A Weekend With The Grand Rents!

So, to start off our wonderful journey that takes over 5 hours to get to our destination, I pack my clothes and I’m all ready to go. But of course I forgot about something. How I’m going to take care of my cat while we’re gone. This isn’t the first time we left her but it’s her first time all by herself. My other cat Weedo died recently and she always had him for help. She (Cookie) is still a kitten kind of. I think she turns 2 this year! Well, all we ever did with Weedo was stick him outside with some food and water. I live out in the country so they’re outside all the time hunting, sunbathing, and whatever else it is that cats do outside. Sit and smoke weed probably. Just kidding. So I tried to find her and make sure she wasn’t in the house at all…couldn’t find her…so she was hopefully already outside. So then we left a little after 6pm.

So, here we are traveling the long road….try to watch a movie. Got no luck with that. I only got to the part watching Wall~E where Eva and wall e were dancing in space together with a fire extinguisher. Then I tired to fall asleep, but I kept on getting calls on my cell phone and texts. I figured I’d take advantage of the opportunity to talk to people since I’m never in service at home. So I got to catch up on a couple of my peeps that I don’t talk to much.

Finally, just a little after 11pm, we have reached our destination. With lots of smiling faces at that that I haven’t seen in a long time. But then my heart gets heavy when I think that this will be the last time till I get back when I see my cousins and some of my other family. So first to greet me of course is my awesome cousin Katlyn, 11! Had to ask her for a hug though L but I got one! And Nick said hi. Haha. He’s your typical almost 13 year old by that doesn’t like the mushy stuff. I had a blast with them at the park! Both parks. We went on the swings and climbed on everything. Went to a second park, kind of swung, but they were really bad swings. I attempted to cross the monkey bars, failed miserably at that. Katie and Nick did better than me. J After the parks we went to the ball park and ran around the bases, walked through the bleachers, messed with the score bored and Nick found a dollar! LUCKY!! We fallowed a bunny that Nick couldn’t see and tired to catch him but he went under a white shack. There were holes dug all around that shack. Lol. Personal mansion for that little bunny, so then that led to us going to the benches, then me and Nick saw a red hand water pump and pretended that we were super dehydrated kids and guess what, what I expected was something different. There REALLY was no water! Then a little ways off there was another one. It too was the same, no water. HA! If we were really dehydrated I would have been worried. But we were in town and we were just playing.

The next day, my other cousin came, Grace, 4, with my aunt and uncle of course. We had a HUGE dinner with my favorite foods, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, cinnamon/brown sugared ham, and…wow it was just yesterday and I know there were four things that I just ate. Is this a sign that I’m getting old? Dang.

After dinner me, Katie, Nick, and Grace went to the park AGAIN! I was getting so tired and I was swinging so much I felt nauseous. After about another 3 hours of playing at the park and 2 hours of playing Mario on grannies DS and playing the Super Nintendo (my personal favorite game system in the world) after that they all had to go home. Said out last goodbyes. It was emotional them leaving and seeing them for the last time till I get back. But that’s all I’ll say before I get too emotional again.

Then the next day I went home. Which I’m writing this in the car ride home now. Still about a half hour to go. I’m really tired and have a headache from riding in the car. Yes, I do get sick from riding in the car for too long without breaks and look, I became a truck driver. Haha. Who would’ve guess??

Well, 7 days till I’m in Hawaii with my best friend Candi! I’m so excited and glad that she’s going to come. Wish I could bring the other 2 Steph and Lynard (jen), but they’re in Florida right now like I said, and my other best friends Manders (Amanda) lives by the cities. I haven’t actually heard from her in a long time. I should give her a call see what she’s up to.
Anyway, enough of me rambling on! Haha. The name suits me well. Thanks T.J. J I will blog later this week!

Some Good News!

Ok. Since Sgt. Guardsman commented on my last post about me going to Hawaii it's not that much of a surprise to you...someone just HAD to ruin the secret. And now it's out. Yes it is true, I'm going to Hawaii this month in ten days! It'll be the twentieth through the twenty-sixth. I cannot wait! And the best part about all this, is that my best friend Candi is coming with me! I do actually have 4 best friends. I don't know if that is aloud but I do have that many. The one thing that I'm actually really excited to go do is go horseback riding!! Of course because I LOVE horses! And another one is going snorkling, and the water slides that is at our condo. Yes we're staying in condos! At night, the reason I wanted one of my best friends to come, is to go dancing late at night! I bought the perfect dress too! I'll take lots of pictures and post them on facebook for you guys!

A Month of Troubles

Wow. That's all I can really explain the month of April. My last month at home and it's actually truning out to be pretty rotten. First off, no car. The timing belt broke on it along with other things that my partents failed to inform me on. The only thing they told me is that it would cost more than we wanted to fix it. They also told me it would be pointless to fix cuz it's too old of a car. Now it's only a '99, it's not that old to me. And I was willing to pay to fix it but guess what!? They told me no. So they'd rather me sit at home and do nothing. Other than what I did yesturday because my friends decided to be nice to me before they left for Florida. But, yes there is a but, there is this big red truck that sits in our driveway. It's one of those trucks that you just look at and then look at your vehicle and admire it that it's so much better than that truck. But really, that truck isn't half bad if you don't look at the rust, milage hog, and the hole in the drivers side floor!! Don't stick your foot in the wrong spot! You'll slip through! haha. But other than that that truck runs great! I don't mind it too much myself if I may say. Oh, and I forgot to mention the expired tabs. lol. I looked and they're only a year old so it couldn't be too bad. Unless they needed new plates to go along with it which I think they're also due on that truck.

