I'm The Sexy One In The Front

Hello again, so soon! hehe! I just wanted to let everyone know that Paul is done with his schooling. He is still there since he doesn't graduate until Friday, but he is done with all his work. He had a MAJOR project to do that took him about 120-ish hours to complete. All last week I didn't hear from him. He slept about 6-ish hours the whole 120 hours he worked on this project. Yeah, it was *THAT* hard! He went in for his briefing of the project and they told him it wasn't correct and that he had about 30-ish more minutes to work on it. So he worked on it and fixed it and then he helped others with their projects. He said everyone else had like hours left to do on their projects to get them correct. He didn't have to go help anyone, but he did anyway. What a guy, eh?! But he told me that on Sunday he was going to go over to a buddy's house to watch feetsball but that he also wanted to help people with projects. So I told him he had been working his butt off on his own and working his butt off helping others. I told him he deserved a break. So he went to help others for a bit on their projects and then left to go see his buddy one last time before he heads home. 


OOOOH and I didn't even brag about the best part either! He will graduate as Distinguished Honor grad. Meaning, he is #1 in class. Awesome, eh?! I am so proud of him and all his hard work!! 

Class picture. Paul is the 3rd dude from the left in the front row! He emailed me the picture and said, "I'm the sexy one in the front! I love you!" hehe

On Sunday I hung out at home all day until a little after 4:00-ish. My friend, Julie, had surgery on Friday. They removed part of her thyroid since there is a possibility of thyroid cancer. She came home on Saturday but wasn't up for visitors that day. I took her dude and boys dinner on Friday night so I got to talk to Shane for a bit that night about the surgery. He said that she was doing well so that was a relief. 

Jill and I headed over to see Julie on Sunday and we chatted with her for about 30-ish minutes and then we left. I needed to get home to start dinner. Kids had gone bowling with some friends and Holly was at my house and said she was going to head back to her hotel since no one was at the house. I told her I was heading home and then start dinner. So she stayed! I made stroganoff for dinner and it was yummy! I haven't had that in the longest time! Holly had bought some red velvet cake ice cream for dessert and that was super yummy too!! The girls finished it off today! hehe

So Monday I sat around all day long waiting for maintenance that never showed up! UGH! My whole day was a waste! I had called Dawn to see if she could pick kids up and everything after school because I was waiting. She takes to school in the morning and I pick up after school. Thankfully she was willing to do so!! So finally after 5:00 came and went (last time for appointments) I complained to Paul about it. So I decided to write a letter to them about it because when I checked my status online, it said the appointment was canceled! I *NEVER* canceled the appointment! Double ugh! So I wrote our housing office on Facebook and then Jill tweaked it because she is a better writer than I am! The complaint is as follows:

BBC - Normally I would not complain about an issue, purely due to the fact that I felt in the past I have been treated fairly. This time, however, I feel that BBC maintenance here has failed to serve my needs. I have been married to the military for 15 plus years and have lived at 5 different bases in those years, with no issues. The housing managers here, however, by far, are *THE* worst. When it comes to maintenance completing their jobs, or even arriving at their scheduled appointments, BBC receives a failing grade! My appointment that was scheduled for today from 1-5, was never fulfilled. I had to rearrange my day and schedule for someone to pick up my three children from school, for what, just to hope and anxiously await the possibility of an employee of BBC to come to my home and fulfill a job that he/she is hired to do?

 If I am not mistaken, this is one of the perks of living in privatized housing (being able to call in a work orders for the issue to be fixed). Had I been given a courtesy call to notify me of whatever unfortunate mishap that had prevented the service person from fulfilling his/her duties, I would not be typing this now. I also double checked my appointment time online, again, to be certain that I had not mixed up dates and or times. Once I checked the email, the appointment indeed, was for today. I then checked on your website to see the status of my appointment and it said CANCELED. I would greatly appreciate an explanation, as to *WHOM* canceled my appointment and furthermore why I was *NOT* notified of this change, as today has been a complete waste of my time.

With this all being said I would like to add, I *DO* understand that BBC has several homes and housing areas to take care of and that I enjoy the home and housing area I live in. I just feel that I was not taken care of properly and would hope that this is not the way BBC runs their business normally. I truly hope that this is resolved in a timely manner, as I can not make up this Monday. If this work ethic is to continued I will be forced to make ICE complaints with every issue that surfaces. Thank you for your time. 

Today I received a call from maintenance and they said they could come out tomorrow morning between 8-12 to fix my floor or come today just after 3:30. I chose today. I may be "working" tomorrow. My sister, Heather, is a realtor and she is trying to expand her business out here. She asked me to take some pictures of new homes they have listed. So I went today to one housing area and had 8 houses on the list. Out of the 8: 1 was sold, 4 were still "sticks" and 3 were complete. So I took pictures of the 3 houses. I like looking at new homes! So after I took some outside shots, I tried the doors to see if I could get in to take inside pictures. Because they're not all the way finished, the doors were unlocked. So I let myself in and took pictures on the inside. 

She has more listings in another area of town but there are 18 of them on the list. So I am not sure if I am going to go tomorrow to do those or if I am going to work on getting the pictures I took today uploaded online and write up a description of the house. She told me she would pay me to do all this, so that'll be awesome. She wants me to get my realtor's license but I haven't been quite sold on that yet! Having to speak to people I do not know isn't my cup of tea. I tend to come off as snobby because I clam up from being so uncomfortable! So I really am afraid of all that! But going around taking pictures and being a "gopher" is good with me! hehe!

Maintenance showed up about 4:00-ish right when power went out in my neighborhood! UGH! I would have been upset if the dude couldn't do his job because of it! Not at him or housing, but because of the whole thing! You know, when it rains, it pours! hehe! But he was able to fix the floor but not able to heat dry it. So he put my dumbbell weights on it to help hold it down. Glad they're getting some use because I sure haven't been using them lately! Ha!

Shortly after that, I went to Best Buy with Jill. She wanted a new laptop and wanted to go check them out. So I tagged along. She found the one she wanted, paid and then headed to a different Best Buy to pick it up since the one we were at didn't have it in stock. So after we picked it up from there, she took me home.

I called Paul when I got home and after I got girls into bed. He won't have much time at home after he is home from school and before he heads to Afghanistan. He will get one 4-day weekend but will work the rest of the time to get ready to head out. I can't tell y'all when he is scheduled to leave. But I will let you know after he is gone. The kids and I are looking forward to him coming home! He's been gone since mid-June so it's been a LOOOONG time! 

Anyway, I am going to head to bed, but I wanted to share a picture that made me chuckle! I hope y'all have a great night!!