busy crazy life

WELL.
A lot has changed since I last wrote.
Jon came home :) Whhhhaaatttt?! I know, right. seems crazy, but this deployment really is over! It's still really weird for both of us trying to adjust...especially when you add in the fact that I live an hour and 1/2 away from him AND I've just started back up in Nursing school. So between work and school and clinicals and studying and homework, I barely have time to go see him :/ Pretty much sucks...but we always make it work.

We are very happy together too and I loveee having him home and being able to call him whenever I want! Seems crazy.

I'm gonna try to get back into blogging again, because I LOVE IT, but no guarentees..my life is hectic to say the least.

Here's a few pictures though for now :)

He's comin home!

Friday friday fridayyyyyy. I'm BEYOND EXCITED. I cannot wait. I have a million things to do tomorrow. Well let me correct that, tonight and tomorrow. I decided I'll be up late tonight doing stuff since I know I won't be able to fall right asleep anyways. haha. I have quite a few days off so tonight I have to pack since I'll be at Jon's house all those days. Lemme just tell you, this does not seem real AT ALL.
A full year deployment is just about OVER. and In less than 2 days, I'll have my man in my arms?! say whaaa?! and for good?! Just doesn't seem real. Idk if it will seem real until I actually see him, haha.

Anyways, so tonight and tomorrow are jammed packed of stuff to do (&I'm working tomorrow, till close), then I gotta drive to my hometown since I'll be riding up with Jon's parents. I'm soo so sooooo ready for this to happen.

Wish me luck :) I'll update later...after he's back hehehehe.

single digits :D

YES, that's right. We are down to the SINGLE DIGITS of days until this deployment is OVER.  I've had my outfit picked out for weeks. Now I'm just waiting for the days to keep going by as it gets closer and closerrr to when I get to have him in my arms again, and it won't just be for a few weeks this time!! EECK.  I'm doing very good at keep busy and occupied to make the days not seem to take foreverr.

Anyways, I've been so busy lately. Lots of working of course, but my one roomie just moved out and I found a new roomie, and I decided to take my old roomie's bedroom since it's bigger. So I just moved allll my stuff from one room to the new one by myself. That was a pain, but it's done.  Now I just have to set up my entire room! That's what I'll be doing all weekend since I'm off work for once.

My newest semi-exciting news (besides Jon coming home) is that a local modeling agency called me and they want me to come meet up with them and sit down and talk to one of their directors. We'll see how it goes.  I would only want to do modeling stuff FOR FUN, so if they try to get me to pay them for anything, I'm not gonna do it.  They asked me if I had any experience and I was like uh no. And they asked why I would want to do modeling, and I said for fun..and they guy was like "well you also need to look at it with a business attitude as well". I was just like uh ok whatever dude. haha. But I must admit, it's a major ego boost that they called me and want to meet up with me hehe. So I'll go in in a few weeks :)

Speaking of looks, I have new hair :D  I've always had light blonde hair. So I got low-lights put in and I loveee itt.
Here's before and after pics :)

It's way more of a difference in person, but I like it, and so does Jon hehe.

So small rant, Jon is coming home soon right? well My family keeps asking me over and over if I'm going to make it to my uncle's retirement party (he just retired from the airforce and will be home for good from spain where he has been for like 3 years). So it's a huge deal, but it's the same day that Jon is supposed to be home. And I keep telling them that I probly wont make it unless Jon isn't home then.  And yet, they keep bugging me about it...okay uh why would I skip my boyfriend's homecoming from a year-long deployment in Iraq, for my uncle's retirement party...like really? are you stupid? Sometimes my family really pisses me off.
end of rant.

p.s. I really need to start blogging way more.

Good karma...hopefully!

