IDEA!!!

I think I know what I want to do for a job... Etsy! Knit and sell and sell pics on there :D But starting after I finish Heather's blanket and booties and hat and after I get a paypal lol. I gotta get a box to mail her other non knitted stuff soon.

And here's the start of Heather's baby blanket.
With flash:

 With out flash lol:

Its gonna be Yellow with Black edging. Now I just have to think up a pattern. I'm thinking basket weave or moss stitch. not sure which yet. Or maybe Butterfly with a soft fabric backing. 

Here's my favorite pics from the zoo

Venting

Oh my Geez some times you just need to vent.
The dog, AJ, the baby blanket pattern, all are driving me flippen crazy! The dog cant behave outside, AJ is...well today is his off day so not a dad gum thing is getting done. I cant really say much about that execpt that I keep asking to get things done and they dont get done -___-" And the baby blanket...I keep messing up on the stupid pattern. Ughhhhhh. Today feels like nothing but a screw up, nothing getting done ughhhh fest. Its making me so irritated I knot know what to do.  AJ's not wanting to do any thing is making me not want to do any thing because I dont feel like doing it all on my own. We had talked about going to the lake today, but did we? No.
We were supposed to et up and clean then go. But nope, didnt happen. AJ got a headache this morning, cant blame him there, so I did the dishes. This afternoon I picked up Riley's toy mess, and cleaned the bathroom and made breakfast/lunch, and washed the dishes, and took Riley out. AJ has made supper and walked Riley once. And he's been complaining about his weight and saying he wants to go on a diet but when ever I say "You ont need that" or "If you ate this instead of this" or "Less meat, more veggies, more workout" I get fussed at. I am SO FRUSTRATED today.... And now we're waiting on on the fries to get done, which AJ dodnt know how to bake and he wants a deep fryer( heck no, heart disease duhh, but like I said I keep getting fussed at), and Riley is whining at the door even tho AJ just brought him in from a walk....

UGH!

Ok so I'm done venting, but still frustrated and its not getting better. Now to go check the fries and hopefully eat. Hope tomorrow is better.... -__-"

Riley...Is probably not staying

He is becoming such a nuisance to walk. Yesterday I couldn't go get the mail with him. There was a lady with her dog there as well, and Riley went after the dog barking and whining and growling. The poor lady had to leave, while I was trying to drag Riley away. AND the apt manager lady even cam out of the office to see what all the ruckus was. Same thing happened today going to the potty area. Some guy had his dog off a leash and was walking around with it when Riley started barking and flipping out. And so did the other dog. Again I had to physically pick up Riley and carry him off because I couldn't get him to budge.  AND THEN AGAIN about an hour ago on his list walk of  the day he started barking at another neighbor and her sweet little dog Sammy I once again had to pick Riley up and carry him back inside and immediately put him in his crate. Ugh... We're not going to be able to keep him I don tthink.... We're going to start getting complaints soon :(

After Birthdayness

Well Yesterday picked up after AJ got home. He took me out to eat at Chili's. YUMMMMM I got a birthday mudslide and a few other tasty treats for my 21st birthday. So far Kahlua Mudslide, CIROC Red Berry, and Hpnotic are my faves. After Shock.... If you like cinnamon its ok...Whiskey... Burns even if its Gentleman Jack....
Kahlua kinda tastes like a Yoohoo with an after taste, Ciroc Red Berry is pommergranty strawberry raspberry mix ish and is so good. Hpnotic is like blue gatorade watered down. Strawberry and cream shot's need to be chilled or else they're soooo gross.

Didn't get drunk, cant tell if I was tipsy. My face didn't get hot like every one told me it would. AJ said I was getting talkative tho. So I guess I got buxxed on my 21st birthday day lol. Still dont like wine or beer. Blech nasty ness...
But that was the birthdayness stuffs after AJ got home :) It was a good birthday. I also got so many birthday wishes from all my friends and family back home. It made my bad day sooo much better. And made me less homesick.

Discouragement

I am getting so discouraged and upset with Riley today! It's like every thing he does today shows me how he is not going to make a good inside apartment dog. He barks and whines at the neighbors, and the neighbor's walking their dogs get harassed by Riley barking whining and pulling me over to the point they have to leave the doggy poo area or the apt manager lady comes out to see if dogs are fighting he's causing such a ruckus by the mail boxes... Oh My God I'm about to lose my cool with him. And its so upsetting and disheartening and discouraging to deal with this today! He's turning into a problem I don't want to deal with when I have to take him out and that's not how a dog is supposed to be. It's so.... aggravating to finally have what I wanted but then have it turn into a disaster. I'd rather be home alone than deal with this some times.... But then I hate being alone but with Riley if I'm not playing with him he's getting into stuff or as least sleeping. :( 

Birthday frowns not smiles today.. FML Today SUCKS... But thats life... Time to move on and clean -_- 

Its My Birthday!!!

