Celebrate!

I first started talking to Matt over 750 days ago. I know this because he was counting down to today - the day that he gets out of the Navy. He is very excited about it. I've asked him if he has any reservations at all and I always get a resounding "no" without hesitation. I suppose, after six years, that I'd be ready to move on as well. As I type this, he is on his way to fill out his final bit of paperwork (there's loads of paperwork in the military) and officially be discharged.

I'm very proud of him for the work that he did while he was in the Navy. It is, however, nice to know that we can now move on with our lives and live where we want to live, do what we want to do, etc. Tomorrow we are taking a bit of a late honeymoon as we travel to the big island of Hawaii for four days. We are going to be seeing the Volcano National Park as well as some of the other things that that island has to offer. And we're going to our favorite mexican place tonight to celebrate Matt's discharge!

Winter Olympics

Matt and I have been casually watching the winter olympics over the last week or so. I have a much harder time getting into them versus the summer olympics for some reason. I think part of it has to do with the events themselves - they're just not all that interesting. Sure, it's cool to watch a guy fly down an ice chute head-first at 80 miles per hour, but after the first couple, it's kind of redundant to watch the next 20 go. Especially when at the end, there's only .0000012 seconds separating the leader from the last-place finisher. If only that last place guy hadn't gotten that twinge in his foot going around the fourth turn!

I also get a kick out of some of the announcers. I can be an announcer for some of the events after listening to these guys because they say the same thing over and over again. In fact, I do while we're watching. Matt gets a little annoyed hehe. "Wow, Matt! It's sooo important that they get a good pull so they can get the hull shot. Once they get the lead, it's just a battle for second place. And I can't stress this enough, it's soo important that they absorb their jumps." If you know which sport I'm talking about, you've been watching too much olympics like me :P

We're busy

Well, we've finally had to sit down and decide when we're leaving this rock (Hawaii). We have decided that our last full day here will be March 18. The Navy will then be flying us, our cats, our car and all of our stuff to Denver (actually the car only goes to LA). We're cramming as much stuff that we haven't done yet or that we really enjoy doing into the short time that we have left. In the last week we've gone to the zoo, the Pro Bowl, watched Navy ships coming in and out of the mouth of Pearl Harbor, visited the USS Missouri Memorial and the USS Bowfin Memorial. Tomorrow we are going to an all-day visit to the Polynesian Cultural Center, which is full of Hawaiian and Polynesian history and stuff. The day will be concluded with an authentic Hawaiian luau, which I haven't done yet. It should be fun.

We're exercising quite a bit, which is good. Even on the days that we're not out and about, we are sure to go for a walk. While we were in Colorado, we were messing around with a home blood pressure cuff, and mine was really high. I keep meaning to go in and get checked, but I figure they're going to tell me to exercise more, anyway. We're also making an effort to watch what we eat as well.

Saved the best for last...

The most funny thing that happened while we were in Colorado happened to Matt. If this doesn't get you chuckling, nothing will. We were just hanging out in the living room with Matt's sisters, younger brother, aunt and grandma when one of his sisters and his grandma decided to go to bed. Matt went upstairs to harrass his younger sister and noticed that the shower was running with the door open. From downstairs we heard him yell "who left the shower running?" immediately followed by "oops, sorry grandma!"

He had walked into his grandma's room (the door was open) and he saw her naked. He then came downstairs and tried to shrug it off, but we wouldn't let him. His sister, who was upstairs in a different room, saw the whole thing happen and told the funniest recall of it from her perspective. We all laughed for a good 15 minutes!!

Super bowl

Matt and I recorded the Super Bowl yesterday so we could watch it at night. It just seems more normal to watch the big game at night instead of at 1:00 in the afternoon. We turned it into somewhat of a special occasion, especially since it was also Matt's birthday! I made him his favorite batch of brownies instead of a cake and wrote "happy birthday" on them with frosting and made him blow out some candles. We ordered his favorite kind of pizza and I made some appetizers as well (Mom's famous pinwheels!). All in all it was a pretty good day and who knows, maybe we've even started a new family tradition! We don't have many of those yet since we haven't been together all that long.