We meet yet again...

Oh my my my, I'm too excited. Tomorrow anywhere from 11am-4pm I will be getting a phone call from Timothy! Its been so long, three months..... He's finally and officially a MARINE. Crucible ended 7:00am this morning and tomorrow is his first well deserved liberty Sunday. 5 more days until I see him and it's almost impossible to believe. This was an incredibly hard journey but looking back on it I see at it went by fast, okay I say that now lol but I wasn't saying that 2 months ago. I started this blog in the day that he oedt :) Talking to him will feel almost surreal. I can't even imagine how that conversation is going to go. I hope I get SOME words out and don't stay paralyzed from the shock of hearing his voice. I've had to stop writing letters and so it's odd I've been keeping in a lot of words and I'm not even sure how long the conversation will last. I'm just exited :) Wish me luck !!! GOD PLEASE HELP ME BE SOMEWHAT LOVELY, Stephanie

It's beens so long ! There's so much to say !

Hello lovely ladies ! (my pictures are all out of whack I will fix then later, the iPad does not post things very well) Okay so it's been forever some things have happened. I finished my semester and still have my scholarship thank god so in August I'll officially be a sophomore at Manhattanville College Fun :) so there's only about 16 days until I see my Marine. And im beyond excited. Cannot wait for family day and graduation. Okay I still have no idea of what it is that I'm going to wear. I'll be in Parris Island, South Carolina June 6-9 it's going to be so hot I'm not sure what to wear. Any ideas?? Here's what we have planned: I just cannot wait to see him in uniform it's been so long and even though 10 days don't feel like enough to spend with him I'll take whatever I can get. Im also excited because I'll be traveling with his family we will be flying into north Carolina then driving down to south Carolina yes a road trip. And attending family day then staying the night in a hotel with his family and probably dying of anxiety to see him again lol and then graduation !!!! After graduation we are hitting the road in our rented car and heading for myrtle beach :) fun Then well head back to north Carolina, my father lives in NC so hopefully we can all meet up and he can meet Timothy for the first time and in uniform, oh my. And I might get to see the love of my life my little man (brother)he came two weeks ago to NY as as uprise visit I was way too happy !!!

Then after that we fly back home to NY and he's all mine, wait not until the day after because the same day that we fly in three hours after we step foot on NY land he has a welcome home PARTY oh god. Which is on saturday and the same day we get nack, I only have three hours to rush to the salon get my hair done, get ready,and pick up the cake that I got for his party. Very hectic but so much fun I just cannot wait !!! Then Monday is my birthday :) JUNE 11th the day before which is Sunday Timothy and I and a group of friends are going to go camping to celebrate my birthday, camping in cabins and tents campfires, s'mores the cliche lol an then Monday is my bday and then we have the rest of the 10 days to enjoy. Okay so what else have I been up to ? My mother threw a surprise birthday party for my step dad, that was loads of fun and a night filled with tons of dancing. Here's what I wore

Other than that I spent countless nights doing essays with my very old bald headed bird right beside me. I love her but she refuses to show affection.

And when I wasn't with the baby bird (she's like 15 years old lol far from a baby) I've been lounging with one of my three dogs Meet Munchie :) there's also Chloe, and princess.

This is enough for now, I'll post back soon if any news come up and definitely to update on any new plans and family day plus graduation.

Be lovely, Stephanie

The little things

Saying Hi again, so I wanted to just blog about some small random things, I've been missing my chipmunk like crazy and like I posted in an earlier post, I'm obsessed with  Taylor Swifts song Safe and Sound, its amazing and makes me feel better. So wanted to somehow find a small discrete way to always have a reminder of Timothy and always have something there that represents him. I made a small bracelet with my full name and his three initials and wear it all the time. It's cheesy but helps!

Another thing that helps is Food! lol yesterday was my fabulous mothers birthday and of course there was cake and chocolate covered fruit form Edible Arrangements YUM! The cake was mango flavored, and the ice cream pineapple coconut

Oh! & silly me has a fear that he'll forget what I look like so I sent him this lol 

So that's all for now, I must stop procrastinating and get done with my homework, its almost 12 am. Yuck no wonder I've been needing coffee lately! 

Out do the loveliest of them all darling,

Stephanie

what happens in mini Vegas stays in mini Vegas

Hi again! So I've been completely MIA. I've been keeping busy, or trying to at least and have so much going on. I've gotten so many letters from Timothy 22 envelopes with anywhere between 1-3 letters in each envelope so that makes me feel loads better. 

