Here to stay.

Hey again! When we moved i got rid of the ferret because it would have been dificult to cart around to the new apartments and such. just because ferets are difficult.

Shaun got me a parakeet to keep me company! As a parakeet is a Budgerigar i call him Budgie. He he. Yeah im not exactly sure that "he" is a male. Thats one of the reasons i chose a gender nutral name. He has some blue on his nostrils but it could change. And if i am wrong about the sex of the bird, "he" will lay an egg in about six months. lol.

Today is my last night with shaun. I know i should probly be laying next to him, but i cant sleep. today janice printed out whats called the boot camp matrix. its a calander with what he'll be dong and where. It wasnt until i started looking at it that it really hit me just how long he would be gone and how i really wouldnt know him when he gets out. I hope he'll still like me. :)

Budgie, as with all of my animals, got used to us really easy. He didnt really skwak at me or try to bite me. he was really uneasy at first and it took a bit of coaxing, but he now loves to be with me. His favorite places to sit are on my finger,my shoulder, the screen on my lap top ( he perches on the right edge) and he perches on my phone while im texting or have my phone on speaker phone.

He loves music. He tries to sing, but he hasnt figured out how to mimic yet. he can only make bird sounds. Which is to be expected. He is a baby after all. But He knows where his cage is. This might be kinda bad while i live with my parents (because butch - aka - niki and zander will try to eat him if this happens) but he hops of my shoulder and flutters to the ground and wadles over to the dressor (his cage is at the top) and makes peeping sounds until i go to him and put him in the cage.

He's a pretty cool bird.

night!

"Semper Fi"

Semper Fi-- or --Semper Fidelis means "Always Faithful" by exact translation in latin.

I have decided to use this as my blog title. For a few reasons. First because my husband is joining the marines. Second becuase is sounds really cool.

The first time i saw this phrase, it was on tonys marines folder when he had first decided to join. I thought it sounded pretty cool but thought nothing of it. After all, my husband was never going to join the millitary; i would be in texas forever. yay!

My mom always told me the best way to make the lord laugh is to set out a life plan. It seems she was right. Im moving. Far away from texas. Im not exactly sure when or where to yet. But soon i will know.

I can either follow my husband to where ever he is for follow up training and not get to live with him, or i can move to Utah and get my schooling done. Oh and lets not for get, And not get to live with him.

This fact alone is what got me really thinking about "Semper Fi." I began to think of all the possible reasons they chose that phrase. And then i realized they didnt chose it for one reason. But for several, many. Infact there are several reasons to each marine. So millions and millions of reasons.

After this amazing apifanny, something amazing happened to me. Im sure it happens to many people all the time. But it was, to me, euphoric.

Okay, stop holding your breath; I'll tell you. I ate a piece of Dominoes Veggie pizza. Then i got back to thinking.

Once i was thinking on a full stomach, i thought of what it meant to me.

I decided that for me it was a symbol of hardship and joy. Hardship because i would constantly be away from my husband. Joy because next to serving the lord, serving our country and protecting that of the constitution is one of the most nobile things you could do.

I thought of the effect it would have on my family. Both negative and positive.

On Whole, Im extremly proud of my husband. I have a newfound respect for him aswell.

If you would like to speak to Shaun, email him here : chelleybabey@yahoo.com and Put "Shaun" in the subject line.

If you would like to speak to me, email me here:

chelleybabey@yahoo.com and put what ever you want in the subject line.

Happy Thanks Giving.

The fist thing i would like to say, is that i hope you had/are having a good Thanks Giving. Please try/I hope you tried to avoid "Turkey Coma." (he was an evil turkey in a short story i wrote)

Secondly, i would like to say that we have 3 pets. I'd like to start with dixie. Dixie is a medium sized dog. This easter she will be 4 years old... if she wasnt white she might start getting grey hairs. She is obsinant, challenges my authority and stubborn. (Sound like anyone we all know and love?) Hopefully she doesnt have a mid-life crisis. Its kind of hard to picture her with a biker jacket and a tattoo on her back leg that says. "I hate Ila."

Next is Fresca. Fresca is a white ferret. Not albino; white. She is very dainty. She even runs dainty. She has dainty litte feet. She is a little bit quirky. She has figured out how to get into the dressor droors while they are closed...And she leaves things.Including the dog's food. If you ever want to find something you've lost in my house (keys, remote, anything shiney,your cell phone charger, THE ENTIRE BAG OF TOILET PAPER. No, no. This is true. she has taken then entire bag of toilet paper before and then removed each roll and hidden them all over the house.) you look in the bathroom behind the trash can, behind the desk, behind the washer and dryer or in the dressor droors.

