My weekend

It has been a while since I last updated my blog. It has been a long/fun/crazy weekend. Friday started off with me going to the beach with my mom sister best friend and nephew. It was a beautiful day out and I am really working on my tan. I need to be tanned and in shape when Justin gets home. I came home and fell asleep for a quick cat nap. I woke up and got a call from Dani. I met her and her maid of honor sue in the city for a drink. Me and Dani, being the married old ladies that we are sat in a quiet booth and talked haha. It was a really good time and I was soo happy to see her. Hanging out with someone from 1/2 felt great. After that I headed back to my car in the parking garage where I got lost. The security guard had to help me and drive me to find my car. In my defense it was a 9 story garage that was very confusing. Another kid and his girlfriend also got into the security car. The kid said he had walked around all 9 floors and couldnt find his car and said that the garage was like a rubix cube. But I did finally find my car after a long drive and pressing the alarm. Saturday morning I woke up early to head to South Boston for the Marine Corps Honor Run. Justin ran the run 3 years ago so I was so excited to participate. I met Dani and Sue and there were Marines all over the place. I wore my shirt that I made for Justin. Sadly, it was raining out. I kept hoping it would pass....but didnt. Instead it got much worse, much much worse. It downpoured on us and I mean downpourned. We were soaked and my feet were completely immeresed in water. I was laughing because it really was funny but absolutely miserable. I came home from the run and fell asleep again. I had work at 4 and was hoping to meet up with Dani again after but I got out later than excpected. Instead I went out with some work friends for a drink down at the bar we hang out about 2 minutes away from my work. Today consisted of mothers day an absolutely crazy double at my work and now blogging. I need to write Justin a nice long motomail next because I wrote one saturday night but the internet messed up and it got erased. I hope everyone has a fun safe week!

Memorial Day

Above is a picture I wanted to share with everyone on here. This was taken a street over from where I live. Every year for Memorial Day a man in my town takes the time out to decorate his lawn like this. Every cross represents a Massachusetts soldier KIA in either Iraq or Afghanistan. He was one side dedicated to Iraq and the other to Afghanistan. He puts the cross a small angel, a ribbon and a picture, nametag and ribbon of the fallen heros. He is constantly upadated on new people to add. I think this is such an amazing thing. Also every telephone pole on his street gets an American flag and a yellow ribbon. It is an incredible sight and I am so grateful to have him in town.

Miss you

So I havent updated my blog in a while. Part of me has been busy but part of me just hasnt been in a great mood. I didnt hear from Justin for 19 days so it just made me not want to post. But he thankfully called so I should be good for about a week. Anyways, leading up to this deployment I kept telling myself how much easier it would be than the last one because it would be over the summer and summers fly but, but I never realized how much harder the summer would make it. The weather has been in the 80's and 90's the last week and it just makes me miss Justin so much more. We always have so much fun in the summers and have so many memories. I decided to dedicate this post to all the fun things we love doing together in the summer and look back on it next summer and do them all to make up for this one.
Going to the beach, falling asleep in the backseat of the car at the beach til 5am, camping, going to NC and being so nervous to see you after weeks apart, Roadtrips to and from NC, Swimming for hours, going to the driving range, going to the shooting range, watching the red sox and drinking cheap beer, going to the sox games, Taking day trips into boston and walking around for hours doing tourist things even though we live here, going to the beach at night and racing eachother to crush sandcastles that were left in the day time, watching you freeze in the New England ocean and not being used to it, Going fishing for hours listening to music bringing drinks and candles to keep the mosquitos away while we sit on the blanket for hours and talk, you cooking on the grille, having 4th of july parties and birthday parties for you, watching you start a fire, camping, making you take the fish off the hooks for me, going for walks after dinner, having you lead me down random paths at ames nowell, hanging out all day doing nothing and just being in love with eachother, lazy days in bed watching movies and eating all day, fireworks, sitting on the back of your truck eating icecream, walking around boston and having you give me a history lesson, driving aimlessly in NC and finding new places, and so many more little things you do that make me smile. I love you Justin come home soon and safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An afternoon post for once

So right now I am updating to you at 4pm. That is a big change from the 4am I am normally typing. But tonight I am going to try to fall asleep much earlier. I have a lot I want to get done tomorrow morning before I head to work. Other than that today is my last day in college. I finish all my finals. I am heading back to school soon for my 6pm final and thats going to be it. It is a really weird bittersweet feeling. I am really excited to be done but I wish Justin could be here. Today I had to say bye to my favorite professor. I have taken him 3 times and he is the best. His name is Professor Auslander. He is about 85 years old. He was a corpsman in WWII and has been so good to me. In february I missed the entire month of school so I could be with Justin before he left. He let me make up everything, and told me to take as much time making it up as I needed. Ive sat in his office and talked to him about Justin and just a few weeks ago, he bought a new marines hat and was so excited to show it to me. I have really grown attatched to him. Its like he is someone that knows what I am going through and he actually cares. Through all of school and work a lot of times people just dont get it. They arent flexible and its frustrating. He has always been so awesome. So on the bottom of my final I left him a note that said "Professor Auslander, Thank you so much for everything! You are hands down the best professor at the school and I learned so much in all of your classes. I will miss you but Ill be back to visit. Semper Fi" I know it will make him smile. He really is the best professor though. He hates text books and teachers who have never worked in the field they teach. He is a finance professor and teaches everything from memory and from actually working in the job. He has had many jobs including working on the new york stock exchange and Merrill Lynch. I am always impressed by how sharp he is still is for an 85 year old.
Aside from that, I have been doing a lot of thinking about what I am going to do with my upcoming free time. As mentioned before, I want to start taking different classes at the gym and find something I really enjoy. I want to catch up on books Ive bought but havent gotten the chance to read, clean organize and throw out everything. Also now that I have more free time I can finally furniture shop guilt free. I normally am procrastinating doing homework but now I can whenever I want. I need to start making definite decisions though and work on a budget, Another thing I want to do is spend more time with my best friend. We have had complete opposite schedules the past semester so we are spending saturday together. Other than that not much else is going on. What are everyone elses goals for the next few months?

