snapshots of our life.

Oh the joys of the Strength & Toning class Jamie and I attended today! And props to the instructor! Freakin hilarious! And Jamie and I have picked up many new words. She is what I like to call ghettofide! And I love it! We have so much fun in her classes, not only b/c we are learning new vocabulary. It’s a mixture of things really. From the vocabulary, to the Chinese girl with NO rhythm, to the advisor with sweat in all the wrong places. What it comes down to really is she’s aspiring to be a rapper. While listening to songs like “Whistle While You Work” or “The Thong Song” or “Get Crunked Up” she mixes a little inspiration in there. Reminding you of why you are working out in the first place. To get “In Yo Tank Top” “In Yo Bikini” “In the Summa”. And that’s what it is all about really, inspiration.

On a side note, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I hear from him tonight. Saturday morning he told me he would try and call me Sunday. I think it would be easier if he said, “I’ll call you when I can.” I sent him another letter this morning that I wrote him last night. By the time he gets to where he is going, he’s gonna think I’m crazy sending all of that stuff. And I have passed his address out to Erica and Jamie already. He’ll feel so loved.

Off to bed, hoping he calls, and dreamin about the angels!

Had fun suga muffin! I love our Monday night shin digs & I love you Jamika! Thanks for being such an incredible friend!

Night ya’ll.

PS–Anna Ruth, I am no longer in the dark about Napoleon Dyanmite!

So I’m sitting here about to post and watching Extreme Home Makeover, and there was a commercial for Tina Turners best hits. So what am I doing right now? Downloading Tina Turner songs. Haha! Gotta love it!

My space bar is not working and it is driving me crazy! I have to pound the daylights out of it to work.

I finally talked to my sugar muffin today! Hadn’t talked to her since Friday (yes we’ve only gone a day without talking) and its been weird. We don’t have our class tomorrow at 3:00 because the teacher cancelled it. So I have class at 1:30, then Jamie and I are gonna eat, and then go to our Monday night fitness classes. And then our regular Monday night dinner and The Bachelorette. One month, almost, til Spring Break in Key West! Ugh, the thought of getting in a bathing suit makes me want to vomit.

Damn spacebar is slowing me down. I gotta go back and add spaces in everything!

I give up, this thing is pissingme off!

Night ya’ll!

“It’s amazing
How you can speak
Right to my heart
Without saying a word,
You can light up the darkT
ry as I mayI could never explain
What I hear whenYou don’t say a thing.”

I woke up this morning to my phone ringing, it was him! I got to talk to him for awhile. He said he sent me a four page letter yesterday, I can’t wait to get it. I sent his package yesterday so it will get to him by Valentine’s day, and hopefully it will be waiting on him when he gets to Baquoba. It had a scrapbook page that I made him and put in one of those plastic box looking frames, a photo album with all of our pictures, Ramon Noodles!, cheese whiz and Ritz crackers, raisins, a bunch of letters and his Valentine’s Day card. I love talking to him, it makes me feel so much better.

He asked when would be a good time for him to come home on leave. He’s thinking about flying to Louisiana, spend a few days there, and drive his truck to Atlanta to spend the rest of the 2 weeks left with me. When I asked him when he wanted to come he said the first of June cause he wants to be with me on my birthday! How sweet is that?! And if he does come then, our formal is the day before my birthday so he could go with me to that. Which makes me happy, cause I don’t want to go with anyone but him.

So today, being iced in and all, was really relaxing. I did nothing but work on my scrapbook and watch movies all day. Right now I’m watching the Prince and Me. I love this movie.

Well, I just wanted to update that I heard from him and he is doing good (other than being sick). He says he carries my picture with him in his pocket everyday. I love him so much!

Off to work on my scrapbook some more and finish watching this movie. Yes, I am a bore.

The love of my life! The things on the side say, “together, always, now & forever, my one & only” 

my niece, Avery Campbell! 

Valentine’s Day 1976 

Sister…
Someone to share joys and dreams,
A keeper of secrets,
One whom we can always be ourselves with,
A supporting fan, a shoulder to cry on,
And a partner in life’s ups and downs.
Sister…
a best friend for life.

Today was a good day! I went to class–boring! Then went and worked out for a bit, which I really think I’m going to feel tomorrow. Went by work to eat lunch with my mama, and then headed to Athens to see Anna! We went shopping with her mom, ate dinner, and watched a few episodes of Oprah that she had PVRed. And then I headed home. It was a fun day!

I can’t even describe what hearing his voice has done for me. Aside from just knowing he is safe, there is something about his voice that just calms me. Anytime I have a problem or am stressed, there is something about him that just makes everything ok. How I felt today was such a total change in what I have gone through this past week. I slept through the night last night! He said he would try and call again at the same time tonight (after he gets done eating breakfast) but even if he doesn’t, I’m ok. I need to not read the news so much, it stresses me and just makes me worry. I mean the headlines are enough, but I search for the word Baquoba in every article there is. It has started to consume me. And really, I know it is war but the hard/rough things are what the news ALWAYS focus on (in America or Iraq, its like that everywhere). You never hear about anything good going on over there. And while it is war, there are stories of goodness that could be told. Just one of my pet peeves about the media (aside from how they always pick the incompetent idiots for their five minutes of fame interviews).

I just need to keep giving this to God, pray about it, and have faith.

This couldn’t fit how I feel about him any better…

I will love you on days when you are perfect in my eyes,
and on days when I wonder why you do the things you do.
I will love you when you are the strong center that calms me,
and when you want to rest in the comfort of my embrace.
I will love you when you are confident and proud of everything that you stand for,
and when you need me to remind you how far you’ve come and that there is no limit it how far you can go.
Now and forever, come what may, just as you are…
I will love you.

I’m off to bed. Dream about the angels!

He called! I just got off the phone with him. He said it is the first chance he’s had to call, and he’s going to try and call tomorrow probably around the same time. He just got done eating breakfast, which was weird because I had just turned out my light to go to bed.

I can’t describe this feeling. I miss him so much, and it was so good to hear his voice. He gave me the address where he will be so I can go ahead and send his Valentine’s day card so it will be there waiting on him when he gets there. I found the perfect one today. He is still in Kuwait and they should be there til the first of the month.

It was so good to hear his voice. Ahhhh….

I think this will be the first night of real sleep that I have had in awhile. Night ya’ll!

“Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away.” ~Anon

So out of all the relationships I have been in, I’ve only had my heart broken once. Not a whole lot of people know about him, but his name was Joe. And he left on Christmas Day 2 years ago (2002) to go visit his family in California. We had been dating for about 5 or 6 months and he just didn’t come home. It took me awhile to get over it. I rarely hear from him. Last time I heard from him was right after Meena and I had broken up, and it had gotten back to him. It’s been a year.

So my phone rings the other night, and its an 805 number, which is Oxnard, California. I didn’t answer it. I don’t want to talk to him. Strange. I talked to one of his friends and asked him when the last time he talked to him was. And he said “3 days ago, he asked about you.” So I’m guessing that is why he is calling. After all of this time.

It just made me more sure of how much I love Craig.

Dear Lord,
Give the greatness of heart to see,
the difference between duty and his love for me.
Give me understanding that I may know,
when duty calls him he must go.
Give me a task to do each day, to fill the
time when he’s away.
And Lord, when he’s in a foreign land, keep
him safe in your loving hand.
And Lord, when duty is in the field, please
protect him and be his shield.
And Lord, when deployment is so long,
please stay with me and keep me strong.
Amen