Praying For A Snow Day

According to my weather app its suppose to be snowing with about an inch accumulation. I so hope we have a snow day tomorrow. I need to get focus on wedding and moving stuff.

Ice Ice Baby

Jacksonville shut down for a few hours today. All because of a little ice. Schools were shut down and everyone else was on a two hour delay. I went to work as normal. In fact, other than the bypass being shut down for half the day, it was a fairly routine kind of day. Quite boring actually.

I was hoping for a snow day. I need more time to pack. I know DMO will move us but I want to make sure nothing gets broken or misplaced. Plus I don't want people rummaging around on my stuff. It feels weird.  I let them pack the bigger things. Stuff that doesn't have sentimental value.

In The Beginning

As I lay here listening to frozen rain come down I figured it would be a good time to tell you about how Jeremy and I met, etc.

Jeremy and I met online originally on meetme.com. We were both griping about our exes. We had both very recently come out of horrible relationships. He had an ex wife from hell and I had an ex that lied about everything including his job, marriage, and family. We started talking in October, 2012 and used each other as venting buddies. At the time I lived in Wilmington but was in the process of moving back to my dad's house in Chapel Hill. Jeremy lived in Jacksonville about an hour away. We didn't actually meet until January 3rd, 2013. My paranormal team in Wilmington was starting to look for new team members and Jeremy was interested in learning more about it. Since I was living in Chapel Hill at the time, Jeremy offered to let me stay at his house and then we could drive to Wilmington together for the paranormal stuff. I stayed with him for the weekend and we really hit it off. We clicked like I hadn't clicked with someone before. After that I came down at least every other weekend. By March, since I was having trouble finding work in Chapel Hill, Jeremy convinced me to try applying for jobs in Jacksonville. I ended up being hired very quickly. The original plan was for me to stay with him until I found a place of my own. Two years later and we are still living together.

We may have rushed things in the beginning but at the time it worked out. In the beginning, we were both still dealing with a lot of drama from our exes, his mostly in a courtroom and mine mostly on television, but because we were in each other's lives we could rely on each other. Before we were venting buddies and dating, we were both withdrawing from friends and become depressed. We saved each other and built a relationship that could withstand anything. In the past two years we have seen each other at our best and worst, we have had health scares and job scares but we never lost each other or stopped supporting each other. We have only ever fought once and that fight was actually about us being together then or waiting until everything died down with his career since his higher ups weren't happy with him having a girlfriend all of the sudden. His higher ups now know me and approve me.

Our relationship isn't typical and it isn't everyone's cup of tea but it works for us and we are happy. That's all that really matters.

A Day Alone

Today Jeremy had duty so I spent the day packing, wedding planning, and vegging out on lifetime movies. The room isn't done yet (how did I acquire all this stuff in two years???) but it won't take me much longer to finish. The good news is that except for the garage the rest of the house will be easy.

I did find a way to share how soon we are moving to Japan without breaking OPSEC rules. My friends showed me the deployment tracker. Now I can let my friends and family know how much time is left without dates.

Well I'm going to take a nap and then back to packing.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Well today has been interesting. Lol

Jeremy and I overslept this morning causing us to miss the cats' appointment. We are going to try again next weekend. Jeremy slept in until 3pm. I worked on wedding stuff. Gracie, our officiant, and I figured out parts of the wedding service. I need to figure out how I want everything to flow. We did decide that since we are going to Japan a sand unity probably wouldn't be the best thing because Jeremy and I wanted to keep the sand unity set as reminder of our vows. Gracie recommended doing a hand fasting ceremony. I like it because we can get our families to help take part in the ceremony. 

After I got done talking to Gracie, Jeremy and I started to get ready for the mystery dinner theater. It was really hot in the house so I asked Jeremy to open the bedroom window so we could have so cool air. I happened to look out the window when he was dealing with curtain. I saw 6 foot high flames in the backyard!!! Our neighbors wooden fence was engulfed in flames. Jeremy raised outside trying to see if the neighbors knew. They didn't. I called 911 trying not to freak out because my neighbor's yard is filled with stuff. They had two sheds (one wooden), multiple wood piles, broken down scooters, 30 plus tires all within a few feet from the flames. I knew if those things caught on fire it wouldn't take anytime at all to spread to the houses. Thankfully the fire department arrived before any of it caught on fire except their largest wood pile. The neighbor behind us had half their lawn burnt. We lucked out and only had a small part burnt. 

Once the firetrucks left, Jeremy and I went to the mystery dinner theater. It was a lot of fun. Jeremy got called up to play in a price is right game. He won doll house furniture and a car. I got dragged up for a dance competition. My white girl moves sent me back to my seat in a hurry. I have never gotten up like that before to make a fool of myself. It was nerve wracking but fun. We guessed the wrong killer in the end. We had a lot of fun and I hope we can go to another one these again.

All in all it was an awesome Valentines Day.

Starting to sink in

Jeremy and I took a break from wedding stuff to start packing for Japan. We only got through half of the master bed. This is going to take forever.

Packing tonight it started to hit me that we are really going. My life is about to completely change. I'm missing friends already. I'm excited but also kind of sad. I've never made a move this big before. I hope I'm ready for it.

Welcome To The Marine Corps Life

I know marrying a Marine means signing up for the unknown and the uncertainty. I had no idea that life would get crazy this fast though. Before today I thought I had life mapped out fairly well. I figured Jeremy and I would get married in 44 days, sell our current house, move onto TT2 where our friends live until he picked up Sgt, then put in for orders to San Diego. Easy peasy. I had no idea anything would be different. Especially since the orders Jeremy had volunteered for were denied twice for Japan. I mean I knew it was Jeremy's dream to go to Japan but denied is denied, right? Nope. Not in the Marine Corps. I found that out at 8:30 this morning while we were sitting down for our "before I do" class. Jeremy got a text from Facemire saying they both had orders for Japan. Jeremy was to go to Iwakuni and Facemire was to go to Okinawa. We both thought it had to be a joke. I'm mean seriously. The orders were just denied last week. Nope. Its a three year assignment. And the kicker- we go just a few weeks after the wedding! So now not only am I planning an out of state wedding but I'm also planning an out of country move to half way around the world???? Lord have mercy on me.

Tonight we started on getting stuff ready. I let my boss know that my last day would be right before the wedding. She was pissed but at this point I have too many other things to worry about. We also got stuff to start packing up the house. Now starts the fun part of trying to figure out what goes to Japan, what to sell and what to put into storage. This is going to be insane. We have already decided that we are going to sell my jeep and put Jeremy's car into storage. His, while it maybe older, has much fewer miles. As for everything else, I need to figure out a starting place.