Goofy Kids

My kids drive me absolutely nuts, but in the next minute they will have me cracking up.

The boy has been driving me nuts all evening. I took them to family day at Bullion Bingo here on post. I enjoy going to bingo about once a week, and I always figure it's something fun I can do with them. They do family day once a month. Every time I've taken both kids with me, I've had to spend the majority of the time there calling the boy down. He's 12...I kinda think he should have outgrown that by this point. But anyway...I was beyond aggravated with him by the time we got home.

I'm sitting here, finally relaxing, and the kids are in their rooms. He had been in and out of the living room a few times. After he left the living room once, I heard him jump in his sister's room and say "BOO!!" This was immediately followed by a squeal from her, resulting in tons of giggles from him. He came back in the living room, doubled over laughing. Of course, I'm already giggling by the time he gets back in here, because this kind of thing brings back memories from my childhood.

My little sister and I shared a room when we were kids. Our room, and our parents' room, were upstairs. There was a little half wall at the top of the stairs that we had to walk by to get to our room. Every night, on the way to bed, I would go up the stairs, hide behind the wall, and jump out and scare my little sister once she got to the top of the stairs. She KNEW I was going to scare her, and would chant on the way up the stairs "don't scare me, don't scare me, don't scare me," but still jumped and squealed when I did. I NEVER got tired of that!

Guess I can't deny that's my boy!

Fingernails on a Chalkboard

That's what I've been hearing here tonight. I swear the hubby is trying to drive me nuts. He's working on one of his guitars and is scraping and shaping, and whatever else. Some of the scraping he's doing is making a noise that makes me cringe as badly as hearing somebody drag their fingernails across a chalkboard. UGH!

Work

So...I share an office with three other women. I have to say, I'm incredibly fortunate. The ladies I work with are wonderful, and incredibly smart. How often is it you get that much estrogen in one room without some sort of drama from time to time? I'll tell ya...not very!

Well, the office we are in used to be a hallway. They converted it to an office to add work space to increase the coding staff at the hospital here. They still need to add to the staff some, but that's beside the point right now.

Since the office used to be a hallway, there are TWO speakers in the ceiling for the intercom system. Those damn things get LOUD, depending on the person who is paging over the system. It's so loud, that we have to pause our conversations in the office, which is really a nuisance when we're asking each other for advice. And heaven forbid we should be on the phone. I was in the middle of a phone conversation today when somebody started paging over the intercom, and had to apologetically ask the person to hold because I couldn't hear what he was telling me.

About three weeks ago, someone from the maintenance department was in our office checking on something else, and I asked him about disabling the intercom in our office. Most offices don't have speakers, so I didn't really see any need for us to have them. He kinda laughed me off...guess he thought I was kidding. A day or two later, our supervisor was in our office talking to us about something. The intercom went off, loudly, and her eyes got big. I asked her that day about putting in a work order to disable it. She sort of hemmed and hawed, and again, laughed me off. I don't know why people think I'm kidding about this crap.

Last week, we had a bit of an impromptu meeting in our office. For some reason, our office tends to be the gathering place when our supervisor wants to get everybody together. Again, the intercom went off, and one of our other coworkers who isn't usually in our office said something about it. I said that I had said something to two different people about it. Right about that time, our supervisor walked in, and I mentioned it to her again. She said "yeah, I need to make a call about that." Ya think?

Today, Maintenance was in our office to see about disabling the speakers. Lesson learned...if we want something done, make the request in front of everybody.

Oh well...at least something good has come of my experience in this hellhole. My coworkers will have one less aggravation to deal with.

The Hubby's Latest Hobby

Since we moved to Kentucky, and are on post in a much smaller space with different rules, we no longer have our garage or the space to work on our motorcycles. When we were in NC, P's passion was motorcycles...either working on the ones he has or working on an old Ironhead he's rebuilding. But since we moved here, he had to put that project in storage. But not one to sit idle, he has taken up a new hobby.

What would that be?

Building guitars. He finds guitar parts or complete guitars that need work on eBay and goes from there. How many guitars does one man need? Apparently there's no answer for that. How many does he have? I've lost count. LOL!! But it keeps him busy which keeps him happy, for the most part, so I don't bitch.

Here's his latest (mostly) completed project...

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