Header Rage and a Frustrating Dream

Bah! So please ignore the fact that the header is not centered. Its been bothering me since Thursday and I don't have the ability to fix the image at the moment, please bear with me.

I had a dream this morning where my family threw me a surprise birthday party and Archimedes was there, and out of all the other people and presents I had not expected him and was so shocked. I go to run into his arms, but all the excitement I felt woke me up an I realized I was laying in my bed. It was probably one of the most depressing dream realizations I've ever had... Moop :/


Ah well... On to the rest of the day!

Brain Flood!

Well, I haven't posted anything for a few days and I've REALLY been meaning to. I even took pictures and everything. SO let us start.

Thursday 27th~
I had class and one of the lovely ladies in my French class brought a cookie cake that said "C'est Dégueulasse" Which means "That's Gross". It had a little silly clown on it too and the blue, white, and red of the French flag around the border.

Woops... Accidentally snagged one that said "ass". I didn't realize until I got to my desk.

Later that day, I went to the craft store and bought some patterns for a steampunk costume I've been planning for a while and fabric for my Halloween costume. I don't quite remember if I've shown what I decided I was going to be for Halloween, SO, here's a picture that is inspiration. 

Source

I plan on doing something similar to this, except for the jacket. A high-waisted circle skirt, a blue button up, along with my old uniform pumps and my friends flightcap from when we were in JROTC. I purchased the blue fabric for the circle skirt and soon I'll start working on it :D

These are the patterns I bought. Simplicity 4080 and 2172

Friday 28th~

Um... almost nothing, but watching Youtube videos. 

Saturday 29th~

Well, today consisted of running errands with my mother. I bought a few nail art pens and some Seche Vite (which I've been wanting for quite a while) and after about 30 minutes, this was the result:

Joker inspired nails

BANG! 

The Joker

BANG! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And that concludes my brain dump for the past few days! 

One Month Down

It has been a month since Archimedes has deployed. Time to buckle down and keep goin'! I just set up my calender for October since its just a few days away. My brain is short on words  for the moment, but everything has been going well so far :D So, goodnight!

My Short Animation Project

For my Motion Design class, we had to make a short little animation using little shapes and this was the result! I absolutely love it. I looked at my shape colors and realized they were the colors of the album cover of the song, so the song.. IMMEDIATELY came to mind. :)

Cotton Candy Sunsets

This evening the sky looked gorgeous. Whilst I was watering the garden, I decided to climb up on my hill and take some pictures of it.

I noticed a large amount of my posts end with "I need to go to sleep" sort of things. I tend to end up making posts at crazy hours of the morning, right before I go to bed. I can't usually think of any other way to end it so I go with that. I'll look into getting some more decent sleeping habits. 

On another note, I showed a very large group of my friends this blog... I think they like it.. I was very nervous and cautious to show anyone. Making this like my little diary is okay, but its nice to know someone is actually reading it.. or at least knowing it exists. 

Sleeping with dog tags on tonight.. clang clang clang.. Even though they're noisy, I love keeping my Airman closer to my heart in a more physical way. 

Today in the Mail...

I received something I've been waiting for, for quite a while :D Archimedes's dog tags. I don't know about you, but I'm all kinds of ecstatic! I don't have silencers on them right now so they make all kinds of noise >.<

I made sure they were whited out so none of his personal information showed. Also, one of my favorite shirts with a pin-up girl on it :D

I'll end up posting something later on tonight, but for now, I'm just as happy as can be :D 

Endeavour

Today at 9am, my family and I went to go see the space shuttle Endeavour. The drive wasn't too bad and the temperature was actually quite nice. We waited, patiently, patiently, and then impatiently the more we received updates of its location. We were at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) because we knew they were going to do a low and slow fly by as respect to a fellow NASA field center. It was absolutely graceful. Escorted by two F18 escort jets, it passed RIGHT over our heads and gracefully banked to the South.

Here's some pictures my aunt and I took, they're a bit zoomed in so the quality isn't as great.

~Endevour atop the modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier passing right over top us~ 

~One of its escort jets~ 

~Endeavour starting to bank and both of it's escort jets~

~Turning South with both jets~

~Heading away, to the South, to eventually land at LAX~

Busy Bee

I've been busy starting up a new quilt and working on a project for Archimedes. I haven't been doing much besides that, relaxing, talking to Arch, trying to work on a header for the blog. :D

Tomorrow morning, I'm going to JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) to watch a low flyover of the space shuttle Endeavour on its way to the California Science Center. The 8am wake-up will not be enjoyable, but the amazing memory will be worth it :D

Better head to bed! Have to get up in a few hours!

