Merry "Technologically Enhanced" Christmas

first i hope everyone had an absolutely lovely christmas holiday with lots of food and family and laughing and of course wine.
this was my first christmas as a "wife" and sorta kinda a "mom" (chaz..the dog) my husband and i weren't in a position to travel this year for christmas, what with us moving next month and trying to afford it and a place for the dog and blah blah blah...so our solution was to have a "skype" christmas with his family in IL. if you don't know what skype is, it's a webcam service that let's you communicate via webcam with people wherever they might be. it was pretty cool. the next best thing to actually being there. we had a great time, we took turns opening gifts and telling stories. it was a great way to spend the holiday.

more news on the homefront...it's official we ARE going to greece. we got the orders on the 23rd. we leave the shithole that is VA sometime next month, probably around the end of it. then we'll spend four months in IL, him in Chicago(during the week) and me in southern with his family. we'll do weekenders between and maybe some in Indi, that's where his sister lives. and we get to have our big reception in may before we leave. YAY!! then at the end of june we'll hop a verrrry long flight to greece and be there for atleast two years. S-T-O-K-E-D is the only way to describe it.

well that's all for now, i need to wander to look productive.
kristy J

All Bitching Aside, I Really Am Very Happy!

I feel, although this is my blog and I can bitch if I want to, I have been bitching entirely too much. I think it might be stress and the control freak in me not being in control of my situation but anyway I think I should do a happy post. I do have a ton of things in my life that make me happy and even more things that I am joyously thankful for. Also the things day to day that make laugh, and seeing as how it’s Sunday and I am at work, I need a pick me up so here we go:

1) My husband is super awesome. We have a blast together, not even really doing anything. We can sit around and laugh and joke and it’s the best time ever. We’re about to travel all the way to Greece together and I could not be happier that he is the person I am going with. It’s me and him all the way. He does sweet romantic things just for no reason. He puts up with the whole bag o crazy that is me and enjoys it all, always telling me how much he loves me. He does this voice, it's suposed to be me when I have my over the top moments, it's way high pitched and overly dramatic and probably the funniest thing I have ever heard(it has diffused a lot of "arguments"). And above all he knows when in doubt just get me some wine and I'll be fine :-)

2) Chaz Michael Michaels…the sweetest fluffiest goofiest drooliest dog ever! He’s so wonderful. He’s giant and knocks me over from time to time but only out of excitement to see me. He always knows how to cheer me up if I’m down about something. If I cry he makes sure to lick the tears away and in the process soak my face. His love of sticks is something to be admired, to find so much joy in something so simple is a quality we should all posses. He’s probably a little on the dramatic side but it makes for laughs between my husband and I. (Chaz and husband are both awesome but husband gets mad when I pet him or try to rub his belly )

3) My big giant wonderful family (in laws). At any given time there are always at least 15 people who want to talk and joke and laugh and tell stories and wondering how the hell you’re doing. The most accepting and loving people you could ever hope to meet.

4) The fact that I am getting out of shithole VA one way or another. We’re either jumping a plane to Greece or we’re going down to Florida to see how this business venture pans out.

5) My friends…there are few but they are great. They stick with me through all the craziness and drunken adventures.

6) The blogs I read(don’t judge me)…they are entertaining and funny and in some weird way insight into how to deal with situations that I have no experience in. The women who write those blogs seem like very smart strong women and that’s something I didn’t see a lot of growing up.

I know there’s more but there’s a furnace with a leak that’s calling my name(not really, the fatty who is here today is barking order in which I must oblige)

Kristy J

North Carolina and Martini Mishaps

so this weekend i went to see one of my bestests and her hubby and new baby in NC. it was a faaaabulous weekend complete with plenty of wine, great food, "Friends", and me ruining my laptop with a very dirty martini.

i took loads of pictures and now i have nowhere to upload them too and worst of all the only place i can get on the internet is at work and there are only certain sites and graphics that come up i.e. no blog pictures EVER!

i wanted to come home and blog about how wonderful my weekend was but now i'm completely nervously worried that my laptop is ruined so bad that i can't get anything off of it. it's not like i lost college work or real work for that matter it's the pictures...oh the pictures! i am a picture FAAANATIC! i take pictures everywhere i go, of everyone i meet, of everything i do and then i get home and upload them onto my computer and make albums and scrap books and print them to be framed...and now i might have lost allllllll of them from the last THREE AND A HALF YEARS!!! it's basically like losing my early twenties (i'm twenty four) a lot happened in those three years though:
my deployment from in the navy; my first apartment; my twenty first birthday; my friend's twenty first birthday; all of my trips to boston, DC, georgia, maine, IL; meeting my husband; meeting my husband's family; basically a photo journal of my dog(i don't have kids); my WEDDING!!!!!!! there is so much more but the point has been made

and now i'm facing the harsh reality that it all might be lost... i know i should i have put it on an external hard drive or backed things up or something but i wasn't thinking about that. i'm always SO damn careful with that laptop and then i went and ruined it. BOOOOO on ME!!

