Halloween help!

We have a costume contest for Halloween at work. The first place winner gets $100, 2nd gets $50 and 3rd gets $25.

I want to do something really creative so I need your help! You are some of them most creative people ever so let's brainstorm some awesome ideas :-)

Ok, go!

My best friend is famous, practically

One of my very best friends, Anna Belickis is a writer for this great site called Awards Circuit. They deal with everything movies. Anna is an amazing critique and writer and I'm so very proud of her. She has recently been interviewed and I want to spread the word of not only who she is and what she does, but of what the site is about and how awesome it is.

http://www.awardscircuit.com/2011/09/29/digging-into-anna-belickis/

That's the link to her interview. Find out a little more about her! Then check out the site. I bet you'll love it :-)

Changes

There have been some crazy changes in my life recently. The biggest is that I have a new job! Finally I have a job lol. I will be hostessing and waitressing at a local restaurant. I'm excited and incredibly nervous. It's a high class restaurant so mistakes are unacceptable when it comes to waitressing. I have to memorize the menu as well as be able to answer any questions people may have about the food. Plus I need to know every drink imaginable pretty much. Things like on the rocks, with or without salt and all that jazz. And then I have to know which glasses each drink goes in because they all have to have different ones of course. Lol. My mind is going to explode I'm sure.

I start training Monday. I have study guides for the menus and proper serving technique. That's how serious they are. Oh, and there will be a test. Yea, nervous for sure.

The other big change is that I can finally assistant coach modified volleyball with my sister in law. Well officially on Monday after the school board meeting. But everything on my part is finished. Yay!

And lastly, I decided to stop selling Scentsy. I just have zero time for it and I've discovered that I am just not the pushy sales lady I need to be in order to be a successful independent consultant. Oh well, no harm done trying it. Except I have a ton of product left lol.

All in all I'm pretty excited right now. I really hope I can pick up this waitressing thing quickly because I really want to be good at it and I really need to get out of my house and make some money on my own.

Wish me luck!

Making it known

I have seen a couple times where people say they have no business complaining about missing their husbands because they aren't deployed or aren't deployed for a year.

I say hog wash! I think every wife has a right to miss her husband and express that. Even if she misses him while he's 5 feet away in the kitchen. We are all in the same boat regardless of where our husband's are. I miss my husband even when he's home with me simply because I know more that it wont be that way for very long.

So whether your husband is in another country or right next to you, make sure he knows how much you miss him. If the case is he's right next to you, don't worry about sounding silly, by now he should now that as women we come up with some strange emotions.

It hit me today

It finally hit me today. What I've realized is just how much this deployment sucks. Today a friend's husband came home from deployment. It made me sad at first and then excited and then it hit me. Her husband left after mine did and he's home already.
It's a harsh realization that although we are past half way, we still have just under a normal deployment left.
It hurts. I've stayed really positive this whole deployment and I don't want to let that slide. But this new found thought has really spun me around.
My heart hurts. All I can think about is how much I miss him and how much my soul aches to be near him again. I've had countless people tell me just because you're in love doesn't mean you need to be around that person all the time. They obviously have never been separated for so long.
I told him today that my heart hurts so much that I wish I could take it out and put it in a box for when he returns, just so I didn't have to feel the pain. That's true, but what's also true is that in between the pain is the love.
The pain wouldn't hurt as bad without the love but the love wouldn't be so amazing if it wasn't for the pain. Irony is a cruel concept.

So here's to another half a year without him physically by my side. Nothing can stop what we've got. Not distance, pain, or shear torture that is this deployment.

Certified

Today I had to sit through a CPR/First Aid class to be certified to coach for volleyball. It was a miserable 5 hours. The class itself wasn't awful, it was the teacher and people in it. You know those people who can't talk without finding some way to relate it to a life story? Well that was my teacher. And the rest of my class. I swear I was the only person who realized that we were wasting so much time and if we just focused on learning then we could have been out of there in 3 1/2 hours instead of 5.

BUT I practiced patience and I am very proud of myself for not blurting out "Shut the hell up!" or "Can we just learn about rescuing and not what your child ate for breakfast?"Big accomplishment for me.

And on the bright side, I am now certified in CPR and first aid and therefore as soon as the school board approves me I can rejoin my sister in law and our girls with modified volleyball. I can't wait!

Oh and some life updates. Remember my college/ joining the military dilemma? Well it's solved, again. As of now I am finishing my bachelors in the spring and starting my MBA right after that. Hubs is starting school next month too. Once he gets out we are moving to the Charlotte NC area.

Right now the only thing in the air is if my hubbers is getting out completely or joining the reserves. I believe he has to make a decision soon so I will keep you updated.

Oh, and Abigail is 6 1/2 months old already!! Time is flying by and I really couldn't be happier. She's almost crawling but I think she prefers to try and stand and walk instead. She has 2 teeth but I haven't been able to get a picture of them yet because she doesn't like to show them. BUT mark my words I will get a picture of them eventually.

Ok, Toodles!

Song Link Up

My song this week is Austin by Blake Shelton. It's my favorite song ever. It always makes me cry happy tears. Or at least tear up. This song is from back in his not so sexy days. But it will forever hold a place in my top songs ever list.