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We’ve been in this house now for three weeks and one day. It’s beginning to feel like home. But lawdy, it’s a mess. We have too much stuff. But that’s another post.
We’re gradually developing a new kind of normal in a neighborhood ripe with wild banshees. Close your eyes and stab your finger outside in [...]
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The movers are coming next week and I find myself alternating between excitement and dread.
Needless to say, I have a lot of things yet to take care of and separate and cull through before I’m ready for the bulk of our stuff to get thrown into a truck and driven cross-country.*
*Just a reminder: we’re moving [...]
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I heard that from more than one direction this morning from my active facebook friends, when I was getting online to check for news alerts that had nothing to do with terrorism; rather, I was wondering if the all-night rain had caused any flooding that would affect my daughter’s school opening, the only road leading [...]
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Or maybe they’re all wrapped up in one? See, now I’ve gotten myself all confused again.
We swore we’d never be long-distance landlords again.
We’re considering renting out our house, something we swore we’d never do.
Some local friends/acquaintances are wanting to move out of the home they are in, for very personal reasons that are none of [...]
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John flew in last night from San Francisco to the Cincinnati airport, non-stop, with *only* a three-hour delay. That darn fog!
One round-trip ticket: $490.90
shuttle from base to airport (round-trip): $69.00
Thank you shuttle for your services, without which John would have paid almost $300 to park at the San Francisco airport. And that seems like a [...]
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Just a few thing$ that have been going on around here lately…
I found out that there wasn’t a lag for John’s new BAH (housing allowance) to kick in; rather, there was a mistake. He submitted the paperwork, but the paperwork was never submitted, if you know what I mean. It just sat there. And we [...]
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I mentioned in a recent post that we started using our credit card for transactions that we were making anyway, but instead of waiting until the monthly bill is due, I’m paying off the balance every week.
For me, this method keeps away the mentality of, “I’ll just use the credit card for now and figure [...]
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I’ve been quite engaged this past week with a lot of load of this.
Pun intended.
And now that John’s gone, I’m looking around at the destruction left in the wake of someone preparing to be a geo-bachelor for… an as of yet undetermined amount of time, and all I want to do is take a nap. [...]
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That’s Temporary DutY for you non-military folks. Military-speak for a business trip.
Yea, yea… So he last went TDY, like, two months ago. But here are the numbers anyway.
During his four-week TDY to Texas in August, John spent $1657.98 (excluding lodging).
His reimbursement came in the next month at $2,300.45 (again, excluding lodging).
A difference of $642.47, obviously [...]
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…when you discover that one of them is actually a stalk of corn.
Corn and Life and Loose Metaphors
I have no idea how a corn seed blew into that our yard. None of our immediate neighbors have gardens. We aren’t terribly close to any fields. How did it flourish? We’ve barely had any rain in weeks. [...]
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