First Day

At the new job. I was actually really excited this morning to go! Even though I had to get up at 4:45 so I could take B into work so I could have the car for the rest of the day. Let me tell you I think Sulley has a harder time with the early wakeup call than me! This little pup is zonked out next to me right now, snoring so loud!

Anyway, it was pretty standard as far as first days go. Did some paperwork, watched some cheesy videos, read over a bunch of stuff and got an in depth tour of the store. I think I'm really going to like working there a lot! Although it's going to be REALLY difficult to maintain my self control and not spend my entire paycheck there!

Military Ball

One of the perks of dating a soldier is being able to do things like go to a Military Ball, pretty much like Prom all over again, only a little less cheesy haha. There happened to be one this past weekend that we went to, and one of B's good friends was able to fly his girlfriend out for the weekend for it so it ended up being a really fun weekend!

On Friday night we had wine night and played the boys in Cranium, I'm sad to say they won... twice. I still stand by the fact that it was a fluke because they somehow seemed to draw all the easy card. One day we will play them again and beat them.

Saturday night was the ball, C (the girlfriend from out of town) and I went for mani's and pedi's in the morning which was so relaxing and nice. There's nothing better than being pampered! Now all I need is a massage and I would be golden!

Anyway, here's a few pics from the ball for your viewing pleasure :)

I GOT THE JOB!!

I am so happy right now!! I got the call a little bit ago and the store manager, Stephanie offered me a position. They're calling back a little later to set up orientation, but I honestly couldn't be happier today!

Also on a side note, it's my dad's birthday today too! Happy Birthday Dad!!!! Love you!!

Still Waiting.....

On a phone call. Had interview yesterday and I thought it went pretty well. I interviewed with 6 other people though, so that had me pretty nervous. Now I'm just waiting for a phone call.. have I mentioned how much I hate waiting? Ya I'm impatient. I'm going to be back at square one yet again if I don't get this job, not to mention I'll feel like a huge failure.

Yay for New Things!

I was feeling a little down about the whole American Eagle thing where they didn't even call me back about the job after I'd interviewed. I mean I have 3 years experience with the company and they are supposedly hiring a bunch of people.. WTH?? Anyway, I'm not going to get started on that.

So I filled out an application at Pier One last week and they called me yesterday and I'm interviewing with them on Monday!! I need to go shopping for an interview outfit though because I have nothing apporpriate to wear. For the American Eagle interview I just wore a cute AE outfit, maybe they didn't like that I didn't wear black pants and heels?? I don't know, that's not the type of company they are, so I wore something cute and classy that I would wear to work.

So tomorrow I'm getting my hair cut and colored (So excited) because it is in desperate need of some help. An inverted bob is cute when you keep it up, but kind of diastrous when it's growing out. So hopefully they'll be able to do something decent with it and I'm also going to get some highlights done, which I haven't had in AGES! I'm one of those weird women who doesn't dye their hair all the time, but I thought some natural highlights would be fun for a change. I'm a little nervous though because I'm going to a brand new salon, and I'm super specific about my hair, I definitely don't trust just anybody with it and you will never see me at Cost Cutters getting a haircut. It's something I will ALWAYS splurge on.

So after I get my hair done I'm going to go over to the mall since it's right next door and shop for an interview outfit! I'm excited for new things, it feels like a fresh start. Even though American Eagle would have gotten the job done and earned me an income, I know that all the things that annoyed me about working there in Minnesota would have followed me here. I feel like I made a fresh start out here in Washington, so a new job is perfect!

Now keep your fingers crossed that I get the job!!

It's Been 9 Years...

I still remember exactly what I was doing that day. Do you? I think it will be one of those events in history where everybody will always remember where they were that fateful day. I was in Middle School, sitting in a computer class. Class had just started and we were all getting started on our assignment for the day when an announcement came over the loudspeaker for all the teachers to turn on their television immediatly. I looked around, wondering what was going on, as my teacher, Mr. Gust turned on the television. About 10 seconds later the 2nd plane hit the other tower and I just remember thinking, did that really just happen?? They were discussing the first plane that had hit one of the Twin Towers when a 2nd one just glided across the screen crashing into the other one. I don't think any of us realized at the time how major this was. I was only 13 at the time though. For the rest of the day, every class that I was in had the television on so that we could see what was happening. Another plane hit the pentagon and another plane crashed in Pennsylvania. More details trickled out throughout the day as we all wondered who would do this to us? Who hated our country enough to committ a mass murder right under our nose and leave our country stunned. It wasn't long after that before we were at war with Afghanistan, specifically the Al Queda and the terrorists responsible for that day.


B hasn't really talked much about his experience of the day, but his 17th birthday was the day before and I think it definitely had an impact on his decision to join the military. He enlisted the following spring.

Now it is 9 years later, and our country is involved in not one but two wars. Today remember what happend at Ground Zero in NYC, pray for all those who lost their lives that day, and pray for their families who have to go on without their loved ones. Pray for all of our troops who are still in Iraq and Afghanistan and pray that they all come home to their families very soon.

To Blackberry or Not... That Is The Question

I'll be able to upgrade my phone in less than a month, and at first I just figured I would get another Blackberry, I mean why not? Mine has done me well these past 2 years, in fact you could say I've had a love affair with my Blackberry. It does everything for me, I get my emails, texts, facebook, I take pictures with it. I had my yahoo messanger on it so when B was deployed I could talk to him any time, any where.

But these days it seems these are not unique qualities to have in a phone. With the rapid advancements in technology, there's a plethora of able devices out there waiting to do my bidding. Unfortunately I won't be getting the phone of my dreams, which is the iphone 4. I have Verizon and not At&t, so no iphone for me :( There are of course the rumors that Verizon will be picking up the iphone but those have been floating around for years so I'm not holding my breath. And I JUST put B on my plan so it's not as if I could even just switch to At&t either. So with that out, I'm left with the all the smartphones Verizon offers me, which is a lot.

