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Today I was totally overwhelmed. Of course, everytime I see an Army guy in uniform I think of Deano. Fine, no big deal... whatever. Sometimes I even talk to them about being in the army and what it's like. More than once, I've said "Yeah, my uncle is in the army". Is. Not was. And it feels weird everytime I say it. I don't want to make them uncomfortable... but I want to say, "He died." Why? Anyways, today there were three Army guys in my section and they were all around Deano's age. I have NO idea where this came from, (maybe God) but I really wanted to tell them how much their job means to me. I wanted to tell them thank you for all they sacrifice for me and my family. And right there, in the middle of the lunch rush, my eyes started tearing up. I just wanted to burst out into tears and run home. I wanted to tell them, "My uncle was in the Army. He was in MediFlight. He loved his job SO much. He died." WHY? Somedays I have such a hard time with it. Still. And it's been over a year. Those guys were so cool and they chatted it up with me just like Deano would have with some random waitress. They reminded me so much of him.

God,
Please just keep Your hands on me and my family. It's still so hard with Deano gone. God, I just pray that you'll ease the pain for me and my mom and dad and Denise and the kids everyday God.
Amen.

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Yesterday was crazy! We got up at 4am to be at Ultimate Electronics at 5am. We went there, Circuit City, Target, the mall, Best Buy.... we stopped a couple of time in there to eat left overs and refuel on Starbucks. :-) Philip and I also found a great deal on a LCD TV, so we bought it! It's a 46" Sharp 1080p LCD (flat screen). That's right, I know what all that means. I'm excited about it!

In other exciting news, we leave for the cruise tomorrow morning!!!!!!!!!!

I am going to TRY and post a blog and some pictures and maybe even video while we're there :-) I'm EXCIIIIITTTEEDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is going to be busy! We're going to grandma Martin's at noon. (First we're dropping off Daisy at my parent's though) then we're headed to the Redburn's at 2:00 then to the Atchley's at 6:00. Whew! Tomorrow morning, of course, we'll be waiting in line at some store waiting for the perfect bargain. hah. I always like shopping on Black friday though.

Friday (after shopping) I'm going to try and workout in the afternoon one last time before the cruise. We're going to have to get completely packed Friday too. Saturday we're hopefully going to have lunch or dinner with Abby and Riley and then go to my parents' to watch the OU vs. OSU game (which is a big one for us). We're probably going to spend the night there Saturday night because our flight leaves at 6:00AM Sunday morning!! This is going to be a busy (but FUN!) next couple of days!!

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OU lost to stupid Texas Tech on Saturday. I almost cried. For real. Oregon (#2) LOST on Thursday which (if we'd WON) would make us #3 with a REAL chance at going to the national championship this year. Bradford was injured almost right away, and our second string QB was really no good. That hurt us a lot. We still could go to the Big VII championship if we beat OSU next Saturday.

We leave for the cruise on Sunday morning!!!!



Here is our itinerary! I'm super excited :-) Philip is off work Wednesday - Friday this week for Thanksgiving and then the WHOLE next week for the cruise! We're going to have so much fun the next couple of weeks. Hopefully I can post some pictures and blog a little while we are on the cruise. I'm not sure if you can get online on the ship or not... ? I'll find out.

We started putting up our Christmas decorations. Yeah, it's a little early.... but we wanted to get it done before the cruise, because we won't be back until Dec. 3rd. We bought some fun net lights for the bushes and blue "pearl" lights for the house. I think Philip is putting those up Wednesday. The Christmas tree is up and decorated and I even wrapped some presents last night! :-)

We're motivated again to get Monavie going. Philip has been talking to people like crazy. It's just such an awesome product... I want everyone to know about it!!
www.monavie.com

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Pretty much every morning before work, I watch "The View". Well, I have it on while I'm getting ready for work. It's hard for me to stomach a certain liberal loud mouth's viewpoint sometimes, but she is usually evened out by Sherri and Whoopi (not that Whoopi isn't liberal, but she is usually neutral on the show). Anyways, yesterday I was so excited! The day before, liberal loud mouth (we'll call her LLM) was talking about how stupid it was that the mayor (or governor, I can't remember) in Georgia had a group prayer for rain at the state capital. Then the next day in Georgia, guess what happened? RAIN! LLM had nothing to say yesterday on the view, other than to make some kind of stupid joke to cover the fact that she was caught with her foot in her mouth. hahahaha, God said, "Really? You think prayer is stupid? CHECK THIS OUT!" Praise God! I'm also thankful Georgia got the rain they needed :-)

Today I'm off work. I'm taking Daisy to the groomer's in a little while and going to workout with Trisha. It's ALSO time to put up some Christmas decorations! I think we should get them up before we leave for the cruise, because when we get back things will be hectic with Christmas :-) We leave in 1 week and 2 days!