My little Christmas tree

My little Christmas tree
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Her it is my little sad christmas tree. It had not a one christmas present under it. That was because I went back to seattle for Christmas and all my presents where there and I didn't wrap any of them before I left.

Christmas in Seattle Part II

Well this is the final chapter. I flew home today. UGH. I'm rather tired but I'm not going to bed yet, why I don't know. I flew both freakin legs on a super 80 which is like a vista crusier of the sky. Old shitty and cramped. It was really bad. It was like flying in a car with out AC too. I came home to a rather grubby house, so I have my work cut out for me these three days that I have off. I don't know what I'm doing for new years, most likely drinking some apple cider with the bird and crashing at 9, because is seattle thats when the ball drops and that is pretty much new year for me. I have tons to unpack and a fridge full of crap to throw out. I plan on eating at Micky-d's tomorrow just to get that craving for grey meat out of my system. I have two seasons of pete and pete to watch plus invader zim, it will be good. Ok take care everyone. I'll be posting some pictures now that I have a camera and such.
CA

Christmas in Seattle part 1

So I flew to seattle for christmas since my husband is otherwise in- desposed for this holiday season. On the 17th was the troops freakin christmas party. Let me tell you if there was a form of visual birthcontrol this was it. Party started at 1pm, food was provided. At 12;35, we were still setting up and what should my wondering eyes should apear, but a fat woman and he eight tiny rugrats. Ok so no one with eight kids but rugrats gallore. No one was really interested in watching said children either and so christmas presents were almost unwraped and things a miss and kids runing around. It was enough for my last remaining ovary to shivel up and die. Once the presents had been handed out and the pinata smashed to bits, it was over and I could go home and sleep it off. I went out for sushi that night and well around 2 in the morning the ham that was most likely not properly heated or stored gave me a nasty case of the ummmm, well yeah we'll leave it a that. Well my flight left at 7:40 and so I was off to nashville, with plenty of time to spare I got there and through with Frankie. As we taxied for about 15 minutes that Ham came back again, this time up and out. Needless to say I never felt better. The next leg o the journey was uneventful and even it was I had my ipod on and could hear a damn thing. The next few days involved shopping and eating. My birthday was well christmas eve and a real joy. I spent it with folks and g'parents. Then there was christmas, which is always great until we get in the car and pick them up. I just got a drink as soon as we entered the door to their house and remained happy for the evening. Then after two days with the g'parents it was grandpa's birthday so one more day with them. Then this is my favorite, not like we haven't spent enough time with them, but Grandma calls and wants to know if we want to go out to dinner with them last night, and we we said no, she called back and asked if we would like to go tonight. AAAAAAAAAAAAHH, runaway. I love them to death but why, why can't they pick on all the grandkids equally. I go home tomorrow at the ass crack of dawn and then I have to go back to work on the 2nd. I'm now doing my internship at the hospital which I'm sure will prove to be an interesting situation, not to mention the other person from my class, but we'll save that for another blog day,
-caw
there mike are you happy now.

freakin cold

But I love it, the cold reminds me of Idaho and I miss Idaho so thats good. The weather has been cold- cold- cold but no snow, and thats fine too. I've been rounding out the last few weeks of school and finishing up some tests. I really haven't been doing anything nor do i have any one to rag on. I feel all tapped out. My life as had a certain amount of dull-ness in it. It will be less so in the next few weeks stay tuned. -ca

