Home for Christmas

My second family has been missing a special someone in their lives the last couple months. Unlike a lot of military families, Mark was able to come home to celebrate this holiday season. This is an emotional video that will warm your hearts. These are pictures taken by their family photographer of his homecoming and Santa's special gift to their children. Please enjoy!!

Home for Christmas

Blond Moment Alert!

So, I have been getting ready for my cruise trying to pack everything. I am carrying on a rolly suit case and my purse plus I am checking a medium sized bag....This was the original plan. However, I came across a problem, there wasn't enough room. So my solution was to just make my purse a bigger bag and call it my "purse". But I am still filled to the brim. I was just sitting in the middle of the room looking at my luggage fascinated about how much crap I am bring and quite frankly upset that I won't be able to do some shopping. It JUST dawned on me that I can just check a larger suitcase and I don't have to be this weighted down. Really, that would have been a great realization 2 hours ago!

I am now unpacking just to repack! :)

2 1/2 days!!!!!

Well, so much for that

It is interesting to me about the whole fact of life. It is 10pm on a Saturday night, I am in shorts and a tee shirt with my hair done and only one eye of makeup finish. For the last couple months it has been a total “wait…what just happened moment.” Let me start off with a disclosure that though this is a rant of pissed offness, I do love my friends and wish them the best in the world, but honestly this just sucks.

We will start with this evening; I got a phone call at 7pm asking me to come out to Buffalo Wild Wings for some beers with Pocahontas, her sister and David. At the time I was babysitting, so I knew it wouldn’t be til later, but she said she was ready to party all night. At a quarter til 10, I texted her to let her know I was almost ready and I wanted to confirm the place of meeting. The text back I received was, long day of drinking, I am snuggled in my bed. My response, why didn’t you tell me that? I mean lets look at this from my point of view here for a minute. Here is my friend who for the last month and a half has been MIA from my life. I feel that I have been trying to go out of my way to see her and she isn’t even meeting me ¼ the way there. Treva is back in town the boy is back in the picture and now I never see her and she doesn’t even have the courtesy to text me canceling after she invited me out. So here I am, one eye done with eyeliner and the other not, perplexed about how my life has taken a 180 turn in the last 2 years.

Now two years is taking me back to Cincinnati but I will get back to that in a moment. Let’s talk about the last month and a half. So, on the other hand I have Shake Weight, who as you know has a man to practice her skills on. This has been amazing. They are so cute together, it is disgusting. But it is still new and I am trying to be sensitive to that fact. I don’t want to be the needy friend, because that is not me. However, when both of my friends are pre-occupied, I have nothing to do. I have actually at 22 years old, jumped on my bed 3x in the last week. It was fun, but not exactly what I wanted to be doing.

I can’t help but think that Dayton is just sucky. I look at it from a couple different ways. One, in Cincinnati if there was ever someone out of my core group of friends that didn’t want to do anything, I always had someone there to hang out with. It allowed me to see different types of people and on the plus side I was never alone. I had my quite time when I wanted it but I also had options. Where as now, I am at the mercy of when my friends are available. I have two main friends here in Dayton. Pocahontas and Shake Weight, though there are many different friends that when they come home from college I love to hang out with, but the ones who permanently live in this hell hole we call home. So the fact that they are both occupied, (I am happy for them) is really stressful to me. I feel lonely with no friends and facebook is actually starting to boor me. J I don’t have that choice anymore, it is a hard adjustment.

