Lock Down

It's been a long time since I've posted.

Sorry.

I've been on a "business trip" with the Army in an undisclosed location for the past week or so. I'm supposed to be back next Wednesday, so I'll have a big welcome back post then.

Unlike my other "trips" that I took when I was in Korea, these keep me extremely busy and away from any Unclassified computers for most of the time. But it's rapidly coming to it's culmination point, so I'll be happy soon enough.

However, until then I'm a miserable bastard.

Order my "World's Greatest Mom" t-shirt now

Sometimes, Aidan drives me crazy, but then sometimes he comes up with a gem that gets me through another few weeks of crying, tantrums, 5 AM wake-ups, and bathroom "accidents."

Today, Aidan asked me to kiss his boo-boo, and I asked, "Do my kisses make you feel better?" and he said, "Yes, mommy's kisses are magic!" He told Joel last week, "You're my best friend ever!" and when he broke a gravy boat (yeah, I know, what was I doing with a gravy boat??) that was in the refrigerator, he said, "Mommy, I too sorry! Too sorry!" Either he's just super adorable, or he's already a master manipulator to come up with that stuff to avoid spanks. The jury is still out.

Knocked Up

I guess everyone knows by now, but I'm having a baby in April. I went to the PX (the department store on post) to survey the baby shit that's available here, to see what I will need to order from the states. Unfortunately, there is only ONE stroller/carseat available at the PX, and they are too big to ship over from then states. Not one style, just one for sale. I spent fifteen minutes standing in front of it, wondering if I should snap it up before someone else got their dirty hands on it. Yes, there are some regular strollers, but I want the one that the carseat snaps into, damn it! Really, though, one of the hardest things to get used to in foreign countries is the lack of commercialism- can you imagine the outrage if a Target in Atlanta had only one stroller for sale?? Outrageous! God bless America!
Second, there is the whole TV issue, which I guess is just extra irritating now that I have all these extra hormones interferring with my usual calm and even temper (cough, cough). Overseas, the military makes available a cable system of sorts, AFN, that shows American TV shows from various networks. Nice, huh? Well, the first problem is that the prime time shows are all a year old. So, if you know who won The Biggest Loser (actual available show) last season, AFN saves you the trouble of watching this year! Huzzah! The reason this really iritates me, of course, is that I WANT TO WATCH THE OFFICE!!
The second problem is that AFN doesn't show commercials, but they have to fill the spots, so they make these silly Army safety infomercials. One today was about Al Jolson, and how he died just after making a 6-day, 42 show (!!) tour of Korea to entertain the troops. It was one of a series entitled, "American Patriots." I know when I hear "patriot," Al Jolson is in my top three, right after Thomas Jefferson and Donald Trump and his big flag.
One final (semi)funny story about the AFN "commercials"- one "news" story today was about a soldier that served as a plambearer for President Ford, and all of the fore-arm muscle strain he suffered. I thought his name tag said "Laughter," which I thought was not very tough for a soldier, but then I realized it said "Slaughter." Big difference, I guess! Oh, and I saw a guy today whose name was "Begaye." Boy, I never get tired of bad soldier names...

No Fat Italians

Italians have beautiful foods.

For lunch today, I went around the little town where we live and picked up some a couple of things for a lunch. Bread, meat, and cheese from the local shops. Each of these come from a different little shop that specializes in the item. It's great.

Here's the spread that we laid out for our lunch today. It was delicious.



I should be a food photographer.

My kid does tricks

An excerpt from the Aidan show last night:



Don't know where Aidan got the idea to do this, but he pulled this trick yesterday evening. This was actually the third balloon that he dispatched with in this fashion.

This kid's got starpower.

Funny or sad?

It's been a while since I posted. I know; get off my back. We just got internet hooked up at my house today!

I saw this while screwing around at Amazon checking out the Zelda game for the Wii. Here's the link to the message board forum from the product review. This guy bought both the GameCube and Wii versions of the same Zelda game and played them both. He said he likes the GC one better because he's stuck on the fishing level. Observe:

Anyways I'm gonna get right to the point I actually enjoyed the GC version better because I couldn't catch any FISH with that freaking Wii Nunchuk controller. So I popped in the GC version and I actually passed a few stages including the fishing stage. I knew the regular controller would be so much easier to catch fish then with the new nunchuk controller. While on the Wii version I'm still freaking stuck on the 1st stage trying 2 catch 2 fish. TRAGIC!!!!!!

That's definitely not funny, and maybe a little sad. But here's the payoff: after 15 people give him little tips and advice on how to catch a fish with the Wii controller, he responds back with this gem.

Im seriously standing by the river waiting 90 min & no fish ever get on my rod, it was SUPER easy on the GameCube. I cant believe its been 90 min & not 1 fish yet and that F*CKING cat is still running around like some WHORE!!!

Har-de-har-har! Don't know about you, but to me, that's funny.


Oh, and Merry Christmas/Happy New Year.