Today is the day!

Today is the day I get to go pick up Kendall to spend the weekend with him. it's so exciting!! Time is NOT going fast enough though. I just want it to be 6:00ish already! cause then I can go get him. But that's okay. I'll probably end up taking a nap and then making cookies or something like that to help the time go a little faster. Although I want to eat better and such... cookies aren't really on that diet. but idk...

this one's short I know, but I'll write more again soon,

Have a great day!

Erica

spiders and calamari

Several things have been really exciting the last few days. Today Kendall phased up to a phase 5+. Now he gets to come home on the weekends for the entire weekend. Tonight we went out to dinner with a bunch of his friends and we all ordered WAY too much pizza. actually for 6 of us we ordered 1 personal pan pizza, 1 large pizza, 2 medium pizzas, 2 desert pizzas, 2 things of garlic bread, and 25 hot wings..... Needless to say, I have 3 boxes FULL of leftover pizza and wings (since the guys couldn't take food back to the barracks I had to take it all.)

I'm so proud of Kendall. He tried so hard to get the 304 on his pt test. One of his friends has been a great help these last few days. When he saw that Kendall was struggling running in the heat, his friend left his formation and ran with Kendall to help him keep pace. and when Kendall needed a haircut in order to phase up, his friend cut his hair in 3 minutes right before they did so. We are very grateful for his help! We are now praying that Kendall's sergeant will be able to help Kendall find a way to live with me.

A few nights ago I went out with a friend for a late dinner. While we were there I decided to try my first dose of seafood (although it was super fried, so I still don't completely count it on my list of things I need to try. I want to try much more than this.). Anyways, So I tried Calamari. It actually was pretty good! A little chewy, but still good. I was so proud of myself!!! First bit of seafood in YEARS! seriously. The reason I don't eat seafood is really unknown, I just always haven't. I think I didn't like fish and apparently all seafood came with that. And I just would never eat any of it.

I have faced another fear of mine lately too: Spiders. So I have a nice house here in Georgia which is usually bug free... EXCEPT after it rains... I get these giant, quarter sized spiders... So today It was raining (It's supposed to rain for the next 2 days.... i'm kinda freaking out.) But anyways, it was raining so I knew there was a possibility of big spiders again. Since the last one crawled right up next to me I have been scared ever since. Its so dumb to be scared of something that is around the size of my big toe, but hey, I am. Terrified actually. But I live alone, so either I have giant spiders, or i get over it and kill them (Most times it takes me a few minutes to get up the fear though. I can kill the little ones no problem, but the big ones are GROSS!).

So today I knew there were probably going to be big spiders again, so I asked God if he would at least show them to me. Have them crawl across the floor or something so I see them before they crawl on me, and he came through once again! Tonight at 1:45 I decided I needed to write something down when I turned the lights back on after going to bed. I then saw in the corner something big and black in the corner, it was then that I knew... there was another one. So I put on my bath robe and some big winter boots and mustered up the courage and ran to the corner to kill it. It took two stomps to kill, but i got it!!! Then I went on a spider searching spree! I asked God to continue to show me them and I found one more (much smaller though) behind my couch. So I literally moved the couch to kill it. ha.

my amazing spider killing wardrobe!

The dead spider's remnants (however, a lot were on my shoe too...)

The big nasty thing against my wall. I didn't want to get any closer...

It has definitely been an eventful last few days that's for sure!!! And although my plans were ruined when I found out I could no longer go home for the weekend, I'm sure this weekend still have lots of fun things in store.

Well have a good day!

Erica

Exciting day!

So today Kendall took a pt test and he got a 300! Which means that he gets to skip phase 5 and now he is a phase 5+. so on the weekends he gets to come home the whole weekend!! I am sooo stinking excited! And I'm soo proud of my hubby! It's not easy to get a 300 on your pt test. He did 72 pushups in 2 min., 78 situps in 2 minutes, and ran 2 miles in 12:45. I'm a little bummed i'm going out of town this weekend. lol cause he hasn't been home for 2 weeks. But that's okay. Next weekend will be incredible!

Have a great day!!

Erica

Dear John and such

I had a wonderfully calm day. This morning I woke up at 8:30 because I need to stop sleeping until noon. And I went on base to help Kendall and his friend move their stuff to their new barracks (They threw everything into my car and I drove across base with the stuff while the had to walk there. I just saved them from carrying everything). As I was waiting for them to get there to get their stuff I started to read Dear John. All that said, I have basically spent my entire day reading. It was beautiful outside so I opened the windows and everything. It was really nice. The only breaks from reading I took were to take some pictures and to have a lovely dinner with my hubby on base.

I finished the book a few minutes ago (Yes, I read it in one day). It was really good. I love when books and stuff inspire me to be a better person.

