01.30.09
Mainly school
School is really killing me right now, I am swamped with work. It’s been like three weeks, and I am already looking forward to Spring Break. I work night and day, sometimes even more than what hubby does (which is saying something, did you know my husband). I feel really bad about having to drive down and pick D up knowing that it will be 6 hours today wasted due to not being able to study (then of course, I feel guilty about feeling bad, since I know D wants to come up here). I also know this weekend will suck in general, since I won’t be able to study as much as I want to, since D will be here making noise.
I have two tests coming up soon, a psychology test and another math test. I am scared shit-less about both of them. However, I shouldn’t stress too much as I got a 100 on my last math test. I am super excited about it (found out last night), and I basically called hubby at home and yelled in the phone “OMG! I GOT A 100!!!!!!!!”. I can’t even remember the last time I got a 100 on ANYTHING. I mean, I don’t think I have ever gotten a 100 on a math test….
A friend of mine sent me this application… “Makemebabies”. It’s this thing where they do a lot of scientific stuff with pictures, and come up with a probable outcome, based on prominent features. Basically what you do is that you upload a picture of you and your husband, and this application takes them and morphs them together (what they chose from each person is tied up in genetics, prominent superior features and such) creating what your future kids possibly could look like. I had a lot of fun and thought I would share the results. At the bottom of each picture, you see which picture of my hubby and myself I used for the morphing. Here they are! Anyways, it was a lot of fun.
01.28.09
I cannot believe they did this to him…
My husband was in the Marine Corps as a grunt for 12 years. He endured much, such as being blown up (litterally) at the age of 18. He kept going. He’s a war hero. I’d expect a lot of the Marine Corps. I’d expect them to treat him decently, keep an eye on him, even throw a fucking parade, but this I did not expect.
I knew something was wrong when I called home during lunch. He was short, snapping, irritated, bothered by something. He told me he couldn’t talk to me, he was on his way out to take a walk. My husband NEVER takes walks. Ever. I figured that he was stressed out by school work, and let him be. He is a perfectionist after all. When I came home late that evening he was still weird. He was talking about his experiences and even possibly about going back to Kuwait just to work through things that happened there. He usually doesn’t talk like this. I tried getting him into a better mood, joking and such, but it didn’t work. I doubt he slept much last night.
When I came down into the kitchen this morning, I finally found the reason. There, on the table was a recruiting package sent to our house by the Marine Corps. A recruiting package! *&^$&*#%&^! I couldn’t believe my eyes.
He is a medically disabled veteran! Diagnosed 100% disabled! Severe case of post-traumatic stress! He can’t sleep! He will never fully get over what happened during his years in the Corps. He is legally damaged for life. And now they want him back?
I have worked SO hard on him. He’s still high-functioning, non-social, totally paranoid and sees everything in black-white (there are no grey zones…) but a hell of a lot less than he was two years ago! Usually I would have gotten rid of the information before he saw it. This time I wan’t as lucky. I can not believe they are doing this to him. Do they want to scew him up further?
Sigh. I am so angry. So angry. Stupid Marine Corps. Thanks a lot you fucking idiots. Now I have to get this taken care of as well. Thanks a lot.
01.25.09
Skating…
He’s trying to get me excited about skating. I can’t let myself. I really can’t. It just breaks my heart. “We’ll get back in to it, I know we will. We can go up once a month and skate!” No. We won’t. We might do it for two months, and that would be it. I know you, I know us. It won’t work. And I’ll be heartbroken again. He doesn’t understand it, he never did.
Do you realize it would take me maybe five years to get back what I’ve lost? To get to the exact level where I was when I left Sweden the first time would take me up towards five years here in the US. Maybe two years had I been in Sweden. The edge quality, fluidity, spins (not that they were fab to start with….), power, confidence…..
To be realistic, when could I slowly start to get back into skating? Do you really want to know? Another three years of college, maybe four. Then I’ll be “off” for another three-four, busy with… other things. So I can start edging back into skating in maybe six to eight years. I’ll be in the adult track, of course. *Sigh*
I’m having a very bad day today.
01.24.09
Stuff
Priceline screwed us over, and we lost over $600. Hate them. Hubby is in a terrible mood over it.
I got my interview date for the residency-thing, March 10th. It’s during the Spring break, so I won’t have to miss any classes, which is nice.
We are watching Nationals on TV, and Galina are coming over tomorrow to watch some of it. I’ve told her to show up at 3, which means she will show up at 4, which is when food will be ready and skating starts…..
We went shopping today and I got two shirts, D got a pyjamas and hubby needed a new suit.
There are mainly High School kids in my communication class, we are only like 4 adults in the class. The dynamics were… interesting… Way to many of my perceived stereotypes were scarily accurate…. English class seems to be good, but tough.
01.21.09
Incredible…
The state energy office my husband currently is working for is having a huge energy conference in April. So far, they have not booked a single key-speaker for the event. So my husbands boss put him up to looking around, trying to work out what they could do, and who they could book. With a lot of research, my husband found a perfect candidate, and got the permission to pursue it, to try to book them. It is one of the leading energy companies in the WORLD, one of the leaders in new energy technologies and development. Their commercials run constantly on the TV, everyone knows about them.