So the other day, I was driving home from work, and got to where I pull in to my apartments..and laying on the curb was a girl on her side (probly about 15-17)...nobody was around, and she was seizing. I parked my car instantly, and ran to her.  (calling 911 while parking). I get to her, roll her on her side, and just hold her hands together so she wasnt throwing them around hitting me..and also so I could keep my fingers on her wrist on her pulse. Her brother soon came running up (FREAKING OUT, mind you) so I handed him my phone so he could talk to 911 (secretly I was hoping they'd help calm him down, cuz I did not need him spazin out on me).  Next, I could tell that the girl was starting to come out of her seizure, but then she stopped breathing..and I seriously felt her pulse just disappear. I pushed her onto her back and was yelling at her, lightly smacking her face......

then, I began CPR. like real cpr, on a real person.  I didn't hesitate, I didn't think twice about what to do, I just started doing it. It was probably a few minutes (hell I really don't know how long it was, beceause I was so caught up in the moment), but I could hear the ambulance coming and right as they were pulling up, she started coughing. I  GOT HER HEART TO START AGAIN! At that moment, I was just waiting for her to come back, and when she started coughing and coming to, I was just like ok that is exactly what I was waiting to happen.
The emt's all loaded out and took her into the ambulance and the girl had no idea what was going on so she was freaking out and confused, but at that time two other of the emts came up to me to ask me questions and stuff.
they were also like "so you're a nurse aren't' you?" and I was like "uhhh, no. I"m in nursing school..but don't even start any of my real detailed nursing classes till next month". and they were like "well, you deff have what it takes..if you weren't here, this girl would probly be dead and I doubt we coulda started her heart by the time we got here...ya never know, but you did save this girl's life..so far.".
I wasn't shaking. I didn't freak out. I knew just what to do (for what little training I have at least).
The guy also mentioned how he always see's emt's, doctors, nurses, etc, just freeze when they get their first code..and the fact that I didnt, deff shows something.
When I was walking back to my apartment though, it hit me all at once..all the adrenaline kicked in and my hands were shaking and then I started to actually think about what just happened..it was one of the best feelings ever.  I knew right at that moment that I no longer have any doubts on if I'll actually be happy being a nurse..I KNOW I'll enjoy it, because that feeling is awesome. I can't wait to experience it again someday. So much better than working in a pharmacy.

Now all I gotta say, is I really better have some damn good karma coming my way :P

HAHA :)

To update, Jon should be coming home next month :))))))) Finally the light at the end of the tunnel of this deployment is coming into sight.
I think tomorrow I'm gonna go get my hair done...lots of low-lights I'm thinking, so hopefully I can pull of darker hairrrr, I'm nervous. But still have time before Jon comes home to switch it back if I hate it!

I love my life <3 Life is way too short.

I saved a life the other day...

more details to come!

:D

I'm writing this post as my own personal reminder that tonight when i get off work, I HAVE to blog. and Update everything, and get back into my blogging life that I miss so dearly!

All I want...

is a specific date (like month & day) of when my man is coming home! SHEESH stankin' army, your killin meeee.  I would love to have at least an approximation of dates so that I could make sure I have the days off work...&!@#%%!@~!

Welllll, anyways, I need to change the subject.
Which reminds me, there's a sweet giveaway going on over at Miss Ashley's blog, so you should check it out...but really you don't have to, because I'd love to win it...it's totally right up my ally.
I'm actually currently stuffin my face with a larabar right this minute! I think it's meant to be...hehe.

So I'm gonna be a bum tonight, but tomorrow I have tonsss to accomplish......
gotta run to my school & straighten out my financial aid.
gotta finish cleaning my apartment and hopefully show a potential future roommate the place.
set up an appt to get my hair done.
look into setting up dr appts.
andd working in the evening. joy joy joy.

Butttt, Amen for living another day :) I love life.

Infinity rings...

I've fallen IN LOVE with these "infinity rings" that I randomly came across, then I googled them and yep..doomed, I was sucked right in. Sooo, for the past hour or so I've been finding BEAUTIFUL rings that I love...and hope to get one, some day. I will share some of my favs :)

I absolutely love this one..

 gorgeous right?

also love this one..both these would look

downright gorgeous

with a wedding bed that was all tiny diamonds ya know?

too chunky? idk..you have to see em' in person!

 this one is a bit too much, especially when paired 

w/ a wedding band..but I still like

unique ones for sure..i really like these ones,

but they'd be a pain to keep clean.

