Sad Tuesday

Well, it was a sad day yesterday in Mr and Mrs-ville--the boy child left for Italy. It's always hard to say goodbye, even when you know someone is going to be going somewhere exciting and fun. He wasn't ready to leave, either. Once he gets to Italy I'm sure he'll be fine, but goodbyes always suck. In addition, he had all kinds of trouble with his flights. When he got to Baltimore they told him that he didn't have the right kind of orders to get on the flight to Italy. They had to get in contact with his old base so they could give them the go-ahead. Quite a mess. He ended up leaving about 2 hours earlier than scheduled, too. He was flying on an Air Force plane so I guess they are on their own schedule. He was going from Baltimore to Germany and then to Italy. Originally he should've been in Italy by 10:30 a.m. our time today, but since he left early, he should already be there, I guess. These time change differences are hard to calculate and remember.

Because the boy child has been in the AF since Mr and I were dating seriously, I've had very little time to get to know him better. His trips home have been few and I just generally haven't gotten to know him as well as the other two. With me living in the house this time and him staying here, I've gotten to know him better--even though he slept until afternoon most days! That's the long way of saying I miss him.

I've got some kind of allergic reaction going on today. It started last night at work. I had to work until about 11:30 and I was itching my fool head off--literally. My scalp, legs, back, palms, feet, you name it are itching me to death and the more I scratch, the more little whelps are coming up on my body. I can't figure out what has caused this because I didn't do anything or eat anything differently yesterday than I ever do. I'm about to go to Kroger and get some Benadryl or something. I don't think I can take this all day and it doesn't seem to be letting up. I'm a little afraid of the Benadryl, though. I took it once in college after I'd laid in a tanning bed too long and got sun poisoning. I drove home from my job and didn't remember driving home. Apparently I don't react too well to that drug.

I didn't update you on our Mother's Day extravaganza. The food that my cousin and I made was was surprisingly good. It was fun cooking in the kitchen with her even though she doesn't really cook. She was a lot of help, though, and we got many compliments on our spread. They said we were kind of stupid, though, because we cooked so well that they will want us to continue doing it. My aunt even wants me to attempt Thanksgiving. I'd love to try to do that. Right now I only bring the sweet potato casserole and a dessert. It'd be a hoot to try to make mashed potatoes and let's not even talk about what a scream it would be to cook the turkey. I think I'd rather help than be in total charge of it. She's got about 40+ years of cooking experience on me and Thanksgiving is the Big Kahuna. I need to start with making dinner every night for Mr and build up to that one.

The male child turned in all of the paperwork on his house yesterday...again. Supposedly he is going to close on Thursday. We'll see. I don't think any of us are getting our hopes up--esp. him--since we've been told this crap before. What's going on with him is what I'm afraid will happen with the buyer of my house. They can make you jump through so many hoops that it's ridiculous. Can you believe that he needed original bank statements (which he shredded the first copy, why I don't know but...) so the bank charged him $15 to print out new ones?? What a crock. What happened to customer service? Who ever heard of charging you to get copies of YOUR information? Anyway, he got the stuff they said he needed so we'll wait and see.

One last thing...if you're reading this blog, I'd love it if you left a comment under the comments section. It would be great if you'd leave your first name so I'd know who was commenting. You don't have to join or anything to leave a comment and it would help me to not feel like I was just talking to myself--not that I don't do that a lot already--but it would be nice to have some comments. Pioneer woman had a giveaway the other day and 14,000+ people put comments in her comments section--my goal is 2.