Hallelujah!!!!!

It is now 11:35 pm and I just finished my English papers! I am the BIGGEST procrastinator and that it NO JOKE. I thought it would be great fun to wait until the last day to finish all my work. I only had a test, discussion, final paper, and journal due. Well let me tell you what I have been doing for the past 8 hours....ALL THAT CRAP! And the worst part is that my butt hurts from all this sitting. I asked Brandon if he will rub my buttocks and he keeps saying later with the look as if I'm joking, but I'm not, it HURTS! Eight hours sitting is not what I'm about, now 8 hours laying in bed being lazy I can do, but sitting in the edge of the couch and on the floor, going back and forth is not my cup of tea.

Okay back to the work, I thought it would be quick and easy, the test and discussion took maybe 45 minutes, no biggie and then I start my journal (you should know that I have known all semester that this would be due at the end of class, and my teacher suggested to stay on top of it each week so we wouldn't get behind) Do you think that I would listen to that? All I hear was one less thing I have to do each week :-)
Anyways, so I look at what I need to write about and what I need to write, it is freaking 17 papers! Not 17 pages, each story need to be a proper paper with references and all the crap! I'm thinking what did I just get myself into. Then I think maybe I should just write my final paper first to get it out of the way and since they are both worth 100 points each I should do the sure one just in case I don't finish the journal and never get around to starting the paper. But then I think of my points and I know I can go without the journal and still pull a B in the class. Sad huh? Trying to justify to myself to not have to do that damn journal!

Here is where Mom's voice comes into my head, "I pulled a 4.0 throughout college, being a single mother and all, you should be able to do it." Thanks Mom! I feel the guilt and start with the journal. Dinner time comes and goes and I send Brandon to pick up take out cause there is no stopping me, but then he comes home and I try my best to keep working, but the smells of Applebee's was too much and I had to stop real quick and eat.

After what I thought would be a great meal, (they burnt my stuff) I got back to work. All this time since I started the boys have been acting like fools, asking for this, fighting over that, and guess what Brandon did all day...played damn PS3 Madden! :-) I can't give him that hard of a time though cause it is his last day of stand down and he should spend it doing what he wants. So back to me, After each one I do I am saying a count down out loud and cheerleader Brandon over on the other couch is saying shh, and starts yelling at the game some more. I have to send the boys outside, upsides, and set them up with a game. Once 10:30pm rolls around and I have 7 more to go, I thinking I'm not going to make it. I get that gut feeling, CRAP I won't finish in time!

But then the miracles of all miracle happens the last 6 are poems and they are as short as can be and there is only so much you can write about 5 sentences, ya know? I finish with a little shy of an hour to write my last paper. I start and the fingers go flying. I write that beast in 15 minutes flat! It just flowed out of me and I kept going and going. I don't even do that when I have time to write. I am also the queen of writers block, but not this time!

In closing, thank you God for getting me through this and now I have a month off before my summer semester starts. Anyone up to go play? ;-)

Power of pine-sol

Today must be my day, not only am I finally getting together with Milie and the family tonight, but due to them coming over for dinner we now have a pine-sol smelling house! Those of you who know me well enough know that I will make sink full batches of pine-sol water because I LOVE the smell that much. Sad I know, but while pregnant I would crave it so much that I would wake up in the middle of the night and sniff it. I know that doesn't sound good, but it was my crack! I had to have a whiff of it and guess what that crave is back! Brandon and I have been trying to "mate" a baby and here's to crossing fingers and hoping!

Final week

I just finished paper number 4 and now I only have paper 5 and my virtual journal to turn into English and then I'm D-O-N-E! Truth is I'm taking a class this summer so I won't get the break that I wanted and thought that I needed. But it's another semester done with so that is progress, right? :=) So here is what I will be doing vs. what I want to be doing...

S.O.S.

Things are pretty much back to normal around here. Brandon is back to work and I'm back to procrastating on doing homework. I only have 3 weeks left and had planned on taking the summer off, but in the end I'm taking one class. I figured since the Ethan has to go to school year round why not me?

Mom's 50th birthday was a hit. I had a great time back home and it went way too fast. I normally go home for a few weeks at a time, and since this time it was only 4 days I cried when it was time to go. I'll post pictures in our family photos.

Other than that nothing new, except I miss my girls! I was going out to Chula Vista at least 3-4 times a week and I haven't seen them for 3 weeks. Text messages and phone calls are only so much. I need a girls get together. Thankfully Sex and the City the movie is coming out and I hope and pray that we can get together for that and spend some time together. As happy and I am for the hubby to be home I miss my girls! So here is my S.O.S. to Milie, Angie & Norma...I'm alive and well but missing you so lets make plans!

We're alive and well

I know it's been awhile, but it has been busy around here. First things first Brandon is home! Whoo hoo! All the late nights with the girls trying to get everything together for homecoming turned out great. I think it was a nice homecoming even though we weren't allowed on the pier, but that is another blog and I'm not going there today!

School has been crazy, it is my last week of child development, so I have to finish my final paper by Saturday, everyone of you knows me and I wont start it till Saturday afternoon if I'm lucky. The problem with that is that I will be in Washington for my mom's birthday dinner, so I NEED to get it done before Friday cause that is when I fly out. I'll keep you posted on how that goes.

Let's get you caught up with us since Brandon is on leave...Well we watched some friends little ones so they could go to sub ball, that has actually been the highlight on his leave! We got out of the house and took them all to Boomers in hopes that they would get worn out and pass out when we got back home, dumb roll please.....IT WORKED! The girls stayed up an extra 30 minutes or so than the boys but they all went to bed without any major issues. Other than that we have played Guitar Hero, let me rephrase that, Brandon has played Guitar Hero, from the moment he wakes up till after I go to bed. I fall asleep to the sounds of Guitar Hero and for any of you that have played know that it make that screeching sound when you miss a cord, well lucky ole me gets to here that all day long!

I haven't blogged about Hannah having Hailey! She was born April 10th 6.5lbs and 17.25 inches Little thing! I will post pictures of all the events later. Just wanted to let y'all know that were doing okay.

Ring Ring

Hello?

Hey, what's up?

Not much, you?

Not much...silence

After 56 days of not talking you would have thought that there would have been something said that was magical or at least exciting, but of course boring Ol' Brandon and me had nothing much to say. But hey at least I finally got to hear his voice! He also got to hear the deadly screams that comes out of Gavin's mouth. He was like WTF is that and when I had to tell him that it was his youngest child and that I couldn't wait to hand him over, he just laughed. I'm off to finish my homework so we can maybe have an actual conversation next time he calls.

Almost!

I can't tell you that dates, since the military has it top secret, area 51, phone tapping, car tailing, secret agent classified, but what I can say it that Brandon is almost home from deployment! Woohoo! We are so excited and can't wait! I wrote out my to do list today and I have to get busy if I want everything to be perfect for him once he gets back here. Of course there is the housing cleaning, car detailing, but as for me there is hair, nails, tan, outfit to be worked on and that doesnt come easy! :) I'll keep you posted once he gets back, until then here are some pictures of the day he left.