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I haven't written in awhile. I don't know if I mentioned it before but work has been keeping me busy. Since I work an hour away from home with my family I sometimes stay there one night and then come back up. I don't like leaving my dogs by themselves. Well I made it through my first month of deployment which I have to say was difficult but we made it. Now today is not the exact date and I can't say cause of OSPEC reasons. But anyways yeah...July has gone by so quickly and I pray that the rest of the months go by just as quickly if not more. But all I can do is take a one day at a time. I get to talk to him once in awhile through Skype and I LOVE every minute of it. The signal is always very good but hey I LOVE It! I just started using the Donut of Misery and I believe today it was at 16.5% I'm liking how it keeps getting more green. So I think I am being tested here. Everything seems to go wrong while my hubby is deployment. I needed to take his car to get serviced but well turns out the battery is no longer working so now I have to get it towed to Wal-Mart Car Center and get the battery changed. I also have to get the tires changed on the car. Then I found out I had a mouse in the house lol. It took me 2 dang weeks to catch the critter...but I finally caught it. They are little but they creep me out! Well I am keeping it short today it is 3:43 am and I have a lot of things to do tomorrow. Later! :)

Happy 4th Anniversary Boo Boo!

Today is our 4th Anniversary. I couldn't be happier to have married My Marine! I wouldn't trade it him for anything in the world. This is our first Anniversary apart but my sister in law put it in a way that I liked a lot. She told me "remember this is only #4 out of all the anniversaries you guys have to come" That put it in a new perspective for me and suddenly I wasn't as down. I pray that that statement is very true for us. I am also so surprised and happy because my husband sent me from flowers for 3 days straight. He started on Tuesday and I up until today...Our Anniversary. He wrote different love quotes on the 3 different cards for each day. Even though he is deployed it means a lot to me that he would think of something so sweet and think of me to do something like this. I know I am Loved by him everyday and vise versa but he just made me feel that much more special. To top it all off I got to video chat with him for the first time. Our last deployment we were not able to video chat at all so I am happy we got to do it on such a special day to us. It was so surreal seeing his face moving instead of just still in pictures. I know it compares nothing to the day he comes home and we get to hold each other once again but it was still such a great feeling. Next week will be a month since he left. 6 or so months to go. All I can say is I cannot wait for that day we get to see each other again. So I don't know if I mentioned it in my last blog but my uncle had 2 brain surgeries to drain 2 clots. Well good news he is doing so well that they discharged him from the hospital today and he got to go home. They were debating on whether to admit him into a therapy center to make sure the surgeries didn't mess anything up but they doctor saw him well enough to let him go home. Well that was my day and all I can do is take it day by day and pray the time goes quicker! LOL! Thanks for reading. Remember to keep ALL our men & women in the armed services in your prayers! Just like I keep my husband in mine ALWAYS! I Love You Boo Boo! I am so lucky to have you in my life. Thank you for loving so much! You are the BEST and I Love You Always! MUAHH!!!

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Finally got a chance to blog again. I have been busy with work and family. My uncle had to have brain surgery to both left side and right side of his head. They inserted a tube to drain out some blood clots he had. Thank God he is doing better now. They took the tube on the left side out but still has the right. We are hoping it drains soon so they can take it out as well. But he is talking now and he recognizes people. He can move all of his body which is great. So yes I have been in and out of the hospital with my aunts and uncles and cousins visiting. Work has been...well work lol! Oh I joined a L.A. Fitness gym and got a personal trainer. Today is my second session. My legs still hurt from the first one lol...but that was expected. My trainer is good so far. She is only 21 but she knows her stuff. Trying to lose weight and get in shape that way I can surprise my hubby when he gets home. Speaking of my husband. I got to talk to him this morning and I always feel great after talking to him and know he is doing well and he is safe. This Thursday July 21st is our 4 year anniversary. I am a little bummed that he won't be here. This is our first anniversary and holidays without each other. In that sense I am grateful that up until now I got to spend all the special days with him. These holidays will be hard but each one of those days is a day closer to holding each other again. It will be a month this 28th and I cannot believe how fast it has gone by already. Today is just one of those days that I know there is family around me but I somehow still feel alone. I have a sense of emptiness inside me without AJ. I have my good days and my bad days. Today is just ok. It feels like homecoming is years away still. I try to keep as positive and busy as possible and it is helping me so far. Thank God! Well it's gym time for me thanks for reading hopefully I will have more time to blog these coming weeks. Later :)

