I Will Always Be a South Dakota Girl

Hello!
Now that I have been up in this winter wonderland and escaped my cabin I have made friends here and there. Well I tend to try and be a very helpful, and kind person. I do what I can to make other peoples lives better.  I have had many people ask me where I am from. I always say South Dakota with a big smile. (Apparently I also have an accent when I say it and a few other words haha.) They are always saying  I need to meet more people from South Dakota you are so nice.  I also get asked why people there are so and willing to go out of their way to help others. I explain that is just how everyone is. Everyone is willing to pitch in and help you if you needed it. Say you just had a baby and you can't cook for your family. At least 2 people will bring you a meal. We are hard workers and if we see a job that needs to get done we do it, or if someone needs help and they can't tackle it themselves we tend to jump in. It is just built into us the day we are born. I don't know why we are this way but it doesn't bother me one bit. 

I love being a girl from South Dakota! No matter where I go in this world that will always be my home!  I will still have my roots there in the land of hospitality,hard work, making a mean casserole,and generally being a nice person. South Dakota has raised me well.

Koda and Moving Day

Well hello world.
So yay all, well most of our house hold goods arrived. We are missing a few things so I'm going through the list and checking it twice. However Koda is having a hay day. So when the movers showed up he was extremely excited to meet new people! However we couldn't keep him out so we put him in the bathroom. Them he wouldn't stop barking. So I went and sat with him which worked out since there really wasn't room for me anyway. So after the movers left Austin and I started unpacking things and let Koda out. Well we decided about 5 mins in  that he is also part cat and mountain goat. I should have gotten a picture but he was everywhere and in everything. He was in boxes, jumping from furniture to furniture since they were all stuck so close together. He was sniffing everything since it smells like my dogs from back home.  Climbing in-between things carrying paper around. It was pretty funny. So we left to help a few friends out and we needed a break. So we brought Koda with us. When we came home he played around a bit as Austin and I unpacked the last few boxes.  Well we hadn't heard him running around at all. Normally when your puppy is quite he is up to no good or sleeping like most toddlers do. Well we called his name and threw his toys around. No Koda any where. Well he loves to play hide and sleep. Well now that he has more places to play his favorite game it gets a little tricky to find him. So we looked and looked he was under a coffee table with boxes all around it with  a gap just big enough for him to fit through. He is one silly dog!
I guess I should get back to moving things around and organizing. Have a good day!

When the Grinch and Buddy the Elf Share a Spotify account.

Hello!
So as many of you know I am pretty much Buddy the Elf when the clock strikes 12 AM on December first. Sometimes a few days before that. Well my wonderful husband is the Grinch when it comes to this holiday season. How did Buddy the Elf marry the Grinch ? Well we are still trying to figure that one out. He is a good sport and puts up with most of my shenanigans.
  Well we share a Spotify account and I was adding music and making some playlists the other day mostly Christmas tunes. However I am still learning how to use Spotify. I had downloaded a playlist 101 Christmas songs because it had the favorite old ones and the new ones. I though it would make its own tab on the playlist section no big deal right!? Huh well it added it the library of music. Now I have my playlists that I only listen too. Austin on the other  hand listens to the whole library because it is all of his playlists. So Austin was listening to music and driving around with one of his friends and all of sudden it changed to Christmas music he was like what is going on, skipped through the next few songs and they were all Christmas. His friends looked at him and said " I didn't have you pegged as the holiday spirt guy". Austin then said " I am not I am married to Buddy the Elf and this is her doing".  When he told me I laughed so hard I cried. So I oops my bad!

The bad luck fairy.

Hello world,
Well Alaska isn't great at all. The bad luck fairy really loves to play around with Austin and I. I have been here for a whole month and I have tried so hard to like it. Yes it is beautiful and there is so many adventures, but let's have real talk here for a minute. I don't get out of my house very much do to having one vehicle,it is cold and well going for walks when it is -25 is not my puppies idea of fun or mine.  Then back home my dog died. Our house can't get WiFi, our water  has so much sulfur in it which the didn't tell us! Oh and then there is our car. The drivers side door window just decided to crack and break one day for no reason, and we can't plug it in at night do to the fact that it shorts out . So every night I go run the car for 30 mins to an hour every few hours so that it will run in the morning for Austin to go to work. Then the other day it was -32 out side and our car decided to die when Austin was driving home from PT to change. So now we are carless until we can fix our or find a new one. We thought we could get a rental from our insurance but that is a no. Then someone was going to let us barrow a car but now they aren't leaving. Soooo we really don't know what to do. It is so great being in Alaska. At lest I have like 3 friends here , that I can't see. Ugh sorry this post is something from the Grinch but honestly there is nothing good going for us. I just sit at home with my stupid puppy, in my empty house with nothing to cook with or bake no movies to watch or furniture to sit on. I have a blow up bed and a giant teddy  bear. Hopefully all our stuff gets here before Austin leaves for a month in January. I also would love to be living on base by then. If we don't have a car I can't finish my paperwork finished on Monday!  The joys of being in the Army in Alaska. Well here is to December and praying things get better because damn it this my favorite month of the year. I want to bake and decorate and have friends over! Hopefully soon that will be a reality. The only thing holding my hopes together right now.