This whole limbo stage is strange. The period where you know things will shortly be changing, but you aren't quite there yet, and there is only so much you can do before they actually happen. Like now, I'm packing up boxes, but I'm running out of stuff that I'm willing to give up for two weeks..and also boxes. I just keep running through all the plans we have for the future, getting incredibly excited for them, and I just want it all to happen now! Someday maybe I will learn patience. :)
Everything I want to happen right now: Have our apartment packed up and empty, move a couple things into Alli's for the deployment, be in San Antonio/Houston celebrating our birhtdays. Thats what I would love to have happen tomorrow if possible. I want our taxes done, return in hand, and at least 2 of our credit cards paid off. Now we aren't crazy in debt, we mostly have little balances, but for different stores.. hence the problem.
I feel like lately, things down here are home. We have friends, we make plans, I no longer want to sit in the house all day and talk to no one cuz I'm depressed. I want to go out, do things, learn new things, meet people. Finding out who true friends are when you need them the most. People will always suprise you, in good and bad ways, and I am just so grateful that lately it has been all good. I'm glad to have finally put "the college life" behind me. Making grown up decisions, with mature friends. This isn't to say that we never go out and goof off, because most of our life is goofing off, but its nice to to know there are plenty of other girls my age who will be here soon and we can all get through this together. <3
Love to new friends and old!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Late Nights
Greg is flying again tonight.. and I am bored. Watching bones as usual. Alli totally saved my hair today. My stress level is almost down to zero, aside from packing up and moving, but she's letting us stay with her for the two weeks that we'll be in limbo between our apartment and the deployment. Such a huge stress off our shoulders! We'll be able to pay off some more debt, and go out and enjoy my birthday.
We're planning on going to Houston to visit Lindsay and Dan for a few days, haven't seen them since the summer, and then after we're headed to San Antonio to see the Music is my Weapon tour featuring Korn, Disturbed, and Sevendust (Gregs favorites). Its a double birthday celebration. We weren't able to really celebrate Greg's birthday, so we're going to the concert for him, and San Antonio for me. I'm so excited its going to be wonderful! :)
Hurray for things working out!
We're planning on going to Houston to visit Lindsay and Dan for a few days, haven't seen them since the summer, and then after we're headed to San Antonio to see the Music is my Weapon tour featuring Korn, Disturbed, and Sevendust (Gregs favorites). Its a double birthday celebration. We weren't able to really celebrate Greg's birthday, so we're going to the concert for him, and San Antonio for me. I'm so excited its going to be wonderful! :)
Hurray for things working out!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Finished!
I finished my classes today! Just waiting on my exams to come in and then I will be officially finished with my semester and I can work on the next one while I'm home. Thats right! Coming home in February. I'm not sure if I posted that on here yet or not. So the next month will be filled with packing, storing things away, and getting ready for the next deployment. Its a bittersweet time. I'll be with family, and around the snow, and friends, and everything I've been missing, but we cant come home together. Which is a bit sad. I just wish Greg could be there. So our plan is I will be back in Texas sometime in June to get our stuff moved in and what not, and then we'll probably be back home in July, for quite a long period of time. Hopefully we'll get in some Marquardt camping, along with a camping trip for just the two of us. I'm excited about it. Life has been good to us. I love my hubbins and my kittens. We'll be debt free and one step closer to our honeymoon in Crete!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
The List
101 in 1001
Started Jan 3, 2011
To be Completed by Monday Sept 30, 2013
Travel:
