Back in 'Kuni...

Well, here we are back in Japan. I hope I've put enough pictures on here for everybody! Don't worry, I will email everyone individual pix. This was just the best I that I could do right now with the time that I have. Marianne and I are going to the phone place tomorrow to get the phone turned back on, so, we'll see between the two of us how many ppl we can call between 9am and 1145am, when we have to leave for work! Hmm.... might have to make most when we get home! :-)
Well, nothing much to tell. Japan is the same as when I left it. I am 6 month out tho, and I'm gonn talk to SSgt Reed tomorrow about orders! Fingers crossed everybody!
Happy Memorial Day! I miss you and will talk to you soon!
Love you all,
Jessie
p.s. Gifts from Thailand will come as soon as I can send them out! :-D

Toes in Thailand!

Lol! The girls and I got our toes painted once a week while we were in Thailand! It was so much fun! And nice to get out with the girls everyone in a while and do girl things. :-)
From Topto bottom : Maggie (top) Marianne (rt) Missy (Bottom) and me!( left); my first set from Thailand (don't mind my messed up feet! We had went waterfall jumping the day before so they were pretty cut up!); These are Missy's (Richardson) last ones!; this is my last set! I loved these best outta all of them!; these are Marianne's (Flitter) last pair! Her favorite were the ones from the top picture. Those were everyone's favorites! Oh, and by the way, these aren't patterns. Everything was hand painted with a little paintbrush!

Dinner with Coop!

Melissa dug me out to dinner and I am soooooo glad because I had an AWESOME time! And I made a new friend! Her name is Kat and she is studying at the University in Thailand to be an English teacher! She is so great! Thanks Coop, for once again, making me do fun stuff! And Kat, if you are reading this, HI!!!!!! I miss you! I will email you soon! ~ Jess

The Mall, Korat, Thailand!

Haha! Marianne, Missy, Maggie and I just had a BLAST at the mall today! Lol! We ate at Sizzler's (mmm...steak...) and got our toe nails done again! And just had a blast shopping! Oh! I bought a dress! For our Cobra Gold '06 Closing Ceremony Dinner with the Thai Royal Air Force! I can't WAIT to wear it! Well, miss you all! Here are some pictures of us goofing off! lol! (Marianne on the kiddie toys!) And of around the mall! Missy is just chillin. Oh! And there are my toes newly done! :-)

Happy Birthday MOM!!!

Happy Birthday mom!!! I was the first one to say hi too! Boy that made me happy!! :-) I love you very much and I want you to know how very much you mean to me!! I don't know what I would do without you!! If not for you, I would not be the person I am today! I miss you and I love you very much! I hope you have a great birthday!
Love you Always,
Your Baby Girl

Kickboxing in Thailand!

We went on an SMP trip to see kickboxing!! It was pretty cool! Unfortuantely, my pictures didn't turn out the best! So, ya get what ya get! Lol!

One wet day!

Wow!! When it rains in Thailand, it POURS!!! But, it sure is refreshing!

Take your own advice...

Hey everybody!! Well, you guessed it! I am STILL in Thailand and it is AWESOME!!! I can't even BEGIN to describe it!!!! But, be assured, I WILL put TONS of pictures on here once I get back!! :-P ~ Well, right now, my roomie Marianne and I are on here just messin around so, I decided to go thru and get rid of some old emails and I found a really good one from me to my mom and just back and forth. Ya know, I really do give some good advice sometimes... maybe I should listen to it!! Ya think?! Lol!