Two, I am afraid of the dark. I have been living with my parents now for a year. That whole 2 month thing went out the door! Whenever they go out of town I am to house sit (as talked about earlier, I have parties and people puke) but when they are gone longer than a couple days it becomes lonely and quite frankly, scary. So this past Thursday I got an hour or so of sleep because of the noises the house was making. After playing Wii and card games at Shake Weights house on Friday, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want to intrude on the new couple time and the last thing I wanted to listen to was them making out while I was in the other room alone. Not my idea of a fun night, so I got in the car and drove. I didn’t want to go home. I didn’t know of anyone to call in the area. Lauren was with the boy, Morgan was with the boy, my family was all asleep, the only other friends numbers I had was in Cincy so I ended up at my Grandma Sues house (after I had to call the main number hoping my grandma didn’t wake up and Doris or Rachel picked up. I didn’t want to wake the Alzheimer’s lady that would have been horrible! ) But it is amazing what family will do for you. When my cousin Rachel picked up the phone (half asleep) I was practically in tears and all I asked was if she could let me in. Her response was where are you? Though she may have been just asking a question, the way her tone of voice was said more than just the words. It was like she was going to come and find me. It meant the world. But Doris waking me up at 4am because she didn’t know I was there was PRICELESS. She hits me a couple times, I shield myself and she goes sorry Jamie, didn’t know you were here. Lol love her.

I go from writing about crazy wild times every other day to every 3 months. I go from seeing my friends, everyday to seeing them maybe once a week. They have fillers in their lives, but I just have an empty house. But it is what it is, and things will get better, I have to believe that.

Another “what just happened moment” happened today. I was talking about my career dreams. Those dreams that are important but really are not the main dreams I have. My friend who was having a Mary Kay Party, said me talking about my dreams made her jealous because I have those goals. I am able to fulfill that “need” of career. She is just working. However the way I see her life is; she is 22 years old, married, a college graduate, she has a decent paying job, her husband is going to get his PhD, and they have a cute apartment, two cars and a dog. What more could you ask for a 22? I guess the grass is always greener on the other side. Someone else always has it better. Though it is sweet that she feels my life is looking forward to the future, I just see career goals and not a future. I feel those personal needs are not being met. Sometimes I feel that I am never going to find that someone. I am not going to be able to have children. I am not going to be able to change legislation and save the world one child at a time. Life is what you make of it and these last couple months I feel that I am not living the life I want to have. Though June was exciting it was also financially consuming. But my personal needs were being met. I was working with children, hanging out with friends, working, doing mission work and though there wasn’t a boy in the picture, there were other needs being filled to make up for it. Now with lack of friends, no job and school is let out I have nothing to do except to jump on my bed.

HOWEVER---- Enough of this Debbie downer crap….10 more days until I leave this god forsaken city and go on a cruise with the Backstreet Boys!!! My friend Lauren (from Cincinnati yay) and I are taking Miami, FL, Key West and Cozumel by storm. I don’t think they are ready for us! When I get back from that trip I will be a new me and hopefully changing some things that are not good for MY future and help me to achieve MY goals. Jamie is on a path of change, if you don’t like it, then move my of the way! Here I come world! Are you ready???

omg we finally found him!

So, a couple months ago me and the girls were looking for our old teacher and basketball coach (you know look back in the blog--we were Divas at Kramers) but anyways, Shake-Weight and I had just gotten finished with practice and were watching Bones when we got a text from Poca-hot-ass (aka Lauren) saying that "Harvey was at Harrigans!" Can you believe that shit! Our hang out, on a night that we were not planning on going out. Here we are in sweats and sweatshirts watching our shows and our search is coming to an end...without us. Our text to Lauren, "We are on our way."

We got to Harrigans and I knew EVERYONE and their mother. A couple weeks ago at Karaoke Lauren sang "I Touch Myself" and turned on an entire table of women. They were back tonight. LOL! There was someone I went to church with, our entire middle school teaching staff (including the principal) and my old sorority sister Callie. But the only person we were interested in was that old hottie Mr. Harvey. Lets just say after 9 years, still hot as ever! Needs to cut his hair, or as Morgan said, "grow up and out of childhood" but still so cute! Made our entire summer. We had FINALLY found him! The best part of it all is, that we really didn't look that hard, we just tried that one time to see if he was there but since then, we just couldn't get that night out of our minds.

