Winter Jam and other fun stuff

Thursday night, I went to the ultimate rivalry game with my friend Sam. Dixie County played Chiefland in basketball. My old high school against my husband's ;)....his team won. Went to WalMart later with Taylor, picking up some last minute things for Winter Jam.

Friday, headed to Tallahassee to meet up with Miranda and Amber. Amber drove us to Jacksonville, where we enjoyed Winter Jam 2012. =). Met up with two of their friends, and spent the night with Jamie. We had a pretty good time. Saturday we headed back home, and Rand & I got Chic-fil-A before heading back to her house for a little while.

Sunday..I did absolutely nothing productive, except sleep, shower, cook. Started  the second book of The Hunger Games series.

Yesterday headed to Chiefland with Taylor to run a few errands. Picked up the last two Just Dance games for my Wii. Been doing 20 minute sessions 3 times a day. In love. Also picked up Chinese (I was craving it). Came home and started (and finished) the final book of The Hunger Games. Already hungering for the movie. Woke up around 2 to someone/some very large thing walking by my Gamma's window. Lu is going crazy. Sent off my car alarm and spooked them off.  Got my cop friend to do a little patrol though. Love living in a place where cops actually respond to things in a timely fashion. (esp when I'm loved ;) ).

Today I'm headed up to Gainesville to meet up with Taylor and Ashley. Going to grab dinner and see a movie, hopefully Joyful Noise =). I'm pretty excited.


I'm asking for prayers for my friend Kim. And also for my husband, as he caught a pretty horrible stomach bug, and he needs to be better. I worry so much for his safety =(.

Hope everyone has a great day <3!

New Year..new outlook

I dreaded January 5th with a horrible passion. But, that date (along with my faith in God, and some pretty amazing people) healed my bitter heart. I wasn't bitter towards anyone(despite one person's opinion), but bitter towards my situation. I realize that now, and I own up to it. We had hoped to conceive during R&R, but that didn't happen. And I think my attitude was part of it. I'm not saying I'm happy it happened, but I can cope with it now. The moment the wind took my balloon memorial, it was like it took my burden with it. If we would've conceived earlier,...I wasn't over loosing baby #1. Not saying I'll ever be completely over it, but I wasn't in the right mindset.  I thank my friends who didn't delete me over my lamenting over the day. There were quite a number who did,  but that's ok. I did need to get over myself in the nicest way possible. A many a number of friends suffered miscarriages in 2011, and there were a few who handled it way better than myself publicly. I pray for those who have endured this pain. But I think now, and Will would have missed so much. As he's reenlisting, he's still gonna miss so much, but he'll be home for my pregnancy, and the baby's first year with the new dwell time. That's perfect for me. And we've had to deal with a lot of obstacles our first two years of marriage, but I'm glad we did, because we survived. We're still in a honeymoon stage obviously, and there'll be more trying years in our hopefully many years of marriage. But we've learned how to overcome some problems, and how the one person uniquely handles stressful situations. And I've gotta say, so far, I'm pretty durn proud of us =D.

Off that depressing note, Lu & I had fun with Jess& Apollo. Ate yummy food, drank some delicious Sangria,  caught up on Glee, and I got stuff to redecorate my bathroom. Today I ran errands for my Gamma, and got LuLu groomed. She looks even more adorable, and her place of grooming had the cutest name: Paradise Pet  Palace. lol. Came home and cooked up some burgers for dinner, with a cranberry lemonade and cupcakes. =). Watched 'Pretty Woman' (miss you Amber! my 80's movie partner), and now about to head to bed. Excited about Winter Jam in Jacksonville this weekend =)). Hope everyone's doing good <3.

2012 so far

Spent the first day of 2012 with friends, namely Miranda, Taylor, Ashley, and Jessica. Started the night out by eating at Mya's with Miranda. Headed up to Gainesville to meet up with Taylor and Ashley, swung by to see Jessica, her puppy Apollo, and her roommate while we were waiting =). Spent the night at Ashley's, where I woke up the next morning to FINALLY get my tattoo. Four years of waiting was so worth it. I'm in love with my ink.

Yesterday, did pretty much nothing, lol.
Today, I went grocery shopping and ran errands for my Gamma. Got me a new phone, because sadly, my phone of almost 4 years decided to go crazy on me. And my Gamma got me the prettiest of bouquets to make me smile. I adore her, and am so thankful for her.
Tomorrow, is the 1 year anniversary of the day we learned baby Vaughan will never come into this world, as I had an ectopic pregnancy. Remembering this day by doing a balloon memorial, with my friend Jessica, who is amazing by offering to be there for me <3. (Miranda sadly, is more than 2 hours away in Tallahassee). Went and got said balloons today, when the florist asked, and heard what happened, she donated the balloons to me, as she does a yearly balloon memorial for her angel baby. Aside from the circumstances, I'm happy to be seeing her, as I'm gonna cook for her, and our puppies are gonna make friends with each other =D.

