I just don't feel sorry for you!!

I have been reading all of the "gossip" on TMZ about the Mel Gibson and his baby mama Oksana's drama. I wish I could feel sorry for this woman, but I don't! If you are the woman who broke up a marriage you don't get any sympathy from me. Did she really think that he was going to be this upstanding father after he cheated on his wife with her? Boo hoo he isn't paying enough child support. She should have kept her pants on in the first place. The only one I really feel sorry for in this situation is the baby. Poor thing has a duds for parents. It doesn't have a chance!

Yeah...I am still here.

So I have been slacking. I just haven't had much to say lately. To say my life has been boring might be an understatement. Now that it is summer and I don't have to get John off to school in the morning I am finding it REALLY hard to get motivated. I am doing stuff around the house to get ready for the upcoming move (three weeks from tomorrow I am out of here), but other then that not much is going on. The kids are going out of their mind being cooped up in the house, but it is TOO hot here to do anything outside. I am pretty sure we haven't had too many days below 100 degrees this month. Our backyard is just crunchy and not very inviting. The wind blew the kids pool into the neighbors fence and impaled the thing. John is very distressed about this event. He keeps on telling me that we need to go and buy a new one, but I just don't see the point of buying a new kids pool before we move.

I did get rid of some junk at a yard sale only to realize that I still have too much stuff that I didn't sale. Luckily it looks like Fort Belvoir will be having a post wide yard sale a couple of weeks after we get there. I always find it easier to put stuff aside after a move.

I broke my toe last weekend, or I should say my daughter broke my toe. I don't recommend keeping hand weights within reach of toddlers. They really hurt when they are dropped on a toe. It was my first broken bone. I will always be able to tell her about when she broke mommy's toe.

My sweet husband is coming home early. He gets home on Wednesday and I cannot wait. I haven't told the kids yet. I am just going to surprise them at the airport. John is going to be SO excited to see Daddy. Poor Daddy is not going to be as excited when he realizes that all we are doing over the July 4 weekend is move prep. I am determined to be organized this move. After moving every year to year and a half the past few years things have just gotten thrown into random boxes to never be seen again.

We will officially have two house by the end of next week. I am so relieved that we already have an address in VA, but at the same time it is irritating that we are paying for a house for a full month and won't be living in the place. But this is the price to secure it for us and so that our stuff won't have to go into storage. We have never done a point to point move. I am hopeful that less stuff will break this move. The past move was ridiculous with all of the broken items, but our stuff was in storage for six months. This time it will be put on a truck and taken off that same truck and put into our house.

So to keep in line with my boring, unmotivated life right now I think the kids and I will spend the day in our pj's. We haven't done this for a couple of weeks and I just don't feel like going anywhere today. Hopefully the kids won't drive me insane today!

Wine Rack

I was innocently searching for wine racks on Amazon.com this afternoon and I came upon a contraption called "The Wine Rack". It is a sports bra that has a "belly" (like a camelback) that is inside the bra with a straw attached. I cannot make these things up! I tried to copy to this post, but no luck. This will teach me to search for wine racks. The funny thing is that when I was trying to find a picture to post here I looked it up on other websites and there are actually reviews on this device. One review said that the bra was very comfortable, but was afraid the straw would drip on the carpet and she didn't want to leave stains on her friends carpets. This just strikes me as funny. Are people really walking around with this thing on??? Maybe I should pick me one up for my next wild party (because you know I frequent wild parties). They have them in small and medium. It is so nice they are accommodating to larger breasted women. They have thought of everything. They also have a beer belly that attached to a the belly with a straw. I am sure this is very popular on college campuses.

So the next time you want some wine and are feeling lazy and don't want to carry around a glass just pop onto Amazon and pick yourself up a wine rack to wear. Your significant other will LOVE you!

This Just SUCKS!

So on this Memorial Day I got to take my sweet husband to the airport so that he could deploy to Afghanistan. This is the third time I have had to do this in the past year. I am over it!! The worst part of a deployment is the goodbye. Everything else is fairly easy once you get over the initial goodbye. Even though I know he is only going for 45 days this time it still sucks! One day in that place is too long for anyone. I support what my husband is doing 100 percent and I am SO proud of him. He truly is my hero. I LOVE being an Army wife, but sometimes the things that come along with the job just suck. There is no other way to say it. At least I know that at the end of this deployment I get to move. I have SO much to do between now and then that I should stay pretty busy. As I say that this sucks I still know that I have it so much better then the families whose soldiers deploy for a year or more. I have been there and that truly is one of the worst feelings to come home after that goodbye. That first morning that you wake up alone and realize that you still have a whole year ahead of you seems so daunting.
So, on this Memorial Day I remember all of those soldiers who have given their lives for the freedom of our country. I also remember all of the soldiers who are fighting for this freedom right now. They are true heroes and deserve so much more then they sometimes get. I am proud to call one of these heroes my husband.

