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"Well truth and justice, that sounds good. You can use that."

6/13/09 10:04 pm

I work a shift that allows me to sleep during the day and work all night. Yes, my working hours are from 10:15p.m.-7:30a.m. So when the weekend comes around, i've slept through my Friday, I'm up all night Friday night, sleep my Saturday away, and am up all Saturday night, sleep my Sunday away, wake up in the late afternoon and then i go to work a few hours later. Now this kind of shift wouldn't be so bad if something was actually OPEN during these hours. there's really not a whole lot to do. You can go see a movie at around 10 or so, then you can check out Wal-Mart, where its equally as packed as it is during the day, then you can stop by Denny's to grab a bite to eat and watch a local brawl. But that gets old after a while. So its roughly close to 10:15, I just went to taco bell to get some food, and now I'm sitting at my computer trying to figure out what I want to do. But do you know what comes to mind? Not a damn thing. Granted, during the week, this schedule is cool because if I have to get something done during the day, I can without requesting to do so. So there are pros and cons to working the mid shift. I just don't know if I like it or not. I get more time to work on my quals during mids, than I do during days. So i've finished one qual and I'm close on three other quals, but as for the hands-on portion of it, there's not a lot that we do.

Anyway, I shall find something to do. Maybe I'll go running.....
Current Location: Running in the Rain - Hinder
Current Mood: bored

3/31/09 10:06 pm

Let me tell you about this HUGE ASS FUCKIN CRICKET that was in my bathroom! Well there's not really much to tell, except for the fact that I just got done cleaning my bathroom and I walked in there shortly after and THIS BIG FUCKER was crawling alongside the bathtub. It freaked me out and I was like OMG HOLY SHIT ITS HUGE...  its a cricket...... LOL! but damn it was GINORMUS For a cricket... maybe I'm overexaggerating, but I was definitley being a sissy and I was like, "I don't want to kill it because its bad luck, but i don't want to even pick it up with a napkin..... what am i supposed to do??" So I called DJ and he came over and threw it out the window. LOL! he was like, "I'm going back to bed now...." haha! But at least DJ and I will have good luck because we didn't kill it!

3/22/09 09:42 pm

I FINALLY BEAT FFX!!! GREAT SUCCESS!

3/15/09 09:14 pm


Ah so it's finally the sunday before the long and busy week. Three tests and then, Thursday afternoon I will be home free.

I feel so burnt out from all of this studying that I'm doing. I almost feel as if its pointless. I feel like I'm not retaining enough information.

History test tomorrow, once that's over with I'll feel 50% better. The Sociology test on Wednesday I'm not even worried about. I didn't study for the mid-term but it was open note and I barely used the notes and still got 100 on it.

Thursday morning is my advancement test. I should make it this time,  but I always feel that I'll fall into that low percentage of people that don't make it. I donno. I guess I'm living in doubt. I know I need not worry, but this is my career - or at least I hope to make it my career.

At least when this week is over I will only have one thing to do.

The weekend of my birthday, DJ and I are going to San Francisco. I can't wait! I've been wanting to go there for a while. At least once I've been there i only have 2 more places to visit before I go - LA and Monterey. Been to San Diego - 3 times, and then I went to Yosemite about 2-3 weeks after I got here. I went to Fontana for the Race, and now I'm headin' to San Fran. And once I see the other two places, I will never come back to this crazy state again.

I'm in my 9 month window to pick orders now. I really want to go to Japan. There are a lot of Japan orders listed, but my Chief is trying to help me get orders to the squadron that is currently down the street, but is moving to Japan permanently at the end of the year. So the list came out on Wednesday, but that squadron wasn't listed, so my Chief told me to wait a month and see if the billet for that squadron pops up next month. So we'll see what happens there.

My first airshow got cancelled. It was supposed to be at the end of this month in Riverside, CA, but I don't know why they cancelled it, but I guess they're trying to get us a show somewhere in South Dakota. That would be cool. I'm looking forward to it. The DEMO team is probably the most exciting thing that my job entails right now.

So as of right now, my first show will be at the end of July in Milwaukee, WI. My parents will be coming to that show so I'm looking forward to it.

Its already 9:30 and i'm not even close to tired. Usually I'm ready to pass out by now. But then again its Sunday. I actually haven't left my room at all today except to do laundry right down the hall.

Last night I started reading Twilight, It's actually pretty good so far. I actually bought the book at an airport on the way back here from leave. It was a recommendation from Nikki.

I just want this week to be over. Oh well. Don't want to rush time... look what happened in Click!

Current Music: Reckless Life - Guns N' Roses

3/1/09 10:52 pm

yes i am procrastinating again. I just got done studying for two hours and then i took a shower and now i have to study a little bit more before i go to bed. early history is so dry and boring. i really wish i would've cleped the class instead of actually taking it. i'm sorry, but i hate sitting through that class. the teacher is a really nice man, and he's very knowledgeable about the subject, and he's an easy grader, but his lectures last 3+ hours and he will talk about one thing forever!

anyway, at least next semester i can have a break. i have to start focusing on getting those orders to japan and getting some more stuff accomplished for the navy.

dj is watching lord of the rings on tv. why would you put that movie on tv? you will seriously be sitting there for 6+ hours watching it because there are so many fuckin' commercials!!!!

anyway, i'm bored. i don't want to go back to studying. but i have to. test tomorrow night. poo.
Current Music: Hello, I Love You - The Doors

12/21/08 11:17 am

YES! ONLY TWO AND A HALF MORE DAYS UNTIL I COME HOME!