Spring Cleaning

Okay so the title of this post is spring cleaning. I mean that physically and mentally. Its 230am right now and today is my last day of school. I am going to have so much more free time on my hands and I want to schedule meaningful things into my time. For starters, I want to throw tons of stuff that I own away. I have so much clutter that is unneccessary, most of it from school. So I know that getting rid of it all will feel like a weight off my shoulders. Next, I really need to get into this healthy lifestyle thing. Theres so much I want to accomplish with my health and I think I am finally grown up to realize that its not just about losing weight and looking good, I really just want to feel good. Tonight I filled my zune with lots of podcasts. Things that inspire me. Some are stress relieving tips, exercise tips and others. One podcast I always subscribe to is from Quickanddirtytips.com Its a website that has really quick cute little bits of information for all types of things, public speaking, health, modern manners guy and the one I listen to The Nutrition Diva. This is a women who gives advice on tons of food related issues. What to eat, myths, benefits of certain foods, it is really great. If anyone has an ipod or zune I suggest downloading them but you can listen to them right off the website. Aside from that I want to set a gym schedule and I need to keep up with it. There are a lot of classes at the gym I am interested in taking, I need to find a workout buddy. Also after reading Danis post she inspired me to try yoga. I have always wanted to do it but never have so this is my chance. I want to also become a better runner. Before Justin left, he bought me new running shoes. He went for a run with me down on Onslow Beach and I couldnt even run 1/2 mile. Now I am running over 1.5 miles. I would love to run a 5k with him when he comes back. Something for a good cause close to us that would make us feel good. Overall I just really want to use this deployment time to feel rejuvinated. Get back on a regular sleep schedule, eat healthy and work out. I have lots of books I have bought but havent had the chance to read. I also want to pick one day off a month and do something for me, maybe get a pedicure/manicure/massage or something. I have felt so stressed and run down lately, I need to work on me. And I think that If I work on me, work on being happy and healthy, I will lose these pounds I want to lose and without the work. It will just happen on its own. Overall I just want to feel like me again.

1:30am we meet again

Hello Blog friends!
Its 1:30am and like always, I am wide awake. I have lots on my mind and cant sleep. Its strange how it is so hard to relax at night when I have time but in the afternoons I could nap for hours. Today is 13 days and counting since the last time I heard from my love. But a lot of other wonderful ladies in his battalion for phonecalls today so I am hoping mine is on its way soon! Today was a long day. I had my very last class ever. Now I am just 4 finals away from graduation. Then I went to AC Moore to get some stuff to work on Justins newest care package its theme is Bruins quest for the cup 2010. I didnt find much I liked there so I went o Michaels and found some cute stuff. The package is almost ready and I am so excited about it. I know Justin is going to love it. He is a huge hockey fan and played hockey all his life. Back when he was a senior in high school I would wake up at 4am to go to his hockey practice before school. And boy do I miss those days. They were so carefree and fun, we spent everyday together, always going on new adventures. I cant wait to have that back. So here are some pics from the new care package. I had lots of pictures to put in so there wont be so much blank space.


Tomorrow I just have to head to the store and buy everything to fill it and ship it out first thing thursday morning. I should have already had the pictures for the package but I dont due to a dumb mistake on my part. Today I was in a rush before leaving for work and I emailed my pictures to cvs to be printed. I selected the wrong store to pick them up at. So when I got out of work til 10 I drove to the 24 hour cvs only to find out that I sent them to the wrong store, so take 2 will be tomorrow. I have been looking online for a lot of creative food ideas to send. So if anyone has any suggestions I would love it. I know the regular chips, candy, granola bars, etc but I want to think of new things that are like actual food. I have a busy day planned tomorrow and I am really excited that its april 28th. We are almost through another month on the calendar. I hope everyone reading this has a wonderful day and finishes April on a good note. Goodnight Everyone!

Hoping

Hello everyone,
Right now its 245pm on April 26th. Only 4 days left of this month which makes me extremely happy. Its been 11 days since the last time I heard from Justin, BUT I just went on facebook and someone in his team called his wife so that has me really hoping for a call of my own. Hearing his voice would make me good to go again and motivated for at least a week. Other than that I havent updated in a few days. Since then I sent out 2 more packages to Justin and went spring clothes shopping. And I got 2 pairs of jeans a size smaller! I dont know if its all the running I have been doing or if its just the fit of the jeans haha but I am going to pretend that its because of my hard work at the gym and keep working hard. I woke up this morning and went for a run. Now I am home, supposed to be working on homework until I head to work in an hour and a half. Thursday is my last day of school. There are people Im going to miss but I am so excited to be done with school and get ready to move to North Carolina with my husband and all the wonderful ladies I have met from 1/2 I have really met some of the best friends there, even though I havent known them long and have never even met some of them in real life, it doesnt matter. They are so supportive and always know what to do to cheer me up. Friday night I also made a new tshirt. Me and Dani are going to marine week in Boston on May 7th and I wanted to make a shirt for it:

. Other than that my life is kind of doing the same old thing. I am ready for May to be here. I have lots of stuff planned. Marine week, graduation, 2 red sox games, fun work dinner, and hopefully I can throw some beach days in. Then in June me Nicole and Sarah rented a beach house at a military vacation place close to home owned by the air force. We are staying for a week. For now, its off to get some work done and hopefully get a phone call. I hope everyone has a fantastic day!!