Funny Story

So Brian had "watch" the other day which means that he sits on base in front of the barracks checking ID's and making sure everything is ok. When I picked him up he says, "So I think I have an ingrown hair on my eyebrow and I was trying to pull out the hair while I was on watch, but I didn't have a mirror and there wasn't a mirror in the bathroom... can you look at it?" I look over and even in the darkness of the car with only the street light I can see the whole he created on his little brow. I just started laughing. I said, "How did you pluck out that much? Did you do all that damage with your fingers?" Brian - "Yeah, I thought I was pulling out a lot of hair, but I didn't think I was creating a hole..." So hilarious. It's not that bad, but definitely noticeable. I don't think that our mac quite captured the essence of his half missing brow.

Shugo

Shugo is such a good dog. Aside from the fact that if we leave him alone too long he ends up digging holes and chewing things. Usually, he just gets bottles of things off the washing machine in the shed. Things like laundry detergent, bleach, car oil, ya know all the healthy stuff for dogs to chew on. Miraculously he is still alive, healthy, and the lawn has not died from any spillage of these chemicals. Brian and I have become quite attached to this little booger. We have started the extra long process of taking him with us to Japan and hopefully all will go well. He has to be in quarantine for 6 months before he goes. And he has to get a million shots and stuff before the quarantine starts. In two weeks we have one last blood test and a few more shots and then he will be ready to start the quarantine. Which we will be taking him to my parents house for that since we will be leaving on Oct 31st. When he's ready they will just ship him to us. We are already training him to his own kennel. He sleeps there at night. And if he does something bad and we yell at him he usually runs in his little house. I'm glad he likes it, cause I was worried that since we didn't train him to it from a young pup he might find it to be a bad thing. But so far so good! Hopefully he will be with us in Japan, cause we really don't want to be without him for that long!

Commenting on Brian's Post...

Ok, I just realized I  did not address Brian's post that said I think he is a complete moron.... I don't! He obviously would argue otherwise. Seriously though, I am just not always the nicest when I feel I am being asked a stupid question. Maybe not a stupid question, but a question that I have already answered... therefore making the question stupid. Unfortunately I am not one of those sweet people that thinks there are no stupid questions. I wish I was cause then I would ask more questions myself and not be wondering about certain things in life like why do birds fly? No, I don't really wonder that... I know they only fly cause their bones are hollow... Ha! 

So just to clarify, I do not think Brian is a moron. If I did why would I have married him? Wouldn't that have made me a moron? And we all know that is not true. I guess I just have that affect on people... making them feel like a moron. I think it's a Hicks thing, cause I know my siblings like to make me feel that way when possible, and I have heard stories from their spouses too. So I conclude that it is the Hicks blood. I will be working on it though. Brian has seen improvement already. Yay for change!

Traveling Ideas...

So while Brian and I are in Japan we want to do some traveling. Mainly to all the nearby countries. We figure we might as well while we are there and it's cheaper. Any ideas? We seriously haven't hardly started researching it at all. We pretty much only looked at the map and thought... "China, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea (maybe?), and Thailand (?)." Let us know if you have any ideas. I am going to research it. Maybe we will be in China for Christmas. Then Brian could give me a Panda for Christmas! A cute little sneezing panda... sounds like fun! 

My First Time!

  Ok, so this is my first time blogging.  Joy gave me a hard time about not writing anything yet, so I had to finally do it (That's what she said)!  She even gave me a hard time about not knowing what the username and password was to log in, even though she knows I never use that username and password.  Is it weird that my wife thinks I'm a complete moron?  Anyways...

  We went to see the Ben Stiller movie "Tropic Thunder" at Naval Air Station North Island on Friday.  It was really funny, not the funniest movie ever but still pretty funny and it's free on base so it's even better.  I didn't like "Stepbrother" very much because it had so much cussing and they used the "F" bomb almost every five seconds.  I can stand it if it's used only a couple times but they said it probably a couple hundred times throughout the whole movie.  They say it in "Tropic Thunder" only a few times and they didn't just say it to try to make their jokes funnier.

  Nihongo ga skoshi wakarimas.  That means, "I understand Japanese a little" in Japanese.  Joy and I are listening to our Japanese lessons that her brother Norman helped us get (thanks Norm).  Hopefully we'll be able to speak at least a few phrases before we leave next month.  I took two semesters of Japanese when I was in junior college about 12 years ago but I forgot almost all of it because I've never had a chance to use it so I'm really glad we're moving to Japan now.  In the 6th grade my teacher taught our class a little bit of German so maybe Joy and I will go to Germany next.  Sorry there aren't any pictures, maybe next time I'm still learning.

True Story

Check it out... someday I will learn to get this on here and not have to send you to another link

So the movie was really good. We both liked it. Only thing is there is a lot of cussing. I'm not sure why some movies feel the need to overdue such things, but oh well. 

So Brian and I are working on all the lovely paperwork to get to Japan. It would be nice if it was as simple as here's what we need to do, lets do it, and it's done. Not so with the Navy. We think we know what we have to do. We go to do it, wait in line and find out we were sent to the wrong location. We go to the right place, wait in line, and find out we are missing some paperwork that we need to get from somewhere else. So a simple one trip deal turns into a million phone calls with a million different answers, and someday it will be done and we will be in Japan. We are just getting started with the paperwork and we really haven't had that many hang ups yet, but we do get different answers from everyone and it is difficult to accomplish things. Everything has to be done in a certain order. Hopefully we can get it all done this week. Or at least the important things. I will let you know how it all progresses...

Moo Cream...

Mootime Creamery... that is the plan tonight. It is similar to Coldstone I guess, but much better cause it's not so stringy. I really like ice cream. So we are going to go get some ice cream at the creamery and then go see a movie on base... the movie starts at 10pm... it will be a late night, but we have been wanting to see Step Brothers FOREVER. And tonight is the last night it is playing on base so we will go!

Two Barkers and a Blog?

I think I meant to say two barkers and a dog.... So I have read some blogs before, but this is my first time blogging, so bear with me. The purpose of this blog is to keep friends and family up to date on our Barker lives. So lets see.... for anyone who does not know, Brian is in the Navy, I am doing a million different things trying to figure out what to do with my life, and we have two dogs and a horse. The main question you need to ask yourself is... did we choose two barkers and a blog because we are two barkers and it is our last name? Or because we have two barkers (the dogs)? Well, I would like to introduce my family so here goes... not exactly sure how to upload pics where I want them, but above is Brian. He is sleeping. It is 1pm on Saturday. This is not how all Saturdays go, it just so happened that he had "Watch" last night and got home this morning at 7am. So he's catching up... next are the two dogs... Sandy and Shugo. Don't they look like perfect little angels? Then there's my horse (Almond).... and me with Brian. I really don't know how to get these stupid pictures in the order that I want them so you will just have to deal with that weirdness. Anyway, I am sure most of you reading this now know all this about us and you are most likely waiting for the punch line. So without further delay, we are moving to Japan. Brian got his official orders yesterday. As of right now we are leaving on the 31st of October, but we are talking about the military here and who knows what will really happen. We do not have our actual flight tickets yet so it could change, but most likely we will be leaving on October 31st! We are very excited and can't wait to travel! So that is it! We will keep you updated! Check in often for new pics and stories!