"...I'm just not to that point yet. Maybe in a week, a month, or years from now. I just know it's not right now. I want something based on communication and a solid friendship first. Like I said on my site (check out my website if you haven't in a while!! It's a good one!), I am afraid of a lot of things. And the first step to conquering what you are afraid of is to say it out loud because then it becomes real and you can start to overcome it. After a lot of thought and being very honest with myself, I have realized that I have always been afraid of relationships, commitment. After Al, I was always to afraid of being hurt. It was too much for me. That was the one kind of pain that I didn't know how to make go away. So I hid it away and I guess after all these years it just kind of grew and ate away at me. Maybe I'm also afraid of something good happening as well. I'm so used to the bad that the good would be too weird. I actually sat down and made a list of everything that I was afraid of. And then I tried to figure out how to fix it. And what I've come up with is this: trust. You have to trust who you are with because they are gonna know so much about you and if they really want things to work out then they will accept EVERYTHING about you and work WITH you on your fears. They will help you get through them and you have to be willing to let them help you. And you have to be willing to get hurt again. If your not, you won't be able to really open up to that person and have the relationship you both deserve to have. You won't be giving all of you; kinda like lying. And I don't like to lie. :( So I'm working on it. I just hope he feels as if he can trust me, even a little bit, and we can build on that. Even if it only turns out to be as friends..... I enjoy knowing that, and even if this is all we ever have, then I'm gonna make sure and enjoy it all while I can. I believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe that everyone comes into your life for a reason; for you to learn, for them to teach you, for you to help them and for them to help you. And they leave footprints on your heart, so you will never forget why they were there in the first place. Because sometimes you forget, and those footprints are there to guide you along, for you to step into until you are ready to make your own tracks. Like a little kid stepping in the bigger footprints of the one who went before them in the snow. :)...... [from me to mom] " ~~ "[from mom to me! lol! love mom!] man moron I raised you to be tough and take things in stride and always remember no matter how hard things are people out there are worse off than you. So seeing my little girl in love and hurting is real hard for me cause I can't hold her and tell her it will all work out just fine if GOD mean't it to be. Cheer up. I better go. Jimmy is waiting on me and I still want to write you .... I am sorry you had a bad night the other day. Please stop letting things get to you. You take things too serious. You take things too personal. You will be your own demise if you don't stop that. I mean it....

So, that was a little convo from me and mom. I'm not gonna go into it; too personal. But, it has really gotten me to thinkin. Sometimes, the best advice to take, is your own...
Jess

Imperial Palace, Bangkok, Thailand

Wow!! I can not even BEGIN to explain this trip to you!! Today, the second part of the SMP Bangkok Trip was to the Imperial Palace and the Gem Gallery, which is the biggest Jewelry Store in the WORLD!! Oooooohhhh!! Sorry tho, cameras were prohibited in there. And the guns the gaurds had were bigger than the ones I DIDN'T have so... use your imagination!! Lol! But.... I DID get TONS of pictures of the Palace! And, no, the King and Queen do not live there anymore. They live 4 km away! But the Palace itself is AWESOME! It holds one of the 7 Wonders of the World! It bit that it rained on us, but, we still gotta see it all!
Oh and FYI, the gold is real. :-)

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Elephants are the sacred animal of Thailand. You will see them EVERYWHERE!! :-); at the imperial palace, monkeys represent good and demons represent bad (monkeys don't have shoes and demons so!); the dragon's claws represent the 5 laws of a monk - 1. no drinking 2. no lieing 3. no women 4. no stealing 5. no killing

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One of the 7 Wonders of the World.... :-) Wow....

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More Palace Pix!! Had enough yet?!
Top to Bottom: The King's Palace (which he doesn't live in anymore but the 8 prior to him did- it is now used for foreign diplomats but NOT for business deals); Artwork inside one of the temples telling the story of Buddism; the most sacred of all Buddah in the WORLD- the Jade Buddah. The story behind this Buddah is that during one of the wars, it was encased in a plaster replica to keep it safe from the enemy. It was forgotten in there after the war until one day it was hit by lightening and the nose of the plaster Buddah cracked off. They soon discovered this one and it has been worshiped ever since. When you go into the temple that houses this Buddah, there is NO PHOTOGRAPHY and you take your shoes off outside. When you sit and stand, DO NOT point your feet to the buddah. It is VERY disrespectful and if you are caught (it is gaurded CLOSELY!) you will be removed of your feet. As in, they will cut them off. I am not even kidding. They are very serious about this and your tour guide will warn you about 50 times not to mess with this rule. ; The picture out tour guide Cindy is holding up is of Buddah's 3 styles of dress. They are for the 3 seasons in Thailand- Summer, Rain, and Winter. The King himself preforms the changing of the buddah ceremony. Very Solemn.; the last picture is just another temple!!

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More and more and more and more.... now everyone can have a vacation!! Lol

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The last ones!! Wasn't it a beautiful tour, tho?!
Top to Bottom: Myself and Doc Jennifer Conlin!; the rest are just pics of the palace!