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Merry Christmas!
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Wedding favors!
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Labels: Christmas , freaking out , wedding , wedding band
The wedding is TEN DAYS AWAY. OMG, I'm about to hit single digits soon! Ahhhh!!! I'm excited but nervous, but excited... but nervous. I hope I'm not forgetting to get anything done!
Less than two weeks away....
I can not believe the wedding is less than two weeks away! This is insane. I'm extremely nervous! Martin on the other hand, is pretty excited. Isnt it suppose to be the other way around? Isnt the guy suppose to be nervous and the girl's suppose to be excited?! Goodness! We should be picking up my dress this week, along with the wedding band. I only ordered myself one, he sent in a request to resize his ring. It was too big and he never grew into it during Basic Training so he's been wearing it on his right hand instead of his left. They should be sending both my wedding band and his resized ring by this week. With all this wedding crazy-ness, I almost completely forgot about Christmas. I mean, you cant really forget about it since everywhere is decorated but I mean, I almost didnt have time to think about getting gifts. I usually get my Christmas shopping done in November/early December but I was too busy in November to do anything :(
I can not believe the wedding is less than two weeks away! This is insane. I'm extremely nervous! Martin on the other hand, is pretty excited. Isnt it suppose to be the other way around? Isnt the guy suppose to be nervous and the girl's suppose to be excited?! Goodness! We should be picking up my dress this week, along with the wedding band. I only ordered myself one, he sent in a request to resize his ring. It was too big and he never grew into it during Basic Training so he's been wearing it on his right hand instead of his left. They should be sending both my wedding band and his resized ring by this week.
With all this wedding crazy-ness, I almost completely forgot about Christmas. I mean, you cant really forget about it since everywhere is decorated but I mean, I almost didnt have time to think about getting gifts. I usually get my Christmas shopping done in November/early December but I was too busy in November to do anything :(
MIA and freezing cold!
All Fall I was hoping for the weather to cool down and it didnt. In fact, it didnt cool down until late November/early December and it dropped, drastically! So much for Fall. Now its freezing! The lowest we've had were in the low 30's and I know that's not really low compared to other states but I live in Northern California! I'm not use to this kind of temperature! I always complain about how I've never touched real snow and I cant even handle low 30's, goodness! Seriously, all I ever feel like doing is curling up under a huge fleece blanket and going to sleep! At least it hasnt been crazy raining around here, but there have been really strong winds (that scare the crap out of me)!
I think I'm more excited for our Honeymoon than our wedding LOL.
He was suppose to be graduating today. I was suppose to fly out yesterday. I'm suppose to be in Texas right now... but he's not and I'm not.
I know its kinda silly, but I cant help but feel a little sad that I wont be seeing him graduate today.
To flight ***, congratulations.
Labels: basic training , graduation
Wedding details!
Goodness its freezing cold! It was snowing like, the other day. Not like snow snow but in some places (like the 510 and 925) there was some snow. I havent been great on updating lately, I've been busy and when I am on the PC, its too cold to type an entire entry out!
I called our chapel location (I finally got an email from a wedding planner) and the day before Martin and I went over the ceremony details and I went over what we decided on with her. So most of the important stuff now is out of the way, I just have to get back to her on Friday about my bouquet. Called our reception location and ordered the cake, I still have not received the emailed paper work about sending in the deposit so I might have to call them again. I also have to email them a picture of what I want the cake to look like so I can get a quote and a grand total.
Went to Concord. I had my roots re-highlighted and my bangs trimmed. Martin and Marissa went to find him a tux so when I was done, they brought me to where they found him a tux. Received a call from the bridal store saying my dress was in, so we went there really quick so I could try it on (its GORGEOUS) and get it fixed up. My shoes arent so bad, they're walk-able in. So after that, I showed Martin my dream dress and all he said was "its alright" :( men and their lack of caring about crap. After that went to the mall out there and had Thai food for dinner, then we got into a slight arguement, but it was resolved shortly after. He tried on his tux jacket and... I'm kinda... ehh about it. I mean, it looks cool! Its different. Not really sure if you'd wear it to a wedding... but if its what he likes, then that's fine. I picked my dress, he can freely pick his tux. So now I'm waiting on my dress to get back to me in a week! I'm super excited. Decided on just the tiara, the vial looks weird on me and my dress isnt white anyway.
Went to Kohls and found a dress shirt and a tie that would go well with the tux, thank goodness... I have a 15% off for Kohls! Haha. And all the other dress shirts we found were super expensive (and a tie for $90, I dont think so)!
Marissa took her entrance test for school and we looked around some more for tux stuff, or well... we intended to but ended up reading at Borders Express lol! Whoops. Went to order his tux, finally. Went to pick up the stuff from Kohls, his tux comes in on Christmas Eve which worries me... I hope it works out!
Showed both Marissa and Martin the orchid picture that the wedding planner sent me. I think I'll just mix those orchid's with white and blue roses and for the flower that Martin's going to wear, I'll make it an orchid with a blue rose. Same with Marissa's and my dad's.
I think that's most of the updated wedding information :) I'll try to blog again in the morning. My toes and fingers are getting numb from being so cold!!
Labels: wedding , wedding bouquet , wedding dress , wedding tux
He's home! He's home!
Martin came home last week! I know, I've been super MIA since he's been home!
He's been falling asleep a lot lately lol. He's suppose to graduate in 3 days, I'm suppose to be flying out in 2 days. It sucks how close he was to finishing Basic Training. But I am extremely happy he's home!
He had to return all his uniforms, boo! I'll never get to see him in his ABU's or his Blues :( but he got to bring back his ABU hat's so he gave me one. I'm a sucker for ABU's, especially their hats! So imagine how excited I was lol.
Our wedding coordinator emailed me the other day and called me yesterday morning. Martin and I went through the last bits of the ceremony details that she sent us. So I'm gonna have to call her today with what we decided on. The hard part is dealing with the plane tickets. Since its close to our leave date the prices went up (from $98 to $124, wtf!) and adding an extra $160-something for an extra night at the hotel. We obviously cant participate in any promo's any one offers cause the majority of our nights staying at the hotel is covered by the wedding package. Boo.
Oh and Martin said he wont walk down the isle and that I have to :(
Less than 23 days left. I'm getting extremely nervous. Like you wouldnt believe, nervous!
My dress is suppose to be coming in this week, and the wedding bands are coming in within the next week and a half. I have to set things up for the reception and figure out what I'm going to do with my hair.
Labels: basic training , hes home , wedding
Waiting game!
I was planning on posting pictures, but I havent had time to take pictures of the favors... and my mom moved them and I just found them in a completely different room the other day. How random, ugh.
The mess that's the wedding invites. We stayed up til 1AM writing out "more info" cards to put in the invitations and folding and putting everything in their envelopes. They gave me extra invitations but no extra envelopes. How does that make sense?! You can spot the light blue snowflake soap favor in there somewhere. I got light blue, white and matte navy blue ones. Oh and Boq's cage, he was keeping us company! Dont mind my sister in law, she was on my sidekick talking to a boy. Ahem lol.
My dress should be here next week, I'm so excited to see it! I'm going to try it on with my shoes, lets hope I'm able to walk in my shoes lol. If not, I might just have to search for white flats... why dont they make flats in white?! I'm waiting on a few more soaps to get here. The numbers were off somehow. Also waiting on an email back from the chapel. I tried to fax in the payment on Friday and it kept telling me the server was busy. I hope she responds to me soon! I dont want to lose my hold!
I need to set my cake design to the reception area and I need to figure out a hair style!
Did I mention at this point I'm extremely nervous? I'm twenty nine days away from my wedding date. I brought up having him walk down the isle instead of me and he decline. Darn! I dont want to do this. I dont want to imagine how nervous I'll be. I know its not a big deal, but I just... ugh. I hate attention!!!
I'm a little sad my wedding blog isnt as epic or as pretty as other peoples, I know... silly right? Hehe. Sorry! Its just a huge once in a lifetime thing and I wish I felt like I was doing everything right, but there isnt much to plan or much to expect. I dont have many friends. In fact I have a bunch of invitations left over. I got 2 RSPV's back and they both arent able to make it. I honestly wouldnt even care if it was just our parents and a friend or two. I think I'd be less nervous if that happened instead of a bunch of family showing up.
Still waiting on him to come home. They pushed him back all last week. They're supposedly sending 24 people home tomorrow, lets hope he's one of them.
