Day Trip to New Orleans!

He had today off, I had today off and then munchkin had school… so we took the opportunity to take a day trip to New Orleans!! Its only about an hour and thirty five min. drive from home, but since we took the vette we made it in probably an hour, Hahaha! It was an awesome day the vette drove perfectly and we had so much fun just the 2 of us walking around the French Quarter. We had Beignets for breakfast at Cafe Beignet on Bourbon St. which were Oooooh Soooo Yummy!!! Then walked Bourbon to Canal to Royal and then St. Peters. We visited Rev. Zombies house of Voodoo and checked out Preservation Hall, where New Awlins Jazz music was born! After the walking around the French Quarter we headed up a few streets to St. Louise Cemetery No. 1 where I was looking to find Marie Laveau’s The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans grave, but no such luck. The cemetery is huge and we also were running out of time before we needed to head back. I’ll see if I can find the GPS coordinates for next time. I would have also loved to take one of Bloody Marys tours but alas there just wasnt enough time. New Orleans is too cool for just a few hours. I cant wait to go back!

I did end up getting a few trinkets from our trip some postcards a voodoo doll and a gris gris bag from Rev. Zombies.

I just love that the hubby and I got the chance to do this together. I had so much fun just being with him. He is awesomest!

Driving in to New Orleans and then looking to find parking thats not gonna cost us $25.00!!! Waaaaay to rip off the tourists! LOL

Everything was decorated in Mardi Gras colors! It was beautiful!

Interesting History.

The famous water meters that people end up stealing and selling to tourists.

Cafe Beignet at Music Park on Bourbon St.

Oooooh so yummy!

My fav. shop so far…

Preservation Hall is amazing!

World famous Rue Royale!!! I loved the art galleries on this street. I found George Rodrigue Blue Dog gallery!!!

Grades, Birthday Package and some SNOW!

So I hold 2nd place in my class for the top grades. Ive scored 100’s on both tests Monday and 100 on my big test Wednesday. So YAY!!

Its moms birthday today, she is 55 and still Rockin! I love her… she means the world to me, just wish I were there to be able to celebrate it with her. It makes me sad because I know she wont be doing anything to celebrate… Dad just doesnt think of these kinds of things, I doubt he even got her a card… but if I were there I would take her out, she deserves it.

I got a package in the mail today from her, on her birthday the woman sends ME a package… Yes she is amazing like that. Its choc full of Valentines Day stuff, mostly for Viv but still… she never ceases to be incredibly awesome.

Its also snowing today, It started about an hour ago and as I drove around I saw a few of the city trucks with workers shoveling SAND onto the roads… YES, SAND!!! I know… no, not salt… but SAND! I guess I have to give them credit for improvising… LOL! I mean it had barely begun to snow but I guess they are just taking precautions. I never think Id see the day it snow on the beach! We are supposed to get more tonight sometime so we shall see. I hope so, the munchkin loves snow, she gets sooo excited about it. The first time she saw it was when we were stationed at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma City, OK but the first time she really remembers it was about 2 years ago when we were stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, GA. I doubt it will be enough to stick on the ground let alone last but its still fun to watch it.

Oh yeah and just in case you wanted to see what I look like as an avatar here it is… enjoy

Who Dat? Believe Dat!

Saints won the Super Bowl and I am happy, Im betting my dad is not so happy! LOL! I did tell him to close his eyes earlier cause hes not gonna wanna see the spanking the Saints are gonna lay down on the Colts. Hes not really a Colts fan he was just staying in his division… We are Steeler fans by nature and well now I think I found my # 2 team! I love the attitude behind the players and how they work hard as a team. Im glad to see them over come their last few years, they deserve it! Its their first with hopefully many more to come. Their fans are die hard just like Steeler fans and I love that too! WHO DAT NATION!! They are like the little brother of the Steelers for me now…

Im waiting to see what this city will look like tomorrow after all the hard parting thats going on tonight. I would love to be a fly on the wall of Bourbon street right about now. Ok no wait, I take that back Id love to be on Bourbon street right about now! LOL!!!

Hot Date

Tonight it was give parents a break, brought to you by the Keesler’s CDC. So him and I decided to take advantage of the break and go on a date… yes, a date… oh how its been so long!!! LOL!!! Its really awesome to just get a way for a bit and remember what life was like before we had the munchkin, I wouldn't trade her for anything in the world but it was a nice trip down memory lane.

We had dinner at hooters because we have missed wings. Lately every time we go out for dinner (once or twice ever 2 weeks) we’ve been wanting to try the local cuisine. We are in one of the best cities to try such delicious delectation’s, but last night we missed our wings so hooters it was! Then we headed over to The Grand in D’Iberville to watch “Spy Next Door”. It was pretty good, your typical Jackie Chan movie and had some pretty funny stunts and acting in it, even Billy Ray Cyrus surprised me with his acting skills! The little girl Laura who’s 4 in the movie reminds me so much of my munchkin. “I wanna be a cyborg!” and “This place doesn’t look like has chicken tenders either!” LOL

All in all it was a good time and I loved going out just me & the hubbers.

