So we’ve been in our new house for almost two weeks. We just got internet and cable YESTERDAY. Yeah, I’ve been losing my mind. We’ve gotten a lot of stuff done though. I’m making the curtains for our house and I’m almost done. I have a few more panels to do in the living room, and then just our bedroom. A lot of the blinds are missing/broken so those windows were priority. The landlord says as soon as we pay rent for about two months, they will use the money to replace the blinds in the house.

Anyways, I’m going to take pictures soon. We have a housewarming tomorrow so I want to have it looking pretty by then! I have a lot more ideas for the house, but they’ll have to come a little at a time.

Now it’s just catching up on everything online! I’m getting to it a little at a time, between a crazy two year old and trying to get stuff done here. Thanks to anyone who’s had to be patient with me lately. I feel bad for being absent, but I didn’t have much control over it. Love y’all!

Just wanted to update before we leave Florida. We’ve got the house about 99% packed and 95% cleaned. We have a bit to do tomorrow but it’ll be quick. We picked up my Father-In-Law and Sister-In-Law from the airport today and they helped us a lot. We ended up completely re-painting the master bedroom because we couldn’t get the exact color of the wall and there was too many spots to touch up. Almost done though!

We are leaving for Texas probably tomorrow afternoon/evening and will be there before noon on Monday. I can’t wait to see my friends and family! I’m not sure when we’re getting internet but my Sister-In-Law only lives two streets away from where we’re moving and they have internet, so I will update soon! Wish me luck!

Only two days until we leave Florida! Ugh I am so stressed out. We still have a ton to do here at the house (well.. it’d doable but I’m still going to stress!) and I’m just exhausted. I feel bad for abandoning some of my online projects lately. I haven’t been as active on forums, though I know everyone understands. I don’t know when we’ll have internet at the new house, but my sister in law will be two streets over and they have internet, so I’ll still be able to let everyone know I’m alive!

Yesterday, Jeremiah got me a present. He’s been wanting to get me the Reebok Easy Tone shoes for a long time. Finally we found them (Every store that gets them, sells out of them within a couple of hours!) at Hibbett Sports in Destin. They only had two sizes left, and one was mine! Thank goodness for uncommonly huge feet! Yay! Anyways, they’re super cute (white and pink) and I’m hoping to utilize them soon. Thanks honey!

I had my last playgroup on Wednesday. It was really sad.. I don’t want to leave the friends I’ve made here. Also, I had my last therapy appointment on Monday. I ended up telling her about my website and stuff. I know it’s not orthodox for her to contact me on the internet, but if she reads it.. HI!!!

I need to get on the ball today.. I’m tired but there’s tons to get done. If you’re bored, check out The Curvy Girls channel on YouTube. I can’t believe I haven’t posted about it. It’s myself, Caitlin, Jenn, Anna, Kecia, Danielle and Leisl. They’re a great bunch of girls and we have 6 videos a week chronicling our weight loss struggles and triumphs.

Pink & Posh is giving away a Flip Mino HD! I’ve never won any contests online, so I thought I’d give this one a shot! Click the link below to enter the contest!

http://pinkandposh.net/2010/01/we-flip-for-losers-giveaway

I typed up an ENTIRE like 2000 word blog last night, and *poof*.. the server went down for maintenance. I guess it went down about two sentences in because that’s the only draft that saved. HOW FRUSTRATING!

Anyways, I basically rambled on about moving. As of today, it’s 5 days until we leave for Texas. I am going to miss my friends here. We’re going to playgroup today and tomorrow, and that’ll be our last one. I know I’m going to cry. Then there’s also my last therapy appointment today. I cried when I left my therapist in San Diego and I like this one just as much. I’m such a big baby, lol.

We got a LOT done last night. We didn’t even start working on anything until like 3pm, but then we weren’t asleep until midnight. I’m exhausted! I pulled all our food out of the pantry and packed the dry goods we won’t use. I was going to simply use Magic Erasers on the walls, but after realizing it was going to take like 15 of those things, I ended up painting. Pantries just get so beat up and there was so many marks and scuffs on the walls. It looks gorgeous now though!

Today I’m going to battle the bathrooms.. get all my girly stuff packed up. I really need to go through my million bottles of lotion, hair spray, conditioner, etc and get rid of stuff I’ll never use. I also have like 50 bottles of body soap because I’m allergic to so many. I have to buy one at a time to figure out which ones I’m going to react to.. what a pain. O.o

Anyways, I’m going to go brainstorm on layout ideas for this website, and for a project that Angel, myself, and a few other girls are going to be diving into in the next month or so. Also, thanks to Angel, Whitters and Jenny for the comments on the vlog.

OKAY OKAY, I am officially updating only two days after my last update. I officially remembered my blog exists before two weeks passed me by.. I rock!

Today I totally forgot I have to take the dog to the vet. I’m actually pretty proud of myself. We’ve always had our dogs shots up to date, but we never remember exactly when they’re due. Yes, we have papers in our filing cabinet that tell us! Usually we get them within a month or two, haha. So I had made the appointment two weeks ago and last night I look on our white board and I’m like “oh crap, January 14th… Toby’s shots.. that’s tomorrow!” .. then I check my e-mail this morning. Reminder from the vet, Toby’s shots are due on January 14th, 2010.. NO WAY! I got it down to the day. Suhweet!

