enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: e&p
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I can't even pretend this deployment is as difficult as the first one (and the first one really wasn't that bad). It's already been two months since Paul left. And as of today we're just about 10 weeks away from seeing each other. Because Paul is deployed to a non-warzone, he actually gets to take…
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This story really begins in May 2010. We got married in April. Then we honeymooned, Paul graduated med school and after what felt like forever, we found a condo to rent in Little Italy near downtown San Diego. And then, quickly, we fell in love. Not with each other (that occurred before we said "I…
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I am so inspired to be moving into a new house today. This will be our third move in less than three years, but it will be the last one for at least 4.5 years. I don't even know what to do with that much time. It feels like forever and ever compared to what…
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Paul deployed this past weekend. The photo above is from Tuesday as I enjoyed my breakfast with him via FaceTime and filled him in on our new house inspection. It's different this time than last. Everything is different. He is not in a warzone. This deployment is scheduled to be shorter. He will most likely…
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So…good news! We are currently in Escrow on a house we LOVE in San Diego. In a few weeks, when the Escrow is closed, I have the keys and things are starting to settle, I would love to share the looong and crazy story of how this place came to be ours, but the short…
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Tuesday evening, Paul got home from a run and shouted upstairs, "Babe, the sky looks amazing, want to come see?" Always, Paul, always. I grabbed a blanket off the back of the couch and we half walked half ran down to the beach to catch the final moments of the sunset. The sky was amazing.…
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I have known Paul since I was 10 and he was 12. We were quite literally "just kids." (If you are unfamiliar with our "story" you can read it and see some really bad photos here.) Over a decade later, in August 2007, I hopped a plane across the country to see if we could…
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Almost every December, it seems, I get to share details about our next move. When Paul was in med school in Maryland, the hopeful plan was that he'd get assigned to the Naval Hospital in San Diego for his residency. In December 2009, we found out he had earned a spot there for internship. In…
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I have felt a bit out of sorts the last few weeks. Paul's been out of town training and I have to say, it's been difficult. I mean, two weeks is just two weeks. No big deal. But the hard part is knowing what the two weeks represent – "practice" for another seven month deployment…
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