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Happy Thanksgiving.
Woke up at 5AM-ish to something that made me grumpy. Sat up for an hour just staring at the wall. Blah.
Labels: basic training , phone call , Thanksgiving
Favors, Invites & Decor. DONE!
The rest of the favors shipped earlier this week. I havent had a chance to take pictures of anything just yet, but I will soon! The bubbles with the ribbons turned out nice and the favors turned out really pretty too. The invites were sent out yesterday and we finished putting together the table decor the day before. I think it looks fine, but we'll have to see what kind of table they're giving us as well and hope its a long table cause that's what the decors are set up for. I'm happy with how everything turned out.
Now just waiting on my dress and gotta find Martin a tux. Also gotta put down the deposit for both the chapel and the reception area. And we're all set :)
Labels: reception decor , wedding favors , wedding invites
He's getting discharged.
Labels: basic training , life , phone call , USAF , wedding , wicked
Felt like dropping by, I havent really updated on much cause there really isnt much to update on.
The wedding planning is going good, pretty much done. Gotta send out the invitations, put down the deposit for the chapel, waiting on the favors to get here, the ribbons and my dress. And that's pretty much it.
Havent heard from Martin much the last week, I got one letter from him. I'm assuming things are busy over there. Hopefully he gets to spend Thanksgiving with his family, that would be nice.
That's pretty much all, I'm getting a little more use to him not being around. A little too use to it. Haha, I'm sure when he comes home thats going to be weird. But I am thinking about him all the time. Some things are starting to slip my mind, like nicknames and things like that. I'm sure when I see him everything will come back to me.
I already booked everything for his graduation. I hate how he's hours away from me via plane. I hate taking the plane longer than an hour. Might want to get that ear thing checked soon... yeah.
A few more weeks til I see him! I'm excited and nervous at the same time =)
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Misery is the best inspiration.
And he loves me so. Takes me where you never took me, although you tried to. His eyes they read so true. So different from the way it was with you...
I dont dwell on my past half as much as I use to, in fact a lot of my past is a blur. But certain songs still bring up certain people, certain days, certain feelings. And sometimes, its a refreshing blast of memories. Like on a cold November night like this one.
In every life there will be one great love and one unforgettable heart break.
November was never a good month for me, majority of my break ups happen in November. My "unforgettable heart break" happened in November. I can deny you all I want, but no one hurt me as much as you did. And I cant figure out why, besides that I was young and stupid. You were a pretty decent boyfriend, a push over but decent. But everyone needs to feel the pain you gave me, its a big part of who made me who I am today. And I happen to like who I am today.
Moving on... I'm getting married. Wow. Me. Getting married. Never would had thought. Sure we've been together for almost six years (wow, six years, really?) but I just never really saw us getting married. I'm a lot like Ben Affleck in "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days". I figure we're happy, why ruin it by getting married. And sure, I still think that. But a small itty bitty part of me is actually kinda excited. Shh, dont tell Martin I said that. I always thought that once you get married, or engaged, the past kinda just... disappears. You dont think of the past or what-could-had-been or why-did-that-end. Why I thought that is beyond me.
I guess I'm lucky. I'm lucky because my fiance is my best of all best friends. Literally. We talk about my exes, we talk about his exes, we try to figure out why our past relationships failed. We have real conversations about things like that. He knows how I feel about all of my exes, he knows the ones I wish I was still friends with or the ones hurt me. And he does what I always wished someone would do with that information. He uses to know who I am and how I am. Not against me, but as a better understanding of how I react to things. I'm lucky because in the last six years, he was able to figure who I had a crush on. At work, at school, to him it was so obvious. And he'd pick on me, not in a jealous boyfriend way but in a ooh-I'm-telling-him-you-li
Words can not express how lucky and blessed and happy I am to have him. To have someone who's just like me. Who sacrifices just to see a smile on their face. To spoil me with hugs and kisses and my favorite food "just because". Who accepts every part of me, and who is completely in love with the tomboy side of me. Someone who'll watch me put on lipstick, wipe it off with his finger, kiss me and whisper "you dont need it". Someone who makes me feel so damn alive. He wont ask why I'm crying if I dont feel like telling him but he'll hug the hell out of me until I'm spent, tuck me in bed and kiss me on the forehead and tell me to sleep it off.
I think back to exes and memories and the crazy fucked up crap you go through with them in high school and relationships that ended far too soon. And the boys I miss. And I look at him and I'm glad those relationship ended. I'm glad for all the fucked up crazy shit I went through. I'm glad I got kicked out school. I'm glad I had to repeat senior year. I'm so glad. I'm so glad to be here, with him. With this ring on my finger. With that ring on his.
I love you. I love you a million times. In a million different lifetimes. I've always loved you. I will always love you. My dope friend. My best friend. My babemerding. A million thank yous. For just being you <3.
A few weeks left, but it feels like forever.
I want to be back in your arms already. I miss your face. I miss your chin hair scratching the hell out of my face when you kiss me. I miss your dimples and your smile. I miss laying my head on your shoulder and inhaling your scent. I miss your soft squishy wet kisses. I miss your sweet sweat and how it makes my mouth water to the point where I just have to bite you. I miss how you never mind that. I miss you sticking your knuckle in my mouth for me to bite on when I have road rage, or when I'm hungry. I miss when I bite too hard and you say "ow" and pull your hand away and make that scared face. I miss making faces at you all day. I miss your warm hugs and holding your hand. I miss you rubbing my face when I'm stressed out. I miss your forehead kisses. I miss your encouraging hand squeezes.
I miss you holding the door open in women's restrooms and watching me cause you know the hand dryer scares me. I miss you pulling me away from things you know I dont need to buy. I miss sharing Hazelnut Toffee Mocha's from Seattles Best with you. I miss sharing soup and soda with you at Panera Bread. I miss sending you millions of Wicked videos from YouTube and watching them with you. I miss singing to Wicked with you. I miss singing with you in general. I miss your good morning phone calls and the songs you sing me while I'm waking up. I miss your cheerful "Hi baby!" when I pick up the phone. I miss you falling asleep on AIM while I'm still talking. I miss you playing your PSP way too loud in the car. I miss you driving me around. I miss how you always have to hold my hand while you drive.
I hate that we've been apart from each other for this long. I hate how far you are from me. I hate the days I walk in my room and smell you. I hate the times I bite my lip and taste your kiss. I hate getting in my car knowing you wont be joining me soon and I wont be getting a "good morning baby" hug.
I want to wrap myself in you and just sleep. I want the the its-just-you-and-me-here feeling again. I want you home. I want you here with me, right now. I want you to never leave me again.
I miss you so much and I try so hard to push it away and to just forget about it. I drown myself in "work" so avoid thinking about how you're not here today or tomorrow or next week. I'm constantly moving cause being idle reminds me I cant pick up the phone and call you about my new idea's or accomplishments or projects. I'm so set on doing something to make you proud when I see you again. And I've got a lot of things I'm working on, and yet none of them make me feel proud. I'm excited for some of them, but I just really wish you were here to work on them with me. Like you always do.
It feels like we've been apart forever. It feels like I wont see you for another forever. Its just a few more weeks, we're half way done. I cant wait until you come home. I cant wait until I get to show you my projects and I cant wait to show you your surprise gift. I hope you like it. And I hope you like my new projects, its not jewelry but I think you'd be happy to know I'm working on something I've always had a passion for over something I just started.
I know its hard for you to push yourself without me. I know its hard for you to keep your head on right without me with you. Its hard for both of us, but you're pushing yourself as far as you can and I havent been, and I should. Its not fair for you to and for me to sit here and mope. So the next few weeks, I'll be pushing myself as hard as you're pushing yourself.
I cant wait to see you again.
Labels: away , basic training , heartbreak , missors
Earlyyy phone call!
I got several phone calls from Martin this morning to contact our teachers for him. He woke me up at 8:15AM, I was unaware of the time... just happy he called. So I grabbed the numbers and contacted them. Fell back to sleep and he called again, I gave him the info. We talked for a little bit. He's sick with flu-like symptoms :( told him about the sponsorship he said he called his dad prior to calling me and he told him. Its good he called his parents :) and... I dont remember what else. Went back to sleep. He called me again to ask for their more information, so I called the school again and gave him the information. Asked if Marissa was suppose to wear a dress or a tux for the wedding. He said it was up to her. If she wants to wear a dress she can. Went back to sleep. He called again for something, I dont remember at this point lol!
