Happiness and packing!

*side note: wrote this Monday night but I ended up losing electricity for about 3 hours (boo!) so by the time it came back I was fast asleep in bed :)*

"i can't wait for friday babe"
Just a cute little text I got this morning from my sailor. Nothing big, but it put a huge smile on my face! I know he's as excited as I am for me to come down to SC this weekend, but I still love hearing it :)

I packed today, and yes, I don't leave until Friday morning and today is Monday. I can't help it, I was too excited (with nothing else to do today) to not pack. I still have all the last minute stuff to pack but all my clothes are. It took me a while because I had to figure out what I wanted to wear, try it on to make sure I looked ok, and then pack it. Well, let's just say I went through a lot of outfits before I finally picked out the few I'm bringing. And yes I'm only going for the weekend. What can I say, I'm a girl, I love clothes, and I need to learn to pack less. However, compared to how I used to pack when I went to places, I have GREATLY improved!

Weird thing is, I love to pack. Seriously, I do. I love it. It's the UNpacking that I loathe! I hate hate hate hate hate to unpack. Let's just say that while my sailor was home on leave after A school grad, I spent all 10 days with him, 6 were spent at his house, those being the weekends. He lives an hour away from me so I stayed at his house, meaning I had to pack. Well, he went back to SC and I didn't unpack my bag for about 2ish weeks (dirty stuff obviously went in my hamper though, I'm not THAT bad lol). Yup, that's right, just sat on my floor and I kept taking things out of it to use, just didn't completely empty it out and put it away. Not the first time I've done that with unpacking and my suitcase from this trip will probably sit for awhile too. Although Labor Day weekend my best friend from college and I are heading to Penn State for the weekend for a Sugarland concert and our first home football game of the season. So I guess I'm gonna have to unpack quicker than usual!

My sailor was off from watch today and had to go to Navy Fed to deposit some checks, and go to the mall, and thankfully one of his friends that got off watch around 1400 took him. Well, he told me he made a big purchase at the mall today. I had a feeling that was his plan because he kept talking about everything he had to do before I came down to visit and kept saying he needed to go to the mall for something important. He didn't need to tell me that he did (and he didn't come right out with the words and say it) but we've talked about it enough I knew what he was talking about :)

Anyway, when he got back from the mall he told me talked to his parents because of "the purchase". I kind of just laughed awkwardly and got silent because I wasn't quite sure what I was supposed to say in response. Now he had talked to his parents already about us getting married back in April so as not to surprise them when he proposes, and they weren't all that thrilled (for numerous reasons-too young, wait until after his first deployment, etc). Let's just say after his first convo with them, he wasn't happy about and needed to calm down. When I asked how this one went, he just said "ok". Kinda assumed what that meant. Then our convo went on to something else, can't remember what and then he was like I need to tell you something. He said that he knows what I was hoping for this weekend but it's not going to happen. What he got needed to be sent away to be fixed and it won't be ready for another 2 weeks or so. But he didn't want me to be upset and wanted me to know that it will happen, it's going to happen, just not this weekend. He was so cute and sweet about it, making sure that I knew that he had a plan and that from this point on, we wouldn't talk about it anymore so that it would be a surprise and special. Let's just say that we've talked about getting married A LOT and he's even asked (although I tell him it's not official until he does it in person, down on his knee lol) and doesn't want it to lose any more specialness (is that a word? haha) by keeping talking about it.

He didn't want me to be upset or think that he's changed his mind, it's just that it won't be ready for when he planned. To be honest, I was a bit upset, he just knows me too well (although I didn't show it). But only upset because I'm just so ready to make it official and share with my family and friends and start planning, which I know he is too. We already know the time frame of when we are going to get married but I don't want to jinx anything by doing ANY planning before we're officially engaged. Honestly we're so ready that we would get married this weekend when I go visit if it wouldn't kill everyone in our families and friends lol. What he said to me helped too, to know that he was worried about me and wanted me to know how much he loves me and how special our weekend together is going to be regardless, which I obviously already knew, but liked hearing anyway :)

I think he was disappointed too that he couldn't do what he had originally planned for this weekend. But it's not the end of the world, not even CLOSE, for either of us. And he says he has a plan that's even better and I won't know what or when until it's happening and that's just fine with me! :)