MilSpouse Friday Fill-in

It's been a while since I've filled out one of these, so here I am!

This week, it's all about the "or's"... just make sure you tell us why!

1. Facebook or Twitter?
If I get a job w/the hockey team (I have some kind of phone thing w/the GM Thursday, not sure if its an interview, offer for some type of job, or a nice way to break the bad news to me) then Facebook all the way! If not, then I'll return to my usual answer, twitter. I feel I have more privacy on twitter since its mainly limited to words you type at that moment (not as much on pictures, stats, etc.), but my facebook posts about the team could land me a job, so we'll see!


2. Hard Tacos or Soft Tacos?
At a restaurant, I LOVE hard tacos, but at home, soft since the shells are usually broken for the ones you buy at the store.


3. Gardening or crafting?
I'm not very good or even interested in either, but crafting seems like a better choice out of the 2. No green thumb for me!


4. Fruit or vegetables?
My sweet tooth definitely wants fruits more!


5. Motorcycle or bicycle?
Bicycle for sure! I hate riding on motorcycles, I've dated both types of riders, Vx owns both, but I never ride w/him. Last time I rode a bicycle was a stationery one in physical therapy 3 or 4 years ago, motorcycle has probably been about that long as well.


It's good to be back! Summer dept. is over now, I did get some extra hours at the end, which helps since Vx has been too sick to work f/his kidney stone (it came out, either in 2 pieces, or 2 different ones formed this time, which could explain why this smaller one was so much worse than the others, he has a dr. appt. coming up to determine more & a plan to reduce or eliminate them). I'm looking for a new job, I've been focusing my search more on what I went to school for many years ago, but the pickings are slimmer this time around then they were when I was fresh out of school. Wish us luck!

MilSpouse Friday Fill-in

1. Are you a different person than you were five years ago? submitted by Sisterly Thoughts
Some, mostly small things, but overall, I think I'm pretty much the same person.

2. If you could go on Amazing Race, who would you take with you as your partner and why? submitted by Thoughts from a Poekitten
Idk, Vx would drive me nuts! I don't really know any good travel companions.

3. Does Facebook or Twitter actually bring more stress or good in to your life? submitted byJust an Arizona Girl
A little of both, the drama queen in-laws I have can ruin facebook for me at times, but when I'm on there playing games or doing posts for the hockey team, I love it! Twitter can be the same way for me, I follow people I like most of the time, but there are moments when they're griping about something that annoys me, I don't share their opinions, or if I'm following along tweets about a sporting event where most of the people I follow are on the other side. Overall, I think both sites are great to have!

4. June is National Soul Food Month- what’s your soul food? submitted by NH Girl Displaced

I guess pizza

5. If you could live in any other era than the current, which one would it be & why? submitted by Sugar in My Grits
Maybe the 70's, idk. It seems like a lot of music & fashion that I like are based on that era.

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To return or not, that is the question

If your a long time reader, or spent what had to be endless hours reading older posts, you may have seen some entries or bits about a summer department. At my former job (security for a place that does numerous events year round), I would transfer to a different department for the 2 months they hold horse races, when a baseball team moved, my awesome post was eliminated. I was very upset about this, but not completely surprised. I was disgruntle, felt like I was being punished at my normal job for not transferring, and I haven't heard from that boss until she tried to call me into work right after my husband had surgery (he wasn't very mobile for a while). She quit calling me, but I didn't think much of it until the big events came & gone w/o getting called into work (about 3 months later, it was slow before big events). That was confirmation to me that I no longer had a job there.

After that, I started "working" for a hockey team on the blimp crew w/my husband (not getting paid). I caught the GM's & the play-by-play broadcaster's attention. January 1st, after the broadcaster found out about my broadcasting education & mentioning how nice it would be to have someone to help out during games, I started doing that. I have finally gained some experience in my field! I filled in unexpectedly on play-by-play one night when "my boss" was the arena announcer (normal guy was gone), ran the sound at the post-game show, and gradually added tasks to my job.

