I have to figure out all my packing soon. I usually just take one little bag when I spend a night, this time I'm spending a week! I'm gonna need a trunk...

I have to do the packing on Thursday, then Friday I'll be all over the house, running around trying to bake cookies, wrap presents, and somewhere in-between I have to find time to take a shower before I leave! This is just a royal mess.

At the very least, I know ONE thing about Jon's proposal plans, and he says...

Well, first of all it looked like I may have started my leave too early, but it was actually a blessing in disguise.

I went on leave because my aunt, uncle, and my 2 little cousins were coming to visit. Turns out we won't be seeing them until next week. My youngest cousin apparently caught a high fever and got very sick the day they were supposed to come, so they'll be delayed. At least she got sick before coming here, then we'd all be sick. However, I do still have plans to make...

We all love it, and we all hate it at the same time. It's just such a stressful time!

Luckily, my stress was able to go down just a bit after today, which I really needed. My stress level was seriously peaking. Not only did I manage to get out and find a Christmas gift for my aunt today (Wizard of Oz 75th anniversary magazine, she's obsessed with all things Oz), but after looking around and determining what would be best, I finally decided on what to get my fiancé, Jon, this year....

Well, I'm excited for something in particular I'm going to be doing, FINALLY. I'm getting more excited about it because the time is finally nearing, but it's irritating me because it's still a bit off in the future.

I've been with Jon 3 years now; for 2 years, there's one thing in particular we've discussed together, and we've always known we'd eventually get it done. The time just hadn't come yet, and now it's starting to near. We've always talked about getting a tattoo together....

The time will soon be coming. I know it really wasn't too long ago that I had to take what turned out to be a pretty long leave, and I don't want to go on leave again, but I'm going to have to and I promise this one will be short!

In probably about 3 weeks I'm going to send my PM out to Robin. I promise nothing is wrong, but Jon is coming home in a month, and I intend to spend every second of the time he's home glued to his side! Don't worry, I promise I'll put up in the staffie...

Well, I had a bit of an argument with Jon tonight about a VERY important issue. We both have completely different views about this, and I'm not sure we can reach a compromise. I'm actually really hoping I might get some advice from this entry.

Basically, as many of you know, he's currently away for his Navy training and he will be arriving back home for his Christmas leave on December 19th, and he'll be here for 16 days. During that time, although he is already my fiancé and we already...

Well, I left on the 6th for my 8th year at Nekocon. I had a great time, but it really stunk too, because the 6th was my fiancé and I's 3 year anniversary and we always cosplay together at Nekocon and celebrate our anniversary there because that's where we got together. I saw so many couples holding hands and cuddling together there and it just made me miss him more.

I did get some great stuff while I was there. It took me forever to find Jon's anniversary present, but I finally found...

You know, I'm getting really tired of everyone else sticking their noses into my business. I'm tired of everyone always telling me that me and my fiancé aren't going to last. I'm sorry, but my relationship is my business! I don't need people constantly hanging around just to tell me my marriage is going to be miserable. Why the hell can't people just be happy for me? My friends are happy for me, but my family seems to think I'm not ready to marry. And mom doesn't like that he's Navy. She doesn't...

Okay. I've been taking care of this that and the other for the wedding. Jon's working hard, and in December he'll finally be coming home for his holiday leave!

I'm usually the one to bring up the wedding in conversation, but a few days ago Jon asked me a question about my engagement ring. (Just to clear this up, I don't actually have my ring yet; we've had to put some things off because he just didn't have the money for a proper ring and proposal before he had to leave, so he'll...

I have been so busy.

It's not like I'm not enjoying the searching I've been doing, it's exciting. I'm looking around for the things Jon and I will need for our move. We'll be living together, and we'll finally be married.

However...there's just so much to search around for! Some stuff I can look for with mom in wal mart, like for silverware and nice dish sets and such. But there's also a lot of stuff I can't just choose myself; we're getting married, after all. It's...