Oops It has been a month
I can't believe I almost went a whole month without blogging. This has been a busy month and I didn't realise it had been so long.
Well, I will try to do catch up as fast as possible but lord knows I can't make long stories short. I can't even make short stories short.
About 3 weeks ago I got home to find a message on the answering machine from James' aunt. She said we needed to call her because James' dad was in the hospitol. James' dad has had his arteries in his legs replaced twice. We have always worried about his health but whenever we ask anything all he says is that he is alive. He has only called us after he has surgury and that was just while we lived in Wisconsin. He would just call to ask us to take out his dog.
Well, this time he had a blood clot in his leg. He was in ICU when she called us because he had to have angioplasty and the meds he was on. Both of James' aunts are nurses so they could help care for him a bit but they work alot too.
James decided that he had to go and see his dad and see what kind of condition he is in. We have always known that one day we will need to move back there to be there for him. He never remarried or even dated. He raised James on his own so they have a differant kind of bond.
James started to get everything ready to leave. He had to bring a guy in from Tucson to run the store here and he worked on my Jeep. There was small everyday stuff he wanted to check since he was going to be gone and I had to drive back and forth to the airport twice.
The drive to Tucson is only an hour and a half but it is just desert between mountain ranges. No businesses and no cell phone signals. The most you see are border patrol mobile station like things. My Jeep was starting to squeek so he wanted to check everything. He noticed I was leaking coolant the day before he had to leave. I needed a new water pump and he didn't have the tools or the time to do it. That is when I started to freak and feel like this trip was going to be horrible for me.
SATURDAY
I went to work at 8am, worked until 2:20 because the next girl was late, and then raced home. James claimed I shouldn't worry about the coolant leak and that he would feel safer if I drove the Jeep instead of his Land Rover. So we all hopped in the Jeep and headed off. First the bank, then gas, and then A&W of course. When leaving this town there is 30 minutes of empty highway before you hit the interstate. There is a truck stop at the interstate with an A&W in it so we have to stop for food everytime we go anywhere out of town. The kids love A&W.
We inhaled our food and then off to the airport. Tucson Airport is small compared to what I am used to but James did not want me driving the extra 2 hours to go to Pheonix like we did when we lived in Oro Valley. James flew out at 6:20 and we drove back home and played video games all night.
TUESDAY
James tells me on Monday that he does not want me driving the Jeep to pick him up without getting the water pump replaced first. So he has made an appointment for me at 8:30am so I can get back before the kids are done with school. I never have to deal with this stuff. Maybe I'm spoilled but I don't do these things. I rarely even get my own gas. James says it is about a 2 hour job and I should call a cab. I figure that is a waste of money for just 2 hours so I bring a book and plan on finding a restaurant to sit in.
Since this is a military town all of the businesses are all crammed together on the one road that comes out of the base. I get to the place to drop off my Jeep and they are packed full of cars and tell me they won't be done until around 1pm. Where am I going to waste time until then? I have no cash for a cab or even their phone number.
So I call James and tell him how upset I am and then start my walking around to waste time. I see a Jack in the Box and decide to have coffee and breakfast. I sit and read while eating my breakfast burrito and drinking my coffee. I look at my watch to find it is only 9:15. I can not waste all this time like this.
So I start to walk figuring I will find an ATM soon and then call a cab. After awhile I find a bank, get money, and decide to walk till I find more coffee so when I call a cab I can sit and wait. I walk for ages and see the Dennys sign and think well maybe I should just go there and sit and just wait there instead of taking a cab home.
I keep walking towards it thinking about if I could sit that long or would I just go insane. I walk and think some more and remember that the sports bar I used to work at is in that same parking lot as Dennys, but is 10am way too early to be seen at a bar. I decide that 10am is way too early but I will anyway.
...After I talked to old coworkers for awhile James called to tell me he went to visit one of the owners of the businesses he ran when we lived there. They met with the other owner and started to talk about things and next thing he knew they told him they just bought a little island in the U.P. of Michigan together and they want to be able to spend summers there with their kids and not have to be around to run the businesses.
They never hired anyone to over see both businesses after he left so they can't ever both leave. They said that since James had said we were seeing if we needed to move back home they wanted to offer him his old job back with the much higher pay he is making now. They said they don't want him touching cars any more they want him just taking care of the businesses and the money. Plus they don't want to deal with salary they want to pay him the equivalant in hourly pay at 50 hours a week.
