100 bad days and i have to say, that although the wound of Husband leaving for Afghanistan isn't quite as raw, being without him still stinks. I hate it. Hate every minute of it. It's stressful and awful and I don't ever want to do it again. My hat is off to those of you who do multiple tours apart. I admire you a lot, but I sure don't want to emulate you.
In the lower grades, there is usually a party on the 100th day to celebrate that the kids can count that far. Everyone has to bring in 100 something. I was in charge for both Child 1 and Child 2 and they both made posters that said "100!" in 100 Cheerios. Ours were on poster board, but you can get the idea from this picture.
Husband, for some reason, took over with Child 3 and decided that a poster of Cheerios wasn't good enough so we had to do something more elaborate. (Seriously, Babe! It was 1st grade and it's not like there was a prize for the parents who do the most work.) So instead of the quick and fast and fun Cheerios project, we had to make 100 origami cranes for her project. I hate folding paper cranes. Child 3 didn't fold a single one because they were too hard, so for days, Husband and the other two children and I folded the darn things. I never want to fold another crane for the rest of my life. Thankfully, the children are all too old for such things now and also I am in charge of absolutely everything this year, so easy is the way it's going to be. Volunteer to be a coach for Odyssey of the Mind? No. Lead a Girl Scout troop? Nope. Sew the Halloween costumes? Not going to happen. However, I will cook the entire Thanksgiving dinner from scratch. A girl has got to have some standards.
Apparently, Virginia is not the only crappy state to hate people who serve our country because this woman in North Carolina is having a worse day than me.
She is a veteran and bought a house with her husband in North Carolina. She was sent to Iraq, then came back to NC, then they were sent to Texas, but still paid taxes on the house. Then when they were sent back to NC after Texas, she tried to enroll in UNC, but they don't consider her a resident so she has to pay out of state tuition, which the GI bill won't cover. So thank you, Ms. Perez, for your service and for reminding me that it's not only Virginians who get treated badly by our state. Good luck with school and tell UNC they stink.
In the lower grades, there is usually a party on the 100th day to celebrate that the kids can count that far. Everyone has to bring in 100 something. I was in charge for both Child 1 and Child 2 and they both made posters that said "100!" in 100 Cheerios. Ours were on poster board, but you can get the idea from this picture.
Husband, for some reason, took over with Child 3 and decided that a poster of Cheerios wasn't good enough so we had to do something more elaborate. (Seriously, Babe! It was 1st grade and it's not like there was a prize for the parents who do the most work.) So instead of the quick and fast and fun Cheerios project, we had to make 100 origami cranes for her project. I hate folding paper cranes. Child 3 didn't fold a single one because they were too hard, so for days, Husband and the other two children and I folded the darn things. I never want to fold another crane for the rest of my life. Thankfully, the children are all too old for such things now and also I am in charge of absolutely everything this year, so easy is the way it's going to be. Volunteer to be a coach for Odyssey of the Mind? No. Lead a Girl Scout troop? Nope. Sew the Halloween costumes? Not going to happen. However, I will cook the entire Thanksgiving dinner from scratch. A girl has got to have some standards.
Apparently, Virginia is not the only crappy state to hate people who serve our country because this woman in North Carolina is having a worse day than me.
She is a veteran and bought a house with her husband in North Carolina. She was sent to Iraq, then came back to NC, then they were sent to Texas, but still paid taxes on the house. Then when they were sent back to NC after Texas, she tried to enroll in UNC, but they don't consider her a resident so she has to pay out of state tuition, which the GI bill won't cover. So thank you, Ms. Perez, for your service and for reminding me that it's not only Virginians who get treated badly by our state. Good luck with school and tell UNC they stink.
I agree! UNC sucks!
ReplyDeleteNow, now. Duke is a private school, and she probably couldn't afford to go there either.
ReplyDelete100/365 X 100 = 27.396270% of the way. Still pretty sucky, but better than 99.99999999999999%. I suppose...
ReplyDeletexoxoxo,
Artemis the Maestra of Mathematics
States love you when they want to take your money but tell you to suck it when you need them.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time I was in the Army and paid state taxes to CA while I lived in NC. I got out of the Army (in NC) and was told that I was entitled to unemployment benefits while I transitioned into the civilian world and found a job.
So I went to the great state of CA, who was happy to take my money for many years, but told me that I since I didn't actually LIVE there they could not help me.
So I went to the great state of NC, where I lived, but they wouldn't help me b/c I didn't have a driver's license there. But I had tried once to get a license there and they told me that my expired CA one was good enough b/c when you are in the military it's OK to have an expired license from your home of record state.
So I moved to the great state of CO to be with my husband and I asked them if they would give me unemployment benefits. They said I would need a CO driver's license. So I said "OK, please give me a license." And the DMV said "Sorry but we can't do that b/c you let your CA license expire." I then proceeded to break into tears in the DMV and some nice old man took pity on me and told me this big secret where if you had separated from the military in the past 30 days you could get a CO license and not even have to take a driving test.
So I got a CO license, I got my unemployment benefits and I have been paying taxes a resident of the state of CO for the past 5 years.
The moral of the story is that the DMV has their hand in everything.