So we had a pretty crazy weekend.
Friday night Joe got home and mowed the lawn – Good thing since it rained all weekend too! When he got done he was cranky and hungry of course. I asked where he wanted to go and got the usual response “I don’t care.” So, I suggested Red Lobster. He immediately said “I don’t want that.” HUH??? You just said you don’t care. But, I was like ok that’s fine what do you want then?? We head out to the car and he goes to the passenger side so I said I take it I’m driving? He says “yeah, I’m tired.” Well, so was I. I had come home and switched laundry, cleaned the kitchen and then went to the gym and worked out so he wasn’t the only one tired. I was mostly picking on him about making me drive but he got all upset and got out and went around trying to kick me out like he was going to drive instead. I put my seatbelt on and stayed in the car. When he got in I asked again where he wanted to go but said to go to Red Lobster but I was like, you don’t want to go there, we can go somewhere else. He said, I just want to go somewhere. I was just getting tired of him saying “I don’t care” for the millionth time then shooting down where I wanted to go. He never decides anymore then gets angry if I say I don’t care where we go. Well, he finally just decided he was going to stay home so he got out of the car so I said fine and drove off! It was the most stupid argument ever but why do I have to decide all the time? I ended up just driving to the lake which is about 30-45 minutes away. I found a little beach area and walked it for a bit. Found a catfish that was washed up to shore. I thought he was still alive because I saw his gills move so I tried to push him back out but he wasn’t swimming and just got pushed back up to the shore. I hung out for a bit then headed back to home. I took a different way home which was through a few small towns so I had to slow down more often and go down some dirt roads so it took a little longer to get home. I went by Burger King and got some food. I knew I shouldn’t get anything from fast food but I just said oh well and did it. I got the chicken sandwich meal and ate the sandwich and a few fries and maybe about a quarter of the diet Pepsi. I hadn’t had fast food in a while so it made my stomach feel funky. I got home and Joe didn’t say a thing to me so I went straight to bed and watched some TV. He came in about 30 mins later which was about 9:15pm by now and said he was leaving. He was going to a friend’s house to borrow his high speed camera for the next day. I watched TV for a bit longer then tried to go to sleep. I had a hard time sleeping though because I had a lot going through my mind, of course. I fell asleep but only for an hour or so. When I woke it was about 11:30 and he wasn’t home yet so I sent him a text asking if he was coming home…fifteen minutes later he still hadn’t answered so I tried again asking if he was ok. About a minute later I heard the car pull in the drive way. They had apparently started playing some game on the Wii and that’s why he was there so late. We talked a little about what happened earlier but I don’t think we ever really got anywhere with it. I tried to sleep but again was having trouble. I couldn’t for a while so I got up and got on the computer for a bit then came back to bed so it was about 2:30 or so in the morning by then. It took a while still but I finally fell asleep. Then at about 5:00 on the morning his phone started ringing and it was his work because the email wasn’t working (he’s IT for his work). He got up and had to take care of that and of course I couldn’t go back to sleep. I may have for about 30 minutes but that’s it.
Then our alarm started going off at about 6:00! I got up and took a shower and got ready. His parents were picking us up at 7:30 to go to Ft. Riley, KS. When their nephew, Ronnie, passed away last year in Iraq they have kept in touch with their casualty assistance officer since then and he invited them to go up and watch the Howitzers shoot. They invited us also so we were not going to miss out on that! It’s a couple hr drive plus we
stopped and ate breakfast so we got there around 10:30 and a couple of the officers met us and gave us helmets and vests to wear then drove us to the area where they were shooting. It was just a huge field and they had about 10 or so of the howitzers spread out in the field waiting for orders to shoot. We got into a HumV and they took us out to them and we got to go inside the howitzers and they told us how they work and stuff. Most of the guys we met knew Ronnie and had been over in Iraq with him. We all got to sign one of the bullets that were going to be shot that day. We got to go inside a Cat which is the vehicle that stays with the howitzers and carries all of the ammunition. They took us back to the little camp area where they were waiting to get the howitzers to shoot. We got to have an MRE. It was sloppy Joes which Paul ate that and the rest of us just shared the crackers and bread that was in it. Mostly just to say we’ve tried it. The food wasn’t too bad…could be worse I guess. They were finally ready to shoot so they took us back out to the howitzers and we also got to see Ronnie’s best friend that was with him when he passed away. The first time they shoot the howitzers that put a 50ft lanyard (rope) on it and everyone stands back to fire it in case something blows up or goes wrong i
nside then nobody is in it yet. Well, they let Paul pull one and Joe pulled one on another howitzer. It was pretty cool because I didn’t even think we’d ever get that close to them anyways. But we were about 50ft away when it shot off.