Needless to say the flight will be dry. At least I'll have my Nintendo DS accompanied by Pokemon and FFIII to entertian me. I'll also have some of my psychology stuff so I can generate my five pages of notes that I can use on my final and my EAWS flashcards. Sleeping on planes is not an option for me, I can't get comfortable enough. Oh well.

So I ended up going to my command's christmas party. I didn't think I would be attending only for the simple fact that I really didn't want to go unless DJ was going to be there with me. But my LPO insisted that I went for a certain reason. So I gave in and went because I really didn't have anything else to do. I got DJ a ticket anyway just in case by chance he would've gotten off of the boat in time. But he didn't he ended up getting off of the boat at 4 that day and the party stareted at 6. Had he gotten a flight back from San Diego he would've made it for a little while, but sadly they couldn't get a flight back so they had to drive (its roughly a 4-8 hour drive depending on traffic). Anyway at the party was fun. They gave away prizes every 30 minutes and even though I didn't win anything, I got an award while I was there. They gave me Plane Captain of the Year! That's a big thing becasue that means I've separated myself from all of my peers/co-workers to get elected for the award. I'll take pictures of the "pretty" jet they put my name on and bring them home to show everyone. Even if the radome is still opened and a bunch if panels are missing... yeah they're doing major maintenence on it right now so its all opened up.... It was up on jacks the other day!

So that was the christmas party. I'm 99.9 percent done with my christmas shopping. I just have to get heffa one more thing and I'm done. Lucky for me all I have to lug home is stuff to keep me company on the plane and the christmas presents that I bought. Later today I might devise a way to get all of that stuff on as a carry on.

I talked to my parents the other day and they said that MI had 12" of snow! Crazy! And apparently Vegas is getting snow too! I hope that doesn't affect my flight! I have a connecting flight. From Vegas to Miniapolis (i think) and then to Detroit. Once we get to the airport we'll get our tix printed and find out.

Tomorrow is going to be a long day. I have to create instructions for the guy that's taking over for me while i'm gone and in the long run. He's cool and he seems to be learning, but its almost as if he's not learning enough. It might be me because when I'm doing that job, I'm doing 10 things at once to get it done faster and it almost puts a bump in the road because I have to slow down and teach him stuff. I'll step away and let him do it himself, and he's just fine. But when I'm there monitoring him, he asks a lot of questions. Its just the fact when no ones there to help him, he's forced to learn on his own. I know the feeling. I was the same way when I started that job. But it was a little different for me because i got a crash course on everything in one day and then it was all me after that. Of course Amber was there if I needed help (former LPO, love her! miss her!). But then when we got a new LPO my job became.... how you say..... More intense because different people have different expectations.

Anyway, enough about that. I'm glad I knocked out that article. One less thing to worry about. But i"ve been doing that a lot this week. There were some quals that I had to finish and i knocked out three of them in one week! Both hydraulic contaminations and my flood light. Yay! So the only thing sitting in there is my AE apprentice stuff, which I won't really be able to do until I get to the shop.

Now I'm done boring everyone. I'm going to play FFX and see if I cant bea't Seymour..... (the third time in the game where you have to fight him) Its a fuckin hard ass battle!!!! Harder than the first time you fight him, harder than evrae when he uses poison breath! AHHH! I'll look up strategies online and see if there's anything different from in the book.
Current Music: Ashes to Ashes - David Bowie

12/5/08 10:24 pm


So i was reading my last entry and I don't think I mentioned anything about my actual Thanksgiving day.... good job.... Anyway....

On thanksgiving day, DJ and I went over to Sgt. Grimes's house and had dinner with his wife, kids, and their friends. It was nice. The food was awesome!!! But I'm going to miss Sgt. he's going to Japan soon. Hopefully I can get orders there.

That next morning his wife wanted to go out Christmas shopping.... So they asked me if I could babysit their kids and I said I would. So I got up at 4 and headed over there. the kids were still asleep so I took a little cat nap on the couch for a bit, and then I thought I heard the baby crying so I sprung off the couch and ran upstairs, and saw that the baby was still sleeping soundly. So it was all good. About a half an hour before Grimes and his wife came home, their oldest son Logan woke up, so all I did was make him a bowl of cereal and gave him the remote and said "go watch TV" and he did just that.

They gave me $20 bucks for doing it. Which was cool. I wasn't going to charge them or anything because I really didn't do anything. But they insisted. So I just accepted.

Anyway, that was that.... Work this week sucked. DJ went on the boat on Wednesday... he won't be back until either next thursday or a week from wednesday.... it sucks.  Oh well.

Tonight I went over to Matt and Jessica's place. Matt was visiting from japan so I had to go and see him and catch up. He returned all of the smallville DVDs he borrowed. So we went out to dinner, came back talked. Matt and I went for a walk and he just wanted to ask me a few things about jessica.

there are some people in my command that don't think highly of her, so there's a lot of resentment and rumors going around about her. So what he was basically asking is what I've heard. Which was everything that he already was told by her. So I just said, "I can't really say that I believe the rumors only because of the sources and because there's no hard evidence." Some people claim there are pictures, but until I see them, if they do exist, I don't believe shit.

So we walked back to the apartment, watched Alien on tv and played a few hands of rummy. We all got tired so they went to bed and I headed home.