Finally just got up and I was working on my Wicked site and he called again just to say thank you really quick (people were waiting to use the phone so I guess they got to call home today). I told him my page rates went up and he cracked saying that he was proud of me :) my poor baber! I told him to be good and good luck on his test and he'll be fine, to just let his shin heal and not hurt himself. I'd rather he be fully healed before he does his test then test himself before his test and hurt himself again. He told me to tell Boq he loves him, I thought that was cute. I told him he's gonna have to come home and tame him cause he's super jumpy.
Then he called again after saying that the last call was going to be his last call lol. I have two first names and he didnt know if there was a space, hyphen or if it was just one word. I was a little offended, but then I realized that I never really write it out, and when he does see it (like on my email) its usually one word. Which its not, there's a space between them. I gave him a big kiss over the phone and he laughed. I'm glad I got him to smile, I tried to sound super cheerful for him.
I miss him so much. And if I miss him this much, I wonder how much he misses me. Its easier for me because I'm still at home where its familiar where as he's not. I try to send him as many kisses over the phone or on my letters as I can. Even if I just kiss the paper and I draw an arrow saying "I kissed it right there for you" lol. Whatever works, right?!
Just a few more weeks left. I cant believe we're half way done! Time flew by. The next few weeks (starting next week) is going to be super busy. So I need to get a lot done this week (mostly cleaning cause this room is in serious need of being cleaned). And updating my blogs so I have a few days to walk away from it and get other things done.
And nowwwwww.... back to work!
Labels: basic training , phone call , time
Happily groggy.
I'm groggy. Someone woke me up this morning... MY BOO LOVES!!! :D
He called cause I was taking too long to mail out the graduation paper. He sounded a little bit mad at me, but I didnt snap back at him cause its really not that important and I was too happy he was on the phone (see, sometimes distance can be a good thing. Had he had been home, he woulda got the yelling of a lifetime). Once that was out of the way, we got to talk for a bit. Told him all my Wicked news, that mom bought me a hamster and I named him Boq and he laughed :D he liked the name hehe. Told him I havent been shopping cause I've been wanting to watch Wicked and he softened up. He told me about his shin and how he got physical therapy and they have a test tomorrow but he's excused to have his shin heal up, but at 7 weeks they have a test that determines everything so hopefully he's healed up by then. He's been drinking milk and stuff. He went to a Christian church today instead of the Wicca (Wicca is kinda solo mission thing like he mentioned in his last letter). He got this dog tags :D
What else... there's just so much to say and everything is a blur when you dont know what kind of time limit you're on. I told him everything for the wedding is ordered and I'm waiting for it to ship, asked about if I should do the booking for flight and hotel now or wait, told him about the money... he said he had to pay for clothes and stuff. He told me not to stress, reminded him its me hes talking to lol. Told him I'm trying to get his sponsorship for Thanksgiving.
His school is going to be in Florida and its going to be longer than we thought it would be with his previous job. So that sucks, I cant fly out to Florida all the time... if Texas is a 5hr flight... how long is Florida?! My ears will be really messed up by the time I get there! I've been avoiding NY for the same reason! But he's saying since we're going to be married by then he's going to try to get me to move out there, I kinda dont want to. Especially if its going to be out of our pocket. I dont really know how school works, I hear a lot of mixed things. I know if they have to be there for six months and over then you're able to move out there and they'll cover it, but I think less than six months is all out of pocket. Plus I'm not ready to move away from my family yet :(
I think that was it? He was really emotional :( my poor baby. Reminded him that I believe in him, I wouldnt had let him join the military if I didnt think he could make it. Told him to be good and take care and that he'll be fine. We'll see him in a few weeks. I told him to pass so we can get married and he did his baby "yes" and I know exactly what face he made. He kept saying I love you so much and it was getting harder and harder not to break. Dammit boo loves, can we keep things happy over the phone! It was nice to talk to him again after not talking for almost 2 weeks (2 weeks tomorrow).
He'll be fine. Just a few more weeks left... and it will all be over. And he'll get to come home and we'll get to get married and everything will be fine. Just a few more weeks love. That's all. I believe in you.
Labels: basic training , groggy , phone call , tech school
I feel so...
I just got two letters from Martin.
I need to get his graduation paper back to him, and I was suppose to mail it off yesterday and I forgot so I have to do it tomorrow so it'll be picked up on Monday.
Ugh, I'm so sad right now I cant even write.
The other letter was about how he went to the ER to get X-Rays for his shins. He's flat footed so its messing up his shin's and he said that they said they were close to being fractured and now he has to take pain killers and start drinking milk (with the already close to no time he has to eat). He has a waiver for something about self paced exercising or something. His next evaluation is some time this month and he might get medically discharged. I dont think its fair that they discharge him just because hes flat footed theres a lot of other people in the military who are flat footed as well. So I hope he doesnt get discharged.
I feel so... I dont know... sad.
I'm spending all this time setting things for a wedding that might not even happen. And I feel like giving up. I cant do anything to make this better, I cant encourage him from where I am, I cant help him. He has to do this on his own. I feel so bad for even questioning if he'll pass and I feel bad that I'm sad about it cause its like saying I dont believe in him. And I do, but I dont know. I'm just worried.
I'm just so sick of every letter being bad news, you know? I know it wasnt going to be easy and I know hes struggling but I didnt think every letter was going to be depressing. I'm almost tempted to not read anymore letters from him. But I know that would be wrong of me. I guess I'm just use to taking over when he needs help with things, and I cant this time. I cant away his worries, I cant take away his problems, I cant fix them this time. He's on his own.
And this is what it was about. Growing up on our own for awhile, not holding each other's hand. Gaining independence while we're away from each other.
I just want things to be okay.
Labels: basic training , defeated , independence , medical , wedding
Domestic violence.
I just finished watching Rihanna's interview on 20/20 about the incident that happened between her and Chris Brown earlier this year.
I'll admit, when that story was first released the first thing that came out of my mouth was "she must had done something to provoke him". Obviously the stories that were released had mixed up information. In one article it said she threw his phone and keys out the window but in the 20/20 interview the police report stated that he threw her phone out of the window when she attempted to call her assistant. So obviously I thought oh shes just another girl who just doesnt know when to shut up. Then there's Chris, who came from an abusive family and all you can really say is "well, he grew up around it. What do you expect?" and that theres no possible way someone will just hit you for no reason.
And yet, I never put my own past situation into consideration. Being in a relationship where I was verbally and mentally abused for 6 months straight, him putting his hands on me once and him "attempting" suicide because he was mad at me once. And when you look back on it, I never provoked any of those arguments. He started them with me and once I showed I was hurt he would push it even farther and when I would ask him to stop it would get even worse.
When she says that the physical wounds will heal but the flashbacks dont, she's right. I hate thinking back to the day I was pinned and I couldnt move and he was screaming at me. And I just didnt know where or when it was going to end or how. Its haunting, even now, six years later its still haunting. I assume at any given minute Martin will do the same thing to me one day even though in the last five years he's never even screamed at me. But lucky for me, my business wasnt broadcast around the world.
After watching her interview, I admire her so much more. I admire how strong she is and how she quickly realized that young girls look up to her and she didnt want to send the wrong message to them. I can imagine how hard it must be for her to be away from Chris and to deal with what has happened on top of that especially if they were best friends and I admire her for being so strong about it.
And I admire that it didnt take her 8 or 9 times for her to finally walk away.
Labels: abusive relationships , domestic violence
Long day...
So today Marissa was suppose to take her entrance test for school, and I asked her to make sure and blah blah blah and she said she did buuuuut! She texted me as I was driving to the house and tells me that she had to make an appointment for the test.
Female version of Martin. I swear LOL.
So instead we go to Vaca and get lunch at Olive Garden. For $4. Shhh hehe. Then headed to Borders. None of the bridal magazines were helpful! Went to PetSmart, they didnt have anything I was looking for, for Boq (I decided to name the Robo baby Boq… after the munchkin from Wicked lol!) but we saw some meal worms making their great escape. Pretty gross. Thennn we went to Target and they didnt have my ear plugs.
Went to the mall and they still only had one candle which was the one I was looking at last time we were there, ugh. Oh! I got my See's Wicked chocolates! Whoooooohoooo!!! YES! Hehe. Went to Party City to look for invites and the guy who worked in invites was new, literally his first day so, no help there… decided to add blue Frooties to the favors. Marissa's a genius!
