Yes I've Been Gone But I am Back!

Hey all!

Yes I know I've been MIA but I have so much going on with www.armywife101.com that I just have neglected the poor little "Krystel Diaries". I promise I will be back with more to come!

In any event here is a new cooking video entitled " Krystel Makes Chicken & Broccoli StirFry!

Free Food!

Ok I admit I have nothing to say this week but here is a freebie Schwann's is giving out some FREE FOOD...Just go here and put in your zipcode and choose what you would like.

http://www.schwans.com/promos/freefood/freeFoodBegin.aspx

My Week Rant

The Last For A Year......

So it's 4:33 am as I am writing this and I am up for no reason... then again I know why I am up.

You see I'm at that same point I was at back in May 2007 . It is the week of an upcoming deployment and as much as I want to focus on work and everything else I can't. I feel like I have the weight of the world on me and it's not gonna go away until this is over. I do have to say though that minus the constant worrying, wanting to throw up from fear of the unknown every time your doorbell rings, and no nookie for a year a deployment isn't really that bad.

I always tell wives getting ready to go through their first deployment that the hardest part will be the week he leaves and the night of the day he leaves.

Everything we do this week I have to remember we won't get a chance next week to do.

I know it will be our last whatever's for a year. For instance last night I didn't feel like cooking so I called hubby and we were deciding what we wanted to order in for dinner and hubby wanted pizza and I wanted sushi and normally we would have just got both, but I knew that this would be the last time this week we got to eat pizza together as a family for a year.

Who would think that pizza would mean so much?

At the end of the day I know I am strong...I can get through this....I survived 15 months of this crap...I can most definitely survive a measly 12 months right?

Well stay tuned we shall see.

Searching for Steve Urkel

Ok this is definitley one of my corny videos but I'm not going to lie I love it.

I love it because as I stated in my previous videos I am obsessed with tv shows from back in the day .

The idea that I can visit an area where something was filmed is exciting to me ( can you tell I have no life lol?)

So anyway my brother and I till this day still watch Family Matters and we wanted to see the hotel where the Disney World episode was filmed so that's exactly what we did along with my hubby, mom and our two kids.

The name of the hotel was Disney's Wilderness Lodge . This was shot last August but I just decided to upload it online like 2 or 3 days ago.

Warning: Horribly Cheesy Editing plus extreme Cornyness

I Miss 90's Music & TV

I did not feel like typing , instead I felt like blabbing so enjoy and let me know ....

Do you miss tv shows from back in the day to ?

My Visit to Pearl Harbor

Today my family and I visited the most toured place in Hawaii PEARL HARBOR.

Let me just say that I feel guilty for not visiting sooner. Words cannot describe the emotion and feeling that comes upon you when you realize that you are standing on top of a sunken ship and hundreds (if not thousands) of brave men and women who gave there lives .

I already had a brief understanding of what occurred on December 7, 1941 but did not really have the indepth knowledge that I should have except for watching the movie Pearl Harbor.

Little did I know that the Airfield my husband works on was the site of the first attacks on PH.
Wheeler Army Airfield was a primary target and site of the first attack on 7 December 1941, leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.^[2] The Japanese attacked the airfield to prevent the numerous planes there from getting airborne and engaging them. The installation has a National Historic Landmark District in association with the attack on 7 December, 1941. The 1941 Flightline, hangars and barracks survive today^{[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_Army_Airfield)}

The mood was somber as we boarded the boat to head out to the USS Arizona Memorial . When we arrived we were asked to remember that even though this is a tourist area it is still a cemetary and voices should be low and respect given. The most amazing thing is that 68 years later you can still see the oil on the surface of the water that has been bubbling from the sunken ship below the surface.


While I cannot stand living in Hawaii I have to say that today I appreciate living here alittle more and as sad as I am that my husband will be leaving me to go to Iraq ... I am really proud of the sacrifice he is making as did the brave men and women on December 7, 1941.