I have some stuff that I have to do this weekend.  I still have two chapters in my psych book to read for homework and i gotta work on my EAWS stuff. Tomorrow Sgt. Grimes is having a going away party and a birthday party for his youngest. So I'm going to go there.

I think I'm going to chill tonight and play some FFX. I also have to go to the bank tomorrow. I got that check from that lady that bougt that psychology book off of me from ebay and I need to go deposit it because once my car payment goes through, i'm left with about $74 for the next week and a half.

So I shall depart! Goodnight!

11/30/08 04:33 pm

So the majority of my Thanksgiving weekend consisted of playing FFX and being lazy. Spent time with DJ, who will again be going on the boat at the end of the week and will be gone for a week and a half. At least he'll be back by the time we take leave.

So in FFX I got a lot farther in the game in a week than I had the first time I played it. I beat Evrae the second time I fought it. And the rest of the game has been cake so far. Fighting Seymour the second time is really easy. All you have to do is have Yuna cast reflect on all of your people (because all he uses is magic spells) and it will bounce off of you and hit him instead... but your actually fighting this little machina thing that looks like a scorpion on him. You have to drain that things HP so he takes HP from Seymour and then you ultimately kill him. yay! Easy as pie! So that's where I am now. The part right after that.

I know what my mistake was the first time around. That was, I never used the sphere grid.... it never had anything to do with what level your character was at. The sphere grid determined how strong they were and how much HP and MP they got. So basically that's why I was suckin the first time I played it. So in essence, the game is really easy if you use it.

Anyway, I've gotten a lot of Christmas shopping done, but I also have a lot to do. I'll have to wait until next paycheck to finish up just because I have to have money in my account for my car payment to go through.

Back to work  tomorrow.... I'm not  really looking forward to it. Tonight I have to finish up my EAWS flashcards (Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist). Which is a pin you get in the navy once you finish getting all of your signatures, take a test and then go to an oral board. Which is the same as an oral test.

Anyway, I also have to finish studying for my Psych mid-term. That's tomorrow night. She's letting us make a cheat sheet for it. which is cool. I have half of it done already. I just have to go through the chapters and see if there was anyting that I may not remember that I haven't put on there yet.

Class is so fuckin easy! I swear. You could write a bunch of bullshit on your quizzes and still get an A+! It's awesome!

Next semester I'm taking US History and Intro to Sociology. I want to test out of some classes too. It's really easy to do that apparently. So I'm going to go for that and save some time!

Anyway, that's about it. I need to finish up my tasks for the night! I can't wait to see you guys!!!!!!!!
Current Music: Rats - Pearl Jam

11/16/08 11:09 pm - Well....

I seriously can't help but feel that I'm totally detached from home.... Seriously. I should really update this thing more often.... I think the last time I updated it was about a year ago..... Damn....Sorry guys! I should give you some updates about what's been going on. So here's a quick download........

In Feb. I went to Key West on a detachment with my squadron. Hooked up with my boyfriend DJ who is also in the same squadron.

We're still together.

Got my first experience on an aircraft carrier in May. That was badass! I worked nights, so it was extra exciting.

I finally got my Plane Captian qualification. I must say if it were an actual rate (aka job) in the navy I would totally cross-rate. It's the coolest job in my eyes. Launching F-18s is awesome. The pilots are badass too.... some are dicks but not many.

Went to Key West again, although it wasn't as fun this time around only because the shifts were different and DJ wasn't there.

Got back from Key West and got chosen to do the job that deals with all of the paperwork and such. Getting chosen for this job is a great thing. It involves a level of trust with your supervisors and Chiefs. I'm still doing that job until further notice. More than likely until all of the Civiilians take over.

I started taking a psychology class through Chapman University. Doing well in the class so far. Teacher is easy and is really nice too. The only bad part about the class are the massive amounts of reading. Even though its one night a week, you get a weeks worth of reading.

I applied for a job at a Starbucks out in town to try to make some extra cash. Money isn't easy to come by, especially with my car payment.

That about summarizes my year in a nutshell. I did come home in July, but it was only for 10 days so it didn't feel like I was actually home.

Oh yeah and my dumbass left my debit card in an ATM at the grocery store! FUCKIN A! I was so mad! The good thing was that no one used it at all. I called my bank and cancelled it right away so now I'm just waiting to get  my new one via mail.

I officially do not like California. Especially where i live. There is absolutely nothing to do here but drink yourself into a stupor (i do not participate in this because I've come to find that there is no excitement in being drunk). So I spend my time playing NosTale, watching japanese Sailor Moon episodes, homework, spending time with DJ and running. When i'm not at work that is. Oh and not to mention waking up to the smell of cow shit every morning.

Went to a NASCAR race at the end of August. It was actually a lot of fun. I bought the tickets for DJ for his birthday and I had no idea how much fun a race actually is unless you go to it. Yeah watching it on TV is boring, but actually going its fun. I highly suggest it.

Yay Kasey Kahne!

Anyway,I really want to get orders out to Oceana, VA but I talked to my command career counselor and she said that the likelihood of me getting orders cross-country are doubtful. However, if I were to take orders to Guam or Japan, it would state in my orders that I would get to choose what coast to go to when I get back. So DJ and are are thinking of going to Japan and then to Oceana after that. I'm actually really excited about it. From what I understand, there is SOOO much to do in japan! I can't wait to go! (if i get the orders that is)

Another thing, Something DJ and I have been discussing for a little bit. Now this will be a shocker to some of you.....ok all of you. We're probably going to get married sometime in the near future. We'll do all the formalities of meeting the parents and such. Not sure about when it will take place, but I don't think it will be anything extravagant. When the time comes there will be more details. Parents don't know the plan yet so shhh if you do run into them by chance. They will be informed come christmas time.....

