Things are starting to look up!

We got the house!!! It is super small (like as in the kitchen is pretty much nonexistent), but it is only 425 a month, and water is included, so its gonna save us a ton of money between gas, water, and rent. And since our roommate decided not to pay rent this payday, we can't live with someone who is going to randomly decided when he is and is not going to pay rent. It's a one bedroom and one bath, and since it's so much smaller than the place that we're in now, we're not going to have to pay for as much furniture. We get to sign the lease on Monday, and on the first of November we get to move in! I really am excited, but until I find a job, it's going to be super tight in terms of money. But hopefully someone from the four million jobs I applied for will call me back. Keep your fingers crossed!
In other news, Darren comes back from the field on Sunday! It's lonely without him around, and having no friends in this place. I can't wait! I don't think that he will be here to help me move, but I think one of his friends might be willing to help me out. I hope so, anyways. Well, anyways, that's the recent events in my life; now I have to get back to my soul sucking homework. Grrr. One day, one day.
Tootles!
Kylie "never-gonna-give up" Bolling

Its gotta get worse before it gets better...right?

I literally don't think I've ever been this low in my entire life. It's one thing after another after another after another. I can't seem to catch a break since I moved out here. We lost the house. The lady told us that it was ours when we looked at it and that she would see us on the 1st of November. Then she turns around a couple weeks later and gives me some crap excuse of us not being prepared enough to rent the house, so she "is just going to have to back out." WTH??? I wouldn't have minded, except that after we looked at the house, I gave our landlord our 30 day notice. So now I have to be out of this house by the third, and I don't have a house to move into. I looked at one today, and put a down payment on it to hold it for two weeks; lets just hope we pass the credit check and can get moved in. Not to mention all of the money problems, car problems (the Tiburon finally died and we had to get a new one. New car means new debt.), and the sheer fact that Darren isn't home because he is on a field op, and you can pretty much sum it up in a nutshell that I think I am officially depressed. I've never been depressed before (and therefore am not qualified to diagnose myself, that's just what it feels like), and neither like nor want the feeling being here. It pretty much sucks the big one. I just want to get out of my slump. UGH. Hurry up and get my degree so I can get my job (or any job ever in this complete hellhole), and get out of California. Or at least get a friend that I can spend the next three years here with. That would at least make it bearable when Darren isn't here. I just want to go home.

Today's personal accomplishment

Drumroll please........
I got an 80 on my Trig quiz! Yay me! Granted, I had to take it three times to accomplish this feat, but I did it! Normally I get much higher on quizzes, but this chapter was a doozie. And I did my homework, and I'm caught up with all of my school work, and I am officially the most awesome person that ever walked the face of the Earth! (Can you picture me in a supersuit with a cape around me, with my hands on my hips and my chest thrust out?? Cuz I'm definitely doing it.) Its been mad crazy this past week for school. I don't mind taking classes online, but starting Trigonometry while in the middle of the rest of my classes!? And online, of all places?! Whew!

Well that's my supercool reason for bragging today, Darren is making dinner, and it smells really good, and my mouth is watering, and my tummy is grumbling, and yea, I have to go.

Kylie "Supercool" Bolling

I am a lazy useless person, and I love it!

I woke up at 11:30 this morning, never got dressed, spent the whole day with Darren, never put makeup on, and never took my hair down from the horrible bun it was in all day.....

And I've never been happier. :)
Have a good day!!!


P.S. We're moving!!!!! YAY!!!

It will all be worth it in the end...

School is literally sucking the life out of me right now.
And it's slow...
And it's painful...
And it's not really as bad as I make it sound.

I've just never taken online classes before, so I am having to teach myself how to get the motivation to budget my time wisely to stay on schedule. But I did homework for four hours yesterday, so I am finally back on schedule with my American History and Politics class. Now I just need to get up to date with Trig. Easier said than done, considering that I've always been a hands on learner when it comes to math, and I do much better when I'm in a classroom. But I love math, and I'm determined to get this stupid A.A. so I can finally get to work on my Bachelors.

