cooking, dresses and robots

i'm about to head out the door to meet up with some people from church, but thought i'd give a rundown of the weekend in case i don't have time later today:
*9 friends and i went to a moroccan cooking class on saturday morning/early afternoon. it was pretty cool, except for the lady who kept "shushing" us throughout the whole class. hey, we were just there to have a little fun and maybe learn how to make some new dishes in the process. and fun, we had! i wish i had taken some pictures while we were there, but it totally slipped my mind. if i think about it later, i'll tell you what the menu items were. mmm....
*while at the cooking class, several of the girlies told how much they enjoyed seeing transformers. well, the hubby has really been wanting to go see that movie, but i wasn't too thrilled to go see it with him. i came home from the cooking class and told him that we should go see it together. he was super excited and so we planned it out that we would go - but after we first stopped at the bridal store so i could try on sara's bridesmaids dress (story of a girl... she has a picture of the dress linked from her blog).
*the dress fit perfectly and sara, yes, i do approve =) especially since i can buy it off the rack without needing any alterations! sweet.
*the movie ROCKED! i seriously want to see it again. i was totally surprised that i enjoyed it so much. i told the hubby that we are pre-ordering it on dvd. his response? you can do that?!?!

"you soaked his underwear in meat. that is so wrong. funny, but wrong."

okay, so you know that part in "cheaper by the dozen" when one of the kids calls hank a doorknob because he irons his jeans? well, i iron everything. and when i say everything, i mean everything! there must be something wrong with me, because i love to iron and if i run out of starch, it is a national emergency and i have to run to the store immediately. my husband didn't believe that i ironed his underwear until recently when he actually watched me do it. now, i know that sounds a little crazy, but seriously, it makes his underwear fit in the drawer better because it lays flat. i even iron the sheets and towels. well, i only press the iron on top of the towels after they are folded so it kind of presses them in place. not sure if it actually makes a difference, but i keep telling myself that it does. am i weird?

meataball

so yesterday, as i was putting together meatball sub sandwiches for the fundraiser on base, all i could think about was (and correct me if i'm just imagining that this is the right movie) lady and the tramp and the guy who serves them the spaghetti and meatballs and how he says "meatball." one of the other wifeys brought her 1 yr old son with her. as he was sitting in his stroller watching us ladies, i kept turning to him and saying "meataball" "meataball" and by the time we were cleaning up, he was saying it just like me =) sweet. kids are so cute.
speaking of kids, some of the guys and gals who work with my hubby are just kids themselves! it will really make you feel old when you are standing there taking lunch money from a kid and he calls you "ma'am." those guys are so polite and it took all i had to figure out what some of their first names were. i would introduce myself by my first name and then ask what their name was (i recognized some of their last names on their uniforms as people who were deployed with my husband), they would say their rank and last name. that's how everyone addresses each other around the "office," so when outsiders come in, it kinda throws them for a loop. oh, and while i was there, we had the tables set up in front of these doors where i could just look through the glass in the doors and see my hubby out there doing some work and it made me so happy. he is such a stud and so brilliant and wise and hard-working. i am so proud of him.
and speaking of the hubby... while he was deployed, he picked up a very nice present for me. he would have normally given it to me as soon as he got home, but i told him that i wanted to wait until our 1st anniversary to open it. what was i thinking? only two more weeks to wait and then i'll get to open it, though! it doesn't help that i gave him his big anniversary present as soon as he got home... i am not good at waiting with the surprises. at all. i got him this seriously cool kayak/bike rack to put on the top of his truck and i think he was as excited about it as i had hoped he would be. now, when we go kayaking, we can just hoist the kayaks on top of the truck and it will look pretty stellar and make his truck look all studly and stuff. although, it is already a very studly truck if you ask me. ha. the gas mileage is not so studly, but that's ok.

great way to meet your neighbors

the fire alarm in our condo building just went off and it was so loud that i couldn't even think about what to grab and take outside with me in case it really was a fire. i just grabbed the dog and my purse and ran outside. i tell you what, the neighbor who i play "post-it note tag" with was out there, so we got to talk about the leak that came from our condo and dripped down to her condo and then the neighbor across the hall stuck her head out the door and i got to see what the inside of their condo looked like. and then there were neighbors that i knew were home but didn't bother even looking outside to see if it was a real fire or not. are those the doors that i should have been pounding on as the dog and i made our way downstairs? probably, but as we reached the ground floor, the alarm stopped and our property manager was right there to tell us that it was just a test. nice. i felt like i was back in my college dorm. oh well, it got me up from the computer =) now i get to go take the dog for a walk in this miserable heat. might be a good excuse to walk him at the beach... hmmm...
oh, and when i get back, i'll tell you how a few of the other officer's wives and i had a meatball sub lunch sale at my hubby's work today for a fundraiser. it was so much fun and i got to wear my cute apron so i could protect my white shirt.

where do goldfish crackers fit into the food pyramid?

