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Hello Livejournal,
So many adventures and changes have happened since I’ve last wrote. I’ve been spending my time elsewhere, paying attention to those and things that need my attention more. My family, my friends, my job, my life. These last months were enjoyed making and spending money on myself and on others, and with family and friends spending weekend and weekdays in Atlanta or making the most of lame places like Kennesaw.. and also preparing myself for Doug’s return home!
He is finally home. He came in August 5 at 12:15am. I said goodbye to my family that morning and hurried off in Doug’s car with a shitton of luggage and trunks and had overdue lunch at flying biscuit with my Otis(Zaheen). I’ve come to grow, realize, and understand life with this pug nose. Everyday I thank my lucky stars for this friend, I’m able to laugh at life and it’s inconveniences, and I feel I am able to enjoy it better because of her. We can make life happen for us, despite annoying things (i.e. people, and moving away), we won’t settle for being unhappy, so we make it fucking work until we are. We find a place to go or something to do until is satisfies our cravings for the night, we talk about the hurt until it goes away, or atleast feels better. Life is too short to hurt, or be unhappy. I’m digressing, but I really wanted to put this down. It’s the truth.
Going on -
I made it to NC at our hotel, I had a few annoyances such at no Jacuzzi tub in our suite(which is why I reserved in the room to begin with), or having to be moved to the smoking building because the water in the non-smoking building was going to be out so I worked it out at the front desk and they discounted the price pretty intense for me, which made things a little better. I refreshed myself and left to meet Jenna at 11:00 at Green Ramp, I got lost a million times and had to stop at random gates and ask soldiers where I needed to go. It was alright I made it. It wasn’t until I got there and parked I got all funny feeling and excited that my man was actually going to be home! Disbelief! He landed, they got in formation, they released them for 15 minutes of hot kissing sessions, and then had to go do inventory for all their weapons. Jenna and I waited in the parking lot drinking booze. Had a good time doing it. We drank Coors light, listened to old blink and tbs, and laughed about a lot of shit that our delirious heads found amusing. Fun fun shit. I’ll be hanging out with her soon. She’ll be my first friend here. (Yes, I said here, we finally have apartment up here, but I haven’t got to that part yet!)
So after four hours of waiting and giggling, it was now 4:30 and men started coming back into the parking lot to get with their families/wives/girlfriends. Jenna and I started rushing to get our make up face back on because at that point we probably looked a little dull and we wanted to be fresh for our men again, our men had to drive us back home, or to our hotels, and I don’t need to say what happened next. ;)
The next day he had to leave for work, when he got home we started looking for apartment right away, all day, everywhere. A lot of places had no availability, or was a dump. We finally found our apartment at the Regency.. we found out two bedroom two bath little getaway. I love it. We reserved it on Saturday, and then moved in yesterday(Tuesday!). Over the course of the weekend we spent it trying to look for furniture, specifically mattresses, we went to almost four different places trying on oh so wonderful mattresses. Some felt like you were floating on a cloud, and other beds felt like you were being smothered by one. We narrowed it down to two, and by Monday evening we were able to make our final decision and made our bed purchase! It delivers tomorrow, I cannot wait!
Throughout the weekend and week it’s been difficult to use my phone, Doug had to get a backordered phone and needs my phone most of the time when he is at work, which limits me to doing not a lot. And whenever he is home we are shopping for our apartment or are out eating. I feel better being alone in our apartment rather than hotel rooms, this feels much better, even though we don’t have any furniture in yet. I think it is because it is less cramped in hotel rooms.
Before our move in we lived in the car for two hours, all of our shit was in the car and the leasing office didn’t come back from a meeting until 1pm ish. After we signed the lease, Doug had to go back to work, but as soon as he came in we did the first initial grocery/apartment shopping for essentials. We don’t have any of our pots or plates up here yet, so we bought food that doesn’t need much cooking to get us by. Overall it was a ton of things! We shopped at Sams club, where Doug is like a kid in the candy store. I had to put away a lot of the things he wanted to get because we just didn’t needed 180 windex’s, or 80 rolls of papertowels. He’s crazy. I caught him mumbling under his breath a few times, “I love this place.” It was funny, after that, it was off to wal mart to finish up. The fun part was getting everything inside because we live on the third floor! We have mostly everything we need now, now I just want to have fun. We also need furniture. My family may come up soon, and I want to get some friends up here. This place, it isn’t too bad, but it definitely different. It’s a little cramped, but there are a lot of bars and restauraunts to go to, and a lot of it you have to drive to get too, you can’t really just “walk” to the next bar/place. Nothing will be as amazing and captivating as Atlanta. I hear Raleigh is a little better though, but I haven’t been yet.
So whats up with married LIFE?! It is wonderful. It’s great to be physically married rather than emotionally. It’s indescribable to go through life living out of hotels, to your car, to your first apartment. Speaking of our apartment, let’s talk about out apartment! It’s in a private apartment place called the Regency, we have a beautiful pool area, grills, volleyball, tennis, fitness center, and a park. We have a guard gate and our apartment is on the third floor. It’s spacious, has a fireplace, a big kitchen (for me), and two bedrooms, a master bath and a guest bath, a laundry room, coat closet and a balcony. J I love our new little home, and can’t wait to get furniture and people inside of it. I can’t wait to begin bellydance again and am excited for new teachers, though I will miss Nazym Allayl tremendously. Haflanta is this weekend and I am DOING that shit. DOING IT. Haha. Need this in my life. Can’t wait to be back in GA! J
My little nephew Lucas can say my name. He just turned two and I was blessed enough to be able to see him turn two. Happiness. I miss my him. I miss my family in general. I miss Georgia. I miss my friends. It’s officially been a week since I’ve seen them, I’ve had my ups and downs. It’s hitting me that I won’t be seeing them all the time and that I will miss out on a lot, and that it will only get worse come winter time. My Omi told me that I'd be homesick, but it will get better. She left Germany to come to America to be with Pappa. She also had a large family and many friend in Germany.
It's been a few days since I started writing this, Doug and I went home for ONE DAY that weekend and we were able to hit up l5p and get intoxicated the night we got it. The next morning I got dolled up for Haflanta 2010, I did two bellydance workshops (I wanted to do more, but only had time for a couple). I bought jewelry, bellydance music, and new sparkly scarves. After that I went to my parent's home, where Theresa came by with Lucas to see me, Doug showed up later that evening and we packed all our wedding gifts into our cars. It was a short, very rushed visit, as we had to leave the next day to take everything up and go back to NC. Before leaving, I met with Oti at La Fiesta and we talked shit. :) Doug left ahead of me by about thirty minutes on the highway, and four hours later, coincendently we stop at the same gas station (how bizarre???) He was already there munching on his Baconater from Wendys in his car and I surprised him. haha. What a small world. We got here around 8pm, and unloaded our cars, which took around an hour and a half. We unpacked as much as we could until we got tired and went to sleep. Since then I've been trying to settle in, unpacking our things, doing our laundry (our washer and dryer came yesterday!), and making dinners. Life is good. <3 He left today for a army convention in West Virginia, he'll be back in three days! Now I have the place to myself to make more at home... I need a friend here. I wanna hangggg.
But I don't think that will happen.
So I think I will just cook some Colombian food, buy some house things, clean up around here, buy a bath kit and enjoy a wonderfully scented candle and music in a lovely bath with some whiskey. Go me.