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So things on the transfer front are looking good still. Scott talked to Captain this morning and he said he would support. We now just wait for the Colonel to give his approval and send us a transfer letter. I can’t see any reason why he would not give his approval so yay!

Emma did a first today…she stepped up on the curb without my help! It seems so insignificant, but we have a lot of curbs here at the apartment and I’m constantly having to be right beside her so she can climb everywhere. Now she can do it by herself. In reality, she probably could have done it for awhile but I always tell her to wait for mommy at the curb. Hopefully she can step down soon!

I need to do lots of cleaning but I really don’t want to. Mom is coming tomorrow after lunch so that will be a good kick in the butt tomorrow morning. I did manage to straighten up at least. Although that doesn’t mean much because she’ll have about 8 hours tomorrow to mess it all up again. Don’t ya hate that? The worst is the high chair. Once you finally get a chance to clean it, it’s time for the next meal!

As for reality shows this week, I’m a bit disappointed that George went before Jasmine but in the big scheme of things I’m just glad Latoya and Fantasia made it through. I am sick and tired of Trish from The Bachelor and am horrified that ABC would let Trish interrupt Jesse and Mandy Jesse’s date next week. I’m going for Jessica all the way. He seems the most comfortable with her. I’m just watched Survivor and am totally psyched that Rob got immunity and I really want him to win but he REALLY has made some enemies along the way. I really don’t see any way he can win. Jenna is headed out next and I really don’t think Rob can take Rupert or Amber to the final two and actually win. I’m watching the finale of Friends. I have to admit that I haven’t been a huge fan. Not that I didn’t like it, but it was never a priority to watch on Thursdays. But I couldn’t miss this one along with the other 85 million expected people to watch this.

I just need to express a little bit of frustration here. My friend is getting married Labor Day weekend. The first “inconvenience” that I got news of is when they planned the wedding an hour and a half away. Ok, I can handle that. One night away might be a good thing. Then later she told me, “Oh, we’re not allowing children at the wedding.” OK, so I can have family watch Emma. They’ll like that. Oh, and I really want all the bridesmaids to stay together. So I can’t sleep with my own husband on our only night away in two years? Oh, and the note from the maid of honor last week: 4 weeks before the wedding we’re giving a bachelorette party and it’s in New Orleans–won’t it be fun?! OK, so now, I have to spend money on a plane ticket for a party only 4 weeks before the wedding. Oh, and let’s not forget I’ll be 7 months pregnant! And guess what news I get today…can you guys be at the wedding on Thursday instead of Friday so we can have a bridesmaids luncheon?? I’m saying no to New Orleans and I’ve already told her we can’t come until Friday because 1-Scott doesn’t have off work and 2-since we can’t bring Emma, I’m not leaving her one more night than I have to. It’s just all too much! I know I signed up for this and I know it happens once in a lifetime but you know, enough is enough. If I were single this would be GREAT! But I’m not. I’m married, I have a child to take care of and am pregnant with another. Oh! And did I mention I now have buy a maternity bridesmaid dress–one I will NEVER wear again. And to top all of this off, our other friend is having her wedding only 7 weeks later at a place 2 hours away when I’ll be 9 months pregnant.

Somebody couldn’t make it through lunch…that’s the first time she’s ever done that.

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I’m exhausted today. Emma and I went to the country fair down the street. I was whooped before we even got in the fair. We had to park in a field 1/2 mile away and I had to push Emma in her stroller through the grass and sand. I was feeling kind of weak to begin with today and after that I was really tired. The fair was really nice though. It had craft booths, food, games for kids, a bandstand, petting zoo (a winner with Emma). It was nice, but it would have been better had I had someone to really share it with. Scott is worked today. So Emma was asleep before we even got out of the parking lot. I wanted to sleep but I called around about houses instead. Looks like the housing magazines are about 2 months behind and most of the houses I inquired about were sold. Scott still hasn’t talked to Fst. Sgt. yet. He has been out the last 4 days. Of course. I’m taking my hunch though and looking at houses here. It does look like there’s plenty to choose from.

Emma tried to say turtle today. It came out te-ta but you could tell she was trying. I give her a few months and she’ll have quite a few words on her list.

My sister is supposed to come down tomorrow. Our church is having “Sunday Fun Day”. I guess another fair type thing. It’s from 4-7 and good thing because it is HOT here. It is only April and it was 93 here today! No wonder I was dying at the fair!

Stolen from <a href=”http://www.cootiehog.com”>cootiehog.com</a>. Almost all of these were read because I was required to thanks to English AP in high school. I might have read even more of them as the titles are very familiar but I can’t seem to remember what it’s about, so I didn’t highlight them.

