i have officially decided that california is a very strange place. from what i can tell, there is no housing district. gas station, theater, house, mall, gas station, house, mcdonalds, house. there’s no system. and i should get an award because i believe i have solved the problem of sky-rocketing housing prices. they think they’re in japan. when you pass a neighborhood with no more than two feet between houses, surrounded by a wall, surrounded by a hundred miles of empty land…. there’s a serious problem. they honestly think they don’t have room. so if we just point out that “you’re not as cramped as you think you are,” they’ll look around and go “……..ooooooohhhh…..” and the price of buying a house will drop, drastically. you’re welcome, california.

and even though it costs a fortune to explore california, you can never go wrong with mexican for lunch and a movie for dinner. i had the best burrito i have ever had in my life yesterday. the monster burrito (get it wet, the sauce is amazing) at La Costa Azul on north texas street in fairfield. the best mexican restaurant i have ever been to. yes, dad, it’s even comparable to Moe’s. ;P and the first person who can tell me what the sauce reminds me of, i’ll give you fifty dollars. cash.

we were planning on going to the zoo saturday and get this! the zoo closes at 4. every day except for sunday. on sundays it closes at 1. what the hay? we get ready to leave at around 12, which was a fluke. i was homesick really bad the night before and didn’t get to sleep until 3:30 in the morning. arron decided to look it up on the internet and make sure they were open that day and we discover their bizarre times. i’ve never heard of a zoo closing so early. are they worried the animals will get tired of laying around in their cages all day? it wouldn’t bother me so badly if we didn’t live an hour away. either we get up at 7 in the morning and drive there, or we pay $100 dollars for a hotel the night before. i don’t know of anyone that’s willing to pay $120 to go to the zoo, without even buying anything yet! and they don’t even have a military discount. ugh. (that was mostly a joke).

oh well. i guess we’ll be getting up at seven this saturday. and we’ll be bringing the camera, so be expecting lots of pictures!

so i know it’s been a while since i’ve posted. it’s hard to say anything when not much of anything is going on around me. which makes being here so hard. Forth of July was yesterday. i was so miserable all day long. i wanted to be with my family so bad. i couldn’t stop think of what downtown Charleston was like with the fireworks and all the people. if i was in Charleston i would have gone with my parents to the battery and watched them. instead i am in california and i didn’t go anywhere. i just wanted the day to be over. i knew i wouldn’t take this very well but it’s good to have a husband who is so supportive. he held me over and over again yesterday.

i had the strangest nightmare last night. i dreamed that Jeremy (my brother) was getting married again and we were at the rehearsal dinner and i couldn’t sit next to him. i was so upset i just started crying and crying. then when i woke up it reminded me of my own rehearsal dinner when Arron and i got married. the restaurant sat us all at circular tables that could only seat about 4 people at a time max. i was so angry but i didn’t say anything. i wanted my family and Arron’s family to be together and we weren’t. i wanted to be able to talk to our parents, get advice, make the next day easier. i so regret that dinner. oh well, i’m just being negative because i miss my family. it was a wonderful wedding!

it’s hard to meet people here. but today was a good day. we found a place on base called “The Peak”. it’s basically just a free coffee shop where all the airmen come and they have free wifi and everyone is close to our age and very friendly. we met a few people tonight and we intend to come back often. i could even come here sometimes by myself. lol, Arron could drop me off while he’s at work and i could stay at daycare all day . they sometimes stay open until midnight. i’m here right now and it’s 10:30. we just ordered pizza and he’s going to pick it up.

so i suppose i’m getting the hang of this airforce wife thing. it’s just hard to leave home. but once i get past that and make some friends,  i’m sure i’ll just blossom. sort of. things will be nice in Japan.