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As everyone now knows I'm back in Sacramento. Jordon is still in S. Korea till Thanksgiving time and he will be home a week with me and Jack and then he is off to school again to go into Paralegal, the schooling last 10 weeks. After that it's a another adventure for the McAllister family.

A few things that have happened. My brother Matt is now out of the Navy, he is also out here in Sac for the next month and a half. We also started the beginning of going to weddings, the 17th of this month we went to Jason Walsh's wedding , Matt's best friend since Kindergarten and one of my "brothers" as i call them, it was a beautiful ceremony and a lovely reception. I've very happy for the newlyweds and i hope they are having a great time on their honeymoon.
I have also found and moved into a duplex that is about 6 minutes away from my parents. It's a 3 bedroom, 1 bath with a gated backyard and a carport. It's big enough for Jack to be able to run around and be his spazzy self and still small enough for me.
I will say that the best part about it is that i don't have to water or mow the front lawn (the have guys to do it for me.) I also have a security patrol that goes around too.






This is the front of the house with the carport.

This is the living room

I'm still acquiring some furniture, I've been lucky in that a few people i know where giving away furniture and that i was able to get a bed at a really good price. Overall it's been very busy and I know Jordon has been keeping busy at work and going around S. Korea to as many places as he can to see more things. Jordon has also been put in to receive a sorta promotion, he is going to become a Corporal (it's still the same level E-4 but with more power to do things.) I'm very proud of him and all that he has been doing. Keep it up my love!

Today, marks mine and Jordon's 2nd anniversary of being married. Two years ago today we got married in a court house in San Antonio, Texas. It was a very small and cute ceremony and our friend being silly as he is recorded it all.

Jordon proposing, yes i was shocked. (even though i knew it was coming)
Day we got married.

Happy Anniversary Jordon!

The Good, the bad,...

the ugly.

We found out at the beginning of the year that our landlord is not willing to extend out lease till we move. Our first thought is this really sucks but we kind of knew it was going to happen. Much to our dismay, we find out that if we move it will be out of our pocket and that to go though clearing we have to be completely moved out of our place before housing will let us move into a new one, which means that we would have to stay at a hotel or friends house (staying at the hotel means having jack in the kennel till we move). After looking at a few places, the Realtor we where talking to says that no one is willing to do a 6 month lease, another bummer. We think about it and decide that if we can stay where we are at and pay the extra out of pocket for rent it would be easier. We have out realtor tell the landlord and she say ok, but now she is having second thoughts about it all and is giving us hell. *sigh*

On the positive side, Jack is now a 1 year old dog as of the 7th of January. To celebrate he got to go get groomed :) i think i wanted that more than him hehe.

being home...

This last sunday i finally did my first (in person) Partylite show. I'm going to be a very big critic and say that the show sucked. Only 2 people showed up and Jordon was being squirmish like a little kid. Well i have a few days till the end of April and the guest specials are really nice right now so maybe i can get some orders from some people at Jordon's work. hmmm... lets hope. 

Jack: 

on another note, our puppy is getting bigger, and he's still as funny as ever. He can finally hold his little bladder till we go out side and he is Housebroken. CHEERS!!! This is making sleeping so much better. He's almost 4 months old and is a very smart puppy. Only thing we need to work on is the coming when called and sitting every time we say "sit". Other things are being taught too, but we need to at least get those set in his brain. He is a wonderful puppy, most of the time, and is a great patients learner for Jordon. 

South Korea

So i finally made a blog! To me this is a big accomplishment because i had to figure out how to make the sign in page not in korean. he he, but i did it. yeah for me! 

So i'm going to give everyone a tour of our place here in Korea. YEAH! So just so you know a little bit about our place, we live in a sky-rise called Park Towers. We are on the 19th floor. there are 4 apartments on this floor all of which have about the same square footage as us, which is 1800 sq. ft. (we can fit a full family in this place) I will say one thing about our place is that there is way too much space for just the two of us... and i will show you why i say that. :)

This is the view from the living room, you can see the entrance to the base and the doggie park. Plus a few other things, like if there are taxies at the hospital :)

This is another view we have. I have to say that Korea is really pretty at night when you are 19 floors up and all the lights are against the night sky. Sunrise and sunset are beautiful!

