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Ok so... my bad. It's been a LONG time since I've written. I feel like I've been crazy busy, but of course when I sit down to actually write about it, I don't feel like I was really that busy. I also have come to notice that only TWO people on my blog list actually have blogged recently! LAME! For those of you reading this, who do blog, GET TO IT! I want to readdddddd! :) Just sayin'. :)

Let's see, what has happened since Monday.... Well, still not down any more weight,  but I haven't gained anything (still) either. So I guess that's good. A little frustrating, but I can't complain since it's not going the other way either! :) I'll take it. It's coming off... a LOT slower than I'd like, but that's ok too. I've still been running/biking/walking I just don't talk about it as often as I did before. Today was the 5k, not sure if they still had it or not (it rained all day) but I didn't run... No one was able to run it with me and I didn't want to do it by myself, so maybe the next one, I'll be able to... We'll see.

We had a good anniversary. I wrote him 104 (10/4, Oct. 4th... get it?? :)) things that I love about him and he LOVED it!! :) I wasn't sure what he would think, but he said he really loved it, and it actually made him cry. Don't tell him I told you! :) We didn't do anything that day, since Justin had to work that night, he slept all day. I got to hang with G though and that's always wonderful. :) The next night, Wed., we went over to GB and my parents took us out for dinner for our anniversary. That was wonderful! We hadn't seen them in quite awhile actually, so it was nice to get to hang with them for awhile too. I also watched my niece and nephew Wed. and Thurs. afternoon. Otherwise, just hung out with G. :)

Thurs. evening I went to Bible study over at Pastor Joel's house. That is always fun. I have sure come to look forward to it every week (church as well!). It definitely always makes me think outside the box, always leaves me thinking when I leave. I love that. I sure wish I could convince my hubs to go with me, but no such luck yet, anyway. He kept G that night, had daddy/daughter time with her, while I went. That night AJ & Tara came over and we played the game "Fact or Crap". lol :) It was a lot of fun. After they went home, we caught up on our DVR'd Grey's Anatomy from the last couple weeks.

Yesterday (Friday) we just hung out most of the day. Just slept since he has worked nights this whole weekend. After he left for work G and I went to Hutch to get groceries. Nothing too exciting, but it was nice to have a bunch of food again! lol :) Today we watched the KSU/Mizzou game and then Justin went to work. This evening, G, Heidi & I went over to AJ's parents house for his Welcome Home party. A few friends were over there and we just hung out until about 9, then came home. That's been about the extent of our week!! Nothing too exciting, but oh well.

I have been trying to find a legit "work from home" job. I'm having some problems with it. I have found a TON of jobs, but most of them either require you to not have ANY background noise (cust. service types), a bachelor's degree, or they want you to work a LOT more hours than I'm wanting to work. Maybe I'm looking for something that doesn't exist. I dunno... Buuuttttt I've been looking, none the less! I'm going to start the handwriting thing I was doing for awhile, again this coming week. They finally have more work for people, so that will bring in a little bit more cash and give me something to do, also. :)

Don't have any AD updates as of yet. Justin said he is going to give his unit until next Fri. and if they haven't called him with an update then he is going to call them back and see what's going on with it. So I won't know anything until then... and maybe not even then, lol. We did do some more looking into the MOS that he wants to go into. It is going to be TOUGH, that's for sure. He would have to go up against a board of higher up Marines, where they would ask him questions and see how he responds to them. I have read that the board has an 80% FAIL RATE. That's crazy.... Only 20% of people are able to go into this MOS that try to. I know he will have no problem though. Something else that I'm not exactly thrilled about is that (at least a couple years ago) that MOS was told to expect to deploy at LEAST 3 times in the first 4 years your in it. I suppose that could've changed by now, especially since Obama is trying to bring the troops home, but it's kinda scary to think that could happen. In one aspect, at least USMC deployments are *usually* only 6-7 months, but still. They said to expect him to be gone 7 months and home for 5 months, before leaving again. I'm sure that would be hard... especially to do 3 different times in 4 years. Something else to think about. They also say the divorce rate is the highest in that MOS. WOW! Justin says we don't have to worry about that though. lol Lord, I hope we don't! :) I know we'd be just fine, it would just be hard. I don't do so well not seeing my husband very much, so I'm sure this situation would be even harder, but we'd figure it out. I'll just have to buck up! :) Put on my big girl pants, huh? And the other thing we learned is that the MOS he's thinking about going into now in Intel (still 0211 from the other day, but that's different than the one he was thinking about at the beginning of this process) is only a 3 month MOS school. Which is great, in one aspect, it means he won't have to go to school forever and we'll be PCS'ing sooner to a new duty station, however, it also means since it's less than 6 months, G and I couldn't go with him.... :( That would suck too, but again, we'd just have to suck it up and do it. That MIGHT get us out of having to move in the middle of winter though!! :) If only he has to go to VA for 3 months, then we could be looking at March/April to move to a duty station, and at least we would (hopefully) be past the snow by that point! That's also assuming everything goes right on schedule, which we've learned, hasn't happened yet, so we'll see. But anyway, that's kinda what we are thinking about right now.

I should be getting my ball dress in the mail Monday!! I'm pretty psyched to see if it fits and how it looks! :) I just hope it does fit so I don't have to go through the hassle of sending it back, getting another one etc. We shall see! I will post a pic if it does though! I'm getting really excited about going to the ball. However, just talking to my step mom on Wed. when we were over there, about leaving Griffyn with her when we go, already has me sad!! It's still just under a month away, but just thinking about it makes me tear up already. I know it's only overnight.... but still... I love her and I hate having to be away from her. I told Justin, I wish there was someone we could get to stay in the hotel room with her, so we could just take her with us, but only have to be away from her for a couple hours while we were down at the ball, instead of overnight. :( I will sure miss her........

Well anyway, I think that's about all there is to update on for now, which really wasn't much. :P Hope you all are enjoying your weekend and I hope you all had as great of a week as I did! :)
1. I am thankful that I get to go to church in the morning and that Heidi might come with me!
2. I am thankful that my husband only has to work tonight and tomorrow night, then he's off Mon/Tues. then he goes back to days on Wed.!!! FINALLY!!
3. I am thankful for all the smiles, laughs, and general feelings of so so so much love for my baby girl every single day. I'm so blessed to be her momma and blessed that I get to stay home with her every day.
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