When that day comes........I will be a totally new person. Well, sort of. Because right after I get my Bachelors, I'm starting on my Masters. Whew! I'm a career student! It doesn't matter though, I will finally be able to get a job with an engineering firm. It's just taking forever. Now granted, I am off schedule because I decided to enlist in the military, and when that didn't work out, I was six months behind schedule. And it also doesn't help that I had no idea what I wanted to do when I went into college, so I didn't take the necessary math and physics classes that I would have if I started college with a decision. So, after December, when I become human again when I graduate, all I need is Calc 1,2,and 3, and Physics 1,2,and 3. Darnit. But that's good, because I'll have my A.A., and be one step closer to University of California!

It's worth it when you get the end result.... isn't it?

Kylie "When-is-this-gonna-end?" Bolling

Things I love and things I don't

Things I love:

• My husband. This is cliche, I know, but I really do. He gives me pretty much anything I want, within reason. But I do the same for him. We work really well together.
• Collecting Barbies. This is the child coming out in me, I guess. But I really don't think there's anything better than spending 50 bucks on a Barbie you can never play with. :) What can I say? I like dolls.
• Reading. This is killing me right now. My favorite think in the world in curling up with a really good book on a really rainy day. But living in the desert, this plan is shot to hell. Oh well. I did however, see my first cloud since moving from Florida. But that was over a week ago. I'm having withdrawls again.
• Stupid T.V. shows. Being unemployed and a student, there's only so much homework you can do at one time. With no car, the only option you have when you take a break is to watch t.v. I watch Seinfeld (I can see you cringing!)...a lot. Like it's all over my DVR.
• Furniture. This might seem strange to some, but until you have absolutely nothing else except an ugly colored loveseat and a bed, you start to appreciate all of those people who have furniture. Its amazing how much you take advantage of things that seem so normal to you at one time.
• Decorating! I have a secret fabulous interior designer inside of me, but the no-so-secret outside of me doesn't have the money to satisfy the inner designer. So I am forced to dream by way of HGTV. Which I also watch...a lot. My husband does not know this.
• Food Network. See above. Same applies.
• Vegas! There's something about all the tacky lights and even tackier people that I just love. Hopefully this does not reflect how tacky I can sometimes be.
• My dog. He is the funniest thing in the world. No, seriously. Like even funnier than Seinfeld reruns. For those of you who don't like Seinfeld, insert something really funny here and replace. :)

Things I do not love:

• This whole Twilight fever. Call me crazy, but I don't see the appeal of hormonal vampire and the desperado who loves him.
• Justin Beiber. Now, don't laugh, but I do really like his songs. Just not so much him. He looks like he's seven, and he keeps getting caught tounging other celebritweens. Not sexy.
• School, at the moment. I have a love/hate relationship with school. Right now its hate. Too much work, not enough time. (Now scold me about being on this blog instead of doing my homework)
• My internet company. They lied to me about not being able to get broadband, so now I'm stuck with satellite internet that's super slow and costs 40 dollars more a month than broadband, because they won't let me out of my contract. Thanks Wildblue!
• The desert. This place is seriously like The Hills Have Eyes come to life. I thought there were funny looking people in Florida! I don't even have to go to the flea market to see them here! (That one's for you Daddy!)
• Living in the desert. Too dry, no rain, not fun.
• The critters of the desert. Pretty much everything has more than four legs, which I do not like.
• Pretty much everything about the desert.
• Not living in Florida.

Are we seeing a pattern yet? Tootles!

Kylie "I-have-nothing-better-to-blog-about" Bolling

Being a military wife...

In a word, being a military wife (especially a Marine wife) is hard. I have been a military dependent for my entire life, so I'm used to the man in my life being away. But since my daddy retired, I have completely forgotten how hard it is to move to a city where you know no one, find a job, and start a new life. I have always had trouble making friends, because I'm incredibly shy. Because of this, I don't talk to anyone. Most people take this as me being a snob. This is not the case. I literally get the shakes and goosebumps just thinking about going to a party or something where I know no one. (This is no joke.) I am seriously attempting to get involved within the base atmosphere. I am going to volunteer for Marine Corps Community Services (although this is simply because I cannot find a job ANYWHERE), and I am going to give it my best shot to come out of this duty station with some friend-ish type people.