Friday, I received a message on Facebook from the summer dept. boss, he offered me a job! I have never been offered a job before from the boss! It's not exactly what I have done in the past, but the rules should be close enough to the same & I miss it out there. It's not a job in what I went to school for many years ago, the hours are in the evenings & weekends (formerly I worked mostly graveyards all the time) which doesn't really bother me. It's only for 2 months (hence the summer dept. nickname), but if I try to get a broadcasting job again, it will more likely than not be the same hours since I'm just starting out. I don't want to leave summer dept. boss in a bind (never did before, probably why he wants me back) if a job comes around & I have to quit. I have tried getting a job in my field before w/no luck, so I'm not very optimistic.

Should I take the summer job, or start searching for one in my field while my experience is still fresh?

P.S. Facebook can be amazing!

Monday

My blogging skills suck, the last real post (not including MFF) was in February, So here I am, with updates!

Early March, I did some color commentary during a hockey game, I froze up on the air, things I wanted to talk about didn't seem appropriate at the time, it didn't go well. Luckily, I was able to crack a few jokes, & a suspended player was also up there, so he filled in the rest of the time. A few weeks later, "my boss" filled in for the arena announcer, the person who was supposed to cover play-by-play for him didn't show up. Game time came, he still wasn't there, so I put the headset on & did my best. Apparently, people liked it! I know the GM & "my boss" were grateful I stepped up instead of broadcasting dead air, but one man left a comment on the team's facebook page stating he liked the young lady who called the game, also over the weekend the woman in charge of the facebook pages said she received several messages from people who liked me as well!

My play-by-play was NOT exactly how its supposed to be done, I had the microphone volume too high so I didn't feel like I was screaming over the largest crowd of the season (fewer listeners); the man on facebook liked hearing the background noises. I didn't talk as much as I should have, I couldn't catch all the players who played the puck during the game, my hockey knowledge is minimal; he liked my "less is more" approach. I cracked jokes, made observations ("I wish someone would tell [visiting team city] that this is a hockey game, not a figure skating competition!" for example), once I got past the "OMG I'm doing play-by-play for a professional hockey game!" shock, it was fun!

The next day, the arena announcer was back, so "my boss" was back upstairs & another man who used to be a sports anchor was up there as well. He's been wanting to start doing play-by-play, so "my boss" had invited him to come up & hang out. Him & "my boss" did that game, he was great! Definitely better than me!

Great enough, that when the arena announcer was unable to attend this last playoff game we had, "my boss" was the arena announcer again, the former sports anchor did play-by-play by himself, while I did my job tasks, along with some of the other stuff "my boss" normally does (I did both tasks when I filled in, so less pressure on them). It was also a big game, not only was it a playoff game, it was the first playoff game series the team won since 1994, & the team went from being 0-2 to 3-2 in this series. The newspaper sent a different reporter, so I had to give him some extra attention since he's not familiar w/the building or how things normally go up there. I gave the reporter, both play-by-play broadcasters, & the tv sports dept. (on the phone) the next set of playoff dates.

The last 2 or 3 games, I have also ran the sound for the post-game show, that's the part I love the most! I get to play with pots & stare at a computer screen. I also help set up and tear down the sound for the post game, then tear down & pack up the upstairs play-by-play stuff & the officials stuff that doesn't belong to the building. Vx helps out with that some, since items are store in the locker room so I'm not having to enter while men are changing clothes.

Despite the lack of pay, I'm love doing all of this, & I'm gaining experience that should really help me out! I've also done a lot of stuff on facebook for them, like promote games & broadcasts, especially for the away games. Mine & others tweets will show up on their fan page if you @ them, so I live tweet the games as much as I can. I do this on another twitter account I have set up as my full name, those tweets automatically posts on my facebook. I don't want to steal anyone's job, but maybe all of this will lead to me either getting a job w/them, or maybe another team or organization will see what I can do. I never had a job I interviewed for, word of mouth f/my mom or someone else got me in the door & I proved myself, so maybe doing all of this will help me out as well.

