I’m tell’n ya, I can’t WAIT, to ring in 2009 …    This has been the crappiest year ever.   Overall we live a fairly boring, normal life. Our biggest challenges usually arise when Josh gets deployed for months at a time ( if I haven’t mentioned it before, he’s active duty in the Air Force ).

We rarely get sick, or have to go to the doctors ~ aside from yearly healthy check-ups, we’re good people, so the karma stuff is usually on our side.  We’re responsible pet owners, we pay our taxes, we get along with most everyone, I ALWAYS buy whatever it is the neighborhood kids are selling …  so what the Criz-ap universe, what have we done to deserve such a F*d up year ???

It started immediately in Jan of this year … on the 4th to be exact. We were driving to San Diego to visit my brother for his birthday ~ in a monsoon no less, only made it about 3 miles from our house when we were rear ended by some crazy woman. Our First accident in the 12 years josh and I have been together.

A few weeks later,  miss Emma had to have surgery to have some random cyst removed from her ear … my poor baby.  Josh tested for the next rank and didn’t make it ( the only way one can get a raise in the military ),  we had a miserable time at Disneyland which was suppose to be SUPAH FUN for Emma’s 3rd birthday but wasn’t because she got sick the day we got there.

A few days later my uncle ( mom’s youngest brother-she has 6 siblings ) was diagnosed with lymphoma. That rocked our family.  Unless you yourself have had cancer or have a family member who has, you have no idea how powerful it is.  It’s has to be one of the hardest things to watch someone you love suffer threw …  Fortunaltey I have a seriously amazing, united family whose love and support is stronger than any stinking cancer and I’m happy to say that said uncle is currently in remission … but the past few months have been a total bitch.

Now add to all of this the complications I’m having with this pregnancy and you have yourself a recipe for stress and stomach ulcers …    And why should today be any different ??

Today my mom called me crying because she had to put our beloved family pet Duke , the best golden retriever to walk this earth to sleep this morning.  He’d been with us for the past 12 years …   I have no idea how to tell my 3 yr old, she’s really gonna miss him.  He was a big guy, around 110 lbs, she could ride him, poke him, wrestle him … put treats on his nose and tell him to “leave it” , get him to “speak”  … he was always just as happy to see her too and never anything but gentle.  RIP  “DUKEY”, we’ll miss you buddy …

Ok, and just now, as I’m typing this, Josh called  … he’s having to drive back down here tonight ( he only left Sunday and it’s Tuesday ) to take me to my doctors apt tomorrow.  It takes 2 hours one way just to get here and then another hour to my doctors tomorrow , and then he’ll go home tomorrow late afternoon just to return Friday night sometime for the weekend …  SO, he had to run and get a haircut before he hit the road and apparently left his VERY EXPENSIVE sunglasses and favorite hat at the barber shop but didn’t realize it until like 10 minutes ago, so he went back to get them and the place is closed!  Then he split water all over the car, trying to bring me flowers that one of my girlfriends had sent to our house.

So I say to you … 2008 can kiss my ASS !