Right now he is working around 65 hours a week because he doesn't have enough managers and he is salary. He said he would change around the whole business if he did because he has learned alot since he left. They said they didn't care what he did and they would continue to give him free reign like they always did. The catch is that they don't want to wait that long or they will find someone else because they want everything ready for them to go by summer.
So we talk about it on the phone for awhile and realise that we will be needing to move back home soon and this is a great offer. Heartland is a huge company so he never gets too much say and they will always move us to start new stores or fix them. I tell him to go for it. He says this means he has to move in 2 months and we will have to stay behind a month so the kids can finish off the school year and he can find a house. I said, yes I know, this isn't the first time. So, after just moving here Oct 22nd and not even being done unpacking it all...we are moving again.
So I tell him to call the garage and find out how long. It is now 12:30 and they say 30 minutes more, so I decide that maybe I should just walk back. I would feel silly getting a cab for a 5 minute drive. So off I go walking again. After I start walking I realise what a horrible mistake I made. My legs don't move as fast any more.
What a time to discover I am getting old and out of shape. I decided to stop at a 99cent store and get a few things for the girls. Then start walking again as fast as I can since my legs now feel like they are made out of lead. I finally see the garage and my salvation. I pay and go home. My head is killing me and I have 30 minutes to nap before the kids get home at 3:45. I could have just taken a cab home and back but I'm stupid.
SATURDAY
Saturday morning I was woken up at 5:30am to James telling me that the storm he worried about had started early and it didn't look good for his flight out that evening. They told him that he could sit on stand by and try to leave earlier if he was worried so he was driving to Chicago already. I was pissed that he woke me up early because his flight wasn't scheduled to come in till 10:55pm and I still had to go to work, drive to Tucson have dinner at my parents, drive to the airport, and drive back that late.
At work I kept the weather channel on and all it talked about was Milwaukee getting 12 inches. He did Chicago this time because Milwaukee doesn't fly straight to Tucson, it goes to Pheonix. I got done with work and called him to find out that all the flights are leaving on time and they are all full so he is still coming in late. I check all the web sites and everything looks good for his flight so we leave for Tucson.
We are running late so we drive right on past A&W and the kids are heart broken. We quick stop off at Micheal's to get more jewelry making stuff since there is no Micheal's in Sierra Vista and then race to my parents for dinner. James calls to say they are boarding the plane on time and he will text me when they start to taxi.
About 45 minutes later he calls to say they have just been informed that they don't have pilots. The pilots are stuck in a plane that can not unload because all of the gates are full. Over an hour later he calls again to say that they just got pilots but no one is deicing the plane for some reason.
Around another hour later he calls to say they have just been told to get off the plane the airport is closing. They said that they didn't think that they would be unloading the luggage in the morning and that it would probably fly to Tucson and be sitting there waitting for him. He threw a fit and got a hotel voucher because he couldn't even get through to reschedule his flight.
All the calls to the airline were getting dropped. He finally got through to get told that they couldn't fit him on a flight until Tuesday. So we headed back home. As we drove the girls decided they were starving and that we had to stop at A&W even though it was almost midnight. As I turned to get back on the highway I hear oh no that was my rootbeer. A rootbeer went flying out of one of the back cup holders and poured everywhere. We got home at 12:30am and I asked myself if it could get any worse.
Sunday
James called and woke me up before he headed out to buy more luggage and clothes and chargers and food. Stupid snow is costing me alot of money. Then I see Nicole... never ask if life can get worse. Life has a sick sense of humor.
Nicole has pink eye. I being the insane mom that I am have turned the love seat into a quarantine area. Nicole has her own remotes and games and everything she could need. Right next to which is her sanitizer bottle and her clorox disinfecting wipes. She is only allowed to go to the bathroom and back.
Tuesday
It is only a half day of school so the kids get to come with to pick up James. Nicole puts on her pink sunglasses so people don't notice she is still a bit pink. We start driving and I realise that my A/C is blowing out hot air. They must have disconnected something when they changed the water pump. So we drove in a hot car all the way there.
We pick up James and he has the nerve to be rude, and grumpy and say he is tired. I roll down the windows to cool off the car a bit before we hit the interstate. I go to roll them back up and James says to put up Nicole's window. So I push her's again. He sounding rude to me says I told you Nicole's window. I blow up about how I am not a moron and I WAS pushing Nicole's window.
