Thursday July 29, 2010

We are half way to the 2 month mark. But I did get to mark one thing off of my calendar marker.... baby Killian! He is here and he is wonderful. He loves his Aunt Heather. He even smiled at me... dont worry im not that naive, i know he just had gas lol, but he smiled while i was holding him so i stay with the stance he smiled at me. He is so tiny but the most precious baby in the world! Now my next marker is only 2 weeks away! Which means its only 2 weeks away from being 2 months down.....

I have completed some goals too.
First I finished my Tv area. I cleaned out some drawers and dusted, and uncluttered. Every week i make a little more progress and it makes me feel like this deployment is not as bad and it seems like on some days. Not only that but i have completed 2 or the 3 books that I made a goal to complete. I am half way through with the 3rd one. I didnt have a web cam date with Joe last weekend and I wont have one this weekend either. I have made some progress on the wedding planning too. We found a place we BOTH agree on and love. There are some drawbacks but in the end... we are already married, we dont need some big elaborate thing for a vow renewal. I want to wear my dress and we want a ceremony and then we want to go to New York, so that means the majority of our budget is going to the honeymoon. I am going to see the place this Sunday so I will post pics when i get back from there. I have added some goals and markers. There are two walks I plan to do this fall. I also have a page on 43things.com so that I can keep up with the progress of my goals. Today i balanced my check book and had it right for the first time since Joe has been gone! i was so pround of myself!

I cant say my moods have been that great though. I have had more down days than up days the past couple of weeks. Joe had a rough weekend and i could hear it in his voice how exhausted he was. I hate for him to be like that. And the worst part is is that he has nothing to mix up his days. It is the same day in and day out and I hate that I cant do something to help that. Plus with all the babies that were born this weekend (2 of our army wife friends also had their babies this weekend too) got me to having baby fever. I never wanted kids until i met Joe. I saw how he was with Lily and how great kids can be, and it makes me want one so bad. I really want that connection with him and for us to be a real family. he said we would talk about it when he came home. So we will see.

Coming up this week:
Alabama adventure with Rachel
Mt Cheaha with Rachel
Pretty little liars with Mom
finish book 7 of House of Night
start book 8
take down all wall decor and dust them and clean them
wash curtains
clean out makeup drawers
go to the movies next weekend.

I missed some of my bible study time this week becauase i have not felt that great, so hopefully i can get back into that routine this week and my mood will pick back up. Ill post pictures of Mt Cheaha this weekend.

One month down July 17,2010

Yesterday was exactly one month since my super hot husband left the country. Since my last post I have accomplished sooo much. Honestly my moods have been so much better and I feel happier and my motivation finally got here :) Normalcy has begun to set in and more routines are in place. I have a clearer mindset on my goals and projects and for the first time in a long time i actually feel a litte bit positive (which is good because im normally an eternal pessimist) Last weekend i cleaned..alot. Last friday (7-09) i spent a quiet night at home watching tv and netflix. Then saturday i slept kinda late, but got up and had lunch with my mom, stepdad, and sister. I also saw a couple of churches i planned to check out for the wedding. then i came home and all of a sudden i was super cleaning woman. I didnt plan on doing as much as i did, but it was like once i got started i couldnt stop. my desk was an absolute disaster and my laptop just kinda sat in the floor next to the bed. paid bills were piled up, it was dusty, and it was cluttered. So i organized it, threw things away, dusted, and well uncluttered it. It actually looks like a desk now. (picture below is the final product.. just imagine it without the swiffer and dustpan)


well after the desk was done i saw my stack of movies and thought they would topple over at any moment. at the time they were stacked up in the floor and my books had accumulated next to my bed and cds were scattered all over the place. so my solution.... a media center to hold my cds and dvds, and i added my books because the shelves are adjustable. AND... the best part.... it had to be assembled. I did it! All by myself. I used a phillips head screwdriver, and a flat head screwdriver, and a hammer... all by myself :) i felt like Bob the builder. But you have no idea the sense of accomplishment i felt when i completed something like that. This is normally something i would have left to, well, a man, but I did it. Final product below :)


