as we get closer and closer to moving to japan and getting the dates, such as the departure date, i am having a flood of emotions when i sit an think about it. i am so very extremely excited to finally get out of ohio and to live in japan for 3 yrs. as my family know i've wanted to go to japan ever since my grandma murphy first told me she graduated from high school over there and she told about how different and wonderful it was for her.
that was all it took and since then i've been obsessed with asian cultures and going over there. i'm so excited to get to see the culture every day and really learn about it and not just what they put in books and on tv. i'm also starting to get nervous. i'm not nervous about the move, i'm sure that'll come once we get packing dates and such. i'm nervous about not living in america. it's all i've ever known and i'm sure i'm just like everyone else and am very comfortable here and take all the comforts of america for granted. no it's not like we're moving to the middle east, like my mom did in her teens, but it is a completely different country and on the other side of the planet, literally.
i'm nervous about the language barrier, we'll be the ones speaking the wrong language. i'm also nervous about using yen. again all i've know is the us dollar. i'm not the greatest at math and the conversion part is what i'm worried about. beyond that i'm sure i will get comfortable pretty quickly.
i'm also actually sad about moving. I KNOW big shocker to everyone. i'm sad about leaving my 3 close friends, misty, caroline, and katie. i love my girls so much and i am going to really miss them so much. it really does bring tears to my eyes when i think about it. also that lucian has to leave his two buddies, trey and aiden. katie and i have gotten so incredibly close and we do stuff together ALL the time and our boys are right there with us too. chris, caroline, and whitley have been THE BEST neighbors we've had in the air force. it's hard not to get so close with such wonderful neighbors. misty and i helped each other through deployments and espeically when lucian or trey were just too much. she has been a great friend for the last 3 yrs and love that i've gotten to watch trey grow since he was born!
i just wanted to take some time and write about some of the feelings i've been having about the move, it isn't just excitement it's also nervousness and sadness for having to move away from three wonderful friends. i'm so grateful for technology and that i'll be able to stay in touch with them so easily, gotta love FB!!!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
sweat so good!!!
i'm getting back on track with the weight loss. i got a little lazy with exercising with jayson's return. i kept up my good eating habits but not my exercising habits. i have since bought a wii and the ea active workout game and am loving it. it has been slowly increases the intensity but i hadn't realized it until today. i gained back 2 lbs since jayson has been back. now wanting to get rid of those 2 lbs and more!!
today i ran on the 1/4 mile track. ran 8 laps which is a mile and walked 7 laps which is .75 of a mile. then i came home and did my ea active and sweat my booty off, hopefully!!! i hate sweating but at the same time it feels so good to sweat that much knowing that's how i'm gonna lose this weight. hoping to have jayson take some pics of me soon with a 20 lb loss. stay tune....
today i ran on the 1/4 mile track. ran 8 laps which is a mile and walked 7 laps which is .75 of a mile. then i came home and did my ea active and sweat my booty off, hopefully!!! i hate sweating but at the same time it feels so good to sweat that much knowing that's how i'm gonna lose this weight. hoping to have jayson take some pics of me soon with a 20 lb loss. stay tune....
Saturday, March 13, 2010
okkuu pasupo-to
this is my first blog about our pcs (move) to japan!!! jayson should have his official orders when he goes back to work. i'm already working on the things i can that don't require his orders. my first order of business are our passports. all three of us are going to get the regular travel passports so we can go visit other countries of the orient while over there and hopefully also australia! lucian and i have to have a military passport as well to keep us from being deported back to america. if we don't have the military passports then every 90 days they could look at us and consider deporting us.
there is a bit of a snag with these passports. when you send in your applications for passports you also have to send your original birth certificate. so you may be thinking that's not a big deal. well not for not for lucian and jayson but for me it is. my birth certificate isn't from a state like their's are. if mine is lost i have to write d.c. to get a new one. mine is american born abroad since i was born in germany on a u.s. installation. this makes me a bit nervous. to add to that i have to send mine twice. once for the travel passport and then again for the military passport.
we have our appt set for 2 on monday to go to the post office and have our pictures done and send all of our things we need to. then we get to wait 4-6 weeks to get all of it back and our passports. then lucian and i get to do it a second time for our military passports. again we get to wait 4-6 weeks for these things to come in the mail along with our original birth certificates. i'm a bit nervous that we won't have both passports before we leave and therefore won't have our original birth certificates when we move. the guy that does the military passports told us to get the travel ones first and that if we're gone when they come back he'll send them to us in japan. we'll be good the first 3 months we're there.