Next weekend I'll be headed up to meet with Miranda, as we're then headed to Jacksonville for a huge Christian concert, along with two of her friends.  I'm really excited about this. =)

I want to ask ya'll to keep my friend Amber in your thoughts. It's not my place to say her business, but she needs lots of well wishes. =), thanks in advance!

And finally, I'm proud to say I'm 3 months into this deployment down. Yay!!! <3.

Today was a better day

Slept in some this morning, the rest was well-needed. Got up and made my budget for this pay period. Wrote and addressed all the checks needing to be mailed. Gamma suggested watching a movie so we put in 'The Help.; Loved the book, and the movie =). Cooked a olive oil, garlic and thyme marinated pork loin with Stove Top cranberry dressing with some chopped walnuts thrown it, and green beans. Had a glass of our local winery's muscadine juice with it. So yummy. Read some of my new book 'One for the Money,' soon to be a movie with Katherine Heigl. Took a nap. Texted Taylor and made plans to go to WalMart once Will's check was deposited. Went and got some groceries for my Gamma, along with a few more Christmas presents, and stuff for a care package for Will. 3 magazines (Sports Illustrated, Men's Health, and CQ), a book by Stephen King (Bag of Bones I believe?), and a bunch of goodies. Stuff to mix with water, Jolly Ranchers, Christmas boxes of Gobstoppers, Skittles, and Dots, 2 things of Oreos, some Chex Mix, and some bakery fresh Christmas cookies. Who cares if it's late =D. I'm sending him tons more than necessary, lol. Came home and dyed my hair, now I'm blogging and about to end this one for the night. Gotta be up in the a.m. for an oil change and tire rotation, then it's off to Gainesville for Japanese steakhouse and hopefully the last of my Christmas shopping. Nighty-night everyone =)).

....mentally exhausted.

Sorry for the lack of blogging. Dial-up (....yes, that still exists) makes Internet pretty difficult. I got to FL in the beginning of Nov, and the past 6 weeks have been spent catching up with family and friends. Will got R&R extremely early. I'm now dealing with the aftermath of that. I feel empty. The second good-bye was so much worse than the first. We crammed Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and our birthdays into 2 weeks. Me and a lot of my friends have been plagued by sadness. My mom got a health diagnosis that wasn't the greatest, two of my best friends' grandparents have passed away, my friend Jessica's dog got hit by a douche on Thanksgiving, and another friend has had some pretty awful stress during her husband's deployment. I'm pretty much over the bad luck streak. I'm thankful I have some pretty awesome friends, both in the 352 and 915 who constantly check on me. I haven't felt like myself since Saturday. Don't get me wrong, I had an amazing R&R with Will.  Idk what's with the depression honestly. We ate a ton of yummy Southern food, hit up a local beach, did some local 'tourist' stuff, went to Tally, went and saw Breaking Dawn, went to Ocala to see their Christmas display (did a Ferris wheel while there, my very first one!), and saw a ton of friends.  Tonight was a night of Capt Crunch (Christmas kind), a good book, and my LuLu.  Hope everyone's doing good. I'll blog again when I can =)).

Almost ready to leaveee

• Make hotel reservations - check!
• Get a storage unit- check!
• Pay all bills and make arrangements for online payments while gone- check!
• Put in maintenance orders so they're completed before I'm gone - check!
• Get car registered, inspected, and its' oil changed- check!
• Clean entire apartment before I leave- che.. lol. Halfway done =D
• Pack- only halfway done with this as well. But I still have a few days =D.
• See my friends before I leave- almost fully done with this one as well.

So, so far this week I've been productive, even if I haven't been blogging =). Leaving for vaca has a lot of preparations. 

Also, thanks to everyone who prayed for the soldiers. I can't really say why I was so concerned, due to OPSEC, but it meant a lot ya'll prayed. =).

Anyways, back to laundry andddd cleaning =D.

'Give up your worries so you can give God the glory'

Called my youth pastor at midnight FL time, hysterical. Thank God for their up late habits, and that they have a ton of patience. His wife calmed me down, and then they prayed with me. Amazing. We chatted for a little while, then I let them go since I knew they had to be up soon for church. Read my 'Faith Deployed' book, and it was all about worry. Called my Gamma just to hear a familiar voice. Woke up to my amazing hubs calling. My gut was right though. I can't talk about it really, due to OPSEC, but I knew something happened =/. Thanks to all who were praying. <3.