Its weird for me to because I always pictured myself as never getting married, so i never fantasized about having the big wedding or anything like that. Just figured I would grow old and die with a black laborador retriever named Indy.

That dog will exist one day by the way.

It's getting really late.... well its only 11:30, but I have to get up at 5:30 for work. The problem is, I'm not tired. I don't even know if I'd be able to fall asleep if I tried.

I have to finish Christmas shopping. I only have DJ out of the way. I already know what I'm getting my mom and my brother, and my dad well.... that's a project in itself. And as for friends, i'll get creative with those.

I went down to San Diego a couple of weeks ago to visit my friend Jenn. I hadn't seen her in a long time so I went down there for a visit. Although next time I go there, I'm going to go on a long weekend. I drove down there on a Saturday morning and drove back on that sunday morning. It sucked.

DJ and I are going to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra on Wednesday. I can't wait to see them! It will be my first concert since... Van Halen.... DAMN! I'm SO LOSING IT! Well not really. I just haven't really had money to buy concert tix lately. I really wanted to go see Metallica, but of course the day they went on sale I had to fuckin' work! and I went there the next day and all they had left was Stevie Wonder section and I was like... "man if I go see metallica, I want to SEE them!"

Ebay hasn't given me any luck either with that shit...... Oh well, they might come around again. Who knows?

I'm thinking of buying a motorcycle. But I also don't want to because I only have a little over a year left here..... I already know what I'm going to do with my car, but I can't fit a bike in my trunk. I might put it in storage. I really want to learn how to ride a motorcycle. The shitty thing about getting a license though, is that when you take the test, you have to get a fuckin California driver's license! I don't want a damn California license!!! I could always change it when i get back to MI, but I almost want to learn badly enough that I'm willing to do that.

I read that FF versus XIII was coming out at the end of December for PS3. I hope it does. The graphics look BAD ASS!!! And they're re-releasing Kingdom Hearts chain of memories for the PS2. I want to get that game! I'm glad I didn't buy it on game boy now!

I really should get off now...

I feel that this entry has been a lot of pointless and useless information that has not benefitted your intelligence at all..... well good it shouldn't! lol

 

Current Location: Lemoore, CA
Current Music: Immigrant Song- Led Zeppelin
Current Mood: awake

1/20/08 04:23 pm

 Fuckin' Fanfire!!!!! That thing I ordered for Heffa still hasn't come yet and they took the money out of my account a couple of weeks ago, AND I ordered that shit over a month ago. Sons of bitches! I already wrote them an e-mail saying "wtf" to say the least. And they still haven't replied.

12/26/07 12:42 am

Ah its been at least a week and a half. I guess its going to be a big entry.... but I promise to shrink it down as much as possible

I'll start with Thursday night. Thursday night my friends and I were hangin' out. We went to Navy Federal and then went out to eat at this place called Chubby's. They actually had pretty good food.

 When that was over we went back to the barracks and they decided that they (Stephens and Okon by the way) wanted to drink so they pulled out the bottle of patrone that they had and they just started drinkin away. Well not really. We played rummy and watched some Friends and they just took shots throughout the night. They got wasted. It was funny. So we were playing drunkin Kart Rider and Candy Land. Oh and I forgot to mention that they gave me four shots of tequila and a beer. Haha. So I was a bit tipsy.

 They finished that bottle of patrone by the way.

 The next day, Okon and I had to go to the schoolhouse and pick up our certificates.

 The rest of the day we basically hung out in our rooms and when it was time to go to the airport, we left at about 6:30 because we wanted to grab some food. We went to Nap's and got a pizza and then we were on our merry way to the airport.

 OH man! We saw some dude run a red light and we were just about to say, "Where are the cops when you need em?" and I shit you not, there was a cop doing his job! He turned his lights on and chased the guy. It was great!

 Waited in the airport.... got on the plane which was delayed 30 minutes... causing us to in turn not be able to get on to our next plane.

 The lady at the gate was being a bitch. The plane was still there and there were eight of us standing there (we were all on the connecting flight from Fresno to Vegas and Vegas to Philly) so the lady was being a dumb bitch and wouldn't let us on. AND five seconds before she had let a few people on EVEN THOUGH the gate was closed.

 So when we were leaving the gate Stephens went up to her and called her a worthless nigger. Yikes.... but hey she deserved it. I mean I could understand if she was being nice about it and wasn't picking and choosing the people that needed to get on the plane, but she was just outright bitchy.

 Anyway, we had to go stand in the customer service line for two hours to get new tickets. I ended up having to swich airlines, but I got a flight out of Vegas to Salt Lake City at 0625. And then from SLC I went to Detroit. So I ended up getting here four hours later than planned.

 That day I got there, I just relaxed.

 Sunday I went over to Nikki's house and her, me and Sarah all exchanged gifts and just hung out and talked all night. I didn't get home till about 0100.

 Monday I sat around and didn't do much. It was Christmas Eve. I played some video games. Busted out the N64 and PS2 to play some Donkey Kong 64 and Guitar Hero.

 Later that day, my brother came over and we did our usual tradition a of London Broil dinner and then opening presents afterwards.