4 weeks from monday is april 12 and 6 weeks from then is april 26. then let's say we send out our second application on april 28th, 4 weeks from then is may 26 and 6 weeks from that is june which could very well be just 2 days before we leave. aaaggghhh i'm gonna be a bit stressed in the months of may and june. let's just hope we get our second passports in may and not june and also hope even more that we get our birth certificates back and that they aren't lost at all.
there is a bit of a snag with these passports. when you send in your applications for passports you also have to send your original birth certificate. so you may be thinking that's not a big deal. well not for not for lucian and jayson but for me it is. my birth certificate isn't from a state like their's are. if mine is lost i have to write d.c. to get a new one. mine is american born abroad since i was born in germany on a u.s. installation. this makes me a bit nervous. to add to that i have to send mine twice. once for the travel passport and then again for the military passport.
we have our appt set for 2 on monday to go to the post office and have our pictures done and send all of our things we need to. then we get to wait 4-6 weeks to get all of it back and our passports. then lucian and i get to do it a second time for our military passports. again we get to wait 4-6 weeks for these things to come in the mail along with our original birth certificates. i'm a bit nervous that we won't have both passports before we leave and therefore won't have our original birth certificates when we move. the guy that does the military passports told us to get the travel ones first and that if we're gone when they come back he'll send them to us in japan. we'll be good the first 3 months we're there.
4 weeks from monday is april 12 and 6 weeks from then is april 26. then let's say we send out our second application on april 28th, 4 weeks from then is may 26 and 6 weeks from that is june which could very well be just 2 days before we leave. aaaggghhh i'm gonna be a bit stressed in the months of may and june. let's just hope we get our second passports in may and not june and also hope even more that we get our birth certificates back and that they aren't lost at all.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
baby #2
i have my clomid!!!
now i just have to figure the time of delievery. i petitioned for the nursing program wait list on the 31st so i should start in the fall of 2011. i still have four or five, if i so choose, classes to take while waiting. i could time it to have baby #2 next june/july after finishing four of the classes. for that to happen have to get pregnant in sept/oct. this would be nice for me because my bday is in july!
or if i take the fifth class i could time it to have a sept/oct '10 baby. which means i would have to get pregnant in dec/jan. this would be good for jayson because his bday is in october and for both of us since our anniversary is in october as well.
or i could just throw all that out the window and make myself have a period with the npc and if i get pregnant this month have a jan baby! what do y'all think?
now i just have to figure the time of delievery. i petitioned for the nursing program wait list on the 31st so i should start in the fall of 2011. i still have four or five, if i so choose, classes to take while waiting. i could time it to have baby #2 next june/july after finishing four of the classes. for that to happen have to get pregnant in sept/oct. this would be nice for me because my bday is in july!
or if i take the fifth class i could time it to have a sept/oct '10 baby. which means i would have to get pregnant in dec/jan. this would be good for jayson because his bday is in october and for both of us since our anniversary is in october as well.
or i could just throw all that out the window and make myself have a period with the npc and if i get pregnant this month have a jan baby! what do y'all think?
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
getting that aching feeling
well our wonderful neighbors, the best ones we have had in the air force, welcomed home their baby girl whitley claire a week ago. lucian have gone over the last few days to keep whitley's mama, caroline, some company while her daddy, chris, ran some errands. this evening i held whitley for about 10 or 15 minutes while she was sleeping and it was so wonderfully peaceful. i felt like a pro, lol, and just wished she was mine. after a while my wonderful, well behaved, little guy got jealous so i gave her back to her mama. before lucian got jealous he was so sweet and gave whitley two kisses! it was so sweet! a few minutes after whitley was back in her mama's arms she woke up and was ready to eat. i watched caroline breastfeed whitley and it was so beautiful and took me back to feeding lucian. since then i have just wanted to be holding another baby of jayson's and mine and feeding him/her. i was guiding caroline a bit through feeding whitley and explained to her that whitley is learning how to breastfeed as well and caroline admitted she hadn't thought of it that way. i am starting to ache for another baby and hoping that at the end of my progesterone therapy i will be pregnant. those who pray, please pray and those who send good energy and thoughts please do so.
as far as the therapy goes i am 2 days in and am having some weird moderate cramping today. i am really not sure what organ is cramping everyting is all squished together in there.
as far as the therapy goes i am 2 days in and am having some weird moderate cramping today. i am really not sure what organ is cramping everyting is all squished together in there.
