mother nature hates me

I don't know if you've all heard, but here in the Midwest we've been getting RAIN. Lots and lots of RAIN. Iowa has been getting it bad but all that water trickles downhill you know, and the river has two sides.

Here on the IL side there's been lots of flooding too. The state has been calling up members of the guard to help in the sandbagging and flood help. Do you see where I'm going with this? That's right. My wonderful preshus hoosebeend has gotten the call of the sandbagging gods, also known as the state of IL, to go and do his civic duty.

I am proud of him for doing his duty and glad he's able to go and help, because there are people who are in desperate need of it. Here's the problem. This getting called up thing is in addition to the two weeks he has to do at the end of the month. So. If he has to sandbag for the entire two weeks they've proposed, he'll be gone the entire month of July. Have I mentioned how much I like Paco? Or how much the kids adore him. Or that my sister and her family are coming on Tuesday to spend three weeks with us at our abode. OR that my sister wanted Paco to have some fun with her SysGuy, because, well, because he needs it? OR that school has been out for five weeks and he's only had one of them off from working.

See. I don't know what I did, but I seem to have really pissed off the big mama. It's because we didn't get a Prius isn't it?