Been a while....

since my last post. Haven't had too much going on besides gaming and family affairs. One thing that has gotton me upset here recently is my daughter's softball league. As you may or may not know, my daughter is 5 and is therefore just getting her feet wet as far as sports go. She has done cheerleading (hated it because she didn't like not being able to run), soccer (loved it) and basketball (again didn't like the time on the bench). This is the first time she was going to do softball and also the first time it was not for our Church through the Upward program. Notice how I said "was", that is right, I have already pulled her out!! Let me explain.

First thing I noticed was that we weren't finding out about the practices until the night before. Why they didn't have a scheduled practice time is beyond me. Next I hear that the couch would have to make his own arrangements as far as WHERE to practice. In other words not at the rec center. Then we got a call this past Wednesday night at 10 saying that she had practice Thursday night at 8. That was the straw that nearly broke the camel's back. My daughter is usually in bed by 8!!! Well, the practice got rained out but the coach called to tell us that they had a pre-season tournament scheduled for Saturday and that they would be playing in 3 games. 3 games, that is wrong for this age group!!!! That means she would be spending ALL DAY at the park doing a sport that she never has done. Also, it means my 3 year old son would be sitting there all day too! That did it. I called the coach on Friday and told him that I was pulling my daughter out because of the piss poor job of planning that was being done. I appologized to him and stated that i knew it was not his fault but the rec centers. I also told him that I was very angry at that fact that the boys league was not having ANY of this problems. No, that is right, all of the boys teams had a practice schedule and a league schedule. I asked for Board members names so I could call them to tell them how unfairly I believe the girls teams are being treated as compared to the boys. The coach directed me to a website that has the phone numbers. The coach also stated that he had been asking for a tee for the girls and has still not received it. AND - that one of the girls teams had a game at 9 at night!!!!! These are 5 and 6 year olds!!! I hated pulling her out, but I wasn't going to subject my girl to a new sport and have her hate it because of some lame ass rec centers mistake!! Oh well, we will try another rec center next year and get her into gymnastics for now.

In other news, has your wife ever told someone you would do something without ever talking to you about it. Pissed you off right?? Well how about this. My father in law got us a shed for our back yard for Christmas. We talked a couple weeks back about trying to get started on it this past weekend. Well with everything going on with softball and the weather wasn't going to be particularly nice (high of 50 with 20 MPH winds) I had told my wife that I think we should wait one more week. She agreed and we made plans to take the kids to the Tennessee Aquarium on Saturday instead. Well, the phone rings about 9 Friday night and I don't think much about it. Walk into the bedroom at around 10 and she proceeds to tell me that her dad had called and he would be over in the morning at 9. WTF???? I was PISSED!! I asked about our other plans and the fact that I specifically told her I didn't want to do it this weekend. She said nothing! I then asked why is she didn't have the balls to tell her dad then why didn't she let me speak to him. She stated that the building needed to be put up anyway. She isn't the one that is going to have to be out there working in that weather!!!! She said that I could call him back and tell him I didn't want to do it to which I said I wasn't going to do that since it was 10 at night and she had already made the plans. Anyway, got the floor put down over floze my ass of in the process!! Should be smooth sailing from here....

Sorry for the rant, just wanted to sound off about some things. You know, why don't women appologize?? I still haven't got an appology from her about doing that...

Anyway, I will try not to be so negative next time.

 

Here are some cool pictures. God's hands are in everything!!

 

 

 

 

Posted by REDAPPLE @ 12:40 pm EDT | Permalink | 5 Comments

Marines and Tampons..

I received this in an e-mail from someone in my family.  Man, never knew there was a use for tampons in the military.

THIS IS A GREAT STORY...

Tampons to the rescue in Iraq!! Don't worry, it's a good story - and worth reading - it's even humorous in parts. It's from the mother of a Marine in Iraq.

My son told me how wonderful the care packages we had sent them were and wanted me to tell everyone thank you. He said that one guy we'll call Marine X, got a girl care package and everyone was giving him a hard time.

My son said, "Marine X got some really nice smelling lotion and everyone really likes it, so every time he goes to sleep they steal it from him." I told my son I wa s really sorry about the mistake, and if he wanted I would send Marine X another package. He told me not to worry about Marine X because every time I send something to him, Marine X thinks it's for him too. He said when my husband and I sent the last care package Marine X came over to his cot picked up the box, started fishing through it, and said, "What'd we get this time?"

My son said they had the most fun with Marine X's package. He said he wasn't sure who we were sending the pack to, but the panties were size 20, and he said one of the guys got on top of the Humvee and jumped off with the panties over his head and yelled, "Look at me, I'm an Airborne Ranger!!!!"