But before I left I had to warn Treva to not go with in 10 feet of him. He is our fantasy and she is not allowed to play on it! He will exist in our dreams and out of reality. The reason I am telling you this is because Treva has now got a nickname for the classy Jersey Shore. It is Skank. Now, I love her and she is a great person but this is what I have called her for the last couple months and now it will forever be her name. :) She knows she loves it and its all in good fun, if not she can kiss my ass :p

Wow, it has been a while!

Ok so I know it has been forever and I accept that, but I must update you all on my life. So MANY changes have been happening in the world of us classy trio, but lets start with the biggest; Lauren is OFFICALLY in remission! Yay! I am so proud of Poca-hot-ass. J It has been a rough year but she has come out on top and I could never be so swollen with pride (“word’s” synonym for proud) of one of my best friends! Second, we are all broke and can’t afford our drinking life style! Third, Shake Weight has found someone to help put her skills to good practice! She officially has a boyfriend and I could not be more excited about it! (I think she is too but I provided the spot for the first rendezvous.) They reunited from high school on Lauren’s canernniversary (yeah we made that up) but I digress. He is perfect for her!

He has all his teeth, he treats her right, wants kids, doesn’t have baby mama drama, treats her like a princess, likes old movies, can actually handle her crazy BFFS and isn’t too bad looking either. BUT and this is a problem that we are going to have to fix, he likes Bud light. Not ok. J Another big event that has happened is that Treva, Lauren’s other BFF came back from teaching in Honduras. It has been a huge adjustment for me in the last couple months going from the crazy, bar fly inseparable trio to actually having three separate lives. Maybe this will be good for me in the long run. I could get a job to occupy my time and then maybe find a guy who actually has goals in life. Or, maybe not. There have been a lot of amazing things that have been happening in life, like my besties lives moving forward, but there have also been some downfalls. Not to be depressing but my grandpa is now in the hospital, my uncle was diagnosed with stage 4 lung and brain cancer and my other grandma’s Alzheimer’s has kicked in. It sucks, she’s hard to handle but dang she is so funny. I am going end with a couple of her quotes. She is such special of a person to me and when things get rough all I think about is her wonderful statements about life. “It’s 4 o’clock I have to set my beer on ice for an hour.” It is always time to drink in her world. A little while later she was talking about her 13 brothers and sisters. She told me, “you know back then they didn’t have birth control, you just… you had to stop.” So when life gets you down, just think of when it was back in the time when birth control wasn’t present and sex couldn’t be an outlet because babies came EVERY time. lol

They MISS ME!!!!

Words can not describe how much I miss these characters!!! I will have to be getting home from overseas soon because I can't wait to pick up where we left off....which reminds me you all need to be updated to the fullest before I land home and have some shit show moments to share with you! Oops Dawg!

Before this Afternoon

Well from what I can remember, not just because of alcohol, but because it has been a couple weeks is that Pocahontas and I wanted to go out and have a grand old time, just the two of us! It had been forever since we had done that. Well, Morgie, Pokie who received her name because of her slowness of getting ready needed a night out and joined us. Subconsciously I don’t think we liked that because we were complete bitches to her the whole night. Not meaning to but it happened. Live and learn we have to keep our emotions under raps. This is also the night I FINALLY received my nickname, which has become the ongoing joke. Pocahontas never drinks miller light just like I NEVER (or try to) drink bud light. However, that night the Spanish corrupted the Indian. Lauren drank a pitcher of miller with me. Now my name is Hime. It may not be grammatically or culturally correct it just makes sense to us.

At bar closing time, I decided we should all go cabrewing the next day. It seemed like a good idea. When we got home/back to Pocahontas house we decided to eat and get changed. We went upstairs so Pocahontas’ balcony so she could smoke and had some chat time. We see this guy who from a distance looked pretty cute, so I yelled at him and invited him to our “party”. Not thinking this guy would say yes, he accepts. So here we are with this guy named Mike (at the time he said his name I told him he would have to go, I already had enough Mikes in my life) but he stayed. We decided to take Morgan out to her car thinking this guy would just leave to, but he didn’t. So instead of David, the male of the group kicking this guy out, it became my job to do it. I told him, “look we are all going to bed now” in which re responds “ok” then takes a step inside. I say, “well we are going to bed together and not with you. Hopefully we see you around sometime. Thanks for stopping by!” I shut the door, lock it and ran away from the creeper.

