Ms.Blue Goes To Washington

Ms.Blue sent me some pictures this morning on her way to the Pentagon. Thought I'd share because it's not everybody's daughter who's spending the day THERE. Having a proud Mommy moment. I cannot wait until she can finally come home again for a couple weeks. :) ...MrSoonToBeBlue is studying frantically so he'll score high on his SAT's. He's still trying to get an appointment to BlueAcademy... His Sgt called a couple of weeks ago and told us they changed the date he leaves again until AUG07! Can you believe it's so far away?? As much as I appreciate the extra time with him, I'm really afraid he's going to get discouraged like Ms.Blue did. And he's going to have 17 months ticked off his contract before he even ships out, if he misses an appt and goes in enlisted.

Other than that, life is grand. Freeking peachy, in fact.
Toodles.

Monday...

All this crap on tv about Katrina is giving me nightmares again.

It's Monday. A year ago today (Katrina came on a Monday, so even though the 29th is tomorrow, it's really a year ago today) things really changed for us here in parts of the South. I've been trying to come up with a post about it for over a week, but all the news footage brings the feelings back to the surface. It's still there. Raw. Numbing. I remember every second of what I did that day. I close my eyes I can see what my DH and kids were wearing. Where they were sitting when I got home and as the storm raged on. When the lights went out. I close my eyes and see the trees and rain blowing sideways. I hear the wind roaring like a train. I can still feel the video camera in my hand, unable to tear my eyes away from the storm long enough to look down at the switch and turn it on... I remember the panic of worrying about friends, some who could get out to check on others some who had to be cut out we checked on them. It was all over before bedtime. But it hadn't even started yet. Not really. It wasn't just the storm. It was waking up for days with no water no electricity no phone no gasoline no stores open no ice... thank GOD for the fema ice the couple of times they stopped passing through with trucks rerouted from NOLA. The heat, was almost unbearable. The humidity. Not the slightest hint of breeze. Trying to get a cell signal to check on friends closer to the water... discovering who lost their homes and the joy of learning no one dear to us lost their life. Day after day of cleaning up debris and downed trees and limbs... The look of shock in the eyes of everyone around me... finding the same vacant stare in my own eyes when it was light enough out still to see in the mirror...

Maybe one of these days I'll be able to write about it. Right now, it makes my head hurt just to try. There was a whole hell of a lot more that happened than the idiots filming about NOLA are telling you, even today, a year later. So many of us did what we had to do and didn't/aren't complaining about it. You just have to.


Gotta run. Maybe more later. We'll see.

Update

Ok. Get this. Yesterday she went to another attys' office and talked the sec into showing her a client file. The file belongs to one of her boyfriends (our sec's) and is supposed to be confidential. WRONG. Not only was she not supposed to ever lay eyes on that file, she put the other sec's job in jeopardy by their stupidity and was even more wrong in coming back to the office and first telling me she went and dug through the file and following up by telling me what information was in the file. WRONG WRONG WRONG! Today, she's been digging around the office (our office) and pulling out files that our firm handled when she (the sec) worked at the atty across the block. There is a definite conflict of interest there and my ethics classes stressed the importance of never opening a file or not acknowledging when you have a conflict of interest in a case. I told her she had a conflict in doing that and she said 'that doesn't apply to me'. WRONG.

OG GOD why can't I find a job that doesn't involve idtiots and freaks??

(Sigh)

I had a great post for y'all but I'm out of patience for today.
Sorry Charlie.

BOGO

I was leaving for lunch today and told the sec I was going to run by the house and change my shoes because the ones I had worn this morning had rubbed blisters before 9a.m. She hollered out "BOGO! - go by Payless!" ...I figured I'd pick up a couple pairs of sandals and with gas prices, it wouldn't be much more than running clear out the house and all the way back. Boy was I wrong.

Ladies, the fall/winter boots are in. Enough said?

I came out with a 3.00 pair of sandals to get me through the rest of the day and spent $100.00 on several more pairs of boots. Lord, I hope I can make it home before DH this afternoon or I'm gonna be in trouble. Remember how many pairs of boots I came home with last fall? I think this puts me at 20-something pairs now. I cannot go back to a shoe store until Spring. I just can't! I now can wear a different pair to work almost an entire month without wearing the same ones twice.

That is so very sad. I'm pathetic!

Flyby...

Just popped on to say I miss y'all!

All packed up & ready to head out again.
(Testing out the new sec to see if she can handle things all by her self)

Except for her continuous snorts (a conscious thing she irritates me with throughout the day on a regular basis) she really isn't as bad as the other bimbo. ...if she'd just wear shirts that fit. She's got these itty bitty boobs and can't seem to manage to put a shirt on that fits well enough to cover them up, thus coming in every day with 75% or more of them exposed. Next weekend I'm partying w/ one of the attys wifes, so I bet that won't last too long after we have a couple and we start gossiping about the new girl. HAH. Just wait.

Have a good weekend.
See ya Monday!

My Bad...

So sorry I haven't been back to post again this week. Boss has had me working on this silly trial brief that has to get out and my neck and shoulders just ache from sitting here writing and rewriting the past three days.

Have a great weekend! I'm headed out looking for the perfect royal flush !

(Yawn)... Honey I'm Home...

It was a pretty uneventful trip. Of course MIL(MotherInLaw)had some snooty comments about my hair, which I was expecting to the point that I told someone it would happen last week before we left. She also had the nerve to ask me if I was gaining weight, because, well, she thought I'd gained a little. Oh No, I've lost fifteen pounds since we were here last year but DH has gained 25. She's just like that, you know. I got to participate in the tax free weekend (which my state does not do, so it was a great surprise!)... I left the mall with a pair of dress pants for DH for work, two hoodies for BabyGirlDD, a new blouse and four leather jackets for less than 50 bucks and no tax.

We also had the traditional bickering about my wanting to move back there and DH stating that if I do I'll be moving by myself. He forgot somewhere along the way, I guess that ThatGreatState was where I wanted to go for a very long time and that's why I had moved there from the west coast. He, on the other hand, spent his whole life there until he married me and decided to get the heck out of Dodge, never wanting to go back. Oh well. Can't have everything so guess I'll be happy with my little shopping spree. HAH.

The new sec called my cell phone daily. Just to BS. I called her back once and when I discovered that was all she wanted I didn't call her back again. I really needed that trip to get away from her. I'm having trouble adjusting to working with her, more than I expected. Again, oh well. I'm sure it could be worse.

I only have a week and a half and I'm off again for a couple of days. I am looking forward to being out, big time. Ms.Blue was supposed to be home in 13 weeks but she changed her leave date and I think I'm counting down 14 weeks now or something like that. Then after she goes back to her PDS it won't be much longer until Mr.SoonToBeBlue goes off into the WildBlueYonder.

Oh yeah. Not sure if it's been 7 weeks or 8 now but it's pretty clear my boss totally forgot about my asking for the raise. Any suggestions on how to bring it up tactfully?

Blogmail (Better Than Voicemail... Really!)

You have reached the desk of Kimdergarten. I will be out of the office until Tuesday, August 8th.

Headed off for another grand adventure!

Rabbits! Rabbits!

You thought I forgot... LOL