 I got a load of good stuff. I got:

 -money
-video games: Guitar Hero 3, Guitar Hero Rocks the 80's,

                           Godzilla Unleashed, Enchanted Arms, Virtua

                           Fighter 5, Folkore
-movies: Mulan, Godzilla movies from Nikki, and a Journey DVD

                 from Sarah, Toy Story 1 and 2 from my cousin Monica,

                 The complete I Love Lucy series

-books: Slash's book from Sarah
-a GPS system for my car (So I don't get lost in that crazy state of

 California).
-Scorpion's CD from Sarah along with a little Fartmaster keychain. fuckin hilarious.
-a Slash t-shirt from Sarah and a John Lennon shirt from Nikki
-a Navy blanket
-a Philadelphia Eagles Calendar
-clothes

 That's basically it.... My mom also got me Mary Poppins on DVD, but I already have it so I'll just exchange it for Aladdin or something that I don't have. I really want to get Beauty and the Beast and the Lion King. eBay...

 Then finally, today we woke up, had the traditional quiche breakfast and then at around 1645 we headed over to my aunt's house and we celebrated Christmas with the family. It was nice.

 My brother got a Wii for Christmas. My mom just bought it on eBay.

 Tomorrow I might go to my Grandma's. Depending on what Sarah and Nikki are up to.

Current Music: That's The Way - Led Zeppelin

12/25/07 12:21 pm

 Holy Crap its been a long time! Or it seems like it. I really need to start updating more.... I'll make a bigger update later though!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

Hope you all had a good one!

Current Music: All In The Name Of Rock And Roll - Motley Crue

12/18/07 02:53 pm

12/15/07 09:58 pm

My mom just forwarded this to me. its kinda funny....

 
 Why, Why, Why???
do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting dead?

Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough money?

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?

Why doesn't Tarzan have a
beard?

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear
helmets?

Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?

Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?

How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?

When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, "It's all right?" Well, it isn't all right, so why don't we say, "That hurt, you stupid idiot?"

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?

In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?

How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?

And my FAVORITE......
The statistics on sanity are that one out of
every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you. I've done my job and sent this email to you , now it's up to you to send it on.

12/7/07 04:56 pm

Oh damn, I know its been a while.

Things have been kinda crazy lately.... well not really. Its mostly the fact that I don't have as much money to spend as I used to. But having a car is totally worth it.

I need to top off the rest of my christmas shopping with my next paycheck.... that's gonna be great. $213 of that check is going towards my insurance for my car. Leaving me with about 300 something..... I might have to borrow some money from my mom this year. She owes me some anyway...

Tax returns are soon and that will help.

So anyway, tonight my friends and I are going to see the Golden Compass. I have just enough money to get some food and see a movie. 

I can't wait until I come home again. Dec. 21! So that'sexactly 2 weeks from now! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found some pictures that my friends from home and my parents sent me. I taped them up on my desk's cork wall. Memories.... theres this one of me and Sarah and Ryan is in the background making a stupid face. Its hilarious.

So lately I've finally gotten around to reading The Heroin Diaries. Its a really good book so far. some parts of it makes me laugh and the other parts make me feel really bad for Nikki. POOR NIKKI!!

There was this one part where Doug Thaler says: 

"It was this time that I called Nikki at home one day. He could never wait to get off the phone, and on this particular occasion, he told me after about a minute, "Well, I've got to go now." I asked him why, and he said, "Doug, there are Mexicans carrying guns climbing over my fence.""

HAHA! I laughed my ass off at that part. Then Doc McGhee goes on to say that Nikki was always seeing Mexicans and midgets crawling through the garden. LOL!

Then a sad part was when he was too strung out to go to his g-ma's funeral. Sadness....

Anyway, there's a chance I might get to go on a boat sometime next year. I can't wait! 

You should all check out kart rider! That game is fun! Its free to download. 

It's a lot like Mario Kart 64, only its online and you can chat with people. Its pretty cool. I think the website is http://kart.nexon.net/ if that doesn't work just go into a search engine and type it in. You should be able to find it.

We took a test today in school. I only got 2 wrong, but that's because I didn't read further into those certain paragraphs. Oh well that's still about a 95%.

Right after our test we got released from school because PT was bumped up to 1300 instead of 1430. 

So we had kind of an early day.

But PT was stupid. We played dodge ball. I hate dodge ball. I liked PT back in Whidbey Island because I felt like I got a good workout everytime. And on Thursdays we got to pick what we were doing and Fridays there was no PT. Here, on friday's, we don't run, or do anything hard, we play dodgeball. EVERY TIME! 

I'm sorry but I do not like the PT here. We only do it 3 times a week, but we just run on Mondays and Wednesdays and if we're not motivated enough, they drop us in the dirt and make is do exercises like mountain climbers or push-ups or something. I kicked dirt in my mouth the other day doing mountain climbers.... that was great. Fuckin' Lemoore....

Don't get me wrong, Lemoore isn't too bad. I'd just rather be were the grass is green and the dudes are pretty. LOL! 

I'd better get going now.

Current Music: Paradise City - Guns N' Roses

11/13/07 07:41 am

 Mornin' everyone.

Just got back from uniform inspection. I don't have to be in class for another 45 minutes. Its cold today. At least for now. I'm making another hot cup of coffee to get warm.

So anyway, this weekened my friends and I drove up to Yosemite. It was beautiful up there. I posted my pictures on facebook and I will post them in my photobucket soon too.

