something smells...

i woke up this morning to a "hello beautiful" message. i love those. it was 8 so i got up and talked to him for a little while. then i did some morning exercises. made myself a breakfast hot pocket and parked myself on the couch for a couple hours... i know, pathetic! i finally dragged myself to the shower and that woke me up again. i was waiting on the girls to go to do some laundry, but they ended up not going today. considering tomorrow is the day before andrew comes home and i still have a lot to do around here, i forced myself to go alone. i must say, doing laundry is probably the most uneventful thing i've ever experienced in my life. even compared to sitting around waiting on something good to come on tv.

on the way to the laundromat, i had to stop at the atm and get some cash and as i got out the "tonka truck" i noticed a very distinct vulgar smell... i knew that smell... i looked around for just a second before realizing it was a dead rat scrunched halfway under the atm machine... i wanted to vomit. i knew it was dead, yet i glanced at it every 5 seconds just to make sure it hadnt moved... yuuuucky. so i hurried up and rushed out of there.

i get to the laundromat and was hoping they had someone there to break a 20 for me... no such luck... so i then had 20 dollars in quarters. of course, everyone was looking at me, wondering if i was taking the whole machine, i'm sure. i always felt weird at laundromats... wondering if people were looking at my clothes judging me. i dont think i really had a problem at this one. it was pretty quiet. i felt kind of sad when one lady came in with two very young kids and just left them wondering around. dont people know children arent safe now-a-days? o well, i nonchalantly kept an eye on him anyways.

i made my way home four loads and an hour and a half later. stopped at del taco, yum. and crashed on the couch when i came in. who would think laundry would ware you out so much? i stepped out front for a moment a few minutes ago and saw at least 15 birds RUNNING down the street. twentynine palms ceases to amaze me, i've decided.

tomorrow i have to wake up early and make a trip to the store for andrews "coming home" supplies. i'm excited about decorating the poster! i'll let you know what it says later... he reads this and he cant know. haha, sorry babe. the girls and i, as far as i still know, are all hanging out tomorrow night! maybe some cocktails. i'm excited to meet some more of them!

well, i'm going to catch some more tv and crash... until tomorrow!!!

tweekers

today i was productive. i actually slept at night! well, andrew called at about 4am... we talked for a while. he's still making his way home. i got a call today from a sgt and he verified the date and time he will arrive... so that made me happy!

i cleaned all day. so now i just have the kitchen to tidy up and the house is ready for him to come home to. we got a package in the mail from the mom in law, but i have to wait until he gets here. his wedding band also came in today. he didnt know his size so hopefully it fits! then around 5 taylor came and picked me up and we went into town to go to this special dance/exercise class. that was fun! got home around 8:30, and i am exhausted!!

we thought there was going to be some trouble with getting his parents here for the wedding, but it all worked out! i knew it would!! i'm excited.

there's a lizard in the house. everytime i go in the kitchen he scurries under the refrigerator. they're so different out here. they're... black. it's so weird. i know it's not going to hurt me, but i still dont like the fact that there is a critter running around in here. needless to say, it's hard to sleep. all i can imagine when i feel something touch me is looking over to find a lizard hanging out on my harm. i should name him. hmmm... i'll have to think of a good one.

it's funny that candace left a message on the last blog saying something about meth heads around here. my friend kath and i had a weird encounter with one when she was staying here. i was actually taking a shower and she was in the living room. of course this is seriously the one time i dont have the door locked. all of a sudden this big guy just bursts into the house like it was his own. no shirt on. the only thing she could think of to say is.. "you scared me". hahaha. that's kath for you. so he starts saying random girl names... "melissa? erin?"... kath is shaking her head and saying "no... no...". as she takes a step forward he takes a step back. all that's going through her head is "how in the world am i going to get this guy out of here?". so he continues on with the random girl names and she keeps stepping forward.. he keeps stepping back and this happens until she reaches the door and he finally steps out far enough for her to shut the door in his face. people are crazy out here. they call the meth addicts "tweekers". so anyways, after all this happens, she runs in the bathroom.. her hands are flying around she's yelling because she's scared but i found it pretty funny. "SAMANTHA! A MAN JUST CAME IN THE HOUSE... HE WAS TALL, HE HAD NO SHIRT. BUT HE'S GONE." hahahaha. so i get out and go outside to make sure he was gone (dont worry it was daylight). he was gone, but he left his shirt on my gate..? so weird. twentynine palms is not for single women. i've decided that if andrew for some reason ends up deploying again... i'm moving back home. people are scary around here!

well, i'm going to go crash now. laundry day tomorrow with taylor and eryka. we've all put it off for far too long. thursday we're all supposed to meet up with some of the other wives and go out to eat before the guys come home friday morning. that should be fun.

sleep well!

duh samantha!

it's september 1st, which means there's only four more days until andrew gets here!!!! it hasnt really hit me yet, i mean... of course i'm excited, but it still doesnt seem real. i feel like a little girl again who knows there's a field trip coming up for school. hahaha. so i'm definitely not getting any sleep the night before he gets here.

it's labor daaaay. not that it really effects me... aside from the fact that i actually went up to the realtors office today to pay rent... duh samantha. sometimes i wonder about myself.

