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(I wonder if my blog recognizes me?)  I’m sorry blog for neglecting you all these month, let’s not fight, let’s just pick up right where we left off….just like long lost friends.  What do you say?

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Gosh, let me dust off the cob webs.

Hello old blogging buddies.  I must apologize to you too!  Life, work, kids, dogs, soccer games, cooking….all that crazy stuff that gets in the way of writing.  I’m happy to be back to a familiar place.

I have lots to report on, especially where I have been spending most of my time these past months.  www.mymillife.com

You can always check there for interesting things and updates, however I’ll still post here too with my more random thoughts of life and such.

I’m also on Twitter now!  Yep, and I’m addicted.  The show page is @mymilitarylife and I just started a personal page @wendy_poling  Who needs PERSEC anyway.  Now if I can just convince my  husband not to deploy or his bosses bosses not to deploy him, I’m good.

Big show tomorrow night.  We celebrate our 100th episode!  Hard to believe we have done 100 shows!  It’s been great speaking to so many spouses, guests, and military leaders.  The goal has always been to inspire and motivate spouses to do what they love and to give back in their circle of influence.  I’ll post the show link after it’s taped, so excited and can’t wait.

But enough about me, I hope all who find this post are doing well and living well.  Drop me a line or a comment.

*cheers*

I’ve been playing around with the blog design and so far this one seems to be working for me.  I’m  going to test drive it for awhile and see if I still like it in a few days.

Happy 2009!  It’s hard to believe it is JANUARY already.

Holiday Recap coming soon!  Stay tuned!

Hello blog world, can you believe we are days away from 2009!  Im planning on changing the look of my blog, so the next time you visit it will look a bit different around here.  I have tons of photos of Christmas to add to my flicr page, I’ve been off for a few days so it’s been great to just be home.  I’m off again tomorrow, yeah!  Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

Remember those who have given the ultimate sacrifice.

I’m in the process of trying to get inspiration for decorating my bathroom. I figured I need to start somewhere, so literally I have picked the smallest room in the house. I discovered the Rate my Space section on HGTV and have found lots of amazing, talented people who are really creative. Here a couple of photos that I liked.

Love the shelves in this bath

Love the chair rail / paneling effect in this example

This is Joey’s Bathroom, the “most viewed” bathroom on Rate My Space. This is a great photo, if you follow the link you will see the before picture. Great use of color and unique tile with an amazing sink.

So many choices and ideas swirling around in my head. *sigh*

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Bathroom decorating Part 2 coming soon.

(cross posted at mymilitarylife.wordpress.com

NYC Empire State Building

I’m still here….after a couple of months hiatus.

Lots of photos to load that include my recent trip to NYC. It’s hard to believe summer is gone and fall is here. The leaves on the tree in front of my house are already starting to fall. Before long we will be in peak season. We are planning on going back to the Smokey Mountains to see the fall colors and I can’t wait.

Tomorrow is Friday….yeah….the weekend is fast approaching. We have soccer and soccer pictures, plus church and hopefully I’ll be picking out some paint colors.

I’m doing my best to keep up with all the Olympic events this week, but my DVR is quickly filling up. Everytime I seem to catch up, another 4 hours or 3 hours of programming is taped. I picked the “all” option, so things are taping at 2am.

I have to say I enjoy watching the diving, gymnastics, swimming, tennis, soccer…..and I’m looking forward to the track and field events. Ok….about the only thing I haven’t enjoyed watching was the strange equestrian event where the horse trotted around with a rider dressed in a big top hat.

Like all of America we have fallen in love with Michael Phelps. The 4×100 relay, beating the French has be on my favorite highlights of the games thus far.

I normally watch Army Wives on Sunday nights, its still sitting in my DVR along with a few episodes of Jon and Kate plus 8, I’m hoping I don’t have to delete them to make room for more of the Olympics.

Happy Fathers Day to my dad and my wonderful husband.

I only have one living Grandfather, so I must say Happy Fathers Day to him as well.  I am very close to my grandpa and wish we lived closer!

Today DH had one of his buddies stop by overnight.  He just got home from Afghanistan (where they met) and he is driving cross country.  We are one of his stops.  They are on the porch hanging out and smoking cigars happy as clams.

Tonight I have my DVR taping Design Star and Army Wives.

We grilled steaks tonight, leave it to me to go shopping today for the steaks.  The commissary was completly out of rib-eyes….we had to go to Walmart.

Here’s the latest post I made over at the mymilitarylife blog.  It has a unique article from USA Today talking about male mil-spouses. 

In other news, LilK’s soccer camp finished last week.  It was a grueling week, plus we were a host family for the British soccer coach.  The camp was put on by Challenger Sports with all British coaches. 

Ok Design Star is about over, so I can watch it fast forwarding through the commercials.  *Cheers*