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Comment by Sylvia*Cali-mom on June 21, 2012 at 6:21pm

Yooooohoooooo, JooooooAAAAAnnnnnne.  Where are yooooooouuu?  You alive, girl?  ;)

Comment by Sylvia*Cali-mom on June 21, 2012 at 6:19pm

Sure hope you have a GPS in your rental car.  That will help out a lot! 

P.S.  I love all you girls, too.  I swear, reading all your posts keeps my sanity in check, when it comes to our boys.  lol

Comment by Sylvia*Cali-mom on June 21, 2012 at 6:16pm

Cathy- Amen to that! Our boys would be making the same mistakes here at home. And yes, we'd be up to our eyeballs with daily fights with them. I guess in a small way, them being away and making their "choices" on their own is helping them mature in some manner. (And can be thought of as a blessing?  dunno.)  Oh well...

Trish- Welcome to California, girl!  The beach weather is 68 to 72 degrees.  A bit chilly with overcast in the mornings. I know you and Joanne are burning up with 115 degree heat. (You might wanna kidnap JoAnne and bring her to the beach too!)  Best beach (no drinking, rowdy gangs, etc..) is La Jolla Shores beach. There you guys can rent kayaks or surfboards and the life guard towers are primo.  (La Jolla is money, baby!)  Literally!  They have all the staffing and brand new rescue trucks, and tourists. (Parking is tough....after 10am...now that kids are out of school)  There are Subway sandwich shops nearby, and beach eateries.  La Jolla COVE is beautiful to hang out at for a few hours.  Just gorgeous!  (La Jolla: Spanish for "The Jewel")  Bottom line: La Jolla shores the waves are calm for light surfing.  Moms take their kids here so there aren't any major problem type folk here.  But if you want more action?  There's Mission Beach (has a giant roller coaster and rides and many eateries. A mile up north, there's Pacific Beach: More college age kids though....and um....bikini's. I'm sure your youngest boy and husband would love this spot.  I, myself, try and avoid it like the BUBONIC PLAGUE!!!!!!!!  haha

Another touristy spot, Sea World, they have the new Manta Ray roller coaster ride.  They have quite a bit of rides now too.  Just a cool place to go for several hours.

FOOD: If you want really good italian food: Filiippi's Italian restaurant (a SD chain restaurant...5 or 6 of them in SD)  Best Mexican: Pretty much any mom y pop Roberto's, Hilberto's, "berto's" type dive.   Best BBQ: PHIL's BBQ on Sports Arena Blvd, next to Sports Arena. The line wraps around the front, but goes fast!  You wait 15 -20 minutes....but is well worth the wait.  Husband's work guys always send out for Phil's BBQ when there is a big work project. Had this restaurant existed back in 1986, I swear my husband would have them cater our wedding! lol

 

Comment by trisha on June 21, 2012 at 5:18pm

Casey sends me the information I need and lo and behold, he had everything and he's right about the taxes.  Now just need to spend a LONG time on hold with the DMV.  Going on 35 minutes now, any bets on how long this will take? 

 

I  hate the stance that the Navy takes on some issues.  Seems to be if they looked at, treated, etc issues, there would be less issues down the road?  Just keep loving him Lauren, and being there when the phone rings.  I know with Casey, he does call, usually 2-4 times a week and sometimes, the conversation has no real substance, but I think he just needs to feel a part of things.  He says he isn't upset or depressed, but if I ask is he is happy, he is very quick to say no, ready to be done and move on.  He has friends, seems to be some good guys, but I think the reallity of the situation, not doing what he really wanted to do has finally sunk in. 

 

I do have to say, I feel better with him there, in the Navy, doing something, becuase if he was home, I think we would argue like we did before.  Hes a VERY strong willed child (yes, 21 years old and Im still saying child).  I swear that him and Casey were seperated at birth, the own worst enemy, yep, thats  him! 

 

Sylvia, headed  you way in a few weeks.  Whats the best beach or must do touristy thing while in San Diego.  I love my husband to death but if it were up to him, nothing would ever get planned. 

 

Comment by trisha on June 21, 2012 at 2:16pm

Casey will call, just not tell me anythingof sustance.  We are fighting right now, he bought a car while on deployement, picked it up first week of March and hasn't gotten it registered yet.  Yep!  He got an extension, which expired, lets see, oh June 13th!  He responded, don't worry, I won't drive it, Im leaving next week on a short hop. 

&^A@*&^$#*&@#*@!(&*A$#Q*&#**#$QA(*Q#(*&A!!!!!!!!!!!!!     Yes, Im cursing like a sailor.  I have asked and asked and asked.  Sat on the damn phone with the DMV for over an hour, took 2 days to get through as the phones are down.  They need a copy of the bill of sale.  I have a sinking feeling that he lost that.  Have I ever mentioned that he would lose his head if it wasn't attached. 

 

Leaving the ship with him from the TIger Cruise was enough to make ME want to drink.  First, couldn't find his leave paperwork, then his hat, then his bars, then it was his freaking neck roll.  Seriously?  I had these grand illusions that he would learn to be organized, cleaner, etc.  NOPE! 

 

Yes, being a navy mom SUCKS!  :-)  Can not WAIT until vacation, I need to relax before I snap.  And I really need people to stop taking stupid pills, I swear, common sense these days seems to be a rare commodity!