Went to Party City closer to home and they have an invite order specialist… wtf? And she wasnt there. They re-did that Party City. It looks so much bigger now! Went to CVS and found my ear plugs, yay! Went to Michaels and got some mesh bags for the favors, silver bows, blue/white/silver ribbon for the bouquet and my snowflakes! Stopped by Bed Bath and Beyond cause it opened! And its huge! And they have makeup and shampoo and stuff, crazy! Got info about the registry and it sounds a lot better than everyone elses. Its good for up to 2 years and if we purchase anything on our registry we get 10% off. Pretty neat. So made an appointment tomorrow at 11AM to go get that done. The invite lady for Party City doesnt get there til 12PM anyway, so gives us enough time. Then got Taco Bell for dinner and headed to Wal Mart cause Marissa had to look at jackets. Found better bubble blowers there, so gonna get those and return the ones from Michaels.
So tomorrow I have to order invites and custom ribbon, set up Bed Bath and Beyond registry, return bubbles, go to the bank, pay bills, stop by Joann's, stop by Hallmark, Aerie gift, free Godiva, check my comic book (that was suppose to be out today but I didnt get a call) and stop by the post office. Oh and check out wedding bands.
WHY ARE WEDDING INVITES SO EXPENSIVE?! Goodness!!!
I love how Wicked always manages to calm me. I was watching behind the scenes for the Sydney production and I got excited to see the show again. I seriously dont think I'll ever get tired of the show!
I hope everything works out…
Basic Training pay.
When Martin had enlisted into the Air Force, one of the questions we were concerned about was if he was going to be paid during Basic Training. We had thought of freezing his accounts, but with such short notice (under a month before he had to leave) we didnt know if we should even bother trying. So we figured if he was paid during Basic, everything should be fine. And the recruiter assured us that he would be getting paid during Basic.
Typically they get paid every two weeks, so I figure that would work out as far as getting the bills paid and being able to save up for the wedding.
Well, the day he was suppose to get his first pay, he didnt get it. It landed on the weekend and after Googling it, they said that if the pay date should fall on a weekend or holiday it would be paid the following weekday. So I wait for Monday to roll by and still no pay. So I turn to yahoo answers which probably wasnt the best idea I've ever had since we all know, no one on yahoo answers is actually helpful.
Anyway, I find out that his first actual pay could take 4-8 weeks to arrive, which puts me in a panic because of the wedding. I need to pay a down payment to both the chapel and the reception obviously at least two or so weeks before the wedding. Not to mention get everyone else to book their rooms with our promo code and people usually need a few weeks to request it off work. So, with the time frame I have and not knowing when his pay will arrive (I'm getting a lot of the beginning of next month, which eases me slightly), I dont know how this will work out. And as always its up to me to make it work out.
Not to mention how impossible it is to get into contact with him considering he's in Basic and the only card that he has that I would be able to charge everything to, is not under my name. Now I regret arguing with him about not wanting to be on that card.
It just sucks, everything happened in the span of 3 months. Him considering, him leaving, the engagement, the wedding, everything. Is just crammed into 3 months. I would assume I'd be more stressed out than I am at the moment, but I've felt a lot better since I found my dress. Everything will work out, it has to.
Now you could say well why dont you pay for it and I can pay for his bills if I absolutely need to, but again they are his bills. With his debt, I have my own debt to worry about and the recruiter told us this wouldnt be a problem. But as far as the wedding goes, I dont have enough to pay for that. The bills I can cover, the wedding, I can not.
And keep in mind, I dont mind if we have to wait until his R&R to get married. Its him who wants to get married as soon as possible so I can go with him to Tech School. I mean I would like to get married as soon as possible as well, but if we have to wait, I wont mind.
Labels: basic training , pay , wedding
My Greatest Adventure.
I saw this on someone's Tumblr and got sad. Martin wrote me a letter in the car before he left for Basic Training and it said:
Without you I would had never experienced these things. But guess what! Now its my turn to take you on an adventure. For six or so years. Thank you for being the best adventure babe.
I miss him so much =(.
Labels: basic training , letters , missors , UP
A new month!
Hellooooooooooo November!
- Aerie free gift (if you're on their A-List)
- Godiva free chocolate (if you're part of their membership program)
- The Marvelous Land of Oz comic book releases this month (part II)
- Seeing Wicked for the third time this month!
- I get my dress at the end of the month
- One month closer to seeing my boo loves!!!
Labels: basic training , November , wedding
Favors & Bouquet.
Today and last night I've been working on favors and the bouquet. I havent really decided what I wanted as favors, but I want something like candles or soaps. Candles might be a bit hard to transport and just all around a hassle but soaps not so much. I was first thinking LUSH and realized how pricey that's going to get. My jewelry making blogger friend Lisa offered to make soaps (shes starting to make soaps) but backed out cause she literally just started like... yesterday lol. But she linked me to someone on Etsy. So I started searching Etsy and contacted some people who have made snowflake soaps for samples in Sugar Cookie. So I'm expecting some of those next week and I'll have a bit of picking to do. Someone else does perfume/lotion solids, kinda like LUSH's solid perfume so I got some samples of that too. I might include those. Put them in a mesh bag and tie it with a ribbon with our names and wedding date. And of course the basket of blowing bubbles at the ceremony site with our ribbon.
As for the bouquet; this is a little complicated. I want white Orchids. I also want white and blue roses. Plain white roses and white roses with silver on the tips. Me and Marissa are going to get some supplies from Michaels next week to try that out and see if we can dye our own roses blue. But then I thought about it... how are we going to get those to Vegas and still alive? Unless we figure something out, bring the supplies to Vegas and quickly make them the night before/early morning. Or find somewhere in Vegas that sells/can make the roses ready to pick up and hopefully send my oh so loving cousin Aileen to pick them up for me (oh I'd love you forever Aileen)!
I need to do a bit more calling and mostly to the Ceasers Palace chapel just to clarify some things. I need to stop by Party City and custom order the ribbon and scroll through their save-the-dates and invitations again to order some of those as well.
Almost done planning.
I hope my dress comes out wonderful. I'm starting to think I should had just ordered it white as the over all color and have the Navy blue be the peek a boo color. Oh goodness!
I got 2 letters from Martin today. He's doing better. He gets to do the Wiccan Samhain celebration today or tomorrow, I think he said today. He said he plans on calling my grandpa. I'm a bit jealous. That'll be an experience for him. It kinda sounds like hes enjoying this Wiccan church, I'm glad he is. His letters were a bit more happier this time, so I'm happy about that too. I cant wait to see him again. Just a few more weeks left. This week is already over, so that's one more down. My parents have been very kind and supportive the last few weeks. I appreciate that so much.
Its hot today :( it was freezing cold the other day, what happened! I hope it cools down soon.
Labels: letters , wedding , wedding bouquet , wedding favors , wicca
Lack of pictures.
I'm the type of person who likes to document their life, and with pictures. I've been so busy and everything has been so crazy that I just realized that I barely took any pictures while running from Bridal shop to Bridal shop and all of the other crazy adventures. I was just so set on getting everything set and done (with planning a wedding almost by yourself with just TWO MONTHS UNTIL the wedding, that might do that to you... I'm trying not to beat myself up too bad about it). But I will make a post about my adventures (with pictures, even if I have to pull them off from Google and Yelp) very soon.
Labels: lack of pictures , thankful , wedding
Found my wedding dress!!
Good news, I FOUND MY WEDDING DRESS!!!
Labels: basic training , wedding , wedding dress , wicca
Two months left.
