Today I bought my first vaccum cleaner, and it was an adventure. Have any of you ever done this before? It's so confusing! First of all there's like 30 to choose from, each with their fancy brand names and logos. The dyson ball! Dirt devil! Oreck! Bissel! Just to name a few. And of course all with extreme and varying price ranges. I already knew i wasn't in the budget for a $400 purple dyson ball beast-of-a-cleaning-machine (even though it's totally awesome and i want one), so i started my shopping with the more modestly priced vaccums.
But... all those features!! Cyclonic!? Aren't all vaccums kinda like a cyclone? What in the bejesus makes this one so much more "cyclonic" than the others? Do i get bagged or un-bagged? Is there an advantage to having all your lovely carpet dirt in a compact fancy bag instead of just a cup you dump in the garbage? I have no idea!!!! I starred and all of these trying to read their descriptions and decipher their science for almost a half an hour, it was a whole thing...
But in the end, I settled for a Dirt Devil "feather light cyclonic" type of vaccum. Why you ask? Well I recognized the name dirt devil, it's been around for decades so there must be some kind of good behind the name right? And then it said it was "feather light" and that appealed to me because lugging a vaccum up and down the stairs will get super old if the thing weighs as much as my car does. And lastly, I definitely bought into the "cyclonic" description, why? Because SCIENCE. Actually it just sounded cool, and in my head I imagined a scene out of the movie twister where the tornado sucks up an entire farm, and all those poor flying cows. Except this version was of the microscopic dirt and bacterial world living within the depths of my carpet, who may or may not have flying cows. It's hard to know these things you know? :)
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
"Happiness isn't real unlesss it is shared"
2 days..... There are only two days left until I see my husband!
It dawned on me the other day that it's been almost an entire year since I said goodbye to Rob on that early sunday morning in pensacola FL. After a short but amazing 6 months together it was time for me to say goodbye and experience my first roadtrip across the country back to our sunshine state, California. I already knew I was to be stationed here in Lemoore, but his future navy career was still in limbo. It's been an entire year... since we've been separated.
I have to hand it to myself, I didn't think I could do it. Long distance is by far the most evil disease that can ever plague a relationship. In the beginning it was horrid and the days had no end. But we've done it, and we've done it well. Distance does make the heart grow fonder, yet sadder as well. It's been a roller coaster, I can tell you that. But I'm happy I gave it a chance and had hope when I left that early melancholy morning. or else i never would have gotten to experiece what it's like to get proposed to in the Honolulu airport :)
And now I'm getting ready to see him for the third time since we got married in December :)
I get the saddest looks from strangers when i tell them our story, and it's understandable why. We're in the honeymoon phase, we should be experiencing all the fun little perks of being married together in a cozy apartment, with nothing but love and affection fueling our adventures. But life doesn't always deal you a hand with a royal flush, and the navy certaintly doesn't either. As it stands now we see each other every 2-3 months for a total of 10 days. The inbetween times are hard and lonely, but that week and a half is nothing short of bliss :) If life doesn't throw any more curveballs this next year, I should be able to move out to hawaii and get stationed there within the next 4-9 month. I've got every finger and toe crossed until it happens :)
I've learned a lot about myself this year and i've had to grow as a person to be able to handle this type of situation. But I know in the end it will all be worth it. And we'll have the best kind of story to tell our kids and grandkids, we've got inspiration to fuel a whole series of lifetime movies haha. To wrap up this post, I have to say, that even though I find distractions in my every day life to keep me content and a smile occassionaly on my face.... I never laugh so hard, have a heart so full, and smile so big as when we're together. My happiness is unstopable with him at my side.
It dawned on me the other day that it's been almost an entire year since I said goodbye to Rob on that early sunday morning in pensacola FL. After a short but amazing 6 months together it was time for me to say goodbye and experience my first roadtrip across the country back to our sunshine state, California. I already knew I was to be stationed here in Lemoore, but his future navy career was still in limbo. It's been an entire year... since we've been separated.
I have to hand it to myself, I didn't think I could do it. Long distance is by far the most evil disease that can ever plague a relationship. In the beginning it was horrid and the days had no end. But we've done it, and we've done it well. Distance does make the heart grow fonder, yet sadder as well. It's been a roller coaster, I can tell you that. But I'm happy I gave it a chance and had hope when I left that early melancholy morning. or else i never would have gotten to experiece what it's like to get proposed to in the Honolulu airport :)
And now I'm getting ready to see him for the third time since we got married in December :)
I get the saddest looks from strangers when i tell them our story, and it's understandable why. We're in the honeymoon phase, we should be experiencing all the fun little perks of being married together in a cozy apartment, with nothing but love and affection fueling our adventures. But life doesn't always deal you a hand with a royal flush, and the navy certaintly doesn't either. As it stands now we see each other every 2-3 months for a total of 10 days. The inbetween times are hard and lonely, but that week and a half is nothing short of bliss :) If life doesn't throw any more curveballs this next year, I should be able to move out to hawaii and get stationed there within the next 4-9 month. I've got every finger and toe crossed until it happens :)
I've learned a lot about myself this year and i've had to grow as a person to be able to handle this type of situation. But I know in the end it will all be worth it. And we'll have the best kind of story to tell our kids and grandkids, we've got inspiration to fuel a whole series of lifetime movies haha. To wrap up this post, I have to say, that even though I find distractions in my every day life to keep me content and a smile occassionaly on my face.... I never laugh so hard, have a heart so full, and smile so big as when we're together. My happiness is unstopable with him at my side.
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