Deployment Journal Final Month!

A link to the video mentioned in the last status is attached.  Enjoy and remember, this is from 2011.

Mar 24

This day will be dedicated to the completion of paperwork. I certainly hope my backside can withstand the "pressure!"

facebook, this paperwork ain't gonna get itself done, so Ima hafta log out for awhile. Don't worry. I'll be back :)

Mar 25

Why is it that March came in like a Lamb and is going out like a lion? It's just wrong!

I wonder how hard it would be to get the cell company to issue me a specific phone number. I was thinking 481-516-2342!

Mar 26

Welcome home AdVon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thinks that the conversations people have while playing video games would be enough to put a man behind bars for a very long time!

Mar 27

responded to Caleb Arnold, "You need shorter legs" when he tried to argue that he needed longer shorts.

Mar 28

I think he's trying to move himself back home in boxes!!

Dear Classmates.com--I'm not interested in paying a yearly fee to find out who "visited" my profile!

Mar 29

If you're thinking about getting a new or different mobile phone, please--for all that is good and righteous--do NOT waste your money on an LG Ally. You've been warned!

Connor's assessment of MUN is that it was like a life-size game of Axis & Allies!

effectively ignored all responsibilities this afernoon. Fear not--they'll still be there tomorrow =/

Mar 30

Our 3 free tickets to see Soul Surfer in Nashville on Thursday will be waiting for us at the Box office!! So excited to see Arlene Newman-Van Asperen in her role as Sydney Blanchard!!

Apr 1

If anyone has gotten a series of steroid shots for decreasing inflammation (and consequently reducing pain), could you please share your experience? It's being recommended to me for degenerate disk "disease" (I don't like the connotation) in my lower back. Thanks.

Somehow it got to be April without me noticing :) YAY!! Welcome back again, April!

‎"Your sarcasm always ceases to amaze me," said Caleb. "There you go with your sweeping generalizations again," I retorted.

Apr 2

Hey, Robyn Randall, Magen Kelley Roberts, Melissa Settje Ice, & Carrie Carlile Odell--it's April already!! I was going to tell you yesterday, but I didn't want you to think it was an April Fool's joke ;-)

uh oh . . . Caleb just discovered gLee on Netflix streaming. We are in trouble now :)

gLee pilot ends. Chris, stage front/left casts dramatic stare at Caleb, sitting comfortably in armchair stage center back. Together, "THAT was a good show!"

Connor scours the internet for alternative versions of "Friday Friday!" including cowboy poetry and soul searching blues for the sole purpose of slowly killing me--aided by a platypus. Should I maybe tell them they're not listed in the will?

Apr 3

learned two guitar chords tonight and my fingertips are on FIRE! I don't know how you guitar players do it.

Apr 4

You know how they dilate your pupils at the optemetrist? Well this time, it was like dilation on steroids and I can expect it to be this way until about noon tomorrow. The good news is, she found out that my previous prescription was off by +2 in each eye!

Apr 6

is gonna get bounced from appointment to appointment like a pinball today. >ding<

Apr 7

I finished up a call with my husband by saying, "Well, I better let you go. You're starting to sound all warbled and distorted and I don't even know what you just said, but it sounded really sweet!!"

really can't drive to Nashville this evening for the Soul Surfer premiere. I wish we had a teleporter. All the cool kids have teleporters, 'cept us! *pouts*

New item on bucket list: to be part of a flash mob performance. Who's with me?

Apr 8

It's gonna be ok.

The reason for the imipending gov't shut-down according to the 6th graders I worked with today (who were excited that "all the schools were shutting down" with it)--because there's no money left. We gave it all to Japan!! And there you have it. LOL!

Pizza, garlic bread, dessert, and a movie all for $23.40! Not a bad way to spend a Friday night with the kids :)

Apr 9

Just dropped Connor off at APSU for his ACT. Now Caleb and I need to find something to do til 1! Any suggestions?

performed the ceremonial changing of the thermostat to AC and scrubbing of the grill and the car today. Summer may begin. GO!

Apr 10

‎'nother guitar lesson with Connor. Ouch!

Apr 12

Hey, Barsanti Elementary families--come to the Parent to Parent workshop tomorrow (led by yours truly and Lashelle Pruitt Thompson) for tons of great info on Preventing the Summer Slide (you know, how kids forget a pretty good % of what they learned during the school year over the summer!) It's at 11 am. See you there :)

I'm not sure if this is against any school rules, but Caleb Arnold has been selling his artwork for $1 to students at school. Two students were so intent on one of his pieces that they drove the price up to $20!! I'd post it for you, but he won't let me--LOL!

Apr 13

We're sad to miss youth group tonight with Gateway Student Ministries, but very excited to attend tonight's National Honor Society induction ceremony for Connor Arnold!

I'm torturing The Beagle by BBQing chicken. I expect him to tell me where he hid the money, who his accomplice is, and his middle name before sundown :)

Apr 15

Finally gonna use my Relache Spa Groupon tonight that I had purchased just before the flooding closed it for a time. Hopefully I'll be in good enough shape to help lead our workshop in Nashville afterward!

mailing off round 2 of scholarship applications today--nothing like waiting 'til the deadline, eh?