I started back to bible study last weekend too. I have been doing the daily bible studies during the week and I cannot begin to tell u the difference it has made. I really believe this is where my great mood and motivation has come from. Its been really great! The work week has been crazy busy which i have loved because it made time pass so fast. I did some light cleaning during the week. I have a chest of drawers and underneathe it I had some things stored. Well i guess to be more accurate it was crap shoved under it. As i was going through it i found alot of my art supplies. I have a sketch pad, and charcoal and a book to show you how to draw some basic things. I think in my down time im gonna try to pick up my drawing again. I took an art class a LONG time ago and im not going to say i was any good, but i do love to be creative and doodle. so i think im gonna try to go through this book and see how i do. What do you know... another goal ha. With that area I am not done cleaning up and cleaning out so once thats complete ill update on that. the rest of the week was filled with reading, netflix, and talking to my sweet husband. Speaking of my super thoughtful man... he got me a gift this week. He told me he got me a surprise and i swear i thought he was gonna burst through the phone with how excited he was for me to get it. It came thursday. I got home from work and tore through the box. I got the NOOK! Most people has no idea what it was but its like a Kindle. You download books to it to read, but u can also get on the web, play games, and download magazines and newspapers. ITS so AWEsome! I love it! He is such a good listener, because he heard me mention it once and remembered that. Hes so funny, he can remember me mentioning the nook once, but cant remember what he did the day before lol. I love him to death though :) Friday marked one month since the last time i got to kiss my baby. I went to the movies with my dad and my sister and then came home. Friday I actually got to talk to Joe alot. We talked for a while on the phone while i was at lunch and then for a while on the computer and also on the phone again that night when i got home. I love it when i dont think our conversations will last but a minute and then they last close to an hour or more. ITs such a sweet surprise :) Saturday(today) came and we got to have a webcam date. We talked only for a very long time. Our time was interrupted a few times by either the webcams freezing, or neither of us having much to say, or he was helping his neighbor, or by arachnids. But it didnt matter. What mattered was that i got to see his face and it wasnt a picture from 3 months ago, it was him today. I have decided that Saturdays are project days. After my much appreciated web cam date I went back to none other Walmart. I hate that place but i swear i live there. I decided since it was fairly late in the day (4:00) i wasnt going to do everything i had planned to do today. I decided i would only do my bed. When i was 16 i liked spongebob. I know. 16. but it was a thing me and my friends had and it was deeper than just a cartoon lol so i had the spongebob comforter. Well i have a futon and its uncomfortable, soooo i slept on top of the spongebob so u couldnt really see much of it. I used alot of blankets. I thought... well im 25 now... lets change it. Joe just got himself a memory foam mattress topper and loved it. SO i got me one. I also got a new comforter (black and gray reversible) new sheet, and new pilllow cases to match. It took me a while but i got it done. I also cleaned out one drawer and cleared off the back of my door that had a bunch of things hangiing on it. i cleaned out from underneath my bed and stored my blankets in a storage container under my bed, come the winter and i will want a blanket. it looks so much better :) Pic Below:


all in all it has been a very productive month so far. I cant believe we are already one month down. When Melodys graduation gets here we will be at 2 months :) And that means its about 2 weeks until football season starts. My next project is my chest of drawers. I will try to remember to take a before picture and an after picture. I wished i would have remembered that for the other things i got done because it was such a huge improvement.

Calendar marker number 3 is next week. Baby Killian will be here next Wednesday! After that my next marker wont be until Aug 13 for mel's graduation. But i have alot of mini-projects for along the way.


I love you so much Joe! You mean the world to me. One month down! We made it! I cant wait to make it through the next 7 months so i get to see you in Feb for 2 weeks.

