Serious Booty

First, thank you guys for your help in answering my question in the previous post. Your suggestions are really helpful, and Arielle, to answer your question, I am scouting for stuff now and picking up a few small things. I don't want to haul crap all over the country, so I'll wait to buy the big things once we're stationed somewhere. To start, I do already have a couch - a big sectional with two recliners in it and a set of cup holders in between - I can't wait for football again! It does have a sleeper in it also, and yes, it IS a bitch to move. Well, honestly, I wouldn't really know, but I did see it fold out while Joe and Scott [Jessip] tried to carry it during one of our moves. It was hilarious, and apparently very awkward/heavy. That said, Carla, I am so excited to get Alton Brown's book!! I tracked it down in a store but am unwilling to pay the stupid store price, so I will order it online as soon as I know where I'll be in the next couple weeks to have it sent. I am super excited to read it! Thank you for the suggestion. Also, I have a set of 400 TC Egyptian cotton sheets, and they are wonderful. Soon, I'm going to splurge and get 600 or 800 TC I think - one day I'll do 1000. Ooooh yes. Additionally, Susan, we pretty well are going to get a flat screen TV once we're settled. We've been looking at them, and yes, it's just too damn sexy to pass up. Sarah, I really like what you said about not feeling like I have to buy it all at once. I really want to, but it is overwhelming. I have to remember that one, I don't even have a place to live yet, and two, there will be stores or at least the internet wherever we go. It is a lot of fun, though, to check stuff out at Marshall's or Ross (T. J. Maxx equivalents). I go there regularly here. :-)

And yes, 'here' is still Sierra Vista. All of Joe's medical crap has been straightened out with various testing - confirmed no problems - his heart is a-ok. Basically, when resting, he has a lazy sinus node which causes an abnormal EKG; however, when under demand everything works amazingly well. That means there ain't nothin' wrong. However, when the civilian cardiologist submitted his report, there was a snag with the referral and this and that on the part of the Army. Basically, Joe got dropped, verbally abused, and had his dog tags thrown at him as he was told he didn't have the right referral and that none of the medical tests counted for shit. Seriously. The fucking sergeant even told him he wasn't proactive and was basically a dumb ass. When Joe told me this, I was driving through an intersection and immediately began screaming and burst into tears. I flung the sunglasses I was wearing at the dash and pounded the steering wheel. I thank Jebus for keeping us on the road. It's just such a feeling of powerlessness, and for that fucking asshole to say my husband isn't proactive is bullshit. None of Joe's 'superiors' have done anything worthwhile in helping him in this process, and, right or wrong, he's basically had to figure things out on his own. Which he has done. There has been no sitting and waiting for things to happen - Joe HAS been proactive and gone out and gotten what he needs. But. Fuck that. When sergeant drops the ball, shit rolls down hill...and slaps Joe [and me] in the face. So, he's going to try to get everything straightened out tomorrow. The sergeant also screamed that if it isn't figured out by tomorrow, then Joe won't even make the July 18th Airborne training date and will sit at Ft. Huachuca until the end of the month. Super. Thank god we have a Major in the Army on our side who has told us to call anytime. I don't know how people would get through this without a man on the inside. Props to that guy - who I won't name - because I've already bitched enough to get Joe in trouble. I should probably change everyone's names....yeah, I'll consider that...

Monkeys. It's late. I think I'm going to go to bed. Gotta get up and buy some Caphalon cookie sheets on sale at Marshall's. Hell yes. Kisses to you all.