A new adventure!

Well, here we go! Wayne got a job down in my hometown of Valdez, Alaska as a Police Officer!! This has been his dream since he was in high school, so to finally achieve it is AWESOME! He started working Thursday and is thrilled already. Since starting he's already getting better on a whole new style of shooting.

What does this mean for me? Well, considering I'm 317 miles away it's kinda crappy right now. Luckily he works a week on week off schedule so while he's training he gets to come home on his weeks off. So obviously we have to move. I'm so happy to be moving out of the place we're in now. We tried a couple times before to find a better place, but everything we were finding was WAY more expensive for what we have, or the same price but with out some of the stuff we have, so we've sucked up it and stayed. The problems come when we have to find a place down there to stay. Since the population of the town is only a whopping 4,000 people living quarters (unless you want to buy) are hard to come by. So we've already begun the search.


I'll probably stop working around August, which will be a bummer. This is a great job and pays great and we're covered by the union, but love takes me elsewhere...

Leavin on a jet plane...

I'm heading out to sunny and oil infested waters, Florida tomorrow! Yippee!! Frankly I could care less whether or not the water is oil infested because I'm going to see my GRANDMA! WOOHOOO!! And my mom and I get to be with both of them on Mother's day!! Yahoo!!

I mean it's not like we do a whole lot. Me and my mom's days consist of waking up, eating breakfast, reserving our chairs out on the beach, going out to the beach, laying, coming in, eating, going back out, laying, coming back in, eating, watch some TV and sleep. Productive, I know, but that's kind of what this week is for. We just like to relax.

After all, there is a pool, right? :D My travels will be long. I leave at 3 pm tomorrow and don't get in until 10 am tomorrow and that's losing 4 hours too! yikes! That includes 2 layovers. A stop in Seattle, WA and Dallas, TX. Neither of them are excrutiatingly long, but I hate having to board THREE freaking planes. I've managed (so far) to get a whole row to myself on my first flight. We'll see if that ends up being the case when I check in tomorrow.

I like to think of this as my pre-wedding break. I mean after I get home there will only be 2.5 months until the wedding and frankly, that's not a whole lot of time. We've got pretty much everything, it's just the idea of it all coming together has me wondering if it will really all come together. My mom always teases me about all the pink, but I think we've done well in balancing. Not too much pink, JUST enough :)

Anyway, until I return...

3 months!

So, we're down to 3 months now! I feel like I should be more hectic than I am. Thing is I think we have pretty much everything under control. Most of the guys have been fitted, I have my dress, the venue, the girls have their dresses, well 2 of them do and the others are ordered, I have my dj, we rented tables and linens for the tables, I've got my flowers ordered, we registered, and the list goes on and on. I think the only major thing we're missing is a place to stay. We have yet to find one. I'm sure it will just be Alyeska, but I think I'm kind of just waiting to see what happens with Waynes job situation. He might have to leave that night or the next morning super early, so I just feel better waiting. I do need to finalize my hair stuff and get her to do a test run and finally call my nail lady. I also have to find my undergarmets for my fitting in June and a veil, but those things seem so simple to me. I also have to get my invites printed, but again, that hinges on Wayne's job situation. Anyway, just thought I'd update. :)

48 hours!

No, not the show. MY MAN! He comes home in exactly 48 hours. In fact, I'll be at the airport right now, waiting on him to walk out of security. Hopefully this time he won't have the ridiculous urge to pee... HA!

Last time he got a free upgrade to first class and he sat in 1B. I mean how much closer to the front can you get?! I was thinking to myself, what a GREAT spot for a man coming home to his woman on leave! So I wait, watching people from his plane coming out and I'm thinking to myself... what the hell?! He was in ONE B!! So I finally see the only man in uniform coming out and of course run to him and give him a giant hug. However, I will always remember, peeing was more important ;)

Back to the AWESOME point of this, Wayne is coming home! What's better? This time is FOR GOOD! I'm so ready for him to be home. Today marked 225 days away and it definitely feels like it. To top off all the great news... We're getting married in 130 days! OOOOH YEAH! It's the best feeling ever to know I'm marrying my best friend.

Welp, until I get bored tomorrow night thinking about how he's only a sleep away... ;)

broken comments

I realize I don't have a lot of people that read my blog, but I just realized that the comments section didn't work due to the stupid captcha thing. Well once I realized something was wrong I did some searching and fixed it! I just removed that stupid thing!! So, not that you ever commented before, but if you want to now, you can do it freely :)

Wishing I could be there...

Well, W got back from being out in the field for 2 weeks with out communication yesterday. I wasn't expecting him to get back until today, so to get a phone call yesterday was GLORIOUS! He sounded beat and after hearing what he had been through, my heart just broke.

After being out there a day and going into it severely sick he got to the point where he couldn't even keep water down and was throwing up through most of his training. I guess at that point they decided he needed to go to the hospital. They took him from Camp Bullis, aka middle of nowhere, to the hospital on base, where they proceeded to pump him full of liquids as he was severely dehydrated. Apparently that did it, because he felt a million times better and could actually eat now! Yay!

So he's got his PT test on Monday and he's GOT to pass it. He's really down right now because he hasn't passed it yet. It makes me want to be there for him. I just want to go and give him the biggest hug and kiss and say, listen... you CAN do this. Shit, I'd run it with him! Well, at least the last mile! It makes me so sad to see him so down when he has accomplished SO much.

I keep saying he'll be home in 6 days or 10 days or whatever it may be, but the reality is, he could not be home for another 2 weeks. I don't believe that will happen and I've been throwing up some prayers lately to help give him that extra boost to pass, but it could happen...

So if anyone actually reads this, could you please keep my dear lover in your thoughts. He takes his test Monday and I think a ton of support is JUST what he needs :)

Crème Brûlée!! (a post inspired by STEENA! (you go girl!))

Yes, I was craving crème brûlée SO bad that I just went and ahead and made it! It was my first time every making it, but I think I did a pretty good job! :P And as the title of the post read, this is a post inspired by Steena's Style. She's an awesome blogger! I can never wait to read them!

So we started out by boiling the water

 

Then we warm the cream, sugar and vanilla

 

We prepare the baking dish with a damp towel 

 

Get out our little ramekins!

  

We tempur the egg mixture with the cream mixture...

 

pour, fill with water and bake :)

 

And the final product!! Pardon the uneven browning as I don't have a blow torch so just had to use my  broiler. 

 

aaaand it must have been delicious ;)