We made it to Fort Hood on Valentine's Day and moved into our 2 bedroom and 1.5 bath town home. The last two weeks of February Joel was on a night detail, so I had the house to myself all night, until I had to pick him up at 4am. When March rolled around we were finally on a somewhat normal schedule. So the first weekend of March, we adopted a dog!
Dawson is a spoiled 17th month old lab mix that we found at the local animal control facility, and he had such a personality. Since bringing him home though, he hardly leaves my side (hates being home alone) and lounges around the house all day, except for when he gets Joel to get in the floor or yard to wrestle with him. Yes, they wrestle. I also had to go to the ER in March.
While home alone, I was slicing apples on a mandolin slicer and accidentally got my pinky. I definitely freaked out since I was bleeding like crazy, and called my momma then my husband (who had the car). Thankfully, he was able to rush home and get me to the hospital. After two washrags and a lot of gauze full of blood, I had a numbing shot in my finger and three stitches. A few days later we celebrated my 21st birthday in Austin, where we wandered 6th Street, ate dinner, and listened to a lot of bands participating in SXSW. We didn't really know that the festival was going on until we got to the town full of hipsters.
Since then, we've dealt with taking Dawson to the vet, a few weeks with Joel in the field, and a sinus infection that made me look like a Who for a few days. Last week was tough, I know that Fort Hood was all over the news, and we told our families as soon as we knew what had happened. Thankfully, we were already home and safe. So between last week and the arrival of the President tomorrow, April has had quite the start! Hopefully, I will write every week or so now.