The semester is coming to an end and I'm scrambling to make deadlines and finish my last assignments. School is just so hectic! 

I recently went to Atlantic City in Jersey with my sister and to say the least it was interesting, its like a mini Las Vegas. It was fun I drove about two hours there from NY stayed for two nights at the Trump Taj Mahal hotel and Bally's hotel which has a cool indoor and outdoor western theme. Ate tons of food way too fast for me to even take pictures of it and stayed up late, went to casinos, went hotel hopping, shopping and slept on comfy beds. 

At the Taj getting ready to go shopping. Leopard maxi dress!

This is at Bally's can you see the wild wild west theme?

 Indoor water fall at the hotel it looks small but was huge

At Caesars Hotel, Amazing and huge !

 Indoor water show at the Caesars hotel Mall 

it went hand in hand with the music playing

Spectacular mall. Loved it!

The boardwalk 

Back at Caesars amazing statues all along the cieling

 A tiny glimpse of the casino

I was way too sleepy! Ha!

Other than that I've been busy writing letters to Timothy like crazy. and trying to catch up on my sleep college really wears you down. I drank coffee today! Ah! I never do that but it was well needed and was a huge help! 

Stay lovely, 

Stephanie

Loads of it

Just and Update, I have been getting more letters which of course make me happy. He sounds exactly the same so the Marines hasn't changed him too much, although he seems a lot more serious about life in general. Oh and I cannot get enough of meeting new people (girlies) with Marine boyfriends, or military bf's in general, which I've been meeting a ton of them and they are amazing. Thanks girls!

Today 

So yesterday I got a call that I have been dreading. I might sound dramatic to some but hear me out, here's the story. Before Timothy left to boot camp, we decided to do things to enjoy our last days together, one of those things was to go and make our own pottery! This is something I have been dying to do and was so excited to do it. The closest place that we found was in Connecticut, which I didn't mind at all because I would give up my bald headed bird to live in CT (omg just kidding). So the day before we were all scheduled to go to the private pottery lesson, they called and said they had to cancel and if they could reschedule it for next week. Timothy briefly explained that he couldn't next week because he would have already left for Marines boot camp. The conversation quickly ended, and we were both pretty upset, especially because the horseback riding trail ride that we had scheduled for the same day had also canceled on us. Within about 5 minutes we get a call back from the pottery place and they told us there's no way they could turn down a Marine, especially because the owner comes from a Marines family. We were so happy and surprised. The class was amazing, we had a private lesson with the owner herself and literally made bowls out of big chunks of clay, water and a spinning wheel. 

There's Timothy working very hard 

Here's the outcome

For our first time I think it came out pretty good 

Okay, so in order to give it amazing color and a nice glazed look to it, the owner told me she'd call me back in about two weeks so that I can go pick it up. Timothy of course would be in boot camp, so I'd have to go all by myself and go get them, which to me was very depressing and as much as I wanted to see the bowls, I was not looking forward to that. So I brought along an amazing friend of mine, and went. Thank God for friends, I don't know how in the world i would have felt if I had to go alone. Am i being dramatic? 

So because we were already there I figured I should take my friend to Crumbs cupcake bakery (Timothy and I went the day that we did the pottery, and he loves it). I love this place, There's one in the city and a few in CT, 

so I had to go. 

Milkshake cupcake 

On a last note, I have been feeling very, very, very down lately. The more days that pass the harder it gets. But I have no choice but to suck it up and deal. One thing that has been making me strangely happy is this song, it from Brazil, and it has a cutesy dance to it that I think everyone should try to find on YouTube and learn it, it's fun! My sister and I have been learning it and the words, and since we are Spanish we can understand most of it, if you cant, definitively look up the meaning it helps make the dance a whole lot spicier.  :) The girls from Brazil cannot get enough of it, you'll see what I mean.

