College and my life goals

This is my fourth semester at LoneStar College and while I have enjoyed many of my classes, I am ready to have my Associates of Arts. I am hoping to receive it this May and move onto a University.

I have not decided what college I would like to move to since I am married to a soldier and we are currently looking into moving to a different base within the next few months.

I am looking to persueing a career in Architecture. I would also like to minor in Landscape Design and Interior Design also.

I am hoping that after I achieve my degrees that I can open my own business.

Cleaning out life (and my friends list)...

So just a week or so ago I deleted a bunch of people off of my facebook. You know that social network that gets so addicting and practically takes over your life? Yup that was it. I have never had a ton of friends and I personally feel that I don't need a million friends to make me happy. I am happy right where I am at. High school was like the friend pool, if you were the right person. I wasn't. And it never hurt me...Ever get tired of reading boring posts about people you don't care about and never did? Thats just facebook for practically everyone. I get so tired of these people I grew up with adding me but we never talked then and we don't talk now. Sounds kinda pointless right? I think so. Afterward feels kinda like getting out of the shower. Feels clean and fresh. Like a new day. I think cleaning out your life (and that friends list) is the best decision anyone can make. Your not cool for having a million friends (and btw you never will be...)

I only talk to a handful of friends that are on my facebook. Getting married and moving really opend my eyes to who my true friends are. Who will still be there for you once your gone? Making new friends was so much easier when your a child, going to school and having classes. Being married to the military is a whole new deal. Moving to a base. New rules. Living in the middle of no where. Life gets more complicated. You see those who are meant to be in your life in a whole new perspective and this definitely comes to light during deployment. Who is there for you when you were at your lowest moments in life? Who helped you back up when your loved one was gone? What has your best friend done for you? Those who are meant to be in your life come out right about now. At least mine did. I wish to think I am an independent woman but I know even I need help at times. As much as I wish my husband could be here to help me with everything I know I have to look to others. Having those true friends there for me is definitely what I look for these days.

To ReEnlist or Not...

This is a major question weighing on my mind. My husband is working on his last year of his contract right now and has the chance to reenlist while he is overseas..I have really thought long and hard about this because it is his choice but it does effect me and our family.

I don't care about the money, the steady job, the health benifits, or really anything else the Army has to give us. Yes it is a nice bonus,but as long as I am with my husband I am happy! I believe that this is truely his choice. If he is not happy with his job and where he is at in life then our relationship won't be where it should be or where it could be.

I would love it if my husband reenlisted because he has said he did not want to go to college but he wanted to go to SWAT after he got out of the Army. I think that spending more time in the Army would be the better thing to do before trying to get into a SWAT. He has only been in the Army for 3 years and we have only lived at one base..and this is NOT where I want to live the rest of my life!

Reenlisting would allow us to move to a new location and allow him to have "a new job"..because we all know duty stations change everything. While moving is not fun and making new friends would be hard I stand behind my husbands decions 110%. I know that even if we do not agree on what he should do..he knows what truely makes him happy, not me. If he is not happy at work, then how are we suppose to be truely happy in our marriage?

So I will leave you with this: To reenlist or not??

~S.B

I am an ARMY WIFE!... What's Your Superpower??

With my man being gone life has gone from always being hectic to now just sitting around most f the day and doing nothing. Before he left I thought I was being a good wife. Now that he is gone I see so many places I could have improved! I try so hard now to stay actve and keep myself busy so this time will go by faster than it is at the moment. There are so many new things I would love to lean while he is gone and being a better cook is one of them :)

Before I met my husband I was always scrapbooking and sewing..Even though in our new home I have a room all to myself for my crafts I had hardly worked on anything while he was here. Since he has left a goal of mine is to finish all of my projects I had said I wanted to complete before I met him.

Lets see if I can complete all of my goals in this next year before he returns home to me!