Why I Refer to my Husband as Swiss

     Swiss. It's a strange name to call your husband by, I'll admit, but every blog I've ever read has some pet name to refer to their husbands and children. I'd been thinking for quite some time about what to call him. I mean we have our own pet names for each other, but those are ours, they're personal, and not something I want to share. What can I say I'm greedy. And then one day, it just sort of happened.

I Know I'm Breaking the Rules

     I've read somewhere that you're not supposed to post more than once a day, but I just couldn't resist, so here I go, breaking the rules. I just had to say, I am obsessed with my camera. I love it, I seriously forgot how much I loved it, I haven't used it since I got my iPhone left culinary school almost a year ago.

It's Christmas Eve!

     A very merry Christmas Eve to everyone, I know that in a lot of places it's still the 23rd, but in that case early Christmas Eve. Thanks to a last minute schedule change, I am now spending it alone, gotta love the Army, but that's ok I'm wasting my time baking, instead of cleaning like I should be.

Do as I Say, Not as I Do: How I Made Chocolate Chip Frisbees

     If you ask my mother she would tell you I can't bake for crap, which isn't entirely true. If you ask my husband, I'm more baking than savory. So which is it? The truth is I love baking, just as much as I love cooking, but sometimes my absent mindedness gets in the way.

RANT

     I'm not one to normally get up in someone's face in defense of another person, oh wait, yes I am. I was able to keep my nose out of it this time, but man did I want to tear this person to shreds.

So Let Me Just Say Something

     Have you ever tried trying to find potting soil in Korea, or any kind of dirt for that matter that's not $800,000,000 $2 per liter? No well let me tell you a little something about it. It sucks.

     We have a planter box and I've been trying to find some sort of dirt to put in it so I don't have to trek all the way downtstairs to walk (we live on the 9th floor of a high rise) Copper ten times a day. Its a large planter box so it's going to take a lot of dirt to come even remotely close to filling, let-alone covering the bottom. Let me tell you, it's harder than all heck to find dirt here. We finally found some at the PX in Yongsan, guess how much it was? Well I don't exactly remember but it was something like $16 for 8 liters. Whuck? You're kidding me right? And actually a friend looked for us so I was like "That's not so bad, $16 for 8lbs, I can do that," and then he said "no, 8 liters." Then all thought of buying said dirt went out the window.

It's Been a While

     The fact of the matter is I make a terrible blogger. Just as I've never been able to keep a diary, I can't seem to post a daily blog. It's not as if I don't intend to keep up with it, I really do I just lack the drive to do it.

     So now six months later and what feels like a jillion miles away I am finally writing again.

     Maybe is the fact that I'm in South Korea!? Whuck! When and how did that happen! Or maybe it's the fact that my husband is pulling a 24 hour shift so I'm avoiding sleep.

What an Amazing Weekend

     So this is the first weekend I've got to spend the night with my husband since he started AIT, and let me say, it was a great weekend.

     We watched movies and slept and basically just lounged around.

I Have a Hard Time Organizing my Thoughts

     So I've been having a hard time gathering my thoughts to make a coherent blog post. There's so much stuff I want to say, but I don't know what to focus on. How am I supposed to separate what matters and what doesn't?

     One of the great perks about being an Army wife is having to change plans at a moments notice.

The Long Days Are Worth it When I See Him

    So I've been having a difficult time adjusting to life out here in Georgia. My days and nights are mixed up, I can't get out of bed in the morning and when I do I usually just go watch tv and end up falling back asleep. Then, midnight rolls around and I'm still wide awake, usually trying to get the puppy to sleep because he's wide awake from sleeping all day too.

The Day We Met

Sometime in April, a Saturday...

     I was attending culinary school at the Art Institute of Sacramento, this was about the fourth week of the quarter and I was taking World Cuisine. It was a small class, only about 10 people total, but only 5-7 that ever showed up.

Well, This is New

     Well, first of all, I'd like to apologize to anyone I may have stolen the title of my blog from, if I did, it wasn't intentional.

     Secondly, this is all so new to me, blogging, being thousands of miles from home, being an Army Wife, and lets just say, it's certainly not the easiest.

     While my wonderful husband was away in Basic Combat Training (BCT) I felt the urge to start a chronicle of our life together, as crazy as it may be. It just seemed right, of course at the time I was busy working and packing for the move out to Georgia, so the time just passed me by and I never wrote a word other than the hundreds of letters I sent to my hubby.

     I've always loved writing and what makes a better story than real life trials and tribulations. I will do my best to do the story justice and remain as true to it as possible, but I know that words will only get me so far and I do have a tendency to embellish, what can I say, I read too much growing up :) .

     Now the real question is where to start, and how much do I really feel I can share on a blog where anyone could potentially see. Do I start from the day I met dear husband (DH) or do I start from the day he left for BCT?