Being An Air Force Wife

Guess what we did yesterday? We went to a family water park in the Austin area that was fabulous!

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I usually don’t bitch too much about the hubs being deployed. No, I don’t! I accept that it is a fact of life for us as long as he is active duty, and the War on Terror is still ongoing. Seriously~ the War on Terror will never end. People in the world hate us for simply being us.

After returning Monday from the beach, I didn’t jump right up and cut and edge the yard. Damn, I was tired from two days of driving! Well, I should have. Our inspections are on Tuesdays, and I was outside Tuesday morning, at 7:20am, and had already been wrote up.

For non-military families I will try to explain this some-

You do not pay a monetary fine~ that would be too easy. The active duty troop’s superiors are notified. Then the hubs will get a first class ass-chewing. The fact that he is deployed doesn’t matter one freaking iota!

Ugh! Just having one of those days where I think I have earned the right to bitch.

When a spouse deploys, all household chores and responsibilities fall on the one left behind. I feel that I have always been able to handle everything thrown, blown or tossed my way.

…Until today…

The hubs and I have always ’split up’ chores around the house.

Yard work? the hubs

Vehicles? the hubs

Repairs (on anything)? yep, you guessed it… the hubs!

Laundry? Me

Cooking? Me

Boys doctor appoints/ school stuff/ extra-curricular activities? Me

It is an arrangement that has worked extremely well for us. When the hubs is gone I can do yard work, it’s not like I will break or melt from the sun. Plus, David (13) has started to FINALLY mow the grass. Although this deployment, I have had to ‘teach’ myself how to edge. It sucks. Big time. The hubs had someone setup to take care of it in his absence, but that person isn’t very reliable and I got wrote up earlier this week for my yard. Yes, we get in deep shit over that kind of stuff.

Today I had to deal with going to the “Man Store”, better knows as Home Depot. I had to get more line for the stupid freaking weed eater. Thankfully, the store associate took pity on me, probably thinking stupid female and found the correct line for me, then giving me step by step instructions on how to insert it. And he was kind enough to use small words. Thanks Buddy!

The hubs had screwed the do-hickey(technical term) on the weed eater so freaking tight, I had to use a wrench (or whatever it is called) to get it off, causing a “little” damage. I swear, if he comes home and bitches about it, I will wrap that weed eater around his neck. Really, I will. I have anger issues.

NOT!

 

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We had a wonderful time at the beach, thought I would share a couple of pictures of the boys:

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The Friday Four was started by Bear Cat, and I stole her idea! I usually do this on my other blog, but since I am on vacation I am posting it here.

This week I am posting four things I hope I am doing on my vacation at the beach!

1.) Having beautiful weather, so we can play on the beach all day!

2.) Reconnecting with my sisters, who I haven’t seen in over four  long years!

3.) Mentally collecting great blogging stories to tell you all! shhh!

4.) Helping Luke build his first ever sand castle! Pictures (hopefully) to come!

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Fellow AF wife, Magnolia Sun does a Tip Thursday. This week I thought I would join her!

I received this tip in an email from my mom:

We’re troubled by roaches here in the South, and I’ve found an effective, economical, and environmentally safe way to deal with them. I coat the top inch of a glass jar with vegetable oil and pour in three or four ounces of beer. I place this trap in one of those places where roaches love to hide, and I forget about it for two or three days. By this time I’ll have a jarful of roaches; once attracted to the beer bait, they fall in and can’t get back out over the oily barrier. I just put the lid on the jar, throw the whole thing out, and start over with another jar. This method sure beats smelly sprays and poisons.

I haven’t had any roach problems here in Texas, but when we lived in South Carolina- they took over! No matter how clean your house was, if you didn’t have it treated regularly, you would be co- habituating with these bugs!