Now, always being a military daughter, and not a wife, I never really had any need to make friends with the people on base. I had friends at school, church, etc. But it's totally different being a wife. Now I know how my mom felt. THIS SUCKS!

But on a brighter note....

We're moving to base housing! Darren is turning in his application to the housing office tomorrow, and it's a two to five month wait, but just thinking of all the money we will be saving makes it all soooo worth it. Not only that, but I will be surrounded by other military wives! I'm not a whole lot like other girls, what with me being a boy in a girls body and all (can you hear me snickering as I write that?), but I really hope I can get along with SOME of these girls. I have only had a handful of female friends in my whole life, but I figure that me being friends with other Marines, or men in general, would not look very good to the wives around me. Boo. I can relate so much better to men than women. Ah well. I'll get through it. It will get better when I get a job, or get enrolled in the college out here once I get my degree from Florida. December baby!!! When I finally have that Associates Degree, it will make me feel that much closer to actually getting my Bachelors (which is still  years away). But yea, anyways, its 1230 here, and this whole borderline-insomnia thing is just not working for me. Ta Ta for now!

Kylie "Loser-with-no-friends" Bolling Teehee my mother is going to love that one.

It's Official...

Darren and I had our first real fight. Like I'm talking slamming doors, yelling, crying (on my part), and not speaking for like 2 hours. It was pretty awful. Here's the background:

We can't really afford to live in the house that we live in. Between the rent, electricity, water, the new gas bill (that I was under the impression the landlord payed for), and the brand new loan that Darren completely forgot about for the past nine months that we now owe 160 bucks a month for, we don't have any extra money. And it doesn't help that we live like 20 miles away from base and we have only one car, so it's a thirty minute drive to and from base twice a day. A.K.A. it's a bunch of gas that we waste. Granted he makes 2800 a month, but our bills alone are almost 2000. That doesn't leave much fun money left over every month. So I proposed that we probably have to move into base housing temporarily just until we get on our feet.

WELL......

He went ballistic. He doesn't want to live on base, he doesn't want to live anywhere near base, he doesn't like Marines, he doesn't like this, he doesn't like that. It went on for a while until I stopped talking and he walked away. Now, I love him more than pretty much anything, but I really can't stand that he is not willing to live like a normal Lance Corporal that's newly married, and just suck it up and live in base housing just temporarily. He has this really high standard of living that we just cannot do only being married for a month and a half. He expects to live the way his parents live, but I'm not sure he understands that it took his parents 25 years to get to where they're at. My parents are the same way. It took them a really long time to get to where they're at. We will get there eventually. But not right now. I'm not working yet (not by choice I might add), so all we have is his income. Both his parents and my parents had to live in base housing for a little while until they got their finances straight. They did it, and so do we.

So after we had both cooled down, we agreed that I would go by the housing office tomorrow, and fill out the paperwork to get into base housing. Not only can we save money and possibly get our bills paid off, but we can get furniture, and all of the things that we both want. Also, when he deploys in March, I can be surrounded by men and women who are in the exact same position that I will be in. Living where we do right now, I live in the middle of nowhere, with no one around, and no friends. It will be a lot easier on me when he deploys to be in base housing.

I love it when he agrees with me, even if it only took him a fight and three hours later.

Kylie "hoping-to-save-money" Bolling

So Yeaaaaa...

Apparently one of the perks of getting married and having absolutely nothing to either of your names, is that you have no furniture either. At this point in our marriage, we officially have a bed, a couple of lawn chairs that my father graciously bought us because we had nothing to sit on, and a couple of outdoor end tables. The couch was bought secondhand from another Marine stationed at Twentynine Palms, and it's really comfortable, but it's a hideous color. Like maroon gone really bad. But me being the amazing decorator that I am (HA!) I bought a mocha colored couch cover from Amazon.com that is really cute. This will transform our otherwise-bare living room, I can feel it.

