5 years!!

December 3rd was mine & Jamie's 5 year anniversary! I was so excited & happy because I couldn't believe that five whole years has already gone by! The day started off okay, then I remembered that Jamie had a stupid physical therapy appointment at 2. I would not have gotten so upset if Jamie wasn't in shift work and working the night shift. He goes in around 6. Ugh. He didn't get home until 3:30 and Presley had just laid down for a much needed nap. We were supposed to go to our favorite restaurant (Carmen's) but I knew she was going to be asleep for a good hour/hour and a half. So I decided to just order some barbecue from the restaurant on base that is only a few minutes from our house. Jamie called to place an order and the darn woman could barely speak English. It took him about 20 minutes to place his order and by that time I just said forget it. It takes about 45 minutes and it was already 5pm.

I was in such a bad mood after that. I was hungry. I hadn't had anything to eat all day because I thought that we would be going to Carmen's. The night ended with Jamie running to NEX for diapers and picked up some flowers while we was there. Stargazer lilies. Yes, they made me happy. They always do. We decided to stick to the traditional 5th anniversary gifts. This year was the wood anniversary. My handyman built me this wonderful storage thingy for the kitchen/dinning room. The colors have special meanings. The peachy color is the color that I pained my living room/dinning room and hallways back in Kingsland. It's a few shades darker than the actual color but I wanted the storage thingy to be bold. The dark teal is the EXACT color of my master bathroom in Kingsland. It was so beautiful and when the sunlight would come through in the morning, it was heavenly. I miss that house so much. *sigh*

Aside from the uber sexy lingerie that I wore for him, I bought a really awesome bamboo picture frame and put my favorite picture of me & Presley inside. This picture. She was only one month old and she looked at the computer for the picture. It was awesome. :) He hasn't seen the picture frame yet. I wasn't able to print it out & frame it up without him knowing. We stayed up really late Tuesday night and ate breakfast around 3am. It was nice.

Anyway,
Thanksgiving was last week. Right? It was nice but exhausting. I cooked an entire Thanksgiving dinner. I was exhausted. I had Jamie invite some people that over that didn't have anywhere else to go. We had four people not counting the three of us. It was nice and quiet. Presley sat in her highchair and ate a Gerber "meal" that was turkey and sweet potatoes. She was so cute. Jamie gave her some of our mashed potatoes because they weren't salted or buttered yet. She enjoyed them. Haha. I missed being surrounded by family and friends. I wasn't close to the people that attended our dinner. There was one other girl that night, she didn't come into the kitchen or talk to me at all. I was very friendly and even took her some deviled eggs in the midst of my chaotic meal preparation. She didn't say anything to me but enjoyed the male company. She was a girlfriend of one of the guys that night (who talked to me and made the gravy since i was obviously exhausted) and she actually works on the boat. I'm not use to that either. Only men work on the subs. I don't know. I guess she's more use to being around men. After all, there are way more guys on the boat.

I invited a few of my friends over but they were all trying their own Thanksgiving stuff this year. I just figured that since we are all away from our families that we should spend the holidays together. Oh well.

Meh. It's now 5am. I still haven't gone to sleep. Jamie gets home in a couple hours. Presley just woke up. I fed her and now she's playing on the floor with her toys. I can't sleep at all. Jamie's in shift work and I can't sleep without him in the bed. I know it's weird. Even after all these years and all of these deployments, I still need him in the bed with me at night.

Oh well. I'm going to go play with Presley.