I feel lonely lately.
I also realized most of the "relationships" I've had (if you can call them that)as of late are toxic. I want to love the unlovable (that's how we ended up with 2 of our dogs, remember?) and it usually ends up back-firing. Is it so bad to want to find the good in everyone?
I'm Jade D. and I'm jaded. Who knew that name would be so appropriate in my mid- to late-twenties?
In other news, life is grand. Cody joined the Army and went through Airborne training. Thought he wanted to go the Ranger route, but voluntarily withdrew. I think he's happy with that decision, but he's had to face the fact that the ARmy isn't all he thought it was going to be. At the end of the day, it's still just a job. This job gets to tell you exactly where you will live though.
I stood next to my friends Amanda and Sam in April as they said "I do" and started their life as a family. it was a beautiful ceremony with perfect weather (a great feat in the middle of April!). We had so much fun planning her showers and her girls' weekend in Gulf Shores. When we saw her in her dress, it was like it had been made for her. And who knew Sam could clean up that nice?!?
A week later, my friend Taylor got married in Birmingham. Unfortunately I couldn't make it to that wedding with it being so close to Sam and Amanda's, but love was certainly in the air that month!
We went to Birmingham and saw Garth Brooks in concert. THE Garth Brooks. Like, the same one I've listened to since before I remember listening to music. It was hands-down the greatest concert I've even seen. The rest of the trip was chaos, but the concert was AMAZING. (The next day, as the driver who only got about 2 hours of sleep, I managed to leave my cell phone in a gas station in the middle of nowhere, leave my wallet with all of our ID's at the National Infantry Museum when we went to pick up Cody for lunch -- and note that we had to have those ID's to get Cody back on base -- and somehow we managed to get all of these back. the good Lord was looking out for us that day!)
Myah got married too. In a very quick turn-around time from engagement to wedding, Myah and Austin established their new household on July 18, 2015. They recently moved to Tupelo because the company wants to open a new gym there, and they want Austin to get it up and going. It's been strange not having her at home anymore and even stranger to have her in another state.
Earline the Sentra decided she needed a new transmission, so I kicked her to the curb. Got a $500 pity trade-in for her, and got a young, hot fiery redhead instead. Veronica the Sportage is the best! I forgot what it was like to have a vehicle that would go and stop when you told it to, accelerate when you put your foot on the gas, AND heat and cool at appropriate times! It's been exciting.
Jenny, my old roommate ALSO got married this year, in Tampa. She and Mitch look so happy together. Couldn't make the trip for that one, but I'm sure it was a beautiful affair :)
Daddy had a cancer scare, but everything with that is on hold for the time being. Apparently, "let's wait six months and see what's going on then," is the new solution to everything. Mom also has a health concern with a similar "solution." Grr....
Jasmine and Dustin are anxiously awaiting the migration from Iowa to SC. Jasmine is ready to be away from the corn field landscape and the endless snow. She's missed being near a coast. Even though she won't quite have her sugar-sand beaches, she said any beach is better than Iowa cornfields.
Cosmo has most of his fur back! I don't know what he was allergic to, but I'm glad he's off of his 9 pills at a time. His little kamikaze Cosmo maneuver out my back car window scared the living daylights out of me (and, once I was sure he was okay, made me want to kill him.) Jumping from a moving SUV while on the way HOME from the easiest vet visit he's ever had? I don't know what that dufus was thinking!
Life is good!
I stood next to my friends Amanda and Sam in April as they said "I do" and started their life as a family. it was a beautiful ceremony with perfect weather (a great feat in the middle of April!). We had so much fun planning her showers and her girls' weekend in Gulf Shores. When we saw her in her dress, it was like it had been made for her. And who knew Sam could clean up that nice?!?
A week later, my friend Taylor got married in Birmingham. Unfortunately I couldn't make it to that wedding with it being so close to Sam and Amanda's, but love was certainly in the air that month!
We went to Birmingham and saw Garth Brooks in concert. THE Garth Brooks. Like, the same one I've listened to since before I remember listening to music. It was hands-down the greatest concert I've even seen. The rest of the trip was chaos, but the concert was AMAZING. (The next day, as the driver who only got about 2 hours of sleep, I managed to leave my cell phone in a gas station in the middle of nowhere, leave my wallet with all of our ID's at the National Infantry Museum when we went to pick up Cody for lunch -- and note that we had to have those ID's to get Cody back on base -- and somehow we managed to get all of these back. the good Lord was looking out for us that day!)
Myah got married too. In a very quick turn-around time from engagement to wedding, Myah and Austin established their new household on July 18, 2015. They recently moved to Tupelo because the company wants to open a new gym there, and they want Austin to get it up and going. It's been strange not having her at home anymore and even stranger to have her in another state.
Earline the Sentra decided she needed a new transmission, so I kicked her to the curb. Got a $500 pity trade-in for her, and got a young, hot fiery redhead instead. Veronica the Sportage is the best! I forgot what it was like to have a vehicle that would go and stop when you told it to, accelerate when you put your foot on the gas, AND heat and cool at appropriate times! It's been exciting.
Jenny, my old roommate ALSO got married this year, in Tampa. She and Mitch look so happy together. Couldn't make the trip for that one, but I'm sure it was a beautiful affair :)
Daddy had a cancer scare, but everything with that is on hold for the time being. Apparently, "let's wait six months and see what's going on then," is the new solution to everything. Mom also has a health concern with a similar "solution." Grr....
Jasmine and Dustin are anxiously awaiting the migration from Iowa to SC. Jasmine is ready to be away from the corn field landscape and the endless snow. She's missed being near a coast. Even though she won't quite have her sugar-sand beaches, she said any beach is better than Iowa cornfields.
Cosmo has most of his fur back! I don't know what he was allergic to, but I'm glad he's off of his 9 pills at a time. His little kamikaze Cosmo maneuver out my back car window scared the living daylights out of me (and, once I was sure he was okay, made me want to kill him.) Jumping from a moving SUV while on the way HOME from the easiest vet visit he's ever had? I don't know what that dufus was thinking!
Life is good!
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