tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37900396400223703142024-03-12T19:03:17.055-05:00Cabin Fever<br>
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Adventures in waiting.
A <strike>girlfriends</strike> <strike>fiances</strike> wife's journey through post deployment.KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-60216084829087592092011-09-23T22:43:00.001-05:002011-09-23T22:43:37.228-05:00Out of the shadowsHello there last and final reader that I'm hoping is still out there somewhere. Ok, so you probably aren't a "reader" per-se since there has been nothing to read. It's me, just popping in for my bi-annual update.
Honestly, I was more thinking about what to do with this blog... it's obvious that it no longer has the same meaning for me that it once had. The whole reason I started this blog KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-48809059454468226362011-01-11T16:46:00.001-06:002011-01-11T21:24:24.870-06:00The Belle of the BallWell it's that time of year folks... the ROTC annual "spring" formal is this February 4th and I need a dress.
I'm taking any and all suggestions really. I've been to a couple of these things already but the dress I wore last year was an overpriced HUGE mistake and I really didn't even feel pretty in it. The dress I wore prior to that was lost somewhere between moving... sad, cause itKJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-65480507100521296682011-01-10T20:13:00.000-06:002011-01-10T20:13:32.840-06:00Finally a 2010 post
I started my 2010 in review post but SO MUCH happened in 2010 that I just couldn't sit down and wrap my brain around the whole thing. I remember there were LOTS of smiles and some tears. 2010 was without a doubt the best year of my life to date... and I only hope that the years to come will do it justice. So, without further adieu... here's MY 2010.
January:
KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-32051956327426939992010-12-28T16:01:00.000-06:002010-12-28T16:01:29.313-06:00Green to Gold & GI Bill FinancesTwo posts in one day? I know... what has gotten into me?
The VA
This isn't so much a rant, just a stomp-your-foot kind of frustration. You see... this Green to Gold thing, while wonderful and a huge blessing, can come with it's fair share of decisions. At first glance, it's great! (ok... it really is GREAT... but like I said, I'm stomping my foot) Full scholarship, get your KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-64884630459065292942010-12-28T12:47:00.001-06:002010-12-28T13:06:10.411-06:00Christmas RecapHello all! I'm hiding out under behind my desk.. if you see them... you know... my employees... tell them I left. No, better yet, tell them I am EVERYWHERE.... watching...
Ugh... I wish I could have put a pause button on the Christmas vacation and continued sitting there in my underwear on the couch wrapped up with my husband watching movies. And no judgement about the KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-34945503756448265022010-12-13T16:20:00.000-06:002010-12-13T16:20:48.040-06:00One year(Photo taken by Lindsay Gray Photograhy)
A year ago today my sweet, handsome, amazing husband took me to the very top of a hill in middle Tennessee. We talked over a glass of wine about how wonderful life has been since moving to Tennessee. He told me how much he loved me and how beautiful I looked.
Then he did it - he proposed and my world was forever changed in that moment because I knewKJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-66881931118743577552010-12-12T09:57:00.000-06:002010-12-12T09:57:49.193-06:00CompromiseI've heard it many times. In all of my marriage advice seeking, I often heard the term "compromise" thrown in to the mix. And it's true. I've learned that not only in marriage, but well before throughout the course of our relationship. Everything from restaurant choices to duty stations have encountered a compromise at one time or another and this Christmas was KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-25280645762937902802010-12-01T19:57:00.001-06:002010-12-01T20:05:09.371-06:00To Bridalplasty or not?Ok... I have no idea why I'm watching this, maybe it's because it's the first channel I flipped to when Sgt. went to study and I saw an airman in uniform and a bunch of women oohing and awwing. I've seen a few commercials for this and wondered if I'd want to watch it. I must say I'm a sucker for trash TV...
While I'm not really for or against plastic surgery as a general rule I KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-58493832637663744902010-11-30T10:09:00.000-06:002010-11-30T10:09:08.766-06:00Well, I'm not dying. So that's good.Thanksgiving came and went and my first Thanksgiving hostess job was a great success! The turkey came out wonderfully and everything tasted pretty good. I broke the cardinal rule of hosting and used a few new recipes that I'd never tried before but all in all they were good. We had some friends over and had a great time! The wine I picked out was even requested the next day! (I KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-68748492935587766332010-11-24T14:40:00.001-06:002010-11-24T14:42:01.629-06:00My First ThanksgivingWell tomorrow is D-Day folks. My very first role as the Thanksgiving hostess.
Sgt. and I just had the wedding of our dreams down in Texas which meant frequent trips by me, and a good amount of money spent by us both so to save my employer from any more heart attacks by asking off and to save money by not traveling - we're staying home. Our first Thanksgiving as a married KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-33813600446786614482010-11-21T20:58:00.002-06:002010-11-21T20:58:48.657-06:00The Great White Chili** Please excuse the un-appealing look of my blog. I'm still waiting on my new design to come through!
So, we had a chili cook off at my school as the finale for our canned food drive. I was determined to enter a white chili. However, finding a recipe I was happy with was a little more difficult. I could have sworn I saw a recipe on my friends blog so I looked and looked KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-81415601080414620802010-11-18T07:08:00.002-06:002010-11-18T18:38:28.532-06:00Ch-Ch-Ch-ChangesCabin Fever is about to get an overhaul. So stay tuned! We're talking new look, easier navigation of pages, and maybe even a new name! I've been away from my blog for far too long and now that I'm back, I can't wait to give her a face lift!