MilSpouse Friday Fill-in

1. What is the best gift you have ever received or given? from Jessica Lynn Writes
Not sure, the tv was great at the time, dvd player was neat when I finally got an adapter for it, nothing else from Christmas really sticks out for me.

2. Do you celebrate holidays differently when your loved one is deployed/gone or do you keep tradition? from The Albrecht Squad
N/A

3. If you celebrate Christmas, do you put an angel, star or something else on the top of your tree?
It's kinda hard to put anything on top of a Little Debbie Christmas Tree cake

4. What are your three favorite websites?
Facebook, Twitter, & Yahoo. Some other close calls are  Philo & Foursquare. Philo and Foursquare lets you check into things (philo for tv, foursquare for physical places). I have my gmail and what little, if any aol mail forwarded to my yahoo address, so I can check (mainly) 2 email inbox's at once while checking out tv listings & other things.

5. On your man do you prefer… boxers, briefs or boxer briefs? Or commando? (yeah, I’m starting to get desperate for questions!)
While Vx never wears boxers, I've dated guys that wore boxers and I liked them. Briefs don't look right on men in my opinion, so I guess boxer briefs are my second favorite.

Have a great weekend!

Random Tuesday Thoughts

So last Tuesday's hockey game wasn't as much fun as the last cheap beer night, but it was still a good game. Friday's game was the start of a 3 game stand w/this one team, last time both teams played each other, the other team slaughtered our team (idk if it had anything to do w/our team wearing special jerseys that night or not), so I'm glad they paid them back by winning the first 2 games in the series. I listened to the second game online since it was at the other team's home, so I got to hear my facebook friend again. The third will be played tonight at home. Our team has won the last 6 games in a row, & the last 8 out of 9 games (the pink jersey tops weren't lucky for them either, could this be a sign?). 

My sister is driving my mom nuttier than she already is, lord help me! Luckily this sister lives far, far away and no one has heard her say anything about visiting for Christmas. Mom's bf said something about her moving back here, I believe mom's reaction was NO!!!!!!!!!!! 

See why I'm her favorite?

Also, our brother is dating her first ex-husband's sister. They've been together for a while now, it still cracks me up! Our brother lives closer to our sister than mom & I do, so he can deal with her & her craziness. 

Incase you were wondering about my Christmas stuff, no presents have been purchased yet, I won't be making any, the meal will probably be at the same place we had Thanksgiving at (Chinese buffet) since there's a game that night as well. I think the last time a Christmas tree was really set up was 4 years ago. That first non-tree year, between starting to walk again after breaking my femur & a severe ice storm in our area, we were lucky to have presents, & I did have to purchase most of the ones I gave out in January (no car+unable to walk=buying gifts difficult). After that, the cat w/her anry ways, was the main motivation and still is.

Have no fear, when presents start appearing, a Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cake will be placed on top. It's a tradition I started about 10 years ago, my parents had presents wrapped up and sitting by a window, but no tree up. The tree did finally go up, then when my aunt felt bad about hosting a Christmas meal w/o a tree, I brought the Little Debbie tree to her house, placed it on the edge of her computer desk, the presents people brought were sitting beside & under it, so they were placed "under a tree" that year.

The club Vx flies with is having their Christmas party as a nearby buffet later this week. I guess I'll get to meet some more wives that put up w/the same "toys" that I do. Of course, most if not all of the other members are rich, &/or live in their own houses w/garages, while we live in a 2-bedroom apartment w/my mom & her bf. The members that are kids, one of their parents is also a member.

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MilSpouse Friday Fill-in

1. What do you see your life like in 10 years?
I seem to have a knack for PR, so maybe I'll be doing that or some kind of social media, whatever we do, hopefully it'll be more stable for the both of us than what our life is like now.

2. What do you like most about your job?
At my former job, I loved the variety and getting to stay up all night. My "current job" as a somewhat-house wife/apparent PR  person, well, I guess the same thing, staying up all night, doing a variety of tasks.