so my best friend, kath, and her family invited us to stay with them while we visit home in october. i'm so excited. her and i used to be joined at the hip back in high school and i pretty much lived with them then. they're such a loving and caring family! i cant wait to see her mom, that woman is one of the sweetest people i've ever met. she's also very funny. and then just kath and i being together is pretty much a guaranteed good time. she just visited me here in cali a couple weeks ago and we had a blast. we dont even have to actually go anywhere or do anything, we just sort of feed off of each other and just end up laughing 99.9% of the time we're together. she actually knew andrew before she met me. they had a class together and she's actually one of the people he got along with in high school, hahaha... so that says a lot. and then kath and i met through him (sort of). we had a marine bio class together and just became bff's right off the bat. we have a very different sense of humor. (see her page for visual evidence). i'm just really excited to visit home!!! see you october 2nd, SC!

i've been lazy today. did a little bit of cleaning. then i realized america's next top model was on... and it's a marathon, so i'm sure i've been glued to the tv for a ridiculous amount of time that i dont even want to know. then i'll catch The Hills tonight and go to bed after my huge overdose of "reality" television.

hope everyone had a great labor day! goodnight!!

lucky girl

oops, i already missed a day. yesterday was good. i went over to taylors early and we hung out and ate a little, watched tv. then decided we wanted to go out for a little while. which was really nice, i havent had a girls night in a long time! so we had a lot of fun. my phone died though and i missed andrews call =( so i'm still waiting on a call back.

but taylor got an email saying they're scheduled to be here FRRIIIIIDAAAAAY!! that's so close! i feel like i have a ton of work to do around here. the house is not even as dirty as i make it seem to be, i just want everything to be perfect. i'm extremely excited!!!!

another thing to look forward to is my mom and dad in law are coming here to witness andrew and i getting married!! i'm really glad they're going to be here. they've always been here for me, i love them to death!! i really got lucky and was blessed with the best in laws EVER! so hopefully we can show them around palm springs and stuff while they're here! that will be fun!! i'll post the date we're getting married up as soon as it's final!

and last but definitely not least, we got our plane tickets to come home october 2nd! so we'll be staying for about a week and then driving my car, with hank, all the way back here to cali. it's definitely going to be interesting. i plan on video taping a lot of it. it's going to be really cool to drive across country, how many people can say that?? so i'm really excited about that, also.

so basically i have everything to look forward to and i'm sooo happy right now! i'm a lucky girl! i'm going to go watch a movie and go to sleep. hopefully he'll call and wake me up!


goodniiiiiight!! =)

snail mail

i just want to start by saying *andrew is coming home next week!* the guys are supposed to start their trip home tomorrow! i'm so excited and happy they're all getting back safely... and we'll always remember the ones that did not. our fallen heroes.

but moving on to a lighter note, i got mail today... and it was a lot. a few of the guys went ahead and mailed their "trunks" (all their stuff) here to our house until they figure out whether they're going to stay on base or not. so i got two big trunks today. it just gave me an awesome reality check that they're not far from home. all i could do was smile! but the two that arrived are only from one of the guys so i have a lot more to look forward to! and then to top it off, i got some snail mail from kath. a cute little card, but it meant the world... i love getting little "thinking of you" things. it gives me a boost. thank you kath, i loved it!

so today i cleaned. not a whole lot, but it's a work in progress. i have to have it done before andrew gets home of course, so i better get crackin'. also, the wives make posters to take when the guys arrive and i'm trying to think of something clever to put on mine... let me know if you have any ideas.

last night was awesome, i loved hanging out with the girls! i'm so happy we all get along so well, i was getting scared there for a minute about actually making friends here. but they're hilarious! and of course the gamecocks won! so that just made the night that much better! i headed home around 12am. of course i have insomnia, so i finally took at nap at 9am, woke up at 12pm. hopefully i will crash tonight and get back on schedule.

i'll keep this one short today, not really too much to tell. i'm going to go throw together something to call dinner and hit the hay!

have a good night!

Bloggy Wog

so i'm thinking to myself today, as i'm watching Ross "the intern" Matthews' "Talky Blog", that this really does look like a lot of fun. so i decided it would be a great idea to get my own blog. and so, i did... on myspace. and then my soon-to-be sister-in-law (that was a lot of hyphens...) sent me a message saying that this site has a lot more features. so i come and check it out, and this is pretty awesome... i must say. so now, i'm officially hooked. it's very addicting. of course you can always say what you want in real life, but it always feels better if you write about it for some reason, doesnt it? like your point lives on forever. what's better than that?

so here's the story about my day...

i had a pretty nonproductive morning... sometimes i just get off to a slow start (sometimes i dont start at all). i, unfortunately, am addicted to the TV shows that they like to call "reality". it's so fake and i'm not really a fan with a lot of the characters, but for some reason... i cant stop myself. it's a guilty pleasure, i guess. so anyway, i got a call from andrew around 12:55 pm. we talked for about half an hour (which is his time limit, being in iraq). good news, though, he'll be home in a week! i dont think i've ever been so excited! so after we got off the phone, i was planning on cleaning until the football game came on (opening day for Carolina Gamecocks, cant miss it) but then my new friend, taylor, told me to come watch it over at her house and hang out with her and eryka, another friend i've made. so of course i skipped the cleaning and just headed over there. they really are awesome girls! i'm so glad i've found some nice people out here! so we talked and ate food, drank a beer or two, i watch the gamecocks kick nc states ass! it was an awesome night. and i really needed that! and to end it with a funny text from kath, my best friend from back home in sc. she was picking on an old teacher we had in high school who was OBSESSED with beastie boys... dont even ask.

so now, i'm going to go crash and try and be a little more productive around the house tomorrow. wish me luck!