yesterday was my oldest brother vince's birthday. also his son brandon's birthday. i miss them. i got to see them in august for my wedding reception but it felt like such a brief visit. vince leaves for iraq in 2 months. i'm scared. my parents, benny, shilah, and brian are flying out to san antonio in november to see him before he goes. tickets were soo expensive (like 600-700 bucks roundtrip on southwest) when we were looking then, so linc and i decided that we just couldn't manage it because 1) we'd have to take time off, 2) cost, and 3) it is like 2-3 weeks before the end of the semester and i have projects and tests.
so i email vince birthday greetings yesterday. today he sends out a reply to all of us that emailed him with an update on what's been going in with them and when he for sure ships out and where he is going. at the end of the email he included a little personalized bit for each of us. mine said:
Mel...keep up the good work Your almost done. (about school) Tell Linc I'm glad he's enjoying his job. FYI you might look at what you would be spending on gas to drive to work it may offsite the cheaper house. (moving to coolidge) Otherwise if you still save money it sounds like a great idea. It's to bad you guys weren't coming I really wanted to see you and I was going to take Linc flying. (my brother has a pilots license and that is kind of a dream of linc's)
it took a bit of effort to not get sad. i don't want to think negative but what if this is my last chance to see vince? what if he gets hurt in iraq?
i looked in my school schedule for the planned weekend of the trip. the week before is a bad week with 2 projects due. but the week after is thanksgiving break, so not only is it a short week, but i only one assignment due. so i went online to check airfares. southwest is running a special right now that one-way tix to san antonio are $99 so for both linc and i to go, it would only be $440 w/taxes and what not. seems like it is meant to be right?
here is the clincher - linc and i just paid all our bills for the month so we could use the rest of the paychecks for savings. we have like $350 combined until thursday. ok, so not too bad, just buy the tickets thursday and everyone's happy. nope - deal ends tomorrow at midnight!!!!! i just wanna cry. i mean i could put it on a credit card, and then just pay it off on thursday, which i may do once i discuss it with the hubby. we're trying to not use cc's anymore so we can get a house next summer.
but i wanna see my brother. i wanna see his family. i wanna see his precious kids. i wanna spend time with them together with most of my family. i wish linc was home.
other ish:
went to lunch with my aunt who i used to work with and two other old co-workers. i ditched class again. lunch was interesting. one of the old co-workers who quit the office in feb 2004, who we hadn't seen since then, dominated the conversation. so i really didn't get to talk to my aunt much. which kinda was the whole reason i wanted to have lunch with her. we'll have to do it again.
sunday night around 2am linc and i were awoken by some domestic violence outside our window. the apartment on the ground level outside our patio was all going crazy w/ the cops trying to get them to open the door, then they were screaming and all kinds of crap. we caught something like "but she's my life partner". kept us up for like half an hour. i had taken a sleeping pill that night and that half an hour of no sleep jacked me up the next day. killer headache. plus i need a new prescription for my eyes. i am going blind.
well, i need to read my accounting text on pensions, sounds riveting i know, but i heard it is the toughest topic in the class, and i am all ready behind.
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