Lipstick & Leathernecks

So close, yet so far...

2013-04-12T01:31:00.000-07:00

As you may know, The Husband and I are doing the long distance marriage thing again. We bought the house and I am now getting ready to go back to school for my masters degree. The whole long distance marriage deal will be over next summer when The Husband separates from the Marine Corps. I'm already completely over only seeing him on some weekends. And it's only been about 2 and a half

I cannot wait!

2013-03-31T23:36:00.001-07:00

We received word this past week that work on our home will begin by the end of this coming week. I squealed when I read the email. It's happening! The Husband and I drove to our lot this weekend so I could take pictures of it as it stands now and our new "neighbors" across the street already had most of their first floors framed out. Those lots were just dirt last week when we took BIL and MIL

Wordless Wednesday

2013-03-20T21:43:00.003-07:00

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So this happened...

2013-03-15T00:00:00.001-07:00

I got into grad school. Yeah. For real. I'm still kind of "Holy... crap..." about the whole thing. Because, really. I. Got into. Grad school. I start this fall. I am completely overwhelmed with how much God has blessed me in the last month. Things are good. Even when things don't go the way I expect them to, or how I want. I still have to call and set up an advisory appointment, get

Almost fully grown

2013-03-06T21:05:00.000-08:00

I mean. I guess I'm an adult, but definitely don't feel like a grown up. Especially in relation to all of our friends. They're all buying houses, having babies, getting established in their careers, etc. I'm definitely not having babies for a while and I'm still working on establishing a career (Alma Mater has informed me that I should be expecting a decision, in either direction, about my

Life is always changing!

2013-02-18T18:48:00.000-08:00

I'm here! I swear! I moved back to Vegas a couple of weeks ago and have been settling in here at my parents' home. We're on the hunt for a house of our own, so keep us in your thoughts and prayers that it all works out and happens soon! Over the weekend, I got an email from a soon to be new Marine girlfriend asking me some questions about what to expect with all of this, and I love answering

Updates

2013-01-24T00:00:00.002-08:00

Things have taken off at break-neck speed around here. It seems like after Christmas, I barely had any time to breathe. I had two weeks off of work for the holidays and began packing the house over that time. Two weeks ago, we moved all of our stuff to storage back in Vegas. The Husband is moving to the range to be an instructor, and because of that, couldn't take leave when we had planned

More changes

2012-12-16T14:45:00.000-08:00

So. I'm moving back to Vegas. We'll be checking out of housing at the beginning of February and I'll be heading back home. The Husband will be staying in San Diego to finish his contract. We're planning on buying a home in Vegas. And, even though I'm still waiting to hear if I was accepted, hopefully I'll be going to grad school in the fall. Here we go. Jumping into the long distance thing

The one where I ramble and get a little deep...

2012-11-20T00:16:00.001-08:00

I know. I disappeared. Things around here have been... weird. At the risk of sounding like a drama llama, things around here and in my life have been a little crazy. Things were (and still are a bit) stressful. I won't get into details because I'm not comfortable letting that all out into the public yet, so forgive me for being cryptic, but life is weird. Things definitely do not go according

I'm home.

2012-10-14T00:24:00.002-07:00

I'm back from Australia. I've been back for about 2 weeks now and I'm still getting adjusted. The jet-lag coming back is infinitely worse than going there. I think a lot of it has to do with me just being bummed out about returning to real life and leaving one of my best friends in the whole world, but it could also have to do with the fact that my day started at 2 am on Sunday in Australia

I'm in OZ

2012-09-19T05:48:00.000-07:00

So, I got to Australia yesterday and have been having so, SO much fun. That said, blog posts are not likely to happen very often while I'm here. I also only have access to internet while at the house since I have no cell reception, nor 3G. But I am posting to Instagram and Twitter whenever possible, so follow me over there! (Click >!) G'day mate!

Let's throw another shrimp on the barbie!

2012-09-13T14:13:00.000-07:00

So I had kind of vagueblogged in my last post about something coming up. I had meant to post about it earlier, but I never got around to it and before I knew it, the time had come. I'm going on vacation on Sunday. To a little land called I'm still a little shocked I'm even going, but I am! One of my bestest friends in the whole wide world moved down there about 3 years ago and while

Liebster Blog Award

2012-09-07T00:09:00.002-07:00

Recently, I was nominated by two different blogs (You LIKE me! You really like me!) for this award. One was from Marissa at http://www.aguilarmarissa.blogspot.com/ and the other was from Alyssa at Life, Love, and All That Army Stuff. Things have been busy around here (I've got some fun news!), so I'm JUST getting around to doing this. Here we go! Rules: 1. Each person must list 11

Birthday Ball Time!