Well it's been quite a while

Sorry its been quite a while since I wrote in the old blog. In the past week or so since I wrote because I've been rather busy. First my parents arrived on the 19th for Thanksgiving. We drove to nashville in no time at all but once we picked them up it took us about 2 and a half hours to get home because every northish westish highway was under construction. It was really fun. On sunday we drove to Cookeville to see charlotte and Lamar. We had a great time there. The drvie was nice and I got to see parts of the state we've never seen before. We started with lunch of course, at Nicks a funny little local place. It was very nice. Then we went to the Falls and did the short little hike to see the falls, it was very nice. We burned off some of out lunch. From there was got some thing to drink and nibble on at this niffty coffee shop which was open on sunday, which nothing seemed to be open. From there we checked out the worlds worst craft show, the nasty stuff on the planet the was pawned off as art. After that it was time for dinner at Chedders and a display of southern fried idiots. Dinner was really good though. Then I bravely drove home. I was rather sleepy too. So after that excitement we went home and slept. Unfortunatly I needed to go to school on Monday. I had a test on Tuesday but really didn't want to study. After school on Monday we drove to post for Ross Promotion. It was a really nice quick easy ceromony. I pulled off the little tab and they put a new one on. The strangest thing was that everyone shock my hand too, very odd. They all talked to my parents too. Then we left and went to a late lunch. Tuesday rolled around and I kinda studied for my test. Tuesday was uneventful. Wednesday was short and then fun. We just did stuff. Mike came into town that night. Thursday was thanksgiving WOOO WHOOOO we love food. Dana, Amanda, and Joe all came to dinner we had so much food it was crazy. I though I was going to loose it. On Friday we worked on putting the plastic up on the windows which took all day. It is nice to have the added warmth. It isn't that warm but just enough. On saturday We took my folks to the airport and mike headed out. It was alittle hard to say good bye but I'll see them again on the 18th. Ross and I head home to spent the last night togeather. We had a really romantic dinner of pizza and watched TV until about Mid night when I finally couldn't stay up any longer. The next morning at 5;15 we headed out. He made it safe. Since then I've been hanging around cleaning the house and staying busy. School is school. Its almost done, on the 7th to be exact. Then I have some finals and then 3 days of clinicals. I'll keep you all posted. -ca

Spend a night in the box

Ok so it wasn't a box and it wasn't all night either, it was the basement and it was for an hour. Around 4ish yesterday my police-lady neighbor came and told us that a thunderstrom was comming and we all need to go to the basement. It wasn't so bad, we rounded up frankie and got our computers plus I brought my knitting for something to do and we headed out, them down into the depthes of the apartment to join the others. Around 20 of us all stuffed down there with cats, a bird and one dog. It was kinda fun in a strange way, its a great way to get to know your neighbors. Well Ginger got the all clear from the scanner and we went back up, granted it rained for about 3 more hours after that and we had some really great lightening. Our foundation leaked a little so they'll come out and fix that for us, there was soooo much water and wind.
We had a thanksgiving party yesterday at school, I spent all lmorning getting stuff ready, we had 19 desserts and about 30 people showed up for this thing, it was really funny. Most of the food was yucky, about three greenbean things and some candied ones, BLECK. Turkey and Ham, plus some other strange things, needless to say it wasn't mine families eat till you puke kinda thanksgiving, and ended up working my ass off and wasn't even signed up to. Well I should think about getting ready for school I might have a long walk thanks to all the crap that come down in the wind. Ok Love CA

Silly Pat Robertson

Sooo, in PA they voted against "intellegnt Design", go figure people there understand that week didn't just pop into exsistance, well he warned them that they have made god angry by "rejecting" him and that they should expect a disaster. But see as how most of PA is a disater already, what else could happen to them. Well what else funny has happened in the world lately. Not much. There haven't been any loafs of bread in the road as of late, but amanda did have take a quick turn to avoid some rolling deer parts coming into her lane the other day. Schools a mess, because my teacher had her baby a month early had which has thrown everything out of sink. Ross and I moved the dinning room table into the living room and desk into the dinning nook so that we can use the table and watch TV because god forbid talk to each other. Well off to see the Inlaws....love CA

A seriously unproductive weekend

Is what I'm really hoping to have, but I don't think that I will. I've got hair to color, a baby shower to go to. A paper to work on, well its actually done I just need to proof it, Test to study for, and some laundry and a grubby bathroom worth cleaning. Needless to say I do actually have a rather full weekend of fun ahead of me. Ross had dinning in last night which is kinda a monumental frat party, but can sometimes be knida fun, his really wasn't. I'm watching Mia the cat for the weekend while dana goes camping with Joe, hahahahahaa, yeah I'm not one for the camping thing really any more. I really have nothing to talk about today, but I was temped to make fun of Mr Spear's bad rapping but I can't really think of anything to say, plus somehow it would be a waste of space. Ok goning to go work out, yuck.
-claire

