Because I Never Update You On My Life.

After I posted about the disappearance of Butterface, her hotness strolled back into town. Guess she was just gone for a couple of days. Okay, she's technically not a real part of my life per say, but I know you all were wondering. She's back in her spandex finest.

So ... what's up in our lives?

I won't be moving to Tennessee for schooling because the husby was told he was 'fit for duty' which means we'll be staying in the military until at least 2012. Big yay! He does need hearing aids and at some point I will wear him down to getting them. Probably after I show him the teeny tiny one that my brother's boyfriend wears due to hearing loss in one of his ears. I think he is picturing wearing the ones that wrap around your ears. I must say I'm a total fan of those, however, he is not. Killjoy. I hope one day he has feedback so that I can yell at him to turn his aids down. Hahaha. He told me he'll just turn them off so he doesn't have to hear me. How rude.

Louisiana still is still Louisiana. The other night I went to the Dollar General, because that's the thing that you do in this town, and saw that the cashier I was walking to had a 'register is closed' sign up. So, I backtracked and started walking away. She quickly told me she forgot to take the sign down but thanked me for reading it. She followed that with, "Most people don't read that." What else could be said other than, "Well, it is Louisiana." in a circumstance such as that? I didn't let it pass me by.

The husby is tired of eating chili. I don't force it on him, but I do make it every week because I could eat it every day and I do.

Thanksgiving was great. We didn't ninny pick the whole day ... a true feat for us! We were nice and kind and had a great meal, minus the stuffing and gravy. I suck at making gravy and apparently, my idea of a 'wet' stuffing and the husby idea of a wet stuffing were not talked out enough. It came out as mush. Sigh. We can't win them all. I made a turkey breast that I let sit in an apple cider brine overnight, so you can only imagine that my turkey came out fantastic. It did. The husby demolished that bird. All in all, our first official Thanksgiving was a pretty great success.

We recently ventured in to Texas over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. What I'm about to say will shock those that know me best, but we had a really good time in Houston. I've been meaning to make a post of our adventures there ... maybe tomorrow.

I finally put up our Christmas decorations and lights. Since we won't be here for a good chunk of the holiday, I only put the tree up and the garland/wreath for outside. I didn't want to decorate everything only to have to come home and take it down the same day we got home. I may even take the outside stuff down before we leave. I don't want to fall into the tacky category with my neighbors, but keeping your lights up after the 1st of the new year is tacky. Also, our tree will only have lights and a tree topper on it. All the ornaments are balls to Babe and therefore he picks them off the tree and proceeds to "toss" them to Diesel. I thought about buying a baby gate to ward him off, but he likes to lay up under the tree and look at the lights. What kind of mom would I be to take this small joy from him? Not to mention, I'm cheap and we won't need the gate next year.

That's about it. Some other things are a work in progress right now. I'll share details in the future should they pan out, but I'm crossing my fingers extra tight AND hoping AND wishing. Good things will come this new year, I'm certain of it.