Lost My Log-in Information!

So I do have somewhat of a good reason why I haven't updated this thing in 5 months! It is because I couldn't figure out how to log in. Derp! Anyway, last time I left off I was talking about the possibility of going to Japan. My husband and I didn't know whether or not I would be medically cleared to go. Well since it has been five months, would you think we would have our answer by now? We do and here it is...

I got approved! Yes, I am sitting in Okinawa, Japan as I type this. The island is OK. Locals are very nice, the food is good (for the most part), and there are some interresting things to get into on the island. I will post a picture later so you have an idea where Okinawa is located because it is not in mainland Japan. I like to describe it as the "Hawaii of Japan" because its subtropical, has beautiful beaches, and the locals or "Okinawans" are their own people.

Since being here I have met some awesome friends. They are what I call "good people". We do so much together and for once in my life I have more girlfriends! If it wasn't for them, Okinawa wouldn't be as awesome!

Oh! I guess I could also update you with a"little bit" of news. I am pregnant. Yup, Vinson knocked me up the very weekend we got here. He didn't waste any time. I am about 10 or 11 weeks. I haven't had my first ultrasound or appointment because of how the military runs things but I should be able to get seen real soon.

Thats about it. Now that I know how to log onto this silly thing I can share our stories and experiences..so enjoy!

Up DATE!

Holy Smokes! It has been fffoooorreevveeerrrr since I have updated this thing. I guess I will give a quick run-down over what has been going on.

1.) Vinson and I have both graduated. In fact, my graduation was exactly on weekend after Vinson's. I found out the Wednesday before his graduation about what his job would be and that is avionics for heavy systems. Basically he will be maintaining the navigation and auto-pilot systems on those bbiigg planes like the c130s n stuff.

2.) I decided to move up to Wichita Falls, Texas for Vinson's tech school. Between 2 months of being away from him during BMT and 2 months of tech school a Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississipppi, I decided I was done with this separation crap. I originally thought about sucking it up but I couldn't, plus work pissed me off and gave me more of a reason to go. =)

3.) So I am up here in Wichita Falls, Texas and I do say this place ssuuuuccckkkss. Holy Smokes! Why would anyone want to LIVE here? I actually have many locals ask me this. My response is always "The Air Force brought me here" Haha. But anyway, I got a job at some Hilton hotel called the Homewood Suites. Its not bad, keeps me from looking at four walls all day. My boss is a pain in the ass, the people I work with are cool, but the pay sucks and its no where near as fun as working with the co-workers at the DoubleTree. =(

4.) Found out Vinson's "Gaining Unit" and its going to be some maintanence squardron based in Kadena AB in OKINAWA JAPAN! Who would have thought Vinson's first duty station would be in fricken Japan? Yea, I have mixed feelings over this. Half of me thinks this is awesome, other half of me is freaking out because I may be living on the other side of the world for three years.. All plans including (planning my wedding ceremony, finding a decent job related to my degree, etc and etc) are out the window.

So yea that sums up what has been going on for the past several months...I could go into detail about my short trips to Mississippi and Texas before moving here, but it wouldn't make no difference. I thought I'd keep things short so I can get to the meat and potatoes..

So the Japan thing is freaking me out, well...the whole "getting clearence" is freaking me out. I have NF or "Neurofibromatosis" and its a lifelong genetic disorder yadda yadda yadda. I have no problems with it but I am deathly afraid that it is going to prevent me from going overseas. Basically before a dependent is granted clearence to accompany their military member overseas, they military needs to ensure there is adequate care for the dependent with special needs. With my NF, I have it mild to where I may see a neurologist on a "as-needed" basis and an MRI maybe twice a year. Other than that, just go on with my life as normal. The absolute...worse case scenerio..I may need surgery; however, I haven't had related surgery in 14 years and the last MRI indicated no changes and that was in 2009.

The base where we will be going is located by a Naval base with the most comprehensive medical services in the pacific...they have neurology and neurosurgery services so I don't see WHHYYY I would be medically denied but STILL I worry. It would be cool to go to Japan but I wouldn't be butt-hurt if I couldn't go; however, I woudld be so upset if Vinson's orders had to change because of me. I would not forgive myself for a long time if that happened.

Here is how nervous I am over this. To aquire "clearence" you have to go through a dental exam and a medical screening. I actually already had my dental clearence but this is how nervous I was over that! Basically for the dental exam, you have a few x-rays taken, and the dentist roots around your mouth with his tools and determines what class your teeth are. Class 1 your teeth are good, Class 2 you have some minor stuff but it won't result in a dental emergency within the next 12 years, and class 3..your teeth are messed up. They will not authorize dependents with class 3. I was SOOOO nervous about being class 3 that when the took my b/p, it was 100-something/94! (My blood pressure has always been on the low side) The dentist was even surprised that a little person like me could have blood pressure that high. In any event, the dentist cleared me as class 2 because I have 2 cavities, re-took my blood pressure and I was good. haha

Well after my dental exam, I went across the hall to make my appointment for the medical screening. (Did I mention I was doing all this at the Sheppard Base hospital?) I want to add something totally unrelated, but the people there are rude! But anways, I have my appointment for my medical screening for not this wednesday but wednesday following. If my blood pressure was as high as it was during that dental exam for being so nervous, I wonder what my blood pressure will be during my medical. All the medical screening really is for is again, to determine if you have a "Special need" and to see if youre up to date on your stuff (shots, gyno, etc). I am basically not getting to excited over this whole "going to Japan" until I know that I can go...because the back of my mind is preparing myself for being denied. Oh well, there isnt much I can't do until Wednesday, ill be sure to keep updated. Heh

Well I haven't had an update in a while, I am kind of falling a little behind on this blog thing.