Turns out the window is off track so on top of everything else now my window is messed up. I start thinking more about James being grumpy and saying he is tired. I drove back and forth 3 times, worked all week, took care of the kids, dealt with pink eye, and getting my car fixed. He has the nerve to say HE is tired when the most he did the last 3 days is shop and be stuck in a hotel room?????
As I drive home my mind is going a million miles a minute and I am ready to explode. He taps my hand that is now white clutched onto the wheel and says slow down it is only 55 here. I then realise that I am still going 85. I start to calm down and realise I am over reacting from the stress of the week.
He wants to stop and get movies and groceries for a fun night and then we go home. He tells Nicole she doesn't have to stay on the love seat and looks at me like I'm crazy and then starts the coals so we can grill some steaks and pork chops. We sit down in the livingroom to watch movies and then he sees that there are tv shows on that he likes. I can relax again, life is back to normal. LOL
Wednesday
We are finally up to today....I wake up and decide Nicole is still too pink to go to school and I get the other 2 ready. At 8am I tell them to get there back packs ready to leave for the bus. Autumn comes back from her room and tells me she can't find hers. then comes the realisation that they are still in the back of the Jeep because we went to the airport straight from school.
Well the Jeep is with James at work. So I get shoes on and look for my keys that have a set of Land Rover keys on them and can't find them. I call James, for some reason he put them on the kid's desk and he wants me to bring him some left over pork chops for lunch.
Then we all hop in the Land Rover and head to his work. I tell him I think he needs power stearing fluid or it is just angry that we ignored it for 2 weeks. He says to pop the hood. I say the kids will be late. He says he doesn't want me driving it that way and fills up the fluid. We race off and get to school at 8:35...5 minutes before the bell. How is it that my life is always so crazy?
Well then I go home and here I sit because I missed my laptop (James took it with) I don't like sitting in the bedroom facing a wall for very long. James called a bit ago to ask if I had started going through stuff to pack and throw away. I answered as if I have been busy all day ..."Can I finish all this laundry you brought home first".
So I should probably go do some laundry now. LOL
Well, I will try to do catch up as fast as possible but lord knows I can't make long stories short. I can't even make short stories short.
About 3 weeks ago I got home to find a message on the answering machine from James' aunt. She said we needed to call her because James' dad was in the hospitol. James' dad has had his arteries in his legs replaced twice. We have always worried about his health but whenever we ask anything all he says is that he is alive. He has only called us after he has surgury and that was just while we lived in Wisconsin. He would just call to ask us to take out his dog.
Well, this time he had a blood clot in his leg. He was in ICU when she called us because he had to have angioplasty and the meds he was on. Both of James' aunts are nurses so they could help care for him a bit but they work alot too.
James decided that he had to go and see his dad and see what kind of condition he is in. We have always known that one day we will need to move back there to be there for him. He never remarried or even dated. He raised James on his own so they have a differant kind of bond.
James started to get everything ready to leave. He had to bring a guy in from Tucson to run the store here and he worked on my Jeep. There was small everyday stuff he wanted to check since he was going to be gone and I had to drive back and forth to the airport twice.
The drive to Tucson is only an hour and a half but it is just desert between mountain ranges. No businesses and no cell phone signals. The most you see are border patrol mobile station like things. My Jeep was starting to squeek so he wanted to check everything. He noticed I was leaking coolant the day before he had to leave. I needed a new water pump and he didn't have the tools or the time to do it. That is when I started to freak and feel like this trip was going to be horrible for me.
SATURDAY
I went to work at 8am, worked until 2:20 because the next girl was late, and then raced home. James claimed I shouldn't worry about the coolant leak and that he would feel safer if I drove the Jeep instead of his Land Rover. So we all hopped in the Jeep and headed off. First the bank, then gas, and then A&W of course. When leaving this town there is 30 minutes of empty highway before you hit the interstate. There is a truck stop at the interstate with an A&W in it so we have to stop for food everytime we go anywhere out of town. The kids love A&W.
We inhaled our food and then off to the airport. Tucson Airport is small compared to what I am used to but James did not want me driving the extra 2 hours to go to Pheonix like we did when we lived in Oro Valley. James flew out at 6:20 and we drove back home and played video games all night.
