I’ve always liked that song. “Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold!”

I used to make friends much easier when I was younger. I would pretty much say that anyone was my “best friend” when I was really little. Then I learned better. I met my absolute best friend when I was little, but we actually became best friends the summer after 6th grade. I am so blessed to have her in my life!

Unfortunately she lives two states away. While we text pretty much every day, it’s still hard to not have her close to hang out with. So I have been trying to make new friends. Living in Nashville, I do pretty much everything with my sister, who is also one of my absolute best friends! Now I live an hour away from her. The few friends I had here from before deployment have all moved away.

I’m determined though! I just recently joined the Fort Campbell Enlisted Spouses’ Club. They do a lot of get togethers and charity events. I was excited to find out about it! Tonight was the first event I’ve gone to. We met at Horsefeathers, which is a pottery painting place. They also have wooden items that you can paint. I didn’t end up painting anything. I just wanted to meet people. And I did! I sat with a couple of ladies and had a blast! I can’t wait to get to know them better.

So hopefully soon I will be posting more about my new friends and the Spouses’ Club!

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It’s FRIDAY! It’s my friend Cara’s birthday! YAY! We’re spending the whole day with her! Everyone say “Happy Birthday!!”

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Here’s my answers for this week’s questions! Enjoy!

1. If you had to be shipwrecked on a deserted island, but all your human needs – such as food and water – were taken care of, what two items would you want to have with you?

My laptop and wireless internet!!

2. If you were a salad, what kind of dressing would you have?

Ranch!

3. If you had to live on a ranch, what kind of animals would you raise/own?

Horses

4. If your life was was portrayed as a movie, who would you choose to play you and your significant other?

Matthew Perry & Sandra Bullock

5. What was the last thing you put a stamp on (envelope, duh, but what was in the envelope)?

Thanksgiving card for my hubby.

My beautiful friend Karen got married on Oct 9th, 2010. These are a few pictures.

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My birthday was so much fun! Even though I was cleaning most of the day with my friend again, it was an AWESOME day! This is what I woke up to:

I was SO excited! I got exactly what I wanted! My Army teddy bear, “Love Happens” on dvd, and my Chocolate Extreme Blizzard cake from Dairy Queen:

Not to mention the fact that my husband COOKED DINNER FOR ME!! He made this AMAZING chicken, his famous made from SCRATCH mashed potatoes, broccoli and cheese, and croissant rolls. YUM! He is SO good!

He also gave me 3 seasons of Gilmore Girls on DVD, and my FAVORITE movie “My Fair Lady” on DVD! YAY!!!

My sissy came up to see me for my birthday! She gave me a cute stuffed frog that “Ribbits” and an adorable purple clutch wallet. She loves me!

After we ate dinner and cake, we played “Apples to Apples” which is my favorite game. OMG! If you haven’t played it, you must go buy it NOW! It’s freakin awesome! After that, we were just having fun and goofing around. My sister then tortured my husband:

It was GREAT fun! Here is my sister and my friend DiAnna, who has been helping me clean and pack:

So, my birthday was awesome. Probably one of the best! I am so blessed!

Yesterday morning, my friend DiAnna and I were packing again. We were finishing up in the spare bedroom. We moved a crappy old dresser out to my van so we could take it to Goodwill. Then we decided to list the bed and the rest of the bedroom furniture on Craigslist and the local site, Campbell Yardsales. Within 1 minute I began receiving phone calls about the bed! It was IN-SANE! (hyphenated for dramatical effect! And yes I made up that word!) I only had one person call about the other furniture. I had about 20-30 calls within 20 minutes. I couldn’t get anything else done. SO much for working on the living room!

Well, the first person that called me came over. They had lost everything last year when they were moving and their truck rolled over 3 times and burned. They have been living in a furnished house since then and have nothing! So they are just trying to furnish their house! So they got here and wanted to buy the bed AND the chest, nightstand & tv stand for the bedroom. They also bought hubby’s old computer desk and our kitchen table! LOL! I had been planning on selling those but wasn’t going to right away. But I thought about it. This means I make some extra money, I have less furniture to move, I have more room to walk around amid the boxes, and these people will have some furniture! So it’s a win-win situation. I am so happy about it. I sold all of that for $300 which was only about $25 less than what I was asking for everything separately. Not too shabby!

We took the kitchen table and chairs over to their house because they didn’t have a way to haul it. They are bringing a truck by today to get the rest of it. So I will have the whole spare room to keep the boxes in until we move! WOOHOO! And it’s amazing how much more room I have in the kitchen. I can get to my pantry shelves soooo much easier! We never even used the table anyways, except to collect junk! So now it’s not a mess!

Of course, stupid me. I forgot to take before pictures of the kitchen. It was that crazy! I feel like we didn’t stop at all yesterday!

