BATHTIME!

It's finally Saturday and it's also the last day of June if I'm correct. I'm just happy for a couple days off. The next 2 weeks will be nice as well since I only have 3 days of work next week and then I have leave the week after. I'm not sure what I will do with myself yet, but at least I won't be at work sitting at my boring desk. Dominik and I might have to go find some trouble somewhere.

Speaking of Lil Dom, he got his 2nd set of shots a couple days ago and ended up with a fever the next day. Daddy did a good job taking care of the little man though. He gave him baby tylenol and I came home from work to find Dominik laying on the couch with shorts, no shirt, and a wet washcloth on his forehead. He didn't seem to mind the wet thing on his head because he just laid there like he was on the beach relaxing. I gave him a warm bath later that night which is where I got his 1st bathtub photo. He even smiled for me despite his 101.3 temperature. Lucky for us, he was back to normal the next day.

Well, guess I will go make some breakfast and then get ready for my haircut appointment. It's time to lose just a bit of this rat's nest. Tonight I have a wedding reception to attend for one of my long time co-workers. It should be fun and I know all of our Iraqi comrades from the east coast were invited so hopefully they made it to town. Also, Saturday is my official "cheat day" as far as the old diet is concerned so I'm hoping for a slice of delicious wedding cake. We'll see if there's any there to eat!

Family Watchdog

I don't know how many of you know about this website, but it's an excellent one. It was developed by John Walsh off America's Most Wanted and lets you know who's living around you. All you do is go to the link, put in your home address, and then a map will come up with a bunch of colored boxes. If you click on a box a picture of a known offender will come up and it will tell you what he/she was convicted up. It targets criminals with offenses against children and rapists for the most part. It's good to know who lives next to you, especially if you have kids. Also, since you get to see a photo of them, you can identify them if you see them around the neighborhood. Oh yeah, this website will also give you there physical address so you know exactly where they're at. I hope some of you find this website helpful. I now know I live down the street from a rapist and a child molestor. www.familywatchdog.us

NAKED BOY

Well, people keep telling me that the parents of Dominik should be in a picture on occasion so here's one my mom took for me last night. Juan was at work so I'll have to sneak a picture of him sometime in the future. Last night my mom came over to see her grandson and she decided to take me to Cracker Barrell for dinner.

It was great as I think I only have rice, pasta and a few chix breasts in the house to eat. Husbands sure are expensive, which is why there aren't any groceries, thus I have cut Juan off from my paycheck. He really likes to spend money on himself and that's about it. I told him we needed to compromise but he didn't like that idea too much because it would take away money from his hockey league fees and other things as well. I just opened my own account and assigned him part of the bills to pay so he now has a $75 a month allowance. I said he could either save it for something expensive he might want or he can blow it every month. I don't care either way. This is good for me because now I can start putting a little bit of money in savings and maybe get some bills paid off instead of going further into debt. What is it with men loving to spend money?? Men are always making jokes about how women love to go shopping and spend money, but I always seem to find men that spend every cent they make because it burns a hole in their pocket. I might like to buy clothes every once in awhile, but my clothes are a lot cheaper than new cars, hockey leage fees and equipment and rock concerts. I feel good about the decision I made and I think it's for the best. I also told Juan he can use his stupid credit card if he wants ( I banned it before) but he has to make the payments on it and if the monthly payment is more than he can afford from his paycheck because he ran the balance up, then he will just be ruining his own credit because I refuse to pay for it.

Enough of that, back to Cracker Barrel.... so we went out to eat and Dominik just started crying all of a sudden. Grandma picked him up and his butt was completely soaked. I took him to the restroom to change his diaper and put a new outfit on him, but I forgot to put one in the bag. His diaper was also totally dry so as it turns out dad had spilled water in his carseat earlier that day and Lil Dom sat in it. Well, he was naked boy in the restaraunt so I probably looked like trailer trash or something in there since he was only wearing socks and a diaper. Dominik didn't seem to mind though because he likes to be naked. Other than that incident, the food was awesome as usual and it was nice seeing mi madre.

In other news, I may be making a trip to Pocatello soon. I have the week of 9 July off and no plans on what to do. I know I need to go visit all my friends and family in Poky, but I'm still debating it as gas is sooo expensive and I'm broke for the time being. The Whittier grandparents still haven't seen him so I will have to see if I can dig up some money somewhere. If not, I guess it might be until Christmas before I make it over that way. Anyhow, guess I better get back to work. So exciting!

WHAT A SWEET GUY!

