Dreaded News...Again

Not much else has gone on in the lives of the Morgan's since our tenting project. All work and no play I suppose. In the mean time, we are both still working really hard to get back to our goal weights. Ben is at his but wants to work more on toning. I have 5 more lbs. to lose before I am comfortable again. I feel like that commercial where the cartoon woman cant lose weight as fast as the husband by just "drinking water and watching what he eats". LOL.

A couple weeks ago Ben went to the gym and was trying to lift heavy doing back extensions. Big NO NO. Especially if he has been progressively have lower back pain. Well, he felt something pop and really wasn't able to stand the next day. He had a DR.s appt where they took X rays and suggested seeing a chiropractor. The Dr. called Ben back to tell him she didn't see any evidence of spondylosis, BUT saw kidney stones. Ben has had them before and they just passed, but if these have been there for awhile, could they be causing his back pain? Not even a couple days went by when we got the "dreaded news". Ben was voluntold that he would be deploying the end of September. NOT AGAIN. The whole situation was really messed up in how HE became the one to go, but that's a different story. This will be deployment #3 in 4 years of marriage. Something is wrong with that picture right? Any who, he will be gone 4 months and miss all the major holidays I really care about. The past deployments he has missed birthdays and valentines but those seem minuscule compared to Thanksgiving and Christmas. BOO. But I will survive. I'm not a military wife for nothin. I'm just going to focus on saving money and working while he's gone. Oh yes and the last 5 lbs.

Other than that just the same ol' same ol'

Greetings for the islands (where its still raining and summer)

Home Sweet Home

Well, we survived the great termite tenting 2010! This week has been so ridiculously crazy that's its ridiculous. So last week my supervisor sprung a project on me and another girl from work. The project its self was simple, make a bulletin board type thing for the up coming Pet Expo. Me and Ashley being the overachievers that we are have been working on a magnificant "Preventive Care" client education board. So not only did I have the stress of doing the research for that but also thinking about this stupid tenting. The tenting its self is great because of the fact that we have had termites since we moved in almost 2 years ago. We only have termites because our privatized company land lords are stupid. The story goes, when our townhouses were renovated, new cabinets were made. Well, the cabinets were stored in a warehouse that was knowingly infested with termites. Then HCH installed the cabinets knowing they could have bugs. Well, yeah HCH they have bugs. We live in a sixplex so all the townhouses had to be tented as one.


About 2 weeks ago we get a call that our house will be tented and we would have to find a hotel that would take the dogs or have them kenneled. Seeing as our lives don't stop because we have to get the house tented. So on top of the project we had to prep our house for tenting, which meant packing up all our food in special bags and cleaning everything, oh and then theres getting the dog stuff ready. Stupid I tell you! So we stayed at the Navy Lodge Ford Island last night. Pretty nice place with a kitchenette. Might consider staying there when we PCS out. So, passed out around 9pm and woke up with a heavy head and eyes around 445am. I forgot I was allergic to goose down pillows, ehhg. Got up and went to work today like I didn't spend the night lugging around the dogs and stressing out. I also had to drag the beasts to work with me where they were very naughty and barked at everyone. Grrr children.



Got home at 3 today and have never been so happy to be back in my own home relaxing. Ahh sigh of relief. Now to clean up what the tenting left behind. Pray we dont find any rats!

New Year, New Bolgs! Happy 2010 Everyone

Happy 2010 everyone! What a year! It has been so long since I have actually blogged on this. Tons has happened, holidays have been past, and family has visited. LOL New year so time for some new blogs. I think the reason that this is possible is mostly the new wireless router we got so we can use our broadband internet downstairs on the lap top.

I think the biggest news is that both of our parents came out to visit us. Ben's parents came out for a few weeks in July. They liked but not quite loved it. They loved the weather but the population and abundance of city really intimidated them. They were happy and content just sitting on the patio. We had a few days in between the visit to get things in order before we turned around and flew back out to California to visit my mom and attend a wedding, which Ben was a groomsman in. California was HOT (100) and we spent the majority of our time in the airconditioned house. We definatly both agreed that next time we go out there we will be renting a car and staying in a hotel. My mom had to work almost the whole time so it wasn't much of a vacation but very nice to see the family. My mom just came out to celebrate her 50th birthday. The tickets were a present from us and we got a really good deal on them. It amazes me that tickets from here to L.A. cost as much as from here to the east coast. Ridiculous! My mom had a blast ad lapped up every bit of sun she could cause it was sure a cold winter in Cali.

This September we celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary and honestly could not be more happy together. This assignment has brought us so much closer. It is the greatest feeling and amount of love and understanding I have ever had for someone. We also celebrated our 1 year anniversary here! Three more to go, well 2 1/2 more like it.

We had a great holiday season! Thanksgiving we spent with some good friends that we've made, the McGee's. We sponsored them in and have remained friends ever since.

For Christmas we just did our own thing, which I am starting to love more and more. I did have to work in the morning but was able to make it home by noon to celebrate Christamas dinner. We decided to see what all the hype about Prime Rib was. We didnt care for it much but I think thats because we didnt know how to cook it.