Happy Halloween

So its my favorite non gift giving, non turkey eating hoilday!!!!! I have a carved pumpkin, which is very cute, not really spookie just silly. I'm wearing my very nifty bat shirt, and I seem to be the only person in class wearing anything halloweenie, but then again last night we did have ghost so we got our spookieness out of our system. GHOST is an event so kids can come and tricker treat safely and get a ton of candy. It was almost as good as Vegas for people watching. We managed to give away all of out candy before the end of the night and because it was getting quite cold out. It was good. I've been lighty the pumpkin every night, gota make the best of it. Mom sent the halloween presents, peanut butter cups and chocolate covered ginger, yum!!! I've already eaten all ginger, mmmmm chocolatly. Ross is still feeling kinda crummy from all his shots, it had a flu shot and others, but they all combined to become one giant muscle ache. He also played softball all day on friday. I've been busy with school so I haven't been doing much. I'm also done with my gift for Kristy for her baby shower, which is this weekend. It's very nice, I'll have to get a neat thing to put it in. I'm also working on a sleeveless shirt that I won't get to wear until next spring, but it might take me that long. I still have another sweater to work on and I haven't started on it, mmmm thats a bit of a problem, but maybe I just give pieces and then finish it. If I had more time I could finish it. Well I should be paying attention in class.....

loafs of bread in the road way

mmm, this strange little tip of the news is brought to you by the folks at NPR. I was listening to the local road report when they said that there were loafs of bread in the road. Well today was a some what productive, between the test I took, then the nap and the studing, not to mention the spotted dog and the meeting, the day isn't even over. So lets slow down. I took a test in lab this morning, pooo, and then went off the the UC to study but I really felt crappy so took 4 Idu's and took a nap in a chair. I woke up and studied some more then ate my lunch which was quite tasty. Then I trugged back to class, sat in class and tried not to drool from complete boardum in a class that I have a degree in. We then played with the STD's mmm, but it was actually dead so we just saw slime. I then left feeling a wee better because I had a coke and the caffine combined with the painkillers to create a false sense of happness. So I walked home in the fadulously cold weather. As I was passing the church I saw a dog in the grass. I wasn't sure if she was alive or dead, I went up tp check on her. She was ok but very pregnant, so I checked on her and she was a little scared. I told her to be a good dog and someone would be back to get her. When I got home, I checked on Krys who was not home but her poor little dog was and she was whining at the door, a 700.00 dollar dog all alone every day all day and night. Well when I got home I called animal control and the took the information and they took my number so they could tell me if she was ok. I haven't heard anything but she couldn't have been a hard catch she was a huge dog. Then I went to post for the Pre-deployment meeting. Then home. Poor Ross had a ton of shots and is a little on the woozy side. Going to make some dinner and then then work on my study guide. What a day. Well then, byebye

the urban sprawl of Clarksville

As with all Army town city planner are too expesive to hire, so instead they let the city grow unchecked while tons of crappy houses with no fences are built in ten seconds flat and sold to the person with the VA loan. Two years latter when the "neighborhood" has gone down hill and the VA loans have become VA repos they leave the houses to built more, further up the road. So as drive some 5 plus miles to the Target, which really isn't that far, except there was plenty of reestate inbetween that with never be filled in, I wonder why in freakin' hell are we building the new hospital out at exit 4, there is space behind the strip malls, there is space before them, there is space in downtown there is space every where, but we have let the core of the city die like a TB infection. The dead center while the outside growns and lives, only become part of the dead center as time passes. Like Lawton, Clarksville will crash and a saddness will consume the city. It's too bad, would be a pretty spot if they just gave some thought to it.

My rant and rave

So now that Ashlee simpson is blond again and is trying to be Gwen clone I wonder that if I was ever 21. I was I remember going to Vegas for my birthday, with my parents to people watch. But I don't remember any of those trivial things like boyfriend stealing that her new album deals with, and if the biggest problem in her life currently than she needs to hang out a bit more with Bono and at least learn about the worlds current problems so she could a least think about the problems facing the more grown up world. The other thing that made me wonder was, mmmmm that lady who is nominated for the supreme court needs to go and get a make over. MMM theres nothing nastier than that eye liner that she wears. Granted the way she looks has nothing to do with how smart she is, but that fact is she looks like a blue toad all the time and its sad because she makes a great deal more than me and should afford a nice suite that is non- toadie. Not to mention that most women of Washington look quite punny all the time, except ms Condie who seems to look around 30 years old all the time. Well so I think I've ranted enough, but ooo it felt good. Ok I'm sure I'll righ something less shallow latter. -CA

