Someone get that man a bottle!

So Adam and I attended the finals of Military Idol last night. Let me tell you, the first two acts terrified me. They were soo, soo, sooo bad. Seriously. I couldn't help but feel sorry for them though, especially when the judges were basically telling them they sucked. Which while they absolutely did, I still felt bad people were saying it to their face! I think I must be getting soft in my old age LOL. But lucky for those of us watching the show, the other three acts were pretty good. The girl that won was from Adam's unit so everyone in our little area was pretty pleased about that. As the winner she receives $500 (in the mail, apparently. They also send her tape to the states and if she's chosen she gets to travel back to the states to perform. Who knew it was such a big thing! lol Oh and if you're wondering about my post title, that was yelled at one of the judges by a drunk guy who didn't like one judge's comment. I found it pretty entertaining.

Other than that, it's been a pretty uneventful weekend so far. I spent most of today working on the DST newsletter. Still kind of confused as to what happened to the deadline of the 26th considering it's almost the 1st here and we're still waiting on stuff. *sigh* Really makes me appreciate just how hard the Aggie editors worked. But despite all that I highly recommend you check out this month's issue. Holly's kit is gorgeous, you won't want to miss it!

So I'm going to get my haircut tomorrow. I'm scared! I had Adam make me an appointment because I knew that if it was left up to me, I would never go. Of course Adam didn't exactly boost my confidence when he said that my appointment is more than likely under the name "Jac" since they didn't understand him when he was giving them his name LOL. Umm, yeah, please send good vibes my way at 10am my time. I'm thinking I'm going to need them.

Well that's all I've got for now. I've got to get back to finishing up the newsletter and get some sleep. Tomorrow is going to be a crazy day of packing, cleaning and general preperation for Japan! Later!

I met a 4-star general today!

I really did! General BB Bell, who is the commander in charge of all of USFK. I had agreed to go to a spouses' luncheon today because Adam called me saying they needed someone to go. He'd told me it was FRG related so I wasn't really too excited about going. But it ended up not being too bad! The general went around to each table so we all got to shake his hand and introduce ourselves. Then he and his wife gave some short speeches about how awesome we are for being military wives and the sacrifice of that. Then they opened up the floor for questions and any issues we had. Most of the issues weren't really anything too major: not enough parking at the schools, why some people get cars when others don't, that kind of thing. Nothing I would consider earth-shattering in terms of importance. But we did get a free lunch out of the deal as well as the general's coin. I'm pretty sure Adam is jealous that I got one, since when I showed him, he was all "Aww, you got the good one!" LOL It just looks like a fancy coin, if you ask me. ;) So yeah, that was my excitement for today.

Oh I've been tagged! Melanie tagged me which means that I have to follow these rules and then tag other people. Since I can't think of anyone that hasn't already been tagged in my limited number of blogs that I read, I'll just leave it open ended. If you'd like to be tagged, consider yourself tagged. ;) Here's what you have to do:

List 5 weird things about yourself or your pets. (Am I the only one that thinks it's weird you'd write about your pets? Like you don't have a self to write about? hehe)
Tag 5 friends and list them.
Those people need to write on their blogs about 5 weird things, and state the rules, and tag 5 more people. Don't forget to let the people you tag know by posting a comment on their blog! Here are my weird things:

1. I hate green beans.
2. I'm really picky about food texture. I usually dislike something for the texture more than the taste.
3. I'm originally from Hollister, CA. (Like the store, but not. The beach is at least 30-45 minutes away and as far as I know there is no surf or ski club. Oh, but my sister's friend did have someone ask her where she got her super cool "hollister P.E." shorts LOL)
4. I don't like Korean food. I personally don't think this is weird but based on the reaction I get here apparently it is.
5. Adam says I can't leave a glass of water empty - I always leave like a quarter of an inch left. Like the girl in the movie Signs. But I don't think it's to ward off aliens. hehe

I did finish up a new layout last night which is one of my favorite's I've done lately. It uses Holly's new Pep Talk kit which you can find here at PDW. I'd been planning on doing something with these photos and then when I saw she was releasing that kit I knew the colors would go perfectly with the photo. So here it is:


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Pretty, isn't it?

And I promised I'd be bringing something new to the blog so I figured I'd go ahead and unveil it. Drum roll please...ok so it's not really that exciting...but you know what it is...



Spiffy, no? So since the new TV season is getting into full swing I thought I would start a new section of my blog to rant, rave, or praise the various shows that I watch. I usually do it as I'm watching but it tends to bug Adam. hehe So yeah, should be fun, I hope. LOL

Ok first up, Gilmore Girls! The first episode aired this week and I had prepared by watching the last season last week. Yeah, I'm a dork like that. LOL But does anyone else thinks it's weird how adament Lorelai is about it being over with Luke? I get that he didn't make a decision right away but sheesh, a day later seems like it should be close enough. Oh well, since this is probably the last season, my guess is they'll drag it out for awhile and it will end with Lorelai ending up with someone. Who is anyone's guess.

Ok that's all I've got for now. Till next time...

Lazy Weekend

Nothing too exciting to report about this weekend. Adam had to pull duty at the hospital front desk all Friday night so he spent quite a bit of Saturday sleeping. Sunday we made a quick trip to Itaewon to get a couple of beanies for Susan, as requested. Apparently she thinks it's going to be cold or something in Chicago, hehe. But for $3 each you can't really beat the price and they come in a bunch of cute colors. So I got her one green one and one blue and I think they'll work out pretty well. The only sad thing is it will probably cost me more to ship them than it did to buy them. Oh well, anything to keep little Susan warm, hehe.

