Thursday, February 22, 2007

Lights, cameras,...

Tomorrow night I am hosting my first 'FLAME' party (stupid name, i know) which is basically a group of women from chapel that get together once a month and play games and eat and such. My theme is 'Oscar' so I have 'tented' our dining room with black, red, and sparkly stars. It's going to be alot of fun. I don't know how many people are going to be here. I bought a new formal dress at Ross that has an incredible likeness to my wedding dress, for $20. It almost makes me sad that I paid much more for my actual wedding dress. Ouch. Anyway, I have to go roll out the red carpet!

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

aaaallooooohaaaaa

The plane tickets are booked, the hotel is booked, and I wish I was packing my bags as we speak! It's cold and gray in Monterey, go figure. I asked Chaplain yesterday 'Can I take a week off in May? Like a full week, not a weekend?' and he said 'Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to.' But then he laughed, looked at the calendar and approved it, and about ten seconds later I booked it! 9 days, 8 nights on beautiful Waikiki beach! I could not be more excited about something. I'm thinking about making a paper chain to hang in my office to count down the days!

Friday, February 02, 2007

long time gone

it's been almost two months since my last post. That's crazy. So very much, and so very little has happened since then. We went home for Christmas, which was great, we went to the Westin for New Years, which was great, and we went to OK to see extended fam, which was great. Overall this was a total blast. We've also gone to Tahoe, and I have been back home since that blog!
And just this minute I thought, I should retitle this blog to "the military is the coolest thing in the whole world, ever!" because I just got off a website and am booking a 9 day, 8 night super sweet trip to Hawaii for Rob's class break, and because we are military, we get to stay in a military hotel (which is very clean and nice) right on Waikiki beach for less than $100 a night! Go USA! As much as this job can suck (moving to SA, moving to Cali, living in Cali, working in, you guessed it, Cali, and never knowing where 'home' is going to be next, ect) there are total perks! And let me go ahead and tell you sisterhons, I am a perk kinda gal. Tell me that I have to stand outside all day for a community garage sale, and i'll tell you to where to stuff it, but tell me that I'll make a couple of bucks, get a tan, and get rid of some crap in the garage, and I am the first one there! So I don't get a gown when I go to the girl dr (emily), it is free, and it's not like that paper gown is covering so much by the end of the visit anyway! "Please feel free to look at my boobs, tummy, and bajingo, but I'll freak if you can see my arm!"
ALOHA!