Today

My day has not been exciting. Nothing spectacular to write about. I am in the mood to write, so write I will do. Really about nothing but things that are mulling through my head.

The hubby has duty so he wont be home until tomorrow. He spends the night on the ship every 6 days. You would think that it would give me a break from cooking dinner and a chance to watch whatever I want on tv. It's not the case tonight. His long deployment is coming with extreme force. I can't be specific on when he leaves. But it doesn't give me and Jackson much time left with him. I am kind of bummed about it. The closer and closer it comes the more I dread it. He will miss so much of Jackson's first year. So it's nights like this that I wish he was home with us instead of on that hunk of metal. But what can ya do right?!

Meanwhile I'm coming home. Hopefully very soon. I'm waiting on the Embassy in Tokyo to send Jackson's passport. They are taking their sweet time with it. This has caused me much turmoil in my heart. I so badly want to be organized at all times. Not knowing when it will come is driving me crazy. I can't buy a plane ticket until it arrives. Patience is what we are working on this week. Today I worked on packing up all of Jackson's things so that I can ship them home. I still have so many things left to do before I can leave the country.

Jackson is pretty clingy today compared to usual. He really just wants to sit on my lap and rock in the chair. He doesn't want to take a nap but is pretty tired. His teeth still haven't come through and are waiting under his gums. I think he's just cranky because his mouth hurts.

I made spaghetti for dinner. Like I always do when Brandon has duty. Spaghetti is my favorite, I could seriously eat it everyday. I usually watch Seinfeld at night. But tonight the Golden Globes are on. We get everything a day after the US does. So I live in the future because I'm a day ahead, but never hear anything that's going on in the world until a day later. It's strange to me that celebrities are wearing fabulous dresses and are dripping with thousands of dollars worth of diamonds when people are losing their jobs left and right. Just an observation I had. I wish I would have watched Seinfeld anyways, there is nothing special about the award show.

I put my back out this week and spent 3 nights sleeping on the living room floor. Fun times. Since there are no chiropractors around here, all they could do was give me pain killers. Brandon has had to do the majority of the household work and took care of Jackson for a few days while I've been out of it. He now has a new appreciation of me. He had no idea how hard I work to keep things going around here. He did a great job, but was so ready to hand the reigns over to me when I was up and about again. Now I'm up to my ears in laundry since he had no idea how to work the Japanese washer and dryer. His help was much appreciated and I'm so blessed to have him.

That's about it for today. Laundry and a cranky baby. I still have a few hours left before bed maybe something exciting will happen. I sure hope all of you are having great days.