One of the phone guys at Best Buy informed me that they no longer carry the Blackberry Storm 2, which is just the updated version to my Storm, which is making me think Blackberry may be discontinuing that model all together. In which case I don't want to have a discontinued phone, that would be setting myself back technologically. So I started playing around with some of the droids. And let me tell you, there are some awesome non Blackberry phones. There's 3 I really like, so I just have to figure out which to get. Lucky for me I have a couple weeks to decide :)

Happy Birthday

to my love!!!

That is all.

I can't sleep

So what do I do? Well I blog of course. Usually I have no problem falling asleep, I'm out like a light every night. But I promised Brandan that I would wake up at 4:45 to make him breakfast because it's his birthday tomorrow so of course I can't fall asleep tonight.

Anyway, I figured I would respond to Maloree's tag. I am to list 7 things about myself, so here goes!

1. I'm a recycling freak. I get really upset if somebody doesn't recycle, and I've been known to dig through the garbage and take recycles out and put them in their proper bins.

2. I'm obsessed with Harry Potter. I know I know that sounds super nerdy and it is, but I grew up with the books and I love them. My mom used to pre oreder them for my brother sister and myself from Barnes and Noble so we would get them delivered to our house the day they were released and I would literally read it in a day. I'm a fast reader haha. I like the movies, but they aren't nearly as good at the books. It is my dream to go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, and I've told B that he must take me.

3. I have no idea what I want to do with my life and it terrifies me. I know I have to go back to college eventually, I just hope I have a lot more figured out by that time.

4. I can be really shy, and I always second guess myself, so it's hard for me to make friends. I think that's one of the scariest things about this lifestyle. You never know when you'll be uprooted and moved to somewhere completely new, away from everything you've ever known, and you have to make all new friends.

5. I can't go a day without eating chocolate. It's my weakness. I always have a bag of Dove chocolates in the freezer.

6. I love cooking but I hate cooking for just myself. When I lived with roomates and I only had myself to cook for I rarely made anything, and if I did I made enough to eat for a week. Now that I actually have somebody to cook for I love trying out new recipes and tweaking old ones.

7. It is my life goal to set foot on every continent in the world. I'm at 2 right now, so I have a ways to go haha. I love to travel and I want to see everything, and when I have a family I want to show my children the world so that they can have an appreciation for all cultures and all ways of life.

Well there you have it folks, 7 things you probably didn't care to know about me, but now you know anyway :p

I know I'm supposed to tag people in this, but pretty much every blog I read has been tagged, so I'm just going to cheat and skip that part. Sorry haha.

Now I'm off to try and get some sleep!

Intolerance

I find it sad to read about all the intolerance going on in our world. Specifically in reference to the building of a mosque close to Ground Zero in New York City. Yes, even though 9/11 happend 9 years ago, the wounds seem to still be open and a lot of people think that this mosque is disrespectful. What I find disrespectful is people's intolerance. Yes these terrorists bombed our country in the name of Islam. But really can you consider them good Muslims? I find it hard to believe that their religion teaches hate and violence. Now I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert on Islam, I don't even know anybody whose Muslim. But I think to blame the whole Muslim religion for something that some extremeists did is not right.

There are many people who have done things in the name of Christ that are most definitely not Christian. How about the Westboro Babtist Church. They claim that they are doing God's will, but you ask anybody if they think those nut jobs are true Christians and you will likely get a resounding "HELL NO!" I don't think it's fair to punish religion as a whole for something that a small fraction of their religion believes in.

Ground Zero should be a sight of mourning and a place for all of America to remember what happend that day. The mosque isn't even on the sight, and Muslims have just as much of a right to religion as the rest of America. Our country was founded on the basis that ANYBODY no matter what their religion, race, etc will have the same freedoms and the right to practice their beliefs, and I think its hypocritical to say that one group of people is not allowed to do something just because of some extremists. You'd be hard pressed to find any religion that doesn't have extremists. One of the wonderful things about this country is the diversity. There are so many different cultures here and if we all practiced a little tolerance we would see that take away religion, take away skin color, take away culture, we're all just the same.

Now I'm not one to get into debates over heated topics, but I just felt a compulsion to state my opinion today.

Reality

I've gotten my first dose of Army life. Coming here I knew that this would happen, but I guess you can't really be prepared to hear that your friends are leaving. J and K have been friends with B for a LONG time. In fact J and B have been here at Ft. Lewis for their entire Army career, about 8 years, in the same unit the whole time, which is really rare. They're super close, and B is even god father to J's little girl. When I got here they took me in and accepted me instantly. It was amazing and they are awesome friends. They got orders for Ft. Jackson in a year. It's likely that by that time we'll have orders too. It's just strange because I just moved here and it's exhausting to think about doing it all over again. At least we still have a year to hang out, I'm just not looking forward to moving somewhere that neither of us know anybody. At least here B had friends and I met wives of his friends. When we move we'll both be starting from scratch and that scares me. I'm shy and it's hard for me to open up to people.

B goes back to work Tuesday after a long 3 weeks of block leave. He's going to talk to his reenlistment guy and we'll try to figure out what he's going to do. He's still on the fence about reclassing, and if he does reclass the jobs open to him will be limited because of his rank. And if he gets promoted one more time in the Infantry he'll have to stay Infantry for the rest of his career. So we have some big decisions to make. He won't actually be reenlisting until October so we can hopefully get a bonus. I've told him that I will support him no matter what he decides. It really doesn't matter to me whether he stays Infantry or not, I just want him to be happy with whatever he's doing.

For now I have to go feed the furbabies and contemplate the future.