Friday night Joe got home and mowed the lawn – Good thing since it rained all weekend too! When he got done he was cranky and hungry of course. I asked where he wanted to go and got the usual response “I don’t care.” So, I suggested Red Lobster. He immediately said “I don’t want that.” HUH??? You just said you don’t care. But, I was like ok that’s fine what do you want then?? We head out to the car and he goes to the passenger side so I said I take it I’m driving? He says “yeah, I’m tired.” Well, so was I. I had come home and switched laundry, cleaned the kitchen and then went to the gym and worked out so he wasn’t the only one tired. I was mostly picking on him about making me drive but he got all upset and got out and went around trying to kick me out like he was going to drive instead. I put my seatbelt on and stayed in the car. When he got in I asked again where he wanted to go but said to go to Red Lobster but I was like, you don’t want to go there, we can go somewhere else. He said, I just want to go somewhere. I was just getting tired of him saying “I don’t care” for the millionth time then shooting down where I wanted to go. He never decides anymore then gets angry if I say I don’t care where we go. Well, he finally just decided he was going to stay home so he got out of the car so I said fine and drove off! It was the most stupid argument ever but why do I have to decide all the time? I ended up just driving to the lake which is about 30-45 minutes away. I found a little beach area and walked it for a bit. Found a catfish that was washed up to shore. I thought he was still alive because I saw his gills move so I tried to push him back out but he wasn’t swimming and just got pushed back up to the shore. I hung out for a bit then headed back to home. I took a different way home which was through a few small towns so I had to slow down more often and go down some dirt roads so it took a little longer to get home. I went by Burger King and got some food. I knew I shouldn’t get anything from fast food but I just said oh well and did it. I got the chicken sandwich meal and ate the sandwich and a few fries and maybe about a quarter of the diet Pepsi. I hadn’t had fast food in a while so it made my stomach feel funky. I got home and Joe didn’t say a thing to me so I went straight to bed and watched some TV. He came in about 30 mins later which was about 9:15pm by now and said he was leaving. He was going to a friend’s house to borrow his high speed camera for the next day. I watched TV for a bit longer then tried to go to sleep. I had a hard time sleeping though because I had a lot going through my mind, of course. I fell asleep but only for an hour or so. When I woke it was about 11:30 and he wasn’t home yet so I sent him a text asking if he was coming home…fifteen minutes later he still hadn’t answered so I tried again asking if he was ok. About a minute later I heard the car pull in the drive way. They had apparently started playing some game on the Wii and that’s why he was there so late. We talked a little about what happened earlier but I don’t think we ever really got anywhere with it. I tried to sleep but again was having trouble. I couldn’t for a while so I got up and got on the computer for a bit then came back to bed so it was about 2:30 or so in the morning by then. It took a while still but I finally fell asleep. Then at about 5:00 on the morning his phone started ringing and it was his work because the email wasn’t working (he’s IT for his work). He got up and had to take care of that and of course I couldn’t go back to sleep. I may have for about 30 minutes but that’s it.
