A Long Drawn Farewell

(Jewels and A on one of our road trips! Jewels loves to drive)

GRRR!! I didn't really get into the details/specifics of my frustrations last night in my post. Well that would be because A didn't leave the states until this evening. Therefore, I couldn't explain what was going on until he was actually gone. Yes, that's right. I said goodbye to him yesterday morning at 10:15 AM and he didn't actually fly out of the US until about 7 PM today.

AHH Makes me so angry. Oh and he was supposed to leave yesterday at 6 AM. His flights got all kinds of messed up. We had gotten a phone call from Delta the night before his flights to let him know that one of the legs of his flight was canceled. Therefore he had new flights for getting into Atlanta. He was supposed to fly out at 9:30 AM. We got to the airport and the flight was delayed until 10:15 (ish). Now, of course it was wonderful getting to sit with him for a little longer, but it felt like it was just more painful. I kept building myself up for it being 6, then it was 9:30, and then it was later than that.

Once he finally flew out, the second leg of his flight was also delayed about 45 minutes or so. Therefore, he got into Atlanta late and missed his flight out of the states by 15-20 minutes. So he ended up being put up in a hotel and then he flew out tonight. Of course I was glad that he was in the states and out of a war zone for an extra day. However, I absolutely HATED the fact that he was in the states and I wasn't with him. It's just frustrating. But I did get to wake up this morning to a phone call from him. And that was amazing! So there's my frustrations right now. And I just can't believe that he is now on his way back to Iraq. I know that I'll get through it but it REALLY sucks!

Amazing Boyfriend! :-)

I, by far, have the most wonderful boyfriend ever. He's thousands of miles away but he still thinks about me all the time and finds ways to spoil me. Although this shirt is incredibly cheesy I absolutely love it. I have a Boston Terrier puppy, as you have all seen, and we always joke that she is a Boston Terror. I love her to death but she drives us all up the wall sometimes (well...most of the time). So this shirt is just perfect. And the little note that came with the shirt in the mail was super sweet as well (I won't share because I don't want A to get too embarassed :-) ). A is just all around great! He always makes me smile. Enough bragging about my great boyfriend...even though I don't think that I could ever really get sick of it. It's now time for me to go get snuggly in my new shirt from A and get some sleep. Good night all!

A Snowy Saturday

I woke up this morning at about 5:30 when my roommate was letting her parent's dogs outside. Yes, that's right...we have 4 dogs in our townhouse this weekend. I looked outside and at this point there was a just a light dusting of snow on the ground. Just a few hours later when I actually got up this is what I saw. This is my roommate, Ziggy (her dog), and the little one is Emma (one of her parents' dogs).

So it has been a fun day of playing in the snow and watching the dogs play or in the case of my dog at the beginning of the day...be scared of the snow.

After playing in the snow for a little while, my roomie, her bf, and I went for a walk to Kroger. On our way, there was some sledding action which occurred. Here's the roomie and her bf after they basically rolled down the hill. HA! Good times of course.

Once the three of us got back from our adventure we played some more outside with the puppies. And this time I remembered that my little one, Jewels, had a sweater. So, I put it on her and she all of a sudden got the courage to go out in the snow. It was great. The four pups had a blast just running around, and for 3 of them just basically sinking in the snow.

It has been a great day and I'm sure more snow adventures are going to arise tomorrow since we will probably be snowed in again. We measured a few hours ago and we already had between 10 and 11 inches so I'm sure we have more than a foot of snow at this point. Pretty crazy if I may say so myself. This is definitely not normal for Richmond. Especially since this is the second time we've gotten this much snow this winter. I can only imagine what the rest of the winter has in store for us. Wish that A was here to enjoy the snow with all of us but I was able to talk to him online earlier today and he's seen pics of what's going on. So at least he's able to "experience" it with us. Miss him like crazy but trying to stay strong and enjoy myself even if it would be great if he was here!

Frustrated Friday (or as A might say to annoy me, Fustrated)

I had written a blog last night, and really actually liked it. I went to "publish" my post and my computer would not let me. It logged out of Blogspot and every time I tried to go to the website to log back in it would say "Bad Request". So, my computer finally let me back on tonight. I'm not really sure what to write about tonight, other than for the fact that I am frustrated with my computer. I guess I will just write what I had written about last night, even if it is not a "current" thing, which you will understand once you read on.

Post Title: Thirsty Thursday

Or at least that is what we used to call them in undergrad. Yes, that is right I was a sorority girl (and still proud to be one) who used to go out if there was something to do even if it was a Thursday, or even for that matter a Monday or Tuesday. Tonight after class, I went out with a few of the girls from class for dinner, which included margaritas of course. After dinner and the end of the second evening class, we met up with some of the other girls in the program. All in all, it was a great night. Had a good time just hanging out with some of the girls. The other day I commented on another blog about having a group of girl-friends. I guess that is kind of what this was. However, it is not like we do this ALL the time. Although, we are hoping to make it happen more often this semester.

On a sidenote...to those of you with dogs: My dog just went to the bathroom on the living room floor (not really...because I am NOW writing this the next day). I took her outside about 15 minutes ago, she did her thing, and she came back inside on her own. So I was just sitting here writing my blog and next thing I know I see her just going to the bathroom. She just stood there looking at me as if...I really don't know what she could have been thinking. I mean REALLY?!?! I just took you outside and it's not like you were whining by the door and I just ignored you. There was absolutely no sign whatsoever that you were going to do that. Anyway...it's all cleaned up now. But does anybody know why dogs, or any pets for that matter, do stuff like this. It just doesn't make any sense.

Now that I have gone on a complete tangent about something that NONE of you probably want to hear about, I think that's basically it for the night. I love you A! I am so proud of everything that you are doing and miss you like crazy. But I am staying strong. And now I am just looking forward to this crazy snow that we are supposed to be getting late tonight. I wonder if we actually will get much, but I definitely wish that A was here with me so that we could get snowed in together. But I guess I'll write more about the snow tomorrow if we actually get any. Good night for now!