i've been ordered to update, so update i will. (yes, Sergeant Lauzon!)

i bought my mommy wicked tickets for Christmas. actually it's for a combined Christmas/50th birthday present. (don't tell anyone my mom is turning 50 next july!!) i'm super stoked. we'll be going feb. 17. i've heard nothing but good things about the show, so i'm very excited to see it. plus i just love the theatre and it will be a blast! plus it's a sweet gift that will mean a lot to my mom and that's what i was going for. though she is already getting aggravated by how memorable i'm making her 50th, this is in a good way and she'll just have to live with it! luckily, other than that big gift, i didn't have to buy too many this year, which is good for my financial situation. by the time i'll be giving Bart his Christmas present when he gets back, i won't have to be so worried about money anymore. then i can spoil him rotten, just like usual :) i think i'm still bitter he's not letting me buy him a present...guess that'll just make it bigger and better when he does get it and it'll just bite him right in the butt that he didn't let me do it in the first place! i think my favorite part about Christmastime is giving presents. i love getting really cool, thoughtful gifts that put smiles on the faces of those who mean most to me :) *tear* i'm all Christmas spirit up in here!!! really, i am. my Christmas tree is just lovely :) it's decorated with all the most wonderful ornaments i've been receiving as gifts since i was a little little girl. and now i finally have my own tree to put them on. i even started my own personal collection with one ornament for Bart and one for myself. Bart's is a patriotic Santa, and mine is a little Brewer riding a scooter!!! very cool :)

and speaking of Bart and being happy, he makes me the happiest girl in the whole wide world!!! i love him so much and i fall more and more in love with him every single day :) continuing on with my story, recently the army stopped sucking so much, just a little bit, and we've been able to email over the past few days and for the next few days. FRICKIN SWEET!!!!! honestly, i think that everyday people who don't have to go through tough deployments don't realize that one email a day is like a frickin gift from heaven...how special and important it really is. many people take for granted the constant communication that the world of today in America provides. not me, and not ever again. i long for days with regular phone calls and calls on the way home from work, "hey honey, you need me to pick up anything on my way home?" and chatting on the couch about our days...i can't even describe how amazing it is to see an email from Bart when i wake up in the morning!! and another one today at work!!!! i feel like i might just explode with happiness and excitement!!! being able to keep in halfway decent contact is absolutely wonderful. i am embracing it for all it's worth until it's so rudely taken away from us again! every i love you means the world to me :) plus it provides just a little taste of the Bart humor and personality i miss so much and love so dearly. i can't wait to have it back every day!

today when i was walking to the oriental box office to get my wicked tickets, i passed through the little christkindl german market across the street from my building. they have some portajohns there, and all day long i could not stop laughing because this is what i saw: HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM PORTAJOHN! hahahhaahaaaaa does anyone else think that is ridiculously hilarious??!!!??? damn, i hope so because i really laughed my ass off when i saw it! associating portable toilets and that horribly strong smelling blue goo with happy holidays just seems wrong on so many levels...