It’s the main entrance, it's long and has a huge mirror that i look at every time before i leave. Sometimes i even stop myself from leaving cause my hair looks bad. >.< It is here that we keep our coats, shoes, bags, purses, etc. 

This is the living/dinning room, behind the couch is this table where we eat most of the time. The furniture was provided by the army. I like it all except the couch and the bed. The whole place has wood flooring except the bathrooms, the balcony areas, and the entrance. 

Once you come in the entrance the living room is off to your left. As you can see in this picture, there is the dinning room table and the kitchen. 

This is the kitchen, i'm going to have to take pictures and a video of all the funny things that are in the kitchen. Just so you know now we have 2 refrigerators. One is built in and the other (as you can see) is a regular one (also provided by army). I will say i like my kitchen, but cause of the lack of storage i don't love it. Grammy be proud i don't have a microwave. HA HA! 

This is the room off the kitchen, (see door in earlier picture).  To the left we have the veggie and rice fridge (know to the koreans as the kimche fridge) i've never used this for anything other than to put my rice in it...and that is just to have it in a cool dry place. To the right we have the washing machine....i just want to put this out now but all the electronics and gizmos in our place (other than the dryer and army fridge) are in korean...and yes we use the washer weekly. (Jordon made out cards when the guy was explaining things to him, i love my honey)

This is the family room, and it's much bigger than the picture shows. This is the first room you come to after you come in and go to the right of the main entrance. This room is completely empty right now. I'm trying to convince Jordon that we should move the tv and entertainment stuff we have into this room, but i don't think that is going to happen. So, it's going to turn into my space :)

This is the guest room, and there is a bed in the guest room. Off the guest room is a balcony and to the left of the room is the office that i forgot to take a picture of, i'm a space case. You can get to the balcony (which is enclosed) from the office and the guest room. It's a nice size balcony too. 

Guest bathroom, well more like Jordon's bathroom cause he likes the shower in this one better than the master bathroom. I love having 2 bathrooms!

Master Bedroom. This is our huge bedroom, as you can see though in the picture in the distance is the wonderful dryer :( It's in our balcony area, which has now become the dogs area too... and to think i was going to use this area for growing some plants...can't now because Jack (puppy) will knock them down or eat them -_-'

This is still the master bedroom, straight ahead is the vanity and actually to the left of this picture is the built in closets. I love them now cause it's somewhere that Jack can't get into things and get hair on or chew on things. :)

This is the master bathroom. As you can tell by now that there are a lot of mirrors in our apartment. Surprisingly i only really look at myself in the mirror 2x at least in the mirror (once when i get dressed and when i go into the bathroom) everything else is at a glance :(

To the right of this picture is the shower/ spa tub, it take forever to fill the tub up so i rarely take a bath anymore.

So that is it for the tour of the place. Since i took these picture we have gotten a small rug for the living room and a dog (plus all this toys). It's nice being here and having this apartment, but Jordon and i can't wait till we finally have a house of our own (with a yard for Jack).

Getting a job: So i had met with a resume coach (before we got the dog) and i'm finally able to have free time to go see her again and finally get a job. It's been had with having to spend most of my time housebreaking Jack and also getting our place filled with the weekly things. I have to say that i think that even with the unexpected addition to our family and the minor set backs, everything is going to plan. My goal is to have a job by the end of May.

Jordon and the Army: As you may not know but Jordon works in the hospital for the army. When he first came here he did air-evac (get patients in and out of their hospital to other more suitable hospitals for various reasons). Well since i got here they decided to switch him out of that area and move him in to PAD (patient administrations department) where he admits people to the hospital and does various PAD stuff. His schedule went from a M-F, 8 hour days to 12 hour rotating schedule, and now it's the 12 hour rotating schedule but he works nights. So, needless to say his NCOs are wonderful crazy people who don't realize have the time what they are doing. Well the good things about him going to nights now is i get to actually spend more time with Jordon, he doesn't have to do PT (mandatory workout every M-W-F) and no more Sgt's Time on thursdays. I think God has thrown jordon a bone here cause he was getting to the point of being over worked. -_-'

Well i have more to come later. I would like to share my first festival experience with everyone, lots of cool pictures and there are so many pretty things in South Korea! EEPPS! I'm excited!

Love the optimistic Jessy!