i hope either my husband or some savvy computer person can atleast get the pictures off of there for me. i can always buy a new laptop but i sure as hell can't go back three years and get those pictures. (yes i realize this is basically me whining and bitching but whatever it's my blog and i can do that on here)

moving on, i really did have an absolutely amazing weekend! the first night i got there we immediately started sampling different wines that she had there(it was like 1:30pm when i got there and the baby was napping) and she made these tuna cream cheese roll thingies that were simply amazing! we sat around and chit chatted and she showed me her new house and showed me all the things she wanted to do to it. absolutely beautiful house!! after the baby woke up we played with him for a bit, then his daddy took him to get a flu shot. next was dinner, best ribeye steaks EVER! i have no idea what he did but they were yuuuuu-uuum!! after dinner it was time for Friends Scene It Trivia DVD Game! and i'm simply the best at that game! i totally kicked their asses! after the game, was when we broke out the vodka and olive juice for dirty martinis. after a few of these i got careless with my orangutan arms and knocked over the last little bit into my laptop. some blue screen with white letters came up and said something along the lines of "i'm now going to ruin your life, you drunk bitch" and then i flipped out(drunk) and called my husband begging and pleading with him to just fix it pleeeease! at this moment i was far to drunk to realize the intensity of my screw up. he told me to turn it off and calm down, and that's what i did. we continued on drinking martinis and laaaaaaughing at everything. we ended the night early.

saturday started off bright and early,by that i mean sunny and far to bright for someone who spent her evening chugging vodka, also me with the worst headache that i have ever had! it was awful, i woke up and felt fine. i stood up and it was like my brain SLAMMED into my forehead at about 874 MPH. it was so painful i was actually crying as i walked to the bottle of motrin downstairs. thinking back now i usually don't sit down with a bottle of vodka and just go to town. the rest of the day we spent watching football and eating nachos, and quietly preparing ourselves for the drinking that would ensue later on in the evening. the evening began with a tapas dinner set in this super awesome arabian restaraunt. (had we stayed later we would have enjoyed the belly dancers complete with their own band) the food was alright, the first time i ever lamb chops, they were De-Lish!! and it just happened to be a speciatly martini bar! i stayed clear of just straight vodka and enjoyed a few fruity martinis, complete with GLOWSTICKS! i was truly in drunk girl heaven. after dinner we headed down town for some good ole fashioned bar hopping. the first place we went was an oyster bar for drunk singles over the age of 45, definitely not our scene so after a drink and some oysters(<--BLEHK!) off we went. the next place was supposed to be an irish bar...this just happened to be an irish bar with an 80s hair band cover band...it was A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!! i thought, but my friends not so much...after three beers and two shots off we went. we ended up at ...guess?...a MARTINI BAR!!! so once more we drowned the rest of our giggles out with the slurping of some very delicious and wonderfully colored martinis. it was getting late so we decided to head out but not before buying $6 hot dogs from a street vendor! but i will say they were by far the GREATEST hot dogs ever made, or it could have just been the fifth of vodka coursing through my blood stream, eh who knows?!

the next morning i got up early and headed home to spend some quality time with my new husband. we went on a date and it was wonderful. mimosas and a crab martini(<--noticing a pattern) then a very funny movie(role models, seriously go watch it, it's awesome!!) after the movie we headed home and took a walk in the freezing cold with our dog. it was sweet. then bc we're super lame we went to bed at 9:20pm.
all in all(minus the laptop) it was an absolutely divine weekend!
alright i'm done
kristy j

Marriage and Other Shit

so i'm still not very good at keeping up with this thing, i'll try and do better. so let's see what's new...here we'll do this in a list format, it might be easier to follow and easier for me to write seeing as how i've had a few glasses of wine. so away we go:

1--> i got married! YAY! two weeks ago. it was wonderful and beautiful and the happiest day of my life. that being said I AM SO EFFIN GLAD IT'S OVER!! i will pat myself on the back and say i wasn't a bridezilla. i had lots of help and it went smoothly. everyone looked beautiful. i have a great new big family and i am SO SO happy about being married. my hubby is great!

