Japan

Haven’t posted anything in a long while. I was waiting until I got home from Japan to update. But that part of this trip has been postponed until October. It’s been so nice to finally spend some time with my hubby. Japan is really neat and its been a lot of fun getting around and seeing stuff. I should have been home today but it seems that I didn’t make it thanks to traffic and a missed flight. But at least it means I get to spend more time here. I’ll be sure to post a few pictures after I get them to a computer. Hope everyone is well!

JAPAN!

I FINALLY HAVE A TICKET TO GO VISIT JAPAN!!! PARDON ALL THE CAPS BUT I AM SO EXCITED!!!!

Twitter

I finally broke down and did it. I’m on Twitter. Follow me @ http://twitter.com/PBsGirl24

The Bucket List

So I like to think of cute things for Philip and I to do while we’re so far apart.  It keeps us close.  I decided that we both needed to make a Bucket List and exchange them.  I’m going to post mine and I might post his when I get it (if he doesn’t mind).  I honestly think everyone should make one of these.  It was so fun!

1. Travel to Ireland
2. Visit a Renaissance fair
3. Go skydiving
4. Learn to fence
5. Live in a cottage secluded in the woods
6. Plant a flower garden
7. Plant a vegetable garden
8. Plant an herb garden
9. Learn Gaelic
10. Go rafting
11. Have beautiful children
12. Visit every country in Europe
13. Write a book
14. Own a baby grand piano
15. Learn to play the fiddle
16. Ride horses through Irish fields
17. Learn to like beer
18. Find my true ancestry
19. Study pagan religions
20. Visit Stonehenge for the solstice
21. Ghost hunt
22. Spend the night in a castle
23. Buy a nice camera and take up photography
24. Learn to make pottery
25. Learn to draw
26. Feel beautiful no matter what
27. Study Demonology
28. Make a difference in someone’s life
29. Be eco-friendly
30. Eat only organic/local foods
31. Go bouldering
32. Be more creative
33. Teach someone to see the magic in everyday things
34. Start my own business of the holistic health sort
35. Own a goat
36. Live somewhere peaceful
37. Create the perfect home
38. Have a meditation room
39. Live in an unusual house
40. Feng Shui everything
41. Go to the opera
42. Have a reason to wear a medieval style dress and cloak
43. Go to the Kentucky Derby
44. Go with my husband to a Bears game
45. Stop worrying about everything
46. Spend a week without any form of technological communication
47. See the Autumn leaves in New England
48. Become a patron somewhere
49. Indulge myself more often
50. Have a wonderful and happy family
51. Watch the sunset and sunrise back to back
52. Build a birdhouse/birdfeeder
53. Make apple cider
54. Learn to belly dance
55. Practice yoga religiously
56. Learn to forgive and forget
57. Spend a week in a silent retreat
58. Learn to be a jockey and ride a race horse
59. Practice random acts of kindness
60. Help someone live their dream
61. Learn to drive a stick shift
62. Worry less about how I look and more about how I feel
63. Be spontaneous
64. Live life with more “I love you” and more “I’m sorry”
65. Stop being skeptical of other’s motives
66. Be the best wife and mother I can possible be
67. Go to Oktoberfest
68. Take a nap in a boat on a pond
69. Learn to bow hunt
70. Become good at shooting guns
71. Swim in the Dead Sea
72. Go skinny dipping
73. Visit a psychic
74. Eat a meal while overlooking the Mediterranean Sea
75. Spend more time with my Soulmate
76. Be a morning person
77. Never grow up
78. Find something that literally takes my breath away
79. Dance in the rain with my husband
80. Figure out what I want to do with my life
81. Go to Maine in Autumn and eat all the lobster I can handle
82. Spoil my husband
83. Be fiercely independent
84. Be a great cook
85. Have a hot stone massage
86. Drive dune buggies
87. Walk a labyrinth
88. Spend an entire day in the nude
89. Learn to fight
90. See the Northern Lights
91. Learn the names of the constellations
92. Visit Harry Potter World when it opens
93. See the Sistine Chapel
94. Buy a home
95. See the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
96. Live in Ireland or Scotland
97. Do more for myself
98. Stop drinking soft drinks except as a reward occasionally
99. Get my Master’s degree in something I enjoy
100. Maintain a healthy weight by eating healthy and working out regularly
101. Experience a tornado in person
102. Have a spontaneous and major adventure

And I’m Back :)

So I’m going to keep posting on this blog. I’m finally planning my trip to visit Philip in Japan. I’m so excited but absolutely terrified to fly to Japan alone.  Apparently I have to get myself to a different airport for a connecting flight once I get to Japan. Nothing like being thrown into another country, huh? So we’ll see how that turns out. No new news about moving over there permanently.  However, I am going to apply for a job as a teacher’s aid and see if maybe I can find a loophole to get myself out there.   Honestly, I don’t feel like I’m old enough to be making all these plans. But that’s about all thats new. I’m still trying to figure out graduate school.  Hopefully I can finally decide and get on that. I don’t want to put it off any longer because I don’t know that I’ll want to go back. So I guess that’s all for this post. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Ponderings

