MilSpouse Friday Fill-in

1. When you vacation what type of vacation do you like to take (beach, historic, adventurous, food oriented, etc.)?submitted by Megan Dub-Yuh

Last trip I took a trip, we went to a beach, but it was too cold to swim, & I got to eat some food I normally don't eat like different types of Chinese & Seafood, plus Jack in the Box (never had it until that trip, since then 2 of their restaurants have been built in my area). I like going shopping on trips (gift shops, regular stores that carry different items for different locations [like Wal-Mart, and many others]), & enjoying the sights.

2. What is your best memory associated with a song (you know we all have tons!) submitted by Ramblings of a Marine Wife

Many of the songs that I have great memories associated with are songs that I saw performed live by their bands (a few covers fall in this category as well).

3. If you had six months with no obligations or financial constraints, what would you do with your time? submitted by Married to the Army
Travel, go to concerts, movie theaters, sporting events, and anything else that comes to mind (be spontaneous).

4. What is one thing about you that people do NOT typically notice at first that you wish they would? submitted by Our Motto is Patience

That I'm older than I look, I hate being treated like a teenager (I'm 28).

5. .... submitted by The Three Turners: It's a summer of sequels, and if you had to live in one of each of the following "worlds" (there are three total) which would you choose and why? 

--X-Men: Be a Mutant, what would your power be? This one's the only one I know anything about, my superpower, that I don't know what it would be.

--Harry Potter: Be a Witch or Muggle? idk what the differences in these are

--Twilight: Be a Vampire or Werewolf? I'm not into this one, either. I believe vampires stay up all night, so I guess this one

It's AT time for Vx, of course I'll be working the whole time, so I see McDonald's, Hot Dogs (a cart around town opened up a restaurant I haven't tried out yet since Vx is vegetarian, its open late on Friday's & Saturday's), Metallica music out loud, & other stuff he hates in my immediate future when I'm not working or sleeping. Try to have a fun weekend as well!

Random Tuesday Thoughts

After forgetting a brief hiatus last week, guess what's back?

I spent the weekend watching model airplanes that look like military planes fly. In other words, a bunch of grown men playing with toys. One had a plane set up so he could kill the engine and have it say, "Which way to Ireland?" from the movie The Spirit of Saint Louis. I saw why my husband was making a big deal about the name of his plane, most P-51's there were named Big Beautiful Doll. Saturday was windy when I was there, so he didn't fly the F-15 then (made of foam), but I saw it fly Sunday. I saw why he'd also like a rock crawler to haul the P-51 to the runway, there were bigger planes there being pushed and pulled by several people. I told him I would drive it, that way when he's flying, I can drive it off the runway.

Seriously, a meat dress?

Yesterday, I think the cat scratched me the worst she ever has. There's a scratch on my right arm by my wrist, bloody and puffy looking.

Also, I took my mom's bf to pick up his semi truck, you would think a place that repairs semi's, dump trucks and other large vehicles would have better parking then the tight space I had to squeeze into. At least their workers come out and help you back out of their driveway onto the street. I assume this was also the same truck mom had the dream of the three of us riding in.

He also had the joy of the cat waking him up, he didn't set my mom's alarm correctly, and his phone's ringer isn't working, so I opened the door slightly to talk to him and the cat came in. He is one of her boyfriends after all (Vx is the main one).

My sleep schedule is screwed up! I'm sleeping a few hours at night, a few during the day. Yikes! I just checked big event #1's website, I have 2 weeks to to get my sleep figured out. It says 16 days, but the boss usually starts me a day or two before. I still have no clue what I'll do this time, the job I did the last 2 years is gone, there's been cutbacks of how many people work and what hours they work, and since I haven't worked since June (when I did about 5 weeks of hours in 2, and then my husband's surgery), she may have "forgotten" about me (she does that sometimes). I also can't handle some jobs out there since I'm a smaller unarmed woman w/a bad leg.

I'm finally watching some more of my birthday present (Sex and the City Complete Series on DVD). Watching the show edited on tv is definitely not the same, some episodes weren't even shown on the station I watched them on, parts were removed for tv, either for time or content.

Part of me wants to watch The Outsiders, while part of me fears it would be too sad (this is why).

Vx met someone over the weekend that he fell in love with, a nuclear pharmacist who was visiting our area for her job. She's also into flying RC planes/helicoptors and Stargate. They found aspects of each others jobs really neat. Vx loves the fact that she gets to use this particular machine all the time and they compared radiation detectors (he has something like a watch for his, she had her rings and a pager with her).

Mom's bf got one of his vehicle windows knocked out. His insurance covered it, but it was a mess to clean up and a bit of a hassle to get it replaced. Nothing was stolen thankfully, he had a GPS and some other valuables in there.