Yesterday I didn't have to go to school, so I got a car wash, vacuumed out my car and got a lot of shit done that needed to be done. Well actually its not a lot of shit. its a couple of things that I spread out throughout the day. Laundry, ironing, getting some essentials... stuff like that.

It dawned on me not too long ago that I won't be around for Thanksgiving. I'll be here all by myself. My friends Stephens and Okon are going to Alabama and everyone else has something planned. So I decided to go down to San Diego and visit my friend Ledesma, whose stationed down there. I gotta turn in my request chits (forms), and hopefully they'll get approved. Of course, as apart of standard procedure, they have to give me "counseling" on Tiajuana just because its so close to San Diego. I will tell you right now, I have no desire to go to TJ now or ever. If I go to Mexico, it will be a nicer part of Mexico.

Class today, then fuckin' barracks formation. A big waste of my time, if you ask me.

Current Music: Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi

10/26/07 07:19 pm

Ah sorry I haven't updated since I've been back. It's been kind of hectic. (Go figure, I leave on Sunday night), and that reminds me, I have to call the Fresno airport about a shuttle ride back to the base when I get in.... damnit all!

Anyway, I flew into Detriot at about 6AM and from there my parents and I went out to breakfast at Big Boy. When we were done there we headed back home and I started filling out my loan application for my car.

After we did that we went to my Uncle's Credit Union and they approved me for a loan with only 5.25% interest. which is friggin awesome! They needed us to find out the total price of the car, so we then went out to Brighton Crysler to test drive my car.

When we got there the dealer was really cool, he brought the car around and gave me the keys and he says to me and my parents, "Yeah you guys go test drive it for about 10 minutes or so. I have something to take care of, so when you're done just bring it back." So that was pretty cool. He just let us test drive it without him.

I LOVED DRIVING IT! So obviously I wanted it right off the bat because I'd been eyeing the car for a bit.

So after that he priced it out and I got nearly $3000 off and then I added the cost of shipping the car which was about $850 at the time (I got a call later saying that the shipping company needed more $$$ to drive it through the Sierra Nevadas.... so that was about an extra $650 or so....) But anyway, so that's pretty cool.

After we left the dealership, we went back home and I had to apply for insurance. So I went with USAA because they're a military insurance company and they were so much cheaper than any other insurance companies. AAA wasn't too bad and Geico wasn't bad either, but USAA was the best priced, so I went with that. My dad payed the down-payment fee because he owed me some money anyway. 

So that was all set up.

After that we went back to the credit union and she gave me a check for the rest of the cost of the car (I put $5000 down). Then we went to the dealer and payed them, got my license plate put on, got a little overview of all of the crap in the car, and off we were.

I had my mom drive the car back because I was SO tired! 

Sleeping on the plane sucks. It doesn't work, unless you're old or narcoleptic.

My recruiter told me that I didn't have to come in until Wednesday, so I had the rest of Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to do what I wanted.

Of course all days were filled with exciting things to do... lol.

Let's see... Friday night after all of the running around we did with the car, we went to Best Buy and bought Transformers on DVD and watched about half of it, but we were all so tired we just went to bed before we could finish it.

Saturday I got to sleep in a bit. I woke up, ate some lunch and then went to visit Sarah at work.

After I did that I came back here and chilled out for a bit and then Sarah came over and we went to our annual Halloween walk.

The Halloween walk wasn't fun this year. My brother was all pissed off at my uncle and everyone was uncomfortable and then the walk itself just sucked because it didn't seem like they had as much as they usually do.

Sunday I don't remember what I did.

Monday I went to my grandma's house and we ate some lunch and listened to my brother scream and shout about my uncle. The day got better though, Sarah and I went and saw Van Halen! YAY!!! It was FUCKIN AWESOME!!!

I wish I could've taken pictures, but the palace is gay and they don't let you bring cameras in and plus there was an usher standing right next to us.

We had decent seats. They were on the floor, but we had a bunch of tall people infront of us. I know I am short, but Sarah couldn't even see that well.

Oh well. Other than that, they played Jamie's Cryin, You Really Got Me Now, Pretty Woman, Panama, Top Jimmy, I'm the One, Runnin' With the Devil, Romeo Delight, Somebody Get Me a Doctor, Beautiful Girls, Dance the Night Away, Atomic Punk, Everybody Wants Some, So This Is Love, Mean Street, Unchained, I'll Wait, and the Cradle Will Rock, Little Dreamer, Little Guitars, Ice Cream Man, Ain't Talkin 'bout Love.  And then for their encore, they sang Jump, and 1984. Alex Van Halen had a sweet drum solo and so did Eddie.

They did awesome for being a bunch of old guys and a new bass player! Eddie Van Halen's son WAS FUCKIN AWESOME!!!

Dave looked pretty good too! Not like sexy or anything, but he was fit! He had a nice body for an old guy! lol! And he still sounds awesome!

So that was Monday, on Tuesday I had an appointment in the morning to get my hair cut and my eyebrows waxed. So I did that and after that I came home and hung out here for a bit. I forgot what I did the rest of the day... OH! My dad and I went out to lunch with my mom and then after that I went to Kroger and I talked to Bobbie for a bit. I plan to go back there tomorrow to see Nancy and all of the people at the bank.

Wednesday I went to the recruiting station at 9AM. They didn't make me do too much the whole time I was there. They had me do some paperwork, organize the back room, I went a couple of places with MR2 and AT2, and I also updated their high school binders that they had. 

Cheif said he was going to drop by, but he didn't. I understand, he's a busy dude. 

