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Liebster III

Filed Under: liebster award // March 15, 2013

I’ve been lucky enough to have been nominated for a THIRD Liebster Award, this time by Katherine over at Newsom’s Nest 🙂 If you didn’t notice last time, here are the rules {each nomination is a little different as you can tell!}

1. You must post 11 random things about yourself.

2. Answer the questions that the nominator set for you.

3. Create 11 new questions for your nominees to answer.

4. Nominate 11 new blogs you love and link them in your post.

5. Please leave me a comment on this post with the URL to your Liebster post so I can learn more about you!

Here I go…

11 Random Facts About Me:

1. My favorite color is pink.

2. I love to wear skirts and dresses … in the summertime.

3. My favorite coffee drink is Starbucks’ peppermint mocha latte.

4. I absolutely love Christmastime.

5. I like taking naps.

6. I mostly drink only water.

7. Jasmine tea is my favorite type of tea.

8. I want to go to a Navy Ball!

9. I had a Beauty & the Beast-themed Sweet 16.

10. I’ve been to Disney almost every year of my life.

11. My first time on an airplane was at 11-months-old.

My Answers:

1. When was the last time you ate a cupcake? Fat Tuesday!! I indulged in a Crumbs Chocolate Velvet yummmmm!

2. What is the best book you have ever read? I don’t have one! Sarah’s Key, Time Traveler’s Wife, My Sister’s Keeper, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns. . . I could go on.

3. Favorite vacation? Again I can’t pick one but if I had to, I’d pick Vegas because that’s where I met my soul mate.

4. What is your favorite crock pot recipe? N/A … I am not a cook 🙁

5. What song are you currently listening to? Can’t Shake You by Gloriana .. love it!

6. Who would you want to narrate your life story?My future children – that’d be cool 🙂

7. If you had any type of superhero power, what would it be? Teleportation!!! Distance wouldn’t be an issue and I wouldn’t have to commute everyday haha

8. Snow or sunshine? Sunshine 100%

9. If you could learn any language fluently, what would it be? Spanish. I speak it well but I’m not fluent just yet.

10. What is the favorite place/duty station you’ve lived so far? We haven’t lived together yet but that will hopefully change soon.

11. What is your favorite number, and why? 8 – my birth month 🙂

My questions for my nominees:

1. Who do you look up to most in your life? 2. Do you believe in fate or mere coincidence? 3. What is your favorite season?4. What do you think your greatest attribute is? 5. What is your biggest pet peeve that guys (be it your significant other/ family member/friend) do?6. Country or city?
7. Wine, beer, or cocktail?
8. What, if any, is your favorite exercise?
9. What is your favorite side dish/appetizer?10. Rain or snow? 11. Early to bed or night owl?
And finally, my nominees (who are some of my newest followers):
Rhyme and Ribbons
Hiccups and Sunshine
Han-Spirations

PLUS anyone who wants to participate! Please let me know if you do so I can check out your post 🙂

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What Happens in Vegas … (Our Love Story)

Filed Under: love, love story // March 14, 2013

Doesn’t always stay there :)

I am finally breaking the ice and talking about how Tim and me came to be “we.”

Las Vegas, January 2011

The 14th of every month is special because Tim and I met by ~~chance / luck /~~ fate in Las Vegas (Koi Lounge in Planet Hollywood to be specific haha) on January 14, 2011. I was there with my cousin and her friend to celebrate my cousin’s 21st birthday. Tim was there with his brother – he was on leave following a 7-month deployment out to sea. His and his brother’s flight was set to leave Vegas the night we met … but we met and he thought I was someone he couldn’t pass up an opportunity to get to know so … he rescheduled his flight.
Now, I don’t believe in love at first sight (if I did, however, this would be the time for it!), but I do believe that when you know, you just know. I can’t explain how I knew or how it felt as I’m sure noone can whose felt that way but it is exactly what happened in the moment we met.

NYC, March 2011

So that night we met, Tim rescheduled his flight (unbeknownst to me), we hung out and spoke for a while, and then each went back to our respective hotels. The next morning, I woke up to a voicemail and text from him (apparently, we’d made plans to all hang out after we changed out of our club clothes but the girls and I passed out haha) and in acting completely out of character, I texted him back. The rest is history…

VA, July 2011

Tim wound up postponing his flight 2 more times to hang out for a few more days. (In retrospect, I am very grateful for his spontaneous decisions and those days together because I now know how precious just a few days with one another are.) When we each got back from Vegas, things were a bit hectic. I was involved with someone else but knew that had reached its end so I broke off the relationship. Tim also went underway for 3 weeks, during which we communicated via email and 2 phone calls. When he returned, he visited me in NYC, my hometown and where I am currently living and going to law school. That weekend was amazing; it was like we’d known each other our whole lives so we were excited to set our next visits up. At the time, he was stationed in Norfolk, VA so we went between VA and NY every 2-4 weeks until October 2011 …

DC, August 2011

Because Tim reported to his new station in Hawaii in October 2011. He received his orders in June 2011 and I was devastated. In August 2011, there was an issue and I prayed he would be kept in VA but as God would have it, his orders were straightened out and he was sent to sunny Hawaii. He made a brief proposition that I move and settle down there with him but I didn’t want to rush anything and I had two years left of study at a good law school. Deep down, we both knew I had to stay back on the East Coast.

