Long Time

So its been awhile since I've written. But I try not to come on here and whine, and lately thats all I've really wanted to do. Feeling sorry for myself because I miss Greggles so much. Life always seems so unfair when deployments come. I get angry, upset, sad, and I just want to start fights and blame everything else on everyone else. Truth is, deployments stink. Yes, I am doing ok. But they still suck. We're only 16 days into this one, and it already feels like a lifetime. What can I say? I miss my husband and life is not the same without him.

Plus without him around, I feel like I have nothing to write about, because I like to write about "our" life, not my life. So it feels silly. So if I dont write as much in the future that would be why. The good news is, I found the place I want to move into when we get back. Its a townhouse, and I think its perfect. So yay!

Greg is doing just fine. He made it there safely, I made it home safely. He's flying missions and enjoying life for the most part. He did get sick for awhile right away when he got there, but he's all better now. Today he even learned how to play Spades. :)

The kitties are fine. Adusting to life in their basement. Oh yes, I said their basement. They have taken over acting like the whole thing is their playground, but its cute. I like seeing them running around and playing and being happy. They still snuggle with me at night, so I know they aren't too upset about the move.

Well love to all! I'm out :)

Home

So Saturday finally came. I watched Greg walk off into the squadron with tears streaming down my face and tried to pretend to be strong. I know it hurts him to see me cry, so I saved most of it for the 20 hour drive home. I went back to the apartment, picked up the cats, and started my drive. I thought about a lot on the way home. All of our goals, things we did for my birthday. Walking around San Antonio with coffee and hand in hand. Sure it was freezing, but we spent it together and I wouldn't have had it any other way. We ate at this wonderful restaurant on the Riverwalk called Boudros. It was expensive, but it was romantic and cute and pretty perfect. He is the most amazing husband in the world and I will miss him terribly. I had put in Sara Bareillas in Kansas because I was getting bored and needed something to start singing to. Well half of those songs are songs I used to sing to Greg when he was in tech school to put him to sleep. So in the middle of Kansas, in the middle of the tollway, I let it all out. Cried all my tears for this deployment, this war, this stupid deployment. Because I know more are coming, this wont be our last, and I know it wont be easy, and I'm frustrated with that, but I also know we can both be strong. So I'm hanging in there just fine. Theres even a chance he could come home early! yay!

So today is my first day of being home and coherant. I'm going to unpack my clothes, try and keep Leo out of the crawl space he loves so much already. (Been in there twice and I caught him going for a 3rd). Then this afternoon me and mom are running to Green Bay. Yay for days off :) Love you all!

Countdown Begins

Greg is leaving this week. THIS week. And it makes me sad. Its always hard the first time that it really hits you. We've known for months he'll be leaving, but we're both really really good about not saying a word about it and ignoring it. We even managed to get his trunks all packed up without talking about the actual deployment. Strange huh? So Friday as we're driving home after shopping, it finally hit. But I figure if I do all my crying now I get to be comforted while it happens, and hopefully I'll get it all out so that when he does actually leave I can be strong. Hurray?

This weekend was fun. Fight night. The packers winning the superbowl.. Never thought they could actually do it this year, but I am so proud of my team for finding their motivation last month and kicking butt! Cant wait to go home and celebrate with the rest of Green Bay!

San Antonio tomorrow for my birthday. I'm excited. Always love that city. I really dont know what else to blog about. I mean the whole week of snowdays all we did was play Little Big Planet 2 and poker. We're all moved out of the apartment, but thats old news. The storage shed is full, our room at Alli's is controlled chaos.. and I have a new addiction to goat cheese quesadillas? Thats really all I've got. I'm excited for my birthday, and to be home next week. I'm gonna miss my Greggles!

Get ready Wisconsin! I'm coming home~!

Amazon Queen.

Thats what I looked like when I woke up this morning. :) It made Greg laugh and added a fun start to our morning. We're still getting a few things settled in at Alli's. Trying to make it look like we dont live here is a decent challenge. :) Right now the bathroom is complete, with only the toothbrushes giving it away, and then we have a few things in the livingroom still, but we're waiting for this ice to clear up so we can drop them off where they need to go (storage, suddenlink, goodwill).

We have ventured out a few times into this ridiculous road situation. Mostly for our sanity. Cabin fever is no joke. Specially when you spend almost all your time in the exact same spot in the exact same room fighting over who gets to use the computer or the Ipod. But it has been fun. Lots of time to lay and snuggle and just appreciate each other. We did make it to walmart, and I got Little Big Planet 2 for my birthday. Mostly to keep us sane through this 3 day weekend in the middle of the week. Life is good.

Good luck to anyone else who has to move anytime in the future. Its a hassle. I dont like it, but its done. Yay! See you soon Wisconsin~

Snow Days

Snow days are a great day to play catch up. What a crazy weekend we've had! Thursday we left for Houston, got some sushi at Ichibon (restaurant #1 we've never been to before.) It was delicious, I got a little buddah statue while we were there too! Friday we went to Cavenders, and Dan got a cowboy hat, and Greg bought me boots for my birthday! They are basically amazing! Black with a teal design and they are SOOOO very awesome! Friday night we went out and bowled, and played video games at the arcade at Main Event. It was pretty fun. :) Saturday night we went to the IMAX theater and saw Green Hornet in 3D. 3D imax is way better than regular 3D. Also, it was a pretty hilarious movie. Then apparently Saturday night some kids broke into our car and stole our GPS, and both of our ipods. So Sunday we went to best buy, bought a new GPS and a new Ipod for Greg. I was waiting to get a new one, and then yesterday we got a call from the Houston Police. Apparently Dan had filed a police report for us, and they caught the guys that did it! So we should be getting our stuff back in the mail soon. :) YAY!

We had a snow storm last night. And I mean snow storm. Complete with thunder and lightning while snowing. The coolest thing I've ever seen! So today all of Texas shut down because they dont have plows, people got stuck in the parking lot at our apartments, and also at walmart. Cant go an hour without seeing someone stuck somewhere, and our power kept going off about ever half hour for a good 5 hours today. I think someone hit the power lines down the street. We braved the roads and took a trip to walmart for Groceries and there were a bunch of electric guys working on the lines across the street. So I figured that was the culprit.

Well I'm gonna update my list! Lots of love~