Spoiled Cat

Andi called me this morning as she was packing up her car for the trip home. She asked if I could buy JoJo a litter box so she didn’t have to scrub and pack the one she has into her car. She already has stuff for 2 adults and 3 kids and needed the extra room. So this morning I went to PetSmart and picked this up.

I can see that Ms JoJo is going to end up being 1 spoiled kitty cat! While at PetSmart I found my self looking at kitty condos and whatnot. I think I need a second or third job!

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Well… I got a phone call today from Andi’s commanding officer. He told me that they have taken care of the congressional stuff and Andi will still be going to Iraq but she will be on base, unless something comes up. She will not have to wear her body armor unless there is some kind of problem. She is leaving sometime this weekend to bring the kids back to their dad so they will be here for Thanksgiving.

Her commander also told me that Andi was one of his 8 best Medics. Now I’m wearing the proud mama grin from ear to ear. I’m still sad that she’s not getting the surgery that she needs but my fears of her going out on convoys is put to rest. I’m having mixed emotions about all of this. I’m happy they are going to abide by her profile but sad that she’s going to Iraq again.

I’ll also have custody of my grandkitty for the year Andi is gone.. This should be interesting!

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I was watching a show on the Science channel the other day.. or was it last week? Anyway it was about how they sort through tons of trash to get it ready for recycling. Part of the process involves large magnets that pick out any metals in trash. Then there are jets of air that lift any paper and it gets sucked into another area for sorting.

Eventually what’s left gets to a place where the trash has to be hand sorted. That job can be good or bad. Sometimes the workers find some valuables that have been tossed out by their owners. That’s really one job I wouldn’t want to do. It can’t smell very good in that place! yuk!

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I do my part and recycle. I sort the cans, bottles, paper and plastic. After doing all that it gets taken over the recycling center down the street. When I went there to dump my cans I could see that someone evidently belongs to a wine of the month club. There were tons of empty wine bottles in the bin.

A lot of people here don’t recycle. When I take the trash out to the dumpsters I can see cans, bottles and paper in with the trash. It’s not hard and it doesn’t take but a few seconds to recycle. I have one can for trash, one for cans and glass bottles and a paper bag for paper. It’s just so easy to put things where they need to go.

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I’m sitting here waiting on Andi to fill out that form and put it in her printer/scanner and send it back to me. I want to be able to take it to work with me tomorrow to fax back to the Senators office so we can get this thing going.

I had a comment on another post from someone who gave me the will to keep on going. He told me I’m doing the right thing. He wrote:

Hey Mom,

From an Army Warrant - A couple of comments for you which you don’t have to post but I felt you should hear them.

1) Andi sounds like she has her head on straight. Thats a good thing and rare in many Junior enlisted soldiers. You should be proud!
2) Andi’s PA is trying to do the right thing.
3) Andi’s Command is under a tremendous amount of pressure to field “at strength”. I’m not excusing them, there is no excuse but thats whats happening - especially at Compnay level. The BN Commander will be in a shit fiz if this goes Congressional so keep it up.
4) If this goes Congressional, Andi will probably be looking at an MEB after surgery unless they say she is good to go in which case she will deploy after a fair recovery.
5)Make sure Andi copies everything in her medical record about this and sends it to you before she deploys, especially the memorandum stating deployed against surgeons recoomendations. After she gets out, having that in her medical record will be very beneficial in her efforts to get her VA disability, which she will have earned and paperork has a habit of dissappearing from the records of kidsin medical units. Yeah, you work in the TMC so we’ll just do this on the down low.
6) Kepp your chin up and tell Andi to do the same. Its nothin but a thing.

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I’m going to have nice warm feet this winter. I got a pair of Uggs look-a-like boots. They’re called BearPaws and they are so comfortable. The best thing was the price. I got mine for around $50 whereas the Uggs cost a whole lot more than that.

I bought them off of Amazon.com and came by Fed-ex yesterday. I was worried that they wouldn’t be able to find my place (my door still doesn’t have a number on it), but the Fed-ex guy found it.

I got them at the perfect time too. The temperatures are supposed to only be in the 40’s this week! brrrrrrrr!!! I should check out an online trading place and see how their stock is doing.

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Today is a windy, warm, cloudy, misty and basically nasty day out. I had to go to CVS and pick up a prescription refill and I also got some Gold Bond ultimate lotion to try out. I can see a difference with just one use so far.

I also stopped at WaWa and got some smokes and my hazlenut/mocha steamer (16 oz). I think the coffees at WaWa are so much better than coffee you get at coffee franchises and they’re much cheaper too.

Now I’m doing laundry, emptying the dishwasher, cleaning bathrooms, etc.. such a fun day.. don’t you think? *NOT*

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