Hawaii, May 2012

The distance between us therefore became 20x greater. But we manage as best we could and we do a pretty darn good job at it, if I may say so myself. We try our best to visit each other every 2-3 months – aside from when he was deployed to Europe June – December 2012. During that time apart, our longest stretch yet, there were rocky moments. But there was also much bonding and strengthening of our relationship. I looked forward to making care packages and receiving little packages and presents in the mail myself.

Detroit (Lions football game), December 2012

Tim’s ETS is in the summer of 2014 🙂 We hope to live together (temporarily) in late summer to early fall of 2013 and then to live permanently together when his military career is done. It’s nerve-wracking making big decisions and thinking about his life without the military but I think he is ready for the next chapter, as am I. Don’t get me wrong, I love and support the military 100%. But it has been difficult maintaining a long distance relationship and juggling the constant changes that come along with his active military career while I’m in law school.

NYC, January 2013

For now, we’ll be traveling back and forth over the 6,000 miles as the teammates we promised each other we’d be from the beginning… and we’ll be very busy finding a job and settling down somewhere (me), and preparing to get out of the military and joining me (him). Our situation is difficult but I think we’re walking proof that love prevails and that there is no such thing as mere coincidence (to me, anyway). God brings people into our lives for a purpose. I thank God often for bringing Tim into mine.

NYE 2013

This is us. People didn’t think our situation would work. And it probably wouldn’t for most. But where there is love, there is hope and so far, it’s worked just fine for Tim and me.

If you stuck with me and read this until the end, thank you. I hope you enjoyed our story and feel free to share yours, if even just tidbits 🙂

I’m also participating in a bloglovin’ linkup so go on over and follow me on bloglovin’! You can import you Google reader into bloglovin’ so you’ll be able to automatically follow the blogs you already follow on GFC 🙂

Anti-Bullying

Filed Under: anti-bullying // March 13, 2013

I was going to blog about something completely different today but I had a very moving experience on my way home from work & school last night. I got onto the bus after having taken the subway and I sat down. I noticed a young man across from me and he smiled. I smiled back. We recognized one other.

He took the initiative and said “Hi I remember you from [high school]… You and your buddies took me into your group when the girls were bullying me.” Now, I only remember it vaguely but I was so touched that he remembered and happy to have helped him, if even just slightly. And then we just started talking about what he was up to and how he’s been. My whole day, possibly week, was made better.

This goes without saying but bullying is never okay. I will teach my children this, to stand up against bullies & not to just stand by or join in if someone is getting bullied.

Let’s all teach the future generations to respect everyone. Let’s all help end bullying once and for all.

P.S. Stop by tomorrow to read all about how Tim and I met! I’m excited to publicly share our story for the first time 🙂

Living For the Next Time We’ll See Each Other

Filed Under: Uncategorized // March 12, 2013

The closer it gets to seeing Timmy, the more anxious I get… and sometimes sad and frustrated because I just want to be together and 2+ years of countdowns and feeling like I come second to a nonliving/breathing thing, i.e. the Navy, are not the easiest things. (That being said, I am proud and support him and the military 110%.) Well, we are almost just a week from being reunited and those familiar feelings have returned. So I decided to watch my favorite wedding vow video: http://vimeo.com/12485696 and you should too, especially if you’re in need of a pick-me-up also 🙂 P.S. the song is perfect; it is an absolute favorite of mine.

And in Bachelor news: I am so happy he chose the beautiful Catherine!!

This Weekend I:

Filed Under: linkup, weekend // March 11, 2013

***If you are a fan of Army Wives but didn’t get a chance to catch the season premiere, you might not want to scroll down because I speak (very briefly) about the episode & will give away something.

Went to a casino near my house for the first time. I don’t gamble (I only played my free $20) so I hung out at the bar/lounge with my cousin and uncle for most of the night. My mom and aunt joined us for some time, too.

Tried yoga for the first time since high school … and still didn’t like it. So I tried Daily Burn‘s MOVE workout, which is similar to Zumba, and LOVED it. That will be my workout for now 🙂