And since today got to be a pretty nice day outside I decided to set the hammock I got for my mom last year for mothers day. So, I set it up, took me a matter of a half hour including getting it in the right spot that I wanted it. Away from the wind and in the sun. Tried to take a nap but couldn't fall asleep. This was around noon thirty. So I take my laptop outside and start opening it. When my dad's pug decided to jump up on there with me, he jumped right on top of my laptop! For a little while three of my keys didn't work! I let it sit for awhile and it worked eventually. That dog is very lucky. And of course i kicked him off the hammock after he did that. Almost litterally! Sometimes I wish we never got that dog because all he does most of the time is beg for food and fart. REALLY stinky farts too. Clear the room or you'll die kind of farts. I'm not kidding. And this is coming out from a little pug! Who knew something that little and that cute could stink that much!? Well, after a few hours of being back inside the house and failing before to take a nap, I go back out there just before 3:30pm and take another nap. Just before falling asleep some telemarketer calls! Hang up with them, then about 10 minutes later one of my friends call, hang up with them after approximently 10 minutes, almost exactly 10 minutes later my brother calls from Kentucky, talk to him for 7 minutes. After another 10 minutes ANOTHER phone call from somebody I don't know. I don't even answer that one by then. It was another telemarketer as far as I know. So in all that I was just getting to sleep after every time the phone rang. Dang what does a girl got to do around here to get some sleep!? I love taking naps. I feel so good after taking them.

Throughout the day I always carry my cell phone with me because there's a really good friend that I can text through email. And after I came back from my second attempt on my nap, I haven't seen my phone since then. It's now just past 1 am the next morning...still no cell phone. I'll go back outside and look in the morning :(

Now I really don't think my life could get any worse. Although it possibly could after I tell you this. One of my really good friend from AIT (advanced individual training, in case you were wondering) in the army called me early this morning to tell me another friend from AIT was killed in a car accident. His number is in my phone (which I can't find) and I don't know wether I should leave it in there as a reminder, or delete his number forever. It's really sad talking about people dieing. I don't like it. And I'm not going to even get into the little 5 year old boy that got ran over by a bus last Friday. That is too much too. There seems to be too much death going around right now. And hopefully I won't even see this much when I'm in Afghanistan. There's more people I know that've died here. But I really do hate talking about death so I prefer not to mention them.

That pretty much sums up my day. At least I can look on the bright side and say I still have my laptop for communicating to outside of my perimeter of my house. haha. Barely saved my laptop from the dog though. He's lucky to still be alive. Well that's it for now. I'll write later!

Hanging With Friends :)

Today, woke up today and decided to call one of my best friend. All I wanted to do was call her(Steph) to tell her I was thinking about her. I left a message on her cell phone saying that I made a Chocolate Banana Smoothie, then she called back and said "hey I have things to do today when I'm done I can come pick you up." (I do not have a car right now because mine just broke) I live a long way away from town so her coming to pick me up was awsome. Very excitedly I said yes. So like any two girls we went tanning and shopping! I'm having an awsome time, right now I'm just waiting for her sister to get done with work which she (Jen) is my other best friend. Since they are sisters and they're really close, what I tell one the other will know within a matter of minutes so I just consider both of them by best friends. We're all close in age, Steph is the same age as me but Jen is a year and a half younger than us. But all have a lot in common and LOVE the same stuff. But the funny thing is, is that I think we have different tastes in men.....some things are the same....but when it comes to men we kinda differ a lot about that. haha. But differences is what keeps us close! I love those two with all my heart. Later tonight we're going for a jog/walk, and then hot tubing!!! I can't wait! I'll let you know how the rest of my night goes later.

So, yes I had a fun night! We went to Steph's friends house to get in the hot tub and had a blast. Talked girl talk for about 2 hours and just got out. Then went back to Steph's house to eat and her mom bought the best Papa Murphey's pizza ever! It was really good. Then we watched a couple movies...well more like a movie and a quarter...fell asleep on the second one. And I really wanted to see it, Fools Gold, haven't seen it yet. Now I'm starving and going to dig in their kitchen for breakfast :)

Plans Before I Leave

So, before I leave there is a list of things that I would love to do. Some I have already plans with people just not set with dates. For examples some things I would like to do is go horseback riding. But so far i I'm only going to go see some friends' horses. Unless it's descent outside in the high 40's then we can go riding! I really hope it is. Other things are some new movies that are coming out in theaters. One of them being the new Star Trek movie. I'm going to miss the Transformers 2 :( The second movie would be the Wolverine: X-Men Orgins. Hopfully someone in my unit will be able to stream those movies so we can watch them. And going fourwheeling with friends is something I'd really like to do too. The last thing is making a trip to the Twin Cities so I can see some long lost friends that moved down there after high school. So those are all my main things that that I would love to do. I will write back in here when one of them is done.

Welcome To My Blog

Hey guys!
Thanks for coming into my blog! I made this blog to keep in touch with my friends and family while I'm on deployment in Afghanistan. But anybody else that would like to read and comment on what I'm doing I'm more than happy to know that you're interested.