it's all my mother-in-law's fault, really. see, she knows how much my husband loves goldfish crackers, so she bought some for him to snack on when he first came home from deployment. and then, i ate about half of his bag of crackers and had to buy more, of course, to replace the ones that i stole from him. and THEN, i found the giant cartons that they have at the grocery store. and now, for the past two days, i have had nothing but goldfish crackers for lunch. oh, and that ring of dried pineapple and glass of milk that i just had with the handful of crackers. this is so bad, bad, bad. BUT, i'm thinking that maybe the asparagus that i ate with dinner the other night will help balance it out. don't you agree? i grilled some steak and asparagus for my hubby two nights ago since he loves both. he then proceeded to make fun of me for being afraid to even try the asparagus. so i tried it. and didn't hate it. in fact, i think i ate 4 whole spears. so now, i'm balancing it all out with the goldfish crackers, because i don't want to be too, too healthy. oh wait, and i ate a lot of broccoli with our dinner last night, so it's definitely okay to eat all of these goldfish. crunch... crunch... crunch...

military wifey

sara (story of a girl) and i were emailing back and forth and she thought that i should post some of this on my blog for you guys to read. and then after you read that, i'll put a picture from my hubby's homecoming on here.


nope... it's definitely not easy being a military wife, but i wouldn't have it any other way right now, because any other way would mean that we wouldn't be together since the military owns him for at least the next 5 years. it really isn't that bad, though. i mean, it's nearly impossible to have a career of your own, but there are the perks like lots of vacation time if and when you get to take it and shopping at the commissary. and i'm so proud of my hubby for how hard he works and how seriously he takes his job, so i just try to concentrate on that stuff and hold down the fort at home. i totally respect the ones who go through deployment with kids, though! wow... i just had a dog to take care of this time. i know that God would give me the strength and that there will always be a good support system, so i could do it if i had to. it's definitely not the life for everyone, unfortunately, and you see wives and husbands who leave their spouses because they can't handle it.



and here's the picture from homecoming. it's the best that i can do without putting a picture of my husband on here =( but you can see how happy i am to see him by the look on my face. he is the best.

it's not about me

it was obvious way before i quit my job that God's plans for my life included just that: quitting the job i was in AND not finding another one right away. having had very amazing jobs since i was a freshman in college, not having a job lined up and quitting was a big step for me, but i knew that i had a supportive husband and a loving God who knew better than i. and now, i'm thankful that i took that leap of faith, because otherwise, i'd be missing out on so much quality time with my husband and wouldn't be able to be here to make dinner for him or go to the store during the day rather than at night when i could be spending time with him. coming from someone who graduated from a women's college, that sounds so... 1950'ish to me, but it's the truth and i'm happy to proclaim it. i really feel like my hubby needs me here taking care of him right now, because even though he had a week off of work after working for many months straight during deployment, he is back to working 12 hours days again and he comes home exhausted. if i was exhausted as well at the end of the day, i don't think he would have as much of a chance to relax and we wouldn't be enjoying each other as much. i'll have another career again - i'm not worried about that - but it's all going to be on God's time table, not mine. hey, i'm only 26, after all.
yesterday, i printed out that "to-do" list from that movitivated mom website and am so glad that i did. it rocks. i've always been a list person and now i have a list of things to do around the house that i otherwise would not have thought to put on my own list... such as cleaning out my purse, or cleaning all the bathroom mirrors in one day without actually cleaning all the other parts of the bathrooms. amazing. on top of all that, i have a crossed off-list at the end of the day that i can look at and say, "hmm, yes, i did accomplish something today! sweet"
now don't get me wrong, i'm also totally, selfishly enjoying all of the other perks to not working right now... like going to a class at the gym at 9:30 in the morning if i want to, or taking a 15 minute power nap after lunch or ironing and folding laundry in the afternoon while watching a movie at the same time. we may not have the income that we used to, but i'm thinking that this is definitely a good fit for our lives at the current moment and i'm going to try to make the most of it. if you catch me complaining about it, please send a slap in the face my way and remind how good i have it.

see you tonight, honey

he's back at work today and i'm... not. this morning as i watched my husband walk out the door on his way to work, i realized that i don't have a job. it's not that i haven't realized it over the past 4 weeks. in fact, i've been enjoying it, especially when it meant that i could spend a week uninterrupted with my husband. but now that he is back at work and i'm here at home with my grocery list and pile of laundry, i'm feeling a bit unimportant. God must have wanted me to feel better about myself, because not 5 minutes after my hubby walked out the door, a very good friend of mine called just to check on me. we talked a bit, and after hanging up with her because her 4 year old son was running away from her at the mall, i decided to get to work and be useful around this house. that was an hour ago and i still haven't done much. instead, i decided to check my neglected email account and found that i had over one hundred emails that i had to sort through. whew. now i'm done and i'm going to look up this "motivated mommies" website i heard about that is supposed to give me some list of things to do all day long. and no, i'm not regretting quitting my job, because it was something i couldn't tolerate any longer, but yes, i need to find some purpose. and quick.

he's home!!!

i am seriously still on a high from my husband's homecoming. i wish there was some way to show you pictures of how cool it was without revealing what part of the military, etc that he is in and possibly comprising his safety. seriously, it was confirmed again, that he is my superhero =) he is such a stud and i am so proud to be married to him.
some of my neighbors even got into the spirit and tied yellow ribbons around all their trees and then went and got yellow balloons for the lamp and sign posts. it was so cool to see that they were almost as excited as i was! the in-laws were in town for a few days and i was more than exhausted by the time they left because we were doing all the touristy stuff around town while they were here. my hubby and i just vegged on the couch and watched movies the day they left and have almost fully recuperated. he went back to work today and i hit the gym for 2 classes right in a row... i really needed it!