Reality Hit Me

Reality finally hit me that my husband will be gone for 7 months. I'm fine during the day when I am at work but as the day starts to wind down I get a lonely feeling at the pit of my stomach. I suppose that's a bit normal right? It's almost been 2 weeks and you would think it gets better but for me I just got slapped in the face with the reality of it all. I try to keep as busy as possible but during the end of the day it goes downhill. I am trying to be strong for my husband because I know he doesn't need to worry about me cause he has enough of his own out there. It gets a little better after I have a good cry. I also am so afraid for his safety but I am trying to keep my thoughts positive and think of how good it will be to have him in my arms again when he gets home. I think I am going to do a workshop they have here called "Spouses in the Midst" it's for those spouses who have deployed Marines/Sailors. I think that will help me a lot. To know that I am not the only one going through deployments. I am happy when I get to talk to him but when i'm not talking to him I worry about him a lot. I know he is busy doing his job but I can't help but worry. My brain gets the best of me a lot! I think I am going to start my scrap booking soon to help me pass the time while I am home alone in the evenings. Luckily I have my family to spend the weekend with. I stayed at my mom's house last night with my cousin and I was fine around people. But I have to come home to let my doggies out and feed them. They do good when I stay one night away but I don't like leaving them much. Well anyways I need to find more things to do around here. I think I will start to clean out the garage. We have a lot of things we just don't use anymore. I will do that tomorrow since I have nothing else to do. I will probably go to Wal-Mart to buy a new fan for the house. Our other one broke it tends to get hot without one. So yeah I think I know what I am doing tomorrow then. Time for bed I am getting sleepy.

4th Of July Recap

I got to talk to my husband on the 4th of July! I was so so happy. I missed hearing his voice and it always feels great. He says he is doing good that it's just really hot there which he expected anyways. So our 4th July was good. The whole family went to my mom's house. There was about 30 people there. All my cousins, aunts & uncles were there so I had a lot of fun visiting with everyone. Some I had not seen in awhile so it was good to see them again. So Tuesday has been a week since my hubby left and I have to say it has been going pretty quick but I can't wait for this month to be over already. I just think about it that everyday is a day closer to seeing him home safe. Well on a different note I joined LA Fitness by my moms house since I work close to there anyway. I got a personal trainer and tomorrow is my first session. I'm excited kind of but I am dreading the workout and the soreness the next day lol. Well it's inevitable with working out. Specially when I am picking it up again for the first time in 6 months. But I have a lot of motivation to keep going and stick to it. Number one and foremost to do it to be healthy and number 2 I want to surprise my hubby when he comes home safe to me. I want to stick to it even after he comes home. It just always feels good after the workout. Maybe not the first week or so but you get the notion. Sorry to cut it short here but it's bedtime for me. Work tomorrow then the gym! So later all! :D

Happy Birthday to my Marine

Friday was my hubby's Birthday. He turned 27 and he is excited cause he said he get the "old man" PFT...lol! So since he is mainly dealing with data stuff I get to talk to him through email more on then on the phone. But so long as I get to talk to him I am happy. Although I prefer to hear his voice at this point I will settle for emails. Well as I was saying it was his birthday so I decided to make the cake in a jar and they came out awesome. I barely sent them out today, but better late than never right? He says he is doing fine and I am happy to hear that. He also told me that the temp average is about 120. It was 85 here today and I was going crazy so I can only imagine here. On a different note my brother and his family came down from Utah to visit. Tonight was their last night here so my mom took us all out to dinner at Benihana (Japanese food). One of my favorite places to eat ever. My parents have been going there for a really long time so they pretty much know us there. We all had a blast there. Alright well sorry to cut it short but I need to get some sleep if I going to get anything done tomorrow. Later All!