So last night Adam convinced me to attend an FRG meeting on post. (That's the Family Readiness Group, for you non military folk.) I had been involved in the group as the publications chair up until the group went defunct back in April. Our FRG leader at the time basically got frustrated after we had 60+ people show up for the Easter Egg hunt and then no-one show up at the next meeting. After that she pretty much quit trying to get anything done, and I can't say I blame her since I was pretty annoyed by the whole situation as well. Way to help support the cause people. But now there's a whole new set of commanders in charge so hopefully they'll be able to turn things around. I said I'd be willing to help if they needed me, although I always feel weird at these things since I am by far the youngest wife that attends. So we'll see, hopefully it will work out well.

And I promised I would come back with some layouts for you so here they are. None of them are really new but I hadn't posted them on here yet so I thought I would go ahead and do that, assuming Blogger cooperates. First up is a fun layout of Adam that uses Lyndsay Riches' Floral Fresh page kit which can be found here at PDW.


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I made this next one for the first challenge at We Digi Dare Ya, the new digital dare blog. I'm pretty sure they're on Dare #4 now and so far I've only done one, so I'm a little behind. But I love the concept of it and it was created by a great group of girls so I highly recommend you check it out. You can find it here. And here is my layout for Dare #1:


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This next one I made for the Digi Chick sketch challenge which you can find here. The papers and elements are from Leah Riordan's Geek Chic kit, which I love. My favorite part by far is the photos though which I used Holly McCaig's new Purty Pics black and white actions on. These are my favorite actions of hers so far, they made the photos look so cool! You can snag them yourself here.


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And last, but certainly not least, is a layout using Jen Caputo's sketch from the last DST newsletter. I figure since I'm part of the newsletter team I should probably take the time to do a layout with it. So here it is. It uses Holly's new Ain't No Sunshine papers which you can find here. Aren't they pretty?


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Ok well that's all I've got for now. Be sure to tune in next time for an exciting new weekly feature!

Bad Blogger!

My poor neglected blog. I am so bad about updating this thing. I really should work on that...

So last weekend Adam and I decided to take in a little culture in the form of...Oktoberfest! Exciting, huh? Friday night the Dragon Hill Lodge on post held a whole event complete with arm wrestling, nail hammering and the Chicken Dance! I'm not exactly convinced the Chicken Dance is truly authentic but it was quite amusing to watch, given how much beer some of the people had had before hand. There was also a raffle where they gave away a round trip ticket to the States. Sadly I didn't win, which means I will continue to collect my pennies so I can return home. Now for your viewing pleasure a couple of pictures:


I know this looks oh so real, but I swear we have not left Korea. ;)


The event took place in this big tent behind the hotel. I thought the flags and pretzels on trees were a nice touch.


Here's Adam enjoying his food. Appetizing, huh? hehe


I stuck with a safer choice for dinner: waffles, strawberries and whipped cream. Yum!

Sunday we went to an authentic Korean 1st birthday party for Adam's commander's daughter. For those of you that don't know, in Korean culture the first birthday is a big event since back in the day, many children didn't live to see their first birthday. As part of the ceremony, the child is asked to choose from a variety of items which symbolize their future. At this party they included two extra items - a computer mouse for "computer knowledge" and a microphone for a "pop star." Guess what item the little girl picks? The microphone! She's going to be a pop star! LOL I don't know if that's a good or bad thing but I found it highly amusing. Now onto my favorite photo from the party:



This just proves that you are never too old for birthday hats and noisemakers! hehe And look, it's even a Spongebob hat - perfect!

Ok I think that's all for now! I do have a few layouts to share but I think I'll save those for another post. Have a nice day!

Don't miss this!

That's right, the second issue of the DST newsletter is now finished! You should all givw a special thank you to Mel who worked on her birthday to get this done. It's packed full of lots of fun articles and information so be sure to check it out! (If you're not signed up over at DST but would like to check it out, just let me know and I'll get you a copy.)

So Jen Wilson is having a contest over at her site. I wasn't sure I wanted to enter at first simply because you have to buy all her products to participate and a part of me doesn't really like that. I realize that it's a great marketing scheme but I just don't like that there's no option to participate without purchasing her stuff. Anyway I gave in since I love a good contest and the style of the kit was cute. So, here's my first week's entry:


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The whole point of the contest is to create more meaningful pages. You can see this week's assignment here, as well as all the other entries here. There are no eliminations so it should interesting to see how everything plays out.

I've also got a few other pages that I finished but had never posted on here. I decided to go ahead and try out these templates that everyone has been raving about. I will admit that they're a lot of fun but somehow I don't get the same satisfaction knowing that I didn't come up with the design. Maybe it's just that they don't fit my style. But it was fun to try them out and they certainly do speed things up!

The first layout is just a fun pic from when went to the beach here in Korea. It uses Lyndsay Riches' Cool Summer kit found here at PDW.


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The second one is just a cute picture of Alyssa and this "dog-bear" we found here in Korea at E-Mart, which is like a crazy Korean Wal-Mart. The dog is so adorable and soft, I so want to buy one, hehe. The kit is Urban Femme by Leah Riordan - you can find it here.


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And last but not least, my favorite one! This was based on the sketch challenge over at The Digi Chick, so it's not my usual style but I really really love it! And the kit by Holly is awesome! Love the colors! You can find it as well as the other pieces of the collection here at PDW.


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That's all I've got for now! It's been a long day getting the newsletter all finished up so I'm going to spend the evening relaxing. At least I didn't stay up all night like poor Mel! TTYL!