Four days off

After my four day weekend, which ends today, I can say I did next to nothing. I cleaned the house and did a lot of laundry, a whole lot of laundry. I really didn't knit as much as I thought I would, I really thought I would finish a sleeve and begin to put it togeather. DAMN. I did how ever begin to knit a lovely hat for a wee Ford that is due in early Dec. Its green and very soft. I hope they like it, but its too big for a newborn. I this lovely collection of yarn on the chair right now in green and coral it looks great. Besides the Zoo I haven't done much of anything. I cleaned out the piss-ant today its very happy, very happy. I cleaned out the inside and got all the junk out of it. Makes me feel good. There was a ton of garbage in it, just little things, wrappers and stuff. I went to TJ max to find a new purse yesterday after I had lunch with Tammy, but found nothing that I wanted or that was in my price range. Today however I went to Belks who has a great selection and a crazy shoe department. I didn't find anything I want in the shoe world. I really want to find a pair of boots that I can wear with my jeans, rolled up. I did find a great nine west on sale for cheap. It might just be the last of the good ones, all the rest are really ugly. Well I know that I have a three day week weeeee, and Ross is taking a four day pass so he and Mike can have a good time. Ok well other than that not much has been going on.
-ca

mccaws

mccaws
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Right when you come in the Nashville Zoo the Mccaws greet you. Ross was impressed, I don't think he knew they were quite this big.

Merkats

Merkats
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They just stared at the big rock. We don't know why they just did, but hey it was a good picture.

Lorakeet

Lorakeet
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We went to the Zoo today and feed the lorkeets. It was a blast. They just love you sit with you and nibble on the necter. They have a feathered tonge and its very funny to watch them. We had quite a few land on out heads and this one loved my hair he sat with me and played with it.

Shades of Seattle

The weekend was great. The weather was fantastic. Cool and windy with a slight over cast. Today is seattle. It's gray and cool and fantastic!!!!! Ross and I went to see Walace and Grommit. It was great fun. We went to dinner at the Cumberland grill and it was mmm ok a bit too homey for ross and I. The food was only soso and the service was crap. We'll go 541 next week. On Saturday night we had a fire in Dana's little fire pit thing it was great because it was cold and it was a good campfire type thing. We need marshmellows and chocolate for smore's, smore what how can I have smore if I haven't had any. Sorry a little sand lot. I spent most of the weekend studing for my two tests next week. I found a dog in the parking lot this morning I wonder if he'll still be there when I get home, he looked like a full chow and he had been shaved at the begining of summer but has since grow some back in, but you could see his "mane". He was friendly but didn't come up to me but I don't falt him, but he didn't run and followed me a little. He was scared.
Well I'm actually in class right now so I should get back to learning...... uhuh.

well it's about damn time

So it's here, yes fall, so they say. Its a nice 75 out today and dropping thanks to a cold front moving in. I hope that it lasts and we can all wear coats again.
So the new trend in the celeb world is to knock em' up and the marry them eh? WIth the supper gross Cruse Holmes combo now filling the gene pool who's next? Maybe I should divorce so I can get pregnant and then get married again like all the cool people.
Well i just had to vent about that, in other places, like school, which has taken an all time turn for the worst. Our Micro teacher is readding from the book for the first time in class, which we all then highlight and sleep while he reads the next few sentences to himself. Today he called it a review day but in reality he just reread us the book with a few more things that he had failed to point out the first time around. I WOULD HAVE RATHER HAD MY TOE NAILS PULLED OUT. so needless to say that was 2 hours of my life I will never get back.
-ca

Monarchs and fall

Well its a nasty 85 degrees today this third icky day of october. Yes 85 degrees and warmer tommorrow and the day after with it cooling after thrusday. Cross your fingers hope to die stick a needle in you eye weather man. The monarch butterflies are floating their way to mexico now a days and they pass through here on the way. It's quite nice to see them. Large and pretty they just to their thing. The are smarter than you think. The dodge cars and find the shade all very gracefully. I'm just glad to be seeing them. I don't know how long they'll stay. The humming birds seem to be on their way for the summer, I haven't seen any lately. Hoping to see some birds that are migrating south this fall we'll see what comes. I still have three growing tomatoes so I do hope for some sun but cool days. Did you see the pictures from the park. Ross and I went to port Royal state park and looked at what was left of the covered bridge. It was first destroyed in a flood in the late century and then rebuilt, and it as burned and then damaged when they we're trying to repair it. It took a life. It just sits there now just the one end over the river. Too Bad. We walked around but the nature trail was also sad. Nothing much to look out there. I have a test on Friday so I need to go back to studing keep you up to date.
-claire

Pudgie Budgie

Pudgie Budgie
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Here's a picture of my bird Frankie, who loves to play in my purse. I just left it open and went to watch TV when I turned around there he was playing in it. Now I know where the money goes.