Today marks two months until our wedding. Hopefully. And nothing is done. SURPRISE! Not really. I think I'm getting sick. I was sneezy all day yesterday and I went to bed with a runny nose, then this morning I woke up (thanks to a phone call from a bridal store I called yesterday) at 10AM with a stuffed up nose. Not good. And even now, at 5:17PM I feel like crap and all I wanna do is take a nap! I really hope I find a dress tomorrow, its kinda my last-ish hope. There isnt much time left and I really really really need to find a dress... soon. Unfortunately the dress I wanted doesnt come out til January 2010. I know, lovely right? I wasnt aware until I called the bridal shop to see if it was in stock. Unhappy? Oh yes. Spent a bunch of time yesterday calling buffets in Vegas. I wanted to change it to the Wynn (all you can eat Gelato!) but their rules are different from everywhere elses, so I decided against it. I think I'll stick with MGM, why the heck not. I already know their food is good. Maybe we can dine at the Wynn by ourselves one of the days we're there. Other than wedding details, I read Sweep: Book of Shadows yesterday. And I finished it in like 3 hours. It was such a good book. I just had to order the next 3! There's, I believe, right now... 14 books in the series. Though I'm not sure. It's about a girl in high school who's introduced to Wicca by the new guy (it had a total Twilight-Edward-and-Bella opening) and she's a blood witch but doesnt know it. And the book was kinda like, describing my life (at this moment) lol. Probably why I was so hooked on it. I'm thinking of making a blog dedicated to books. But I already have so many blogs that I dont know if that would be a good idea. Blah. Havent gotten any letters or phone call's since two days ago, wow its only been two days? It feels much longer than that lol! Jazi was telling me that after three weeks everything should be better, so I'm hoping she's right. A few more weeks til his graduation so that's pretty exciting. I dont know if I should book everything now or wait til next month. I hope to hear from him soon *sigh*. It's almost over... just a few more weeks...
Today marks two months until our wedding. Hopefully.
And nothing is done. SURPRISE! Not really.
I think I'm getting sick. I was sneezy all day yesterday and I went to bed with a runny nose, then this morning I woke up (thanks to a phone call from a bridal store I called yesterday) at 10AM with a stuffed up nose. Not good. And even now, at 5:17PM I feel like crap and all I wanna do is take a nap!
I really hope I find a dress tomorrow, its kinda my last-ish hope. There isnt much time left and I really really really need to find a dress... soon. Unfortunately the dress I wanted doesnt come out til January 2010. I know, lovely right? I wasnt aware until I called the bridal shop to see if it was in stock. Unhappy? Oh yes. Spent a bunch of time yesterday calling buffets in Vegas. I wanted to change it to the Wynn (all you can eat Gelato!) but their rules are different from everywhere elses, so I decided against it. I think I'll stick with MGM, why the heck not. I already know their food is good. Maybe we can dine at the Wynn by ourselves one of the days we're there.
Other than wedding details, I read Sweep: Book of Shadows yesterday. And I finished it in like 3 hours. It was such a good book. I just had to order the next 3! There's, I believe, right now... 14 books in the series. Though I'm not sure. It's about a girl in high school who's introduced to Wicca by the new guy (it had a total Twilight-Edward-and-Bella opening) and she's a blood witch but doesnt know it. And the book was kinda like, describing my life (at this moment) lol. Probably why I was so hooked on it. I'm thinking of making a blog dedicated to books. But I already have so many blogs that I dont know if that would be a good idea. Blah.
Havent gotten any letters or phone call's since two days ago, wow its only been two days? It feels much longer than that lol! Jazi was telling me that after three weeks everything should be better, so I'm hoping she's right. A few more weeks til his graduation so that's pretty exciting. I dont know if I should book everything now or wait til next month. I hope to hear from him soon *sigh*.
It's almost over... just a few more weeks...
Labels: basic training , books , sick , Sweep: Book of Shadows , wedding
Stop Overs.
I dont have a fear of planes or anything and taking off is my favorite part... but, I do have a huge problem with landing.
For as long as I can remember, landing has always been painful for me. I've been avoiding going to the Philippines for years due to this problem, the last time I went (because you transfer planes in Manila. Meaning I had to land twice) I seriously felt like my head was going to explode, it wasnt fun. I've tried to avoid plane flights that are more than an hour and a half because then I'd be tempted to sleep and sleeping can cause more discomfort. I usually force myself to stay awake and I constantly swallow, and when I say constant, I literally mean constant.
So imagine my reaction to find that to get to Martin's graduation location would be a 3 hour flight. I was planning on taking Virgin Airlines (everyone's raving about them lately) because of all the things they offer (like watching tv, IMing people on the plane with you, etc) I figure that could occupy me for 3 hours but they dont offer flights to my destination. Great. Not only that but, I found out just today that the flights will take longer than 3 hours. The shortest I've found was 4 1/2 and there's a required stop over with every flight I've found.
*insert extreme freak out here*
I've even called the airlines and they said the shortest stop over they have is a little over one minute and you're not to leave the plane (I guess its more of a drop off type thing) but that's not the problem. The problem is that I'll be landing twice in one day. My ears ache just thinking about it. What. Am. I. Going. To. Do!
My mom provided me with ear plugs when I went to Las Vegas and they helped a lot. But if you put them in the wrong way, then of course they wont work as well. But the problem is... how do you know its in right? Sure you can feel it, but you cant feel it if its slightly off. Which can cause problems. I came across this, Clear Ears but I dont think I've seen these in stores before (honestly I never really looked). But I'm interested in trying them, too bad I cant do like... a small test run. But I hope, hope, hope these work. Another thing I found (thank the God's for Google) was nasal spray, certain medicine like Paracetamol.
Someone one on one of the sites I found mentioned that it could be nasal related. It was worded differently that was much more understandable but the words arent coming to me right now. Either way, I saw it and remembered that when I was younger I shoved a peanut up my nose (my mom's an RN and as a child I was a picky eater and she use to tell me if I didnt eat she'd feed me through my nose, she failed to mention it required a tube. So being curious, I tried to feed myself through my nose. I know, smart move right?) and I remember having to go to the hospital to have it taken out since I shoved it in too far. I remember getting X-Rays for it and seeing the damaged tissue. My parents took me in for my snoring problem and that's how I ended up with nose X-Rays. I believe I was suppose to have surgery to fix the tissue but I never ended up getting it (surgery to 5 year old is not something you should mention) besides they said I might grow out of it... or something. I dont know this was 20 years ago the appointment gets hazy lol.
But! I'm curious to know, if that's the cause of my painful plane landings. I'm just afraid if it is, what are the steps to correct it. Of course, either way I'm going to have to suck this up and make it to Martin's graduation no matter how painful it may be. Since he's in the military I dont have much of a choice but to get use to flying more often. Which is not what I'm looking forward to (why could he join a branch that's more on the ground?!) but I will definitely look for those ear plugs, research that medicine, call the hospital, flush my ears and everything else before getting on the plane. I just really really hope its a going to be a smooth flight (and by that I mean no intense amount of pain).
Martin knows how I get during landings and I'm sure he's just as worried about me as I'm worried myself and I'm sure once he sees me the first thing he'll do is kiss my ears in case they still hurt.
It's the little things he does that make me miss him so much...
Phone call.
Surprisingly I got my phone call. Right after I read his letters. Eight minutes wasnt enough, I blanked out during the call. And now that he's hung up, I remember everything I wanted to say. He told me the bases he got to choose from, but I didnt really understand what he meant. The reception there sucks (or maybe its just his phone). But I'm glad I got to hear from him. I just wish every phone call didnt end in tears.
Labels: bases , basic training , phone call
I got 2 three page letters from Martin today!!! And I got his graduation info. Yay! Does that mean I can book the hotel now? And the plane tickets? I'm excited!
He's doing good, which is good. He said he was going to write to me every night which is good cause I've been trying to not write him every night. Someone said if they get too many letters they could get in trouble but he said I can write every day if I want cause they get mail call every night. He said his first run was 18 minutes (I think they're suppose to do it in 12) and he was last coming in and everyone was saying "airforce failure" that made me sad. He'll get better, I know he will. He hasnt worked out in a while, so it'll take awhile for him to get it all back. I'm sure by now (I think he wrote that letter last week) he's got it down. It doesnt take that long for him to bounce back.
He also said he was the only one who didnt get a bump on his booty from the booty shot they get lol! Oh and... hes making his own bed. I know its required, but still, it amazes me. I wonder if he'll be making beds when he gets home. It would be amazing if he did! I swear, I was crying the entire time I was reading his letters :(
He mentioned that he wanted Olive Garden (Olive Garden is my favorite restaurant but he hates that place) and then he goes "or maybe I just wanna be with you". And hes always like that, he hates Olive Garden but if that's where I'm going to be, he wants to be there with me. He would follow me to the end of the Earth if I decided to go there. I love that about him.
I wish I was as strong as him. I always wish I was as strong as him. He keeps saying how just thinking of me gives him the strength to keep going and not quit. And for me, his absence makes me feel so weak. I always feel so selfish when I think about it.
I did write his address wrong, but he got the letters. At least now that he sent me letters, I know what his address is (its so off from what he told me, wtf lol).
I'm amazed he wrote me three pages, he hates writing. But it looked like he had a lot to say, I'll probably start writing him every night :)
Labels: basic training , letters , military
Overslept & bad dreams...