I really am jealous of those people who get married in their hometowns, and then settle down there, and then proceed to have like the last four generations of their families give them everything they need. I know if we lived in Fernandina, or Swansboro, that our families and their friends would give us everything. But we're not that lucky, so we're reduced to buying from thrift stores and 29palmsyardsales.com. But I have figured out that if you look hard enough and often enough, you can find really good stuff there! It really is true that one man's trash is another man's treasure (supposing that you have the funds to make it your treasure).

Well, we're off to find some bedroom furniture to make our bedroom look more like a bedroom, instead of just a really cheap storage facility.

Ta Ta!
Kylie "Furniture Cravin'" Bolling

The desert is not a place for pansies...

Haha! look at me, two posts in two days!!! I'm proud of myself, what can I say?

Now prepare yourselves for the traumatic events of last night.......
I was outside enjoying the desert night sky, when I look to my right, and, lo and behold, there's a SCORPION next to me! Now for anyone that knows me, they know that I run in fright at the sight of anything with more than four legs (no exaggeration). So, in typical Kylie fashion, I run screaming into my house, lock and deadbolt my doors and windows (as if that's going to stop a raging scorpion from coming inside and eating my innards?) and proceed to spray a very unhealthy amount of bug spray everywhere around my house.

That's right folks, now if a bug tries to come within fifteen feet of my house, they will DIE INSTANTLY! (At least that's what the stupid spray can probably lied to me about.) Now that the bugs are gone, Brody (the dog) and I only have to deal with minor tremors and twitches from the slight brain damage we recieved from the bug spray. Isn't anything that causes cancer, or......cancer supposed to be banned in the great state of California? I guess they missed the cancer causing (but very effective!) bottle of Ortho-something that's sitting peacefully on my kitchen floor ready to be sprayed again at a moment's notice!

I feel slightly betrayed, because no one from Florida to California warned me about these mutant desert creatures that roam this state by night. I have yet to see a rattlesnake or a camel spider (shivers!!!), and if I don't see them, then they must not exist! At least I hope they don't. I guess we will see in the upcoming three years, when I finally get to return to my wonderful home state of Florida! (a.k.a. the land of the not-so-mutant-bugs).

Tootles,
Kylie "too terrified for words" Bolling

P.S. I haven't left the house at all today for fear of being eaten alive. It's 7:02 P.M. That is all.

Let's Play Catch-up

Well, It's only been forever since I last posted anything on here. So here's what's been happening:

I officially got married! On July 16th, in an adorable little courthouse ceremony, we said our I do's. It was small (and cheap!) but we're holding off on the big ceremony until next year when we have more money. I'm thinking like Myrtle Beach, SC. Not a whole lot of our family was there so the small one was just for getting married, and the big one is for everyone. Anywho, here's some pictures:

This is when he messed up his vows! :)

It was great. So was the honeymoon. His parent's best friends own a bunch of condos all over the state of Florida, so they gave us a corporate condo in Jacksonville for four days.

In other news:

I moved to California on August 26th! It is great here, just takes a bit of getting used to because it's such a big change from Florida. We live in the middle of the Mojave desert, near Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. The drive out here was beautiful, but once you hit West Texas, it was all desert, and it seemed like it was never going to end. We were supposed to stop in Phoenix for the night to sleep, but my battery decided to die in Van Horn, Texas, so we had to make the haul from Fort Stockton, TX to here. But it's beautiful out here, there's mountains as far as the eye can see, and the sunsets are amazing. As soon as I can snap a picture of one, I'll post it on here. Here's some pictures of the drive out here:

This was somewhere in Florida, I can't remember where.

The U.S.S. Alabama

This is where we stayed in Texas. It was such a cute town!

We FINALLY reached California!!!

