jonas is trying to convince me he has swine flu

but he does not want swine flu

cuz he doesn't want to turn in to a piggy.

he thinks that getting swine flu will will turn him into a pig

i told him he had nothing to worry about

he is already a piggy with out getting sick

so tom got his jeep on saturday

boy did that day suuuck

Friday:

we had a trailer lined up to tow it back but we needed a truck

one of the guys that he works with is deployed and tom got his permission to use his truck

but someone used his truck and no one knows where the keys are

the other guy with a big enough truck was TDY

so we decided to rent a truck and reserve one with enterprise

Saturday:

Tom come in the bedroom around 8 15 almost in tears

he has pulled his back

he decides he is well enough to go

and we go to get the truck

which was already rented out

so to gets angry with them wondering how he could rent a truck from there if they had no trucks to rent

so i go to walmart to get tom some icepacks for his back, some aleve, and snacks for the road if he can indeed go

he calls the rental place on place, and where as they don't allow towing with their trucks, they give him the number to place that does

so 140 bucks plus gas later

leaving 3 hours later than he had planned

and getting home at 2am

tom has his wagoneer

oh and jonas went with him

but jonas was good

though he came home with a busted lip from getting off the trampoline at the guys house wrong

sunday was commissary day

and i spent the most at the commissary than i have ever spent

i took a page out of lindsey's book and planned every dinner for the next 2 weeks

we only do grocery shopping every 2 weeks since we use the commissary the only things we buy in town is milk and fresh fruits and veggies.

im hoping this works out

and can save us a little money

we have a bad habit of just saying 'lets go pick something up'a

though i have allotted monday night as Moe's night

kids eat free so we eat for 9.55 ;)

and maybe next payday we can go to lonestar steak house

kids eat free on tuesdays and we have a 15 dollar coupon, so we can eat for like 10 bucks.

its nice outside today 

i have the window's open

both kids are napping

dinner is in the crock pot

and the house smells yummy

i  should be doing something more productive

i should go clean the table off and get it set for dinner

ill do that

the mysterious case of jonas button

ill start off with the most interesting thing to happen since i left off

yesterday around 3 30 i stopped jonas from putting a red button in bank

this wouldn't be a big deal but its one of those banks that counts the money

i didn't want the button stuck and what not

well i wish i had just let him put the button in the bank

it would have been so much easier to extract the button from his bank

than from his nose

thats right

about 20 minutes after i told him not to put the button in the bank

he comes running to me screaming and freaking out that the button was now firmly lodged in his nose

i calm him down and try and look for the button

i can't see it so i think the worst(ish)

i get him dressed 

get hayley dressed and pack the diaper bag

try and get a hold of tom, which is difficult when no one at his work is allowed to have cell phones on them in the buildings and their pagers are very unreliable 

so i leave a note on the door for him

also i have no car at the moment 

so i had to call 911 and get an ambulance

the EMT's didn't see the button in his nose either so they decided to take him to the ER

i hate going to the ER

half the people their don't need to be seen and make it take longer for more urgent cases to be seen

a kid that came in right behind jonas had little nick taken out of his head, he wasn't bleeding and was fully alert but his mom insisted he need stitches

and a little later a little girl came in with a fat lip, and brought mom, grandma, great-grandma and cousin along with her.

she was fine too judging buy the way she was running around and eating candy bars.

we waited 5 hours to be seen

3 hours before he even went back to triage and then 2 after tom showed up for the doc to see him

no reason for the first 3 hours but he had to see an ear nose throat doc, and he was pretty busy

reattaching someone's whole lip.

so that accounted for the 2 hours afterwards

then i left with hayley to take her home to get her some more diapers then to pick up some food for tom and jonas

but tom called 20 minutes after i left saying they were done

thankfully the doc could see it and was able to get it out

he told tom that if he couldn't have gotten it they were going to have to knock him out

which was what i was afraid of

that it would either be sucked into his lungs or so far up into his sinus cavity that the would need to be put out and under go some sort of surgery

tom said jonas was very brave and didn't cry and answered all the doc's questions

like 'is there really a button up your nose' 

to which jonas replied 'yes a little red one'

he told everyone in the ER there was a button in his nose, and informed me his ER bracelet said 'jonas mark, put a button in his nose'

all in all a fun night!

in other news

tom gets his new jeep on saturday

we sold our cherokee to my brother and have been down to one jeep

but tom found his car and will be picking it up on saturday

a 1988 jeep grand wagoneer

that's tom's car

its pretty hot

and it got it for 1000

which is awesome

he has been looking at one since november

its been parked out side a now non existent used car dealer

the car is still there

we found out who was selling it and he wanted 6 grand for it

it's not worth 6 grand

if it was fully restored with new everything, maybe

but not with mud dobber and wasp nests in the engine from where it had not been driven in goodness knows how long.