<b>Beowulf</b>
Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
Agee, James – A Death in the Family
<b>Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice</b>
Baldwin, James – Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot
Bellow, Saul – The Adventures of Augie March
<b>Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Brontë, Emily – Wuthering Heights</b>
Camus, Albert – The Stranger
Cather, Willa – Death Comes for the Archbishop
<b>Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales</b>
Chekhov, Anton – The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
<b>Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness</b>
Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans
<b>Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage </b>
Dante – Inferno
de Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
<b>Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities</b>
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George – The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph – Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Selected Essays
<b>Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying</b>
Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury
Fielding, Henry – Tom Jones
<b>Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby </b>
Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox – The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von – Faust
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
<b>Hardy, Thomas – Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph – Catch 22
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
Homer – The Iliad
Homer – The Odyssey</b>
Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
<b>Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World</b>
Ibsen, Henrik – A Doll’s House
James, Henry – The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis
Kingston, Maxine Hong – The Woman Warrior
<b>Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird</b>
Lewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas – The Magic Mountain
<b>Marquez, Gabriel García – One Hundred Years of Solitude</b>
Melville, Herman – Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
<b>Miller, Arthur – The Crucible</b>
Morrison, Toni – Beloved
O’Connor, Flannery – A Good Man is Hard to Find
O’Neill, Eugene – Long Day’s Journey into Night
Orwell, George – Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris – Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan – Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel – Swann’s Way
Pynchon, Thomas – The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond – Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry – Call It Sleep
<b>Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
Shakespeare, William – Macbeth</b>
Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
<b>Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet</b>
Shaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles – Antigone
<b>Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath </b>
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
<b>Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels</b>
Thackeray, William – Vanity Fair
<b>Thoreau, Henry David – Walden</b>
Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan – Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire – Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. – Slaughterhouse-Five
Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith – The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora – Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
Williams, Tennessee – The Glass Menagerie
Woolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse
Wright, Richard – Native Son

I just got my socks shocked off me. My MIL just sent me a note back after I told her about our lease situation. You have to understand that my MIL abhorred the idea of us moving away and cried on our porch as we packed the truck. She sometimes has been less than supportive of our decisions. This is the note I just got from her…

<i>IT WILL ALL WORK OUT FOR THE BEST, GOD KNOWS YOUR HEART AND HE WILL HONOR YOUR DESIRE,; IF WE JUST FOLLOW HIS LEADERSHIP. NO ONE WNTS YOU GUYS BACK, MORE THAN I DOBUT IT WILL HAPPEN WHEN GOD WANTS IT TO HAPPEN. SO I PUT YOU GUYS FUTURE IN HIS HAND, AND EXCEPT WHATEVER HIS WILL MAY BE. EVEN THOUGH IT SOMETIMES IS HARD TO DO. I LOVE YOU GUYS AND MISS YOU SO MUCH. BUT YOU HAVE BOTH BEEN CLOSER TO EACH OTHER THROUGH THIS MOVE AND THAT IS A GREAT THING. AFTER BEING SEPRARATED FOR ALMOST 6 MONTHS YOU NEEDED THE TIE ALONE AND I CAN SEE ATHAT NOW, EVEN IF I DID NOT WANT IT TO HAPPEN THE FRUITS HAVE BEEN WONDEERFUL SEEING YOU AND SCOTT GROW CLOSER TOGETHER AS A FAMILY, AND HAVE THAT SPECIAL TIME WITH EMMA GRACE, ALSO</i>

I have been struggling with the reason for being down here but if it was solely for her to let go a little and respect our decisions as a couple, then I’m all for it.

Well, here’s my run down

George disappointed me. It was all a mess. I don’t think he even heard the music.
Diana was good, but not great. I sang that song with my middle school’s show choir, so maybe my memories clouded my judgement because the judges seem to like it.
LaToya – great, but I don’t think her best performance?
Jennifer – I really enjoyed her for the first time last night. I thought she let the song carry its own integrity while giving it some umph
John – I also enjoyed him although the judges didn’t
Jasmine – what can I say? the girl has a nice voice, but she’s not going to win this thing
Fantasia – I didn’t get to see it because my husband was begging to see the end of Punk’d (huh?!? He NEVER likes watching MTV)

American Idol rocked last night…except of course when we took a little trip to the Jailhouse. That was a little, er, a lot painful. I think I disagreed with the judges on almost every performance. Here’s my rundown

George – I thought he was good. I mean, it wasn’t his best, but his voice is so sexy!
Fantasia – The best of the night, season, all 3 seasons. That was awesome.
LaToya – Excellent. Gave Fantasia a run for her money.
Diana – I didn’t enjoy at all. I thought she had too many mistakes
Jasmine – Blah
JPL – painful
John – good, but he’s no American Idol. sorry.
Jennifer – You know, she has a great voice, but I could SO see her standing on that cruise boat singing it. I’m surprised Simon didn’t say something about it being karokeish. Plus, I don’t like her attitude. She acts all nice when they say good things and then if she’s in the bottom 3 and thinks she’s going home, all she can do is roll her eyes and look very NOT self-confident.

Bachelor
Ok, so Jenny is the spy. Who know? I thought it was a brunette. I don’t think she was insistent enough about Trish. Can you believe that girl? She was completely insane. I couldn’t believe the words coming out of her mouth. Jesse needs to wake up and hopefully Jenny’s ultimatum next week does the job. I just hate that she has someone’s spot. And for that matter, I think it sucks that Jenny is taking up someone else’s spot. I would be so mad if I had been on the show. And why was everyone gasping when he talked about waking up to a stranger all the time. Hello! I don’t want to further any stereotypes but the guy is a NFL football player, why would that surprise them?? I think so far I like Mandy Jaye. Jessica B. seems good, but maybe a little too young. And the cheerleader girl! Ack! She is a horror to watch. I want to close my ears when I hear her. If there wasn’t the spy going on this year, I think it would be pretty boring so far.

Oh, and the extended entry has a snapshot of Emma at Easter.
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