** And please ignore the pink and green mess that it is right now. This is just so that I can have something plain from blogger on KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-45543030771912067242010-11-16T06:36:00.000-06:002010-11-16T06:36:31.345-06:00One Month!Well, here we are, officially married a whole month! Now, typically I'm not into celebrating monthly anniversaries - I tend to forget which day it is the whole ANN as in annual or anniversary (to turn yearly).... so Sgt. gets away with the one date and I don't have to set fifteen different reminders about the day start figuring out my own definitions for long standing words and languages. KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-67816018351977860292010-11-11T12:05:00.000-06:002010-11-11T12:05:05.921-06:00Veteran's Day - A different perspective*** This is a disclaimer that it's possible that the following post came out wrong, or heartless. So, if what I said can be taken two ways, and one of those ways made you angry, sad, hurt, or upset.... I meant the other one. Thanks.
I always think back to where I was when Sgt. was deployed. I remember how worried I become and how any hint as to what he was doing or where&KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-26265616345461987192010-11-10T06:08:00.000-06:002010-11-11T06:41:18.888-06:00New TraditionI keep meaning to post about this new tradition we've got going on around here. You see, I am a commuter, a worker drone who wears heels and carries Starbucks into the office everyday. I am a salaried slave to the early childhood education field. This equates to leaving my house by 8:00am and not returning to my house until 8:00pm (yeah, seriously). I don't have a cubical,KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-81536364538241503922010-11-02T20:28:00.000-05:002010-11-02T20:28:01.876-05:00The DentistSo, last night I woke up to excruciating pain in my lower jaw. We're talking punch-you-in-the-face-wish-I-had-a-way-to-rip-my-tooth-out kind of pain. I brushed my teeth again... not helpful. I poured ambesol all over my tooth and gums... still didn't help. Water was too cold, and closing my mouth at all was too much pressure. I tried and tried to go back to sleep KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-84844584639448651342010-10-25T17:09:00.001-05:002010-10-25T17:10:36.276-05:00The bedding debacle of 2010So... we registered for bedding, and then the bedding that we wanted kind of disappeared. So while shopping one day my Step Mom insisted she get us bedding and that there was this great sale at Stein-Mart and she knew we would find something there. So I went... and I was swept up by sale prices. Words like "20 piece set" and "Under $200.00" flashed before my eyes and I'm a fan KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-14482850421652464442010-10-18T10:27:00.000-05:002010-10-18T10:27:47.718-05:00I am married!That's right ladies and gentlemen, he put another ring on it. Right now my husband is taking a shower so I had a quick moment to hop on and give you the short version of the best day ever!
The day was beautiful, not too warm and not too cold. The ceremony was perfect... we were even able to light our unity candle despite the soft breeze flowing through the outdoorKJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-6805881434483259082010-10-15T06:47:00.000-05:002010-10-15T06:47:07.109-05:00And cue the tears...Today is my wedding rehearsal... WOWWW
I can feel myself near spontaneous tear fest almost every minute - or maybe that's just because i just got finished picking out the readings for our wedding... which is tomorrow. Yeah. Procrastinate much?
Aside from ridiculous family drama, we have been very blessed and fortunate to have so many helpful hands throughout our wedding. I just hope this KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-32315441087011812992010-10-11T19:42:00.001-05:002010-10-13T05:45:10.070-05:00Going to the chapel... 4 days away!Well we made it to Texas on Friday after a very stressful drive! We woke up at 1:00 am and left by 2:00 am - with four hours of sleep we hit the road, hoping to make it to Austin in time for Sgt.'s 6:55pm flight. The drive was insane. We barely made it to the airport in time for his flight when we found out that it had been delayed. Great.
Did I mention that my fiance KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-55261441463411069852010-10-05T15:51:00.000-05:002010-10-05T15:51:33.718-05:00A 1/4 of an inch to an 1/8 of an inchSo this morning I stumble around at an early 4:00 am but hey, it's all worth it when the man wakes me up with a Chai Tea Latte. He gets up insanely early.... like 2:00am these days trying to get all his homework finished up (taking 18 hours... and volunteering and such makes for a very tired fiance) so I try and get up a little after him so we can have at least 10-15 minutes KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-34881692553761322802010-10-04T21:44:00.000-05:002010-10-05T14:01:38.564-05:00Confessions of a prior-service-cadet's fianceI'm a stalker. A post Stalker. And by post I mean Army Post. Dear blog world, my name is K.J. and I frequently google future possibilities.
Does anyone else do this? Eh... maybe not.. I guess that wouldn't surprise me... especially because we don't KNOW where that will be. It's interesting to me though. I like to look up different posts around the country, see how KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-91802865709912761112010-09-29T07:05:00.000-05:002010-09-29T07:05:10.095-05:00Marriage Advice - Any and AllI'm seeking any and all marriage advice so please, leave comments.
You see... while I am excited and giddy at the thought of being married and marrying Sgt, I am also deep down, secretly terrified. There. I said it.
I'M REALLY NERVOUS ABOUT BEING MARRIED!
I think Sgt. and I have done a pretty good job in preparation for our marriage. We've done the book that has KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-43317094238796356932010-09-24T07:37:00.000-05:002010-09-24T07:37:29.033-05:00The Army Goes Rolling AlongROTC is a strange world. It's made even more strange when you've been a part of the active duty Army, in some form or another, first. It's crazy to think that this time next year we will be finding out if the Army will take us back. It never really occurred to me that not going back to the Army would be a possibility, until yesterday. A lot of the friends we've made KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3790039640022370314.post-86002455814766605562010-09-23T06:29:00.000-05:002010-09-23T06:29:35.032-05:00I miss my blogI really do! I just feel like I've been away from it so long I don't know where to start so this is my third attempt at blogging again after my very long absence. No promises but hey, it's worth a shot!
I am getting married in 23 days!! WOW. I seriously can not believe it. I keep telling Sgt. that getting married only makes me feel really young, not old. Kind KJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13663400243994223988noreply@blogger.com0