In other news, it’s 11 days until I move to Texas. I’m getting slightly panicky. We haven’t packed much yet.. I’ve got to get the ball rolling. Jeremiah’s taking Matthew camping this weekend for two nights. That was the original plan, then this morning he asked me to go. Honestly, I’d probably give in and suck it up, except theres SO much to do. I think two days without Matthew is a perfect opportunity to get some crap done.

I wanted to mention, also, that when Jeremiah made a purchase a few weeks ago on Amazon.. another camera lens *sigh* (at least this one was only $100..) he got a coupon for a free photo calendar from Shutterfly. Long story short, we’d ordered photo calendars for the in-laws and my mom for Christmas from Wal-Mart. Well, the ROYALLY forked it up so they got returned. We figured, now we can make them calendars and get one free! So I made two calendars, then Jeremiah said “Did you make one for my sister?”, because apparently after Christmas, Jeremiah told his sister we were making her one. So I made a third.. which was fine because they also had buy one get one 1/2 off. So one free, then we bought one for $19.99, and got one half off. We were up to $30, plus shipping which brought it to $46. Well, if you spend over $40 right now, you get free shipping (you see where this is going, yes?). So I go shopping (teehee), and find that address labels are on sale for $7.99. YAY! Address labels for the new house. Then I’ve got $2 left to spend. I figure I’ll order some individual prints, so I start uploading to their website. Turns out, for being a new customer, you get 50 free prints. DAMNIT! I just want to spend two dollars! So I figure, I’ll just order more than 50. Do you know how hard that is?

In the end, I end up with 3 calendars, 28 address labels (they are SO cute, by the way), and 64 prints. I got all that for $40 (since I had free shipping) rather than $46 for just the three calendars. SCORE! I got the address labels and the prints in the mail within 2 days. The labels are gorgeous, the prints are high quality. I can’t wait to get the calendars. I will definitely post about them, especially if they turn out awesome, which I’m hoping for.

It’s sad when every post starts with “Sorry I haven’t posted lately!”.. I need to get my butt in gear. Plus Angel was bugging me to blog and that’s a pretty good sign that I’m being a serious slacker. I’ve been thinking about a new layout. I really like this one, but it’s so.. simple. Who knows, I’m never happy.

We have gotten orders. In fact, we got them last week (update PHAIL). Jeremiah is due to check out here on January 25th. Yes, the January 25th that’ll be here in two weeks. We’ve started packing, but I’m not anywhere near being ready to move. I know the situation we’ll be in is for the best.. especially for Matthew.. but I still don’t want to do it. Jeremiah will be driving with me to Texas and helping me move in and get settled. I’ve already got a house that we will rent. Then Jeremiah has to be in Cali and checked into his new unit by February 24th. He will be there for a short time, then he’ll go cross-country for school for 4-5 months, then back to Cali. After that, it’s basically going to be training, settling in.. then deploying. The rotation for his new job is crazy..

We decided a couple of months ago that this is what would probably happen. We will try to see each other once a month – when he’s in the states. It’s going to be really hard.. I haven’t lived *truly* alone my whole life.. I’ve always gone to live with my mom or his parents when he’s deployed. I will have a lot of family and friends to be there for me, but they can’t be there 24/7.

I just hope we can do this..

I’ve been really bad about updating. I’m going to try to update everybody on everything in a list, since writing it all out would take me into next year.

- Jeremiah’s friend and EOD instructor did pass away the night I posted about it. TSgt Rick Palmar will be missed but I know his memory will be carried on. His wife has been so strong. I admire her ability to get through this pain and be there for their daughter. Just writing about it brings tears to my eyes. <3
- We went to Orlando for Christmas. I need to put all the pics up on my Flickr. It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed Jeremiah’s family. I already miss them!
- We haven’t yet gotten orders, but we’ve been “promised” them.. lol. Everybody’s out of the office during the holidays so it’s taking even longer than it would normally. They’ve told us we’ll be out by the first of February so Jeremiah already put the notice in to our realtor. She came and took pictures yesterday and said they already have people showing interest. I will miss this house.

Last night, our neighbors gave Matthew some apple pie and ice cream. He was so energetic and ended up dancing on the table. It was hilarious. I took pictures, also on my Flickr. I wish we had gotten video but rather than grabbing the video camera, Jeremiah went and grabbed the Canon DSLR which doesn’t have video. Rawr!

I’ve been playing on Farmville and CafeWorld again. I wasn’t able to get to the Facebook apps the whole time we were in Orlando but now I’ve caught them up and brought them back to life. I had them on a schedule where I only had to check in twice a day for a few minutes each and that got all messed up.. but now it’s fixed! Add me on Facebook if you like! I could always use more friends!!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas/Yule/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa (am I missing any?).. and that you all have a Happy New Year!

This is the second weekend in a row Jeremiah has left to go to Orlando. His aunt and uncle bought a run-down house next door to his grandparents so now their project is making it livable. Unfortunately, until the house IS livable, they are staying next door in the grandparent’s house. So it’s a full house over there.. and no room for me and Matthew. They’re supposed to work their asses off this weekend and hopefully be able to stay in there by Tuesday so that I can drive down and we can have a room and bed to sleep in.

In other news.. one of the instructors at the school here that Jeremiah was buddies with.. one day he was fine and the next he was diagnosed with cancer and was bleeding into his brain. He ended up on life support and was taken off of it today about 12:30AM PST. I ask that if you pray, keep his family in yours. He has a wife and a young daughter. They need all the spiritual support they can get.