If Days Like Today Happened More.....

I'd be a very sad soul. Nothing extremely wrong with today, but if it happened more often I would be very upset. Today was just stressful, filled with a lot of unnecessary drama that I had previously tried to stay out of, but somehow got roped in anyways. Tomorrow is school again and I'm happy. Sometimes, oddly, school seems like a break rather than my days I don't have school.

Too much stress and I really don't want to rant about why sooo... ONWARD!

Talking to Archimedes was minimal, but I shall push through until tomorrow night when I can talk to him again. He woke up a bit late so there was no time to talk before he had to go to work. I wished him a good day with some kisses and then decided to take a few cute pictures and send them to his email that said I missed him in sign language. :D Tomorrow, while he's sleeping I'll start on the projects for his care package.



And with that... I'm heading to bed. T-minus 6 hours until I have to wake up!

Boring Weekend

So, this weekend I haven't really been doing anything of consequence, just household chores and a lot of relaxing. It's nice, but has been horribly hot and recently due to some sort of pipe problem there has been no water :( Going on the second day.. I really want a shower! I shall survive.

Lately, I've had a song stuck in my head that's a cover a girl from my High School did. She's a great independent artist and a WONDERFUL singer named Sara Niemietz. I've been singing this song to Archimedes the past two days, I think I've sufficiently got it stuck in his head. I just love everything about the way she does it. Soooo, here it is!

Un Frappé aux Fruits et Mon Prof de Français

So, this morning I made myself a nice smoothie, sat up in my room enjoying the fact that I didn't have a class until 12:30. I sat the smoothie down and devastation... Smoothie all in my nightstand drawer. What's even worse was a lot of my electronics were RIGHT there. Everything got covered in a thick layer of what now looked very unappetizing so quickly, with the help of my lovely mother, I grabbed a few bathroom towels and started pulling out everything. It's a pretty large drawer, which was now soaked, sitting on various bath towels in my room. This all happened maybe 20 minutes before I had to leave for my French class and though I was able to lightly clean off everything, I had to leave it for over 3 hours to go to my class. What a terrible way to start off a morning.

This brings me to my French class. A little worked up from the smoothie incident, I arrived at class late. My Professor was born and raised in France and moved to the United States when he was 17. He is one of the funniest teachers I've ever had, saying things like:
"It's just hard to shake the 'H' habit." Referring to the fact that the 'H' is silent in French.
"The One Butt, Two Legs theory." When explaining French say Pant (one butt) and in English we say Pants (two legs).
Today, he said "That's not my cup of cake." Thought about it, and realized he had meant tea, but by then we were all laughing already. When we were talking about breads he explained why a croissant is shaped the way it is and why Un Gallette des Rois had a baby Jesus inside, someone then said some point later that they had liked In-N-Out (a hamburger joint). My teacher said "I think its okay, but its not all that great. I know, I'm offending a California institution. First Islam, then Catholicism, now In-N-Out. ~puts on his glasses~ And I'm not done yet. This is like Southpark, everyone will be offended equally!"
They may not mean much to anyone else, but they were absolutely hilarious and cheered up my day.

The cheerfulness was not long lasted though. We've been watching the movie La Haine, we had finally got toward the end today. The whole movie is quite good, about the ghetto just outside of Paris and the lives they lead, the police brutality they had faced. The ending, which I will not tell you because spoilers do not make friends, was VERY shocking. The last line of the movie really stuck with me all day...

"Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land! "

Late Nights and Early Mornings

Its 2 am, I'm watching Amélie, one of my favorite movies and since I know it well enough not to look at the subtitles I'm reading V for Vendetta. Sometimes I'm so very content with my evening, even though my day started out quite rough.

Archimedes had a day off and I ended up staying up until 6am yesterday morning, when it became too difficult to open my eyes any longer having been up since 6am the previous morning. This made me sleep in way too long and I accidentally forgot to do a few unimportant chores I've been putting off for far too long. I don't ever regret the days I stay up until crazy hours in the morning because Arch's off. 

On an exciting note, my mini personal battle of trying to convince him to go to Disneyland with me has been won! He finally said he would go with me, though he had previously said he would never step a foot in there. 