Then our alarm started going off at about 6:00! I got up and took a shower and got ready. His parents were picking us up at 7:30 to go to Ft. Riley, KS. When their nephew, Ronnie, passed away last year in Iraq they have kept in touch with their casualty assistance officer since then and he invited them to go up and watch the Howitzers shoot. They invited us also so we were not going to miss out on that! It’s a couple hr drive plus we
stopped and ate breakfast so we got there around 10:30 and a couple of the officers met us and gave us helmets and vests to wear then drove us to the area where they were shooting. It was just a huge field and they had about 10 or so of the howitzers spread out in the field waiting for orders to shoot. We got into a HumV and they took us out to them and we got to go inside the howitzers and they told us how they work and stuff. Most of the guys we met knew Ronnie and had been over in Iraq with him. We all got to sign one of the bullets that were going to be shot that day. We got to go inside a Cat which is the vehicle that stays with the howitzers and carries all of the ammunition. They took us back to the little camp area where they were waiting to get the howitzers to shoot. We got to have an MRE. It was sloppy Joes which Paul ate that and the rest of us just shared the crackers and bread that was in it. Mostly just to say we’ve tried it. The food wasn’t too bad…could be worse I guess. They were finally ready to shoot so they took us back out to the howitzers and we also got to see Ronnie’s best friend that was with him when he passed away. The first time they shoot the howitzers that put a 50ft lanyard (rope) on it and everyone stands back to fire it in case something blows up or goes wrong i
nside then nobody is in it yet. Well, they let Paul pull one and Joe pulled one on another howitzer. It was pretty cool because I didn’t even think we’d ever get that close to them anyways. But we were about 50ft away when it shot off. By this time it was almost 4:00 so they took us back to our vehicle and we drove around the base and took a few pics of landmarks. One is the first capital of Kansas. We took a long way home and stopped to get some dinner. We had some really good chicken fried steak! I only ate about half of mine because I had a salad with it first. On the ride back I fell asleep for a few minutes but they would keep picking on me for sleeping so I didn’t sleep much. We got back home to check on Violet because a storm was supposed to be rolling in. His parents wanted to take us to see their house being built so we took Violet with us and drove over there. They have the concrete poured and the dirt filled back in around the house so it’s coming along pretty good. They brought us back home and came in for a bit then finally left around 11:00pm. I was so exhausted. We went to bed and I was out in no time at all. I slept sooo good that night and even slept in a while on Sunday!
We didn’t do a whole lot on Sunday. I made some waffles and had it with the fat free syrup. That stuff is so gross. I may go back to regular syrup. I know it’s not good for me but that other stuff is disgusting. I will just have to eat a lot less syrup or a lot less pancakes and waffles too. My desktop computers fan went out so I did put a new one in that day. I wanted to format my old laptop so I can get it sold but it was giving us problems. Joe messed with it for a while then just gave up cuz it wasn’t working and he was getting upset about it. So, I never got that done. I was going to format my desktop too cuz it has so much junk on it but didn’t get that done either. It stormed in the evening and the tornado sirens even went off. The first time there was a tornado sighted near a town about half hour away. It was headed towards Wichita like it might hit us so we got the cats and dog and headed for the basement. We stayed down for a while and kept an eye on the weather but it started heading north more so we just got a lot of rain, thunder and lightening. The tornado warnings were over so we went back upstairs and just watched TV. It was a pretty lazy day. Until we decided that we wanted to go out for a bit. Joe was hungry and didn’t want anything that was in the house and I had a craving for some chocolate chip cookies. Bad, I know! It was still pouring out but we went out and got in the car, it was about 9:15pm by this time. The street to get out onto the main street was flooded some but enough to get the car through OK. But the main street was really flooded. There was a few cars actually stalled and another truck was turning around. So, we turned around too. Tried another way and got to the street we were originally trying to get to and it was flooded even worse. We turned down a side street to go home and it was flooded so we had to go slow through it. We eventually made it home and switched to my truck cuz it was taller! Tried going another way (he wanted to go to Wendy’s so we were trying to get to it). We got to another side street and it wasn’t too bad until we realized the water was getting deeper and deeper. It was over the curb into people’s yards. We turned around again and went back to the first side street that we took back home. Got back onto the main street we were trying to get too and it was flooded too. There were several cars that were stalled out ahead of us and many people turning around so we did too. The only place we could get to was Dillon’s so we went in there instead. Of course the side we parked in they close the doors after a certain so we had to run down to the other entrance. Got what we wanted and came out. We started to run from the entrance we went in back to the closed one and it started hailing! They were small and didn’t last long though, thank goodness. It had also started raining harder while we were in the store. By the time we got back in my truck we were completely soaked! We headed back home and got back in around 10:00pm. So, it took about 45 mins to go about 2 miles. LOL It was pretty crazy but it was actually a lot of fun!