Graduation

So after a crazy night of drinking, like usual, I went to three of my best friends graduations. One 3 hours of sleep mind you. I enjoyed a couple of speakers but the main speaker was talking about politics and nothing that interested me, I almost fell asleep. I mean this man made me want to drink and I was so hung over, thinking about beer made me want to vomit.

After the graduations and pining ceremony for my nursing friends, I got a hotel and headed to Hofbrauhaus to meet up with Sarah, my old roommate and all her New Breman friends for the celebration. Now this is the girl who I was talking about to the random guy the night before. After being there for oh 15 minutes, I fell into the “You’ll feel much better if you have one beer. It’s just what you need to make the hang over go away.” Well needless to say that ONE beer turned into an 11 hour drinking spree with an end result of me on all fours in front of the Comfort Suits. But at Hofbrauhaus Sarah’s brothers wouldn’t let any of us girls pay, so I got 2 liters of beer, one pint and 2 shots PLUS dinner. Yet, when we went to the next bar and I somehow managed to spend $100. How? I have no idea, but judging by the end of the night, maybe I shouldn’t have.

When we got back to the hotel, I threw myself out of the cab and landed on all fours in front of the hotel telling the cab to just wait a sec while I puke and then I will pay him. I crawled to the curb, popped a squat and looked through my purse. No cash. Oops. Neither Sarah nor Rachel had some either. So… free cab ride. I love Cincinnati!!

As soon as we got to the hotel, we ate some pizza and crashed. Woke up the next morning to find out that Rachel slept in the stairwell and was locked out of our room so she had to ask the front desk to let her in at 5am AND there was a condom wrapper in out bed. Well we are all girls, non of us got sex that night so that would mean it wasn’t ours and was in the bed. EWWW. When we left we demanded we be reimbursed for the room because of unsanitary conditions.

Needless to say, the night/ was a success. Three hours of sleep, 11 hours of drinking and then 5 hours of sleep. My body hates me.

Nickelback - This Afternoon

Pocahantas

It is finally JUNE! I just had the best weekend ever after the worst week ever. But who cares about that! I am done with school til September! YAY!


So my body officially hates me. It was a great weekend though. So great I will have to break the weekend up into two blog entries! Started off on Friday day where I took the little girl I nanny for to the Kettering Rec water park. I haven't been there since middle school. It has been forever! But, great eye candy was there. There were DILFs and hot jail worthy life guards and....oh yeah I went there. Weeve and I were cracking up the whole day, they were just so good looking! Why didn't we have hot guys growing up! lol

Weeve and I decided we were going to extend our fun sunny filled day into the night and go out searching for our old HOT basketball coach and teacher. We called up Morgan (still missing her nickname) and headed out drinking. We heard that he worked at this place called Kramers (which is some hole in the wall), so we get all dressed up. I didn't wear a bra that night and had the worlds shortest dress on! Yeah, it was going to be a good night. Needless to say, he wasn't there and we looked like some Divas walking in to this bar, we definitely needed to get out of there. So we moved to this place called Bargos down by the University of Dayton. It was nice, but there was NO ONE there! Can you guess what we decided to do? Play video crack. Exotic photo hunt :) And honestly, the women are easier than the guys....go figure ;).