We have this droor at the bottom of our entertainment center where we keep all of our instruction manuals. Fresca has completly rearanged this droor and left a little space in the front corner for her to sleep in. I hadnt figured out until today how she was getting in and closing the droor. We figured that she was just climbing in through the back. but today i saw her pull it open with the handle and run to the back to throw her weight at the back of the droor to close it. Then i heard her rustling around to get into place in her little corner. I thought i was gonna pee because i was laughing so hard. She's very funny.

Next is _____. He is the newest additon to our family and is, thats right, a ferret! I decided not to get a white one this time. his face is white, But mostly he is black and brown. I am still learning his personality and watching him to learn his hiding spots.

He plays with me way more than Fresca does. Very hyper, very energetic. He is quite small still and will get about twice as large. He's just barley smaller than fresca but will get much bigger. i look at him and go, "wow, your feet are huge!" lol. Apparently this is common in boy ferrets. I dont know much about him yet, but so far, he likes the purple box with holes, and he likes this pen i with a fake flower at the end.

I'm having trouble naming him, so i would appreciate tons of suggestions from everyone.

Tootles!

Ila.

they cal me mellow yellow...

(To read the picture, click on it.)

Hey Everyone. For Shaun's birthday, i got him an Ipod. My brother tells me that they are evil and all mac products should be burned and then have they're ashes burned to make sure no one is poisoned. But thats Andy, so... Im feeling pretty tired lately. Thus the blogg title. Shaun is having his vacation this weekend which means he'll have tuesday and wednesday like usual and then i'll also have him saturday, sunday and monday! yay. I get to see my parents and Andy!!! wooo wooo!

Anywho... back to his vacation. We are going to my parents house this weekend to have thanksgiving with them since shaun will no doubt be working on thanksgiving. which is actually okay with us, because he gets double pay on holidays. We probly wont have Christmas on Christmas either. But that doesnt bug me, My best christmases were the ones where we didnt have it on the 25th and my dad was there the WHOLE day. love it. lol.

Shaun and i may be spending the christmas holiday alone however, Shauns family is going on vacation for christmas. so it might be kind of lonely while shaun's at work, but what can you do?

I thought it would be strange to have shaun turn 21. but it wasnt. its almost like nothing happened. I remember thinking that my birthday got less and less eventful the older i got. When i turned 17 i actually cried because my birthday was so boring. lol. But i never expected it to be like, "Eh, whatever, just annother day."

I started going to church again. I am once again an active member. I realized i was inactive and it bothered the bajeezes out of me, so i went. i even went to relief society. i had to walk by the door like seven times to get the nerve to go in though. i dont really know why it was so scary, but it was. But once i was in i couldnt help but smile. i had a good time.

I figure, all the times the lord has kept me alive where i should have been gone, i owe him big, i will go to church, and enrichment. sigh. hopfully i like it.

but my mind is becomeing blank and i havnt eaten yet, so im off. Goood bye!

NOTE TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY:

I am aware that i dont follow all of the rules of eticate. However, i didnt mean to offend anyone and have removed the "inapropriate" things from my posts. you have my apologies, i would like you all to continue to read as this is my way of keeping in touch.

First Ever Blog

Aparently, over the past year there have been rumors about strange events that occured on December the 12th flying around. Well, They finally got to me so i decided to check it out and see if is was true. And low and behold, They were! I got married.

I have been married for just a little under a year now. And Shaun wasnt really aware that i was abig mountain of coockoo that randomly erupts molten crazy before we got married. Now he does. Now, its not that nobody told him. Nay, everyone who knew me warned him of this. My father even told him there would be no refunds and he didn't get it. He just wouldn't listen.

Either way, he is now the only person who can understand what im saying when i get really hiper. (all the time) my poor in laws just nod thier heads and pretend to know what im talking about. It used to be that my mother was the only one who could. But perhaps time and distance made it so that every other sentance is, "could you say that again? and in english possibly?" The poor woman. She tries so hard to stay connected with me and im truly greatful.

6 years ago (gosh has it been six years?) if you had told me that i would become friends with my mother and marry a man who is afraid of bugs, i would have told you your were nuts. But here we are and im happy.

Also 6 years ago if you told my parents that they would make it another five years with out killing me and i would be married and sending messages to them about how much i love them, miss them, and how sorry i am i made thier lives hard; they would ask you if you had been hitting the crack pipe.

I wouldn't exactly say that im extreemly hormonal 24/7 but shaun is nice enough to remind me that denial is not just a river in Ejypt. I cant even imagine what I'll be like when im pregnant. I think the very thought terrifies him. But time will tell.
We also found a job that would allow us to make enough money to officially not be poor anymore. yay! He is getting information from a man who works for the said company as to when they will be hiring and shaun hopes to have this new job just after thanksgiving.

Ta!