And so far all I've done is clean, get dragged around by Riley outside while he barks his head off at another dog(which is very bad...I'm hoping we dont get in trouble with him )  and sleep..... So fun I know... =\ Oh well....
AJ's at school\work and wont be home till 5 ish and he has at least 3 hours of homework to do when he gets home... Yay... No going out tonight. We're just gonna wait till the weekend. I"m foxing to put on the TV or a Netflix and finish cleaning... Maybe call Momma on skype or some thing.

Social Dinners

Blech.... Socials.. Have to be ready to walk out the door by 5 15. Gotta be there by 5 45. I have to dress up and go be nice to people. And seeing how I have to fix his blues jacket and and figure out how to iron it and my dress and get myself ready I suppose I need to go do that... I am not really looking forward to this large of a group of people but oh well. Gotta put on my big girl panties and suck it up. Large crowds are so not my thing..... :/ But its part of army wife life. Guess I have no choice but to get used to them.

I"ll have pics up soon of stuff going on. I havent had time to go get batteries for my camera till the other day. Zoo pics and Riley pics soon.
And I know they're annoying but I might add some ads on here to make a little extra pocket change lol... Just a thought... And I dont know if it'd work but hey....Who knows.

Later Gators

Animals and Dresses and Birthdays

We did go to the Zoo yesterday! It was so much fun but it almost kicked my butt. I am so not use to this heat. I got pretty dehydrated but AJ kept me drinking water the hole time and every now an then we stopped at one of the little rooms and cooled of or went through an air-conditioned exhibit. AJ didn't get to see the tigers, but we did get to see the Elephants for a minute before the momma and baby went back inside. They were smart in staying out of the sun. We saw a lot of the animals but some where staying inside. It was way to hot for some things. My favorites were the giraffes, the seals, and some of the fishes and the birds :) I had trouble taking pictures tho :( My camera got to hot and didnt want to work with me, also the animals dont stay still lol. I'm gonna try and put pics on facebook soon. I'll put pics on of the apt soon too. Gotta get it cleaned back up tho lol.

After the zoo we went to the science museum, it was an awesome cool off. I loved it. And all the experiments and stuff. It was like the McWane Center back home. We're gonna go back :) I'd love to take AJ's little brother Hunter there. It was so cool. I miss doing that kinda stuff with momma and daddy and Emily.

After all that we went to Target adn I got a giant blue fuzzy blanket :D We also got a new sheet for the bed (changing it tomorrow lol) now we have 2 lol. And we got some baby stuff for my cousin Heather. Her baby is due any time now. I cant wait to go visit and meet Addy Kate ^_^ I bet she's gonna be as cute as her momma. I'm still working on her hat and booties... got 2 more hat patterns, and a blanket pattern to start soon :)

Today AJ took me to the mall. which is only about 20 or 30 mins if that away from home. We went to get me a "cocktail" dress for Tuesday. We have a... formal dining out social thingy to go to. I have to dress up and AJ has to wear his blues... Which we have to figure out how to get ready since he never washed them since the wedding.... -__-" Dryell time i suppose. Any ways, I wish we had had more time to look around, we didnt know they closed at 6 on Sundays. A lot of stores we're having amazing sales. I want to go back some time this week and look around. But I got a dress from JCP, its purple and pretty and AJ say's im pretty in it :D He picked it out lol.

There are so many birthdays in July. I havent said "Happy Birthday" yet to most of them. :( Sorry guys. I love y'all :P Mine's coming up Wednesday. AJ's got some thing planned but idk what it is. But I do know what I"m getting for Christmas already... hopefully hehe. Momma told me she's making me a box and gonna mail it to me soon. That makes me so excited I cant wait. AJ's momma sent me a card :D and Hunter put a letter in there. I'm so proud of him. That was so good. SUCHHHH and improvement from when I worked with him last school semester! That makes my day knowing I helped :) We've got a present picked out for him for his birthday in August too :) Its gonna be so cute :) :) :) But any ways..... AJ's got some all day shoot thing and has to leave by 4 45am tomorrow morning so I"m off to bed, where he already is :) Goodnight all..

Babies babies babies

I have 2 new babies to spoil and make things for now. My cousin Heather is due some time in the end of this month or first week or so of August, and AJ's best friend's wife, a good friends of mine who's name is also Heather, is preggers. I'm so excited. I get to make all these cute little baby things now. I"m about to sart on this awesome little hat I found on Ravelry called Poppy and some adorble little baby booties.

These little beatuies are for my cousin Heather soon as I get them finished :)

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/poppy-11

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/saartjes-bootees

https://www.ravelry.com

Once again sleep evades the insomniac

This weekend AJ might be taking me to the Zoo. I cant wait! I love going to the zoo. I'm going to bring my camera and take as many pictures as I can. He got tickets from giving blood yesterday morning I think. I cant quite remember. But then I've had such a migraine all day I haven't paid much attention to any thing till AJ brought me some Excedrine. Also he didn't have to go to PT this morning because he gave blood yesterday so we've got a "late" morning. Getting up at 6:30 instead of 4:30....

The Schedule for most days so far:
04:30(am) get up make sure AJ gets up and out to PT on time
7:00(am) ish get back up and get coffee made see if AJ wants breakfast and now take Riley out for his morning walk
8:00(am) some times go back to sleep till 10:00
11:00(am) start cleaning, doing laundry or at least get up
12:00(pm) lunch with AJ at home most of the time
13:00 (1pm) he leaves because he has to be back by 13:30 and I do what ever.... clean, take Riley out again, play with Riley, laundry, PS3 knit... what ever till AJ gets home
16:00-19:00 (4-7pm) AJ gets home and  we eat dinner, take Riley out again
around 20:30 (8:30) is Riley's last walk of the day usually a nice long one
21:00 Riley goes in his creat and between 21:00 and 23:00 we go to bed and start all over

And thats how the day goes most of the time. Some times I go to wal mart, but I havent really explored much yet. I'm hoping we can go to church sunday, and I'd like to start a knitting group some time soon. I'd also like to go to the library on post and look around. Maybe I can get a job at one one the libraries around here... Or gamestop or the pet shop... IDK there's so many choices, but I'm not sure how many are hiring right now. Maybe the clothes shop on post is....

What shall I call this?

Lord, 
Give me the greatness of heart to see, 
the difference between duty and his love for me. 
Give me the unserstanding so that I may know,
when duty calls he must go.
Give me a task to do each day' to fill the time when he's away.
When he is in a foreign land,
keep him safe in Your loving hand.
Lord, when his duty is in the feild, 
please protect him in the feild. 
And Lord, when his deployment is so long,
Please hold us close and keep him strong. 
Amen












That is the military wife's prayer. I originaly found it in AJ's, my husband's, bible that i gave him for our first aniversary when we were dating. But this is an edited version I found online and I believe I like it better.  It's helped me a lot these last 2 weeks we've been in Oklahoma. I'm 21(well fixing to be Juld 27th) and AJ is 22(Jan 4th), he's a year and some months older. We're originally from Alabama, Pell City and Cook Springs, 10 mins away from each other. To many hobbies to list. We now live in Oklahoma, and just got a dog named Riley. 


About us:
 AJ and I started dating in August of 2009, thanks to a mutual friends of ours (Thanks Dobbs), agging us on till we eventually talked to eachother. In He let me know right off what I was getting my self into dating a solider. At the time he was still in ROTC with his collage. He had gotten a scholorship through JROTC. We had many talks about it, mostly after I got off work. It was so sweet. He'd sit for hours some times waiting on me to get off. We'd talk while for hours after I got off too. And he'd stay talking for hours at my house, some times till 3 am. We never could say good by easily. In early December of 2009 I wrecked my car and AJ became my primary source of transportation along with my sister. And some time in March of 2010 he started staying at my house during the week amd weekeds with his folks. Aside from my work(and at the time collage) and his collage and hour away we spent very little time apart. In June/July he went to LDAC at Ft Lewis in Washington state. 28 days of torture.... He was only gone for 28 days but it felt like hell. We had never been appart for that long yet with no contact at all. I think it was 2 days after he arrived they took his phone away, and I was staying with my grandmother for a few days. I missed his last call for the and it really upset me because I thought that was the last time I'd get to talk to hm for a month. But they let the guys send out a few text and calls with address info and stuff later the next day. I went back to work the next day thinking up stuff to send him. For the first week and a half the time dragged by. THen after that it went be fairly fast because every 2 days or so I would get a letter and send him one as well. I eventuallly sent him some candies and stuff :) When it was finally time for him to come home I rode with his family to pick him up from the airport. We didnt let go of eachother for hours. It was a wonderful day. Then life went on. I quit my job, and finished out my math class. He went back to collage. In December of 2010 AJ proposed. Every one had me completely fooled. It was so romantic tho :) AJ told me he was spending the day with his mom, and my dad asked me to go geocaching with him, that a new one had been put up at the park in town and we wanted to have a first to find. (I showed AJ waht it was as a first date, then we went to a movie, www.geocaching.com) When we got to the park dad gave me the GPS and it was set to go to a pavalion. Weird to put one in such an open spot but I went with it. Out pops AJ and I'm sitting there windering what the heck is going on till he drops to one knee. I just then noticed the music. It was so sweet. I dont even think I said yes till a week later. When he gave me the ring I just jumped up and down and gigggled I Was so suprised. Then christmas came and went and new years. Upnext was graduation and comissioning. A huge day for AJ. With both our families we spent the day together.  I found another job and he found out where he was going to BOLC. Ft. Sill Oklahoma... Oh gosh it sound even farther away than it was.  We spent our time together as much as we could but he decided to move back to his parents house to spend the last 2 weeks with them as much as possible. With in those last few weeks before he left, AJ bought me a car, a 2000 Buick Le Saber, he also was able to get himself a 2008 Trail Blazer, thanks to a career started loan offered by USAA(greatest bank ever). It was weird driving again for the first time since 2009 I hadnt had a car since I wrecked mine. And we se ta date for the wedding. July 2nd was the day we picked since he would have a few days off for the 4th. The week before AJ left my grandmother threw him a going away party. And on May 22nd, there wasnt a dry eye from any of the family, mine and his. I spent the day other with his grandmother and little brother. I spent the rest of my time till 2 weeks before the wedding working, planning, and buying stuff for the wedding. Mom was a major player in getting the wedding done. 2 weeks before the wedding work decided to slam me with doubles every other day . I had already put in my 2 weeks notice but i decided not to finish out my last 4 days there so I could finish the wedding. We did almost every thing our selves. AJ's mentor from JROTC married us (his first wedding, tho he was a minister), the church was one I had grown up in. The cake came from a local lady I would recomend to any one, that cake was amazing, and on such short notice too. The photographer was last mininute, because ours ended up going back to Afganistan, and we ended up having a few issues with her, sorry no recomendations there.  The reception was a flop but no one cared. We just spent time with friends and family as much as we could. We had plans to leave the next day on the 3rd for Oklahoma since I would be going back with him. Had a little trouble with mom on that one but we worked it out. We stayed the night at a local hotel, then in the morning went to spend a few hours with family before leaving. Due to unforseen issues we didnt leave till well after 3 or 4. Unpacking and repacking since we couldnt get Uhal or rental car kinda sucked. I had to leave a lot of stuff behind. By 9 or so we reached Memphis, not a town I would recamend staying in from the part we drove through, we didnt get to see the pretty side :( And by 11 30 we were in Arkansas and looking for a place to stay for the night. We found some where in Forrest City, Ark.  When we went to the hotel and AJ went in to make sure we could get a room that late at night. I stayed in the car. When he came back out to get me he told me all they had were litle hole in the wall cruddy rooms. I didnt care I was so tired I just wanted to sleep by then.  We walked in and there was a giant glass wall fountain thing in the lobby and computers and a breakfast place. I was wonder how could this place be so cruddy if it was decoraited this nicely. But AJ said they put all the money into the lobby and I was so tired I didn't question this. We went up the three floors to our room and AJ opened the door. I couldnt see any thing till the lights were turned on. And man was I suprised when they were. The room was HUGE and there was a jucizie in the room!! I was so excited when I saw that. He said that he had found us a honeymoon worthy room, since all we had were those 2 nights together. I was speachless for a while... He's always taking care of me like that and spoiling me. Opening the car door, getting me stuff..... He's to sweet, but oh so annoying some times lol. We started out the next day bright and early and well rested. We made good time and got to the apt by 3ish the next day July 4th. We got every thing unpacked from the car then did nothing for the rest of the day. We just wanted to spend time together since he had to report back the next day, and get back into the swing of class/work. 


And so started my time here in Oklahoma. I've been here since July 4th and it is now the 21st. I still havent learned my way around town but I can get to wal mart and the pet store just fine XD and the movie theater is right down the road. I can get TO post but once I'm there I'm lost. I've still got to learn that so I can meet AJ for lunch some times. That would be so nice on the days he can't make it home because class runs long. I'll tell you about my 2 weeks here so far later. Right now I'm sitting on the bed typing and falling asleep on the keyboard lol....
So good night for now. TTFN ta ta for now as my dear friend Tigger would say. 

First of hopefully Many

This is hopefully the first of many posts. I hope this blog is helpful and informative. I intend to write about my day's as an army wife while my husband is going through BOLC B at Ft. Sill, OK. I also am going to write about my knitting projects and post some writings.
Well with that said I'm headed to bed. Night :)