There’s nothing like a three day weekend.

Thank goodness for Columbus.

I have to say I think that is the most random holiday to stop work for. Yes, I know what he did was important… but still… sort of random- but there are no complaints over here.

It’s a double bonus because not only do you get a long weekend, but you get a shorter week to start off with… for THAT I am most thankful. Although I had to be dragged out of bed, this morning was much more bearable knowing it was “Tuesday” instead of “Monday.”

Okay, I have to do the typical, “what I did on my weekend” spill today. Prepare to be really bored.

At least I’m honest!

I do this for me because my time with Will is so scarce that I want to make sure to focus on the positive and the time we do have- plus in doing it here it’s documented so I can look back one day when we’re home and see what were doing while we were living over here.

Anyway… here we go…

Wednesday was pretty boring- but in a good way. Will picked me up from work (which was the best surprise ever!) and we went to the PX to get some storage units, to no avail. So, I still have 2 suitcases full of junk I just “had” to bring and now there is no place for everything. IT is really bugging me. Will picked up a cd and we got junk food- just what we needed. Ha.

I’ve worn “bad“ shoes only 3 times since my foot surgery this spring. It still hurts too much- then again, it hurt before the surgery too.  I decided to get dressed up and wear some tight pointy shoes Wednesday and paid for it. The desert isn’t ready for real shoes. I’ll stick with what I’ve been wearing. My feet were soooo sore. There were a lot more things I was wanting to go look at, but I was in too much pain. The doctor said it may be a full year to heal. I guess he wasn’t kidding.

After that we decided to go ahead and eat since the restaurants in the city would’t be open for a while because of Ramadan. We went to Nathan’s. I had never been there, but it was really yummy. Their fries are incredible. I’m a sucker for French fries.

After that we went home and hung around. Will played his video game and I crashed. By the end of the week I am so sleepy. I think I drifted off around 8 or something. I woke up around 10 and Will and I watched our King of Queens boxset- our weekend theme. I will be so sad when we run out of episodes to watch!

Thursday morning Will’s parents called and I just couldn’t go back to sleep. I stayed in bed for like an hour thinking about my hair appointment- yes I am a dork.

I finally got up and got ready to go. I am such a weirdo. I have to get READY to get my hair done. My hair will be in foils and look all crazy 5 minutes after I get there, but I have to make sure it looks great… better than my first date with Will great… before I see my hair lady. I don’t know why, but its this weird thing I have to do. I guess it’s because she did my hair and it’s her “art” so I feel like I have to let her know I’m taking care of it or something.

I’m strange.

Anyway, on the way there I stick a piece of gum in my mouth and Will freaks out. He actually got mad at me for chewing gum! Okay, I know I was wrong and it Is against the law during the day, but it’s a bad habit I guess.

“What are you doing!? You know you can’t do that!”

“I know, but I don’t figure the gum police are going to check me. It’s not only a whole pice! It’s half a piece. I’m not going to smack for crying out loud!”

He ended up guilting me into spitting it out.

He was right, though. It was really stupid of me to even risk it because I know you can get ticketed for chewing it during Ramadan. It’s a good thing I did because my stylist was telling me the Kuwait mall security guys came in their place the other day just to look around- I’m sure to make sure they weren’t eating or anything.

Okay Will, you were right and I was wrong.

I like my hair place, but I am so used to talking the whole time I get my hair done, and that just doesn’t happen where I go. It’s almost awkward. There is some chatter, but not much. I love getting my hair done and having my stylist be me “best friend“ for the afternoon. Swapping stories and laughing and having a good time. Oh well. I am going to schedule an appointment with my lady back home so at least I will get a fix to hold me for a while.

I decided to do something different with my hair too. I so wish I had a digital camera to post pictures to see what you guys think. I got “fringe.” I thought some longer side swept bangs would help with my huge fivehead. Ha ha.

Anyway, I loved it all weekend, but today when I got ready I decided I’m not sure if I do anymore… I guess I have to live with it for a while. Maybe I’ll go back to loving it tomorrow. J

Will picked me up and loved it, so that made me feel really good. We had to go back to camp that afternoon because we had to pickup our plane tichets (YAY). We got them and ran into my parents. We talked to them a while and headed to the other PX on post. Minus the long trek in the desert and rock, I like that PX so much better. I would go there all the time if I had a vehicle to get me there! We picked up a few things… including WONDER BREAD. I hadn’t had “real” bread in so long.  It’s amazing how plain white unhealthy bread can make me freak out.

I also got a few ideas for what I’m going to get Will on Sweetest Day, so that was good. Fever Pitch for sure… the story of our life regarding OU football (but a little less extreme) and maybe a cd.

We went home and on the way I spotted a Papa Johns In this small little town!! WOW. I had no idea they had one here. I also hear they have a Wendy’s, but I have yet to see one of those. We’ll have to travel out there one night for pizza.  Sorry for my food elation… that was big news in
“L-town” this weekend.