2-->i HAAAAAAAAAAATE my job!!!!!!!!!!!!! the job itself isn't bad but the people...oh myyy god the people...it's like highschool but with older uglier people who face you can't see(clean room suit) the shit talking and the dirty looks, i didn't even do anything to these poeple. WHATEVER! NEWS FLASH LOSERS the company is going BANKRUPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yah the stock closing today was $0.19 today. it's like they refuse to acknowledge that in less than four months they are going to be unemployed. they are a team of ignorant useless uptight assholes who for some reason think they are "cool" bc they spend all day making others feel like outsiders. this one girl did the whole finger wag head shake thing to me then the next day i bumped into her and then like the "mature" 29 year old she is, she PUSHED me! like we were on a playground or drunk in a bar. needless to say i spent most of my day yesterday in human resources droppin dimes like a muthafucka. i hate those people. i start my new shift tomorrow...the good thing about this shift...NO GIRLS! YAY! i don't get along with girls for some reason. i can't wait to quit this job. is that bad?


3--> the husband got orders to GREECE! we leave in february to go to chicago for four months while he attends school, then in june we leave for greece for two years! i'm SO fucking excited it's ridiculous. we bought the rosetta stone thingy so we can learn to speak greek before we get over there. should be pretty cool. i decided(bc i live in a fantasy world where money is no object) that we should live in a villa over looking the beach. i don't know if it's going to happen but i can dream. another really cool part i don't have to work while i'm over there he said i don't have to work i can just go to school full time. YEEEEOW! i'm stoked.

4-->i know other people are thinking this so i'm going to say err write it....CAN THIS ELECTION JUST BE THE FUCK OVERWITH ALREADY?!?!?!?!? JEEZ! i just want to listen to the radio and NOT hear 17 "i'm barac obama and i approve this message" or "i'm john mccain and i approve this message" AUH! i just want to punch babies...shit just play the songs i want to hear and get the hell over it. SHIT!

5-->my dog has a bruised trachea. he ate a rawhide and it got stuck in there and from all the coughing and gagging it bruised the hell out of his trachea, so much so that it damaged the cartilage in the trachea. poor baby. he gets to eat lots of ice cream, soft food, and enjoy lots of belly rubs.

alllllright well i think i'm done for now. i promise i will be better about writing in here.
peace bitches

I like to start things and not finish them...

so i've ignored this thing for like months or something...ooops my bad. the boy got home and i forgot everything i was doing before and enjoying all kinds of adventures with him. hmm so in other news...I GOT ENGAGED!!!! and we're getting married in like six weeks!! YAY! i know it's quick but it's good this way bc we're not sure what's going to be going on in the next year or so..like jobs or living arrangements...soooo we'll be getting married on the beach in october! i'm so excited. it's all coming together pretty smoothly. i think the only thing we have left to take care of is the dreaded trip to the court house and sift through the ignorance and bullshit to get the marriage license.
in other news...i've come to hate my job and the morons i work with. it's basically like working in a really cool technical scientific place with people who couldn't troubleshoot their way out of a wet paper bag. and me and my infinite wisdom signed a TWO YEAR CONTRACT otherwise i have to pay them back like 12 thousand dollars. JEEZ! WTF was i thinking? apparently i wasn't..good job me!
in other news...well yes i think that's it. not a whole lot...work drink and have adventures with my fiance. my dog is still giant...like a 100lbs now...he eats like a horse and it's definitely putting a dent in my bank account. he's cute and a super great dog.
alright it's time to cook dinner...i'll try and keep up with this thing more.

Chaz Michael Michaels You Are SO Classy

....not the will ferrell character...my dog's name is chaz michael michaels. i didn't name him...my wonderful boyfriend did. that was the agreement, i could have any kind of dog i wanted aslong as he got to name it....and that's how we ended up with chaz.
moving right along i took chaz to the river on monday afternoon. he loves to chase sticks and jump in the water and i wanted him to try out swimming(he's very good at it and looks adorable doing it) so we're playing fetch for awhile and he's having a ball. i throw the stick he bounces out there to get it and starts swimming back...he stops right as he got to the shore where the water starts(the "surf" if you will) and OF COURSE he stops squats and takes a dump right there in the river! there weren't a lot of people there...thank goodness...but there did happen to be these two little girls andtheir parents about fifty feet from where we were, and she caught site of chaz defecating in the water and proclaims as loud as her voice could go "look mommy the puppy is pooping!" so the whole family looks over at me and immediately they get the children out of the water. i can't get to the poop before it floats away. the mom comes over to me and tells me maybe i should have a little class before i bring my mongrel out into public. i stood up took my sunglasses off and said to her"excuse me?! you're honestly NOT going to stand there and tell me 1)i have no class bc my dog pooped in the water and 2) that one of your "precious" angels has never peed in the ocean/river, yah right! if you have that much of a problem with me and my mongrel then you should leave" and with that i threw the stick back into the water continued to play with my dog. they left shortly after that. i know what you're thinking...i make friends EVERYWHERE i go. ah well...
so all in all i'd say it was a perfectly lovely afternoon!

**so i have 16.5 days until my love comes home from deployment YAY!!!!!!!**

alright i need to walk around before i freeze up here.
peace bitches
Kristy J