OKAY so ANYWAYS,

enough of the ring talk.

I need to finish cleaning up my room..someone is coming on Tuesday to check out the apartment and she might just be my next roommate :)

My one roomie Tracey is moving out, so I'm taking her room (cuz it's HUGE and has a huge closet), and therefore I need to find a new roomie who will be moving into my current room..hehe.

So needless to say, I've been cleaning a good bit.

Last night, a few friends from back home (one of Jon's best guy friends, and his fiance [my good friend]) came up last night and we played some beer drinking games with the roomie after enjoying an amazing meal at The Spaghetti Warehouse. Yum Yum.

Ooo, reminds me that I have left overs of that in my fridge..might be making a trip to myy kitchen. hehe.

So that was a fun night, but had extra cleaning to do this morning..oh wells. Something different for a change!

Also, today I got to see my little sister again, she's TOO DANG CUTE.

3-year-old, blonde, and just like me :P

haha.

Although, I'm kinda terrified that I'm going to fall and break my arm, cuz she won't stop talking about it...??

The kid has some unique "powers". haha...but no really, long story..kinda freaky.

Anywhoo, I'm gonna finish up this letter I'm writing my boy so that I can send it out....

might be one of the last ones, if not so the very last one...he comes home in a month-ish!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it's already been almost a full year! crazyness.

I know I've been m.i.a...

but a lot has been going on! Ever since being back from vacation, I have worked pretty much every single day. woo-hoo. I miss Jon, I went through a few days of being depressed...I'm stressed financially..and you know how life is :P

hahaha.

Anyways, I'm in the mindset currently of being optimistic...you only live once! So this weekend I'm going car shopping, enough said.  I've never owned a really nice car....I think I more than deserve one.  My car is about to crap itself, I just have that gut feeling :X  So maybe I'll actually find what I'm looking for, and get a lovely car payment (that won't be too exciting every month) but I NEED a dependable car. And I'm finally  starting my main nursing classes this fall..which means clinicals..which means I can't miss because of a broken down car.   Also, Jon will be home soon..which means almost every weekend I'll be driving to his home (almost 2 hours away) to see him. So yes, new car = a must.  I dont care what anybody's opinions are on that one. duh.

Speaking of cars, hilarious story....the other day I totally fixed my car with an ice scraper...say what?! YES.
me.
blonde.
but fixed my car that wouldn't start...with an ice scraper.
SCORE.
So I had stopped at the gas station (to get a Monster..which I need to quit my bad habit of drinking that)
and when I got back in my car and turned the key, this is what I hear: "click......(silence)". so I tried about 2 more times. then I could feel my blood pressure sky-rocketing....and I sat there and was like SHIT.
Well last year, my starter had started to go out so sometimes my car would do this same thing, and I learned that if I hit the starter, that my car would start.,....so I was like maybe for some reason it's the starter again?
So I look around in my car for something that I can hit the starter with, and I found my ice scraper...
Mind you, I'm at this very busy gas station (parked right by the doors)...and I'm this blonde chick in dress pants/nice shirt..is popping her hood and going at it with an ice scraper...so I look and find the starter, and bang the shit out of it...then I get back into my car, turn the key..and it starts.  So I go shut my hood..and the looks on all these peoples' faces = priceless.
One guy asked me if I worked on cars..I was like "nope, but I know enough.." and he was like "holy shit, i'd say....I just watched a blonde fix her car for real with an ice scraper"..and I just gave him the eh, whatever shrug...got in my car and took off.

