Good Morning Crazies&#33;<br /><br />After three days of blood stains and DH complaining about the smell of the cleaning stuff (not that I blame him - except all he&#39;s done is complain about the stains), I&#39;m tired of trying.   For some reason my &quot;recipe&quot; isn&#39;t getting the one&#39;s in the bedroom.  Will keep trying for another day.  He&#39;s at work on the last leg of his double.  There was an internet brand I used to get of spot treatment that did get out anything.  I may just have to get that again.  It did more biological cleaning for pets.  <br /><br />Well must go do laundry today which isn&#39;t so bad.  Yeah... I should be in church.  Steve goes more frequently than I.   We can go on Saturday but I&#39;m just terrible about remembering.   I didn&#39;t even want to go on Easter but I did.  Won&#39;t know if that counts for anything until I get <i>&quot;there&quot; or :::er:::  &quot;not&quot;</i>.....  Our renter, Gary goes every week although not our specific denomination but also Christian so I let him go for the both of us.  Not an excuse either but I&#39;m really glad we can help him out with housing.    Enough religion talk from me....  was going to say something about Ed&#39;s &quot;Russian&quot; olive tree but chose not too.  HAHAHAHA  Shaunna will be good today.<br /><br />Trying to get back to cruise planning.  Wish I was celebrating our 25 year anniversary with an European cruise <i>like some people around here</i> but instead we got the Mexico special.....  the irony.  hahaha  Well with Steve&#39;s job he should be a Sargent by the time 35 years rolls around so it had better be someplace special then.  Hey..we can do someplace special when 30 rolls around too, huh.  I&#39;ll quit my complaining.... at least we still get to go right?  hehe   They keep pushing him to promote but he doesn&#39;t want to too fast because no overtime or fire camp for Sargent or above. With some 17 years left to go (or more because he says he wants to work til 75) he wants the OT for at least 1/2 of the total time.  It kind of sucks that he didn&#39;t figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up until three years ago but then again I&#39;m grateful he finally did.  Plus we have the retirement of his prior job of nearly 20 years union grocery.  <br /><br />It&#39;s very odd that we are driving to this cruise instead of flying.  Last three trips anywhere was always Southwest to somewhere.  Haven&#39;t taken a road trip since the kids were with us.  Will be a little bittersweet especially going to San Diego which has lots of memories for us.  Visiting some old haunts and then skipping some intentionally.  Sooo...means all new music.  I always choreograph the music for the entire trip.  No Madonna any where this time.  hahaha  It&#39;s usually 80 percent country and then 80&#39;s mixed in the rest.  Now more 70% country and rock with a pinch of 80&#39;s mixed in.  Some Rob Thomas and Matchbox Twenty as well.  That is now all done.  Woo Hoo&#33;&#33;&#33;  Gee and no yelling at the kids this time.  We can be FREE&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;  May even hang my feet out the window...er... NOT.  <br /><br />We&#39;re happy.... in an I&#39;m unemployed kind of way.  It seems 1/2 of the spouses of Steve&#39;s work buddies are now unemployed so his spirits are better because he knows it wasn&#39;t my fault and they have kind of little support system going on with each other.  That is helping big time with this.  Well...must get my butt in gear.  Sending out a big hello to everyone today and thanks for listening to my rants, vents, or whatever you want to call them.  Everyone enjoy their Sunday.<br /><br />BBL<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />