another monday

ok sooooooooo, another monday has came and gone and a new week has started. Not much went on today I went to work with my mom and my dad is sick. I talked to Derek on and off he had gotten his mac book in the mail and was excited.

I am also doing research on how to start a family with all of this cardiac stuff and 22q11. I found out that they do genetic counseling here in atlanta and help point you in the right direction as to where you need to go.

I have done a lot of researching on it the past few weeks. I hope to make an appointment soon with a genetics counselor and see what process I need to go about.

I have a cardiologist appointment on wednesday and am hoping I will be clear to drive. I also hope to be cleared to go back to my little house in gulfport mississippi where all of my friends are.

I miss Derek more and more as our 1st anniversary of when we got married is coming up.

Even though he is just a phone call away it is still not the same when you are used to having him home at 10am or before for the rest of the day.

It is a big adjustment for me this time since he is going to be gone for 10 months instead of 6. I do not really understand why since I thought that they were on rotation. but, Derek said their rotation is off and they had to do a 10 month one to get back on.

It is stressful since I have never lived on my own or in another state away from my family and I am taking on some major responsibility that I have never done before. My biggest adjustment was the fact that I have never lived on my own. I had to get used to that and so far am doing ok.

Well, other than a slow monday and going to have lunch with a family friend not much has happened today.

I am hoping that the week will get more interesting when I get back to gulfport. I will also do updates on doctor appointments etc as well.

I hope every one had a funner/more interesting day than I did.

new week starting

Well another weekend without Derek as came and went. This weekend not much went on. Talked to Derek most of the weekend. Friday night I went and ate chinese with my mom and we did a little shopping, Saturday we went and visited my cousin who had a brain tumor taken out and is doing great and getting better each day. We also spent time with their 3 kids. Bowen, Charley and Caroline. Bowen and Charley are a boy and girl twin and are 5 years old. Caroling is 4 and quite entertaining.

Saturday night we met up with my brother and his fiance and took my dad out to dinner to outback. I had steak and some kind of stuffed shrimp and it was really good. My brother and Stacy have not yet set a wedding date this will be both of theirs second marriage , but I really like her and her little boy Brandon.

Today (Sunday) nothing really happened. My dad and brother went to the nascar race today. My mom was going to go but my brother decided to go the last minute. Derek woke me up early and we talked most of the morning and afternoon.

Later on in the afternoon I went to eat with one of my older cousins that was my maid of honor in my wedding at a place called PF Chang's an upscale Chinese restaurant. I love chinese food in case you could not tell lol.

Derek seemed to be doing good. Not much going on with him lately. He has ordered a new mac laptop and is waiting for it to arrive and should be there this week. We are trying to plan a vacation for next summer since he will be back home during the summer. We are also watching plane tickets for my flight over to spain to visit him for 2 weeks this summer and I cannot wait. I have never been anywhere out of the country except the Bahamas and st. marten.

I have an appointment with my cardiologist wednesday to check up on things since the surgery and maybe I will be told I can finally drive even though I do not like too.

Yesterday i also went to a fabric store and got some really cute fabric and cant wait to see how what i am making turns out.

One thing that I have already learned from this deployment is that your marriage is really tested when your loved one goes over seas and makes you appreciate the times that you have spent together and look forward to the times you will have when they come home.

I have a lot going on this month and will be back and forth from home to gulfport. I am especially excited to get back here the 27th to meet my favorite tv guy, dog the bounty hunter. It turns out that his father was a navy seabee also.

There will be more tomorrow since it is monday and I am going into work with my mom to have lunch with some of our friends.

It has been nice being home for awhile and seems like time flies by , but i miss my friends in gulfport and also my cute little house that I love. I also miss Derek but that is a given there. His birthday is coming up the first of april and also our 1 yr wedding a nniversary. I have also connected with another nmcb 7 wife whom i hope to meet at the next frg :)

more tomorrow until then take care and love your seabee :)

cat bath

Not much went on today. I talked to Derek for most of the afternoon on yahoo. After that I cleaned up the kitchen and living room and messed around with the cats for awhile. Simba likes to stay outside at mom and dads house and guard the goats he think apparently that is his job.

On the other hand, I have to send Derek his black foot locker to Spain since he has now found a place to play paintball over there. Leave it to my husband to find somewhere over seas to play paintball.

This evening I gave sassy our Himalayan cat a bath. She actually did pretty good for a cat to have a bath. She cried a little bit but finally sat down in the sink. I am thinking I like that type of cat more and more now. I have an ambition to want to show cats now as crazy as it sounds.

Toe nail trimming is going to be done later on tonight with both cats. I cannot wait to see how that goes olivia is one to not like to have anything done with. Sassy on the other hand could care less what you do to her and it is obvious. This is my last weekend home and saturday I plan on going to eat lunch with one of my cousins. Sunday my parents are going to the nascar race.

I have my cardiologist appointment on the 10th and I hope to leave that afternoon or that following thursday. Not much else is planned. I have basically done my stuff for spain just am watching airline prices before i decide on my ticket

I am actually flying into madrid and have found a nonstop flight to there which will be good. I have booked my room at the inn and suites on base so that is all taking care of.

I have less than a month to go and Derek and I will be married for a year. it is hard to believe that a year has flown by so maybe this heaven for bid deployment will fly by too.

well that is all for now. I wished I would have gotten pictures of sassy when she was wet. She will get a bath at the end of next month, so I will have to take pictures then.

I love my animals like they are human!

I am getting ready to s tart planning my front yard planting and am excited. I love to plant stuff and so I am hoping it will turn out neat. I am also wanting to find a mini fountain to maybe put in the yard :).

My mother bought me some sparkly nail polish today a wizard of oz color set. It is really cute she even painted her nails. Mine are sparkly blue and it is called Dorothy who?

Well that is all for today, I hope since tomorrow is Friday I will have something exciting to happen to write about.

Snowy day

Today it snowed. It started this am but did not stay around long. We got maybe an inch if that and it is already half melted. The goats, lu lu and clemintine, were in the barn for once and stayed in the pasture. The last snow I was told that they got out of the pasture and was walking around the front yard. Simba did not really like the snow this time , but went outside under pro test.
Derek called today. He still has to muster 2 times a day which stinks. He said the weather was nice over there. He also has a birthday coming up the first of next month, so I have to get his package together. He said not much is going on at work but doing building inspections, which is what I think he likes to do anyways.
The snow finished up at about 3 this afternoon. Now it is cold, wet and nasty tonight. The tempuratures right now are above freezing , but they probably will drop over night and all the wetness will probably turn into ice. There isn't much more going on around here.
Last night I went to my cousin Amy's house and played with her kids. The oldest Davis w ho is 6 about to be 7 had a baseball game last night. They won their game and he said he made a really good play. Mom and I stayed with Max and Carson.
Max was into everything possible and Carson was just crawling around. We watched the bachelore and After that we left to go home.
That is really all we have done lately. My dads birthday is this week and he is going to the nascar race this weekend.

crazy musters

Ok i got to talk to Derek on the phone a little bit ago. There seems to always be someone who has to get them in trouble. They have to muster 2 times now because some people do not want to wake up in the mornings and show up for actual muster. I wished i could tell the ones that do not want to get up and muster to wake their rear ends up and get in gear!!!

Other than that, I am missing my friends in mississippi still. Hopefully i will be back down soon. My friend nicole won a contest on wlox news she got some kind of spa package and dinner deal at the IP casino that sounds like fun.

I on the other hand am bored stiff at home in atl. having trouble sleeping here. I hope i sleep better when i get back to gulfport. I went to visit my cousin kyle last night. he had a brain tumor taking out this month and is home and is doing great. I played with his 3 kids bowen charley and caroline.

Caroline always wants to know where derek is when he is not with me. I told her he was in Spain and since she is only 4 years old she asked where the heck is spain. I told her it was across the ocean and she said WOAH!!! She also thought it was funny.

It was also my other cousin's kylas birthday she turned 6. She is having her bday party on sunday at a jumping place. We celebrated her actual birthday last night. The girls put on a little hannah montana concert for their daddy. Bo was the spotlight man and did really good. Kyla and Caroline were hannah montana and miley.

We had fun at their house last night. Got home kind of late. I went to work with mom yesterday and got really bored. I decided to stay home today but woke up kind of congested.

Derek said he would not be online today since their has to be some lazy people in the company. I was kind of sad but did get to talk to him on the phone

we are sitll trying to work out travel arrangements to rota and am getting more excited and counting down the days till august.

I guess that is really all for now. I plan on spending the day looking for airline tickets and also cleaning my room and grooming my himilayan cat sassy.

Everybody misses Derek as usual , but am excited for me to get to go and visit spain.

updates

ok Derek has been gone for a few days now to Rota Spain. I would much rather him be there than in a war zone. The only problem is that he is going to be gone for 10 months :( but on the brighter side I am going to go visit him in August and hopefully my side kicks tonya and Gus will be joining me as well :) I miss Derek more and more everyday. I am back home in atlanta for a follow up doctors appointment on March 10,2010 and then after that I will go back to Gulfport. I have been talking to Derek almost everyday and that helps the situation.

I have been doing ok since my surgery. I however am experiancing dizzy spells which I hoped would go away but aren't. I also am missing my friends back in Gulfport, but I will be back next month.

Tonya mom and jimmys mom are planning to go see Hair Spray when I get back. It is one of my favorite plays and I am excited for a girls night. We are going to see that March 20th for Tiny's birthday. I am so glad i have made such great friends. This deployment is a whole lot easier than the last and I am greatful for the time I get with Derek and my navy family in Gulfport.

That is all for now, I have to go and chase down kitties and simba (who misses his daddy).

I miss derek like crazy, but am hanging in there.

More later bye bye for now....

valentines weekend.

Friday Derek got the day off due to icy weather. Yup that is right icy weather in southern mississippi. Never thought it could be possible, but it started sleeting and then it snowed for 5 minutes. Nothing major really happened, they did however close schools in harrison county which I found rather hysterical. We basically sat around the house for awhile, did a little house work, and later that evening we watched Paranormal activity, which I will never watch again.

Saturday, we went to my first mardi gras parade with our friends Matt, Mich, and little cheyanne. We had a blast and got tons of beads. It was more fun that going to new orleans. Also on Saturday evening, we added a new addition to our family. We added a Himalayan kitty we adopted. I have wanted one for quite sometime, found her on craigs list, and new she was meant for me to have and love.

We got sassy home. She is 5 years old and grey and silver, and has the cutest little smashed in face i have ever seen. She is VERY fluffy, even fluffier than Olivia. Olivia is adjusting to her and Simba well, lets just say Simba will accept just about anything that is supposed to come into the house.

I have a very strong love for animals, and have a great husband who tries to support my animal habbit. Animals to me are like children. Each have a different personality, but wants nothing but love. Sassy is totally different from Olivia, and once they start liking each other it will be very interesting.

Tomorrow is Valentines day, it will be our first one we have spent together. We have been together for 4 years this year and every year Derek has been in another country. He however sadly leaves this week for a 10 month deployment and it is going to be a sad time for me, but I do however get to go over to where he is going and visit him :).

Well, this is all for now. I will update tomorrow on Valentines day and what we do. It is hard to believe that it has almost been a month since my heart surgery. I am glad to be back in Gulfport, but miss my family back home in atlanta as well who got snow yesterday :(. I do have mardi gras pictures that I will post later.