Yesterday proved to be interesting. Kyle and I were talking on the phone while he as at work and informed me that he had to go back to the range today, tomorrow and Thursday. Mind you, this time, he wouldn't be shooting. Since he's the RTO, he'd be doing radio/guard duty stuff. Basically, sitting in a tower all day long listening to the radio. So anyway, the question was.... why all three days? You would think that since he is the platoon RTO, he would only do RTO duties for the platoon that he is the RTO for, right? No. Of course not. He was told that he needed to be there everyday for all of the platoons. Sgt. Odowd said that they would be getting home by at least midnight. Everyone would get late call (going in later the morning after). Except for Kyle of course. Since he is the RTO, he would have to be there before everyone else. So, he'd get to work at 5:30, not get off until midnight-1amish. Come home. Hopefully sleep. Go to work at 5:30am the following morning. Repeatx2. But I guess this makes sense? Um, no. No, it definitely doesn't.
I went to pick Ky up last night and when I got there, I called to let him know I was outside. He said he was talking to Sgt. Odowd and that it was pretty important. He finally came outside after forever and told me that he was getting bitched out by everyone. Why? Because he actually stood up for himself and said something. I was relieved to hear that he did. He told the leadership that it was well.... bullcrap the way they had things planned out for him. He told them that it makes no sense and that something needed to happen. I guess he told them something to the fact that not only was all the stupid work/training shifts not good for him, but it's not good for our marriage. I guess the platoon leader was asking if I had a job or anything and that if I had a job maybe I wouldn't be so worried about what Kyle was doing. Are you serious? I would probably be more concerned seeing as how we have 1 car, if Kyle doesn't get home until 1am, that means I'm up until we both are home and able to sleep. And if I have to wake up at 4:30am to take him to work how am I suppose to get sufficient sleep in order to perform well at a place of employment? Also, on top of that, I don't want to get a job and then have to work when Kyle actually gets time off. If I got a job, we would NEVER see each other. Then the platoon leader had the gull to ask, "Well, doesn't she have any friends or anything?" Oh yeah, I forgot. I'm in a totally different state, 100's of miles away from anyone I know. I've only been here for 5 months, how dare I not have made any friends! Sorry that I'm not cruising myspace to find people who are only interested in partying anyway.
Anyway, I guess Kyle and I are going to talk with the Chaplain at some point. Not because we need any serious type of counseling or anything, but we really only have each other to talk to. We complain to each other but it'd be nice to get an outsiders opinion on things. Plus, Kyle has people at work he can complain to, I don't really have anyone besides Ky. It might be therapeutic to just get it out.
When Ky went into work this morning, he sent me a text and said that he was only going to the range today. I guess speaking up paid off.
Last night we were both really upset when he got off of work, but we came home and made dinner. (Chicken) Pea pasta. It was tasty. Kyle bought this BBQ apron awhile ago when we went to the Carolinas premium outlet mall, it's pretty hilarious. Goofing around and getting some food in our bodies and just being together put us both in much better moods. Harley always does a good job of cheering us up as well. She is so irresistibly cute, you just can't help being happy when she is around. Please note our awesome place mats that we got from the bridal shower. Also, our wonderful plates and utensils. We are getting much use out of it all and it is all greatly appreciated. After months of searching for our pancake puff maker, we finally found it, and gave it a try. It's crap. Maybe we'll try to use it again, perhaps we did something wrong. But our first
try was a major failure.
So I've become pretty obsessed with Craigslist lately. I've been trying to de-clutter our house of things we don't want/need/use. I sold my 50's dinette set for $50 (I only bought it for $60 brand new!) And this past Friday I sold Kyle's weight benches/weight sets for $200 for everything. The extra money helps and it gives us a lot more much needed space. Kyle goes to the gym pretty much everyday and has to do PT, so when he's home, working out is the last thing he usually wants to do. I've been working on putting my clothes/shoes on craigslist. It's ridiculous the amount of stuff that I have to get rid of. Hundreds of pieces of clothing, seriously. When all the clothes and shoes are gone, it will be such a relief. I
feel like I need to clean out and de-clutter things before I can actually seriously get started on organizing our house the way it needs/should be.
I sprayed the inside/outside of the house with this bug stuff that apparently blocks bugs from getting into your home for up to 9months. So, since I first did that, we've had an influx of bugs. How does that make sense? We've mainly had/have a problem with fire ants. EW. Regular ants in your house is bad enough, but FIRE ants? Yeah, no thanks. I spray them with bug spray, let them die, and suck them into the vacuum. They're really inconvenient, but I'm assuming they're just coming inside trying to find water. It hasn't rained too much here lately. Although, the other night we had some pretty bad storm warnings. We didn't actually get any of the storm although there was some serious lightning. It must have been heat lightning because it wasn't touching down, a few here and there, but the lightning was just rolling through the sky above our heads. It was unreal. Probably one of the cooler things I've ever seen.
I've been looking into schools. Still not sure which one I want to go to. Most places don't offer a lot of online courses for my field. I'd like to do it online due to saving gas, and doing school work around mine and Kyle's schedule. I'd really like Kyle to go to school too. He's too smart not to. He is currently working on 8 novels. He's been seriously developing I believe it's 3. The others are just ideas, he writes down ideas whenever he gets them. I always got on him to write. He'd always tell him his ideas and tell me how much he'd like to write, but he usually didn't find the time to sit down and just write. I'm glad he's been doing that lately. Infact, you can usually find him here....busy typing away. He's really very good, too. And he takes my constructive criticism very well. He really wants to create wonderful stories, so he's very open to my opinion. This is a pretty long post so I think I will end this now. Kyle is suppose to be getting released around 9ish tonight, so if that's the case, I only have another 2 hours before I have to go and pick him up! Yay!
After a futile attempt to get rid of the buggers, I contacted our landlord and they said they would have Terminex come out and spray. They're suppose to come tomorrow so hopefully after that we can live in peace without any critter disturbances. I attempted to destroy the ant mounds, it seemed to work pretty well. Please note the boots and long pants I'm wearing.... Yeah, it was like 100 degrees out. While I was out there being a murderer, within the first 5 minutes three planes flew overhead. I took pictures because the camera was out there, so why not. My parents came to visit during memorial day,... not a single 
plane flew overhead while she was here. I'm pretty sure that's one of the only reasons she came, too. What a joy living so close to an air force base! It's actually pretty cool.
loves to cuddle under the covers. She doesn't care how hot it is. I'm also really excited for Christmas. I can't wait to break out the Christmas tree I bought on sale last year for $15 and put all the decorations/ornaments I got on sale last year on the tree. It was really pretty convenient that our first Christmas together, wasn't spent in our own home, because we didn't have to buy all brand new full price stuff. Instead, I got everything for 75%-90% off! I'm very excited for Christmas and everything that comes with it. Decorating the Christmas tree, buying gifts for people you love, wrapping, hanging our stockings on the fireplace. It's going to be great. It always makes me sad though thinking that this might be the last Christmas Kyle and I ever spend together. His job is going to give me some sort of stress-related medical problem, I swear. Thinking that way does help us to make the most of what we have, when we have it, so at least that is good.
