Its a snake! A big snake... no I am not kidding

So yesterday seemed like an ordinary day, babysitting, working, gonna go for a run, and then back home to take care of the pets. Babysitting was great, I made $66 in 3 hours watching 8 kids in the backyard. I didn't have to feed them or change them, just make sure no one gets hurt. It was a lot of fun and I met 8 of the greatest kids who have to deal with the most tempermental thing in the whole wide world, the Army. At least 2 of the kids were waiting for daddy to come home from Iraq any day. They were so cute and they had this chain that represented the number of days left. The mom actually said that there were 365 paper links in the beginning. I was really impressed and in awe at what these moms have to go through to get their kids through something they don't understand. These kids were 3 and 4 and they had a better understanding about deployment than most adults. I am sure they have their rough days but their mom has definitely tried to make it as easy as possible on them. These kids are used to jetsetting across the states to see family at random times of the year because thats when the Army says they can go. One family was heading to Georgia the next day and next week another family was heading to Texas. The kids waiting for daddy to come home were going to Arizona when daddy got home. The one thing you learn when dealing with the Army is:

Enjoy the time you have while you have it because you don't know what the next day will bring because the Army is in constant control of your life, even if you aren't the one who signed the contract because by marrying, dating, or being born into it you indirectly signed it too.

So then I had an hour to kill so I went home to go for a run. Well Jeremiah was online :D and so I talked him into getting on yahoo. So instead of running I sat in my house at the kitchen table yahooing him on my phone. Now I have always believed everything happens for a reason and all of this happened for a reason. If I hadn't went home and if I hadn't skipped my run to talk to Jeremiah I would have never seen the snake. All of a sudden I hear this noise like a rustling bag and I look over and its a snake going under my fridge. I freak and go running out of the house screaming. I don't like snakes and I don't mind them outside but I can't deal with them in my house. So the next hour I had my boyfriend in Afghanistan trying to explain to me that there was nothing to worry about and I should go back into the house and get ready for work and to call someone to get rid of the snake. I believe I said more than once "come home and kill it." I am sure he wished he could come home but it was definitely unfair of me to say it.

So Jeremiah because I was talking to you, you saved the day once again. You helped me to find the snake that snuck into my house that I most likely would have never found. And by the way it was a big snake... 4 feet long, not 2 feet like I said. I was not overexagerating, it was big!! Just goes to show you that everything really does happen for a reason.

Unfortunately I was an hour and a half late for work and I was so shaken up that every time I heard a noise or felt something touch me I freaked. I also fell asleep with the light on. But I did have my 2 guard dogs on either side of me and I woke up to a cat on my chest. So I would have to say it all worked out well.

On another note, Jeremiah indirectly saved the day once again. Because he is in the army and because when he deployed all of us GFs got tight, I have someone to babysit my nephew while I run my last PFT on Friday so that I can leave for OCS next Friday. But if I had never met Jeremiah and if he hadn't deployed with a certain guy I would have never met Lindsay and she would not be entertaining my nephew for 30 minutes.

Well off to my marathon of a day :)