I had a bad dream last night.
We went to Martin's graduation and after we went to this mall/shopping area place and he immediately went to the arcade and didnt bother spending time with me, so I walked off to the shopping mall and a few hours later we had to go to ceremony type thing and I didnt wanna sit with him cause he ignored me the whole day for video games but I was forced to sit next to him and he finally hugged me and it felt all nice and stuff then he told me he cheated on me. Twice. And I got really sad and just... blah.
Then he tried to kill me.
Dream Martin isnt a fan of me I'm starting to think. But I woke up sad.
This might sound weird coming from someone who's only had long distance relationships her whole life (out of 13 relationships, only 3 including this one has been local), but I sometimes doubt I can handle being a military wife. I didnt think the distance would bother me this much. I thought I'd brush it off like the usual "oh its cool I'll see him next week" type of deal (and just keep saying that every week for the next seven weeks). But its nothing like that. This distance is tiring. And I hate it. I wrote Martin a letter last night and I dont know if I should send it, I was just really angry and tired last night and I dont want to send him letters that are anything less than happy. I know it must be hard for him out there too, harder than it is for me. And I dont want to send him a letter telling him how unhappy I am, even if I am for that moment because overall, I'm not. I'm so proud of him, but I just miss him so much sometimes.
Its just hard, and its only the second week. We can get through this, I just need to stop being so impatient.
I didnt get out of bed til 1PM today, which is fine. My eye stopped twitching. Thank goodness. It's so hot today, where are you hiding autumn?
Labels: bad dreams , distance , military , missors
All this wedding planning....
iS DRiViNG ME CRAZY.
I'm going to try to not do any wedding planning today. Wedding planning free this weekend (hopefully).
The favors are slowly coming together. The dress is still not found, neither are the invites or the save the dates. I called MGM the other day and the lady told me they have their own bakery on site and she'd email me their choices but I didnt get the email! Argh, so I have to call again tomorrow. I also need to ask if I'm able to light candles on the tables. The table decor is slowly coming together too. Hopefully everything works out, I'm really really worried about not getting my date. Cause if I dont, it will ruin everything. I hate how unstable all of this is.
Martin needs to call me already!! This is driving me nuts. The recruiter told me after two weeks he'd give me a call, but he called two days after getting there so I dont know if that means I dont get my two week call. And other people say that the first three weeks they're unable to call or write. Ugh.
Yesterday was fun though. Went to see Behind The Emerald Curtain with the future sis in law and I got to take a picture with Fiyero and randomly went to see if they had any tickets for yesterday for 2PM annnnnd.... they did! Haha so I took them! Had a Wicked filled day, it was awesome. And ate delicious Lobster Pad Thai from Straits, yum! Worth the $39! It was so freakin good! A nice relaxing day. I'm tempted to see Wicked next month and in December =). So I'm excited for that!
Labels: wedding planning , wicked
Wedding dress shopping!
Man, I'm too tired to blog. Like warm-fuzzy-tired. I just wanna cuddle under my fleece blanket right now... mMm.
Had lunch with my Auntie Heidi and Uncle Ray, mom, dad and Carlo cause they're leaving tomorrow.
Then went to get Marissa and headed out to go pay Martin's freakin school late fee. And his Kay bill. Thank goodness people know us around here, makes it easier when I'm trying to pay a bill or something. No questioning who I am or anything. I'm honestly gonna miss it! Got my free gift from Aerie, Marissa signed up for it too and she stopped me from buying this super cute hat. Grrr. Reserved the new Oz comic book, I know its early but who knows! Had lunch and brought my gyoza's home this time, whoo!! Delivered packages to the post office, whew.
So today I went wedding dress shopping. I decided to just stop by the place with the bad reviews and it wasnt so bad. The girl who helped me was really sweet and nice. Out of all the dresses I was interested in looking at, they only had one. So I went to browse around and find a few more dresses. I found a few too many.
Thank goodness Marissa was there to help me find my shoes! Those dresses were so big they swallowed me! I fell in LOVE with this ruffled one, but it was offered in navy blue so I decided on another one that was really pretty, but it just... didnt scream out to me. So I dont know, I think I'll look around some more.
But man, by the third dress, I was like "I'm getting tireeeedddd!" it was really tiring!
We also went to Michael's, I was hoping to get some idea's for favors and to get some take out boxes to pack Martin's cookies in for his graduation. Marissa found some skull ones that were on sale cause of Halloween. So score!
And we also went to Kohls and I got a cute winter coat I'm gonna wear to his grad. Paired with leggings and boots =). Marissa tried on these boots I wanted and they were niiice! Damn them for costing $40. I'll be on the look out for them to go on sale!
Oh I got my pearls!! They're all freakin... smaller than I assumed they'd be and I got my earrings from Lisa. I *heart* her! She's so sweet!
Labels: bills , family , wedding , wedding dress
And more dresses...
After browsing theknot.com I found a few more dresses I was interested in. Problem is, they carry it in a store with bad reviews. At least, the store close to me. Good news is, two cities farther is a bridal store that carries the same dresses... with good reviews (yay) so my plan is to try on the dresses at the closer shop and order from the farther. I know, arent I smart? I'm sure my dress size is a 1 but I'm going to double check anyway and see how some of these look on me. I'm on the search for a dress with sleeves, which is pretty hard to find. I hate that I'm super skinny, I feel uncomfortable wearing sleeveless dresses. I would post pictures but there's just wayyy too many of them, so once I narrow it down... I'll be sure to post those pictures!
Labels: basic training , graduation , wedding , wedding dress
Dress -- update.
So I called the places in my area that carried the dress line I wanted to check out and I asked about the first picture I posted. None of them had it in stock, though they were able to order it and it does go down to a size zero, none were in stock for me to try on. And no one knew the prices since they didnt have the price sheet handy. Yeah, not helpful.
As much as I would like to have that dress, not knowing the price can be a problem. I havent decided if I'm going to change dresses or just stick with the one I already had in mind in the first place. The problem with the one I had in mind is that its just one solid color. I wanted (like I said before) a double colored dress.
Ugh, this is so hard without Martin here.
Labels: wedding dress
So I had already picked out my perfect wedding dress from David's Bridal. But I came across this site from someones blog and I browsed it and OMG fell in love with a few dresses...
I love strap less dresses, but I cant wear them before I'm too skinny. I totally wanna buy two dresses: my planned dress and my if-I-gain-weight-like-I-want-to dress!
I really really want this dress! Even if it is strap less! I love the detail on the side! And I would totally get it in that color and change my wedding colors!
really want this dress too! But I'm worried if the shaw thing would get in the way?
The only problem with this is that the site is located in NY and I'm from CA. So thats kinda, a long ways apart. I wouldnt be able to try on these dresses =\. I'm starting to think maybe I should actually look for a dress instead of just settling for any dress...
Labels: wedding , wedding dress
Phone Call!
I got my first phone call the other day! But it wasnt long, it was only 6 minutes and he had just called to tell me his address and he had to go.
Labels: basic training , phone call , USAF
Wedding Favors.
I was thinking about wedding favors. I havent completely decided if I wanted to give them out. I kinda want to, because I think it deserves to have favors given out! But I have a hard time trying to figure out what to give out. I have a few things in mind, like a CD of all of "our" songs. Maybe some bubble blower things and I really really want to give out candles as a favor, but I'm having a hard time trying to find candles to give out as favors that I can afford. I also have to figure out a wedding color palette. Just to make things a bit easier and so I have something solid to stick to.
This is so hard without him here and without someone to help me. Its just me and my indecisive-ness I guess!
Somethings I had in mind:
I was hoping for maybe picking my favorite scent from Bath & Body Works? But that might cost wayy too much. I wish Illuminations didnt close down! I probably wouldnt figured out something with theirs. And I'm not a fan of Yankee Candle, so that's out of the question! Hm, darn.
Labels: wedding , wedding favors
I hope it brings you bliss.
Me: I hope you're happy. Now that you're choosing this.
Martin: I hope it brings you bliss.
Me: I really hope you get it.
Martin: And you dont live to regret it.
Martin: I hope you're happy, in the end.
Me: I hope you're happy.
Me & Martin: My friend.
Yes, we sang a part of Defying Gravity to each other before saying goodbye. Does that make us lame? I dont really care. Its what we do, and it was actually really sad. I love you babe, I'm so proud of you. And I'm so thankful. You're my dream come true too, I'll be here waiting for you to come home. =(
Labels: basic training , music , wicked
Getting ready for the engagement party!