So needless to say, I"m quite proud of myself...and I need to get my car either fixed...or SOLD.

p.s. I need a new blog design...suggestions/help?

hello beach :)

I am currently at the beach! Only a few days left but I'm loving every single minute of it. And oh Mann am I gettin tan! Just wish my boy was here with me. :( anywhoo, I apologize for being completely m.I.a...some rough stuff happened to both my best chick friends before I left, so I was busy with them..keep my friends in your prayers for both their current but different struggles. Raven lost her baby boy who was 3 weeks old. And Melina got kicked out of her house by her rents. So I'm tryin to do as much as I can to help. But I deff needed this vacation! Laying out, boogie boarding, swimming, shark tooth hunting, walks on the beach, cold drinks in my hand, and ending every night with playing cards. But I've missed my blogging so I had to update from my phone :)

venting some random thoughts.

Considering we all know how much of a roller coaster life can be, I shouldn't be surprised with all the different things that have come up in my life that are changing, or may possibly change my "normal daily life".  My bestie got kicked outta her house, so maybe she'll move in....in fall Jon will come home and he wants me to move back home with him (1.5 hours away)...I want to SO BADLY, but we'll see how much I'll have to be here for school and go from there. I have vacation in LESS THAN A WEEK! I need a new car. I've gotten my official full-time status at work. All my clothes from last summer fall off of me, and honestly I hate it. I despise it. I despise being this skinny, and I know I need to gain some dang weight, but I also don't want to at the same time...oh and I don't know the best way to go about doing this.  I wish I had the extra $ for a gym membership.  I feel weird with any free time I get. I want to sleep all the time, and I think it's because I need more foooodd. and a life.  I've been pretty depressed lately...especially since it's a holiday.  Tomorrow I might go see firewords with my roomie & her friends just because I want to get out of the house and DO SOMETHING.  I'd rather be at work then home depressed.  But I love having time to read books...I'm just glad vaca is coming up soon, I know my emotions and feelings are all over the place cuz of this dang deployment and changes coming up, so I really need this time away. Countdown is 5 days :)

dear phone, and dear womanbiotch

Dear phone, I miss you so dearly. I would not have freaked out so much on having you STOLEN had it not been for the fact that you are my way of communicating with my soldier....or that ALL my pics from R&R are on you. I felt like an idiot for spasing  out hardcore over a lost phone, but yeah. My pictures, communication with Jon, contacts, facebook...everything was logged in.  I had you out of my hands for a mere 2 minutes and you were taken. I'm so sorry phone that you will now have a crappy rest of your life with some lowlifepieceofshit idiot.

Dear womanbiotch, first off Karma is a B.i.t.c.h.  Second off, I KNOW it was you who took my phone. There was no other way.  Thank you for cursing me out and flipping out on me, that was a dead give-a-way in my book. I hope you can't sleep at night because of a bad feeling in your stomach, but it seemed that wouldn't be the case because even though profiling is horrible, I could sense you were the type of person to be shady like that...so it's probly not the first time you've stolen something. Third, I really hope you get caught..but either way Im reporting you to your workplace as well. There's so much more I want to say to you, but I will leave it at that. Oh and lastly, karma is a bitch.



So I'm off in a few hours to see what kinda phone I can get for cheap, and work my best options.
R.i.p Jon & Kt's first android

camping, ice cream, highlighting, etc.

