To ALL who have served, thank you.

To all Soldiers, Airmen, Sailers, and Marines who selflessly serve our nation everyday, and to the all family members standing behind them, thank you. It takes discipline, courage, dedication, and honor to do what you do everyday. All of you, by your service and sacrifices, have made America free.

A little update on this weekend

Friday:

I went to this fancy-shmancy dinner party for the Aviation Safety Foundation (or something like that, I don't really remember what it was actually called) at the Marriot. A friend of a friend helped organize it so she invited us as her guests. It was open-bar, free dinner, and gave us an excuse to dress up. Plus, I had the most adorable date, Black. The evening was mostly Senators and Governor Parnell speaking on the importance of aviation safety. It was in remembrance of Ted Stevens (a little ironic considering he died in a plane crash).

Saturday:

Shopping-spree with Winter. Let me just say, when it comes to shopping, I am usually a boy about it. I go into the store for something I need, I buy it and I get out. Lately, I have been a girl… I can shop for hours. And I have, probably once a pay period since Brad has been gone. Sadly, I must admit I've been doing a little online shopping too. I've been making the shopaholic excuses too, such as "I needed that", and "some of it's Christmas presents", and "it was on sale", and so on.

Brad and I are amazing in the fact that we really don't fight about money. Ever. It's the one thing we haven't had a disagreement on. This morning, he randomly asked me, "what have you been spending all our money on?" My award winning answer… "I dunno." So he asked why I've been shopping so much and I honestly told him because it's therapeutic and as long as I'm paying the bills and putting some money in savings, I don't see why I shouldn't. And he said "okay." I'm so lucky. He really is sooo wonderful, and not just because of the shopping thing (seriously if it bothered him, I would stop or at least cut back) but because of everything. He is the the man I've always wanted, he gives me the strength I've always needed, and he's the voice of reason when - as usual- Im not. He makes me laugh everyday (which excellent for the abs btw). And I can't believe God played such a dirty trick on him as to stick him with me…

Lol, sorry for the grossness but I'm afraid it will only get worse the longer he's gone… If you're still reading this and not vomiting uncontrollably, I will continue. So after shopping with Winter, we went back to her place to do the scary movie night thing. I had originally made plans to go out with Black, but I cancelled. I'm really such a bum… The thought of putting on a costume, doing my hair and makeup, and going downtown barhopping just sounded so exhausting to me. So I flaked out on her. Then Winter and I realized what old ladies we were being and decided okay, we will put on a costume and go to this little bar in Eagle river, and if we really get into the partying spirit, we will then go downtown. We dressed as the Daisy Duke girls (I was the original, she was Jessica Simpson) and we went out. We didn't end up going downtown but we had a good time. I will post pictures when she emails them to me. If they are embarrassing, sorry guys, I will just email them to Brad.

Sunday:

Recovered from Saturday night. Then made dinner for myself and 6 friends, I was reminded how long its been since I made dinner. The food was fine but I cut myself twice and burned myself. Then we watched Forest Gump and handed out halloween candy. Went to bed.