Chief Edwards was as good as his word, and today we got an assignment. We are going to Scott AFB, Illinois...our first choice because of it's proximity to Dave's family and his hometown. I'm sitting here crying because I'm so relieved/happy/excited....my children will get to see their grandparents, we will get to visit on holidays...at last, we will be close to family. Dave doesn't even know, he's attending a function for the Queen of Denmark so hasn't heard the news yet.  I can't...

In the past couple of articles it has been insinuated that I have no compassion for those who are mentally ill, despite my admission that I have been clinically depressed myself. It was said that I have compassion until it comes to spending my tax dollar on assistance for the mentally ill. No names have been mentioned, but both Teresa and I know that it is us who are being referred to.  I really had tried to refrain from writing this, but I cannot let this go. I have c...

I would like to dedicate the following quote to my JoeU sisters (and Teresa, you got promoted to sister a while ago, I just don't think I ever told you that). Women are like tea bags - you don't know how strong they are until they are in hot water I don't know if it is possible to love people that you have never met, but I will tell you all this:  I consider myself extremely fortunate to have met and interacted with you.  Friendships have been forged here, friendships that I h...

The more I read about welfare, the left, the right, the politics, the war.....the madder I get.  I had said a couple of weeks ago that Dharma-The-Blunt was going to make her appearance more and more often, and she's been doing so.  Not in a mean way, I've jusy been asking questions about things that I think are relevant...but my comments have been deemed "petty" and have been deleted. So, seeing as I have my own blog in which to air my opinions, that is exactly what I intend to do.&...

I know I blogged about this already, but I promised I'd write about it when it became official. For those of you who don't know, my husband Lonesome Traveler and our fellow blogger Imajinit tested for the rank of Technical Sergeant (E-6) back in April this year.  TSgt is reputed to be one of the harder ranks to make....and they both found out this week that they made the grade and are now officially TSgt selectees.  Out of all the Staff Sergeants that tested Air Force wide, only 21%...

I have a secret. I'm going to get chastised for saying that I have a secret, but I'm just busting to tell someone. Imajinit knows what the secret is, and he's got a secret of his own. I'll be able to tell what the secret is tomorrow, perhaps Thursday......but until then I'll tell you that this secret has left me with a huge grin on my face...and Lonesome has an even bigger grin on his face. Greywar and Pseudosoldier will probably be able to guess what this secret is. Can anyone el...

My kids got some of that Shrek 'Crazy Hair' candy today.  Shea got the 'sour green tamarind' flavor. I tried it.  It's gross.  If you've ever eaten Bertie Botts every flavor jelly beans, imagine chewing a vomit and booger flavor one at the same time and then you have an idea of what this stuff tastes like. It was so gross it made me gag and I had to spit it out and then rinse my mouth out.  Yukky.  Very yukky. I'm going to go eat some chocolate now to see i...

....I was laboring with Jake.  Right around this time in the afternoon I was at 7 cm still, I had been stuck there for most of the day it seemed.  My doc had agreed to turn down the pitocin whilst he went off to a wedding (I encouraged it, don't worry), and when he came back at 4ish he turned it back on again.   About an hour later I declared I wanted some more morphine, so the nurse checked me.... and I was at 8 so they couldn't give me any more.&n...

Yes, that's the latest in my neighborhood.  Little kids aren't allowed to come into our house to play because I might molest, torture and beat them.  My son's friend told me that's what his parents told him (his mother is the one who called my husband and told him I was sleeping with strange men in our bed 5 days after I wrecked my truck).  His parents are close friends with the moron's I've been complaining about, the ones who reported me for neglect and abuse earlier this y...

I went to the pet store yesterday, mainly to get a crab but also to see the girl that works there. She was pregnant, and due on June 1st...I knew she must have delivered by now and I wanted to see if my prediction of a baby girl was correct. It was.  She had a little girl, on the 1st, right when she was supposed to.  The baby was under 7lbs, the labor was easy, delivery unremarkable.  Perfect, right? Wrong.  Her little girl has Down's Syndrome.  She was diagnose...

I got another crab for my birthday, and I named him Tudley.  It's a funny name, but there's a standing joke behind it...when my little boy (Jake) was small he had difficulty saying  'r'.  It would come out sounding like 'ahhhhh'.  One day he had been out in the yard and had stepped in some dog poo...and he said "I trod in a tud". So, ever since then, we've made a point of saying 'tud' not 'turd' in Jake's presence. When I picked up this crab out of the tank at the store to...

It's the 16th in England as I wrtie this, which means that I am now officially 35....which, if you hold with the Biblical life span of 'three score years and ten' makes me middle aged. I don't feel much different, to tell you the truth (not that I expected to feel any different). I don't feel old, middle aged, or even like I'm in my 30's.  In fact, I think I look better now than I did when I was a teenager..I think a lot of that is due to confidence.  I wasn't really sure of wh...

...and anyone else who cares about MJ. I just got an email from him, and he's suffering from some quite horrible withdrawl symptoms from his inability to blog. He's asked me to acquire y'all's email addresses so that if you won't email him he can at least email you.... If you're not comfortable leaving them here on this thread, you can send them to me at dharmagirl69@yahoo.com of better still email MJ yourselves at michael.jenks@auab.aorcentaf.af.mil . Now is the perfect opportuni...

I got bitten by a spider this morning, and I think it was a Black Widow. I was cleaning out dried grass from the bottom of the lawn mower (the kids had mowed last time and didn't bother to clean off the grass clippings) and I felt something pinch my hand.  It wasn't incredibly painful, in fact I though I'd been poked with a splinter or something.  I shook the grass off my hand to see what I'd been jabbed with and a little black spider fell off onto the garage floor.  I had a lo...

I got an email from MJ this morning.  He's realized that he's not going to be able to access Joe U from where he's at, and has a request: Would those of you who are on his favorites list please send him your articles in the form of an email when you post them here?  All you'd have to do is copy and paste it...the address to send it to is: michael.jenks@auab.aorcentaf.af.mil This request obviously isn't limited to those on his list, I think he'd like to hear from pretty much ...