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13 ‘famous’ or well known beaches in Florida

1. Key West

2. Panama City Beach

3. Key Largo

4. Fort Lauderdale

5. St. Petersburg

6. Miami Beach

7. Naples

8. Pensacola Beach

9. St. Augustine

10. Sarasota

11. West Palm Beach

12. Clearwater Beach

13. Daytona Beach

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Guess where I am this week?

To my darling husband,

Before you return from your business trip I just want to let you know about the small accident I had with the pick up truck when I turned into the driveway. Fortunately, it’s not too bad and I really didn’t get hurt, so please don’t worry too much about me.

I was coming home from Wal-Mart, and when I turned into the driveway I accidentally pushed down on the accelerator instead of the brake. The garage door is slightly bent but the pick up fortunately came to a halt when it bumped into your car.

I am really sorry, but I know with your kindhearted personality you will forgive me. You know how much I love you and care for you my sweetheart. I am enclosing a picture for you.

I cannot wait to hold you in my arms again.

Your loving wife

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MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site, more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, North Carolina officials said Tuesday. North Carolina’s Roy Cooper is one of several attorneys general who recently demanded the News Corp.-owned Web site provide data on how many registered sex offenders were using the site, along with information about where they live. After initially withholding the information, citing federal privacy laws, MySpace began sharing the information in May after the states filed formal legal requests.

At the time, MySpace said it had already used a database it helped create to remove about 7,000 profiles of sex offenders, out of a total of about 180 million profiles on the site.

Two MySpace spokeswomen did not immediately return calls seeking comment Tuesday. Cooper is pushing for legislation that would require children to receive parental permission before creating social networking profiles and require the Web sites to enact procedures for verifying the parents’ identity and age.

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*** As a parent~ this is extremely disturbing information!***

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I found a group of AF Wife slogan T-shirt’s yesterday at CafePress. My 13 favorites:

1.) Sexually Deprived for your freedom

2.) Air Force Wife… You try doing this shit!

3.) Air Force Wife: Do not confuse your rank with my authority!

4.) My husband deployment was extend! Ain’t that a bitch!

5.) AF Wife- toughest duty in the Air Force

6.) I’m cranky! You try dealing with a deployment!

7.) My husband wears combat boots

8.) DANGER: AF Wife deployment zone…

9.) I love a man in BDU’s

10.) There’s nothing sexier than an Airman who knows how to use his gun

11.) Deployed Husband= Bitchy Wife!

12.) I get to mess with government property

13.) Hug a military wife, or buy her liquor

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I think this is so amazing! A soldier who was injured in Iraq received a bionic hand! Read more here.

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This is so amazing:

Iraq war veteran Sgt. Juan Arredondo can grasp tennis balls and door knobs with his left hand again, now that he’s been outfitted with a bionic hand that has flexible fingers.

The 27-year-old former soldier, who lost his left hand in 2005 during a patrol, is one of the first recipients of the i-LIMB.

“To have this movement, it’s — it’s amazing,” Arredondo said Monday as he showed off the limb made by Scotland-based Touch Bionics. “It just gets me more excited about now, about the future.”

The prosthetic hand is made of semi-translucent plastics. Five individual motors power the fingers, allowing the person to grasp round objects. The hand’s gestures are made possible through electrode plates that detect electrical signals generated in the remaining muscles in the amputated limb.

The i-LIMB can be covered with flexible material to mimic the look of human skin, called cosmesis.

Arredondo, of San Antonio, likened the limb to the bionics in “Star Wars” and “Terminator.” “My son, he goes nuts about it,” he said.

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MASONVILLE, Colo. - Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners’ 1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.

Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents’ northern Colorado back yard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck. Five-pound Zoey jumped in the way and took the bites.

“She got in between Booker and the snake, and that’s when I heard her yipe,” said Monty Long, the boy’s grandfather.

The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive. Now she prances about.

“These little bitty dogs, they just don’t really get credit,” Booker’s grandma Denise Long told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald.

** I just think that it’s amazing this little dog saved this child, and survived the snake bites!

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