Sooo.. it is T-minus 14 days until I am off to San Antonio, TX! Isn't weird that I am looking forward to his graduation more than my OWN graduation? Speaking of my own graduation, I can't believe I have about two more weeks left of class and I am finally DONE! Actually, it is less than two weeks because the second week is exams and I really don't count that as a "week". Either way you look at it. it is not long before I am finally done! Woo Hoo!

Well, I finnnalllly recieved that letter with Vinson's job picks. Yea, it didn't help at all. I thought I would have an idea about how long his tech school will be (assuming all the electronics jobs roughly require the same amount of training) but I was wrong. The job he picked with the least amount of training is 36 days and the job with the most training is five months. Oh! He also picked five other jobs! All I know is he will either be at Keesler in Mississippi or at Shepperd in Texas. The job he wants the most is some networking job which is the one with the most amount of training. Even though it would require him to be away from me a lot longer, the job would keep him on the original plan. The whole purpose of him joining was to gain the knowledge and experience to work on computers.

Once I am done with my schooling, I am debating on keeping my job. On the other hand, I may just stick it out because I intend on taking one long weekend a month to fly up and see Vinson. I'll need that hotel discount in order to save some monies. =)

Boobies!

So there is a bunch of things for me to mention today. First things firt! Today I got my hairs done. I'm so happy how it turned out however I spent waaayy to much. I felt sick to my stomach over how much I spent but mom told me it was well deserved. I also ordered my blue dress from American Eagle. I decided not to buy those Air Force t-shirts online because some women told me the shirts run really big. I am a tiny person so I don't want to buy a shirt that I will end up wearing as a sleep shirt. (I pj's of choice is a big t-shirt)

I had my appointment with H&R Block and found out I will be banking on my tax return...big time! Holy smokes I can't believe how much I will get back. I will get back over $3,000! Most of it is some kind of education credit and some of it is from Doubletree of course. I told my parents about it but I guess they don't care to get the money back. This is the first time they couldn't claim me on my taxes because more than 50% of my income goes to my personal expenses.

Hmm..what is another thing? Oh! So I guess I could talk about my topic. So boobies...I have very small boobies and for as long as I can remember, I alawys thought about having breast augmentation but now that I am older and thinking about it more, I don't think I could ever go through with a breast enhancement procedure. Think about it, you're spending a lot of money on a procedure when there is no guarantee your boobs will look they way you want them to look. For the most part, you can tell which girl has fake boobies and which girl is allll natural. I don't want to be the girl with obvious looking fake boobies. That just seems tacky to me. Besides, it's not like I'm looking forward to my boobs sagging; however, it would be really awkward when your entire body ages..EXCEPT for your boobs.

One of the reasons why I wanted fake boobies is because I wanted to wear cute bras and cute swimsuits..and for the longest time, the selection of bras and swimsuits (at least cute ones) were limited for us small-chested girls. But now I decided to wander into a Victoria's Secret and HUZZAH! They offer bras in 32A, 32AA, and even 30A and they're all pretty cute!

To conclude this post, I decided to google some celeberties who are also members of the "Itty Bitty Titty Committee"

Nicole Richie...
Mille Jovovich...
Kate Moss
Keira Knightly

And who said small boobies wasn't sexy?

Week 5 is Oh So Fine!

Yay! Yesterday was an awesome day. I checked the mail and found 5 letters from Vinson! Five! I am so happy. Not only that, I also was graced with a phone call. I was beaming all day and ended up needing to take a sleeping pill to bring me down from Cloud 9. It is amazing that the little things like letters can bring you so much happiness.

He loves me. He loves me enough to write letters to me while sitting on the crapper. He said that he was able to have Oreos with one of his meals and it reminded him of me. (I don't like sweet stuff, but I LOVE Oreos.) He completed 1st in the obstacle course and he is still Element Leader and he says he wants me to have his "babies". Further more he talks about me moving with him while in tech school. I would LOVE to be there with him during tech school but I am still on the fence about that. If anything, If I am on his orders to be there with him, I will consider moving after all our debt is paid. I really really reallly want to move with him. I can't stand to be away from him much longer.