1. Go to Crete
2. Go on a Gwen and Greg only camping and fishing trip
3. Greg-send home postcards from somewhere other than home.
4. Go to our 5 year reunion if possible.
5. Go to a place neither of us have been before
6. See the west coast, take a photo of our feet in the Pacific Ocean
7. Go swimming in the Mediterranean Sea
8. Visit One Winery and one Brewery (0/2)
9. Go to 5 different farmers markets (0/5)
10. Get passports
11. Visit the DeYoung Family Zoo
12. Go on a cruise together
13. Go to a museum or art gallery
14. Visit one Texas State park and camp there for a weekend
15. Plan a tropical vacation
16. Go to a zoo we've never been to before
Finances:
17. Pay off credit card debt
18. Pay off equinox
19. Start a college fund for kids
20. Start a retirement fund
21. Buy nothing for one week except groceries
22. Create a budget and stick to it for one year
23. Start a business plan for the coffee shop and have a place for all my ideas
24. Organize all financial information
25. Save $200 a month starting in February 2011
Health and Fitness:
26. Run 6 miles a week for one month (0/24)
27. Go to the gym 3 times a week
28. Eat one healthy meal a day for one month (0/31)
29. Wake up with Greg everyday for one month (0/31)
30. Go to the dentist
31. Go to yoga once a week for 6 months (0/24)
32. Buy bicycles
33. Go for a weekly bikeride for 6 months (0/24)
34. Go one month without fast food (0/31)
35. Go one month without eating at a sit down restaurant (0/31)
36. Private
37. No soda for one month (0/31)
38. Run 2 miles without stopping
39. Take multivitamins everyday for one month (0/31)
40. Get Massages
Relationship Goals
41. Complete one thing a week from the his/her booklet for one year (0/52)
42. Have a date night once a week
43. Write a love letter once a month to each other (0/21)
44. Build a bench from scratch together
45. Watch the sunrise together
46. Make lists of 100 things we love about eachother
47. See 5 bands in concert (0/5)
48. See the Transiberian Orchestra
49. Go Snowboarding
50. Write letters to ourselves to be read in 5 years
51. Try 10 new restaurants (0/10)
52. Go horseback riding
53. Come up with 50 date night ideas and do them
54. Go on a picnic
55. Buy a loaf of bread and feed ducks
56. Do something we've never done before on our birthdays
Cooking goals:
57. Make meal plans weekly for one year (0/52)
58. Cook a new recipe a month for one year (0/12)
59. Have an herb garden
60. Join a wine club for a year
61. Go out and pick something from a farm
62. Make homemade jam or jelly
63. Surprise Greg and make Penne Cota
64. Make homemade sushi
65. Bake 5 different cupcakes out of my Hello Cupcake books
Gwens Personal Goals:
67. Finish a degree
68. Read one book a month for a year (0/12)
69. Learn Greek before the Crete trip
70. Blog at least 3 times a week
71. Paint 5 new paintings for the house
72. Buy fresh flowers once a month for a year (0/12)
73. Buy a desktop computer
74. Compile a book of Marquardt and Heller family recipes
75. See Wicked
76 Write down 25 things I like about myself and keep somewhere visible
77. Set up emergency fund of cash
78. Make 5 new christmas decorations
79. Go one week without facebook
Greg Personal Goals:
80. Finish prerequisites for Palmer
81. Finish CCAF as an airman
82. Prestige in COD black ops 3 times
83. Decide whether or not to re-enlist
84. Watch one "Classic Heller" film a month for a year (0/12)
85. Teach Gwen to shoot a gun
86. Complete 100 hours of community service (0/100)
Rest of the Goals:
87. Buy a nice furniture set.
88. Own an entire TV series
89. Find a place with a balcony or porch and have outside furniture
90. Get all of our photos printed and scrapbooked
91. Send 5 care packages to the squadron boys when Greg is not deployed (0/5)
92. Send 10 birthday cards to people (0/10)
93. Learn to drive stick shift
94. Buy another vehicle
95. Buy a sewing machine
96. Get rid of everything we do not use or wear
97. Have a computer free weekend
98. Make something new and give as a christmas present
99. Make Daily goals everyday for a week and complete them (0/7)
100. Post list on the fridge and update weekly on blog
101. Donate $5 for every unmet goal
Started Jan 3, 2011
To be Completed by Monday Sept 30, 2013
Travel:
1. Go to Crete
2. Go on a Gwen and Greg only camping and fishing trip
3. Greg-send home postcards from somewhere other than home.
4. Go to our 5 year reunion if possible.
5. Go to a place neither of us have been before
6. See the west coast, take a photo of our feet in the Pacific Ocean
7. Go swimming in the Mediterranean Sea
8. Visit One Winery and one Brewery (0/2)
9. Go to 5 different farmers markets (0/5)
10. Get passports
11. Visit the DeYoung Family Zoo
12. Go on a cruise together
13. Go to a museum or art gallery
14. Visit one Texas State park and camp there for a weekend
15. Plan a tropical vacation
16. Go to a zoo we've never been to before
Finances:
17. Pay off credit card debt
18. Pay off equinox
19. Start a college fund for kids
20. Start a retirement fund
21. Buy nothing for one week except groceries
22. Create a budget and stick to it for one year
23. Start a business plan for the coffee shop and have a place for all my ideas
24. Organize all financial information
25. Save $200 a month starting in February 2011
Health and Fitness:
26. Run 6 miles a week for one month (0/24)
27. Go to the gym 3 times a week
28. Eat one healthy meal a day for one month (0/31)
29. Wake up with Greg everyday for one month (0/31)
30. Go to the dentist
31. Go to yoga once a week for 6 months (0/24)
32. Buy bicycles
33. Go for a weekly bikeride for 6 months (0/24)
34. Go one month without fast food (0/31)
35. Go one month without eating at a sit down restaurant (0/31)
36. Private
37. No soda for one month (0/31)
38. Run 2 miles without stopping
39. Take multivitamins everyday for one month (0/31)
40. Get Massages
Relationship Goals
41. Complete one thing a week from the his/her booklet for one year (0/52)
42. Have a date night once a week
43. Write a love letter once a month to each other (0/21)
44. Build a bench from scratch together
45. Watch the sunrise together
46. Make lists of 100 things we love about eachother
47. See 5 bands in concert (0/5)
48. See the Transiberian Orchestra
49. Go Snowboarding
50. Write letters to ourselves to be read in 5 years
51. Try 10 new restaurants (0/10)
52. Go horseback riding
53. Come up with 50 date night ideas and do them
54. Go on a picnic
55. Buy a loaf of bread and feed ducks
56. Do something we've never done before on our birthdays
Cooking goals:
57. Make meal plans weekly for one year (0/52)
58. Cook a new recipe a month for one year (0/12)
59. Have an herb garden
60. Join a wine club for a year
61. Go out and pick something from a farm
62. Make homemade jam or jelly
63. Surprise Greg and make Penne Cota
64. Make homemade sushi
65. Bake 5 different cupcakes out of my Hello Cupcake books
Gwens Personal Goals:
67. Finish a degree
68. Read one book a month for a year (0/12)
69. Learn Greek before the Crete trip
70. Blog at least 3 times a week
71. Paint 5 new paintings for the house
72. Buy fresh flowers once a month for a year (0/12)
73. Buy a desktop computer
74. Compile a book of Marquardt and Heller family recipes
75. See Wicked
76 Write down 25 things I like about myself and keep somewhere visible
77. Set up emergency fund of cash
78. Make 5 new christmas decorations
79. Go one week without facebook
Greg Personal Goals:
80. Finish prerequisites for Palmer
81. Finish CCAF as an airman
82. Prestige in COD black ops 3 times
83. Decide whether or not to re-enlist
84. Watch one "Classic Heller" film a month for a year (0/12)
85. Teach Gwen to shoot a gun
86. Complete 100 hours of community service (0/100)
Rest of the Goals:
87. Buy a nice furniture set.
88. Own an entire TV series
89. Find a place with a balcony or porch and have outside furniture
90. Get all of our photos printed and scrapbooked
91. Send 5 care packages to the squadron boys when Greg is not deployed (0/5)
92. Send 10 birthday cards to people (0/10)
93. Learn to drive stick shift
94. Buy another vehicle
95. Buy a sewing machine
96. Get rid of everything we do not use or wear
97. Have a computer free weekend
98. Make something new and give as a christmas present
99. Make Daily goals everyday for a week and complete them (0/7)
100. Post list on the fridge and update weekly on blog
101. Donate $5 for every unmet goal
101 in 1001
My sister has posted her goal list of 101 goals in 1001 days. Since it is the new year, I thought I would follow suit with my own set of 101 goals. Well technically its for me and Greg. A few are just mine, and a few are just his, but almost all of them are things we want to do together. Enjoy!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
LOve
I dont have much to say tonight, except for I love time off with my honey. The last week has been awesome just being able to lay around together and snuggle, watch tv, play video games, and just laugh together. I love our life! I'm excited for our lobster dinner coming on Friday, then we're having a few friends over Friday night for New Years, and thennnnn its a whole new year! I'll be posting some of mine and Gregs goals for the new year along with photos of our lobster night as soon as I get them uploaded! Love to all the family back home! We missed you for the holidays, but rest assured, we weren't too down in the dumps. We found ways to keep our chin up. One of those was playing Mario Kart Wii with all my family across the country. You all keep us sane. Hugs and kisses from Texas!
Monday, December 20, 2010
Christmas In Texas
I'm going to start by saying, " I AM NOT OK WITH A HIGH OF 82 TODAY." I keep crossing my fingers for even just the slightest sign of a snowflake, and as the days go by, it gets warmer, and I get more and more sad. It will be okay, I'm just a whiny baby who misses Wisconsin and the beautiful snowbanks.
Greg made it home a week ago, and I've been selfish demanding all his time and attention. But we've managed to complete a lot this week. Christmas cards are done and ready to go out today (I know I'm a little late, but its my first time sending them out so forgive me.) We've been studying, we got all of Jessi's things out of our apartment, and turned her room into a kitty playroom and a wii room. Put one of the couches in there and its good to go. I'm excited about it, because our livingroom doesn't feel so overstuffed anymore. And I even made a nice little corner for the christmas tree instead of shoving it on top of our coffee table.
I think today I might make paper snowflakes, and plaster my window with them so when I look outside, I can pretend its snowy.
Life has been really good to us lately. It scares me a little, because I'm afraid that the next big thing is going to come toppling down on top of us and screw up all our plans, but I'm fairly certain that wont happen.
I'm not sure I have much else to say for today, but I will say, be looking for a post after New Years, we should have photos up of our lobster dinner :D Thank you Marla!
LOVE TO ALL~
Greg made it home a week ago, and I've been selfish demanding all his time and attention. But we've managed to complete a lot this week. Christmas cards are done and ready to go out today (I know I'm a little late, but its my first time sending them out so forgive me.) We've been studying, we got all of Jessi's things out of our apartment, and turned her room into a kitty playroom and a wii room. Put one of the couches in there and its good to go. I'm excited about it, because our livingroom doesn't feel so overstuffed anymore. And I even made a nice little corner for the christmas tree instead of shoving it on top of our coffee table.
I think today I might make paper snowflakes, and plaster my window with them so when I look outside, I can pretend its snowy.
Life has been really good to us lately. It scares me a little, because I'm afraid that the next big thing is going to come toppling down on top of us and screw up all our plans, but I'm fairly certain that wont happen.
I'm not sure I have much else to say for today, but I will say, be looking for a post after New Years, we should have photos up of our lobster dinner :D Thank you Marla!
LOVE TO ALL~
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