This week was pretty fucking awesome considering I was planning on babysitting and being bored the whole time. I got to Anacortes at 7AM on Monday morning, after getting 4 hours of sleep and leaving my house at FIVE THIRTY in the morning :'(. That day was boring cuz I couldnt move I was so tired. But my grandma called and asked me if I would go out to lunch with her sometime so we could see eachother...akward... I went to bed at 7 30 that night lol and slept until 7 the next morning when Kingstong jumped on me and starting shaking me awake.
That day we went to Washington park and went to the lookout over the ocean and the whole island, and we saw my grandmas house. It was cool. That night Eileen paid me for all of the days..$250!
Wednesday the house keepers were supposed to be coming, so I packed up the kids (hehe) and we went to town at 10AM. We walked up and down the streets and looked in stores and stuff..and I got Caitlins Christmas present :). Then we went to the Library and did NOTHING for an HOUR. but the library there is so amazing. It has elevators and bean bags and 100's of computers and a grand ballroom staircase like in beauty and the beast. wow.It is way better than ghetto kingsgate library with the gay comb over man. After the library we went to the bank to see my aunt, then we went to Daddio's for lunch. Yummm-me pizza!! Then we went to the Anacortes theater and saw "lemony snickitts a series of unfortunate events"...I really cant describe that movie to ya at all. Wierd shit! So after that I went to a special place and bought some of Eileen's bday present. We went back to the house, and found a note on the door saying that the house keeper had something to do that day so she would come back Thursday. I was pissed that we spend all day in town when we could have been home, but whatever.
So Eileen and Mike came home and we had dinner. Mike comes from a family of 10 people. (8 bros+sis's). He doesnt think that people should talk at the dinner table, and they definately shouldnt laugh. We all sit down to eat, and Eileen and I are having seafood lasagne while mike and the kids had spaghetti. Kingston kept slurping his noodles, so Mike got mad and yelled at him. Michaela always tries to get away with doing stuff King gets in trouble for, so she started doing it. I was trying not to laugh because Kingston had slurped so hard that there was some meat sauce stuck on his neck. (yes your maturity level DOES go down when you spend 24 hrs a day with 2 immature kids..) Eileen looked at it and goes "Kingston what happened to your neck?" and Mike goes "Its a MOLE Eileen!" So I picked up a peice of bread and stuffed it in my mouth so they couldnt hear or see me laughing. Then Kingston rubbed it off and ate it. I was just about to be done laughing when my aunt looks at Michaela and goes "good GOD Michaela you are NOT a hoover vacuum!! Stop inhaling your noodles and EAT THEM PROPERLY" I starting CRACKING up right when she said 'hoover' and so Kingston started giggling and Michaela started laughing too. Mike got SO mad and told them to stop laughing IMMEDIATELY or else he would send them to their rooms. I got up from the table and went to refill my water... I sat back down and we restarted a more serious conversation. Kingston said something about how Mike always beats him at pinball and that he cant ever win. Eileen told him that someday he would be able to..and then Kingston said:
"Daddy will be dead by then"
oh my god.
We all just looked down and ate instead of dealing with that comment. Then Eileen tryed turning it around so King had meant it would take so long for him to learn how to beat Mike. :( I wish that is what he had meant.
After dinner, Mike and I watched 'Lost' together and we all sat and talked and stuff..My aunt is getting a life sized cardboard cut out of Mike for when he is gone..like that girl on MTV's obsessed show with her yodi or whatever its called. But he is going to be in full uniform and Eileen is going to take it with her places that Mike would go if he were home (out to dinner, to the mall, in the car...) He is going to be standing in his chair at the dinner table everynight too. It is kind of sad, but its a good idea too I think. The kids need SOMETHING to remember him by for that whole year and plus it will hopefully set an example to other people of how to support our troops.
This morning I cleaned the house, and at 10 AM my grandma came and picked King Michaela and me up. We went to Bellis Fair Mall. :) I loooove shopping. We were there till 4ish, then I got my shit and came home from Eileen and Mike's.
When I got here, Dan and I left and met up with my mom for house shopping. I duno if I wrote in here about how we are buying a house..but yeah. I dont really know what is going on except that my mom said it is going to be happening really soon so I better get prepared. It doesnt seem realistic to me tho, considering we havent even zeroed in on a house because Dan is so god damned picky about how big of a back yard he needs so he can build himself a shed. so we found a house with literally a FOOTBALL feild in the back of it, and I asked why he couldnt built a shed there and he said "because I cant" and I said "ok..where CAN you?" and he goes "not here" and I said "Where CAN you?" and he said "Not here." and I was like "I FUCKING KNOW NOT HERE! WHERE CANNNNNN YOU?" and he said "NOT HERE!"I wanted to hit him over the fucking head with our steel flashlight. He is going to be cripled soon enough, he doesnt need a SHOP. AH! God! Im done ranting for the night.

Tomorrow is Christmas eve!! The next day is..wouldnt you know..CHRISTMAS!

The NEXT day, HERRICK COMES HOME!!!

Hillary