3. What are three things you do every day, no matter what day it is?
Play with my phone, use the bathroom, pet P.


4. What would you do with an extra five hours in your day today?
Sleep? There are some tv shows online I'd like to watch, but can't seem to find the time or whatever, but idk if that would take 5 hrs or not.


5. What is your favorite Christmas (or whichever holiday  you celebrate) cookie recipe (please share!)?
Sugar cookies decorated for the holidays, frosting, sprinkles, something festive (red/green), I eat sugar cookies year round, just with different (if any) decorations, so its not really anything different.


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Have a great weekend!

Me? Hockey? PR? Wow!

I wrote a little bit about this yesterday, but I'll get more into it here. So on facebook, I've been posting things about the hockey team that Vx has been flying a blimp for. Well, guess who has noticed?

The General Manager! Wow! He's not the only staff member, one night I didn't feel like coming to the game, so I stayed home and listened to it online. I said something on facebook about it, and the broadcaster friended me! We exchanged a few messages, I told him what we've been doing at the games and he told me where he sets up (an area I have access to, but most other people don't). As a former "I want to work in radio!" geek, I haven't quit screaming inside about this "friendship" since.

Back to the GM, I've posted pictures that were taken on my phone, and tagged the team, venue, Vx & I in them (the RC club doesn't have a page), he really likes that, said something about giving him lots of free PR. I don't feel like I'm putting tons of effort into all of this, like I told him, I was just posting stuff at 3 am out of boredom.

Vx now wants me to take his nice professional-like camera to the games for some really good quality pics (instead of Blackberry pics). He also keeps telling me to go hang out w/the broadcaster, I just don't feel any time would be a good time, I assume he talks before game (I tuned in part way through the 1st period), does play-by-play during the games, and talks during most of the breaks and afterwards. Vx told me not to worry about the blimp, they can handle the parts I do. I think I would like just watching him work, but it would be nice to ask questions as well, and he may want to interview me on-air or something. I also don't want to give him the impression that I'm stalking him.

Another thing that kinda concerns me, I know very little about hockey, I attended and watched my first real game about a month ago, other than those Ducks movies and the scenes from The Simpson's, Friends, & other shows that have shown hockey, my exposure has been minimal. I know some terms, but not what they really mean (like Icing), which also concerns me.

Guess I should research hockey, and hope it makes some sense. Maybe study some PR stuff online while I'm at it, get some better promotion ideas than what I came up with on my own (stuff I've seen others do that caught my attention, some things I learned studying broadcasting as well).

This could also be a stepping stone for other things as well, idk, but word of mouth can be a good thing.

Maybe my dream will finally come true...

Random Tuesday Thoughts

Yes, its been forever, but I'm back! Miss me?

Anyways, for starters, I LOVE TETRIS! Which means I LOVE TETRIS WAFFLES!!!

Idk how, but I broke the hole punch! Coupons are punched out, ready for tomorrow, but its getting caught when you try to open it back up again, & at least one piece is missing. 

I went from not giving a shit about hockey to loving it! Who knew being the "crew chief" for a blimp would do that to me?

Speaking of hockey, I didn't make the home game Friday, so I listened to it online. I need to learn more than one players name! I'm sure knowing some more terminology would help as well. I posted something on Facebook about listening to it online, the broadcaster friended me, and we exchanged a few private messages. I told him my husband was one of the pilots and I did the coupons and decorations, he told me where he's set up (an area I have access to, but most people don't). My inner broadcaster geek is screaming OMG! OMG! OMG! while the wife side is asking, "He's telling you where his private section is at, does he know your married?"

The neighboring town now has a leash law for cats! I told P if she runs away from home, don't go in that direction. We've also eliminated that town off our maybe we should move there list. When we tried to leash train her, she low-crawled. She definitely earned her "Army brat cat" nickname during that time.

