I had something unexpected happen...The whole time I was home and not working because of what happened to my tooth, I got paid from my job. I looked at my paycheck and couldn't believe it. Haha!! not telling how much lol. So I talked with my boss and she said she did that so I wouldn't get long term disability. I was happy. We were really worried that we would get so behind with $$.
I don't feel any pain with my tooth, so that is great. I feel so much better. I still am being so careful to not chew on the left side. I am eating more meats and solid type foods now. In the beginning I was a little to worried. I just have to go back and get my crown and then the tooth will be finished.
Tommy has been good. He has been busy working alot as well as me. He has been sponsoring new people on base who will be working with him. This means, he meets them either at the airport and brings them on base or if they have their own transportation, they come on base and Tommy meets them there. Tommy gives them a tour of base and helps them out if they need anything and I when I say anything I mean that. These people are lost, they have no clue where anything is and where to go for work. ( I remember when we came here, Tommy was already here but I was like where is this, where is that??) Tommy has picked up people from the airport, showed them around town and base, and they took Tommy out for breakfast to thank him for all he had done to help them out. We kept their milk in our fridge until they got to their destinated place on base. Things like that we have done. Also, one of our friend's just recently left to go overseas for a year and his wife's lawn needs mowing so Tommy and another friend goes over and mows it. It is a very nice of them to do that. They may not be paid for it but it is Tommy's and other peoples responsibility to help out troops that work with them. It is expected of them to do that type of stuff for the ones that need help.
So online Tommy and I filled out a survey about customer service for ordering something and there was a chance for us to win $25.00 or more so why not, we did it hoping we would win something. We could use extra $$. We did the survey and won $25.00 subscriptions for magazines for a year so basically won $100.00 worth of magazines. Wow, that is crazy. 4 magazines so two for each of us. So that was cool. We will be getting magazines in the mail. Now if that were to be a check than that would be awesome. We are still happy to get free magazines.
Awhile back, we went to the State fair. We went at night, so all there was to see were the concession stands and hear part of the concert and eat food. We saw livestock and everything else was shut down so we didn't see much. It was $1.00 per person the first day and free parking so we did it to save $$. Why not, right?
Awhile back, we went to a car show in town. It wasn't very big but it gave Tommy and his friend a reason to drool on the cars hahah!! They really liked it. We showed up while they were packing everything up but at least they saw the cars.
So Tommy and I were out the door and we saw in our yard a free Kansas City Star newspaper. We were actually going to go buy one to read. Tommy likes the comics and I like to clip coupons so we can save even more $$. If I had known in the past how much we could have saved from using coupons on actual things we use, we would be doing better and less in debt, hahah!! Everyone asks me so where do I get my coupons from and how much do I usually save everytime I shop. Well when I go grocery shopping, I have a pile of coupons that are mainly manufactuer ones. I clip them out of the newspaper, use coupons from my job, and also go to http://www.coupons.com/ and http://www.smartsource.com/ It is so worth the time you put into doing this. I make time in my work schedule and time spent with Tommy and friends. I have heard of printing coupons from your computer and I have been doing that for a long while now. I love it. It all adds up and it makes me feel better that we save on so much. I have to be careful though, just because there is a coupon doesn't mean we will buy the product, we only use coupons on products that we know we will use. We sometimes do long term savings and buy some bulk but it really depends if we can do that or not at the time. Also, we have a system at my job where if a customer buys a certain product within its right size, name, etc, they are elligible to receive $$ back after purchasing it as it comes in a form of a coupon called a register reward. We use those as well when we can and do buy one get one free deals alot. I usually save around $25, $35 or more every couple weeks when I do the grocery shopping and buy other things. It is so awesome. I totally recommend coupon shoppers. Working in retail, it can be frustrating with some customers who are bent out of shape because we denied their .50 or $1.00 coupon and no I am not that bad when it comes to that. Haha!Tommy's ear has been acting up again lately. So it is still the same that it was before he started taking that one medication for the pressure building up. His neck and arm is hurting also. He thinks it is because of his carpel tunnel syndrome. He switched his pillow, hoping that would help and he said it has but not all the way. He says laying down and taking a shower helps also. Please hope that all this clears and he gets to feeling better again.
Tommy started his outprocessing for discharging from the service. He started the paper/computer work. He no longer works on five programs at his job. He was told to just work on one and yay for him. He is much happier with that. It is pointless for them to keep him working the five programs when in a few months he is getting out of the service and they agreed they gave Tommy way too much work to begin with so now he doesn't feel that much overwhelmed. He actually builds the bombs now, which he was suppose to do from the beginning anyway.
We bought this no scratch spray for the furniture. It seems to be working a little bit keeping the cats from scratching things. We are sick of the cats scratching at our furniture and poking holes.
I dyed my hair a light brown color. It came out a lighter brown than I thought but it still looks nice. You can kind of see it in the picture.
Had to reformat my computer because of a stupid hallmark program I installed. It totally wrecked my computer. Couldn't even get to the desktop. So Tommy and I were upset. Thought I would lose all my pics and stuff but luckily only lost programs. Just have to reinstall those and I had all my pics on our camera. Thank goodness for that.
For Labor Day weekend, Tommy and I are both off Sunday and Monday. We had teriyaki chicken from the crock pot along with rice, corn, and yams with brown sugar in them. Yummy yummy. The crock pot meal sounded so good so we wanted to try it. Other than that, been cleaning the house, going through everything, getting rid of stuff, getting ready for a moving sale (we have already two tupperwares full of stuff to sell and still have so much more to go through in the house), crafting, searching online for Christmas ideas (one website I like to visit is called http://www.personalcreations.com/, and preparing for McKenzie's baby shower/family birthday party. We so want to relax one of these days and not think about work or anything. Just chill at home and do hobbies. There is always something that comes up so we can't all the time haha!!
We bought a gate for the kitchen where Duke can be in there and not be able to jump over it or knock it down and bother the cats and Haley. He is still very hyper and pees when he gets too excited and just altogether a pain in the you know what. He gets on our nerves all the time so we are working on keeping him more calm and listening. The gate seems to be working. Tommy had to do some extra stuff to keep the gate in place since it didn't fit properly but it works.
One of these days I want to decorate the house with fall/halloween stuff. I always love decorating. Thanksgiving decorations will be the last to decorate until we get settled in Florida after our move. It is so cool to think that we have two and half months left in this state.
Well I will blog more another time...hope everyone is well.
Glad you are doing well!! Hope you get to decorating soon! I need to do the same.
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