One of the guys attached the panties to an antenna and it blew in the wind like a windsock. He said it entertained them for quite awhile. Then of course, they had the tampons.

When he brought this up my imagination just went running, but he continued.

My son said they had to go on a mission and Marine X wanted the ChapStick and lotion for the trip. He grabbed a bunch of the items from his care package and got in the Humvee. As luck would have it he grabbed the tampons too, and my son said everyone was teasing him about "not forgetting his feminine hygiene products".

He said things went well for a while, then the convoy was ambushed and a Marine was shot. He said the wound was pretty clean, but it was deep. He said they were administering first aid but couldn't get the bleeding to slow down, and someone said, "Hey use Marine X's tampons". My son said they put the tampon in the wound. At this point my son profoundly told me, "Mom did

you know that tampons expand?" "Well, yeah!".

They successfully slowed the bleeding until the guy got better medical attention. When they went to check on him later the surgeon told them, "You guys saved his life". If you hadn't stopped that bleeding he would have bled to death. My son said, "Mom, the tampons sent by the Marine Moms by mistake saved a Marine's life." At this point I asked him, "Well what did you do with the rest of the tampons?" He said, "Oh, we divided them up and we all have them in our flak jackets, and I kept two for our first aid kit".

I am absolutely amazed by the ingenuity of our Marines, and can't believe that something that started out as a mistake then turned into a joke, ended up saving someone's life. My sister said she doesn't believe in mistakes.

She believes God had a plan all along. She believes that female care package was sent to Marine X to save our Marine.

Either way, our efforts have boosted the morale of many Marines, provided much needed items for our troops, AND saved the life of a Marine!

 

Anyway, thought it was interesting.  God bless our Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force, and everyone.

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND KEEP IT SAFE!

Posted by REDAPPLE @ 10:57 am EDT | Permalink | 5 Comments

Just an Update

Well, it has been a while since my last post. It has been rough here lately. My wife's grandfather passed away last weekend. He had been suffering for quite some time from multiple things with the main one being a blood clot in his lungs. My wife's family is real tight knit, and therefore this was very hard on them. But, at the same time they are releaved that he is no longer suffering and in a far better place.

Today I learned that my dad (only 57) had been back in the hospital again. His has had lung problems for a LONG time now. Starting about 9 months ago it really got worse. The doctor told him at the beginning of the year he could not travel anymore due to the fact that every time he did, he ended up in the hospital upon his return. His breething compacity had gone from 35% to 27%. He is on alot of prescriptions and breething treatments. After about 3 months, his compacity was back up to 33%. No one has been able to tell him why any of this is happening now. He has been to specialists in Jacksonville Florida, and also to Vanderbilt University.

He ended up back in the hospital the end of last weekend. Come to find out that now his breething compacity is down to 20%. So they gave him the option to stay in the hospital or go home and have care from home. He picked to go home. So now he has an IV at home and has to take all kinds of medicine to try to get better. Every couple of days a nurse comes by to bring him more medication and to take blood samples to see how much of the drugs are in his blood. Anyway, as many of you know, I missed our family vacation this year to have surgery on my nose (breething problems). It was in Hilton Head, where my dad and stepmom live, and I was able to talk my wife into taking the kids down to see them and go on the vacation even though I was having the surgery. Man, I wish I would have gone now. There is no telling if there will be one next summer or not.

Anyway, just keep my family in your prayers. It seems like gaming is one of the only things to help keep my mind off things.

Posted by REDAPPLE @ 4:13 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

How do I get a picture in here?

I am trying to post a picture in my Blog and can't figure it out.  It is on my computer's desktop.  How do I do it???

Thanks.

Posted by REDAPPLE @ 12:18 pm EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments

Played COD Last Night!!!

Last night was the first time in a couple of months that I put up Crackhounds and played COD2.  A lot of the guys that are on my CH squad are fellow COD players so we decided last night, since the war was close to being over, that we would all go over and play COD.  It was me, Redman, BOOGIE, and Xevias (first time he played with 2O2P people) to start things out.  Man, I really enjoyed that last night.  I didn't realize how much I missed playing COD.  Others joined in the fun as the night went on:  Mixelpix, Tengu, HandyDoctor, DeltaT, Teufal, Louie and Echo.  All I got to say is thanks guys for all the fun last night.  We were all out of practice so it was fun seeing everyone run around and bump into each other .    I am going to try to play some more this weekend.  This just makes me want COD3 more!!!

Posted by REDAPPLE @ 9:17 am EDT | Permalink | 4 Comments