We got home and hung around for a while. Will had gotten the new Brad Paisley cd the day before and was so excited about it- he Is a big country music fan. When we got home he pulled me really close to him and played a song called, “Time Well Wasted.” It talked about how he “wasted” a lot of time fishing instead of trying to make lots of money and stuff like that and how he had no regrets because it was time well wasted (okay, so I’m a terrible paraphraser, but I promise it was a good song).  It was so good and so true. We talked about how short life is and how we needed to “waste” as much time together as possible. We decided to unplug the clock in our bedroom on the weekends because the time we have together is so little and so it is so important to spend as much time together as we can come weekends. It was really sweet. 

Will played his game and I took a nap. The plan was to get up around 630 and head to the mall to catch a movie. We get to Marina Mall and the place is empty.

It is never empy.

We walk to the door and it is closed. Because of Ramadan, it didn’t open until 7:30. We got there around 710, so we waited a little while.  The theatre didn’t open until 8:00, so we went to Pearle Vision and I got my glasses looked at. I think I’m going to have to get an eye exam and probably get contacts. I have been having headaches and I have to wear my glasses almost all the time now. I got them fixed (will had stepped on them… the crooked glasses look just didn’t suit me that well) and went back up to look at the movies.

Choices Choices.

There was Cinderella Man, which we had already seen. In Good Company, which we saw at the dollar theatre back home 2 months before we left… which means it is really old!!  Transporter 2… a real classic I’m sure. We don’t even need to go there with that one, and then Riding the Bullet.

Wow.

What a great selection.

We opted for Riding the Bullet and hoped it was good. We had a ton of time to kill so we went to….

Johnny Rockets!!

Amazing- and totally embarrassing- that in the last week we managed to go there 3 times. Wow. We had so much fun. For 50 fils you can pick a song at your table on these mini juke boxes. We kept taking turns surprsiging eachother with songs. I had no idea that Will loved “Stop in the Name of Love.” How funny. I let him pick more because he was having a blast. I played Great Balls of Fire (great song) and Booige Woogie Bugle Boy- a major oldie. It was fun and really good.

We saw our movie, but continuing to play songs at Johnny Rockets would ave been more entertaining. Will and I should have just left, but we sat through the whole thing. There’s an hour and a half of our lives we’ll never get back.

After the movie the mall was a ZOO! Ramadan brings out EVERYONE at night. It was jam packed. I was ready to leave. We got home and went to bed.

We slept in Friday and decided to make It a lazy day. I really needed tp practice driving, but we were just too lazy all day long. We watched king of queens and Will played his game while I napped. We also figured our how to use our stove. I don’t know If I’m going to like a gas stove or not. I guess time will tell.

It was so nice just to do absolutely nothing. How refreshing. We “fasted” like the Kuwaitis after breakfast and decided to get Fuddruckers for dinner. We got it to go, came home and watched the Everybody Loves Raymond finale on dvd. We REALLY need to get cable! J We are going to run out of series to watch.

We watched that and then Will played the National Championship game while I watched. OU won… something they haven’t been able to do for “real” this seaseon. L

We went to bed around 10. It was sooo nice going to bed knowing I didn’t have to go to work the next day.

I got up with Will super early yesterday and saw him off.  I tried to go to bed, but just couldn’t. I just can’t sleep well without him there. One of my strange things.

I got up and started on the one mission of the day: cleaning the house. I gave it a good cleaning. I was done around 11 and then had lunch and took a nap.

It was such a boring and lonely day.

Having no cable makes things pretty boring when I’m home alone! I had a wonderful surprise around 3:00, though. My dad and sister stopped by to say hello, which totally brightened my day.

It is so funny to see my ‘little” sister growing up. She babysat for the first time alone this weekend. For some reason I was just so excited for her… like she was 4 and just learned how to write her name or something.

Strange.

I just went on and on, asking her a million questions. What a dork.. I know she had to have been annoyed and thinking, “I played with the kid. The parent’s came home. Then I went home. What more do you want from me!”

Then she was telling me about this guy that liked her.. I had such a parental moment for a second and wanted to grill her asking,

“Is he a good guy?”

“Is he a Christian?”

“Does he smoke?”

”What political party does he align himself with?” (yes, I am a total geek)

” What are his parents like?” and all the other questions, but I held back. I have to TRY to play the “cool big sister” and just act like it’s just a regular thing that my baby sister is about to hook up with this guy I don’t know.

AHH. I sound like a parent!

I guess She is not my little sister so much anymore! We talked for about half an hour, so that was really nice. I was so very bored, so that helped to break thingsup.

