We are at 16!!!

16 days until we are out of Okinawa. The more I think about it, I am going to really miss it here. It's a simple life being here. No major violence happens here on the island. And the further North you get it is super quiet. We had our final 96 holiday and we tried to make the most of it, because we know going back to a Blueside Navy command. We will NOT have 96's...dang them. Anywho...we spent the holiday riding around the island. On Saturday we got in the car and drove up north to Nago and just went wherever. We ended up heading over to Cape Zanpa, it was beautiful and it was a nice breezy day. We did the walk up the narrow stairs to the top of the lighthouse that is there. We jumped back into the car and headed south and to Naha...well past Naha. For months, I have been trying to figure out how to get to this huge JUSCO that is in the south. As we were heading home on 329 from Yonabaru, I see the AEON sign and we just had to stop. This is like the flagship store for Jusco, because it is a huge place.

I decide that I am going to see if they have any MOW(Ice Cream) in any other flavors besides Cheese. Sure enough, they have strawberry. So we pick up a couple and continue to look around. We left with 3 pans, mow and a grocery bag. But, while we were checking out. The lady is speaking to us in Japanese and we just say Hai and go on. She takes the mow and places it into a bag with the spoons for it. She ask us something else, we say "Hai" then she pulls out another plastic bag puts the mow into it hands me the bag and then reaches into the register and pulls out a coin and hands it to Brian. He looks at her with a funny look. She points over to a machine. We gather our things and go over to the machine and look at it for a while. Laugh, because we don't know what to expect. We did what the pictures told us to do and then inserted the coin and pushed the green button, all of a sudden we hear a loud boom. Something lands into the bag inside the machine. We pull it out and it is Dry Ice!! It was so awesome!! Our ice cream was not a milkshake by the time we made it home.

I am so going to miss the customer service over here. On a scale from 1 to 10 and 10 being the greatest. I would have to give customer service out in town 100%

Bad Grandma

Have you ever had a phone call to come late at night and you look at the phone and it is a family member calling. You get really nervous because, you are thinking that something is wrong with a family member or someone that is close to you. Well, I got a phone call last night and I looked down and saw that it was my Grandmother(my awesome Grandmother) calling me. I was so worried!!

My grandma tells me that she hates to call so late, but she just could not wait until the morning to call and tell me this news. She goes on to tell me that my Dad's mother saw her waiting inside her car at the grocery store and came over and started talking. She said that she just spilled her guts. Telling my Grandmother how she wanted to be a Grandmother to me and how my Granddad(Tiger) kept her from being involved with me. Gran says that she went on and on saying how she keeps me in her prayers every night. Gran was telling me how strange it was that she was telling her all of these things. But, also knowing my Gran. I know that she really layed it on talking to Nadine(Fake grandma) Gran told her about how we are moving back to Florida, wasn't so thrilled that she told her that.

The funny thing with all of this is, whenever I see this lady, her mom(fake great grandmother) or her daughter(fake aunt) they never speak or say anything to me. But, whenever they see my Aunt, Grandmother or Great Grandmother they always ask them about how I am doing? What the heck is up with that? The last time I saw my dad we were in Wal-Mart in 2001 my mom spoke to him and all he said to me was "Hey Baby girl" and kept moving with his trailer park looking wife. It didn't hurt or anything, because he has never been involved in my life so it just blew over.

Now getting back to fake grandma or as I shall now call her GG. No...that does not stand for Good Grandma that stands for GAY Grandma! As she was telling my Gran about how Tiger is at fault for her not being a grandmother to me, well that is just an excuse. Yes, Tiger did get mad because they did not help with half of the medical bills. He and my Gran paid it and went on with life. Now, my Gran and Tiger got a divorce when I was like 8 years old. I am sure that GG heard about this because Bartow is not a big town and everyone knows everyone. My Gran stayed in the old family home and Tiger moved to Lake Wales. GG lives about 10 blocks away from my Grans house. If she wanted to be involved she could have stepped up then. I came to stay with my Gran every summer and I am sure she knew that too. She can't say that Tiger kept her away after he moved.


There was this one particular summer, we went on vacation to New Orleans and then to Detroit, I had such an awesome time. We made it back to Bartow and on this particular day my Gran tells me to get dressed and we went for a drive. We pull up at the house of GG! I was like what are we doing here, Gran says. " Now honey, she wants to spend some time with you" I was like you aren't going in? She said No. I end up spending like 4 hours maybe more with GG and her Mom. While I was there she went on telling this same lie about how Tiger is the reason for her not being involved. Now, I guess she thought that I was a dumb bunny. Because, I was sitting there and she must have made some kind of contact to get my Gran to bring me over there. Boom Roasted! Tiger was not keeping me from that very uncomfortable meeting.


I called Tiger the day after I spoke with my Gran, about this conversation that Gran had with GG. He said that Nadine(GG) is full of BS! He also said that he was going to call my Gran and tell her that she doesn't need to have GG visit her house, because she is one of those Lesbians. LOL it was so funny.

Since, I am going back to Florida. I am sure that there will be a part II to this saga.