Later today, hubby and I are going to head to Louisville KY to see my grandparents for the weekend. My grandparents didn’t get to come to our wedding because their health doesn’t really allow them to travel for long distances. It was devastating, but I understood. So we are going to see them, taking my wedding dress and our wedding DVD so they can see them. We also just got our pictures from the photographer up on the website so they could see! (I will be posting those as soon as I get the disc with them on here. There are over 600!!)

This weekend is also my Grandma’s 80th birthday!!! So we will be there to celebrate it with her! I am so uber excited about this! My parents and my sister are going to try to come up there as well. I hope they can. It would make my Grandma’s whole year.

Well, I will post more later. Hope everyone has a blessed weekend!

Much Love,
Sarah Ruth

I have been neglecting too busy to write on my blog lately. I have been trying to get our apartment packed up for moving. It’s so overwhelming for me. I’ve been trying to do it by myself, because my husband works a lot. But it’s to the point where I look at things and I can’t even think of where to start, so I just don’t. I’ve learned recently that if things are organized and everything in it’s place, I will keep it that way. I feel better about myself and even have more energy. But if things look like a tornado went through I can’t even get myself to start. I’ve tried to clean this place up so many times, but it always ends up back the way it was or worse! So why even bother?

Well, my friend DiAnna is amazing. She has helped me move 5 out of the 7 times I have moved in the last 4 years! She packs in an organized fashion. So I asked her to help me – AGAIN! (this time I am paying her because she & her husband are both unemployed right now)

She drove an hour yesterday to come to my apartment. She got here at 9:30am. We talked for about an hour because we hadn’t seen each other in a while. But then we got to work. We started on the spare room. It looked more like a storage room! There were things all over the bed, on the floor, just piled on top of other things! I had trouble just walking in the room! By the end of the day (around 10:30pm) we had everything off the floor, everything off the bed, most of the furniture cleaned out, (nothing in drawers, etc) and we had taken some boxes to my storage unit and the rest to Goodwill! It looks so good now!

She’s coming back tomorrow and we’re gonna finish up the spare room and then start on the living room. And since I found my camera yesterday, I’m going to do before & after pics of the rest of the rooms. (I’ve been looking for it for 2 months! Since we came home after our wedding and dumped everything on the bed!)

Now, let me just clarify that we are not horribly messy people. The reason our apartment is so bad is because it was small for my husband’s stuff and then I moved in and brought most of my stuff too. There’s just no room for it all. Which is why I will be making several trips to Goodwill in the next couple of weeks!

I will post pictures later.

Much Love,
Sarah Ruth

WOW! I can’t believe it! 200 posts on my blog! This blog started out as just a way for me to get my feelings out. Now it is growing into so much more! I have lots of bloggie friends and gain more all the time! I am so grateful for this platform!

So, this calls for a celebration! This celebration is in 2 parts.

The first part is a new Blog Award!!

 

• Publicly become a Google Friend of Sarah Ruth Today, and then comment telling me. (Look to the right side bar and click the word FOLLOW)

• Follow @sarahruthtoday on Twitter and stop back to let me know that you are.

• Tweet about this giveaway, then copy and paste the link in a comment. You can copy and paste “I just entered to win a surprise gift bag @sarahruthtoday You should too! http://bit.ly/WOUvy Please RT!”

• Post about this giveaway on your blog and leave a comment here with a link to the post.

I hope you all enjoy this celebration!

Much Love,

I haven’t had medical insurance since I was 19 years old. Now that I’m married to a soldier, I have medical insurance again! Which is so good! So I went to the doctor last week for the first time in YEARS! Since it was the first time I had been there, we just did a few things. Like they took my temp, blood pressure, etc. The dr asked me questions about my health problems. I told her about my constant menstrual cycle. She told me that from the things I’ve said, she thinks I probably have PCOS. That is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, for those of you who don’t know.

What is polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)?

• high levels of androgens (AN-druh-junz). These are sometimes called male hormones, although females also make them. 
• missed or irregular periods
• many small cysts (sists) in their ovaries. Cysts are fluid-filled sacs.

I have a few friends that have PCOS and I have talked about the symptoms they have and I thought that I could have it. Thinking you have it and having your dr say that you have it are completely different things.

Getting home from the doctor’s office, reading over the symptoms and complications of PCOS, I started to get a little emotional. This is one of the leading causes for infertility. Not everyone that has it, has trouble with getting pregnant. But not being able to have kids has always been my big fear. Now it just feel like it has come true.

My husband and I aren’t planning to have kids for a couple of years anyways. If I’m not able to conceive, maybe we should start saving money for adoption now. We decided a while ago that we wanted to adopt no matter what. I’m still hoping it’s not our only option for having children.

Thankfully I have a built in support group! Outside of my family and friends, I also have a handful of friends who have PCOS. They know what it’s like, they know how I feel. I am so thankful for them!!

Much Love,

Much Love,

My future cousin-in-law (and former roommate!) Amanda has a blog. She has one follower. ME! She needs some love people!! So please hop on over to My Random Craziness and leave lots of comment love!! She’s great!

Much Love,