Back in the swing of things

School started on Monday...I'm thinking this is going to be a decent semester.  I hope I can rock it like last year.

P.S. Enjoy my cheesy "First day of school" picture.

Deployment.

Michael is deploying at the end of the month.  This, of course is going to be a hard 4 months for us.  It is comforting thinking about the fact that we did long distance for a year before we got married.  It was not fun getting to know each other over the phone, or planning a wedding with my fiance being literally across the country, but I feel like I/we are stronger because of it.  I guess I'm a little nervous because I don't feel like I have the best of support systems out here.  Everyone keeps asking if I'm going home to be with family while he is gone.  I can't because I'm in school this semester, I know they are just asking, but it feels like salt in an already gritty wound.  I have all these plans to stay busy:

 1. fix up the office to actually BE an office.  2. find a guitar teacher.  3. actually sign up for guitar lessons.  3. Kick butt in my classes.  4. get OUT of my self-debilitating comfort zone and make some friends of my own.  5. possibly pick up another (better paying) serving job. 

So keep us in our prayers.  This could be a great growing experience for both of us.  I am determined to do more than just cry in my beer...so to speak.    

 

Mr. Selleck

Oh, Tom Selleck....where do I start?  I guess I start nowhere because he is like 65, but he was still a hot little tart in his day...and he is going to make a fine lookin' grandpa.  Creepy?  I think not. 

Workin' Fool

So for the past 4 months I have been working at Olive Garden.  I don't have much to say about it other than I make terrible money and work terribly hard.  But despite the hard work, I do actually enjoy it.  It takes a special kind of person to take the verbal abuse of hillbillies, and turn around and smile back at them.  I have made a few friends there, but this is my last week working at OG.  Michael is deploying at the end of the month and it is hard for me to be the kind wife I want to be when I'm working 6 days a week.  He swears the piles of dishes and laundry don't bother him, but they bother me.  So for the next month I am going to strive to be the model wife I always envisioned myself to be, sending him off with sweet memories of homemade meals and a clean house.  

Chicken dish, delish.

I created a new recipe today...it's actually really good:

3 Chicken breasts, sliced in strips

1 Bell pepper, sliced in strips

1 Onion, diced

1 Cucumber, sliced in strips

Some kind of creamy pesto sauce (just find something at the store)

Tortillas

Salt and pepper chicken and cook in olive oil.  Saute onion in same pan in chicken drippings.  Add bell peppers to onions and cook for a few minutes. 

Assemble just like a fajita.  Add pesto sauce and cucumber strips.  

Yum, yum!!!