So BUPERS says that my services are needed until my projected rotation date. I typed up another request for April 2011. By the time it gets through routing it will be April and I'll be in the window to apply.

They had better say yes this time.

Every year, we've been using TurboTax because the California returns are so incredibly puzzling when filing jointly but with one spouse not resident/not domiciled in California. Ick. It would take me hours (over two days, because I would get so frustrated I would toss it all across the table and come back later) to finish ( Read more... )

So today, I put in my paperwork asking for August 31, 2010, to be my last day in the Navy ( Read more... )

Not last year, but the two years prior we gardened in pots. Tomatoes, peppers, leaf lettuces, and basil have been most successful for us. I love fresh rosemary but I suspect that the hubby let it die just so he could use the dead stems as skewers. As if the live stems wouldn't taste even better. Pretty much, a plant has to be edible to survive ( Read more... )

We renamed Sissy to Missy. It suits her better.

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Murcielago was, according to wikipedia, the name of a famous bull. And then a car.... But murciealago means bat, so Mercy has become Murciealago-gato, the Bat-cat!

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Sissy and Mercy get to live with us for the next two weeks--the shelter here does a trial run before they're officially ours. They're great. They hopped into bed with the girlchild the first night and she's been tickled ever since that they like her.