Oh! So I am talking to a girl I know from High School and she is going to do some photos for me! I am going to take a few graduation photos and some others to send to Vinson. It's going to be great. I am going to get my hairs done this week (OH! I need to make an appointment), I need to make arrangements to drive to Melbourne Mall to find that dress I saw online on American Eagle. I figured that is what I would wear to his graduation. I may wear my brown heels or find a pair of cute wedges. ( I sound REALLY girly)I also need to figure out what shirt I want to buy from cafepress.com. Ill actually post pictures of everything at the end of this post.

Annnnd another thing! I am going to H&R Block bbbeecccaauuuseee my parents can't claim me on their taxes! Ha! hahaha! I would've had close to 1,000 back on my tax return hadn't they tried to claim me on their taxes. So I will be going to the tax specialist after class and see how much more I can get back. I am trying not to get my hopes up but I would be happy if I got a little more. I can use that to pay off my Capital One Credit Card.

Well, I'm off to see the wizard. And when I say Wizard, I mean my wine class.

Bitterness...

OK, so it has almost been two weeks since I have recieved a letter from Vinson. I am beyond annoyed because two weeks ago he said he sent it. What the fook is going on? Yes, I need to be used to this by now; however, this letter is important. This letter outlines the possibilites of where he may be station after BMT.

Of course I am not mad or annoyed at Vinson. It is not his fault but not hearing from him after a while makes me feel bitter. I am beginning to feel bitter towards other couples because I can't have what they have. I can't run up and hug Vinson or kiss him or tell him "I love you". The only connection I have with him is reading his letters, over and over. The only comfort I can seek to make me feel he is close.. is to sleep in his over-sized t-shirts at night.

This sucks... that is all I have to say about that.

My P.S.A

Yesterday my mom and I drove to Patrick Air Force Base to get my military I.D. When we walked into the Pass/I.D. office, we sat for 1.5 hours until my number was finally called. When I sat down with the lady, it was literally "wham, bam, thank you ma'am" and I was out the door in five minutes with my I.D.

Umm.. why wasn't it like that for everyone else? Doesn't it always seem that you wait forever for something and when it is finally YOUR turn it takes you less than ten minutes to finish what you needed to do? It was like that for the military I.D., for my SSN, for my driver's lisc....

Anyway! Back on topic! The lady at the office was rude, she clearly didn't want to be there but then again.. if I busted my ass through BMT and the job that was given to me is something that is equivalent to working at the D.M.V, I wouldn't be happy either. She told me not to smile and she snapped my picture in mid-blink. I like to think she did that on purpose. Now I look like I lit up just before my photo but oh well, I guess I am stuck with it until I somehow "lose" my I.D. haha!

Next topic! Well, more like a public service announcement for everyone....

I cannot give you cheap hotel rooms at the drop of a hat! Stop asking me! Just because I can get a $39/night rate at nice hotels doesn't mean you can get that nice, cheap, discount also! If you wan't that discount... you can either A.)find a job at a Hilton Hotel or B.)invite me on your vacation. The discount I have is for EMPLOYEES ONLY! and it comes with a lot of stipulations. I have to booked early in advance because employee reservations ar based on availability ONLY. In addition, I can only book so many nights at a time, and so many rooms at a time, and some hotels don't even participate in the employee-discount program.


Sometimes I need to re-emphasize...the $39/night, employee discount is for EMPLOYEES ONLY. The protocol to book an employee reservation is I have to book online on the employee website. I have to turn in my reservation confirmation to my HR department so my HR can give me an "employee passport" which is verification that I am a hotel employee. When I check in at the hotel, I have to present my employee passport (which will have MY NAME ON IT) and my I.D.

Lucky for you people, Hilton offers discounts for friends and familes of their employees. It is NOT THE SAME DISCOUNT!!! It can be anywhere between $59/night to only half off the room rate. If you want to take advantage of this , you need to contact me ASAP because like the employee discounts.. friends and family discounts are BASED ON AVAILABILITY!! Do not call me on Friday night and say "hey, can you get me hotel room for this weekend?" No, I won't do it and I can't do it because just like employee reservations, I have to get the paperwork needed from my HR department, verifying that you are a friend (or family member)of mine. Oh, as a personal prefrence of mine, I will not get hotel room for your buddy. Your friend is not my friend. Also, I will not give discounts to anyone who I haven't spoken to since high school (figuretivley speaking). Meaning, if we haven't spoken to eachother and now you want to "catch up" and talk about your vacation to St. Petersburg...don't waste your time beating around the bush to ask if I can give you a discount because I won't do it. Sorry.

Furthermore, you need to tell me the date you want to check in..the date you want to check out and where you want to stay. You can't sit there and say "umm..can you get me a hotel room sometime in May?" No! Do your part and I will do the best I can to do mine.

Most Importantly, when I do give you a discount...don't act like assholes. We're all grown adults and we can behave in a hotel. If I find out you've done something that resulted in the hotel escorting you off premises or if you "walk out" on a bill you will not be getting another discount from me.

Sorry to sound abrasive but this is boarderline annoying. I don't mind helping people out (especially for people who've done favors for me)but just understand that giving discounts is more involved than you think.