Monday, February 23, 2009
balance
alrighty so i have decided, as previously posted, that i am NOT going to take birth control to balance my hormones. i am taking some supplemnts, vitex, b6, b12, folic acid, evening primrose oil, cinnamon, and natural progesterone cream. i have been taking all of them except the npc for two weeks now. the npc is a specific plan. here are a few websites to check out about using npc to help balance your hormones, www.happypms.com, www.johnleemd.com, and here is one for free shipping if you decide to buy the npc, http://store.hmglobalmall.com/hapmsfrsh.html. the npc can be used by pretty much any woman.
according to the happypms website this is the projected plan of use:
Use 1/4 tsp. twice a day, days 8 thru 26 for two months. On the third month, use 1/4 tsp. twice day, the day following ovulation through day 26.
i am changing mine a bit because i don't think my pcos is so severe and also since i am using the other supplements and the major reason, my acne explodes when i use the cream. my plan is as follows:
use 1/4 2x daily cd 8-26 for the first month and then 1/4 1x daily cd 8-26 the second month, and the third month 1/4 1x daily after comfirmed ovulation through cd 26.
i am hoping these supplements will help me to ovulate and to have a 27-29 day cycle. i am also taking my temp every morning, that is how i will have a confirmed ovulation. after the third month i will stop the cream and give my body a chance to have a regular cycle on its own without the cream.
all that being said today is day one of the first month of the cream. no change so far but i didn't expect there to be. i have used the cream twice in the past to start my cycle and the only thing i ever noticed was bad acne and improved moods. i plan to update weekly.
according to the happypms website this is the projected plan of use:
Use 1/4 tsp. twice a day, days 8 thru 26 for two months. On the third month, use 1/4 tsp. twice day, the day following ovulation through day 26.
i am changing mine a bit because i don't think my pcos is so severe and also since i am using the other supplements and the major reason, my acne explodes when i use the cream. my plan is as follows:
use 1/4 2x daily cd 8-26 for the first month and then 1/4 1x daily cd 8-26 the second month, and the third month 1/4 1x daily after comfirmed ovulation through cd 26.
i am hoping these supplements will help me to ovulate and to have a 27-29 day cycle. i am also taking my temp every morning, that is how i will have a confirmed ovulation. after the third month i will stop the cream and give my body a chance to have a regular cycle on its own without the cream.
all that being said today is day one of the first month of the cream. no change so far but i didn't expect there to be. i have used the cream twice in the past to start my cycle and the only thing i ever noticed was bad acne and improved moods. i plan to update weekly.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
lucian is 2!
thats right our baby boy is 2! he had a great little party with a few of his little friends over. he had a cupcake cake and some pizza. he got some really good presents too. his grammy (jayson's mom) and great-grandma got him a kid tough camera and some clothes. his gramer (my mom) got him an easle with a dry erase board and magnetic letters and numbers. his great-grandma and great-grandpa got him some puzzle books and some clothes and sent some money and with that money he got two shirts, two pair of jeans, a pair of shoes, and a red baseball cap. jayson and i got him a power wheels f-150. the little guy made out great for his bday!
as far as adding to the family, well we have decided to wait until i have my degree. that will be another 3-5 yrs. we just want to make sure we have the money and stability the next time around. however because of my condition, pcos, that causes my hormones to be inbalanced i am not going to be taking any birth control. with my pcos i don't have regular cycles and most of the time i don't ovulate. so there is no need take birth control. what i need to do is use herbs and a cream to in a sense turn off my ovaries so that they can heal themselves and hopefully work properly. i don't know how long it will take to balance my hormones.
i do want to share a baby dream i had last night. it was about a baby girl and of course she was our baby girl. she was so beautiful. she looked like me when i was a baby and had some of lucian's features as well. she had jayson's nose, which lucian has, and she had those big chubby cheeks like lucian. she also had a full head of lack spikey fuzzy hair. i know i had black hair when i was a baby. she was goregous and she was mine. i hope it was a dream about the future!!!
as far as adding to the family, well we have decided to wait until i have my degree. that will be another 3-5 yrs. we just want to make sure we have the money and stability the next time around. however because of my condition, pcos, that causes my hormones to be inbalanced i am not going to be taking any birth control. with my pcos i don't have regular cycles and most of the time i don't ovulate. so there is no need take birth control. what i need to do is use herbs and a cream to in a sense turn off my ovaries so that they can heal themselves and hopefully work properly. i don't know how long it will take to balance my hormones.
i do want to share a baby dream i had last night. it was about a baby girl and of course she was our baby girl. she was so beautiful. she looked like me when i was a baby and had some of lucian's features as well. she had jayson's nose, which lucian has, and she had those big chubby cheeks like lucian. she also had a full head of lack spikey fuzzy hair. i know i had black hair when i was a baby. she was goregous and she was mine. i hope it was a dream about the future!!!
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