TUESDAY
James tells me on Monday that he does not want me driving the Jeep to pick him up without getting the water pump replaced first. So he has made an appointment for me at 8:30am so I can get back before the kids are done with school. I never have to deal with this stuff. Maybe I'm spoilled but I don't do these things. I rarely even get my own gas. James says it is about a 2 hour job and I should call a cab. I figure that is a waste of money for just 2 hours so I bring a book and plan on finding a restaurant to sit in.
Since this is a military town all of the businesses are all crammed together on the one road that comes out of the base. I get to the place to drop off my Jeep and they are packed full of cars and tell me they won't be done until around 1pm. Where am I going to waste time until then? I have no cash for a cab or even their phone number.
So I call James and tell him how upset I am and then start my walking around to waste time. I see a Jack in the Box and decide to have coffee and breakfast. I sit and read while eating my breakfast burrito and drinking my coffee. I look at my watch to find it is only 9:15. I can not waste all this time like this.
So I start to walk figuring I will find an ATM soon and then call a cab. After awhile I find a bank, get money, and decide to walk till I find more coffee so when I call a cab I can sit and wait. I walk for ages and see the Dennys sign and think well maybe I should just go there and sit and just wait there instead of taking a cab home.
I keep walking towards it thinking about if I could sit that long or would I just go insane. I walk and think some more and remember that the sports bar I used to work at is in that same parking lot as Dennys, but is 10am way too early to be seen at a bar. I decide that 10am is way too early but I will anyway.
...After I talked to old coworkers for awhile James called to tell me he went to visit one of the owners of the businesses he ran when we lived there. They met with the other owner and started to talk about things and next thing he knew they told him they just bought a little island in the U.P. of Michigan together and they want to be able to spend summers there with their kids and not have to be around to run the businesses.
They never hired anyone to over see both businesses after he left so they can't ever both leave. They said that since James had said we were seeing if we needed to move back home they wanted to offer him his old job back with the much higher pay he is making now. They said they don't want him touching cars any more they want him just taking care of the businesses and the money. Plus they don't want to deal with salary they want to pay him the equivalant in hourly pay at 50 hours a week.
Right now he is working around 65 hours a week because he doesn't have enough managers and he is salary. He said he would change around the whole business if he did because he has learned alot since he left. They said they didn't care what he did and they would continue to give him free reign like they always did. The catch is that they don't want to wait that long or they will find someone else because they want everything ready for them to go by summer.
So we talk about it on the phone for awhile and realise that we will be needing to move back home soon and this is a great offer. Heartland is a huge company so he never gets too much say and they will always move us to start new stores or fix them. I tell him to go for it. He says this means he has to move in 2 months and we will have to stay behind a month so the kids can finish off the school year and he can find a house. I said, yes I know, this isn't the first time. So, after just moving here Oct 22nd and not even being done unpacking it all...we are moving again.
So I tell him to call the garage and find out how long. It is now 12:30 and they say 30 minutes more, so I decide that maybe I should just walk back. I would feel silly getting a cab for a 5 minute drive. So off I go walking again. After I start walking I realise what a horrible mistake I made. My legs don't move as fast any more.
What a time to discover I am getting old and out of shape. I decided to stop at a 99cent store and get a few things for the girls. Then start walking again as fast as I can since my legs now feel like they are made out of lead. I finally see the garage and my salvation. I pay and go home. My head is killing me and I have 30 minutes to nap before the kids get home at 3:45. I could have just taken a cab home and back but I'm stupid.
SATURDAY
Saturday morning I was woken up at 5:30am to James telling me that the storm he worried about had started early and it didn't look good for his flight out that evening. They told him that he could sit on stand by and try to leave earlier if he was worried so he was driving to Chicago already. I was pissed that he woke me up early because his flight wasn't scheduled to come in till 10:55pm and I still had to go to work, drive to Tucson have dinner at my parents, drive to the airport, and drive back that late.
At work I kept the weather channel on and all it talked about was Milwaukee getting 12 inches. He did Chicago this time because Milwaukee doesn't fly straight to Tucson, it goes to Pheonix. I got done with work and called him to find out that all the flights are leaving on time and they are all full so he is still coming in late. I check all the web sites and everything looks good for his flight so we leave for Tucson.