Wednesday night I went to Sarah's dad's house and hung out with Sarah and Heffa. Wewent to Wal-Mart. It was cool. I gave Heffa a ride in my new car! lol!

Last night I met Jim. He's pretty cool! Sarah, him and I watched the end of Rush Hour  and the last half of Happy Feet. Then I had to leave so Jim and Sarah drove me back home.

Today was my last day at the recruiting center. I might come back next summer for HARP duty. Basically what that is, is i'll be working at the recruiting station for 2 weeks instead of 5 days. And the cool thing about thatwould be, the Navy would pay for the ticket to come home! Yay!  The only problem I would really have is transportation. I don't want to drive my car all the way back here and shipping it would be a pain in the ass. So I donno. I still have to decide on that.

I've been such a fatass since i've been here! My mom went out and bought nearly $200 worth in groceries and I feel like all i've been doing since I've been here is eating!! I haven't worked out at all since I left Cali!

Anyway, today my Grandma and my brother were supposed to come over, but they ended up not coming (I saw that one...) anyway, so instead my mom, dad and I went to the movies and saw Dan In Real Life with Dane Cook and Steve Carrell. It was awesome! The commercials make it look stupid, but the movie is really good! I highly reccommend it.

Tomorrow I'm going back up to Kroger to see Nancy and whoever else might be there.

Then at night I'm going to a party my aunt's throwing for me.

Sunday I'm hoping I get to relax a bit before I have to leave. My plane leaves at 9:40 Sunday night and I won't get back to Fresno until 1:13 Pacific time. So, from the airport I have to take a cab back to base because the shuttle back to base comes at midnight, so I'll miss it and they don't set up special times. And OF COURSE the damn airport doesn't have a fuckin' shuttle, so I have to take a cab back to base! I tried changing my ticket but it was going to end up being about $300+ dollars! And I was like, "Fuck that shit!" So I'd rathr pay the cab driver 100 whatever. 

I tried to call my duty office to see if they could come and me, but the fucking number was disconnected. -_-; Damn!

Oh well. But that's what's been going on.

Hope you're all doing well!
Current Music: S.O.S- Motley Crue

10/8/07 07:25 pm

OK when I get home I'm buying a car. These are my choices.

 Jeep Patriot (In Dark blue or Green)

 Honda Civic (in Black)

 Volkswagon Jetta (in black)

or what I'm really eyeing....

 Dodge Avenger (as you see it right here!)

So yeah. I wanted a Jeep Wrangler originally, but I can't afford it and Jeeps are really high maintenence and they cost a ton to fuel and fix. So I might just cross the Patriot off my list as well. I will have a Wrangler one day though! Not sure when, but eventually. Probably when  can afford it. Next car maybe, but for now I'm thinkin of the Avenger. Its a nice car. And its not badly priced either.
Current Location: Lemoore, CA
Current Music: Hump De Bump - Red Hot Chili Peppers

9/19/07 09:09 pm

So I've finally arrived in Lemoore. Yeah I know its been a couple of weeks since I last updated. 

There really isn't much to say. I survived "A" School. It was pretty easy stuff. I just have to work on my test taking strategies and stuff like that.

Anyway, I really miss Whidbey Island. When I left there it felt like I was leaving home. I felt like I was leaving my family and best friends behind again. It's just weird because you get so attached to some people and then you have to go your seperate ways.

I will admit when I first found out I was going to Whidbey Island, my first thought was, "Where the fuck is Whidbey Island? I can't even find that on the map!" So naturally at first I was like, "Man its going to be this boring place out in the middle of no where and there's not going to be anything to do and its just gonna suck because I'll be stuck there for a few months with nothing to do!" 

But it actually turned out to be the opposite. I was always out doing something with my friends. Whether it was just working out for the hell of it or going to Seattle for the weekend. I did some volunteer work and that turned out to be fun. On the 4th of July, downtown Oak Harbor was hosting a little carnival and at night they shot off some pretty cool fireworks. I mean they weren't the best, but it was a good time. It was something to do. 

I actually miss a lot of the instructors at CNATT. Its weird. I was thinking when I was packing my stuff, "Yeah I'm gettin out of here. I'm gonna miss Whidbey Island, but I'll be glad to get away from  all of the instructors." That's a negative ghost rider. I miss both AE2s because they were my instructors and AE2 Brown helped me get through my ARB. It was his vote to keep me in the class. AE2 Hodges was a good teacher. The way she taught everything made it really easy to comprehend. Most of the other instructors I miss because they each had their own kind of sense of humor even though I wasn't in class with them.

I also miss CS3 even though he retired a week before I left. He made working at the barracks a fun time because he was so random and so fuckin' FUNNY! CS1 was pretty cool too. He was always there to talk to you about anyhing and everyhing. He was pretty funny too.

And finally there's AZ2. I don't even know how to say it. I miss him the most. He was probably one of the best people I ever worked for. He was the coolest second class I've ever met. I could say so much about AZ2, but I don't know how to put it all into words without sounding retarded. If I ever do meet him again, he'll either be a first class, a chief or retired. Who knows?

I actually cried a bit when I left because I was so no set on leaving there. It grew on me that much!

Lemoore isn't that bad though. I mean yeah you look out the window and you see miles and miles of farmland and desert, but any place or task is going to be what you make of it. If you're negative about it, then you're going to have a shitty time. If your positive about it, it'll be smooth sailin'. 