The drive was interesting as well. We stopped in Baytown, Texas, and stayed in a Motel 6 for the night. The city was not very nice. It was an oil town, and it was quite obvious. It was smelly and dirty, and the hotel was gross. My towel had a mysterious hair on it (that wasn't mine), and the water was slimy. The smell of mold was so bad that it almost made my dad sick. He doesn't get sick from smells very easily, so that was a real shock. But the next stop in Texas, Fort Stockton, was really nice. It was a teeny tiny town in the middle of Texas, with no towns or cities anywhere near it. It was soooo cute! And the people were amazingly nice. We drove around, and looked at all of the attractions. Their niche is their sillohuettes that they have all over town of the cowboys and indians that used to live there. They were really pretty. They are going through an oil boom right now, so the population of the town swelled hugely. There's models of oil equipment all over town, and in the town square. I've never actually seen a town that had a town square! I loved it. Then in Arizona, we drove through this rock formation that was so huge! The rocks were absolutely huge, and they were just balancing on the other rocks and looked like they were about to fall. It was amazing! When we finally made it to California, we were stopped at an Agricultural station. I guess they were checking that no one was bringing in any illegal fruits and veggies. I think they were also looking for illegal aliens, because they asked us both if we were American citizens. All I could think was "If I wasn't an American citizen, do you think that I would tell you that I wasn't?" But I didn't say that. Daddy and I were both so relieved to get out of the car and finally be in California. And getting to finally see Darren was so defintely worth the wait. It was the greatest. I still can't believe that I am finally living out here with him, actually being a married couple. The last couple months haven't felt like we were really married, because we haven't been together. But we are now, and it is wonderful!

Well, now that I have caught up with everything that has happened, I guess that this post has gotten long enough. I really ought to start posting more often, so that I don't have to post all of these enormous posts. Until next time.......

Kylie "swear I'm gonna do this more often" Bolling

Top 10 best books I've ever read

I have decided that I am going to start a "Top 10" theme on my blog. Movies, books, foods, whatever comes into my vast and infinite mind. So for my first installment, I have chosen my all time favorite thing, the book. Call me what you want, but I truly believe that the best thing in the world is curling up on a rainy day and getting lost in the world of fiction. I can't remember who said it, but there is a saying that says "You know when you've read a really good book when you turn the last page and feel as though you've lost a very good friend." So without further ado, I present the Top 10 Best Books I've Ever Read...

10. You've Been Warned by James Patterson This book is by far one of the weirdest I've ever read. It's literally a grabbing-your-seat, trying-to-force-yourself-not-to-read-ahead kind of book. Dead father, hearing voices, and a forbidden affair...does it get any better than this?

9. Bad Astronomy by Phillip Plait

Now, I'm by far the biggest nerd I've ever met, so of course a science book is going to be on my list. Plait is delightfully cynical, and refutes all of the nonsense that people come up with in regards to the infinite universe. Here he refutes "evidence" that the NASA moon landing was a fake, the "proof" of Astrology, and Hollywood's ten worst examples of really bad astronomy.

8. The Night I Disappeared by Julie Reese DeaverThis is actually a young-adult novel, and one of two Julie Reece Deaver books that are on my list. Jamie is best friends with Webb, a guy who is always there for her, and she seems to be falling for him. And it's not until she has to move halfway across the country from him that she realizes that Webb isn't exactly who he says he is....... A not-so-typical teen novel that, even though I'm way too old for it, it is still a huge joy to read (and reread).

7. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael BeahBy far one of the most disturbing books I've ever read, while still being deep and staying with me long after I finished it. His brutal honesty, and the imagery he uses in his writing make you feel as though you're there with him doing the corrupt government's bidding, wielding AK-47s, and stuffing yourself full of the drugs that they said were good for you. A wonderful book about redemption, survival, and hope.

6. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Another pretty disturbing book. It tells the story of an outcast; a boy who was made fun of his whole life, and then suffered the ultimate betrayal by his bast friend. He finally had had enough, and went on a Columbine-style shooting spree, shooting everyone he thought was responsible for his depression. The ending, however, will blow your mind.... Definitely a must-read.