We are running late so we drive right on past A&W and the kids are heart broken. We quick stop off at Micheal's to get more jewelry making stuff since there is no Micheal's in Sierra Vista and then race to my parents for dinner. James calls to say they are boarding the plane on time and he will text me when they start to taxi.
About 45 minutes later he calls to say they have just been informed that they don't have pilots. The pilots are stuck in a plane that can not unload because all of the gates are full. Over an hour later he calls again to say that they just got pilots but no one is deicing the plane for some reason.
Around another hour later he calls to say they have just been told to get off the plane the airport is closing. They said that they didn't think that they would be unloading the luggage in the morning and that it would probably fly to Tucson and be sitting there waitting for him. He threw a fit and got a hotel voucher because he couldn't even get through to reschedule his flight.
All the calls to the airline were getting dropped. He finally got through to get told that they couldn't fit him on a flight until Tuesday. So we headed back home. As we drove the girls decided they were starving and that we had to stop at A&W even though it was almost midnight. As I turned to get back on the highway I hear oh no that was my rootbeer. A rootbeer went flying out of one of the back cup holders and poured everywhere. We got home at 12:30am and I asked myself if it could get any worse.
Sunday
James called and woke me up before he headed out to buy more luggage and clothes and chargers and food. Stupid snow is costing me alot of money. Then I see Nicole... never ask if life can get worse. Life has a sick sense of humor.
Nicole has pink eye. I being the insane mom that I am have turned the love seat into a quarantine area. Nicole has her own remotes and games and everything she could need. Right next to which is her sanitizer bottle and her clorox disinfecting wipes. She is only allowed to go to the bathroom and back.
Tuesday
It is only a half day of school so the kids get to come with to pick up James. Nicole puts on her pink sunglasses so people don't notice she is still a bit pink. We start driving and I realise that my A/C is blowing out hot air. They must have disconnected something when they changed the water pump. So we drove in a hot car all the way there.
We pick up James and he has the nerve to be rude, and grumpy and say he is tired. I roll down the windows to cool off the car a bit before we hit the interstate. I go to roll them back up and James says to put up Nicole's window. So I push her's again. He sounding rude to me says I told you Nicole's window. I blow up about how I am not a moron and I WAS pushing Nicole's window.
Turns out the window is off track so on top of everything else now my window is messed up. I start thinking more about James being grumpy and saying he is tired. I drove back and forth 3 times, worked all week, took care of the kids, dealt with pink eye, and getting my car fixed. He has the nerve to say HE is tired when the most he did the last 3 days is shop and be stuck in a hotel room?????
As I drive home my mind is going a million miles a minute and I am ready to explode. He taps my hand that is now white clutched onto the wheel and says slow down it is only 55 here. I then realise that I am still going 85. I start to calm down and realise I am over reacting from the stress of the week.
He wants to stop and get movies and groceries for a fun night and then we go home. He tells Nicole she doesn't have to stay on the love seat and looks at me like I'm crazy and then starts the coals so we can grill some steaks and pork chops. We sit down in the livingroom to watch movies and then he sees that there are tv shows on that he likes. I can relax again, life is back to normal. LOL
Wednesday
We are finally up to today....I wake up and decide Nicole is still too pink to go to school and I get the other 2 ready. At 8am I tell them to get there back packs ready to leave for the bus. Autumn comes back from her room and tells me she can't find hers. then comes the realisation that they are still in the back of the Jeep because we went to the airport straight from school.
Well the Jeep is with James at work. So I get shoes on and look for my keys that have a set of Land Rover keys on them and can't find them. I call James, for some reason he put them on the kid's desk and he wants me to bring him some left over pork chops for lunch.
Then we all hop in the Land Rover and head to his work. I tell him I think he needs power stearing fluid or it is just angry that we ignored it for 2 weeks. He says to pop the hood. I say the kids will be late. He says he doesn't want me driving it that way and fills up the fluid. We race off and get to school at 8:35...5 minutes before the bell. How is it that my life is always so crazy?
Well then I go home and here I sit because I missed my laptop (James took it with) I don't like sitting in the bedroom facing a wall for very long. James called a bit ago to ask if I had started going through stuff to pack and throw away. I answered as if I have been busy all day ..."Can I finish all this laundry you brought home first".
So I should probably go do some laundry now. LOL
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