Hmmm…what to post, what to post? Well, nothing new on the Japan front. We’re still getting the run around about everything. So far it’s looking like I won’t get to go live (at least that’s the way it looks right now).  Maybe things will change for the better. I’m planning on taking a trip out to see Philip for a few weeks in August. I’m really excited about it but nervous at the same time. I’ve never flown by myself…

Life, in general, is pretty boring. I’ve been thinking about going back to school to get my Masters. Now if I can just figure out what I want my degree in…I would LOVE to be an English teacher but I honestly cannot decide what to do with myself.  I’ve been contemplating getting a job. I don’t know who would want to hire the girl who is potenitally moving to Japan and needs at least three weeks off at a time to go see her husband. Yeah, doesn’t sound promising.  I really wish I could go back to teaching horseback riding lessons. That really was a dream job. Who doesn’t like working for themself??? So if anyone has any ideas for a fun, creative, flexible job…throw them my way. I’ve also been thinking about moving this blog somewhere else. I like WordPress, I really do. But lets be honest…its boring.  I want creative backgrounds and the like. So it’s a possibility I’ll be moving…maybe.

Ok enough rambling for one day I suppose. I think a nap before the gym is in order. It’s been a long day already.  Plus I’m still running on Japan time since Philip and I hold our long internet talks until 4 am (5 pm his time). I get woken up at all hours of the night. *sigh* The things I do for that man. But I wouldn’t trade it for the world.   Hope everyone has had a good week. It’s almost the weekend so good weekend tidings to everyone!

And this is Zeus, our furbaby. He thinks he’s cute (can’t you tell?)

Beachy Time

So finally at the beach . YAY! Its nice to relax a bit. Wish I was relaxing with my new hubs though. Anywho, it’s really nice here and we’ve been having a ton of fun so far. I’ll have to post a few pics of us kayaking on the creek. So yeah, that’s about all. Just wanted to post something so I wasn’t MIA for so long this time. Hope everyone is looking forward to the next week!

Randomness of a late night

Well it’s storming something awful here and I love it. I’m also waiting on another call from Japan and procrastinating like no other. As much as I love the beach, I LOATHE packing for it.  It’s nice to be running on my own schedule for once though. I figured I would post a few wedding pictures while I sit here. I have a ton more that I might post later (however they aren’t even on the computer yet…) Maybe someone will enjoy them. It was such a wonderful day. After 7 years it’s about time we tied the knot. Game over buddy…

Bittersweet

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. Philip graduated from school and came home. We finally got married on May 23rd and had a short mini-moon. Time just goes by way too fast. He had 3 weeks at home before he left for Japan (today). It’s been a very bittersweet few weeks. I wish we had had just a little more time to enjoy being newlyweds. We don’t know if or when I’ll get to follow him over there. Here’s hoping that I go soon. These long times apart are driving both of us crazy. That’s about all of the update info I have for now. I think I’m going to go to bed and try to stop moping. Three weeks together just wasn’t long enough. A lifetime wouldn’t be long enough….

Here We Go

Its been a little while since I’ve posted anything.  There are a lot of new things coming up. Some good, some emotionally taxing.  I graduate tomorrow from the University of Tennessee. I can’t believe I’m finally a college graduate.  It seems like the past 4 years have flown by.  I guess it’s time for me to throw myself out into this big ol’ world.  Philip finally comes home in 12 days.  I can’t wait to see him.  It’s been a really long 3 1/2 months without him.  We’re getting married in 14 days and, now that I type it, it seems really overwhelming.  I can’t wait to finally be his wife.  He’s almost finished with school and he’s done extremely well. I’m so proud of him.  We finally got orders and that was quite a surprise to say the very least.  He had put in for East Coast so we were geared up to move somewhere semi-close to family.  Well, thats not going to happen.  His orders are for Japan…and he’s going alone.  Since he’s not married yet I’m not included on this fun little trip.  Here’s hoping that his command will take pity on a brand new family and allow me to move over there.  I just don’t know how we’d make it away from each other for 2 years. :*(  I’m excited for him to go but I’m worried about him being alone.  I think we’ve only been together for less than 20 days in the past 8 months.  Time goes quick but I don’t want to be without him for that long and I know he feels the same.  Please pray that his orders will be amended and I can go over there. It would be such an amazing experience.  At least he can come home for his own wedding.  We’ll just have to make the best of the time we’re given together.  I believe that’s all the new stuff going on.  I guess now I really will be keeping this blog up to date on all the interesting happenings in our life.  The Corps makes things so exciting.\