A's shower

better late than never? or something. These aren't the greatest; sorry.

I can't make anyone's day...

So sorry AC.

Here's the story of the free tickets:
We tried to use them to fly to Amy's wedding, but if we did that, we would have had to fly to Atlanta first to catch the connection. Too much time in the air, so we bought tickets off the lowest airfares we found on yahoo.travel.

I turned in my points for vouchers last week because the only two dates I could fly down to our cruise and back again were NOT listed as blackout dates on the airtran website. When I got my vouchers, I found out I could ONLY turn the vouchers in if I talked to a human at the airtran 800 #. I called a human and found out that the dates I needed to fly were not applicable for the tickets, i.e. I THINK YOU CAN'T USE YOUR VOUCHERS ON A FRIDAY, SUNDAY OR SATURDAY (except Saturday night after 6 p.m.)!!!!!!!!!!!!

(now I can't get the post out of highlight mode, ah well) So then I just used my Airtran member number on the internet and bought the tickets (with old-fashioned money) to fly to the cruise and back and it was $270 cheaper than the lowest airfare I could find on yahoo.travel!!!!!!!!! Wow. I'm definately gonna use that Airtrans A+ membership more often when I need to fly!! It gives you an even cheaper price if you book it on the internet as opposed to talking to a human being.

So back to the OTHER FREE tickets story: We go to leave Friday and the Airline (US AIRWAYS) calls us to tell us that our original flight is delayed and we'll miss our connection, so they put us on a flight an hour later. We show up to the airport and THAT flight is delayed so we'll miss our connecting flight. So they put us on another flight leaving an hour and a half later that flies through a different city. An hour later they ask if there are any travelers on our flight that have "flexible travel plans" and we're like, "eh, we could go back home and sleep and fly out tomorrow 'cause we don't have to be there for the rehearsal, so why don't we try it?" Jim stepped up to the counter and we got two FREE roundtrip tickets anywhere in the continental US or CANADA (I'm thinking Vancover people!!!) for the year. They routed us through a third city that the flight was leaving for right away, so we hopped on that flight while our suitcase rode on after us on the other flight that was full. Our suitcase arrived before us because the connecting flight in the other city arrived before our connecting flight did, so all we had to do was pick up our suitcase that was already waiting for us when we got off at our final destination-four hours later than originally planned! Hey, I can sit and read a novel for four hours in an airport if they're gonna give us free plane tickets!! ;) So all total, Friday night our tickets were changed four times and one of those times we were "bumped!"

So Sunday we get to the airport, everything is fine, we're tired. We fly to a BIG city in Anne and Lee's State, where they announce that our connecting flight to our final destination is FULL and are there two people with flexible travel plans? ????? I step up to the counter (as Jim is off somewhere watching March Madness) and inquire. We'd have to fly back to the BIG CITY in the state we just came from, then catch a connecting flight to our final destination, so we'd get in two hours later and take one extra flight-for TWO MORE FREE TICKETS! We got bumped YET AGAIN and ended up home the same night, just two hours later!

Isn't that amazing? I'm praising God b/c our travel budget is essentially blown already for the 2006 fiscal year (b/c of me and my idea of "hey, let's go on a cruise!" and let's add the MIL and FIL!)(uh, they're paying for their own trip!)

So now we have a grand total of SIX free tickets that we have to use up by March 2007!!! If the future doctors we work for pay for our flights for interviewing (which I'm pretty sure they do) then we'll just have to figure out someway to use them up! I'm wondering if we can pay extra money or else combine the four tickets to equal two tickets to Europe or something? My friends in Germany keep bugging me to come visit. Plus I've always wanted to go visit Jennifer! ;) I'll call and ask the airlines once we sort of know what months our vacations are next year. That'll be in about a month or so.

And ps, I finally found time to go leave comments on the rest of y'alls posts. ;) For the reason why I have time today, go see my other blog a bit later. Sigh. I'm gonna end up neglecting myself to death someyear.

And pss-go look at Em's post on Dan's Blog of their living situation until just recently! Great post em! (http://waasup.blogspot.com/)

Wedding Random shots :)

Make my day someone!

Tell me you used the airtran points for a RT ticket, then got bumped so got a free ticket using the free ticket!

Wedding Photos!

Well?

Genetic defect...

Grandma's car wouldn't start last week. The auto repair shop she usually goes to $$$ couldn't figure out what's wrong with it. So they told her to have it towed $$$ to the dealer for the make of car she owns, so they can hook it up to the computer $$$ . Anyway, after a few days of going crazy without a vehicle, they called her back and said it's because she was trying to use a Wal-Mart copied key instead of the regular one that has a computer chip inside it. I had warned her last summer when I was there, that to get another key she would have to go to the dealer, (they cost like $$$75) and that a copy from any other place would not work. Remember the discussion, EW? Anyway no one listens to me (if they would, I would save them lots of $$$)! Now I know where I get this key gene from!

KEYS! WHY I DON'T WORK IN A PRISON...

OK so last week, I took A by bus to the local middle school for her yearly state achievement tests on Tuesday. When we get back to the house I realize my keys are missing. So I figure I left them on the bus, and waited at the bus stop for all the buses (there's like 12 on the one route, and 12 on the other one we took also). In the hot sun, in the middle of the day. I was FREAKING OUT. I would step up and ask each bus driver if they had seen my keys, then get off the bus and wait for the next one. Finally I decided I would check at the Mikky D's, where I had eaten, as well as the Sally's Store though I distinctly remember having them around my neck after leaving Sally's, and had already called Mikky's and they said they did not have them. Well, sure enough, I had left them at Sally's. I was so relieved.
So this week when I took her in, I was extra careful. So careful, in fact, that I accidentally lifted one of the middle school teacher's keys, and carried them off on the bus while I went to the public library. She was FREAKING OUT of course. But so relieved when I returned them 3 hours later.