After they left I decded to stick in Napoleon Dynamite, but it kept skipping so I had to take it out, such a bummer! I cooked for the first time on my stove. That was interesting. There are inly 2 settings, which I thought was strange: a big flame and a little flame. I made plain penne pasta. I made enough so I wouldn’t have to cook all week and I could just add different things in. Will is still at work wen I eat supper, so it makes cooking really easy.

After his visit, I guess my dad told my mom we were like old mother hubbard or something because she called and was like, “We should go grocery shopping. I heard your fridge is bare.”

Thanks dad!

We just don’t need a lot right now because I’m the only one that eats and all I need is a box of cereal and I’m good to go.

I watched a few Raymond episodes while I waited for Will to come home… I also killed the last of the mint chocolate chip… probably not the greatest idea (we may not have much in our fridge, but we have the important stuff!).

After that I headed to the shower. What a shenanigan that was! I threw the old curtain away yesterday and replaced it with a new one. However, it wasn’t long enough. I figured it would be okay and I would just get a new one sometime this week. Well, I showerd and there was a huge watery and soapy flood all over the bathroom floor. What a mess. I got the old ocurtain back out, washed it off, hung it up and cleaned the bathroom all before Will came home. I really need a new curtain now. What a pain.

So,as you can see, yesterday was a pretty boring day, but SO much better than having to work. It is so terrible to wish life away, but I am already ready for the weekend again. Is that terrible? Don’t answer because I already know. I have the countdown in my head. I try hard not to do it, but I am ALWAYS unsuccessful. I keep thinking, “ 3 more days.” I really need to try to appreciate each day, but it can be hard! This weekend was so great. I’m sure everyone else was bored reading about it, but I have never looked forward to weekends like I do now. it’s because that is my only time with Will.

He did find out, however, that he will probably be going back to working 5 days a week, which means shorter days. I know he wasn’t happy about that because he liked the 3 days off, and I felt bad for him because the drive is excruciating and now he has to make it another day, but at least we’ll have a little more time in the evenings together. That makes he happy.

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So, today I’m back to work. Nothing is really going on. I had to smuggle my breakfast in this morning.

That was fun.

Everything is normal on post, but they ask workers to be sensitive to muslim employees that are fasting through the month. There is a Muslim lady that is supervisor in the same office I work in (she isn’t mine, but I am in the office of those she supervises). Anyway, her office is next door but she is in this office a lot. I didn’t have time to eat breakfast this morning, so I brought a meal-on- the- go bar with me- and I was sooo ready to eat it as soon as I sat down. I waited and waited as she stayed in the office.

That bar was staring me down, looking so seductive and inviting.

How could I say no!? I quietly opened the wrapper and then went back to work. I broke off a tiny piece, ducked behind my computer screen, and threw it in my mouth. I held it there as she came near my desk to use the copier… which was torture.

“Just don’t as me a question and I’m in,” I thought.

My stomach kept saying, “chew! Chew!” and my mind kept saying, “hold it… hold it…Now!”

I took me almost 15 minutes to eat one of those tiny bars. Wow. I’m not even sure she noticed. I am going to have to make sure I eat before work tomorrow! I have been drinking water in front of her, but others have too, so I don’t think that offends her- though I would be tempted to grab the bottle and go at it if I were her! J

Lunch today was the best. Will had to come to my camp so he called while I was in line at Subway and told me to meet him at the recreation center!! I was the happiest girl alive. I had to tell myself not to run all the way there and instead slow down and be ladylike. I was elated.

As a “time person (The 5 Love Languages by Gary Smalley- awesome book)” this new schedule stuff has hit me hard, so hearing Will’s voice and getting to see him filled my love tank.

I felt like such a dork while I was there. Will had already eaten before he came, so I was eating my salad, all immersed in my starvation, and beaming because Will was sitting by me. Then I start to tear up- what a nut. I tear up like 3 times. I tell him how much this time meant to me and how happy I was that we got to do this today. Will looks at me and quietly says, “Is it your time of the month or something?”

Thanks for the sensitivity, hun.

I guess it was silly to get so emotional over lunch with my husband, but leave it to me. If there was any doubt my love language was time, I’ve cleared it up for him.

I am so strange. You’d think spending 30 minutes with him would put me on the top of the world for the rest of the day, but instead I feel sort of down because it has left me wanting more… how selfish! I really need to thank God for the time I was able to get with him toaday because it is the most time I will have had all day with him. I guess I’m strange about that stuff. Nonetheless, I’m so glad I saw him and got to give him a huge hug and eat my salad with pickles (which for some reason he thought was sooo weird) in his prescense.

Okay- how bored are you?? I’m surprised you are still reading. Quick. If someone is STILL reading this (God Bless You), stand up and do 35 jumping jacks so the blood will return to your head…. Ahhh, how does that feel?

Sort of a boring post today but still pertinent to my growth in Kuwait, which is why I have to post the weekend blurb.

Have a great afternoon.