2012-08-29T22:14:00.000-07:00

A couple of years ago, I wrote a guest post over at Goodnight Moon about what to wear for the birthday ball. And recently, I had a question turn up in my email asking about how to "do" the ball. So I'm going to post my post as well as answer a couple of questions (Scroll to the bottom to see the answers!). If you have any more for me, be sure to leave them in the comments! It's almost that

Ask me anything!

2012-08-01T09:00:00.000-07:00

I always love seeing these on other blogs because I feel like it's an excellent way to get to know the blogger. So I want to give you all the opportunity to ask me what you want to know. Ask me anything! Whether it's about me, about life, love, happiness, the military... Whatever you want! Leave me a question in the comments section and I'll do a post later with all of the answers.

Come Meet Adrienne May!

2012-07-31T09:00:00.000-07:00

I was recently contacted by Adrienne May from Military Spouse Central about doing a guest post on my blog. I love guests, so I decided I would go for it. She's discussing something that we will be going through soon enough: Transitioning from military life to civilian life. I was curious about this myself, because I have no idea and the thought still makes me nervous. I hope you'll enjoy

Cross Country PCS- Day 3!

2012-07-30T22:15:00.000-07:00

So, yesterday, I told you about one of the craziest days of my life so far. Lucky for you and me, day 3 was entirely uneventful. Even though we were several hours and hundreds of miles behind schedule, we decided to sleep in a little bit. We checked out of the hotel right around 9 and headed over to Denny's. Again. For breakfast. The news was on a few of the tvs in the dining room and we

Cross Country PCS- Day 2!

2012-07-29T09:00:00.000-07:00

When we left off, we had stopped in Arkansas for the night. Now we'll head into day 2. The next morning, we got up around 8 and got ready. We checked out of our hotel and hit the road. We stopped to grab some "brunch" around 9:30 and since The Husband and I have a rule about stopping to eat instead of eating in the car on road trips, we were finally back on the road around 10. I fell asleep.

It's PCS season.

2012-07-28T09:00:00.000-07:00

Around June and July, I always notice an influx of moving trucks in my neighborhoods. Of course, you'll see people moving in and out during the rest of the year, but there is a definite uptick in PCSs around this time of year. I always wondered why, but had another military wife explain it to me in a way that makes perfect sense. People graduate from high school/college around this time and

Dilemmas.

2012-07-07T00:23:00.004-07:00

I haven't been very outspoken about my belief system on here. Honestly, I haven't been very open about it with many people. I can probably count on one hand how many people I've discussed this with. I think that might be because I find myself struggling with it more often than not. For a little background: I began attending churches from a young age and around 11/12, I became very involved in

What do you mean a "lifestyle"?

2012-06-29T00:05:00.001-07:00

The Husband and I were married very young. We were high school sweethearts. We were 19 and 20 when we got engaged and 20 and 21 when we were married. Practically babies. I had never lived on my own, hadn't finished college, and had barely had anything that constituted a "real" job. Our original plan when we got engaged was to move to Northern California to attend a Bible college where I would

Working woman

2012-06-25T23:33:00.001-07:00

I feel like I haven't had a moment to myself since I started working! I do love the extra income because it's helping us save some pretty serious cash every month, but I feel like I'm always going and that I never have a minute to relax. And I guess that's a part of being an adult. But I'm not a fan. Maybe it's because I'm not in what I want to be my forever job. I really hope graduate school

Care package time!

2012-06-01T22:45:00.002-07:00

I was recently contacted by a representative from JollyBox about their product. Every now and then I get emails asking me to discuss a product, and I usually just let them go by, but this one caught my eye. Personally, I loved putting together care packages for The Husband, so I would. But I knew other people who wanted to send him something but had no idea what to do, what to send, where to

Being a grown up.

2012-05-31T00:18:00.000-07:00

If you've been following this blog for a bit, you know that I graduated from college last spring. I graduated with a degree in psychology. Just a bachelors though. So. Basically. I'm just as qualified to work in psychology now as I was before I started college. But I'm in more debt now. And while I love my job (truly. I love it a lot), I don't want to do that the rest of my life. Because of

Don't Look Up!

2012-05-21T23:30:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, there was a solar eclipse that was visible from San Diego. Well, not a complete solar eclipse, but an annular eclipse where part of the sun is still visible and creates what appears to be a "ring of fire" around the moon. I was so excited when I found out we would be able to see it. SO excited. The last solar eclipse that I've seen happened in 1994. I was in elementary school and I