We decided that we would go to the normal hangout, Harrigans and just have a good time there. While we were there, we saw everyone and there mother who graduated like 2 years before us, I felt old! I decided that I was going to make some friends. I hung out with my friend Chelsea and John then I decided to meet some people and sat down at a random table outside. I met this guy, I can't remember his name, lets call him Nick who was from Manchester. Now via map, that is close to New Bremen and I know a lot of people from that town (aka 15 peeps which is about 5% of the population--roughly lol). So I started asking him questions, sure enough he knew my old roomate Sarah, with whom I would be hanging out with the next day for her graduation along with the other 15 people I know from there too! I was so excited! Though when he left at 1 and my DD who showed up early (therefore I made him drink) had started drinking I went and re met up with Weeve. We were sitting at the bar Me, Weeve, our DD David, who will soon have a nickname and our buddy Jimmy when I ran into my old high school sports trainer who is my HERO! She is a strong, independent women who inspires me so much, and I am drunk and just finished a cigerette. Oh no. Hopefully, I was "good" but I hugged her and quickly caught up with life then returned to the bar.

Upon my return there was a text from Weeve, who was sitting 2 seats down mind you, that said, "I would do really really bad things to jimmy. like dress up like Pocahontas bad." WHO says that. I mean she could have said anything dirty. I can't even think of it right now, but pocahontas. Well needless to say, Weeve will forever be known as Pocahontas and she will never live it down. EVER!

After this wonderful night of drinking, we have David take us to Kroger where, Lauren makes friends with a guy who worked there, we got lots of food and took lots of pictures. When we got home, Pocahontas and I had a heart to heart in the parking lot. Then we came back inside and David had had all the food cooked and ready for the drunkies to eat! What a gentleman!! Then he proceeded to take the most f'ed up pictures of us drunks. Here are a couple pictures for your entertainment. It was a great evening!

On my other blog I do song quotes. Well, not on this one :)

One Drunkn Night

So one night at Harrigans, Morgan and I, (we really need to figure out her name for the show) but we decided to make a list of what the perfect man would be for each of us. The best part is there are some crossovers between the two of us but all in all they are so funny. Well at least to us, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I was cracking up at some of the things.

Disclaimer--Please do not take offense some things listed will be cruel and mean. We were just in one of those moods!

Morgans Lists

• good with kids
• future- plan
• no drugs
• Tatoos (Multiple)
• good sex drive
• NO Fattys
• 5'10" or above
• Muscles!!!!!!
• family oriented
• emotionally stable
• no cheating past
• NO baby mamma DRAMA
• No drama.....Period
• Likes tasteful music
• LOVES CARS---it is a must
• likes old movies
• can handle her mood swings
• sexy hair (face stubble)
• Artsy
• Miller Man
• no POS car
• likes sports (football)--shes a steelers fan!
• gets along with friends and family
• romantic
• walks on the wild side
• no STDS!!!
• stubborn like her
• no tabacco
• no clingers
• no white trash
• no excessive chest hair

My List

• Great with kids (MUST) or at least like them :)
• future- plan
• cute couple
• good time--in moderation (he has to calm me down)
• no drugs
• 1 or 2 tatoos (not trashy)
• No Fattys
• NO DRAMA!! I have enough of my own
• 5'10" and above
• good to his mom
• musical
• has a good heart
• No cheating past
• No wife :)
• communicates effectivly
• not afraid of pulling me out of my shell
• No metal music for me!
• knows how to drive a stickshift car
• likes animals
• likes me for me--hot mess and all
• hygenie--very important!
• miller man
• i can't handle a POS car
• knows sports (march mad and football)--GO BENGALS!
• gets along with my friends and family
• Romantic
• Not cheap (coupons are good--but sometimes a girl just needs a drink bought for her!)
• no STDS!
• all the right moves in all the right places
• lets me get my way but stands ground/holds his own if it is important
• no stage 5 clingers
• no WT

And the biggest deal breaker for the both of us.........he must have all his teeth! :)

Now we are realistic about the men in this world. Part of being with someone is excepting their flaws and them accepting yours. These are just lists---from one drunkn night!

