Mood:  caffeinated

Well lets see.  What happened this week.  Monday I went to pick Donavon up from work on base and I got chosen for the random car inspection.  That is where they ask for you licence, military id, registration, and insurance.  Then they ask you to open the hood, trunk and all of the doors of your car so they can complete a through inspection.  You sit in a shed like area untill they are done.  Well we had been successfuly avoiding these inspections for weeks due to the fact that our car was not currently registered.  The registration expired in December and we were waiting on Navy Legal to aprove and noterize our exemtion paperwork for property tax and wavior of registration fees.  Any way, they ended up scrathing the base stickers of our car, basicly that means that we could not drive on base untill the proper paperwork was shown and okayed. Of course we got home Monday to a phone call from Navy Legal saying our paperwork was done.  Tuesday Donavon had physical therapy in the morning, then was excused from work to go take care of going to the DMV.  So we brought the paperwork to be stamped by the town hall and off to Old Sabrook to get the car reregistered.  Now I realize that none of you know where Old Saybrook is in comparisin to Groton.  Its about a hour drive and when it takes 3 hours without traffic to drive through Connecticut, it seems longer then it really is.  So we get to the DMV finally and find out that it is closed for Lincon's birthday.  So we get in the car and drive home.  Wensday we drive all the way back and sit there for four or five hours to talk to someone for two minuets.  This is how the DMV works up here.  They give us the new registration and we are on our way for what Navy people call Pass and Id.  This is where you get stickers to go on base.  We get the stickers for the car and everything is taken care of.  Except that now I have to go to on base traffic court and provide proof that every thing is taken care of.  No fine though so that is good.  We also stoped off at the outlet stores this week.  An outlett is a store where all of the chain stores, Liz Claiborne, Nike, Yankee Candle, other stores like this, send the merchandice overflow.  The merchindice is usualy on sale or at very low prices.  We ended up picking up my Valentines day presents.  A Liz Claiborne snake skin patteren, red leather purse, with a matching wallet and hand bag.  I have a big thing for purses.  Some women its shoes.  Since I have size 11/12 Feet and it is rare to find the "perfect" shoe in my size, I have chosen purses to be my obsession.  Valentimes day was great.  We spent the day lounging around the house, Not much has happened since.  I have to run off and feed Donavon, I can hear his stomache growling from here and he is all the way acrossed the room.  Talk to you all later.  Love and miss you all. 

Danielle