I visited P's vet office yesterday (its in the other town we live near the city limits of), since mom has a mailbox in that town, and doesn't always make it that way as often as she should, I offered to pick up her mail. When I  stopped by her work to pick up the key, I told mom's boyfriend, "I'm picking up medicine for your other girlfriend." he gave me a weird look, I said the white furry one he calls Fido, he said, "Oh, that bitch!" I corrected him, "You mean that pussy?" I think mom's head exploded, hearing her boyfriend talk about bitches and her daughter talk about pussy.

It's cheap beer night at the hockey game tonight, last time the crowd made the game so much fun, so tonight should be the same way.

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What? A real post? Her head must be ready to explode!

Yeah, it's gonna pop any second now...

If by any chance you have missed the Funny Pet Moments posts I used to do on Thursday's before I got too busy lazy preoccupied with other business watching tv twitter, I have now added a widget to the bottom right corner that will post funny cat pictures.

I also made some changes to my sidebars, since my twitter account is currently private (dear lord, please let my MIL quit tweeting, I'm scared to go public until I know as a fact that she has given up on this, please don't change my younger SIL's mind about her account, her last tweet was something about "not getting this" from a while back, and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do NOT inform my older SIL about this as she is the last person on earth that needs a twitter account. Spare all of us her drama queen tweets!), I changed the timeline to a "follow me" button. That annoying log in pop-up should quit showing up as well. I'm sorry all my in-law drama couldn't be contained onto myspace (back in the day) and facebook (where they currently reside). I also took out some other graphics & things as well.

If you really are interested in what P is up to, she sometimes uses this website that's twitter for animals, this is her profile: http://www.petstatus.com/pthearmybratcat If your pets also use this site, she would love to chat w/them.

Linkbait Generator: 8 reasons to fear Facebook

This website called Linkbait Generator was introduced to me by another blogger, D. A. Schweiss, it generates blog post ideas. As suggested, here are 8 reasons to fear Facebook:

1. If you've been in a car wreck, the victim will find you there.

I was at work one night, decided to hook up my cell phone to the laptop to see what I was missing on Facebook. Bad Idea! The woman that I apparently pulled right in front of a year before this decided she just had to know how I was doing, so she sent me a pm. Good thing I was in a tent by myself at the time, I balled my eyes out. I wanted to reply with some message like, "You ruined my life, bitch!" but I didn't. I emailed a copy of it to my husband, his clearer, less exhausted, not-sitting-in-a-tent-outside-w/no-heat-when-its-20-degrees-aggravating-injuries-f/that-very-accident self gave me ideas for a proper reply, making sure to inform her that I have no memories of the accident, so she couldn't sue me for her truck damages & broken headlight (that she was able to drive away f/the accident with, while my car had to be towed because her big-ass truck broke my transmission, and [along w/the firefighters and the jaws of life] destroyed the frame).

2. You will find out that your boss likes Frederick's of Hollywood.

Not something you expect to see on someone's page, let alone the boss of the summer department. It took me a while to "friend him" because of this. Maybe I shouldn't have. I sent this same person a message about that department the end of May this year, after he wouldn't return my call. He finally called me back to inform me that my post was eliminated.

3. Your mom's boyfriend's daughter-in-law will "friend" you.

I recognized the last name as his after a while, then my mom called me and told me who she was, she wanted to be friends that way her & I could share pictures of the grand daughter w/"the old folks". I did accept, since "the old folks" only use computers to play Solitaire.

4. Farmville.

Just because I work around livestock, barns, and the equipment used on farms doesn't mean I want to do that shit off the clock. There's a reason why I blocked that app.

5. Family (Siblings, In-Laws in particular).

I have to be careful what I post on Facebook because of these people. I've had problems with my in-laws because I posted a status bitching about my husband in some way. I'm not on speaking terms w/my dad, neither is my sister, but my brother is, so I try not to post anything that could be related to my dad. I'm also friends with one of my dad's sisters that he doesn't get along with, along with cousins that are kids and grandkids to dad's siblings. I also worry about my own sister, she used to bombard me with chain emails until I changed my email address and never gave her my new address (mean, I know). My mom hasn't given my sister her new email address as well. I don't know about my brother, but he probably hasn't either.

