Things I am learning about out here...

For the most part I love it out here! It is so nice. But I do miss my file system. I need to figure out what to do about that. I simply can not function without my filing system. The file folder on the notebook is fine, but I need my box of files! I think I'll store it in the van. Speaking of which! I bought two poly-something-or-other folders and put the insurance cards in there, one each envelope... and I am going to put the tags, titles, registration or whatever is supposed to be in the car, in the envelopes. They are hot pink so you can't lose them in the glove box. Great idea! I think so. I am also losing one piece or another... this way I have them all in one spot, in one envelope (one for each vehicle)

Mendel, Miles and I practiced angles with pool today. We cleaned out the dock box and we rode the bus to the ASW base so we got to practice our map reading skills :) We learned about
community, neighbor and all the crap we already know about. Lil Mendel is already bored with the book and we're only in Unit 1. Can't blame him too much. It's all common sense stuff that
any child... never mind, I've met some kids around here that are dumb as door nails. My kids have basic common sense. They already know this stuff. So instead of studying the obvious, we are going to make a map of our own community and neighborhood and I am going to have Mendel label his groups! (homeschool, navy, sailor, etc) and list things he liked about sailing camp. Math should be a breeze up to a point with him. I still have to figure out what happened to Miles math book in the move. He'll be measuring and working with symmetry this weekend too. He's been reading about Coronado in a magazine we found here. He read about the "Coronado hall of shame" which I found interesting LOL.

This weekend I will make a "Learning Map" for the week and we'll go from there. I am going to make one that works (for the most part) for each week. They even have Phys Ed now too. That is just silly, IMO. They are so active. But at least it's something very simple to do. We can cover 30 minutes of PE with no issues!

One thing I do not like about living out here is the internet connection is pathetic. It won't stay connected at all. That is unless I go and sit at the picnic tables. I am updating my blog from emails now. It's too hard to get the connection to stay logged in more than 5 minutes at a time. But what can I say? It's a small price to live the life of luxury. Palm trees, boats, campfires (in a fire ring) no electric bill, cost of living is laughable... You know you wanna come out here and do it yourself! HA!

Sail on!
Dotchi

Here is a lovely picture of Miles in a dock cart lol. I'd post one of Mendel 2 but he doesnt stay that still lol

My Cell Phone was Stolen!

I went to the boys school today and got their school books, workbooks and lesson plans for the month. They have writing practices now too. So that will be cool. Mendel 2.0 is doing a study on community and neighborhoods. It starts out with all the normal stuff but goes deeper into government and such. It's all obvious too. But he'll do a project for each unit. Miles is going to learn about the Romans! And they each got a starter baggy full of markers, crayons, rulers, protractors, scissors, tape, pens and pencils too! It was really cool!

Afterwards we went to Jack In The Box in Imperial Beach. I have always enjoyed the area and the people there are always so nice. We've been there once a month or more since we have been there. Today I needed to change my shorts so I went to the bathroom. My cell phone was in my pocket so I set it on the sink. I changed shorts, went potty and then grabbed my shorts and rolled them and sat them on the back of the sink. I washed my hands and grabbed my shorts but totally forgot to get my phone. 

We ate lunch and got ready to leave and I realized I forgot my phone when I got to the van. I ran back in and looked in the bathroom and it was not there. I went to the front and asked if someone had turned in a cell phone and described it in detail. They said yes someone did but a lady came up behind them and said it was her daughters cell phone. The bitch stole my phone! That's fine, lying bitch! I called my phone and it was turned off. I called hubby from the boys school and told him it was stolen. My phone # is suspended. No one can call it and they can't call anyone. The serial # has been reported and anyone trying to activate it will have the phone confiscated. No one can turn that phone on except for me! HA! So if you buy a SCH-U740 Samsumg off eBay and it has the serial # 02206956534 it is mine. I am so peeved. How dare people just steal stuff. I am so so mad!

Good News!!!

I went into the Chandlery to update our RV reservations for the next however many months. Jo was looking them up and updating when the dockmaster came up and asked when I wanted to start. I drew a blank. My first thought was "I haven't had a period in years!" Then it dawned on me.... LIVE ABOARD! Yes, he meant live aboard! I was so thrilled! So...

September 1 we move our boat to The Cove and are officially going to be live aboard residents! WOOHOO! The RV will become our storage unit LOL. We'll hopefully here from vehicle storage by next week and will move it to there on Friday of next week... if all goes as planned. WOOHOO!

The Trip To Texas and Back... AKA How spoiled am i?

So we went to Texas this last month. I am never going back. Oh the stay was nice and all, but there are BUGS in Texas... and Heat... and rain... and I had to get a JOB! Oh. My. Gawd! But it was still fun. Maybe I'll go back if it snows or something, but but beyond that, hell no! My bug bites have bug bites and I missed Epiphany. And I missed the palm trees. And it got muggy and I actually sweated... ew! LMAO. I am so spoiled. Actually I am not spoiled, my husband just loves me that much :)

But we are back now. We are in California again. No, I didn't move to TX. But I have a lovely photo box of CD's to show their teacher next Tuesday. And Mom printed out labels to make shirts with that say "Where in the World is Early, TX?" Hee hee hee.

When we got back to California we spent a day at Sea World. We went to the beach, went to the pool, went to a concert near the bay... you'd think that was the vacation. LOL

Now the boys are in sailing camp! They have 5 days of sailing lessons with a class of kids. They are having a blast! Really, you'd think we spoiled them! We're having a campfire tonight with smores and I am enjoying getting to walk the beach every day again. Next week I'll start adding updates on school.

The dockmaster here at the cove said that he'll be calling us "soon" about a live aboard slip. I wish I knew what soon meant. I am so excited! I can't wait to get that slip! WOOHOO! Soon-ish we'll be live aboards! I'll be a spoiled rotten beach bum! Oh wait, I already am!

Also next week will be the start of me working on selling items on eBay again. I am hoping to bring in more money to help pay off our bills faster. Then we can be debt free! That would be VERY nice!

I better run for now. I am going to go have lunch with the boys.