I am going to Chicago again! Well, not Chicago exactly, but I am flying into Chicago and going to another town which shall remain nameless lest one of my mad plethora of readers decide to go all stalker on me, hunt me down, and force me to autograph my blog postings. *snicker*

I had such a good time over Memorial Day weekend, that I’m going for a week to spend time with just my sister and the boys. BIL is likely to be Iraq by then, working with the Iraqi Minister of Defense. DH, of course, is already there, and has been for almost a month. Frankly, it sucks, big time. I haven’t slept one single night through since he left. If this continues until he gets back, I am going to be the world’s biggest WITCH by the time he returns (at which point, I invite all the above referenced stalkers to BRING IT). Fortunately for me, I do get to talk to him fairly regularly. Which is a great deal more than many get. It is one of the benefits of him being a) in the Air Force and b) maintenance, with no particular reason to go off base.
I am doing my best to write letters frequently, emails daily, and send lots of goodies.

In other news, I have finally paid off the last of my official debt! It has taken almost five years since the accident to get everything cleared. Mammie and Daddy hold the note on the other school loan, and I hope to have them paid off by the end of the year. It’s due to be completed in Nov, at the present rate I am paying. I can’t TELL you how good it feels to finally have that load off my shoulders. I’ve felt like the sword of Damocles was hanging over my head at times.