Cross-country update.

After taking off today Jake's jet started to have problems and he had to make an unexpected landing at Ft. Rucker in Alabama. Jake and his instructor are fine but the plane is broken - something is wrong with the hydraulics. Praise God that nothing serious happened but I am feeling so sad for Jake right now. He was just told that he has to get a rental car and drive back to Columbus (which is more than a 6 hour drive). All of his friends are on their way to Florida for a fun weekend and he has to come home. I wish I could do something, anything, to fix this situation. It's just not fair for him to have to miss out on something he's been looking forward to for months. So much for that fun weekend...

This weekend.

Jake is off to Tampa this weekend for his UPT cross-country trip. This trip is a major milestone for the guys in UPT and is really important for training because it gives them exposure to different airfields and airports. Today Jake will be making a 2 hour flight (about 500 nautical miles) into the St. Petersburg airport in Florida, stopping in Tallahassee to refuel. Fun facts: In a car this trip would take 13 hours! Also, the amount of time/miles flown on cross-country trips usually amounts to at least 6 normal UPT flights!

While this is technically a "work" trip, don't let Jake fool you into thinking he's going to be working all weekend long... After his 2 hour flight today, he'll be in Tampa, with 11 of his good friends, free to do whatever they please until Sunday morning, with all their food and accommodations paid for. Not too shabby! To say that Jake is excited about this trip is an understatement. But who can blame him? He hasn't left Columbus, Mississippi at all since July! The poor guy really does need a guys weekend out to have some fun and just relax. I hope that's exactly what he'll do and I'm so excited for him to have a good weekend.

So what will I do this weekend while hubby is away? Enjoy some girl time of course! Tonight after work, I'm going to grab Mexican food with my good friend Patty (who's actually moving to Germany in a few weeks... wow!) We always have a great time together but with our busy schedules we rarely ever see each other, even though she lives just down the street. Tonight will be a lot of fun and I can't wait to catch up with her! Tomorrow morning I will probably just lounge around the house with the dogs, and then tomorrow night I have round 2 of girl's night out! Ann and I are going to do dinner and a movie; not sure what movie we'll see but I can almost guarantee you that it will be a chick flick- any recommendations? On Sunday, Allison (who's husband is also in Florida this weekend) and I are going to spend the day shopping in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We've been planning this shopping trip for a while now and could not be more excited!

Please remember to pray for Jake, that he will have safe flights and an awesome trip. We both have what promises to be a great weekend ahead of us!

Lets talk reality TV.

Reality TV seems to be a hot topic... What's your opinion? Love it, hate it, or love-to-hate it? Personally, I think reality TV is great and I'm not ashamed to admit that I follow quite a lengthy list of shows (Thank you DVR!) Really though, reality TV is cheesy, dramatic, and oh-so-entertaining. Anyone with me? Keep reading to hear my thoughts on my three current favorites - American Idol, The Biggest Loser, and of course, The Bachelor. Oh and I also love Project Runway but its still a bit too early in the season for me to have formed strong opinions on it yet...

I thought we already decided this...

Not to exhaust the subject or anything but here I go again with another track select post (If you're behind, you can read the first one here and the update here). Yesterday, Jake came home and told me he was not quite content with the decision he had made to put the T-44 track first. Oh goodness. I thought, well its too late now - we'll just have to see what happens. Turns out its not too late. Although Jake already turned in his dream sheet, he's apparently allowed to change his mind up until the week before track select (or something like that...) News to me! Well, now we're back to the decision that we've already made twice before; flipping and flopping, while all the time knowing that we really don't have much control over it anyways.

Seriously?

I just looked at my page counter and saw this: 10,000 blog visitors in 4 months. Whhaaatt?! Whoa. And seriously, what are the odds I would look at my page exactly when my counter hit 10,000. So cool!

Some of you might be thinking "What in the world is she talking about?" Well, at the end of September, I added a visitor counter to the bottom of my page. I set it to only count one time per IP address per hour (so that way if someone clicks around to different posts it doesn't rack up the counter). I just thought it would be a fun little widget to add to see if anyone was actually reading my blog, but wow, now I'm officially shocked. If that's not incentive for me to keep blogging, I'm not sure what is! So here's me, sending out a big thanks to you, for taking the time to read about my life and making me feel loved :)