Michel Telo- Ai Se Eu Te Pego

Feel Lovely, 

Stephanie

Hello there love

So we are in contact :) I got letters from him and I feel soooo happy. I've gotten five envelopes and a piece of his belt which was a sweet touch. The letters helped a lot but they break my heart because even in his last letter he has yet to get any of my letters to him and he was really saddened by it, I could tell. I'm sending letter like cray I think I'm on my 7th one about to write and send the 8th. I just always want his name to be called at mail call. I've been adding puzzles and mazes and word searches in his letters lol I hope that helps him. I read all of his letters to me almost every day memorizing each word, it's all I have of him right now. Then I lay them all out and stare at it completely floored by the fact that we're actually doing this that we actually together made this decision, it's hard it I know it will be worth it

Trying to stay lovely, Stephanie

Support

WARNING: if you don't want to hear me go on and on about how going through this is hard please feel free to stop reading lol,it's okay no hard feelins. But if you don't mind, well thank you darling! Okay so I started doing this blog in order to get all of my feelings out there and in order to have him be able to come and look at all of this when he comes back. Also I really wanted to be able to connect with others going through whatim going through. Which is hard because not many people are and not many people talk,I get tons of views but no convo, it's okay though. so I also looked for another site that was more specific and had a lot more conversation in it. Which is what i need, to talk to others who have gone through it with their boyfriends or are still going through it. I found this amazing place where I've already Come in contact with a handful of people who are very willing to talk to me and are also recently going through their boyfriend being in bootcamp. If you need that extra support from people who understand take a look: You can talk to me on there too! http://marinefamilynetwork.com/profile/STEPHANIEANNERS

Be lovely, Stephanie

Oh Mr. Sun

I'm blogging like crazy! Sorry! I just have so many thoughts, too many thoughts. 

I cannot wait any longer for Summer to hurry up and get here. I'm dying to get a bathing suit on, sun bathe, jump in some pools, and swim in a few oceans. Am I the only one? Even though I'll be enjoying most of the Summer alone, since Timothy will either be in BC or MOS school, it's okay, I'll make the best of it with some amigas. 

Be lovely,

Stephanie

Music to my ears

My Oh My....

I've been completely obsessed with this song, Safe and sound by Taylor Swift. I absolutely love it. how about you?  So here it is. Enjoy.  

Be lovely,

Stephanie

Some new things

So what's up for today ?

I've been going nuts looking at my laundry basket get bigger and fuller. School and work dominate my life, so when I get home I don't have time to clean in detail, but today is completely committed to just that, cleaning and putting away all my clothes. Oh! Yesterday I went shopping and got this cutesy romper and crazy dramatic ring. what do you think ? 

Be lovely,

Stephanie

Finally Something!

Hi, So I am so exited, last night while finishing up a super important and dreadful essay,my phone rings at 9:18pm. No, it wasn't Timothy, it was his mom. She told me she finally got his address and wanted to give it to me. I was so happy and grateful that she remembered and even thought to tell me. She said

"I know how he thinks, I know that when he sent us the address that he was hoping that we would give it to you, so now when he gets a letter from you hell know we're letting you know as much as we know. Write him a lot so that he feels better"

That made me feel so much better. And she was right, knowing him, he was definitely stressing if I would get the address too. Im also excited because I also got to talk to her about the flights and going to NC, Parris Island to go to his graduation! Super excited for that. Cant wait to fly back home to NY with him. It is far away but at least now I get to write to him, and hear from him. I feel that the time is going to go by faster now. Let's hope ! So Ive already been writing him letters and when I woke up this morning I immediately went straight for the post office, gave them in and bought stamps.

From experience, do the letters really help time go by faster or does it just add on to the waiting game? 

 Be even more lovely darling, 

 Stephanie

Girs will be girls

Forgive me!

 I'm blogging up a storm but I finally have the time to so here it is. FRIENDS are honestly the best, and if you have amazing friends like I do then they'll be there for you when you truly need them no matter what. The weekend Timothy left, I immediately went and had a well needed sleepover with a friend that I knew for as long as I knew Timothy. She's amazing, meet Kathy. Talking to someone, anyone about how I was feeling really helped and made me see things in perspective. It's amazing when you can see things from someones else's point of view, it helped me feel more grounded instead of feeling like the emotional wreck that I was seriously on the verge of becoming. Hey, she even got a whole lot of smiles out of me. She's probably going to kill me for putting these pictures up ! 

 WARNING: we had way too much fun with the effects on the iPad. And yes I'm wearing a Marines sweatshirt <3

Chicken littles !

Oh my, I was looking through my very old photobucket account and I came across some very old pictures. Timothy and I have been friends for like 6 years. These pictures I found were from our first few months in high school. Fun.  We look the same but definitely did a lot of growing, him especially. 

 TRY NOT TO LAUGH AT US, ITS OKAY, i laughed at us.