I have half an hour left of free time before I have to start running around getting ready. I swear this party was probably more stressful than planning the actual wedding. I also totally forgot to order a freakin cake! So I was calling places at 8PM last night lol, talk about high hopes right? Oh well, Martin doesnt think we should get a cake. Hm, maybe.
I still have to curl my hair, get dressed, picked out some desserts and I think that's it? I painted my nails and man I really do suck at it. But I guess painted nails are better than non painted nails? Not sure, I never paint my nails but this color is super cute! Love! I have on ELF's Royal Purple!
There was something else I had to do, and I totally forgot what. Crap.
Labels: engagement party
Less than a week left.
I feel like clinging on to his leg and begging him not to go! I already asked if he could just hide me in his duffel bag and he refused :(
Planning the engagement party is stressful. I hope everything works out. I'm sure I'll be excited for the party, but sad because it just means hes leaving that much sooner! I dont even know if we'll get everything we want to get done, done. We're behind on a bunch of stuff! I thought I'd be more prepared than this! Ugh, sadness is taking over and making me not want to do anything but just sit and mope. Really, dont have time for that!
I dont want him to go :( how am I gonna get through Basic Training??
Labels: engagement party , stress , time
Thank you!
Thank you everyone for the congrats on the engagement! I'm excited! Though my ring makes it hard to wash my hands. And every time he squeezes that hand, I wanna punch him in the face. It hurts! Haha. But I really like it, he did SO well. I think hes more amazed with it than I am though, I swear he wants to see it every five seconds.
Thank you everyone for the congrats on the engagement! I'm excited! Though my ring makes it hard to wash my hands. And every time he squeezes that hand, I wanna punch him in the face. It hurts! Haha. But I really like it, he did SO well. I think hes more amazed with it than I am though, I swear he wants to see it every five seconds.
Labels: engagement , excited , moving , scared , USAF


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17th November 2016
Grayling has picked up two trophies at the Public Relations Society of America (LA Chapter) PRism Awards. Both awards are in reconition of the team's work with Chinese backed electric vehicle developer, Faraday Future, and the support provided at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this year:
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Amanda Blanton, Vice President responsible for Grayling's LA team, says: "We were brought on board quite close to CES last year, and everyone worked incredibly hard to make it a successful event for Faraday Future, so to get this recognition now is extremely gratifying. I couldn't be more proud."
Details of the team's award-winning work for Faraday Future may be found here.
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I have a social website with groups and events . Each group have 30 people maximum. All the groups are 100. What I want to do is : I want to create a button that will create events between that 2 groups. Example let's say we have 2 groups, group a and group b. Each group have button with the name "new event" when the group b press the "new event" button from the group a, if the group a accept it then I want to automatically create new page that will have access the group a and group b together to share photos, chat etc. How can I do that? If is possible. Right now I have WordPress buddypress community. Is not necessary to use WordPress. I can start from the begin. Any ideas?
You have 100 groups max? You have a button that will create events between "that 2 groups"? Which two groups? What does it mean to say 'each group have button with the name new event'? How does that button know which groups to use?
I hope you can see how poorly you have described this project to an outsider.
Well, if you start from scratch (as opposed to trying to figure out how to leverage a WordPress plug-in), then for me it would start with the database design. Assuming you have a "users" table and a "groups" table, you'd then also have a "user_to_group" relation table. Then if you have an "events" table, you would also need a "group_to_event" relation table, which would then allow you to assign multiple groups to any event. After that, if you know how to to joins in SQL, you can relatively easily build DB queries to figure out which events a given user would know about by joining between their user ID and the groups table (to find what groups they are in) and then joining on the events table.
Why you have to be so rude?
Thank you very much for your help. I will check all the informations that you gave me
I did not try to be rude. I tried to give you back the thoughts in my head that I had as a result of your poorly written description of whatever it is you are trying to do.
You say you have up to 100 groups. You then propose working with just 2 of them. How did they get selected? Does the user see them all on his screen and choose the 2 he wants?
You have not specified if the team has to play every team on the system or not.
The simplest way I can think of is to have the page that you designate for the purpose of issuing a request is a drop down list, eg... a rough idea here is to have the challenger name written in to afield


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There are only about 6000 Tswana people in Namibia, making them the smallest cultural group. They are related to the Tswana people from whom Botswana derives its name.
The Namibian Tswana consist of three groups, the largest of which is the Tlharo, the second is the Tlhaping and the third the Kgalagadi who have to some extent mixed with the Kalahari Bushmen. Most Tswana people live in the east of Namibia around the town of Gobabis.
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As I was looking around for ways to enable Ajax in the current ASP.NET MVC release I found a couple of things that I found pretty useful and thought I should share.
The J in Ajax (JQuery)
The muscle behind the actual asynchronous calls comes from JavaScript. I looked around at a bunch of existing JavaScript libraries and settled on JQuery because of the way it leverages existing CSS knowledge. The three things that the library should do easily are:
- Help me easily display an "updater" to let user know something is happening (i.e. loading data),
- Assist in making the actual Ajax call without any hassle,
- and, most importantly, let me get 1 and 2 working without headaches.
Here is how JQuery helps in the three cases:
- The "updater":
Notice the way JQuery uses the standard CSS id selector. Could it be any easier?
- JQuery has the following Ajax calls available in its library:
object.load( )
$.get( )
$.post( )
$.getJSON( )
This takes away (hides) all of the XmlHttp object nonsense from the whole Ajax call.
- See 1 and 2
There are tons of good posts/tutorials on exactly how the ASP.NET MVC model works so I will not attempt to get into it too much here. The most important thing to know is that there are three things working together:
- The Controller,
- The Model, and
- The View
The controller handles all of the requests, asks the model for data, and then instructs the view to present the data (if any) returned.
One of the neat things about the MVC framework is the notion of routes. The default route setup is as follows:
routes.MapRoute( // Route name "Default", // URL with parameters "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // Parameter defaults new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } );
This simply means that, from the root of your web app, whenever a URL of the form http://root/foo/baz/bar is presented, the routing engine will call the foo controller with the baz action while supplying it with the bar id.
Some Code
Enough explanation, now to some code!
The Model
Since this is not an exercise in using the database, I created a simple Model class for students:
public class Student { public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } public int StudentId { get; set; } public static IQueryable<Student> GetStudentDataList() { return new List<student>() { new Student { FirstName = "John", LastName = "Smith", StudentId = 1}, new Student { FirstName = "Susan", LastName = "Connor", StudentId = 2}, new Student { FirstName = "Bryan", LastName = "Jones", StudentId = 3}, new Student { FirstName = "Lucy", LastName = "Vargas", StudentId = 4}, new Student { FirstName = "Robert", LastName = "Jimenez", StudentId = 5}, new Student { FirstName = "Seth", LastName = "Juarez", StudentId = 6}, new Student { FirstName = "David", LastName = "Meeks", StudentId = 7}, new Student { FirstName = "Olivia", LastName = "Rassmusen", StudentId = 8}, new Student { FirstName = "Viola", LastName = "Masterson", StudentId = 9}, new Student { FirstName = "Russel", LastName = "Jones", StudentId = 10} } .AsQueryable<Student>(); } }
This simply creates a new list of Students and returns them as an IQueryable.
The Controller
Since I want to only pass JSON serialized objects over the wire when making the Ajax calls, there is a handy return type for the action in the controller called JsonResult:
public JsonResult Find(string name) { // To simulate "wait" System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1500); return new JsonResult { Data = (from student in Student.GetStudentDataList() where student.LastName.StartsWith(name) select student).ToArray<student>() }; }
This will serialize the data out in the JSON format. Now for the actual interesting part:
The View
The html for this example is VERY simple:

 <%= Html.TextBox("textSearch") %> Find  <img src="<%= AppHelper.ImageUrl("indicator.gif") %>" alt="Loading" /> Loading...

