Mountain Girl Silver - Hand-Stamped Customized Silver Jewelry - Portland, Oregon

Boy BP sure has themselves in a pickle don’t they? The sad reality is that us Americans… we don’t even KNOW how bad it really is down there. They aren’t letting the general population even hear or see the real damage. And I’m not even talking about the photos you see on the media of dead, oil covered, birds…. not even that. This spill is Armageddon!!  I’m bitter tho’, as my whole Summer has just been flushed down the toilet, more or less, as my husband left yesterday on select n’ direct orders to Louisiana to help with whatever in the hell is going on down there. Clean up??  Pfffffft. He’s a Lieutenant Commander in the US Coast Guard Reserves, and his number came up on this one. In fact, if you’re a CG reservist, chances are you’re already there, already been there, or will go in the near future…. pack your stuff. As I said tho’, I’m bitter. We had thee most awesome Summer planned this year. Last Summer was pretty much shot because we decided to move, so it was consumed with packing and unpacking and painting and laying floor etc…   So we were jazzed to get back to our Summer routine this year. Packing our weekends with camping, hiking, camps for the kids….  And yah, I can do all of it alone with the kids, but it’s only going to be a fraction as fun w/out their daddy here. And my gosh,, if you only knew how badly my husband hates hot, humid weather. I’d venture to say he’s going to sweat off about 30 pounds while he’s there. Poor guy…..

So last night was our first night without him.  Maggie pretty much cried all afternoon. She’d be fine, and then it would hit her, and she’d cry for a good, solid hour. Me and Anders tried to console her, but it we were only making it worse by trying to explain how fast TWO MONTHS is going to go by. Finally I just bit the bullet and admitted to the both of them that this was going to royally suck, but as long as we all got along, stayed positive, said our prayers, still went camping etc…. then we’d be okay. Once we get into the groove of him being gone, the time will fly. But these first couple weeks are going to be touch and go. Especially with Maggie. She’s pretty emotional for a 5 year old. Yah, 5 year olds are still whiners, but she has that hormonal emotion thing going on already. I think it’s because she drank so much soy milk as a baby.  Who knows…  You know those crying jags we have from time to time as women?? She’s already doing that crap I swear. Maybe she’ll get her emotions in check well before high school…. ha

So… they are actually calling for upper 80 degree weather this weekend. And naturally I won’t believe it until I see it, but will hold out as much hope as I can. My husband is the one that takes the kids to the park, and to the skate park, and to the movies, and whatnot because I tend to work on the weekends. I think the kids are in dread fear that now that he’s gone, I’m not going to step it up and fill his shoes in that regard. I just may surprise them. I’ve got to wrap my head around this. I think my dad may fly up next week and stay a couple weeks. Then, I think Maggie is going to fly down to California with him and kick it with my mom and dad for a couple/three weeks. Anders has summer school this year in July, so he and I will have to be buddy buddy. Which is good, because we never really get one on one time. Depending on what sort of “groove” we get in as a family will determine whether or not I’ll tackle the large chore of taking them camping by myself. You see, me and my hubby wait up till midnight on New Years Eve JUST to reserve our campsites for the summer. Reserve America only lets you reserve after the 1st of Jan, so we get on there and score on all the good sites, and then we put them on Craigslist if we don’t end up wanting to camp that particular weekend. It’s kind of messed up, but at least we are always guaranteed awesome sites every weekend. I was soooo looking forward to camping this year. The work tho’,,,, that goes into tent camping, and then doing it by myself??  Sheesh…  And I don’t drink anymore??  Yah,, we’ll have to see about camping. How the heck am I going to put up our 6 man tent by myself. ??  And who’s going to chop the wood???  sigh

So the new font I ordered will be arriving here shortly this morning. There was a huge boo boo on it when it arrived last week. So I had to spend the $55 bucks to overnight it back to the manufacturer, and then they were going to two-day it back to me. It ….. is…….thee….. coolest font yet. Finding a font to have made on stamps really is stressful. Dropping a grand on something like that, you have to totally make sure you love it love it love it. Not only that, but sizing as well. Like “roots” font is all lowercase letters, this new font is all uppercase. I was seeing so many requests lately for “all caps” on people’s orders that I thought it would be wise to make an all caps only font. I’m sitting here trying to think of what it reminds me of…..   the font style. Like,,, on signs and stuff, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before on ANYTHING….   It’s not a “she she” font…not a “foo foo” font. It’s a font with character…

Okay,, gotta get the kids up and out the door. Typically I’m just now leaving my AA meeting in Lake Oswego, and hubby has the kids up, dressed, breaky-filled, and lunches packed. I’m slackin!!!!!

OH….  and BP can eat my turds……

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