5. Wildwood by Drusilla CampbellThis book is totally my best friend and I when we get older. Hahaha. Thirty years ago, after no longer being able to handle the sexual advances of her trashy neighbor, Hannah pushes him actidentally over a cliff to his death. Hannah and her two best friends swear never to mention it again. No one in the town was particularly upset about this, so the police let it go as an accident. The nightmare of that day reverberates throughout the lives of the three friends, until one of them is no longer able to hold the silence. A wonderful book about the power of friendship and forgiveness.

4. Say Goodnight, Gracie by Julie Reece Deaver

I am a girl of my word, and this is the second Julie Reece Deaver book on my list. Again, this is a young adult novel, but I could still read this book and love it as much as I did when I was 13. To this day, it is the one of only two books that has made me cry. Morgan (The Night I Disappeared) is the main character of this book, and she and her best friend, Jimmy have been inseperable since birth. But when Jimmy is killed by a drunk driver, she has to teach herself how to live her life without him.

3. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Alas, this is the second book that has made me cry. If you really love your father, and he is your hero like mine is, it will make you cry too. 100% money back guarantee. Jeanette Walls and her family bounce around the country, running from the creditors (or the landlord) when they come calling. Her father is a drunk, but in her eyes, he is a superhero. Untimately they move in with his mother, who is horrible, and Jeanette and her brother run away to New York and make their dreams come true. Her parents follow them, and end up homeless (and happy). I'm not going to spoil the ending, but I can promise you that this book will stay with you for a long time after you close it.

2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingAgain, being the nerd that I am, I had to put my all time favorite fictional character on my list. Yes my friends, the phenomenon of Harry Potter. I love these books so much that I did a research paper my sophmore year in college about him. This book in particular is one of my favorites. The more the series progressed, the more dark and adult-like the books became. Dumbledore dying?? I mean come on! Who was expecting that?? Definitely not me.

And now, the Number One all time best book I've ever read........

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Another Harry Potter!!! I'm truly sorry if you don't like the Harry Potter series, but no lie, this is the best book I have ever, ever, ever read. I (refer to nerd comment above) love the mythology and symbolism that this book offers. Kids read it thinking it's just a really good book, and little do they know that its chocked full of smart stuff too! J.K. Rowling is just a genius. I give her serious props for coming up with a series that goes as deep as this one does. If you haven't read it, I strongly urge you to do so immediately, or bad things will happen. (Ok that's not true, but seriously, you should totally read it.)

And that concludes the Top Ten Best Books Ever According to Me. Hope you enjoyed!

Kylie "Book-worm" Moody

America's government is incompetent!

So today, I tried to fill out a loan application so I can pay for my classes that start in August. Come to find out, I have to fill out an Appeal of Loan Limits Application, because apparently I've taken out too much money to pay for school.

What do you expect me to do?!?!

How do you expect me to pay for college?? Because last time I checked you incompetent morons, it actually costs a lot of money to go to college. You preach to us that a college education is important for our future, then you complain and moan that I'm taking too much of your money!!! You spend 40 billion dollars on stupid crap, like fruit fly sex research, or watching a pig while she's pregnant, or universal health care, and you wonder why you have no money!!!!!

I need this money to get the college education you have been preaching to me all my life! Not the stupid fruit flies, or pregnant pigs, or Nancy Pelosi, or the stupid laws that you enact every single day! When will you people realize that pretty much the entire country thinks you guys suck! Every one of you is nothing more than an arrogant, egotistical, shallow, greedy, power-hungry, lying politician!

Every one of you!!!!!

I have come to my wits end listening to you people make fools of yourselves on public television, spending my very hard earned money, and my parent's, and my fiancee's, and the rest of America! I complained when Universal Health Care was passed, and the absolutely retarded Appropriations Bill, but I absolutely can not stand for you to have your disgusting hands in my college loans!!!

Get out of office and let America be the country it used to be before you morons took over!!!!

Kylie "What-is-this-country-coming-to" Moody

Wedding Bells are getting closer!

Whew! I really need to start writing in this blog more often!