So after a lot of work, my husband got to talk to the Vice President of the company (OMG, the VP!!!!!!!). They were very interested, and wanted to do it. He had successfully signed one of the biggest energy companies in the world, and most definitely the biggest here in the US. Now, what do you think the energy office’s response were? I mean, I’ll be honest, I was thinking along the lines of a job-offer, a lot more responsibilities, or maybe a big assignment with this upcoming energy conference. Wrong. The director decided that this wasn’t the direction they wanted to go in, and that he didn’t want this company to come. So now my husband has to call the company back, apologize to the VP, and say that they are no longer interested. In essence, his credibility just went out the window.
Now, to add insult to injury, the director pulled my husband off the case, outsourcing it to one of his friends. So, my husband was the only one at the office who’d managed to book ANYONE, and you pull him off the case? Incredible… Hubby is crushed and very disappointed. I mean, I don’t get it. The energy office, holding an energy conference, doesn’t want one of the world’s leading energy companies present? Very odd…. Anyways, I am thoroughly pissed.
01.20.09
Snow
School has been cancelled today. Due to inclement weather. They were talking yesterday about the upcoming snowstorm, and people all over the news were freaking out. You know how much snow we are expecting? 6 inches. Do you know how much that is? 15 centimeters. Oh, yes, I am laughing my ass off here. Schools are closing, people stock up on supplies in case they won’t be able to leave the house…. For 6 inches. I mean seriously! It’s just insane.
I know they are not prepared for this down here. They freak out. Last year, there was no snow at all. I am trilled about the snow, not as much about school closing. I have my first math test next Tuesday, and we haven’t covered all the material yet.
But hey! It’s snowing!
01.18.09
School…
After this semester, I will have 16 credits. So that’s only 110 to go…. Then I am expecting to get 12 credits for free due to already being fluent in Swedish, so that will be 98 credits to go. Sigh….
01.15.09
Moving
If everything goes by the plan, we will be moving in 6 months. Hopefully this internship turns into a full time job for my husband, and then we need to move closer to his job. The problem is that I still will be in school down here. So we decided to “set up camp” half way. Half way to his job, half way to my school. He will have about 40 minutes commute to work every day, and I will have about 55. I’m going to try to get as many of my classes on the same day as possible, so I don’t have to drive as much. We’ll need to get another car, which means that the Ford will be mine. He want to get a truck.
I did some researching on the town we hopefully will move to, and it seems like the prices are a little lower on rent, so maybe we will be able to get a 3 bedroom apartment and have the third as an office/guest bedroom. I’d like that, a room to lock myself in and go uninterrupted, even when D is here. It’s a cute little town, about 50,000 people, and they do have a Super*Walmart, which is good. All is good. Closer to the train station, airport, classic entertainment (40 minutes instead of 1 1/2 hour) and good shopping. Funny enough, it’s the same distance to D’s house, if not slightly closer!
We’ll have to see how hubby’s internship pans out. But I do know they have like 6 vacant positions there, so hopefully they’ll hire him.
01.14.09
First day at work!
Today is my husband’s first day at his internship at the State Energy Office. He woke up really early, since he has to travel by car for an hour and a half to get to work. He looked so handsome in his new suit.
He called during lunch hour. He loves it! He has his own huge office, his own personal computer, a phone line and a secretary! Oh yes, a secretary. I teased him about that one….. Sure, he “shares” her with the person in the office next to him, but still! What normal intern is given a secretary? He’s so excited. I’m so proud of him.
01.11.09
Nanny??….
I forgot to tell you about this thing that happened a while back. D has been going to her Taekwondo place since April, and I’m usually the one to take her. Sometimes it’s both me and my husband, but I definitely take her more. However, I didn’t go with them to sign her up back in the beginning due to my back problems. Now, the instructors are really nice, really great people. I talk to them once in a while when they pass by.
So this one Friday when I was going to pick up D, I was sitting watching, Luke walked in. He’s a nice guy, a couple of years older than me, works as a 5th grade teacher, a super sweet guy. We strike up a conversation once in a while, and this time we did. So we were talking, and suddenly, he started twisting uncomfortably. Very soon he started blushing and finally he got to it. “Well, um, I’m sorry, but I’m… um… Who are you really in all of this?”
It turns out, they had been wondering among themselves (the instructors that is) and had come to the conclusion that I was the NANNY! I mean, I can understand how, D calls me “CC” and hubby isn’t the most cuddly person in public, and they know I’m 21/22, and that hubby is 34/35 (he had to sign papers when we signed her up.). They also know that D travels up 2 hours from her mom’s house, that’s why she is only in classes on the weekend. I pick D up, watch her practice, make sure she eats, pack her bags, fix her hair, but I am not overly affectionate in public, mainly because I know she thinks it’s embarrassing. So I can understand how they could have come to that conclusion.
But still, I thought it was very funny. Hubby and I have had many laughs about it, and it has turned into way too many inside jokes. Poor Luke apologized and apologized when I told him that no, I’m the wife, not the nanny. He’s been avoiding me ever since.