Yeah for Moving!

I bought my plane tickets today. This is the first official step to getting out of El Paso! I have also started to collect auto shipping quotes (I refuse to drive halfway across this country with two kids). I cannot believe that we are actually moving in less then two months! I am SO excited and yet a little nervous. The kids and myself are actually leaving before the movers get here, so I am leaving my house intact and then...poof my stuff will appear in Virginia. A little nervous about this, but it should workout. I have so much to do between now and then. So many closets to go through and drawers to clean out. I learned my lesson when we moved from Fort Benning to California, when I did NO prep at all. It was such a pain unpacking since everything was just thrown into boxes. I am now armed with ziplock bags and space bags to make this move seamless. That is my goal, to make it very easy to unpack everything into the new house. I figure that by the time that we make our last move I will have a degree in moving.

Oh, working out...yeah...not so much for the past week. My goal is to start again next week. Less distractions.

I don't have two left feet I have ten!

So this morning I thought that I would switch up the workout routine and try something different. So I went onto exercise TV and found disco abs in the 30 minute workout category. What the heck, it sounded like fun. Cheryl from Dancing With the Stars was the leader and she makes is looks easy enough. Yeah right! It wasn't hard cardio wise (or maybe I really have reaped some benefits from Jillian Michaels), but I am VERY uncoordinated and this workout really brought that point home. So there I was literally stumbling over my own two feet. There is a reason I am not a dancer...I can't dance!!! I am glad that nobody except my sweet 20 month old daughter was here to see me make a fool of myself. My daughter loved it of course. She thought it was great. She was trying to dance too, which was pretty funny (although I am pretty sure she was better then me).

I think I will stick to the basics from now on. It was fun and went by fast, but I am not coordinated enough to do "dance" workouts. So tomorrow it is back to walking pushups, squats and lunges.

Oh, I have lost NO weight now (I gained back what I lost, thanks to my dear husband who likes to eat), but I think that the cellulite on my legs looks better. I am not going to let myself get discouraged, I am doing this for my health, right? I am thinking about trying Alli. My thinking is that if I am on a drug that causes nasty side effects when I eat bad then I won't cheat. We will see.

Arizona's Immigration Law

I was just reading an article about a high school girl's basketball team that was supposed to go to Arizona to play in a tournament and the school has decided that they cannot go because of Arizona's new immigration law. Apparently the school has decided that they need to make sure that all of it's students would be safe and they cannot guarantee that the girls would be safe in Arizona. Seriously??? I am pretty sure that the chances of there being an illegal alien on a basketball team from the midwest are slim to none. This is getting ridiculous! I think that all of the people who are refusing to visit Arizona are stupid. What good does this really do, other then hurt the people of Arizona.

The law was passed for a reason. I live in a border town and I do not believe it is racial profiling to check ones immigration status. Heck if you really want to profile you could profile me here since I am much more of a minority. My real question is since when is it NOT illegal to be an "illegal alien"? Heck, the term itself says illegal. There are too many repeat crimes committed by illegal residents that could have been avoided if the persons immigration status would have been checked the first time they were arrested. Do they really think that police officers are going to just start randomly pulling people over to check their immigration status? I am pretty sure that they just might have better things to do with their time. If they do pull some one over that is committing a crime or offense I see no problem with them checking to see if they person is in this country legally. I guess I always assumed they did this anyways. Everyone says that if the person left the house without their documents they are out of luck and would be arrested. My whole thing is that if you can manage to leave your house with your drivers license every time you get behind the wheel, why can't you make sure you have your immigration papers in your wallet? Why not make it mandatory for states to put ones immigration status on a drivers license?

Yes, I know that I sound like a heartless person with my views on this topic, but I truly don't see a problem with this law. If I was in another country I would be expected to show that I am in that country legally and I would have no problem with it at all! Why does it have to be such a big deal here? I love my country and I respect the people who immigrate here legally. This country was built by immigrants. But, they did it legally (most) and did not hide in trucks or sneak across the border into the desert. I know that life is not perfect in Mexico and other countries. Everyday I here about multiple murders right across the border from me in Juarez, but this is still no reason to break another countries laws. There are legal routes to take and though they make take time at least they could live here without the fear of deportation after the process is over with.

I think our country is in dire need of immigration reform and I think that those people who do not live in a border state do not quite understand. Instead of boycotting a state and hurting it's residents why not contact your senator or congressman with your concerns. I know that this won't do that much, but it is much better then boycotting the grand canyon (yeah, that one makes a lot of sense). Boycotting Arizona is not going to help Arizona's immigration problems. Refusing to let high school girls play in a tournament that they had raised money for and have been looking forward to this year is not the answer. I am sure that there are problems to this law and it may be abused by a few, but I don't think it is a bad thing. We need to have secure borders and I don't blame the state of Arizona for taking matters into it's own hands since the federal government has had better things to reform such as healthcare.