Well the wedding date has changed yet again to July 16th. That's like....in a month! OMG its scary but super exciting! It's just a tiny little ceremony at the courthouse, seeing as how neither one of us has the money to pay for the big wedding that we want. So we will be "getting married" again next November, after he gets back from Afghanistan. :( That gives us, my parents, and his parents a year and a half to save up the money for the wedding. The budget is 6000 dollars. If anyone has gotten married recently, then you know that this is absolutely unheard of as far as weddings go. Most people can't pull the shindig off for less than maybe 10,000 dollars at the minimum, but I'm awesome, so I am doing super cheap. :)

His aunt and uncle have generously provided a condo in Daytona Beach for the reception, my parents are paying for the wedding itself, and his parents are giving us money to help furnish our apartment. He and I have the best family around!

The officially moving to Cali on September 2nd or 3rd! YAY!!! I can't wait! It sucks so bad to live this far away from the person you love, but we're getting there! Marc is going with me, so the road trip should be oodles of fun. Hopefully the Grand Canyon is on the 10, because I would love to go back.

The job situation is still a no-go. Apparently no one has deemed me fit enough to call back. Hopefully this will change once I get to California. If anything, I can probably work for MCCS (Marine Corps Core Support) at the 7 day store or the PX or something. Apparently that's where a lot of spouses work.

I'll be back in school in August! They're all online classes with Florida State College, and this is my last semester (Thank God). I'll finally graduate in December! Then all I need is Calculus (times three) and Physics 1, 2, and 3 (BOO!!!). I suppose I'll see that Bachelors Degree someday...

Kylie "I-really-need-a-job" Moody

And a job huntin' we go

I haven't written in a couple days, but I still have no followers, so I guess that doesn't matter much. :) Maybe someone will find this blog and deem it interesting enough to keep up with what I'm doing.

Well I haven't done much to tell the truth...
I went job hunting again a couple days ago and filled out a TON of applications, but don't think it's been long enough for any fish to bite. And I filled out a bunch of paperwork with a temp agency like three weeks ago, but I still haven't heard anything. :( I really want to find one but since I don't technically have any formal education yet because I haven't graduated, the pickings are slim. The unemployment rate here in Nassau County is like 30 percent, or something ridiculous.

Darren and my parents are going to help me out if I can't find one, but I really want that to be a last case scenario. I understand we're getting married, but we're not yet, and I don't want him to feel obligated to do any of this.

IN OTHER NEWS....

The date for the justice of the peace is August 20th, but now we're discussing something earlier, like mid-July or something. I vote sooner :) I want to move out there! It sucks living three thousand miles away from the man you're going to marry. But we'll get there soon. No reason to worry, it does nothing but kill you :)

As for the big wedding, we have no official date yet, just a ball park estimate. Right now it's somewhere between November and December of next year. Which is kinda crappy because I'm afraid it's going to be cold. Does it even get cold in Beaufort, South Carolina? I hope not because Darren wants it outside. I'm excited, the wedding planning gives me something to do to keep me busy while he's in Afghanistan :(. Ugh that's what I get for marrying a marine. But I can't complain because I knew what I was getting myself into. It's just one of the downsides right now, or at least until this war ends.

Kylie "I hate this war...but would love to fight in it myself" Moody

Brand-spankin new at this...

Ok so this is my attempt at writing again. See I used to write (and very well I might add), but it seems to me that one day it just POOF! went away. I actually can't stand to write , but I think that my hating-writing-syndrome only rears its ugly head when the college wants me to write something...hmm I might have something on my hands there...

Anyway back to my point...

I ask all of my zero followers to please bear with me if my writing skills suck. Just don't tell me they do. Nod your head, smile, and lie and tell me that I am the next Ernest Hemingway.

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I guess I can blog all about the last two (very busy) weeks in the life of Kylie Soon-to-be-Bolling. Well, on the 26th or so of May I went down to St. Pete Beach in my amazing home state of Florida with my mother on one of her oh-so-important work conferences. (No really, they are actually important...they give my mother the proof she needs to tell people that she's the big-wig in the county that she actually is. If only she did that.) St. Pete was amazing; I've officially decided that's where the big wedding is going to be next November. Its like a slightly bigger version of downtown Myrtle Beach.