This weekend has been nice. Sad, but fun and happy and relaxing.
I absolutely despise (well 70% of the time) being in my hometown WITHOUT Jon.  This was my first time back here since R&R, and it just is not the same...at all. It's boring, and all I do is think of all our memories since EVERY little thing here reminds me of him. But, I sucked it up. And I've made it through fineee. And had some fun at least.  I visited with his parents a few times, highlighted his momma's hair which turned out good! We went and got ice cream and they sent me home with some  plants and asparagus (my favvv).
Friday I visited with my dad for a bit..he saw me (for the 1st time in 2 months) and was like "shit Katie, you need to gain some weight"...so looks like I'm gonna gain up on the protein and weight lifting so that I'm toning and gaining muscle.  I've lost weight since Jon left which would be good if I needed to lose it. Why is it that weight never works how you want it to? I wish I was a guy when it comes to that..they don't have the stereotypes and pressure to be skinny by all of America..they can eat what they want, and most have super fast metabolisms! Lame.
So ANYWAYS,
Friday I took my friend Miranda out to eat for her bday...and we went for ice cream (yes tons of ice cream this weekend!). And we watched lots of "say yes to the dress" hahaha.
Saturday I went to my friend Sami's grad party, then to Jon's parents to visit for awhilee, then I went to the lake and visited with my dad all evening (and a few other relatives) and we "camped".  I put "camp" in quotation marks because we were in a pop-up camper...first time in my life that I've ever gotten to sleep in something other than a tent while camping! Dad just got it and I love camping that way hahah. :D
Woke up this morning, but I felt disgusting because I needed a shower and I smelled so badly of campfire...yuck. So I left, went and got my laptop, and headed over to Jon's parents again. I set up skype so that Jon could skype his parents and his daddy for father's day. I love seeing that man on skype..sigh.  Ate with his parents, went for ice cream, then came home and have just visited with my dad all evening. It's been a good weekend :)
Back to work tomorrow evening..but I'm glad I had these days off..I needed to relax!  Plus only 3 weeks till I go to the beach! WOOP. and when I get back, it'll be even less days till baby comes home.  Oh and random note, he's seriously doomed...I found myself looking online at wedding dresses...hahahha. Actually that probably means I'm doomed, not him. I made myself stop...I blame that stupid tv show!

Summertime = blogging time!

Finally, I feel like I have a break!
Work full-time will be like cake to me after just finishing a quarter of full-time work AND school.  Oh and in 3 weeks I'll be going to the beach with my family, I'm quite excited to get an actual real vacation! hehe. Just wish Jon was here to go with me! Ah well. He's doing alright, I'm just happy he was safe after the barrage of rockets attacked the one base that had a lot of his guys at...

Wanna know what's pathetic? I love how hardly anyone in the public really know about those 5 soldiers dying.  When Osama died, it was broadcasted EVERYWHERE for DAYS.  Yet here 5 of OUR soldiers lose their lives for this war, and 5 families have lost a loved one and are grieving, yet theres hardly any news about this informing the American citizens? Does this make sense? Does this show our soldiers that we are a proud or supporting country? I'm not even going to go any further because this just disgusts me and gets me so aggrivated.


Ok. Breathe Katie. So back to my life, I'm currently working on jumping through a ton of hoops for Nursing. I had to go get drug tested, fingerprinted, show my cpr card, health physical, shots, and this isn't even the beginning of the list of things I have to do in the next few weeks.  On the plus, I'm off for summer (from school) and I ended this past quarter with Dean's list once again. Woop.
Since I have some more free time now, I went and got a library card, checked out some books that I plan on reading...I've been cleaning/organizing/going through stuff.  And yeah. Life is good.
I love my boy.

R & R pics :)

I love my man :)

If you haven't assumed or known already, Jon was just home on R&R for TWO WHOLE AMAZING WEEKS.  I had the time of my life, and so did he.

On his first night home we "officially" became a couple again. We had our many talks, and while he was home he was so open with his feelings with me. This is a big change that I wanted, and I'm so happy he's open with me more now.  Heck, I'm so happy period. *Big Smile*

While he was home, we went shopping, shooting, four-wheeling, relaxing, movies a few times, out to eat, sleeping, bonfire, friends, and all sorts of random things. I loved every.single.second.

So now onto the pictures! Warning: Lots of pics :D
I haven't gotten the chance to edit any and make them cute, so you are all just gettin the real deal.

<3

goofin off while he loads his mag

Goofs :)

"3 deep wheelie"

like father, like son

.....retards? :)

Miranda & I

me & my boys

boyfriend & "brother"

the morning he left :(

shootin.

the day he got home, playin with his new toy

:)

they SHOT down a tree.

bahhahaaha.

Jon & his mom & bro

yeah I should model guns :P  hahaha.

right after we hit a DEER on the 4-wheeler

damage

showin off