Students:

There is a search box, a link, and update panel, and a div (studentList) that will be populated by the Ajax call. This is where the magic of the routing engine coupled with the JQuery Ajax call comes together:
$(document).ready( function() { // Hide update box $('#updater').hide(); var retrieveData = function(path, query, funStart, funEnd, funHandleData) { // for displaying updater funStart(); // retrieve JSON result $.getJSON( path, { name : query }, function(data) { // handle incoming data funHandleData(data); // for hiding updater funEnd(); } ); }; // adding handling to find link $('#linkFind').click( function(event) { event.preventDefault(); retrieveData( // mvc route to JSON request '/Student/Find/', // query from textbox $('#textSearch')[0].value, // function to show updater function() { $('#updater').show(); }, // function to hide updater function() { $('#updater').hide(); }, // retrieving the data function(data) { // clear students (if any) $('#studentList > div').remove(); // add students for(s in data) { var student = data[s]; $('#studentList').append('
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The retrieveData function uses the JQuery $.getJSON call to retrieve the data. It takes as arguments the path to the controller (remembering routes), the argument (in this case the query) that the controller action expects, as well as a couple of functions. These functions will handle the cases where the request is started, the request is ended, and what to do with the data that is returned. Subsequently we add the event handler to the link that initiates the find request. Notice that we are passing in '/Student/Find/' as the path since we are using the Find action on the StudentController. The argument is passed in from the search text box. This sets into motion the asynchronous request to the controller. The controller then returns a JSON serialized array of Student objects. Once the data is received, the studentList div is then cleared and repopulated.
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Hopefully this has been helpful! It was fun putting everything together. Feel free to send me an email or leave a comment on this post if there are any suggestions/comments.


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Review: Hats off to 'Mary Poppins'
Poppins and tuppence … hats off to director Jan Buzzeo's artistry and vision for everyone's favorite nanny and Disney show.
Cherry Tree Lane: historic, turn-of-the century London. The stage appropriately reflects the time period and the props draw the viewer into a time when distractions were rare and simplicity abundant.
The orchestra is situated for vital sound and timing. Orchestra members Anita Flowe, Ray Eyrich, Viv Watson, Susann Karnowski, Marcia Overton and Kaylee Helgeson perform a most-rigorous ensemble of music and Kristine Carlson does a superb job at conducting them through the three-hour score.
Matt Schiller plays a most jolly and lively character; telling quite an adventuresome tale throughout the play. His portrayal of his character, Bert, can only be put in the category of exceptional.
Anthony Buzzeo, Issac Larson, Cecilia Buzzeo and Emma Villnow shine in their roles as Michael and Jane Banks and infect us with their smiles and spunk. Tim Ostby and Carol Meier perform the firm and dutiful parents with concrete acting accuracy and vocal precision.
Mary Poppins is played by Jeannie Reid. She radiates the epitome of Mary; she allures with grace, class and perfection. Her vocal range and pitch are in a class of its own and her acting ability natural and with ease.
Each character element is essential for the production to be complete. We see the Banks' household help, Mrs. Brill (Kellie Wright) and Robertson Ay (Jordan Gatewood) and Cathy Bays as Mrs. Lark. Matthew Weiss as Neleus and the tender Birdwoman played by Emily Morton. The birdwoman and Mary provide a heart-warming scene and an angelic chorus brings a serene and peace to the theater that can melt a cold heart.
The quirky trio of Mrs. Corry, Annie Corey and Fannie Corry are played by Christina Nelson, Randi Larson and Maddie Schiller. Allen Clark plays the orderly Constable and Ashley Stai is Valentine. Ace Bonnema, Lyle Mangen and Bill Wright portray bankers and investors. Bill Bannon performs a dual role (Admiral Boom and Bank Chairman), as well as, Gretchen Otness as Queen Victoria and the saucy Mrs. Smythe.
Jill Benson, who portrays Miss Andrew, appears with a delightful sense of terror. She encompasses the stage and engages us to follow her every move. She dazzles the dark side and vibrates the rafters with her vocal excellence.
Completing the acting ensemble are Alice Lindgren, Kirstyn Harasyn, Jen Harasyn, Sela Larson, Claire Schiller, Denise Deaner, Melissa Mangen, Doug Wilkowskie, Allison Mattson, Bailey Stahl, Caitlynn Roiseland, Cecilia Hernandez, Adam Schiller, Mykal Barker and Noah Eckhoff.
Pauline Prawl, as choreographer, has assembled amazing and show-stopping original dances that will leave the audience shouting and clapping. She guided the troupes through a "Supercaligragilisticexpialidocious" dance number that will leave audience members out of breath.
The magic of Mary Poppins is made a reality by the talent of Trevor Eckhoff. He provides many hidden treasures throughout the show and leaves one wondering how. One must keep a close eye to the stage to not miss any of his special effects. Trevor, along with Sonja Madsen, also applied character makeup.
Shannon Eckhoff, as costumer, shows her creative class and eye for detail. Her strong sense of style and regard for time-period pieces place her at the top of her game. She had seamstress assistance from Carol Parker, Candy Tabor and Liz Hyttsten.
John Jahr, as vocal director, did an outstanding job. Characters shine throughout the show with melodic beauty to the Disney favorites. Michelle Gralish, Allen Clark, Louann Villnow and Sydney Benson spare no time in prepping for the next scene. Aane Twedt marvels us with his maticulously designed set which is coordinated beautifully with props by Cheri Buzzeo. Lighting design and sound are shared by Matt Hegdahl and Thom Rosengren.
The beauty, splendor and magic of Mary Poppins — Jan Buzzeo has captured it all in this extraordinary and delightful tale of revelations and change. She precisely cast each individual to character and precides over a show that has the flow and rhythm of the ocean as it glides in and out of shore.
Magic. Music. Marvel and Magnitude. Hats off "Mary Poppins," hats off!
This review is special to the Tribune and was written by Heidi Ahmann, Heidi is a Delta flight attendant who loves to "seek out attention" at The Barn Theatre. Her shows to date are "She Loves Me," "Nuncrackers," "Little Shop of Horrors" and "The Addams Family" musical in which she played her most beloved role, Grammama Addams. She resides in Willmar with her husband of 14 years, Steve Ahmann.


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I finally got myself organised and sent my giveaway prizes to Julie and Cucki . Better late than never .
For my next giveaway , I will try to be more organised ,lol .
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Wow! Lucky winners! I know they will be thrilled!
I just now saw the stitching chicken at the top. Maybe the picture didn't load for me in e past but that is too cute! Is that from a pattern?
Lovely presents.:)
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I think the gifts are lovely: I love the scarves and the matching colours. All good things come to those who wait!
It was a fabulous envelope of goodies, thank you Cath.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Romance may happen every day, but finding true love in London is as rare as aliens in the galaxy, says one London-based economist.
Peter Backus, a teaching fellow of economics at the University of Warwick, has calculated that he has a 0.00034 percent chance of finding love in the British capital using the same "Drake" equation scientists use to determine the potential number of extra-terrestrials in our galaxy.
American astronomer and astrophysicist Frank Drake devised his namesake equation in the early 1960s.
The 31-year-old Backus — who lives on a narrow boat in central London — is not even that particular about his ideal match, requiring only that she be a London-based female, aged 24-34, with a university education.
"I am not trying to be an elitist or anything," he said about his educational requirements. "Everyone has preferences. I just think we would have more in common."
Further reducing his chances, he has estimated he would be physically attracted to just five percent of the women meeting all these criteria.
This means there are about 10,500 women in Britain who tick all the boxes for Backus, he said — just above the 10,000 potential communicative civilizations that could exist in the Milky Way according to the Drake equation.
So just 0.14 percent of Londoners and 0.017 percent of the British population meet Backus's own requirements, he said.
But a relationship takes two.
If this economist's dream women are equally as fussy as he is, his chances of finding someone who will return his affections plummets to just 0.00034 percent, he said.
"There are 26 women in the UK with whom I might have a wonderful relationship. So, on a given night out in London there is a 0.00034 percent chance of meeting one of these special people," he said.
"That's a 1 in 285,000 chance. Not great."
But love can still defy the odds right on your doorstep. Since writing his paper on the equations of finding love, Backus has started dating his neighbor Rose. She meets his age requirement, has a university degree and also lives on a boat.
Reporting by Rebekah Curtis, editing by Paul Casciato


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Charlotte to Host NBA All Star Weekend First Time Since 1991 and with MJ as Owner!
The NBA All Star Weekend has officially counted down to Charlotte 2017. This is going to be one for the ages. Charlotte, NC has not hosted an NBA All-Star Weekend since 1991. Could timing be any better? The Greatest of All Time Michael Jordan is hosting in they city where he perfected that jump shot in his back yard. His airness played for Dean Smith and the UNC tarheels before embarking on an NBA career that will forever go down as the greatest of all time.