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Michael Jackson & Farah Faucett

Both of their deaths are sad things to hear about. I thought MJ was my generations Elvis, & while I wasn't a huge fan of his music, Thriller, Smooth Criminal, & Billy Jean r good songs. Alien Ant Farm, Chris Cornell & David Cook did a great job on the remakes. While Michael's was sudden, Farah's has been coming. Now she is no longer suffering. May both RIP.

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more change

On another blog I read (maybe the same one I found the link for the signature), I also found out how to have signatures automatically on your posts (thanks to whoever replied on her blog how to post these). Is my lack of computer stuff scaring you away yet? Also, for anyone else who's wondering why I don't have an avatar on twitter, the few pictures I have on my computer that I want to use all need to be resized (all are too big). Someone did tell me how to do so (upload to photobucket or flickr), I just haven't actually messed around with that yet. The guitar picture and the ones of P that I've posted on here were taken with my cell phone. I want some different pictures to use for my blogger profile, twitter, and other sites, I just don't know what.

Thursday morning, I took my car back to the dealership to have the steering-something-or-another recall fixed (I have it in writing in my car). They also conveniently checked out some other things and informed me that 3 of my tires are showing the core, one brake is at 10% and the other is 15% so I'll visit my mechanic next week to get a second opinion on the issues. When I got home after dropping my car off, I went to bed, I woke up to 4 voicemails, 1 f/ES boss, 1 f/my mom in regards to the ES boss's message, and 2 f/the dealership. The dealership ones were about the above mentioned items, and the other 2 were about working Friday night. That convinced me to finally call the FMT boss, the guy that worked my nights off last season is doing it, but I'm going to work his nights off, sort of a role reversal. He wants Fri. and Sat. nights off, so I'll be working those nights til the end of July, and if ES needs me, I'm still available the rest of the time (incase you were wondering, my mom's going to work Friday night for ES).

Thursday night, Vx, osil's 2 son's and I went to see Terminator. I never saw the other movies, but I had been watching some of the episodes w/Vx, so I wasn't completely lost, its not too bad of a movie. It was the oldest's birthday (he's the one that graduated Tuesday night), so we took them out to dinner afterwards. 

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I want to write a post, I have a few things I'd like to write about, but none of them would probably be the appropriate length for an individual entry, so I'll try just sticking all of them in one (hopefully not too) long post.

Military Spouse Appreciation Day: It's today, so a happy day to all of us!

Star Trek: OMG, the movie was awesome! Like I told the people in line for the 9:30 showing, great movie! If your like myself, wondering how certain things are going to work out (like having Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto playing the same character, where this Nero character came from, etc.) it is all explained in the movie very well. I will add, poor Porthos! (if you watched Enterprise, you'll understand this part better than some). The line was not as dorky as I feared, while I was leaving the 7pm showing, there was at least one starfleet uniform (TNG red) in line for 9:30, and I didn't spot any at the 7pm showing. I did wear my Enterprise necklace, but since it's so small, I don't think anyone noticed.

Sleep schedule: I've been sleeping at night, not good since the overnight shifts are about to start up again. It's almost 4 am as I type this, the latest I've been able to stay awake in a while, so hopefully this will help out. Current (ES) boss wants me to work for her, but I don't think I can handle the cold she wants me to deal with, so I need to talk to FMT boss about working w/him again, it's not as cold, and hopefully not as much bs as last summer. It is 2 months of steady work, ES probably won't be able to pull that off.

Medical: I read a post from someone earlier, she mentioned the dentist, and it reminded me of all the medical stuff I need to do. At my last cleaning, the hygenist thought I either broke a piece of my jaw off or I had a rougue tooth, so I need to see a dentist about that, and the wisdom teeth she thought may need to get pulled. This hygenist works for a dental clinic that a dentist only see's adult patients on an emergency walk-in basis, but I got the hygenist from hell at the last dentist I saw and they are such a huge part of the exam, so idk what to do for sure about that. It's also time for my eye dr. appt, but since I still have a gillion contacts left, I'm not really concerned about that one, even if it is the best and closest dr. I have. It's funny considering it used to be in reverse, hated eye dr, loved dentist. I also need to try again to see someone about my head, that one is a real pain literally, but I'm not getting better in that department! It would be nice to get my pins removed, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. To put it simply, I need health insurance so I don't have to keep waiting 6 weeks to see someone about my head, these pins can be removed easier, and that may also help with the dentist part as well.

I'm tired of always complaining about my life, but everything I've been trying to do about it isn't working! I hate everything!

Star Trek 11

I got tickets to an advance screening for the new Star Trek movie! Vx and I are excited