Month-by-Month

Have you ever felt like you are just on a really fast train and you are looking out the window at the blur of trees and houses and that is how you days zoom by?

The past few months have been fast, disorientingly fast. (I make up my own words) But I decided to do a quick month-by-month update. But real fast.

November
-We had a really good Thanksgiving with our friends Chris and Jeni. I was really impressed with how yummy we made our dinner.

-My computer also contracted a ridiculous amount of viruses that attacked my Internet explorer and AOL.

-It snowed and we had an interesting experience sliding down a hill and me screaming, STOP! STOP! STOP! We did. Thank you to the brave curb.


December
-I decided to remove myself from all of the drama that I was being weighed down by, and in doing so was unbelievably at peace.

-We also packed up the kitties and took them to Houston. A word to the wise: Red Eye + 2 cats + a very tall husband+ claustrophobic me = HORRIBLE FLIGHT!!!!

-I got really sick in Houston, thanks mom.

-Being sick as a dog was not helped by a phone call in the middle of the trip stating David's pull out date was being pushed up from January 16 to January 2nd and instead of Japan they were going to the Persian Gulf. Panic and crying followed.

-But Christmas was nice.

-Right before we got on the place David's chief called and said never mind about leaving early but definitely straight to the gulf.

January
-David had duty New Years Eve.

-We started packing and getting things ready for David to leave for 8 months. Think packing for a 2 week vacation is tough, how about almost a year!

-We started painting, and boxing things up and moving, all the while missing my little kitties.

-It snowed a bunch. It was not fun.

-We said goodbye at 3am, January 16th, the only way I knew how. We didn't say goodbye at all, we just danced to the first song we danced to as man and wife: I Love you by Coleman Hawkins.

-I barely made it home from taking David because of the terrible snow storm.

-My mom flew in and worked really hard with me to finish packing/cleaning my apartment. Thanks mom.

-Then we drove from Port Orchard, Washington to Houston, Texas. A long haul.


I hope that clears up alot of curiosity and now I can jump to the present time and continue my blog life.

It was my new year's resolution last year to have more people read and enjoy my blog and I think I achieved my goal. I really enjoy sharing with all of you. :)

Going nuts

It seems like this moving process never really ends. We keep our little noses to the grindstone and it seems as if more stuff appears over night.

We have today to work really hard, after David gets off work. We are still working on painting and the last little bits of laundry and packing David for 8 months and me for a year.

Tomorrow morning around 4am I take David up to the boat. Another goodbye. I am fine with it. To me it is a means to an ends. When we get through this we are on our way to a civilian life. Where we eat dinner together, and don't have to do this long distance thing anymore. And if I want to call David at work I can. I will just consider myself lucky when he comes home to me every night. And if that means we have to do another cruise to get there, I am up for it.

The general rule on these things, at least from my experience, is the first few months are the hardest. Month 3 drags on, but after that it speeds up, it becomes just life. When they get really close, like the last month, that is nerve racking. I get super nervous and that month takes forever to get through.

I just am ready to be finished packing and cleaning and moving. But the good news is, my fortune cookie last night read:

You should be able to undertake and complete anything.

YAY! I will finish!

David is taking the laptop on cruise with him and my computer is waiting to be loaded into the car, so this will be my last post for a while. My mom flies in Tuesday to drive back with me, super nice huh? Then it will take maybe 4 or 5 days to get back. I am thinking that the weather will alow us to get out. There is still snow on the ground up here but the roads are nice. No ice anymore.

My next post will be from Houston, with my kitties near by and in my new home for a year.

Quick Update

So David is home, which means we are busy. Working on organizing our big move.

But also as I have mentioned I have been scrambling to get a baby shower together. It is tomorrow and last night we were little sweat shop children making the favors. I will post tomorrow about how it goes.

Last weekend we went camping and it was lots of fun. I took some video so I am working on getting something put together. So by the end of the weekend I should have something ready. Stay tuned.

That is all. All is well. We are off to a curb appeal work party.