Tuesday, May 18, 2010
We're Approved!
So, we finally got our orders approved on Thursday! Mike told me at about 2 in the morning and I couldn't sleep after that! I was super excited. Then on Sunday night (Monday in Korea) he went and looked at an apartment with a realtor. It's strange over there. You can't just go and look at apartments. You have to have an appointment with a realtor. He liked the first one he found and was going to sign the lease on it. He talked to another realtor and looked at an apartment in the same complex in a different, nicer building. He said that this one is bigger, comes with more furniture and is in a nicer building and it's CHEAPER. SOLD! Next step is getting the apartment approved by the USAG (United States Army Garrison). Then he has to sign the lease and get a time set up for the movers to come get our stuff. Then he can book my flight! I've been packing and getting rid of stuff. The movers will pack up all our stuff but before I found that out i had bought a bunch of totes so I figure I should go ahead and use them. I'm so excited to be back with my husband! It's such a strange mix of emotions. Between leaving all of our friends and family and wanting to be with Mike it's all been a bit overwhelming. I do find it funny in a way though because so many people are saying that they want to see me and all these things but when I tell them that my schedule is pretty open right now they don't bother to tell me when they want to or what they'd like to do. This has definitely been an eye-opening experience and the saying "you find out who your friends are" couldn't be more true. I can't even count the number of people that I've parted ways with recently. It's a good thing though really. Those people clearly didn't value our friendship. It's nice to know that I do have a wonderful group of friends that I've known for a long time that I can count on. We all have our issues and we may not talk for a few months but we always are able to pick up where we left of and that's a great feeling.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Our Life...Until Now
I've never been much for blogs but I thought with our pending adventure that now would be a wonderful time to start one. I'll begin with a bit of background on us. (Have to be careful what I post in regards to OPSEC.)
Mike and I met in July of 2006. We were both at that point dating other people and had just began working at the Best Buy in Noblesville. We didn't really know anyone so we would go to lunch together pretty frequently. We worked in the same department. He sold the high end televisions and I told the guys how to not screw up the deliveries and installations. We both broke things off with the people we were dating. Mike asked me one day if I wanted to go out and get a few drinks. He didn't know I wasn't 21! I find that hilarious. I said that I wasn't 21 and that he could come over to my place and watch movies if he wanted. He did and we stayed up all night watching movies...well, he stayed up while I fell asleep. That happened a few times. 3 weeks or so after the first time we hung out outside of work we went on our first date. We went to Longhorn Steakhouse and played mini golf at Great Times. We had so much fun! I met his family that Thanksgiving and we've been together since.... Well, we broke up for a couple of months at the end of summer 2008 but realized that we couldn't be without eachother.
I told him that if we were going to do this, it was for the long haul and we were getting married. I think he may have thought I was kidding. We got engaged May of 2009 and had decided we wanted to get married in May of 2010. Mike had lost in job in February of 2009 and wasn't too sure what he wanted to do with his life. He has a college degree in telecommunications but there weren't a lot of jobs available that he qualified for and he didn't want to do something he wasn't going to enjoy. (Unhappy at work makes a person unhappy at home!) He said that he was thinking about going into the police academy to which my response was, "well, you may as well join the Army". It was always something that he had been thinking about so it wasn't something he was just going to toss to the side. We discussed what it would mean for him to join the military and we both agreed that it was something that we should do. It was a joint decision, not a decision that he made without me like so many families have gone through. I think it's a good thing that it was a joint decision. We decided that since he was going to be gone that it would be more beneficial for us to get married before he left. He was scheduled to ship out on November 2, 2009. Financially and emotionally it was better. We got married October 17, 2009 and it was the best decision we could have made!
Mike graduated from OSUT on March 12, 2010 and was shipped to South Korea the next day. He made it fine and is loving it there! We turned in paperwork for me to go there and will hopefully know in the next few weeks when I'll be able to join him. I'm very excited to go, I just wish that the time would go a litle quicker! :)
Mike and I met in July of 2006. We were both at that point dating other people and had just began working at the Best Buy in Noblesville. We didn't really know anyone so we would go to lunch together pretty frequently. We worked in the same department. He sold the high end televisions and I told the guys how to not screw up the deliveries and installations. We both broke things off with the people we were dating. Mike asked me one day if I wanted to go out and get a few drinks. He didn't know I wasn't 21! I find that hilarious. I said that I wasn't 21 and that he could come over to my place and watch movies if he wanted. He did and we stayed up all night watching movies...well, he stayed up while I fell asleep. That happened a few times. 3 weeks or so after the first time we hung out outside of work we went on our first date. We went to Longhorn Steakhouse and played mini golf at Great Times. We had so much fun! I met his family that Thanksgiving and we've been together since.... Well, we broke up for a couple of months at the end of summer 2008 but realized that we couldn't be without eachother.
I told him that if we were going to do this, it was for the long haul and we were getting married. I think he may have thought I was kidding. We got engaged May of 2009 and had decided we wanted to get married in May of 2010. Mike had lost in job in February of 2009 and wasn't too sure what he wanted to do with his life. He has a college degree in telecommunications but there weren't a lot of jobs available that he qualified for and he didn't want to do something he wasn't going to enjoy. (Unhappy at work makes a person unhappy at home!) He said that he was thinking about going into the police academy to which my response was, "well, you may as well join the Army". It was always something that he had been thinking about so it wasn't something he was just going to toss to the side. We discussed what it would mean for him to join the military and we both agreed that it was something that we should do. It was a joint decision, not a decision that he made without me like so many families have gone through. I think it's a good thing that it was a joint decision. We decided that since he was going to be gone that it would be more beneficial for us to get married before he left. He was scheduled to ship out on November 2, 2009. Financially and emotionally it was better. We got married October 17, 2009 and it was the best decision we could have made!
Mike graduated from OSUT on March 12, 2010 and was shipped to South Korea the next day. He made it fine and is loving it there! We turned in paperwork for me to go there and will hopefully know in the next few weeks when I'll be able to join him. I'm very excited to go, I just wish that the time would go a litle quicker! :)
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