Comment by Sylvia*Cali-mom on June 21, 2012 at 12:30pm

Again, thank your lucky stars girls.  At least your boys TALK to you.  My kid definitely bottles things up. Getting information/feelings out of him is like a game of "20 Questions".  He doesn't call or text, unless it's bad news. The problem is  he doesn't complain....which worries the hell out of me!  At least I could point him in the right direction if he did share his feelings.  I always ask him, "Are you alright?....do you want to talk about it?"  Him: "Yup. Nope. Nothing's wrong." But I can tell by his voice that things are different now than they were 6 months ago. 

Trish- I feel for you because seems like Casey and Mike are the same in the "keeping things bottled up" department.  I, too, worry that Mike could be drinking.  Seems like every time I call him on his days off....he's napping.  I don't know if it's from depression or a 'hangover'.  Believe me....if I asked, I wouldn't get the truth.  

I'm only going to say this once....and only among my mom-peeps.  "Being a Navy mom sucks now."

Comment by trisha on June 21, 2012 at 11:15am

Casey is going through the same thing.  We was good for awhile and now I feel hes hit the bottom again.  I think with anotlher long deployment looming in the next few months, right after they got home in March, is stressing him out.  He likes when he gets to work security, but thats only in port and on deployment, he reports to the person who "lost" his paperwork for transfer.  He's frustrated with people who don't do their share, just riding the waves as he says, leaving others to do more.  Casey won't seek out any advice from anyone, he tends to keep stuff bottled up.  Now that he is 21, I worry, alot.  He's fathers side of the family were all alcoholics and I worry that he will do what he dad did, drink away his troubles.  Casey seems to go through whenever there is a big change.  I feel for you Lauren, its so hard to have to sit on the other end of hte phone and not be able to either help or fix it for them.  Are you worried enough that he needs to go medical?  I don't know how the Navy deals with mental health issues. 

 

Comment by trisha on June 19, 2012 at 11:14am

Lets see, almost 2 years in and I don't know what he has to show for his time in.  He called his dad yesterday, guess he had another bad day.  He works security while in port, and they are working 12 hour shifts and just switched from nights to days and its been rough.  Getting up at 3:30 AM, as they have training now before their shift.  He says he turned in paperwork to strike a rate and the paperwork was torn up by his supervisor, said his supervisor knows whats best for him.  He was really counting on moving onto something else, hates being an airman and know is stuck.  I feel bad but on the other hand, hes not doing anything to advance either. 

I checked his bank account last week and his birthday money is already gone with nothing to show for it, unless you count nights out at the bar.  Oh, and his car is STILL not registered and hes leaving on a short hop in a week for a month.  He hasn't taken care of his car payment to where its automatically withdrawn (thats how I was in his bank account, got the text, hey mom, at work, can't make the call, can you make my car payment?  He's 21 now, Im still paying his cell phone (don't shoot me, its just easier rather than him putting down $500 to get set up and I know he won't do it). 

Baby drama.......I don't know what I would do honestly.  Reading everyones post, I am thanking my lucky stars so far.  My stepson, who seems to want nothing to do with us, lives with his girlfriend (the one upper, always butting in with the bigger better story) and she swears she doesn't want kids.  Casey, well, who knows.  I know he isn't with anyone, and seems to have no want for a relationship.  Preston, my 16 going on 30, thats another story.  I "broke" into his facebook and I am NOT a happy mama.  OVerall, he really is a good kid, good grades, is very good at baseball and it appears cheerleading (thats another story), does his chores when asked, and doesn't give us issues really but is seems that he is a player, a little horndog.  GRRRR...........of all the traits to take after his father, that was NOT the one I wanted. 

 

Comment by Sylvia*Cali-mom on June 18, 2012 at 10:45pm

Janna, welcome to the club I guess??  Incredible how at times our boys seem to be on the same track, huh?   Cathy-I just hope things turn out ok with your boy on the baby drama thing too. We ourselves, have to wait until November for a paternity test.  I'm now starting to worry about the rest of our boys in our PIR group. Lauren, Trish, Joanne: warn your boys about potential baby-dramas.  

Comment by Sylvia*Cali-mom on June 18, 2012 at 6:02pm

Trish- Thanks for posting that cute comic strip! lol  You made my day.

Lauren- Sorry to say this, but I laughed even harder with your usage of 'idiot'. LMAO because: whom here hasn't used that very same word on their very own son?!?!!  I certainly have used it at least a dozen times since he joined the Navy.  (oh...who am I kidding?...since he became a teenager!)  Lauren, you are doing the right thing by letting him contact the Missouri offices on his own to track down his old license paperwork. I can't blame you for being mad either.  These kids of ours: One minute they make us proud and in awe of how grown up they are becoming and then the next minute they are testing our patience and questioning how we raised them. Just thank your lucky stars this is just a "fender bender" deal....and not a "Baby-Daddy-Drama" thing.  ugh.  I still cringe that my boy still has to face a paternity test this fall....which he'll probably pass with flying colors, no doubt, unlike his High School exams!!!  

Btw, my husband and I can't even have a conversation about our boy without getting into an argument these days. 

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