I would very much like to kick myself now (in frustration)

If I had only logged into Airtran as an A+ rewards member when I bought the tickets to fly home this weekendI could have saved HALF of the plane ticket cost home this upcoming weekend for Jim and I!!!!!!(as opposed to buying them off yahoo, etc)

But I didn't.

I just found this all rather painfully out (hindsight is 20/20, right?) when I got vouchers, thinking I could fly down to Fl. for a trip on the dates I wanted because they weren't in the blackout dates.

Well, here's a piece of advice for everyone: before you register your vouchers, actually call the number first to see if you can use them in time, unlike what I did. This is all just a lack of sleep, that's what I can blame it on, yeah! ;) Well, that's okay, I'm sure I'll be able to use the vouchers between now and march 20th, 2007! And besides, I just saved a BUNDLE of money on my plane tickets to Fl!! (compared to yahoo travel, my usual place of purchase!) I'm telling ya people, if you can buy online, register under you A+ rewards and do it online-there's a special price if you do it online. It's great! (and when you go to redeem the vouchers, you have to call the 800 #-you can't redeem vouchers online)

Hats off and much thanks to our AMAZING AC!!!! ;) You go girl!!

In Memory......

The one who lives under the protection of the Most High
dwells in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, ";My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust."; He Himself will deliver you from the hunter's net,
from the destructive plague. He will cover you with His feathers;
you will take refuge under His wings.
His faithfulness will be a protective shield. You will not fear the terror of the night,
the arrow that flies by day, the plague that stalks in darkness,
or the pestilence that ravages at noon. Though a thousand fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,
the pestilence will not reach you. You will only see it with your eyes
and witness the punishment of the wicked.

Because you have made the Lord-my refuge,
the Most High-your dwelling place, no harm will come to you;
no plague will come near your tent. For He will give His angels orders concerning you,
to protect you in all your ways. They will support you with their hands
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the young lion and the serpent. Because he is lovingly devoted to Me,
I will deliver him;
I will exalt him because he knows My name. When he calls out to Me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble.
I will rescue him and give him honor. I will satisfy him with a long life
and show him My salvation.

Psalms 91: 1 - 16

Public Service Announcement leading up to March 20th

I was cleaning out our files in the safe when I realized.........

Mom, Grandma, Jim and I are all taken care of......how about the rest of y'all??

Health Care Proxy/Power of Attorney reminders to the whole family. We never know when they might be needed. Best to have it open in the open, discussed and signed ahead of time. Trust me, it really takes a lot of pressure/guilt/stress off of the ones left behind who have to agonize over the decision if it wasn't talked about/signed off before hand.

For those of you in this particular state, here's the link:

http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/hospital/healthcareproxy/intro.htm

Thanks. Thanks more than you'll ever know.

Signed, someone who has to deal on a daily basis with the repercussions of people NOT having done this. It should be right there when you go to vote or sign up for a driver's license. Sigh. I wish this were law. Sigh.

loving y'all, can't wait to see everyone who can make it next weekend!

Now, if only we had some bridal shower pictures to look at. I heard AA had frosting, or was it Salsa? in her hair...

this one's for the teachers

You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

aw yeah, I could ROCK eight grade math. neener, neener ;-)

yesterday, today, tomorrow

Yesterday I had to squish my belly in order to see the scale. I don't know why I bother, I'm pretty sure it's broken, but the fact remains.
Today I found out that babies flying with Airtran must be at least 14 days old. Hmm. I hope that fits in with the other dates we have to abide by...
Tomorrow marks 20 weeks and one day, which makes me half-way there. yay!

Ah, springtime on the Coast

This morning, before D left for his 8:00 a.m. midterm, I got the idea to ride with him to the NCO (navy college office) and walk back, so that I could avoid the gym today. It's a little over a mile and a half, no biggie.
We reached the NCO just before eight, and just as we were getting out of the car, we heard the loudspeaker cough, just like it does all over base every single morning at eight. When the National Anthem began playing, D stopped and looked toward the flag, like everyone else out and about on the base. I kept walking. oops. Luckily, he caught me pretty quickly. After it was over, we said good-bye, and I started off.
About half-way back to our end of the base, I noticed that the dew was almost gone from the grass. I also noticed that the sun was definitely pointed right into my eyes. Makes sense, since I was walking from the Main gate (which points south toward the beach) to East gate (which points east, duh). The third thing that I noticed is that I was beginning to sweat lightly. By the time I got back to our trailer, I was more than ready to stretch out on the cool-yet-scratchy carpet and contemplate breakfast.
I turned on the TV, and the weather was just coming on. It's currently 64 degrees, with 75% humidity. Great. It's going to get up to at least 73 today. Wonderful. My cat has decided that it's perfectly appropriate for him to climb onto my chest (with one paw in my neck and another right between my ribs, of course) and lick the sweat from my chin. Supurb. I know the truth; he wants breakfast, and the minute I give it to him, the affection will cease...at least until suppertime.

Spring is definitely here.