6. Friend Suggestions

I have seen people suggested on Facebook that I hated the guts of back in high school, I've also seen people I have no frekin clue who they are. These suggestions annoy me. I keep looking at them because every once in a while, I'll find one that I want to friend.

7. Celebrities, Band pages

I'm friends with some local celebrities and band members, I don't know most of them personally, but I enjoy reading what they post on their pages (tour dates, new blog posts, news anchor commenting on a story they reported earlier, etc.). This is also where the friend suggestions for people I have no clue who they are comes into play (see #6). Facebook, thinking we have a friend in common, thinks that we may know each other, not realizing that this common friend is someone that "everybody" knows.

8. IM

It only seems like someone wants to IM me when I'm either at work with a weak internet signal, or its someone I really don't want to talk to. I try to be polite, and chat for a minute, or tell them I can't. I finally figured out how to turn it off, and it now stays off.

I don't know if all of these would necessarily be things to fear, but they annoy me, and the fear that those annoyances will take over my life is good enough reason for me to have them on this list.

Thank you for reading.

Pardon my ramblings...

If you've read my recent blog entries, you'll know why I'm literally in love with this blog entry! What a life saver, a sigh of relief, I'll just have to wait on my tri-care to kick in. So far there hasn't been any changes in dates and such, so we'll hope it stays that way. Yesterday my kitty's behavior got to me, but my reaction was very minor compared to Monday's blow up.

Yesterday evening, my ES boss called me about working weekends, I told her not this weekend. I told her Vx is here, but he's getting ready to deploy, she understood, and hopefully this doesn't mean that she won't forget about me and not call me to work again for a few months *fingers crossed*. My MIL is supposed to do grounds patrol on weekends, during the week she's been working as well, then someone else has to either cover her weekday or weekend post. My boss is picky about who does those 2 jobs, she has trusted me to perform the weekday job, but not the other, and honestly I don't think I could handle grounds patrol. A few summers ago before I hurt my leg, I did the weekday job, it does sometimes run over into the weekends, which is fine, I haven't done it the last few summers because it is a bitter cold job (3 layers of clothes indoors when it's 100+ outside) and the stair walking were two things I couldn't handle (hurt leg torture!). Now that Batman is shutting off the AC at night, and my leg is better, it shouldn't be as bad of a job, even w/the bitchy snobby rich folk.

My attempts at catching up on sleep have become lengthy. Yesterday I layed in bed from about 9?am til after 11pm. I only slept off and on that whole time. I'm finally getting some much needed rest, and the depression may also be part of that as well. Vx has requested I get up by 6:30 this evening so we can go out for dinner.

I need to find a place to move to, my mom is really annoying me, this happened right before the car wreck, her behavior was better while I was recovering, but now she's got a boyfriend so that bad annoying behavior is returning, and having him around is kinda weird (we overhear things we don't want to overhear, we don't do "married things" when they're around, but have no problem doing those things when were on the other side of the thin walls). Vx doesn't want a say, so it's all on me. He said there's people at warriors I can contact that can help, but the sooner the better, so I need to get in gear and hurry up and pick a place!

One more and I'll quit, earlier when I had facebook search my blackberry contacts, my FMT boss came up, first off, I did NOT need to know about him being a fan of Frederick's of Hollywood (too weird!), second, the way I have my employers listed on there, if he did a search for co-workers, I don't think I would show up, so should I friend him, message him, what? I have no clue on the ettiquette for this. I know the other driver in that car wreck found me on there, so yeah, Facebook is a bit weird for me. Almost all my friends are people I know personally, so in that regard it makes sense to add him, but then he might also be weirded out by the fact that I know he likes Fredericks, and there may be stuff on my page that he'll feel the same way about as well, nothing comes to mind, but it's possible. Enough rambling, I got things to do and sleep to get, so good night/day.

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