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So its been a while… well I had to finish up the site for husband’s unit (that was a real thrill let me tell you) and I had frg stuff, we had to get ready for his deployment, I had to finish his scarf and then of course I spent like three days cooking for thanksgiving. I suppose I’ll label the sections and then people can skip around the parts that don’t interest them.

Thanksgiving:  So I spent three days, yes you read that right, three days cooking for a dinner for two. We had turkey (brined and air dryed), stuffing (made the bread for it myself, mashed taters with carmelized onions, corn pudding, green beans, dinner rolls (made from scratch), homemade apple sauce (had a bunch left from the apple crisp), pumpkin pie, apple crisp, and chocolate mint pudding pie. I tried a new stuffing recipe and like my old recipe better. The bread I made it from was fantastic though. The corn pudding was good but would have been better if my stupid, expensive, food processor hadn’t broke. Its under warranty and Kitchen Aid is already sending me another one but I had already had one replaced less than two months ago. Now its the only KA appliance I have had issues with. I think I was just running it for too long. The flaw is that the plastic bits heat up and mold together its not the motor at all. The turkey was incredible but wanted more herbs. My mashed were my usual perfection. Even the gravy was as good if not better than what my mom (the gravy mistress) can produce. Now the best part of the meal was the dinner rolls. I am so totally going to make those again. The deserts were good too. I am not really one for dessert. I love to bake but I can take or leave eating it.  So I took some pictures before we dug in. Last time I talked to my inlaws they were joking that next year I’m going to grow my own pumpkins for the pie. Nah I doubt I’ll go that far, canned pumpkin is just fine. I do plan on having a fairly large veggie garden in the spring though. Anyway I took some pictures of the table before we descended on it like wolves. There are also more pictures in the gallery.

The Bread for the stuffing.

  The whole table.

Deployment:  Yes its true he has gone to the sandbox. Its really odd how it feels. I miss him but the utter terror comes and goes depending on active I am. Anyway since I love to show off my gorgeous husband…

  Yes I made that scarf.

I am still in sticker shock over how much deployment cost us out of pocket. I don’t begrudge the money spent really just what the hell do people do who have a ton of kids. Then again not everyone has a husband who is really picky like I do. I really miss him, I knew it would be hard but this is beyond what I had expected. Although for various reasons I’m not really worried yet. I’m going to leave it at that since this is a public sort of thing and I’m rather reserved about what I feel. Its just I keep expecting him to walk through the front door.

What I’ve been doing since he left: Well I’ve made it through 80-90% of my to do list. I’ll have to add items and fast. The busier I am the more I’m not having panic attacks (yes I have had one or two). I’ve been watching season one of angel which is pretty good. I’ve been re-reading harry potter since we saw the movie and I’ve been trying to knit but I am sort of lacking the concentration neccessary for it so far. I was going to spend a good chunk of the week planting bulbs but when I tried to dig the holes the ground was too hard which I am really pissed at myself about I think I’ll take another stab at it today since its supposed to be warmish. I’m also heading off to my first workout today. I need to do it since I am so woefully out of shape and I want to look good when he comes home for leave. 

Leopards *never* change their spots: So sunday was pretty sucky since it was the first day and all. I called a friend of mine and it was just stunning how he never really gets the whole concept of relationships. Now I did date this individual way way way way back. If you’ve read Pride and Prejudice he’s sort of like wickham you know everything amiable and charming on the surface. This is the same person who totally didn’t understand why I would have stayed with Justin if he got injured while deployed. I don’t know that little thing known as a commitment. At anyrate he didn’t understand why I support the war. Which is fine some of my best friends are libtards. But you know its one thing to argue/discuss the facts, its another to trot out the tired Kos conspiracy crap and yet another to not even have that and try and make illogical arguments that New Orleans would have been different if we were not at war. He knew nothing about the process of FEMA and refused to concede that the failures *started* with the local and state administrations. When I tried to tell him he suddenly had to go. I doubt I’ll hear from him for a while if ever again. For a long time before I met Husband that would have upset me. He’s just stunningly selfish. Always has been always will be. I called steve up shortly after and he pointed out that it was yet another person who seemed to lack the ability to respect a difference in opinion. Steve and I have huge long discussions on politics all the time and we do not agree very often but you know what he’s still my friend and we like each other. If I can find it in my cold, shrivelled republican heart to overlook their libtrardness you would think they could extend me the same courtesy.