Dearest Love...

Have you ever reread an email or letter 100000000 times?

ME?

Guilty!

I am finding that when I need a moment or two, ok.... MORE often than NOT.

I am reading MY favorite sailor's email/letters over and over....

Guess it's the darn holidays and the holiday spirit catching up with me.

So..Lub if you're reading... I LOVE YOU and your emails make my day!

Where have we been?

Howdy Everyone!

I mean.... ALOOOHA!

Well, please excuse our absence as the summer took us by storm. This past August was a whirlwind! We returned back to good ol' Texas for a family emergency and we are happy to report that things are looking up! Look at how we have ALL grown up!! Mom and Dad would be sooooo proud!!

I celebrated my 30th birthday with MY favorite Sailor

and what a day it was!

I am now a proud Graduate Assistant at the University of Hawaii-Manoa and teaching Undergraduate Spanish while I pursue a Masters in Spanish.

My 30th birthday has come and gone...........................

......and it was not a bad thing at all. I love the look that my students gave me when they asked my age and I said "30". No one seems to believe me. MY loving husband and favorite Sailor surprised me with a dinner at Top of Waikiki to celebrate and it was a very romantic dinner. We had been there before for our 1st wedding anniversary and it has quickly become a family favorite. He had taken the day off to prepare my gift and dinner reservations, what a loving hubby! He even was my personal driver that day, driving me to and fro Manoa for class. I did feel bad though that I was so tired at dinner, I had been in school all day and that was the end of my first week back in school and it was a KILLER!

I am not a supermodel at the age of 30 and disappointed that I didn't lose the 30 pounds I wanted to but I did accomplish something. I am back in school.

I am so happy and blessed to have this opportunity to attend grad school for GRATIS and trying to earn my place in the program. It is VERY time consuming and I felt like I was neglecting MY favorite Sailor.

Speaking of MY favorite Sailor he is out playing battleship here and there and well that's sea duty....So, now I have NO excuse to do nothing but study. (I guess...)

I must say that our marriage has really progressed even though it has only been a year and half, this last goodbye was NOT that bad. We held it together and smiled and waved. Quite honestly, we are just getting used to it. Not to mention this is our 3rd time to play battleship and it helped that he did not man the rails, it wasn't as gut wrenching to see them leave. I am also very blessed to be surrounded by great friends, military and non military that genuinely care. MY favorite Sailor had his birthday recently and well I will just say this he is one hot Sailor...he DOES NOT look his age either!! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY LOVE!!! He didn't want me to make a big deal about it, but I still did!!

Well, that is all that I have time to write for now, so much for to say but I must read.

I do not remember my undergrad studies being this hard?!?! This degree is very demanding, and not to mention, EVERYTHING is in Spanish! Ay yay yay....

Do you find yourself...

Wondering around a store, just because you don't want to go home?

Tonight, as I pout and stomp that that MY favorite Sailor won't be picking up the pineapple phone to call the big rock because he is about to go play more battleship. As you know, MY favorite Sailor is out playing battleship and well..that's his job. Unfortunately, it does take him from our glamourous casa for months at a time. I went to the exchange just to look at some shoes, and I ended up buying some instead. LOL See what I do when I don't get a two hour phone call from the hubbs?!?!?

I notice that when I don't want to be home alone I just piddle. I cleaned "enough" over the weekend and just didn't feel like going home yet. I decided to shop instead. I think our bank account will be happy once this deployment is over. I find myself buying senseless crap just because I want to try it or 6 bags of Mini Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies because I feel the need to fill a care package with him. I think my husband is going to start returning the boxes to sender! I have even gotten so bored and that I bought him a remote control Wall-E to play with on the ship well because I thought it was cute and who couldn't use a remote control Wall-E?????!!!

Did I mention that I also bought myself TWO new guys for our bed at the Disney store too?(while, the hubs is gone I sleep with the stuffed animals my husband has given me and my beloved Sailor teddy bear my sister got got me...thus "the guys") I bought myself a stuffed Winnie-the-Pooh and Stitch. HEY, don't HATE!!!! I am preparing EARLY for Halloween! (I am going to be Lilo darn it!!) See what I mean about buying crap that I don't need. But to make the purchase worthwhile, the stuffed animals were buy one get one FREEEEEE!

You think I would be excited that I am not tied to the phone for hours but the honest truth is that I would sit next to any phone in ANY weather element just to hear his voice. Afterall, after talking with my husband who is NOT a phone person for 6 hours over the weekend (yes, in increments) he told me a very enduring secret. I learned how much my voice meant to him, this only makes me LOVE him more.

Well, shoppers this blog is coming to an end.
Until the next time...ALOOOHA!
-Jai

My Heart Sailed Away...

Today my heart sailed away.

I gather up strength and find comfort in my love and I know that he is safe.

This is his career, he is a military man.

I know that sooner rather than later he will be back in my arms safe and sound and making me laugh with something silly.

Today at the pier, I stood there all alone wondering how many more of these will I endure.

As I stood there, sounds of "daddy",  "dadddddyyyyyy", "byeeee daddy", really stood out to me.

WOW! I can only imagine what this is going to be like when we have a family.

I was blessed to see my love before he left even though he had duty the night before and we had some quality time on the ship.

I took him lunch and dinner and ice cream throughout the day, I started to feel like one of the crew.

Right now I am just a ball of emotions, I am not falling apart by any means but my brain is just so frazzled from the day's events and I need sleep.

I bought DH a TON of movies and TV shows for his iPod and well dumb me bought them under my Apple ID so it wouldn't let me put it on his iPod, so he left with my iPod. That doesn't bother  me, what bothers me is the non transferability of purchases!

Well, my brain is shutting down!

I need sleep!

I didn't sleep because I was on the phone with DH all night, why...well why not!

I love my hubs!