Question of the Day

A bit of a random question, but I thought of this driving to post this morning.

Do you take off your wedding ring/jewelry you always wear for certain activities? Or do you never remove it?



I ask this, because I went swimming with a bunch of ladies and all of them wore their wedding rings in the water to swim. I don't. In fact, I take my wedding ring off when I do dishes, shower and pretty much whenever I get home because I don't want to hit it on something.

Sushi Boat!

Thanks to everyone who left me birthday wishes yesterday! I really do appreciate it and I feel so loved. :)



This picture is from last night. We decided on a sushi boat, filled with different kinds of sushi and sashimi. It was delish! I even had Nutella sushi for dessert.

Bittersweet Birthday

Today is my 27th birthday. It hardly seems real when I look at the number.

How is it possible that I'm 27 years old?!



Anyway, so far today has been...bittersweet.

I dropped Sean off this morning to catch a flight to the States, as he is serving as a representative of his company at the funeral of one of his friends. I actually attended the memorial service on-post today, hence why this birthday has been bittersweet.

Of course I would prefer my husband to spend my birthday with me, but when I thought about this year and the deployment, I didn't even expect to have him here at all, so it doesn't bother me as much as it might have in the past. The fact is that I have him alive and well when there are lots of women out there that don't. So..for that I am grateful.

Anywho...I'm celebrating tonight with a few friends at our favorite sushi place and I'm sure I'll have a glass (or two) of sake. Other than that I have no birthday plans, but I'm ok with that. I'm not as excited about my birthdays as I used to be.

Also I'd like to say Happy Birthday to a fellow mil-spouse blogger MTM over at MTM-To-Be. I had no idea until today we shared a birthday.

What Are You Reading?

I'm midway through summer and needing some books to add to my reading list. So I thought I'd ask you, my readers, what you are currently reading.

I'm currently reading this:



I'm a sucker for biographies and I do like this book. I'm seeing the Kennedy family in a whole different light though, I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

So tell me, what are you reading?

Snapshot Saturday

Santorini, Greece (Fira)

MilSpouse Friday Fill-In

Join in at Wife of a Sailor!



1. What is your favorite household chore?

Um...I don't really like to clean, but when I do clean I prefer to do laundry. It pretty much takes care of itself with minimal effort from me!

2. What is your favorite childhood memory?
Hmm..I have a lot. I grew up in the country and I love memories of helping out in our garden or all the pool parties that I had growing up. Also going to the library in the summer and stocking up on books is another favorite memory.

3. What is your most embarrassing moment?
We had a Bowl for Kid's Sake event in high school and I'm a horrible bowler. I went up to bowl, swung my arm back and the ball came flying off my fingers and back into the crowd. It was awful.

4. What uniform of your spouse’s is your favorite?
I love my husband in his ACU's. I like his Class A's, but I'm not a fan of Class A's with jump boots.

5. What canceled TV show do you miss the most?
I was really into Samantha Who and then they canceled it. What gives ABC?!

Unusual Perfume

A few weeks ago MSN or Yahoo ( I can't remember which) had a story on their page about unusual perfumes, naturally I had to click it and check it out. Several of the perfumes listed were from Demeter.

Now, I've bought Demeter before, once when I was in college I bought their Fresh-Cut Grass scent, to spray around my dorm room. Anywho, I didn't really think that particular scent smelled all that much like grass, but I have smelled other products of theirs that did smell remarkably like what they were modeled after.

On the list of unsual perfumes were two very odd choices: Funeral Home and Earthworm. I do realize funeral home has a distinct smell, but earthworm? And why would you want to smell like either one of those things?



Since that article I've been browsing around the Demeter website and have found a lot of scents that I'm curious about smelling.

Such as:

Christmas in New York
Bonfire
Dirt
Laundromat
Thunderstorm
Salt Air
Tomato
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

Anyone ever buy Demeter scents? If so, do you think they smell like what they are supposed to smell like?