If anyone is wondering why our deployed military makes extra money while overseas, I can tell you exactly where it all goes. You're welcome, Verizon =/

Apr 17

UNceremoniously turned the thermostat from A/C back to heat. Probably should have done that last night.

Finally seeing Soul Surfer!! — with Connor Arnold and Caleb Arnold at CARMIKE CINEMA - CLARKSVILLE GOVERNOR SQUARE 10.

Repost--FACEBOOK has 4 "new" VIRUSES !!
#1--If you get a notice of a PHOTO TAG ... DO NOT OPEN IT !
#2-- If you get a notification that a friend reported you for offensive behavior etc.. DO NOT open it !
#3-- get 5000 FACEBOOK CREDITS-
#4-- message from your friends via chat saying click this link .. DO NOT OPEN

Apr 18

is in the market for a 160g ipod. If you've got one you'd like to sell, let me know!

Good night, Johnboy!

Apr 19

Ibupfrofen? Check. Aspercreme? Check. Worskshop supplies? Check. Written instructions? Check. Sense of humor? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

got a facefull o' dirt today :)

Thanks to Tim Childers I was able to offer a really cool craft for our Early Literacy workshop this morning :) Thanks, Tim!

‎"She turned me into a newt!!"

"Why do you think i have dis outrageous accent?"

Apr 20

1am. 2 kids. 1 dog. 1 cat. Bathroom downstairs. Waiting out a tornado warning with our pillows someone please tell me when it's all clear?

Back to your lives, citizens :-)

I am doing my best to not live in that nervous, anxiety producing state of expectations of things to come, but will likely succumb in the next couple of days regardless of my best efforts!!!!!!!!!!

Apr 21

Checking out the school — with Caleb Arnold at Heritage Christian Academy.

When Caleb Arnold spotted a banner that said "WWJD," he turned to me and said, "That should mean 'Why would Jesus die?'"

Apr 22

Whether Christian, Jew, Muslim, or Atheist, there’s no denying that Jesus Christ’s death on the cross was manly. Accused of calling himself the King of the Jews—which subverted the power of the Emperor—and of supposedly spreading teachings contrary to Judaism, Jesus was brought to trial. A simple denial would have saved him, but Jesus stood firm. (Thanks Traber Cass)

Apr 23

It's 3am plus change and i must be one dedicated army wife to welcome home soldiers that I'm not even married to!

Wheels down for main body 4! Welcome home soldiers :-)

The race is on to get some shut-eye before the sun rises . . .

My eyelids must have gained 50 lbs each!

Apr 24

Accident or stalled vehicle on eastbound 24 before exit 11.

Celebrating Easter morning on the freeway stuck in traffic! Never done that before--LOL!!

I love how when Thomas called Jesus Lord and God after seeing Him in person with the scars from His execution, Jesus commended him for believing because he had seen. But He also commended me for believing, even though I've never had the privilege of seeing Him in person resurrected--Jn 20:29. Thanks God ♥

This should be interesting... I wonder how many people read my status. You and I wake up in the Psychiatric Ward together. Using only four words, what do you say to me? Note: if you comment, you must copy and paste this to your status, so I may comment on yours as well. Be a good egg and play along... 4 words is harder than you think.

Apr  25

I hate it when I "accidentally" drop a freshly grilled hot dog on the ground right in front of the Beagle ;-)

Apr 26

Phone rings. "Hello?" My neighbor asks,"Hey! Can you look and see if my trampoline is still in my yard?"

is dumbfoubded that the most iconic movie of her youth was set in an era in which she wasn't even born yet!

‎Connor Arnold--"I love how everyone dies at the end of Hamlet." 
"Great! Thanks for spoiling it for me!"—me

and it wouldn't be complete, if after jimmy-rigging the trampoline between our two fences with bungee cords, the beagle didn't recognize his opportunity for escape and galavant around the neighborhood--like it was a perfectly acceptable practice.Caleb Arnold gets the prize for running him down, tackling him to the ground, and fashioning his shoe laces into a leash to bring him home!

oh, and I literally defended Connor Arnold from an army of buzzing, angry bumblebees with a flyswatter while he mowed the grass since SOME one (I won't mention Kenny McNeil II by name) used up all my bee and wasp killer on a renegade gang of mutant stinging insects while they buzzed around his head!

Well, the downstairs bathroom is stocked: emergency dog and cat food rations, drinking water, pillows, blankets, MRE's, and I hear thunder in the distance, but I'm wondering if there's enough room in said bathroom for us now =/

Apr 27

I can't be sure why, but I'm really missing our island home right now. It can't be all this crazy weather, can it? Aloha oe . . .

is avaiable to stuff and stack sandbags along the banks of the Cumberland if anyone is heading up an effort. At least I'm available til about 3am.

‎Chris Arnold loves it when Connor walks away from his computer with facebook up ;-)  [Connor’s status]

Connor Arnold loves it when his mom leaves her facebook open! I promise to buy him a new iPod! And maybe that $3000 guitar he wants! He's just so amazing

Apr 28

is on a bus . . .

Over.

Officially.

Is.

Depliyment.

This.

Welcome home main body 6 wheels DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"!!!!!!! =D

When our host asked, "How many tonight?" I may have replied a little too enthusiastically, "FOUR!"

I have always wanted to make a video for him with this song. The time has never been more perfect than now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpr1o2W7T0Q&feature=plcp