Lessons I've Learned

in the week we've lived here.

• I have got to figure out how rock a ponytail. It's.....umm.....hot here...and my hair is......ummmmm sweat-tay.
• I like, like having these everywhere

• Their beauty distracts from my sweaty, nasty, funkay ole head
• I spend a lot of time in this recently missing my friends.

• Wait.....let me get my bootie out of it so you can see how cute it is. {The chair that is.....not my bootie. I had four kids in five years.....there ain't nuttin cute bout the bootie.....let me assure you of that.} 

• There. That's better. Isn't it cute? It was a going away present from my buds Lanette & Kristen.
• I heart them. They are sweet, sweet people....even though Lanette doesn't drink coffee....which is typically a pre-requisite for friendship with me...I still like her....despite that glaring fault.
• When you wear sunglasses sans sunscreen all the live long day you will burn every part of your face except your eyeballs and surrounding sockets. 

• This will make you look funny.
• Add funny face to your sweaty hair....and the result is not good. Trust. Me.
• The boys have done more free activities on this base in the last week than they have done in the last 2 months. 
• When you find yourself discouraged by your lack of trailer backing up abilities near midnight, don't be discouraged. This 

may just be waiting for you when you check in from your dear friend Alisa. (Whose I-800A btw is also at USC1S with ours vying for attention. They are paper chasing for their sweet new baby!)

• Because being given a basket full of yumminess {hello giant tub of cheeseballs!}by the lodging clerk will definitely take the edge off of your marathon day of moving and make you feel less like an idiot b/c of the trailer incident not so alone in a new state.
• My hair does not like it here. 
• I am considering getting rid of all summer clothes sans the swim trunks as these kids are submerged in water near 89% of the day and surely pajama bottoms can account for the remaining 11%. 
• Ha. I just did math. 
• I.Just.Did.Math.On.My.Blog. 
• I don't like math.
• I skipped 6th grade in school and I was supposed to do some math work that previous summer, but I did not. And no one cared. So I didn't. Thus when I showed up to 7th grade right out of 5th I was....well.....lost....which was.....well.....not good.
• Thus math and I are not on good speaking terms.
• It trys to thwart me.....I use a calculator and ignore it. 
• That basically sums up our relationship.
• Ha! SUMS up! I crack myself up.
• Did I mention my hair does not like it here?
• Mmmmkay. good. Just checkin.

So that my friends is a comprehensive list of what I have learned Week 1.
Hold your breath for week 2. Maybe I'll find a ponytail holder by then and learn the proper use of sunscreen.