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Well, Justin's PRD paperwork finally came back. The long awaited news is finally here. I guess I should have listened to the title of my last blog and understood that no news really is good news :D His paperwork was approved and we are coming back to the states this year! :D Yay!! I'm so excited! Now all we need to find out is where we are going to be stationed! (This is the part where Chrystal and Bonnie begin to fight over me ;) jk) I don't care where it will be though, I'm just happy to be coming back to the land of my family and friends! Man.. patience definitely is a virtue, and the Navy sure teaches you that!

My brother and Steve and here visiting and we are in Tokyo right now. Justin called me this morning (he isn't traveling with us) and gave me the great news. Kind of sucky timing because I was no where near my computer and thought I wasn't going to be able to call my parents and share the excitment with them. I was texting Bonnie at the time, and thought about having her call them for me but I really wanted to hear my parents reaction when they found out. Luckily Sanae had come up Tokyo in the morning to hang out with us, and she was able to help me dial the states from my phone. It's expensive to call internationally from my cell so I pretty much said "Hi mom, can't talk long, calling from my cell and it's expensive but just wanted to let you know that Justin's paperwork came back and we are coming home this year." She then screamed with excitment, sounded like she was going to cry (tears of joy of course) and told me again and again how happy she is and asked if this is what we wanted (which of course it is) and said she can't wait to start telling everyone. :) I felt bad because Sanae overheard me talking to my mom and said to me "I don't want to lose my friend. I thought you could stay here 1 more year. Just leave Justin and then you can stay." I felt bad being excited about it in front of her, but I couldn't help it! Like John always tells me, "you can take the girl out of the home but you can't take the home out of the girl" ... and Justin and I miss home!

Well anyways, I'll post more about my brother and Steves trip here when I get back to my apartment sometime in the next few days. I just had to share my excitement with everyone because I know that you all have been waiting patiently to find out the news! I'm just so happy that it was good news and not bad. Today just happens to be April 1st here in Japan (April Fools Day) and the Steves said what if Justin was playing a joke on me when he said his paperwork was approved. Oh man if that was the case, Justin would not have been looking forward to me coming home in a few days, but thankfully this is no joke! See you all in a few months!!