The Two H's!

The two H's have been on my mind all night and all day so far... by two H's I mean home and horses!

Today's the day we have our walk through at our new house, and needless to say I am ecstatic! I love going to our house, it always puts me in a great mood and just gives me this sense of being. I know, pretty insane. But it isn't just a house that we are renting, or an apartment. It's our home, ours, no more lease signing, no more wondering if we will be living here a year or even a couple months from now. Nope - this is our home. In case some of you aren't familiar with new construction (don't feel bad! I totally wasn't either until we went under contract, now I'm a total pro! lol jk) this is normally done a week before closing. We meet up with our construction consultant, David and our realtor and probably another head construction guy I'm thinking. They give us each a blue roll of tape and we go through the house and tape anything that is wrong. This includes dirt here, paint drips there, tile is cracked, grout is chipped, edging on the paint on the ceiling, carpet here. Literally, anything, and they fix it before closing day and we move in. Then ten days after wards they come back to see us in our new home, and ask if we have found anything else and they will fix whatever it is we find. And this continues on at the month mark, six month mark, and the eleven month mark. We get an awesome house warranty, that will cover anything the first year and then we get a bumper to bumper warranty on all appliances, AC unit, hvac, water heater.. you get the picture. So it's pretty exciting. Plus since it's done in the middle of the day, I will get a sense of what the noise level is like for when I will be working. and who is home during the day.

We also found out that Erik's sister will be coming to visit us in June and I am pretty excited! I love having people come by, I love seeing family - whether that's his family or mine. I love it. It's nice to have friends and family in your home. Especially when there is only two people there, it gives it a sense of fullness. So I'm pretty excited. Not to mention, it's a great excuse to make sure it's all decorated by then and pretty by then. My mind has been so consumed with decorating and ideas it isn't even funny. I'm constantly thinking about little things to put here and there. Where can I find a good clothesline at? (yes I am being serious! and I'm excited about getting one!) How do I want to decorate our bedroom? How do I want to do the bathroom? And more importantly, why can't my boyfriend seem to remember to ask for pictures from his mom of him and his family and the pictures we took in October of him in his blues. Lol.. I want to have pictures of his family up there, it's an important aspect of his life and I want them up in our house! So.. hopefully he will remember to do it Sunday when it's phone call time. 

A picture of me jumping a few years ago, probably right before I meet Erik, so 2008.

I've been doing a lot of thinking on the horse subject. I'm just not really seeing a reason on why I shouldn't go ahead with getting one. I've still been fighting with this 'lost' feeling down here. I haven't really found my niche so to say. I think the reason why I keep going back to the idea, is because one it's one of my biggest loves and passions and because it will give me a sense of belonging and it will allow me to develop friends who aren't military here. That's important to me. I love my military friends, and they always know just what to say and what you need to hear, but I also need civilian friends, especially horse friends. There is just something about having a horrible day and going out to see your horse that really makes it all worth it. Call me crazy, I don't care. It's just this absolutely amazing feeling. Just pure love with no judgement. Okay - sometimes horses give you a little judgement. Like when you tell it to jump this super scary fence and they think your absolutely insane and want to throw a temper tantrum.. but outside of that. They are absolutely loving with no judgement. I know Erik wouldn't mind, heck he would probably spend a lot of time out there with me. I just need to find a place that isn't outrageously priced down here. I still can't get over some of the stupid rules these barns down here have and the stupid prices that go along with them. I don't come from an area that's considered really country, I mean it's Virginia Beach. It just seems like there is more common sense there, and better prices than here. I'm sure I will find something... just need to keep looking a little bit harder.

I hope everyone has a great Navy day!

Pet Peeves and the waiting game...

Everyone has pet peeves, those things that just get under your skin and push your buttons. Most of them are common sense things and then we all have the little OCD pet peeves.

Something that really bothers me is when people try to give opinions/advice/wisdom/suggestions/input whathave you, they give their 2 cents on something they know absolutely nothing about, or just very minor things regarding it. For instance, and no I'm not trying to branch hate, just hear me out. First off I will state, that every branch has minor things that are different about them. For instance (from what I know, not that it is neccessarly true or not) the Army and National Guard only deploys during wartime, while the Navy and Marines deploys constantly. But what gets me, is when someone who lives the military life part time, National Guard, reservists and so forth, is when their significant other seems to have this opinion on everything, that yet she might not even fully understand. For example, first off no one and I mean NO one should ever tell another spouse that she has it easier than the next person, like the whole "well your significant other is on a ship, at least he isn't boots on ground like mine is" that's a whole other pet peeve. But what I am getting at, is mainly don't give your input about something you don't know about. For instance, don't tell me a $30 pay increase won't be noticed. Just because you and your significant other have two incomes outside of the military world doesn't mean you could understand how $30 makes a difference. Yes it's nice to have the things we do have, such as housing, food allowance, and a lower health insurance payment than many others do. But that's simply because if you were to factor out housing and food allowance, no one would be able to live off of that money and not be waist deep in debt. It also doesn't help when everyone gets their panties in a bunch before they read something from a legitimate source, or the action is really going to happen. Instead they see the posts about it on Facebook and "Poof!" There panties are all wadded up in a bunch over something they know next to nothing about. It really irritates me, if you haven't lived this life as a child or as a spouse 24/7 then don't pass judgement. Regardless no one should pass judgement on a person if you haven't walked a mile in their shoes.

But on a brighter subject. If we don't hear anything back by Thursday about the house we put an offer in on we will start looking at other homes again. We put in our 60 day notice for our apartment and have to be out by May 31st so we are in a time crunch, and hopefully will be closed on something by May 16th. I really love this house, I just hope we can get it. If not there is a reason for it and there is something better out there. This house buying stuff is certainly an adventure and a long drawn out waiting game.. so it should get along great with the Navy's motto "Hurry up and wait"!