From my perch in the bakery I got to observe the action at the commissary today. It was funny and crazy and scary and sad all at the same time. I have come to the conclusion that old people are the number one cause of shopping cart tail backs.  They're oblivious to pretty much anything that goes on around them...they leave their carts in the middle of the aisle while they totter off to look at something else, they stand looking at who-knows-what on the shelves, not noticing the line o...

I got my first tatto when I was 24.  It's the only one I don't have a picture of, and it's very boring...just some flowers on my left ankle. I waited until I was 30 to get the next one.  I had decided on this design years ago, it was simply a question of finding the right artist.  I got lucky and stumbled across Matt Thrash...I told him what I wanted, he hand drew it, and away we went: It's an ouroboros, an ancient infinity symbol.  It represents (to me) the cycli...

As a follow up to this earlier article.... Link I just got the call.  I got the job, and I start tomorrow! Yay for going back to work! Yay for having a paycheck again! Yay for sensible hours that won't interfere with my family life too much! Yay!  

A few weeks ago, I advertised for a grandparent.  I lost all of mine when I was younger, and I wanted to adopt one.  Manopeace applied for the position, and was immediately hired!  He sent me this picture of himself this morning, and graciously agreed that I could share it with y'all.... That's my gramps!!!  Isn't he handsome?!!  

I applied for another job yesterday, at the commissary.  The position was for a cake decorator, the money's not that great, but the hours....10 am to 4pm, monday thru friday.  Perfect hours for me! So, I went off for the interview this morning.  Turns out there's more to it that just decorating cakes...they've just set up a frozen yoghurt/soft serve ice cream booth and I'd be in charge of that, and then they'd also want me to be responsible for the bulk candy bins. The lady ...

I'm making a big pot of beef stew.  Loaded with carrots and onions in a delicious gravy...the smell permeating my house is wonderful.  Add to that the aroma of home-made bread-bowls baking in my oven and you have an idea of what my kitchen smells like! I'd have to say that beef stew is my comfort food.  I remember my mom making it on cold and snowy days...coming home from school, walking into a warm and fragrant kitchen...nothing could compare to that.  If I'm stressed or ...

Well, my husband is officially getting deployed again in March.  To where, I am not at liberty to say - but the list got published yesterday and he's a squad leader and a fire team leader (Security Forces are the closest thing to infantry the Air Force has.  When cops deploy, they mainly work Air Base Ground defence and flightline security - the fire teams work both). I'm slightly pissed.  For a number of reasons.  Firstly, because he just got back from a year aw...

There was a improptu backyard football game at my house this afternoon. Watching my boys and my husband play, I was reminded of how incredibly fortunate I am.  Fortunate to be married to an awesome guy, and even more fortunate to have such wonderful kids to raise..... Just sitting at the window, watching my boys play....good times.  Really good times.

I'm conducting an exercise in self-discipline for the next couple of days. I'm not going to talk about anyone else unless they are in my presence. That means no gossip, no unnecessary chatter. I'm doing it as part of an exercise in 'right speech'.  I'm immersing myself in my buddhist practice again, and 'right speech' is a key element of that. My husband thinks it's great....says it will probably be the most peaceful day off he's ever had! He doesn't think that I'll be able t...

I applied for a job today. It was a spur of the moment decision.  I'm happy staying at home, but I have always said that if the right job came along at the right time I'd be just as happy going back to work. I think the right job has come open. It's a receptionist/secretarial position in a chiropractor's office.  The Dr also practices holistic therapies and is looking to branch out into Oriental medicine.  I'm pretty familiar with holistic medicine and chiropractic c...

This was inspired in part by Myrrander's wonderful tribute to military spouses ( Link ) Dear D, You often ask me what I did when you were gone.  I have finally summoned enough courage to answer that question. I cried.  Every night, after the kids were in bed and everyone was asleep.  After you and I had hung up our last phone call, after the last email professing endless and undying love had been sent and recieved....I wept.  I clutched your pillow, trying...

I am a woman. It's plain to see....I have a feminine physique - breasts, a shapely butt, a small waist.  Men look at me when I walk down the street.  I know the power that my body can command, and I use it carefully. To do anything other than that would be a crime against my fellow female.  I am a woman. I have carried and birthed babies.  My body has changed and adapted in wonderful, amazing ways so that I can do my part to populate the world.  Even now, altho...

For someone who's really smart and has been a cop for over a decade, my husband does some pretty dumb stuff at times. Like the other night. Dave was at work. I was sitting at the computer, browsing the JU forums.  It was late-ish, the kids were in their rooms, the lights were off in the house and the doors were locked. I hear the kitchen screen door open.  Then I hear the doorknob rattle....being the semi-paranoid person that I am, I scurry down the hallway in my nightie ...

The folks that live across the creek behind my house had a party for their kids this afternoon. Nothing unusual or wrong with that, a lot of folks have parties in their yards, right? Not like this one.  They had a inflatable bouncy castle, a trampoline, a clown, a magician, a caterer, wait staff to hand out drinks and food, 2 ponies, a donkey and a llama.  And that's just what I could see from my yard, there was probably more. I don't think I've ever even considered h...

This was inspired in part by Greywar's article ( Link ) and the varying liberal looney-toon articles that have been popping up around here since Kerry LOST the election. To all of you who burn and piss on the American flag:  fuck you.  Me and mine sacrifice every fucking day so you can maintain the right to do that.  Not only are you pissing on us, you're pissing on every single person who has ever served this country. To all of you who are threatening to leave the country:...