A fantastic month

So its been one crazy month. I received a Sustained Superior Performance (SSP) Award at work-this was a complete shock, I have never received one. I was called up to the big bosses office and had a meeting with my supervisor, assistant mgr, mgr and VP. I thought for sure I was in trouble. Then I had an interview for a supervisor position in my section (one of the two left). Well I found out last Thursday that I got the job...sshh, I am not supposed to say anything yet, but I cannot help myself, its killing me.
Then I found out last Sunday, while in VA Beach on travel for work, that David will be coming home this weekend (well at least as of right now-I have yet to get an email saying otherwise). We have been waiting for this day for the past seven months and I am so anxious/nervous. I have never been on this side of a deployment before. Sure we went through deployments for my dad but its completely different when it is someone you are dating (or at least it is to me). A million things are running through my head right now, just trying to stay focused and calm-a lot easier said then done, especially with him moving throughout the world right now. He cannot say much about when and where he will be leaving from but I have a pretty good idea based on how he got there. It should take about 2.5-3 days for him to get home, based on the travel times and time difference (he is about 7hrs ahead Eastern Standard Time).
I am desperately trying to plead with work to let me have a day or two off next week so I can spend some time with him. If not at least I have 3days off (Thursday-Saturday), actually next weekend I will have a 4 day weekend because I start my new shift on 11/1. I actually have a Monday-Friday: 6:30am-3pm shift. I am not going to know what to do with myself.
I will post some pictures of the homecoming.
Have a great week!!


PS My sister and I took some pictures about 2wks ago with an old High school friend. I will post some of those as well. She is great, if anyone needs a photographer I would highly recommend her, pretty reasonably priced as well.

Cookbook

I volunteer with Soldiers' Angels, they are putting together a cookbook. It costs $10 and 100% of the proceeds go towards the organization. They are asking if we all can sell one book, I have already had 4-5 people say they would like one. It is still in the works and they are shooting for a Pre-Thanksgiving sale. www.soldiersangels.com
(They gave us a different sight but I think I may have copied it down wrong).

VA Beach from 7/2010

This was made out of Legos, it is a display in the museum gift shop.

Tuefel Hunden=Devil Dogs

The entrance to the USMC Museum

These are just a few of the pictures taken while at the USMC Museum. I have loaded all of them on to my facebook if you care to see the others (I took over 100 pictures while there)

Last weekend..

So my dad and I headed down to Quantico to go to the MCX (Marine Corps Exchange) and to the USMC Museum. I wanted to get a camelback for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer that I am doing next May and I was shocked at the prices that they were charging out in town. Oh how I miss the exchange. I got a camelback that was originally $150+ for about half and there is no sales tax, super excited. I wanted to get it now so when my long training walks come up I can get used to it.
After we were done shopping we headed over the museum. I love that museum. I took over 150+ pictures and am still trying to figure out my camera, once I do I will load some up here and on facebook too. It was all done so nicely, def got a lump in my throat as I was walking through it. One of my favorite parts was getting to "land on Iwo Jima" They have a "ride" that will take you through what the Marines went through and saw. Its actual footage from the ships.
You can also go eat at Tun Tavern (where the Marine Corps was founded) or go through the mess hall. If you ever get a chance take it. I could spend many more hours there.

A rough couple of weeks.....

So its been a rough couple of weeks (3-4, I lost count). It started with a work trip at the end of July early August. I got an email from David before I left and then I hadn't been able to catch him since. At first it was okay, I re-assured myself that everything was okay and he is just busy (he is working ya know and all of his soldiers are not in the same area-which makes me nervous on another level, thinking about him having to climb into a helo or even worse getting into a humvee and travel to where ever they are. Ugh gives me the chills just thinking about it). And listening to the news was not the best thing for me to do either.
Now my mind was going a million miles a minute and I even went as far as to think that I had done something-which is crazy and my friend Rachel yelled at me for. I still sent my emails and letters out to him.
So scan forward to this past weekend, I get a lovely email from my sweetie apologizing for not emailing sooner (I did tell him there was no reason to be sorry). The internet has not been reliable lately and since that is the easiest and cheapest way to communicate it makes it hard. We did get to chat for over an hour yesterday afternoon (he was just getting back from "chow"). It really is amazing what a simple email and conversation will do for one's mood. It was worth the lack of sleep. And from what he was saying yesterday it sounds like they may be coming home earlier than expected. At first it was some time in October and then he told me it got pushed back 2-4wks, which would have put them back sometime around Thanksgiving-hopefully, the 'rents have invited him to dinner-an Army soldier in a Marine house...could be interesting, I don't think there will be any left overs, my mom is talking about inviting the Marines from the 8th & I barracks over again. Those boys can put away some food.
I also started school last week. So far so good, of course there really hasn't been any tests yet.
And next weekend I am heading up to Boston to see my friend Candace and her boyfriend Matt. She moved up there to go to grad school at Boston College. I have never been to Boston so I am really looking forward to it.

I hope everyone has a nice Labor Day weekend!! Stay safe :)

Yikes

So I got my training plan for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. I am a little nervous, it is quite daunting. 24 weeks, 7 days a week. Now that I have had a couple of days to digest everything I think it will work out okay. There are 3 days a week where I will be doing cross training (yoga, swimming, cycling, etc) to break up the walking and then one day to recoup (just a 15 min walk). I think as long as I stick to the plan I will do just great. I should be in really good shape once this is done (at least I am hoping that is the case). I am currently researching different diets. I know I am going to need to increase my protein and cut back on sweets. But I need to figure out what to do about the carbs-I would think I would need some. I always hear about runners doing a spaghetti dinner before their races (we used to do this before swim meets as well). Anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be much appreciated.
Here is the link to show what I am going to be doing for the next 6mos or so. (I have decided to start within the next week or so to try and get a head start on things, I need all the training I can get).
http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/DocServer/AvonTrain_39mi_24wk.pdf?docID=5909