Well, I know this was long but we had a pretty interesting and fun weekend. Didn’t get what I wanted to done but oh well. There’s always next weekend. Oh wait…we’ll be going out of town next weekend! Our 3 yr anniversary is May 6th so we’re taking this Friday off and going to OKC for the weekend. We don’t have a whole lot of time and money so thought we’d go somewhere close and I’ve never actually spent much time in OKC so thought we’d give it a try….it’s supposed to rain there all week too!
We didn’t do a whole lot on Sunday. I made some waffles and had it with the fat free syrup. That stuff is so gross. I may go back to regular syrup. I know it’s not good for me but that other stuff is disgusting. I will just have to eat a lot less syrup or a lot less pancakes and waffles too. My desktop computers fan went out so I did put a new one in that day. I wanted to format my old laptop so I can get it sold but it was giving us problems. Joe messed with it for a while then just gave up cuz it wasn’t working and he was getting upset about it. So, I never got that done. I was going to format my desktop too cuz it has so much junk on it but didn’t get that done either. It stormed in the evening and the tornado sirens even went off. The first time there was a tornado sighted near a town about half hour away. It was headed towards Wichita like it might hit us so we got the cats and dog and headed for the basement. We stayed down for a while and kept an eye on the weather but it started heading north more so we just got a lot of rain, thunder and lightening. The tornado warnings were over so we went back upstairs and just watched TV. It was a pretty lazy day. Until we decided that we wanted to go out for a bit. Joe was hungry and didn’t want anything that was in the house and I had a craving for some chocolate chip cookies. Bad, I know! It was still pouring out but we went out and got in the car, it was about 9:15pm by this time. The street to get out onto the main street was flooded some but enough to get the car through OK. But the main street was really flooded. There was a few cars actually stalled and another truck was turning around. So, we turned around too. Tried another way and got to the street we were originally trying to get to and it was flooded even worse. We turned down a side street to go home and it was flooded so we had to go slow through it. We eventually made it home and switched to my truck cuz it was taller! Tried going another way (he wanted to go to Wendy’s so we were trying to get to it). We got to another side street and it wasn’t too bad until we realized the water was getting deeper and deeper. It was over the curb into people’s yards. We turned around again and went back to the first side street that we took back home. Got back onto the main street we were trying to get too and it was flooded too. There were several cars that were stalled out ahead of us and many people turning around so we did too. The only place we could get to was Dillon’s so we went in there instead. Of course the side we parked in they close the doors after a certain so we had to run down to the other entrance. Got what we wanted and came out. We started to run from the entrance we went in back to the closed one and it started hailing! They were small and didn’t last long though, thank goodness. It had also started raining harder while we were in the store. By the time we got back in my truck we were completely soaked! We headed back home and got back in around 10:00pm. So, it took about 45 mins to go about 2 miles. LOL It was pretty crazy but it was actually a lot of fun!
Well, I know this was long but we had a pretty interesting and fun weekend. Didn’t get what I wanted to done but oh well. There’s always next weekend. Oh wait…we’ll be going out of town next weekend! Our 3 yr anniversary is May 6th so we’re taking this Friday off and going to OKC for the weekend. We don’t have a whole lot of time and money so thought we’d go somewhere close and I’ve never actually spent much time in OKC so thought we’d give it a try….it’s supposed to rain there all week too!
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