Well anyway, I spent three incredible days at the beach, walking around the hotel (because I didn't know how to get anywhere and I am terrified of getting lost), basking in the amazing Florida sunshine, and eating cannolis with my mother in the living room of the hotel suite watching Sex and the City the Movie.

Well the day after I got back from St. Pete Beach I flew out to Los Angeles to see my amazing boyfriend (he was actually my boyfriend at the time, not my fiancee). He was having family issues, and he needed me, and me being the Queen of all girlfriends, I flew out to see him. We spent four days together, walked all around the lovely (not) neighborhood of Inglewood, and discovering my brand new hatred for all things Los Angeles.

In all actuality, I thought I had accidentally gotten on the wrong plane and landed in Mexico. No, seriously, I did. The only three restaurants around the high-class Comfort Inn and Suites (hahahahaha) that we had a choice to eat at was El Pollo Loco, some Hawaiian BBQ joint, and another mexican place. I just thank the dear Lord that I adore all things Mexican food or else I would have been in Hell.

The trip was an overall success, if I do say so myself. The night after I flew in, Darren put a blindfold on me, stuck us both on a cab, and one 25 dollar cab ride later, we were on Manhattan Beach. Right there, under the California sunset, he got down on one knee, and asked me to be his wife.

(This is where I laugh and tell you that I was lying)

He really did ask me to marry him, but it was at the Comfort Inn. It was sunset though. (I love you Darren!) If he and I had more money, I'm sure, no I'm positive, that it actually would have happened on the beach. I only know this because he told me his elaborate plan after he already asked me and we were both laughing hysterically at the fact that it happened in Little Mexico in a 60 dollar a night hotel room.

And the cab ride wasnt a lie either. Although it was only 17 dollars, not 25, and it wasn't to Manhattan Beach. Well gee, I guess it was a lie. Anyway, we proceeded to try and explore more about the neighborhood we were staying in, so we had the front desk lady call us a cab. Well the cab driver didn't speak English, and we were trying to tell him that we just wanted to go to a mall or something where we could get out of the room for a bit and walk around without fear of being shot. Well we must have said something right because he said "yes yes!" and started driving. He dropped us off like a mile and a half (and 17 dollars) down the road from our hotel, at the Sepulveda Plaza or something like that. But we didn't check the time before we left, and after our ride drove away, we realized everything was closed. Well out of respect for each other, we pretended not to notice for a few steps, and then we called each other idiots.

BUT! We found a movie theater! And Shrek 4 was playing, and me being the two year-old that I am, I begged him to see it with me. It was hilarious! I'm recommending to all persons under the age of 85 to see that movie immediately. (Do the roar!) OMG kids movies are the all time greatest.

WHEW! I'm tired just relaying my two weeks on here...and I'm still not done! Bear with me, I'm almost there. OK...so two days after I came home from LA, my new FIANCEE (I love saying that) flew out here so that he and I could drive up to his parent's house in Jacksonville, NC.

By the way...anyone that's ever made that drive can vouch for me that it is incredibly long. Ugh. But we spent two days out there with his parents, then drove back and spent two days with my parents. Overall it was a good trip. At least I got to see him twice in a week. That's amazing for us, believe me. I showed off my ring (which is absolutely beautiful! I promise the ring doesn't match the engagement. Again, I love you Darren.) And my boyfriend has great taste in diamonds, let me tell you. Although that may be because he called me a while ago and tried to be discreet when he randomly threw in the question "Ummmmm, whats your favorite cut of diamond?" Discreet baby, discreet. Ahh and my favorite two days later, "Baby? Whats your ring size?" HAHA I love him. He tries to keep secrets, he just sucks at it.

Holy cow I didn't realize how long this thing was going to be. I apologize immensely to all of you for having to read my rambling. Although seeing as how I actually have no followers yet, I don't actually have anyone to apologize to. So I take it back from no one! Mwah hahahaha! Yeaaaa......I'm going to say tata for now.

Kylie "Soon-to-be-Bolling" Moody