kbb has it worth not even a grand

and that's probably part of the reason it has not sold

the one tom is getting is 4 years older and has half the miles on it

in way better condition

with better after market parts and a lift and newer tires

he's pretty excited

my brother has my old cherokee

it will soon be on route to germany

wow idiot alert

the news just told me that people are complaining that the 3 smallest fonts on the new amazon Kindle 2 are too hard to read

maybe they should just use a bigger font and shut up

problem solved

also

john clark has been on abc 11 for freaking ever since i was in 8th grade i think

maybe longer

sheesh

its hot

its pretty hot outside right now

but thats ok

tom is tdy to florida right now

he had to leave today rather than tuesday

but thats ok too :)

things don't feel too different till about 6 tonight when he doesn't come home

but ill just tell myself he is on one of his over night trainings 

which he is

its just in florida this time haha 

and he won't be back till friday

hopefully dan calls soon with flight info

semi funny story

i saw a taco bell commercial last night while tom was out getting a paper and thought to myself

'hmm maybe me jonas and dan will grab some taco bell while he's here'

when tom came home he tells says

'well i know one thing you wont be doing when dan is here, going to taco bell, the whole thing is up in flames'

there was a fire at taco bell!

tom saw it when he was at harris teeter 

he doesn't think any was was really hurt since no ambulances left with lights and sirens 

but still

i was thinking about going to taco bell at the same time it was on fire

i drove past it today and you can't tell it was on fire until you get to the entrance

from the back you can't see the mess in the front and through the windows it looks like its just closed

but once you look through the windows of the front you see this huge pile of mess

so im wondering where it started  oh well

im sure its in the local paper

here ya go!  

no one was hurt

thats good

most exciting thing to happen here since we've moved here

i have laundry to do

which is tedious with out tom

or a washing machine

gotta load the children in the stroller

load the laundry card

walk to the laundry place (which in in the complex)

it should be fun!

day one with out tom is under way

only 4 more to go!

TGIT

Thank God its Thursday

its been a loooong week

tuesday was the worst day ever

tom was the sickest he has ever been in the 7 years we have been together

i woke up to him puking around 2am tuesday morning

that was super fun

he was sick all day

wednesday i was ill

not nearly as sick as tom thank God

and thankfully neither of the kids are sick

that's outstanding

my brother graduates tech school on the 10th

the same day tom leaves for training for 4 days

daniel (my brother) is going to come up here the 11th or 12th and stay for a few days

that should be fun

i haven't seen him since Christmas 2007

and he is going to be stationed in germany for 24 months

he is already been ordered to send me monthly kinder egg packages

i miss kinder eggs

dont know what we are going to do while he down  here

tom will come back friday at sometime

probably not till late

so maybe (weather permitting) me and dan will take the kids to the zoo

jonas is begging for cheetos 

and hayley is helping me type

tomorrow is the end of the work week

no real plans for the weekend other than get ready for my brother's visit

we'll see though

i need to get in the habit of doing this more often

oh well

lots have been going on

on valentines day we took jonas to the nc museum of life and science

we had a great time

tom and i haven't actually celebrated valentines day since we've been married

awesome huh

but taking jonas to the museum was fun

lots of hands on stuff for him to play with

in the butterfly house a butterfly landed on hayley

but i couldn't find tom with the camera till after it flew away

tom ran his half marathon on sunday

he did good for his first longer distance run

16th in his age group 

120th over all in the men

he finished in 1 hour 35 min 51 sec

7:17 mile time

the guys that came in first through third ran it in 1:06-1:07

they were super speedy

like olympic speedy

all of us are getting over colds

poor hayley can't take any medicine thanks to the recall last year

so she has been really snotty and sniffy

poor baby

she's been extra cranky do to the lack of being able to breath out her nose

i wish a i had a table hockey set

that would be neat

so i started this in november

go me!

not much happening really

christmas was great

we had a fun snow day here in NC 2 weeks ago

that was awesome

hayley is getting big!

she's sleeping  a lot longer at night which is great

well she's either sleeping more or i just don't hear her till 5 30ish 

whoops

im sure its her sleeping though.

going to be up in VA in a few weeks

tom is going to be running the 

anheuser busch colonial half marathon in williamsburg

it will be his longest run to day

but he is training for the air force marathon in september in ohio

so he needs to see if he can do 13.1 miles before he does 26.2

i think he'll be fine

jonas starts preschool in septmeber

they had an open house for the one we were looking at in january

that seemed a bit early for open houses and registration but we did it  and he's in so that's good

super bowl was good

i was routing for the cardinals

one because they've never been to a superbowl

and two as a browns fan, i can't cheer for the steelers

not matter how 'cool' they are

but football season is now over and opening day is in 2 months 4 days

baseball season woohoo

i love it

i have cleaning to do

vacuuming and such

we need dining room set

been shopping around

they are so expensive

even on craigslist

we seem to live in a greedy area

people on freecycle ask for ps3, xbox 360's and 'cars 20o2 and newer please'

they also post 'please my child is starving i need formula'

or 'we are out of diapers'

nice huh

craigslist isn't much better

some one was selling the same book cases we have (that we got from walmart for 15 bucks a peice) for 50 bucks a piece. and walmart curtains for 75

um no

lunch time for kiddos now