And Life Continues in the Small Southern Town of Columbus

Alas, it is time for another blog post. Lots of updates!

My kitten and our puppy (yes, I did that on purpose) are growing everyday! It's rather sad, Jack is almost too big to pick up! He is such a great little dog, very loyal and mostly well behaved. The cat, not so much, he has discovered the awesomeness of the countertops. And the garbage. And the refrigerator. He finds himself being shut up in his room many times during the day. He cries lots, but he needs to learn not to eat my dinner. Or drink my coffee. DON'T drink my coffee, cat! But this brings plenty of fun times with the squirt bottle, so it could be worse. At least I'm getting some fun out of it.

My job starts next week! PetSmart is not the most exciting of places to work, but hey, it will keep me very busy. And I won't mind the extra cash, my wardrobe is severely lacking in decent clothes. I'm excited to meet new people. I already know one of the girls that will be working, she's an Air Force wife! It will be nice knowing someone who will know exactly what I'm going through. Nothing compares to being a student pilot's wife. Nothing. My husband is stuck in his flight room 12 hours every day. He has a quiz everyday that he needs to get a hundred on and he pulls up to 5 G's on his daily flights. Then when he comes home, he studies before he goes to bed. I basically eat dinner with him and that's it. I can't wait for the student pilot phase to be over. At least then when he comes home from work he won't need to put 4 hours into studying until bedtime.

My projects have been keeping me busy, too. I have one Seahawks pillow finished knitting, now I just need to stitch it together. The second one is taking me longer and I might even have to take some of it apart since the cat has yanked some of the yarn out. So annoying. I still need to work on making the cat a cardboard box fort, maybe I can work on that this weekend. It's going to be difficult though with a puppy under foot, since Jack always needs to be in the same room as me.

What else should I write about... OH! Matt finally hit the flight line last week. Unfortunately, he got sick his first and second flights, so they had to put him on air sick pills for three days. It's very common for the student pilots to get sick their first flights, so this is no reason to worry. However, if once off the sick pills the airsickness comes back, then they have to spin it out of you. You don't want to know what that means. We'll find out on Monday if the air sick pills worked for Matt, he's been fine his last three flights.

Puppy is teething! He has lost two teeth so far. One of them he lost while playing with his friend Kaida, a Siberian Husky puppy (he left blood all over her snout, lol, and no, it wasn't because he bit her), and the other he lost while playing with a milk carton. Poor little guy, he always needs to be chewing on something. I bought him some new nylabones and some dentastix to chew on, but instead of chewing on the dentastix he just eats it. Oh well, I'm going to try Greenies once he's six months old and see how that goes.

I also finally finished the 4th Harry Potter book. I have since lost track of exactly what day I finished it, but I at least have the day I started the first book, so I will know how long the whole series will take me. I like the fourth book, you finally get to see a serious fight behind two of the three of them and you start getting a sense of the love interest between Ron and Hermione. I'll admit, when I first read the books I was really disappointed, I wanted Harry and Hermione to get together. Whatever, I can't have everything in life. The only annoying part about the 4th book is Hermione's obsession with SPEW and house elfs. That little side story line just drives me nuts. Not really sure why.

The 5th book, though, I think is my least favorite. Harry goes all teenage girl PMSing on us, LAME. He also has the hots for Cho Chang, yuck. There's also Dolores Umbridge, mean people just make me angry, even reading about them. I'll struggle through this book, but at least it's an easy read, right? Right.

I can't wait to get out of this place. Thank goodness it's cooling down a little bit! FINALLY. I'm still using the AC in my car in the afternoon, WTF. It's October.

I will have some more blog updates in the next few days!