful we are to have them in our lives.

Thank you again, and Dad, I love you!