Life in the fast lane

Ok, so I have been super busy from the first of the year until now.  I have actually been living, and celebrating my word that's for sure.  I actually got more active, and since the first of the year, I have actually taken off close to 50 pounds.  I got to going a whole lot more since returning back to the states the end of Sept.  I was driving around my new truck on my own too, and I never thought I would be doing that.  I have never been a truck girl, but the opportunity came to us to buy dad's truck and we jumped on it.  I know that we still have a year left at least, if not longer on Okinawa, but I know its a nice truck, and it will be looked after while I am gone.  Plus it is kinda nice to have another piece of dad.  I will post about what all happened with him soon.  I just never had the heart to write it until now.  I miss him terribly at times.


If you can't tell, yes I made it back to Okinawa, about a month ago, and I have been on go since then.  I have been running around and going places as much as possible, and I am actually looking for my car.  Kinda crazy but I need it to go and do things for me, while the soldier is at work, and I don't want to fully just depend on him.  


Back to what all has been going on since my last post.  The princess graduated from Kindergarten.  I cried, and I am sad about it at times too because she wont be able to see those little cuties she became such friends with for a while.  She became best buddies with a cute girl who is like her polar opposite in school.  While the princess is quiet and reserved, this girl is outspoken and out there.  They both are adorable, and when someone mentioned to her the other day that the princess was about to go back to Japan, she just cried.  They were such close friends, but we have their address and they can practice writing to one another.  


We moved mom and my sister from the farm in Kentucky, to a nice house in North Carolina, up in the mountains.  I went ahead and got my license and started my last residency that I believe I will ever have.  NC is home, I was born there, and raised there for several of my childhood life, and no matter what, it will be home.  Okinawa is a close second home, and if anything ever happens to my mom, I may retreat here and never leave.  Despite the crazy humidity, and typhoons, this place remains in the kind of way of life I remember from my childhood being raised in the south.  Things are laid back here, and people are kind, and friendly, and normally speak to anyone.  


I have been playing with my camera like mad, and experimenting more and more.  I have taken it off automatic several times and played around with the setting to try to achieve the kind of pictures I wanted.  Maybe I will get crazy and actually start posting some of them.  I am so hesitant because of people out there who take the pictures and claim them to be their own.  It just makes me hesitant about things,  but who knows.