January 1, 2010

I decided that since I am so wordy and I have a lot of whacky things to say, I should start a blog. I have an upcoming deployment where I will need to stay in touch with my family the best and quickest way possible.

Let me start on how this year has began. We are in the first day and it is already starting out great. Last night, Kevin, my love and my angel Cecilia and I stayed up to ring in the new year. I made chicken enchilada casserole-one of my best pieces of work to date. I made Cecilia shells and cheese of course. I decided to surprise Kevin with a cute outfit-not like that-I just dressed nice for him. Our dates mostly consist of a race, a run, a bike race, a bike ride and let's face it-you can't wear a pair of awesome black boots to those. So we had a great dinner and played the Wii. I was doing pretty awesome in the Golf, Cecilia and I tied. Then came the Mario Karts and I sucked terrible. But, we had a great time. We set off poppers in the back yard and enjoyed a glass of champagne. I finally had an opportunity to toast something special in the glasses the Wuebold's gave me when they left England. We toasted to a new year and hope it gets better then the last. We know this time next year we won't be together, so we just said let's enjoy the year to the fullest until then and get through it.

We ran a 5K today, the Egg Nog Jog here in Marana. We weren't sure they were even going to be doing it-we saw hardly any cars on the way there! But, there were folks there, a lot of families. One special family there was a father and son. The son was blind with a strap attached between them. It was his son's first 5K. It was very touching. We had our best 5K yet. We ran it in 27:30. We haven't run in 19 days since the Tucson Marathon-so we were very pleased. We had some Egg Nog afterwards-we both thought at the start-gross, egg nog at the finish? But, half way through we both thought about it and guess what? It was delicious! We didn't win anything in the raffle-rarely do we, but, we stick around none-the-less. One funny thing to note-we finished and he asked how do you feel? I said ok, I almost threw up and he said, me too...

Then we went to go get a breakfast burrito from Nico's-but, they were closed. Kevin told me about this revolting soup they make that is good for hangovers that is made from goat intestine-gross. It is called Menudio-like the group. So we got a breakfast bagel from Brueggers instead. We watched some football when we got home. I watched/slept through a movie with Cecilia and now we are watching Julie and Julia. Then it is off to Kevin's for the evening. We are watching the Rose Bowl. Kevin said while I am in Afghanistan he is going to educate me on college football. Secrety, I can't wait. It touches my heart that he is thinking ahead on how to make my year go better. But, this is how my day has played out for the start of the new year. My short term memory has been sucking a lot lately-so I want to start this also so I don't forget things that are important little things that make me smile and will make my year away better. So bye-bye for now. Oh, last night we saw Shania Twain on one of the New Years Eve shows and Kevin is an admirer of her. He said, I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating crackers-ha-ha, I have never heard that before-made me laugh!!