The goodish, the badful, and the ugliest

 

     ” Today was a mixture of the good, the bad, and the ugly. ”

 So, this morning started out okay. 

 Getting little A up for school was a  cinch, since she got about eleventy hundred hours of sleep. 

 She somehow managed to have a meltdown of epic proportions last night, with the catalyst being her sister of course.  Or maybe it was her PMS already starting, who the heck knows. 

 All I know is I would trade 20 teenage boys for these 2 girls.  At least all I would have to worry about would be finding a lock for the fridge. 

  anyway, little A yes, she got mad, and as you may know, she has some powerful singing lungs.  For some strange reason, going to her room had no affect on her.  she screeched and squalled and was in hysterics for about 15 good minutes.  Make that 15 looooonnnnng minutes. good minutes are something you enjoy.

  I was really concerned about her throat at that point, that she may cause herself bleeding on the surgical site.   after trying to reason with her a 2nd time, she went off again, choosing not to eat dinner, and she fell asleep for hours, until I went up around 11 and got in bed with her and hugged her. 

 ”lets make up”  i told her,  “i love you, let’s start over tommorrow”   and indeed tommorrow (today) it was a different child I saw. 

 calm. 

 obedient.

  finally.  

The good:  At work was chili cook off day! 

 3.00 bought you a taste of every chili there, (18!) 

 plus a whole  bowl full of your favorite one, plus drink, along with crackers, fritos, and anything else you think might go on top of chili.  The annual event is really fun for all of us who work there. 

  Well the bad, here goes, not much except for a very sore throat, for a third day now. 

 No doubt Big A’s virus passed on to me, maybe.  Right now, my eyes are burning and my throat raw. 

 (not the chili, since i didn’t choose a spicy one to eat and I did NOT sample 18 chilis) 

 I can’t call off work tommorrow since I have the boards (groan) again.  Once a month, I must sit still (really hard) and not talk (OMG) and not joke around (futile)   for 3 hours.

  I am what’s known as the board “recorder”  One of the aspects  of my job is getting the facts down on paper basically, and assisting the board members with their job. 

   So today, I went to work sick and tommorrow I already feel worse tonight…or something like that!  crap!  I don’t know what I’m saying, K? 

  In the afternoon, today of course came the horrible news of the shootings I posted about earlier. so yeah,  really really ugly. 

I’m speechless.  I had tears in my eyes for this. 

 This guy was an American born person with a Muslim name, who did not want to deploy to Iraq, and made derogatory remarks about the war.   You just know there’s gonna be some hating going on in an already hateful world. 

   Like I said before this shooter was a pathetic coward.   (special place in hell….as I’m so fond of saying)  so that’s about it. 

crazy day.  Looped into today was a lot of people saying,  “I NEED THIS NOW”  and randomly questioning things that I had no control over.  Proof positive that snowballs roll downhill….or something like that.   

 here’s hoping your night is a peaceful one. 

 

♥SG

Fort Hood shooter gives Army a Huge black eye

        

    And everyone stationed on Military posts on American
Soil will never forget today.  

“ Eleven people plus an attacker were killed and 31 were wounded after a gunman opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday…” photo and news courtesy of:  CNN

CNN plays continuously throughout our facility on post, and as word spread here in Fort Leavenworth, KS ,  I think we were all in some form of pain for those victims and families.

    We empathized.  We immediately felt for those dozens of Soldiers and the feeling was multiplied to the nth degree because this person who wore the uniform,  I won’t even dignify him by calling him a Soldier, he was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.   

The fact that he was angry that he was being deployed to Iraq… just shows he was the world’s worst coward. 

 There are single mothers with infants  who have been deployed to Iraq and have served their country with dignity, and guess what?  They aren’t coming home the same person inside…

 All the speculation by the News media who gave this person the benefit of the doubt, ”oh he was stressed…” la de da…give me a big fat break! 

Doug and I spent the better part of the night rolling our eyes at the T.V.     All evening we heard only one person who made any sense, and that happened to be a veteran who’d been there done that, in Iraq.    

  Listen closely America.  Listen to your warriors cry loud.   They need your support more than ever.  

 Rest in Peace Fellow Soldiers. 

My husband is a Soldier and a medic.  We have such a peaceful post here.  Our families live in peace. But  Soldiers DO train for events such as this.

  Mass Casualty is something NO one wants to think about ever!  But Soldiers train for it, and for that,  we are all grateful. 

      *photo of Doug participating in a Mass Casualty excercise.

     Our hearts are appreciative toward the entire medical community of Fort Hood and surrounding communities who administered first aid to these Soldiers.