Girls Night Out

Tonight was girls night out!! YAY!! I think it was well deserved and in order since Ive been working so hard on school work, I really kinda needed the break. It was nice to just get out and relax with the girls a bit. We went to dinner, just chick-fil-a but it hit the spot, those wraps are so yummy! Then we went to the movies to see Dear John, which I loved and made me ball my little girlie eyes out tear up a bit.

I loved the movie and loved the actors but was slightly disappointed in the ending, I just felt a bit blank, I felt like I needed some closure. Other than that it was a great movie. I mean how could you not love 105 mins of Channing Tatum hottness!! He sure makes that Army uniform look incredible…

The deployment scenes were almost a little too realistic, one in particular where I think just about every military wife, fiance, girlfriend or signification other that was sitting in that theater jumped outta their skins. And other parts were so shocking it left you totally open mouthed.

All in all it was worth the time to take to see and I will probably own it once it comes out on dvd.

A Brain is Required

This week has been my first week of my college nursing class! It has gone really well, its just alot of info to cover over the next 5-6 weeks. We are covering at least 4-5 chapters a day out of the book and working on at least 6 skills. I got an A on my first test and ace’ed my skill lab work. This week and weekend will be spent studying up on Chapters 5-12, skills 6-12, and preparing for 2 exams on Monday morning… I keep saying its alot of work, but it will be worth it… it WILL be worth it! My tiny gremlin has also started pre-pre-school at the Creative Learning Center just up the street from the house, its also on my way to the JD campus which is great for me. She was sorta not real keen on going to this place after her first bad experience of going back to day care on Monday. Apparently she had a really bad day with a very HORRIBLE sitter. I decided to fix that real quick and just sign her up for a regular center instead of having her go to FCC home care. Never again will I put my child in FCC! These people really dont care to ever watch your kids, they just want to make some money and do their normal routine. The munchkin loves going to CLC so far, she takes her little back pack and likes the fact that we call it “school” she gets to spend all day in a real classroom setting and play with kids her own age. She also gets to learn skills that will prepare her for pre-k and kindergarten by learning on the computer and learning to write her name, numbers, shapes and colors. It comes out that its $40.00 more a week but she can also go every day of the week instead of just 2 days a week, and I have the peace of mind that she is ok.

Somewhere in between all that homework, Im going to attempt to have some fun. A friend of mine has invited me to go out for girls night on Friday night! Woohoo! I kinda need it, and he is totally ok with that (in fact I think he’s encouraging it lol) and watching the kiddo. We are going to the movies to see “Dear John”. YAY for girly movies!!!

Saturday is date night with my hubbers, we deserve it after a shitty Monday… and he also needs a break and a chance to relax. Besides Im looking forward to spending some good quality fun time with just him. I Love him! Not real sure what were gonna do yet... but some beer & wings are definitely in order!

Crazy-Doom-Disaster-Kinda-Day.

Today was officially crazy! It was the start of my first day of my college nursing class; which went well, just everything else went to shit. LOL!

It started as soon as we set foot outside our door. He went to go drop her off at her first day of “day care” with her FCC provider and she didnt like the fact that he was dropping her off 3 min till it was her “official” opening time (6:30am). He then proceeds to drive to work, getting about 3 blocks and the vette died on him (while driving it!) He calls me up and asks where I am, which is still at home. I then rush to get out the door to come and rescue him. We then attempt to at least get the vette off the side of the road and into the McDonalds parking lot. We try to jump the vette, but alas no dice. :( So I drive him to work and drop him off and then head off to school myself. Later he calls me and tells me that our insurance company has towed (for free, thank god!) the vette to Midas to have them look over it and see whats wrong with it. Apparently it a ton of stuff that is wrong with the ignition, it was one part that ended up frying alot of other parts and basically what it boils down to is about $800-$1,000 in parts and labor. He gets the vette from Midas to a garage in D’Iberville (the owner knows the man who sold us the vette). He gets done with the car issue, when his supervisor comes in and tells him he has to go to the house ASAP because there is a gas leak! The fire trucks and house management workers were on their way. They went in and opened every window to air out the house, used their gas detection meters and decided it was just the levels on the stove that were causing the leak. So the middle part of the day seemed to go the best. I get done with my class and head over to Gulfport where the only uniform shop in the area has the white, yes thats right… WHITE scrubs I need. As Im driving back and heading to the base to pick up the hubbers, the munchkins provider calls me… and asks when Im going to be picking her up since she has a 4:00pm appointment that she NEVER mentioned to me other my husband! Livid at this point I race to get him from work and then race back to housing to pick up my little one cursing and screaming the whole way…

So in the long and short of it, this was our day. The only thing that made it worth it was having our friends over eating my fantastic chili, my friends awesome cornbread and watching a kick ass episode of Chuck.