When I used to read love stories I would always fall in love with the character. I would want to know that guy because he was perfect. And I was always so sad when I reminded myself, he doesn't exist. However, that has all changed. Now when I read stories like that It just makes me love and miss my hubby even more. I no longer fall in love with the guy from the book, I have my guy from the book. As cheesy as that sounds, its true. Kendall has always been one to open the door for me, even before the Army (now he just does it even more) And he has always made sure to balance my needs with those of his own. Before he left he made sure to make time for the things that were important to me (although they are cheesy I'm such a hopeless romantic. So I've always wanted the big date nights, the drives through the country, and the cheesy things they did in A Walk to Remember (I see a theme, Nicholas Sparks is a genius)). However, whenever Kendall was home he made sure that he made time for those things in between his video games and playing guitar. That has always meant so much to me.

I'm not really sure why i'm writing this on here for all to read, but I wanted to write it somewhere ha. So here we are.

I guess I'm just saying I don't need that guy from the love story anymore, because I have my own story right here, although it's not even close to being finished. I'm aware there will be those struggles, I mean come on, what story doesn't have them? Everything is perfect and then things happen and they have to work through it. But in the end it was always worth whatever work it took to get there. I know to some that may seem naive or a foolish way of thought, and maybe it is. But i would much rather live my life naively yet intensely happy, then so realistic you can't see the magic in anything.

So I've decided I'm going to live my life with that magic. I'm starting a list of things that I want to do (Note new addition to the sidebar). Most of them pretty simple, some more complex. Although my ultimate goal is to do them before I die, we're going to say I want to do them before Kendall deploys (We'll do a short-term goal here :)). Now, I don't know when Kendall is going to deploy. It could be as soon as 4 months from now, it could be in a year, or it could not happen, we don't know. But i think that's the fun in it. I don't know. We're in this situation now, whether we want to be here or not, so why not make the most of it? Why not live the life we've always wanted, even if it's in a little more of an unconventional way?

Now how I got to my goals from talking about my husband i'm not really sure ha. I guess that has to be due with me being spaghetti (if you're wondering what that means just ask). So sorry for those of you who are waffles (again, you can just ask) and didn't quite follow... :)

Well I guess all I can say is Have a nice day!

Erica

An overall good day

Today had a bit of a rough beginning. I was really discouraged because I don't really know what I want to do with my life and such. and I don't use my time the best way I could and I need to start doing some things differently. But it's just been really hard figuring all that out. Plus I haven't really gotten to spend much time with Kendall lately and I won't be able to until probably March 19 or 20. which i know isn't too bad in comparison to other things, but it still sucks.

However, tonight I at least got to have dinner with him :) which was great! I went and got us McDonalds and we ate it outside his barracks (although it got really chilly at night. so it wasn't the most comfortable thing). It's always hard visiting him on base cause when he's in his uniform we can't have any form of pda at all. No holding hands, no kisses goodbye, no hugs... So whenever we leave it's just like well... bye. It's a little weird, but i won't complain. :) I get to see him that's all that matters!

Tomorrow morning Kendall is moving barracks again. Right now he's actually in barracks for another company, but they didn't have room in his company's barracks for everyone. So tomorrow morn they are moving. Kendall is a little bummed because right now he has a room with only 3 other guys and when he moves he won't have separate rooms anymore. It's just one big open room. But he'll be closer to everything which will be nice. Right now he has to walk like 20 minutes to each of his formations and stuff. So that will save him a lot of time in the future.

Tomorrow I am supposed to be taking pictures for 2 different families. I'm really excited for it! I'm really starting to get more pictures for the portfolio I lost. So soon I will be able to get my new website up and running and get my name out there! My goal is that by the time we get to our duty station I can get my name out while we are there. :) Hopefully everything will turn out alright!

Well, have a great day!

Erica

sick.

I've been sick the last 2 days. It's really sucked cause it was my first time being sick without anyone being able to be there for me. My hubby couldn't come home and my mom lives almost a thousand miles away. There is nothing like having your mom there when you are sick. It really made me miss home. so last night I did a walmart run and i got myself Nyquil, daytime sinus meds and advil pm. ha. I was really hoping to sleep. I took the Nyquil around 6, but by midnight I was awake again... I was up til 4 in the morning when i finally fell back to sleep and slept til 11:30. so altogether i got like 13 and a half hours of sleep, but it just got broken into pieces.

Well that's all the energy I have to write right now, but i'll update more later :)

Have a great day!

Erica

Finally

So we finally got paid yesterday. which was great because i had very little in my house to eat. So I finally got food to cook with. I'm so excited because I get to make all kinds of new things! Tonight I made a bunch of my stuffed shells that I'm going to freeze and then I can cook them whenever I want one :) (Thanks to my sister for this idea!) and I'm also making this really yummy corn and pea salad thing. It's amazing. And tomorrow I'm going to make awesome homemade tacos! Hopefully Kendall will be planning on eating at his regular chow hall so i can tell him not to and bring him homemade food :) Otherwise I guess I'll take them to him another time.

Kendall has been working really hard on getting everything ready to phase up. And we are praying that he will have everything done by Wednesday. He has to write out by hand a 20ish page thing that has all their rules and stuff. (no joke, twenty pages!) and so that would be the only thing we aren't sure if he will have done by Wednesday. But even if he can't get it done he can always phase up the following wednesday. So it's not a huge deal.

Well have a great night!

Erica