~For now... I am far too sleepy to stay up. 

The Day Starts....

So, today is one of my few days I actually have class this semester. Two classes.. Gah it hits me like a hammer every time I think of it. Its infuriating. That's beside the point though....

I woke up this morning frustratingly missing Archimedes. Every little thing I did reminded me of him. I'm blessed with the ability to talk to him at least twice a day.. but it still gets a bit rough. He's always so lovely and I miss him so much.

Yesterday, before he went to bed his roommate came in and said "You guys are fuckin' cute." We both started to giggle and blush, his roommate then said "Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little honesty!" His roommate is married so he understands us talking so much and I'm glad he was able to room with someone so understanding. I really enjoy meeting his squadmates and saying hello to them. They're so funny and love to joke all the time. ^^ It makes me feel closer to him and though I'm far away, I feel closer to him and his every day life. Lately, he's been bringing breakfast to his room and I enjoy it. A bit of every day normalcy makes things feel better :D

Sadly, I'm in class, and though this next part I could talk about all day, I shall express my feelings in a short bit as best as I can. 

Today is September 11th, 2012... A humbling reminder to everyone, especially those with family members and loved ones in the military. I can never express the thanks I can give to Everyone who was lost, to those who's family members were lost. And the dearest bit, personally, to all the Military members who have given their lives in the war since then, and to all their amazingly strong family. The more years that pass, the more people forget. I also think, like all deaths.. it may not be forgetting, but learning to live with the pain and even when its right in the front of their minds, they can show amazing strength and continue on.

This is what my school did (sorry I know its far away, my phone isn't the best, It looked better in person) Its a huge board with the towers saying Remember 9/11, there was a list of all the names over the top too, Flags lined the walkway... It was lovely :) I'm glad they didn't just pass over it like any other day.

Andddd the Heros!

So, I finally finished the nails on my right hand... Hardest thing ever, but! they turned out great...

I present to youuuuuuu... The Heros!

Batman, Nightwing, Robin, Batgirl and the unsung hero, Alfred.

Nananananananana!! Villains!!!

So I said I was going to do my nails so.... Here's what I ended up doing. I colored them with Sharpies and made awesome Batman villains. They came out much better than I thought I was able to do.

Joker, Harley Quinn, Riddler, Poison Ivy, and Scarecrow.

Sleepy Days

Today, I'm sleepier than I have been in a while. I'm not sure why... I slept tons last night. I did wake up with the sniffles so I may be getting sick.

I feel bad because the whole time I got to talk to my Airman I was too sleepy to talk, my brain wasn't really processing any sort of ideas. When I did try my voice was either too quiet for the microphone to pick up or it cut out. Sometimes the internet where he is really frustrates me, but I'm truly glad he does have it. Without it I think I'd feel much more lost from day to day. The days do feel infinitely long though. The moments I get to talk to him feel like they rush by far too fast and the moments without him feel horribly slow.

WELL! He told me he expects my nails to be painted by the time he wakes up since I've been putting it off for a couple of days now. No idea what I'm going to do.. but.. I'll figure something out and post it on here :D

Air Force Pride Nails

So, a few days before my Airman went to his deployment I decided to attempt to make Air Force Pride Nails.. These are the results..

A Toast to the Beginning

~~~~Please excuse the blog construction :D

About a week and a half into my MSO's first deployment and I feel the need to write. I wanted to start yesterday, but when looking at the post all my words escaped me.

Introductions are in order, My name is Rebecca, but for this blogs sake, I shall go by Tiptoes. I'm 19 and am studying to be a translator for French :D I love nail art, steampunk, and old fashioned elegance.

I met my Airman over this past summer; it sounds like a very short time, but we immediately clicked. For the both of us, its difficult to talk to a person endlessly and that is something we never had a problem with. We connected from day one and just kept getting closer every moment since. When he went to training before his deployment we would talk on the phone every night, I didn't think we would fall for each other but we did... and it was days before he left for deployment.

It was crushing, the morning he had to leave I did all in my power to not cry, but I did and he told me the most beautiful thing "I know you're strong, and even strong people cry".

I'm patiently waiting 6 months, truly not bad for a first and I'm VERY grateful for this short deployment. I suppose this is my place to empty my head, share my silly ideas, and maybe occasionally my nails.

So, to the beginning!