Haus of Puke

So I think it is time to change the name of the blog to "Nights out with Jamie." I swear I should have a reality show, classier than the Jersey Shore but..well a million times classier than Jersey Shore. It would be centered around the girls guide to being a classy, single lady who's the life of the party while being a responsible adult in Dayton Ohio. Yeah maybe not the last part, but the last week has been crazy. For instance, I couldn't find my credit card and it took me and my two girlfriends to try and patch the week together to figure out where we were. We got hit on by a one armed man, gave up a one night stand for funfeti cake and failed two tests just to drink. It has been one world wind after another. But one great ass time. We are actually thinking about writing a book, at least I am seriously considering it. I think the girls thought I was joking but I wasn't. I will keep you all posted about my nights and book status. I will definitely need to use Microsoft Word first because my spelling sucks.

But, my house should have a name. You know how some people name their cars? Well my house's name is called "haus of puke". I swear it has to be something about my house. I mean people (not me--my story is the front porch) but people have gotten sick the the most random places in my house. Why can't they make it to the toilet, oh yeah because when they do, they miss and get the walls. That has been a two month project painting the walls. But last night, my friend Lauren and I were talking about if we had a reality show what our "names" would be and she said she wanted her name to be Weave. (She has breast cancer, so its her fake hair lol). So Weave, in her classy way of doing things got tons of shots bought for her at the bar, therefore, she threw up. Now most normal people would get sick in the toilet, but she has to get sick in my bathroom sink, not even a foot away from the toilet. Really?!?! I had to plunge my sink this morning. Gross. haha. Well this is the most recent experience.

Over the past year, since I moved back in with my parent it has just been a treat throwing parties. I have had someone throw up in my closet. Yes, my walk in closet full of clothes. Oh and this is after I gave up my bed to them. Fail. I have had someone throw up in the limo on MY birthday. That would be my other bestie friend Morgan. We haven't discussed her reality show nickname. lol But her good old self def in bathtub, front porch and she has actually made it to the toilet. I had our friend who is usually our DD, get sick everywhere in my living room. I have had my cousin get sick in the recycling bin, when the trash can was sitting right next to it. Oh and for the win, one of my lovely sorority sisters came into town for a wedding we both went to. After getting so drunk and throwing up in a flower pot at the Presidential Banquet Center and almost getting sick in the cab, I put her to bed. Pissed off because I couldn't go to the after party because I was taking care of her, I started watching TV (at 2am mind you). I hear her getting sick, come around the corner to see her throwing up in my WHITE laundry basket in my hall way. Needless to say psycho switch flipped, I started yelling and I drug her to the toilet, dead weight and layed her on it. She was like "I can't breath". Now imagine this while I tell you how I responded, body completely straight an incline looking like a wedge, only thing holding her up is her chin. After I pulled her out of my laundry basket and physically moved her in the bathroom I yelled "Can't breath? Then get on your knees and do the work, you F*ing threw up in my laundry basket." Her response, "I thought that was the toilet." I mean seriously?!?!?!

So end result, I will still be having people over even though they like to puke at my house because we have a GREAT time before these things go down. Therefore, Book is in the works of being made, it may take a couple years but it will be done! :)

Oh and staying with my blog, make your mark on the world, have fun, get crunk but make sure you are still making time to touch someones life. :)

"It started off, "hey cutie where you from"
And then it turned into oh no, what have I done
And I don't even know his last name" -Carrie Underwood

Oops Dawg :)

Changes

So I thought it would be better if I talked about the random amazing nights (and days) filled with drinking, sex and blackouts on its own blog rather than on a blog talking about making a difference with children from Germany and Africa. Um, yeah that might be better, especially if I am giving that URL to the church people to follow my trip! Oops dawg. Well I will be re posting some all the posts about my book and what not on this blog called Wait...What Just Happened? Now you are probably wondering, or actually, don't care, but this title came from a night of drinking. Go figure. One Sunday night, my girlfriend Pocahontas, you will learn more about her later (and where she got her name) but we were trying to sort through the last couple weekends for me to document on the blog. Well, we couldn't remember what happened and when. It took everyone who was there to sort through the events and create the "possible" sequence of events". Hopefully they are correct, if not, you won't even know! :)