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| Thursday, December 28, 2006 |
| Truely & Utterly |
| Today I got an Xmas package from my sis, mom and dad! I loved everything in that box! Clothes, Chocolate and Scrapbooking stuff! Josh got a Gift card for Best Buy and some collectible heros stamps:) He liked those! Understandably Josh is hard to buy for, hahaha but a gift card at an electronic store is just the versitility of an Xmas present he loves :) You can't go wrong with Josh in a computer store *smile* As I tried all of my chocolates and my new "Saving the world, One kitty at a time" T-shirt I sat and thought to myself that I am truely and utterly blessed in every sense of the word! Thanks to Marcey, Mom, Dad, My Hubby, Netty & Family, Chuck & Family and Kara for sending us X-mas wishes and love. You remind us that you don't have to have millions of dollars to be rich ! God Bless & We love you all! |
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| Wednesday, December 27, 2006 |
| How was your X-Mas? |
Howdy all my fav readers:) How was everyones Christmas this year? Josh and I had an ok X-mas, it just isn't the same without family and cool weather though. But only 2.5 more years and we'll have all the snowy family filled X-mas we can handle! Even without the cool weather and family I was still able to whip up a pretty damn good meal! I made mom & dad's roast with potatoes and carrots, brocolli & cheese YUM!, corn on the cob, sweet potatoes stuff (i bought that) and apple pie with ice cream! It was so delicious! We did have a small tree up with some lights on it and cards that ya'll sent us for x-mas :) Thanks. I also had lights up outside but with it being a quad-plex theres only so much I can put up on these concrete walls.
Anywho it was nice. We can't wait for the day that we move to Champaign, IL and have a nice house thats ours and we can live there forever! Not having to skimp out on a big x-mas tree cause we can't take it with us or leaving some stuff in storage oh no! We are going to have x-mas feasts and halloween partys! And the best part will be that we can see family whenver we want to and they can visit us whenever they feel! But till' then we'll just have to make the best of Okinawa.
In January we hope to go to the Cherry Blosom festival, that should be a sight for the eyes! SO all in all it was a good holiday. Hope yours was tree-rific as well.
God Bless |
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| Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| My 22nd B-Day! |
So my 22nd birthday was great :) Josh got me Pirates of the Carribean 2 , The Juiceman juicer and he took me to Chili's for dinner and drinks, of course I was actually the one drinking this time :) haha. For xmas I guess were going to make a turkey or ham, oooo maybe a roast!! YUM. I'm gunna make some yummy cookies for dessert.
Haven't heard anything from the job yet. Thier still doing my background check, but hopefully I'll start soon.
The weather here has been a mix between warm/rainy and cold/rainy! Okinawa just can't make up it's mind. I enjoy the colder weather because it just seems right for it to be cold during christmas. Snow would most awesome but it'll never snow here it being a sub-tropical island and all :(
It's still the plan to go home in March, both Josh and I will have to put in leave paperwork 2 weeks before our planned leave date and pray that there won't be any problems and them say "No, you can go". But in the stupid chance that happens we'll just try for mid-March. But we WILL be coming home so don't worry :) Only 2 1/2 more years of the military telling him when to breathe and Josh is out. We both are very excited to move to Champaign, Illinois. Why Chamapign you ask? Well Josh and I both want to live in a country type place but that also has lots of things to do. Don't get me wrong Wakulla is great but we also wanted to move someplace new, start our lives anew without the burden of military life over our heads. Further more we cansee family whenver we want or whenever they want to see us! It's about a 2-3 day drive and I think less than a couple hours plane ride from Wakulla to Champaign. We will have our own house, PERMANANTLY! No more moving around missing birthdays and holidays from family! And thats what I am so excited about :) Okinawa is defiently a place I will remember for it's beautiful landscape and odd culture but the United States is our home. And it's the best damn country in the world, PERIOD! Well that's all the ranting I have fer ya right now so God Bless! |
| posted by Jessica & Josh @ 9:32 PM |
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| Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| I gotta Job, ya'll!! |
Hey everyone! Finally I got a job :) It's at the School Age Progam, it's a flexible position so I guess that means varied hours and days. It's 9.69$ an hour just starting out and it's a government job so that will look really great on my resume'! I don't think I'll be starting my actual job for anthor couple of weeks due to all the paperwork and training classes I have to take but I'm getting payed for it so .......who cares :) Basicly the School Age Program offers before and after school programming as well as full day programming during holidays and school breaks. Available to students grades 1 - 6, the facility is supervised and provides a safe and healthy environment for children. The program is affiliated with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Programs include:
• Field Trips
• Enrichment Programs
• Clubs
So I think I'll be great at crafts with the kids and stuff like that. I'm also going to be volunteering some time to get some clerical experience with Kadena. None of that has been set in stone yet but I need office type experience for when Josh gets out of the military. Plus still volunteering with OAARS but I'm going to slack off them a bit because the people in the association don't seem to be as organized as a humane society should be. But I'll still do it for the animals and just less associate myself with the people. Also still going to the farm, this weekend I'm going to try and go on Sunday maybe. So I gotta lot of stuff going on but once I get a routin going I'll like being busy :) Pray for me :) |
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| Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
| Pabo, Pabo, Pabo |
| Well this will be the 3rd day of watching Pabo for a friend of ours who went back to the states cause her husbands deployed. The first night he was barking and whining all night and both Josh and I thought this wouldn't work. Then I remembered what I read from Ceasar Millian's book about excersise, disipline and affection. Pabo has so much energy and if he doesn't get any excersise to release that energy he acts out badly by pacing the house, whinning, barking and tearing things up. I've been walking him ( the dog should be behind you or at your side not way out in front of you is the proper way to walk a dog) for about 30 min twice a day and letting him out in the back yard every couple hours to wander around. I feed him only after we have a walk and give him a chew bone also but again only after a 30 min walk. Since I have been doing this he has been perfect! He either sleeps during the day on his big pillow bed or he chews on his chew bone :) I think Ceasar Millian's book is extreamly benefical for people who have dogs. Anywho we'll be watching Pabo till February 15th then after that going home for 3-4 weeks :) |
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| Sunday, December 03, 2006 |
| Volunteering at the Farm |
| Today I went with Maryann to the farm I have been telling ya'll so much about. I had a really good time :) It's so much better than I expected. I thought I would be leaving that farm sad and depressed from the poor conditions but NO! Maryann and Shannon have really made it heaven on earth for these animals. There were horses, colts, llamas, cows, chickens a snow monkey, snakes, turtles, ducks, kittens OH MY! I plan on volunteering there more often as well as my 1-2 times a month at the OAARS shelter. I hope I can also put some volunteer hours in at the local zoo here on Okinawa. I know it sounds like alot but I have to keep myself busy and it makes me feel great knowing that I helped! . I still haven't heard from my interview so I'm still just going to apply for other jobs. So far I'm hoping on the School Age Program thing to come thru and the Child Development Center job on Kadena and Camp Foster. Pray for me, I could use the extra prayers :) I'll take pics of the farm the next time I go which will probably be next weekend :) Josh has been doing good in school and playin' his games. God Bless |
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| Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| Gingerbread DisasterPiece |
| I had everything planned out.....extra gingerbread, toppings etc but my gingerbread sides were to soft and it all came tumbleing down :( I spent all day baking and decorating while taking care of Josh he got really sick :( So there I was after all that finally putting together my creation. And the sides started to break, I tried to patch them up with icing but it didn't work. First it was the 2 sides then the part with the chimney broke :( I went to see if I could find even more gingerbread but as I expected everyone shops at the commissary so there was none left. After an hour of debating, a crumbled gingerbread cookie jar house to my left and a sick hubby upstairs I decided to toss in the towel and give up :( Now all I'm left with is a sink full of dirty dishes and candy decorations scattered from the kitchen to the living room.....arrgg. Still i'll go to the Tinsel Town at the community center and see what it will be like without my gingerbread disasterpeice :( |
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Name: Jessica & Josh
Home: Kadena AFB, Okinawa, Japan
About Me: Well, I'm 22 and a PROUD wife, mother of 2 cats, volunteer, cat foster, daugther, sister, aunt, cousin, friend, animal lover and lover of crafts. I'm fun and funny and truely blessed! My family and husband are my stability and I am my own confedience. My life may not be perfect but it's perfectly me! GOD BLESS!
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I'm really humbled by this book. Her journey during the war is truly and inspiration to life. I now look around while I'm driving or walking on Okinawa and think to myself of the struggles that so many Okinawan refugees went through, including the author as a 7 year old child! Defiantly an inspirational read!
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