My little man sure does have a cute smile. Looking at him always cheers me up! Dominik is now setting himself up on his elbows and rolling himself over. He doesn't seem to hate tummy time as much anymore now that he can hold his head up and look around. In other news, I am now a squad leader for a group of soldiers at my medical unit and I will get promoted as soon as Counterdrug gets more money in the budget so they can pay me for it. It will be an extra 400 a month so hopefully I will get promoted soon because I could really use the money. The only bad thing about being a squad leader is I'm now in charge of girl that I competed against for a different Active Guard job. She is always missing in action when there's work to be done, she has a ton of medical problems, and she is 42 lbs overweight and no one seems to care. It looks like I will be in for it. Hopefully she will shape up or I guess she will have to ship out. It just seems like I always get stuck with the problem children somehow. On a different note, tomorrow is officially the 1st day of summer so HAPPY SUMMER EVERYONE! It has been hot here all week and it will continue to be in the 90's for the rest of the week. I wish it would just stay 78 degrees and not ever get any hotter but that's not going to happen of course. Guess that's all my super cool exciting news for now. Laters!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!

Ahhhh!!!! It's finally Friday! Luckily I get the next 3 days off to recover from these long work weeks. The Emmett Cherry Festival is going on this weekend so I will probably check that out and gorge myself on a buttload of fresh cherries. I bet you all wish you could do that with me. Juan wants to go see the Silver Surfer (Fantastic 4) for Father's Day so we plan on doing that and eating some sushi for lunch. That stuff is so addicting I could eat it everyday if I could afford it. If you like fish but haven't tried sushi yet, I highly recommend it. On me and Juan's first date we went to sushi and he had never tried it before, now he wants it all the time. Just so you all know, I'm randomly writing things because I am sitting at work bored to death right now. Only 6 more hours to go. Yippee!! Here is an older picture I found of Little Dom and I like it because the way he looks at that moment reminds me of an old man. I don't know what it is, but I thought it was cute. He was looking at his Great Grandma Timpson at the time and she got quite a few good smiles out of him.

I guess I will do some of my homework while I have time. I'm taking a Sports and Drugs class right now so at least it's somewhat interesting and it gets me one step closer to my degree. I don't know if I will make much money with a Sports Medicine degree on the outside world, but I 'm doing it anyways because I'm not sure I will last many more years in the military with all of this Middle East nonsense going on. I have to admit that I'm now against the war and some new leadership is definitely in order. Besides, there's no way I can leave my little guy to go help people I don't trust. They don't appreciate it anyways, so what's the point. Enough of that, I will write more when I have some cute pics to post or some exciting news for you all.

I FOUND MY FEET!

Only 3 more days of work to go and I FINALLY get a day off. Thank goodness, otherwise I think I would die of boredom. Don't get me wrong, I like my job and it pays decent, but sometimes it's just so slow that watching a snail scoot a mile would be more exciting. Enough about that, Little Dom discovered his feet yesterday. He really seems to enjoy grabbing his own feet and making a go at pulling off his socks.

He also got a taste of rice cereal off a spoon tonight but he didn't quite understand that "spoon thingy" and most of his cereal ended up on his face and his bib. In other news, Juan turned the big 33 on June 6th. Don't let him fool you as he has been telling everyone he is only 30. I think he's in denial and this could be the beginning of a mid-life crisis. haha!! And speaking of his birthday, with birthdays comes birthday cake and I am proud to report I didn't even taste it. His mom, step-dad, sister and bro all came over and brought Pizza Hut and cake so I watched with drool running down my face while they all pigged out and I enjoyed ANOTHER salad. I do love salads though so it's not as bad as I'm making it sound. Someone at work retired during our Annual Training which also means...... a cake! I also resisted that one so I am proud of myself thus far. I think my motivation is the mental picture I have in my head of what I want to look like at the end of this diet insanity. People have said my face definitely looks thinner and I know weight tends to come off there first, then the extremities, and lastly, the stomach. That figures since that's where the baby weight is at so I suppose it will be a little while longer before the tummy gets thinner. Oh, and this is what happens when you let grandma take baby out for the day. Baby comes home wearing a new outfit.

All Work and No Play

It seems like all I've been doing lately is working. I guess that's because that's exactly what has been happening. Annual training really lasts way too long and 3 straight weeks of work with no day off is pretty annoying. Oh well, at least I'm making money and not homeless or something. I'm just sitting here at work right now with nothing much to do so I decided I better do a little blogging since it has been awhile since my last post. There aren't any exciting pics this time though, but I will be sure to add some more cute ones of Little Dom in the near future. Speaking of my little man, he is with grandma for the day getting shown off around the big town of Emmett. Juan has a bit of a break so he can catch up on sleep and go to the gym since he has been slacking on that lately. As for my workouts, I have been doing pretty good and I have been eating healthy. I really want to do weights along with my running, but that will have to wait until AT ends because it's tiring and there's a ton of people on this base so the gym is crowded with annoying men at this time. Next week I plan on running in the morning and doing my lifting during my lunch break. Hopefully I will be back in shape and in my clothes in no time. At least that's what I'm hoping. I have lost 4 lbs so far and it has barely been 2 weeks so hopefully I can keep on going and lose a lot more weight. My goal is 20-25 lbs so we will see how that goes. If anyone would like to leave me a motivation post, I would love it!!!