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Hello to all of our family and friends!!
I apologize once again for so long an absence (as always lol).
Since Michael came home we have been busy busy. So let me do a
wee bit'o catch up here. Hey! It's March, I can do Irish!! :)
Michael came home earlier than expected! He actually arrived
home a couple of days before Christmas! We were really excited
and it made the whole holiday. That being said we had a really
nice Christmas. In fact we were so happy he was home we forgot
to take any pictures!! We are terrible about that sometimes.
I did post some pictures on the pics page. I do have some more,
but they are on a different camera so I have to wait till I can
get those and will post some more I promise!
We are all doing fine and well. I said we have been busy and we
have. Though not really with things that would be of much
interest for general consumption! So here is a rundown.
Jazz...ah Jazz. We love our quirky daughter
more than anything but alas, she seems a bit lost on the road of
life at the moment. She finally got it in her head that she
wanted to go to art school so she started checking out schools.
Found one that sounded perfect for her in Charleston and was
very excited. Too bad she didn't check the price tag on that
puppy before she fell in love! it would cost her 90k just for
tuition for a B.A. in Fine Arts (only slightly more useless than
my own degree in English lol). 90k??? What was it Princeton Art
School? Sheesh. So no way for that. Now we are back to the plan
of 2 years of community college to get general ed out of the way
more economically, then to the 4 year. We will see. Until then
she is still working a Wendy's, struggling to get more hours and
looking for other employment in the meantime as she is about to
drop off of our benefits next month!! The military still wont
have anything to do with her because of her being underweight.
She is feeling like a lot of doors are closed at the moment so
it makes it tough. We are trying to help her in any way we can.
Meanwhile, her artwork gets better and better. I am having two
things she drew for me framed for my office. She is very
talented, just not very aggressive in goal achievement lol.
Luke. Still happily planted in the Nuclear
Engineering spot and awaiting boot camp. he leaves end of June
it looks like. He is excited and scared! He is happy that after
boot camp he will be in Nuke school for almost two years right
here in S.C. Only an hour or so away from us. I think that makes
him feel much better. He is still in ROTC (as you may see by the
pictures). He recently went to an ROTC ball (in pic place) with
his date Mallory and their friend Austin. I will have some more
of those to post later. They took some on the water. He had a
blast. He also took salsa lessons for a semester (lol )
and was playing tennis but we made him quit as he has a lot on
his plate right now. He is also working at Wendy's because he
was tired of not having spending cash. So all is well on that
front so far!!
Michael is doing fine. Was really glad to be
back from Japan. I do not know why it was such a hard deployment
for us. You would think we would be so used to them by now! I
think as we get older it actually gets harder! But he is back so
all is well!! As the time gets closer for him to get out I think
he is really stressing though as you can imagine. It is still
too far for him to actually do anything (like put in
applications) but near enough to really worry about! He has no
idea what he will do right now. But he will have it all nailed
down when the time comes. That is just how he is. But it is a
bit stressful. Bad timing for getting out eh?? sheesh. Also bad
timing to sell a house!! Our plan was to put the house up for
sale when he got back from Japan. Pfft. Our whole block is for
sale!! Two of the houses are brand new and never been lived in.
We cant compete with that pricing wise so we are in the middle
of doing some fix up/ upgrades in the event we can ever put it
up for sale. We made the 4th room we weren't using into a really
nice office (pics to come). just had carpet installed a couple
days ago, painted it, got a new desk for me and are buying
blinds today. It is looking really nice! Now I don't echo when
I'm talking on the phone with customers lol. As I write this a
contractor is ripping out the craptacular french style doors the
previous owners put in (stupid that it was all wood frame when
it is hit by water all the time). It basically was rotted out
and messed up our Pergo flooring by it. So today we will have a
nice new Slider there :) Fence guys are coming this week. Oh ya,
forgot that Jazz drove through our fence :( so guess who is
paying for that repair? that is right, $400 out of Jazz's
account. You break it , you buy it!! So we are in house project
mode and having fun with it :) I think Michael will be riding
his motorcycle to work here soon as he just noticed the Durango
is a gas hog lol.
Heather. Yup. my turn. (if you are still awake
through the hum drum life of the Weiss's). I am still working
part time. I try and get extra hours when I can, which I usually
do so getting closer to full time. I do like some of the aspects
of working from home as you can imagine. It is weird not to be
around people lol. But I don't have gas cost, no wear and tear
on my vehicle, do not have to buy work clothes, no lunch or
coffee spending, and I get my DirecTV free. We do get bonuses
too so that was a nice surprise and full benefits. I already
used the Dental, very nice. Certainly not my dream job! But I am
working to move up into training or management eventually so
that will be something. Of course since I cant drive anymore
that limits my options. I do like my home office! It is very
nice and cozy. As for my eyes. Several of you sent me emails
asking for an update on that. I don't have much news there. Or
nothing good. I went to the eye specialist who then sent me to a
retinal specialist. They thought I had a hole in my Macula (that
being the center of the retina). They did a bunch of tests and
thought that was causing the gap in my vision in my right eye.
Hence, being sent to the retina specialist because the eye
specialist thought I would need eye surgery. The Retina
specialist isn't as sure. It was a 3 hour appointment. Muy Sucko.
In the end he said BOTH eyes showed macular edema (swelling of
the macula) and put me on a regiment of two different steroid
eye drops 4 times a day for a month. And let me tell you, those
things BURN!! I have had no improvement at all in the gap. He
was saying when I come back if there is no improvement then they
may go to something more aggressive like steroid shots in the
eye (um....no). At this point what they are trying to fix is the
severe gap in my right eye's vision. Even if that were to be
fixed, I still cant drive. But it would help me read. I have a
hard time reading book size print. The tunnel vision , night
blindness, and light halo's ...well there is nothing they can do
about that stuff. So we will see. I had hopes, but as the weeks
go on and no improvement is happening I feel like it is what it
is. Meanwhile Michael is my chauffer and I really hate that.
What can ya do? Go with it lol.
That is about it from here for now. My mom and dad are still
doing well in Montana. We miss them terribly. I still talk to
them all the time. We would love to be closer to them but with
this damn house, I just don't know. We will see! Love all of ya!
Will post some more pics in next few weeks. I have more :)
~ Heather
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