My 10 Day Challenge

I have decided to challenge myself to blog every day for ten days, starting this evening. I'm not sure what my topic(s) will be, but I will come up with something. I suppose today I am getting off easy, because all I have to do is set the stage for my personal challenge. :-)

Let the challenge begin!

Things I Miss...

I love my life, but today as I was looking through some pictures from a few years ago I got to thinking about the things I miss.

1. Walking around Washington Park in Springfield, IL and seeing the changes that occurred every season. Even in bad weather, the park was interesting and so beautiful. The summer I lived in Springfield, I went there often to read or just to watch people feed the ducks.

2. Rainy days. Yes, we get rain here in Hawaii, but it doesn't tend to last very long and there is never lightening & thunder. I miss the kind of rainy days that lasted all day and had you cuddled up with a blanket.

3. Seeing my Mom every month. There's a certain comfort in being surrounded by a person you share DNA with or who knows you better then you know yourself.

4. Driving in the car with Grace. If I went out of town, I almost always had Grace with me. I'd put her in her kitty carrier and away we'd go. It was fun to drive and "chat." Now it's been nearly a year since we rode in a car together and the next time we do, she will be on her way to the vet and be very angry with me.

I don't know how to elegantly end this post, so it's just going to stop I guess.

Facebook

I recently began cleaning up my facebook and putting people into groups. While doing this, I made up my mind that no matter who you were, if I went to high school with you, I would keep you as a friend. Well, I may have come to regret that decision, because of a phone call I received today. I got a call from some random guy telling me he received my number from a guy I went to high school with. Well, considering I talk to only one guy I went to high school with on a semi-regular basis, I was a tad curious which guy would be handing out my number. He said a name and for a second I didn't have clue who he was talking about. Then recalled an unknown to me, guy from my high school, that I am not even sure ended up graduating from my school, who added me a few weeks back. Sticking with my decision to keep all high school people as friends, I allowed him to add me. So I am a tad irritated after today's phone call. I don't like people giving others my phone number without permission. Now I suppose I could just delete my number off my profile, but I've always felt like I should be able to trust people to not abuse it being there. I guess not.

Mainland here I come

I leave my island home tomorrow for the mainland. I am more then a little anxious to be going back. The flight is long and tiring, not to mention that after a year of being safely tucked away from certain people I am now treading back. Living here really keeps me in tight military community and I've grown quite comfortable with it. I feel like I am going back to a foreign civilian world, though I know that's not true.

I am seeing some of my favorite people in the world. :-) I have to think of that and my favorite people in the world are also some of the people I trust most, so I will be safe.

Aloha!

Mainland in a few days...

That's right....I'll be back on the mainland in a few days. I leave my tiny island home on Thursday afternoon (Hawaii time) and arrive in the mainland early in the morning on Friday. I know I will be exhausted, but hopefully I'll be able to sleep on the plane. I have so much to get done this week before I leave. Thank goodness for a fellow military wife (and great friend) lending me a laptop bag & a portable DVD player. I got rid of my laptop bag before I moved here, so I don't own one anymore. I had intended to get a new one, but borrowing one helps me save a little money for the time being.

Yesterday, I had a photo shoot for some pictures I had taken for Avery. They are his anniversary present. We went out last night for a belated anniversary dinner. It was really nice. :-)

Now I am off to get a pedicure and an eyebrow wax done. My fingernails have been awful lately and are all short, so I'm not bothering to get them done.

New Computer and Anniversary

I write this evening from my new laptop. I've now had this computer 24 hours and am still not sure what I think of it. My old laptop crashed completely on Monday evening, sending me into a panic and a slew of tears. Nothing was able to be salvaged off of my lovely little Dell. Thus, I got an HP last evening. As silly as it sounds, I miss my Dell. I really liked that laptop. It was the first laptop I ever bought and it was with me for 4 years. I did a lot with it and I honestly miss it. Now I am sure I will get used to this HP and grow to love it too, but this is not the love at first sight that I had with that Dell.

My first wedding anniversary is a week from tomorrow. In some respects I am just in awe of how this past year has been. My husband and I have grown so much together, but also I've grown so much. The person I've become since adding the title of wife is the best person I've ever known myself to be and I really believe I will only get better. I am proud of who I am now and I haven't felt proud of myself in this way for quite a long time.

Tonight I sit writing this blog and my husband is playing a video game that I bought him and I love this time with him. Yeah, we're not directly interacting, but we don't need to and I love that about us.