Week 3 (july1-7th)

Hooray! Week Three! Friday the 16th will be one month! I cant believe its already been nearly a month. It has FLOWN by. which is awesome. So far i havent accomplished as many of my goals but i have met one marker and quickly approaching the second (come on erin! ) So far i have completed one book, sent my first care package, seen eclipse and have been spending time with my friends. Work has kept me really busy and according to my boss we will continue to get busy. For this upcoming month i have the following goals/markers:

1. Finish book 3 of the house of night series
2. Start and finish book 4 of house of night series
3. Send another package to Joe
4. baby Killian will be here (marker 2)
5. Girls weekend with Rachel and Amanda
6. Cleaning out some space in my room.

I think that is enough to keep me busy and preoccupied. Once July is over and August gets here, that means its time for Melodys graduation (marker 3) and that means we will be 2 months down! Not only have Joe and I got a routine in place, i pretty much have one for myself too....
Usually i try to work til between 430 and 5. Come home, make something to eat, do a little straightening up, watch a lil Tv or my netflix movie that has come in, get online, and then read til i either fall asleep or Joe calls. Then I start over the next day. I am so engrossed in the House of Night series that til just flys. there are only 7 books and i am on 3 so i have a little ways to go but with the way i am going through these books i will be done by August lol But that means I can read Eat Pray Love in August and then go see the movie. It looks like it will be really good. In addition to my regualar goals and markers I also have a book and movie goal list. I have combined them as a whole but individually im really excited about that too.

1. All 7 House of night books (currently on 3 of 7)
2. Eat Pray Love
3. The Lost Symbol (I preordered this when it first came out and then got into the Twilight Series so i stil havent read this one yet and I LOVE Dan Brown)
4. I want to do some educational reading too.... something geared towards Joe so i can a small clue as to what he is talking about with cars lol
5. There are also some Iris Johannsen books I need to catch up on in the Eve Duncan series

Those books alone should get me to Christmas or maybe even to R&R in Feb.

Movie wise there is something just about every month so im fairly covered there.

Getting passed my goal topic, Joe and I are doing good. We havent missed a time when we normally talk, but sometimes i have no idea what to talk about or to say. I cant say "hey baby, im going watch this show and ill give u a call bacK" like we used to do and we cant have a tv date anymore like we used to either. Its better on IM because i can be doing somehting at the same time and i find things to talk about alot easier. On the phone its the same conversation "how are you, how did you sleep, how was dinner, hows work.... etc" but its prolly good, because thats how our conversations are when he is home too, so its familiarity and what we both know and its a little comforting. Even when he is working and talking out loud to himself i love it... as long as i hear his voice its fine. i could sit there all day and just listen to him talk to himself about work. The only thing that is bugging me is the care packages. he is on a health kick and working out so any snacks i wanted to send are like "dieting devils" lol no carbs, no sugars, nothing fattening. and i cant send him pajamas like i wanted too because he only wears shorts to bed.... which is fine, i can work around that. but what else could i possibly send....? I have a few healthy snacks i can send like nuts and sunflower seeds, and popcorn. This is when i feel like i dont know him at all.As his wife i feel like i should just know exactly what he wants and needs and what he likes and doesnt like. but on the flip side i have to tell myself... I have only known him for a year. anything else i could send he can get at the PX... ill prolly just send him stuff anyways and if he uses it he uses it, if he doesnt he doenst... at least i tried. I know he just doenst want me to spend my money on him, thats just the type of person he is God love him :) Well baby, I promise not to spend much money on you... just a few thoughtful things here and there :)

Since its humpday and one more week til the one month mark here are my "plans":
Thursday: finish writing Grannys thank you cards with my dad
Friday: Clean and watch a movie
Saturday: hanging with Jew: if she is free and then WEBCAM DATE@!!!!!!
Sunday: Church and shopping with my mom
Monday: Secret life of the american teenager
Tuesday: going to moms to watch Pretty little liars
Wednesday: Netflix night
Thursday: reading :)
Friday: hmmmm not sure but its the one month mark so maybe ill celebrate and go to the movies instead of watching one at home :)

I think now that we are practically at the one month mark it wil be ok to only log once a week instead of everyday or every other day.... That way it will give me somehting to look forward to every week and every four entries is one month down :)

I love you so much joe! Your my best friend and you make me whole!