Together

Adam has been home now for about a week and it has made such a difference. It is nice not having to do everything all by myself all the time. I have been subbing while Adam is here just because I still need to have income lol! On the 14th we will be heading back east to Virginia and then for my birthday weekend we will be up in Delaware with Adam's family so that he can see them before he leaves on deployment. On a sad note I did hear from a girl last week identifying that she had seen Maggie dead from being hit by a car. She was a wonderful cat and my best friend since I moved down to San Diego, she will be missed terribly...

Navy Craziness

So, the plan has been that Adam would be in training the next two weeks, come home on leave until the twenty something of October, return to Virginia with me and then him leave on deployment early November. Well yesterday he found out that he is in advanced party which means he gets to deploy before the whole command in order to go over and help the transition from one command to the other go smoothly. So what that means for me is that Adam is coming home on Monday! I am so happy that he is coming home even though I have to work four days next week. He will be here probably until the 14th since he has to report to work in Virginia on the 15th. I will hopefully go back to Virginia with him and get to spend my birthday with him since he missed last year due to being in Kuwait. I'm hoping to be back there until he deploys which will be sometime before November. So this meant that I had to tell my parents that they needed to change their flight because they were supposed to come down here for my birthday weekend but now since I won't be here they obviously won't. So anyways, I love the military for their lack of communication and consideration grrrr. It will be nice to have Adam home so soon to help with the doggies, I just feel bad that he won't get to see Maggie again since she is still missing =(

Children, Cat, and Dogs

So, after Adam left I had gotten back into my old routine of not really doing anything until last week. I finally started getting sub jobs for San Diego Unified school district. I determined how to work their system since I am not high on the sub list. I worked Thursday and Friday last week which was a learning experience.
Thursday I had Kindergarten for the first time and may I just say that I am not a Kindergarten teacher. There were only 16 of them but it took all my energy to get them focused for just a minute. We had to take bathroom breaks every hour since most of the students are not used to school and we wanted to avoid having accidents. I also found out that they love to play in bathrooms. I discovered the little boys playing and splashing around in the water at the bottom of the urinals (can we say disgusting?) Anyways, I was exhausted by the time I got home and don't really remember much of that night.
Friday was better, I had a third grade class that was totally self sufficient and just knew how to function. Today I also had a third grade class, they weren't as well put together but were still a good group of kids. Tomorrow I have a split day between Kinder and first so we will see how that goes.
So the strange thing about Friday morning was that Maggie was not in her room (the room shut off from the dogs) to get her breakfast. I was a bit worried but figured she just had gone outside already. I felt bad because I had to shut the doggy door off so the dogs wouldn't come into the house while I was gone. I got home and didn't see her but thought it was because the dogs were around. I took the dogs to the park hoping to give Maggie some time to get into the house but once we got back, no Maggie. At this point I got very worried and cried all night about her being missing. The next day I posted on craigslist and put flyers up around the neighborhood. I had some guy call me at 11pm and tell me that he had my cat. I was arranging a place to meet him when he started asking me all these random questions like if I were single. Eventually he confessed that he was just joking with me and called me as a prank and that he didn't have my cat. Of course this sent me into more tears since my heart had soared at the thought of getting her back. What kind of people do things like that? I couldn't believe it. I am still waiting for Maggie to come home but as each day passes I lose a little bit more hope. I hope she is ok, but if she has passed I hope she is in heaven, if there is such a thing for cats...

Alone Again...

It was so nice having Adam home for labor day weekend. It was a nice reminder of what life is like when we're together and a team. I also realized how I hadn't really laughed since he was gone. It was nice being able to joke around, smile, and just enjoy being in love. We spent time running errands and of course time with the pets. We took the two dogs to the dark park as well as the beach. Buster fell in love with Adam and wanted to jump in his lap the first night he was home. Adam of course spoiled me by buying me new running shoes, taking me on a trip to the commissary and taking me out for a really nice dinner downtown. Monday night his flight left around 9:30 and it was awful going to the airport. It was hard not to cry and a few tears snuck out. I just wonder if it ever gets any easier to say goodbye. Of course on my way home I cried and cried wishing that he were still here with me. It was so nice to see Adam, but it was such a tease and I wish he could just stay here with me all the time. It only took me a few days to get back into a routine of Adam being around. I've been working a lot with Buster since he seems to like to play tug with the lease when I try to walk him. Hopefully I'll get some sub jobs soon so I'll get out of the house. Adam should be back in about a month for a couple weeks so I'm counting down the days already....