Me & My Other Half

I figured that i would start off with a little background of me and my family. (going way back about me. lol.)

Starting with me; Im 21 years old (turned 21 on September 1st 2008). I am a born and raised local girl; born and raised in the state of Hawaii on the island of Oahu. I grew up in a small town on the north shore of Oahu with my mom and dad, 2 sisters and a brother. I guess you could say that i was and still am the "BLACK SHEEP"; completely diferent from the other 3. I attended Ka'a'awa Elementary School, then transfered to King Intermediate School and then headed off to Kalaheo High school. Graduated from Kalaheo in June of 2005. Then made my journey to Windward Community College. There i studied to get my AA, but never finished. Eventually in time i will go back to finish my schooling.

At the age of 18 i got married. At that moment in time it felt that it was the best thing for me. But let me tell you i was WAY wrong. We lasted about 9 months and then started the divorce process. It was a stupid mistake and one that i have learned from. Before the divorce i had met my current hubby (well hubby to be). I remember it as though it was yesturday. It was late at night and i was bored, thought that i would just make my way into a yahoo chatroom. There i wrote "Im bored, anyone want to talk?" and POP someone wanted to talk to me. Me and the person (lets name him SALVATORE) TOTALLY hit it off. We talked for hours and hours and hours. He was someone that i trusted, even though we had never met in real life. He is in the Army, and was currently deployed in the Phillipines and wouldnt be home till the ending of May. He was an amazing man, he himself was in the middle of a divorce. He was 31 years old when we met, he has a little girl who is now six. He has been around the world and back so many times, seen so many different places and met so many different people. He is originally from Baltimore Maryland, has been in the state of Hawaii for 5 years. We would talk everyday, and when i mean everyday i mean everyday. We always had something to talk about. And to be honest i fell head over heels in love with him, but was afraid to admit it because i was still married and technically he was still married; in the middle of a divorce. When he finally came home and we finally met i knew that there was no way that i was going to let him go. Me and my husband at the time were going through a rough road because he wanted to be with me and other women at the same time and that was not what i had grown up knowing what marriage was.

So when Sal (current love) came home i realized that there is better out there for me. And i dont regret leaving my husband at all. Sal and i just totally clicked, being together (physically) just made our connection so much better. I have to admit that at the start i was a little worried because of the age difference. When we met i was 19 and he had just turned 31 on April 25th 2007. But as i got to know him and know everything about him i realized that age is just a number that when you are in love the number on your drivers license doesnt mean a single thing. So a few days after Sal returned home me and him moved into a place with 3 other people. People that he had known for sometime. It was something new for the both of us. It was that hint that we were really never going back to the people that we were married to. We had such a blast!! On our first date it was AMAZING, he picked me up in his HUGE jeep (he enjoyed 4wheeling) and took me out to the beach, but got us stuck (i was panicing and then some guys came and helped us out.) Then he took me out to dinner to Buca di peppo, where we met some crazy biker guys that told him to kiss my knees (dont ask why) and then we headed back to the beach and spent the rest of the night under the stars. It was the BEST date that a girl could ever have asked for.

So we moved out to Ewa with 2 other army guys and one of them had a girlfriend living there as well. It was quite a change. But we wanted to start our life together and spend as much time together as we could. Mainly because a few days after he got home he found out that he was going to be deployed to Iraq for 15 months. It was quite a SLAP in the face and i wish that it never happened but it was going to happen. We had talked about marriage alot in our relationship. We wanted to star our life together. So a few months go by and then he has to leave to go to NTC (training). He was only to be gone for about a month and then ended up being gone for 2 months. It was the hardest 2 months ever! The longest we had been apart since we started dating. When he came home one day we were just strolling through the mall and we strolled into a jewelry store and were looking at promise rings, and the next thing we know we are picking out a wedding band and a engagement band. So about a month after we bought the ring he proposed. We were at my ALL time favorite resturant (The Old Spaghetti Factory) and he asked me to be his wife. And OF COURSE i said that 3 letter word....YES!

Then just a few days after that we headed off to Maryland (where he is from) for me too meet his family and for him to take me to places that he LOVES to go when he is home. He took me everywhere, from Salem, MA for Halloween; which i must say has to be the COOLEST place ever to go for Halloween. Come on i mean witches were killed here. And it was just amazing. I love that kind of weird history stuff (the little history that i actually like..lol), to Morristown Tennesse to see the house that he wants to have after he gets out of the Army; he also took me to Chattanuga and Gatlinburg. He knew all the great places to take me. I had a GREAT time . He showed me everything. It was FREZZING!! Im a Hawaii girl thrown to the east coast in October. But it was the BEST trip that we took in the year of 2007. Also in October me and Sal moved in with my parents because our roomate from our old place was dumb and didnt tell any of us that the lease was up at the ending of October. So we moved there, well it was really for me because it was the easiest and safest place for me to be when he was in Iraq.

Then November came along and nothing really exciting happened. We just spent every single day together preparing ourselves for the HORRIBLE day. So November FLIES by and before we know it hes packing and repacking and repacking his bags to get ready to go. And on December 7th 2007 we drive to Schofield Barracks to spend our last few hours together. He didnt really leave till around noon or earlier on the 8th of December. That by far was the hardest thing to do. Having to say good-bye to the LOVE of my life for 15 months. I swear i cried for atleast a month after he left. NOTHING felt the same without him. Sleeping in the bed after he left just felt so empty. And here began our journey of being apart.

♥ Honeybear & Snookums