So we checked into the barracks at about 2AM. When I got to my room, my roommate wasn't here. I came to find out that she was out on deployment until next week, so I'll have the room all to myself until then. I unpacked some of the things I would need for the night. I made it a priority to take a shower because i felt so gross. I didn't get to bed until about 3 or so and I couldn't fall asleep right away because I just had so much on my mind. 

I woke up this morning at around 5:45 or so so Okon and I could go check in with our Squadron. When we got there we filled out a bunch of paperwork and then we went and met a few people in our chain of command. They were all pretty cool. AO2 told us we were probably going to go to line shack. Which is good because that will help us get more familiar with the aircraft. 

They asked us what time we checked in and we told them that we checked in at 2AM and they were like, "What? Go back to the barracks and go to sleep, unpack your stuff and chill out for the rest of the day. You can finish checking in tomorrow." So that was pretty cool. I took a couple of naps, but I kept getting woken up.

I got some stuff from the NEX and went to the galley for lunch. The galley was not impressive at all. Their burritos tasted like dog food smelled. It was nasty. 

After all of that, Okon and I headed back to the barracks. I put my stuff away and went back to sleep for a bit. 

Later Okon, Stephens and I went out to eat with Riczinger at this restaurant on base. They had pretty good food there and it wasn't badly priced.

After that we came back to the barracks. I ironed out two sets of utilities and now i just have to shine my boots then I'm off to bed. I have to get into a routine as to when I can fit a workout in and getting my quals done as fast as I can.

I'd better go take care of that stuff. I have to get up at 5 tomorrow. Night!

8/25/07 02:30 pm

So this has been one of the shittiest weeks in the history of my life... not that my life really has a history. But anyway, about my shitty week...

It started off pretty good, to be honest. No problems Monday. We just sat in class and learned/studied what we needed to know for the test the next day.

Tuesday was a good day as well. We had our PRT at 10 and I ended up getting an outstanding on it. yay! I don't have to take any more PRTs while I'm here! We also took a test.  I only got one wrong. I did the best out of everyone in the class. Which was good! So that made Tuesday an awesome day!

Wednesday I woke up and I knew it was going to be a shitty day. You know why? Because if I have one really good day, the next day I already know is gonna suck. So not only does starting your period make the day bad, but we had another test which I BARELY passed and when we got to doing PT I fell out for the first time EVER! It sucked. I wasn't hydrated enough for one, and two I was just depressed all day. It was just one of those days where you don't really know what's wrong with you, but you're just waiting for the day to end. And Wednesdays are LONG anyway so that made it an extra crappy day. 

Thursday was mediocre. Wasn't horribly bad, but it wasn't the best of days either. For PT I ran about 4-5 miles on my own. We had a free PT day.

Friday was OK. We finished up the few lessons that we needed to know for the next test and we were told by one of our instructors that the test would be on Monday. So we were finished with everything before lunch, so we're all thinking that we're going to get sent back to the barracks as soon as we got back. Wrong. Our other instructor came in and she said, "you have 15 minutes to look over your notes and then we're taking the test." So I was obviously all unprepared. I thought I knew the information pretty well, but obviously I didn't. I wasn't ready to take a test. 

But anyway, we took the test and you could get 8 wrong. I got 9 wrong. So I gotta study today and tomorrow and then on Sunday night, my instuctor is going to be on watch at the schoolhouse so when I get off of watch I'm gonna go over there and retake the test. 

So yeah that sucked. As I read over the information, I'm thinking, "What the fuck is it that I don't understand because I really do get this stuff, how did I fail?" I'm a shitty test taker, that's my conclusion. I'm still gonna continue to look over my notes and study, but i'm still kind of pissed about it.

Anyway, after school on Friday, I was all pissed off so I went running. I couldn't run as far as I wanted to because my fuckin' leg was bothering me. I don't know what it is. It was like a cramp near where my quad muscle and my pelvic bone meet or something. It was weird. It still hurts right now. It hurts to lift my leg and sometimes it hurts to walk on it. 

OK so maybe it was't the SHITTIEST week of my life, YET. But It was pretty damn close because if you were in my shoes and had any idea the way i felt. You would say the same.

So let me tell you about this dude that thinks I'm hot. 

First of all, he's weird. Nice kid and all, but weird.

So on Wednesday when I was having a crappy day, he asked me if I wanted to go to the galley with him and I said I would thinking it was just a friends type of deal. So I gave him my number to call me whenever he was done with duty section muster. So he called and we went to chow. After we ate he asked if I wanted to go play ping pong at the liberty center so I said I would because I had nothing better to do. Then he started asking all of these questions like, "Do you have a boyfriend?" so  I said "No I don't and I'm not really looking for one because I want to get my career squared away first before I have to worry about anyone else if I were to decide to date anyone." so he goes, "I'm surprised because you've got the looks." so I was like, "Thank you..."

Anyway after that my friend Ledesma, him, and I were walking back to the barracks and someone I hadn't seen in a while was on watch downstairs so i started talking to them for a bit and he and Ledesma went off and he was telling her stuff like, "Hey could you talk to her. I think she's hot, but I don't think she would go for a guy like me and don't tell her I told you, but could you just talk to her." And my friend was all like, "Why don't you go talk to her?" 

So you know how friends are, they're going to tell you ANYWAY! so she told me about this and I was like, "Yeah I had a feeling that he might like me, but I didn't want to say anything."  And Ledesma, Okon and I were talking about it and we were all like, "yeah that's kind of elementary to be talking to their friends about it."

He also said to me, "So you're going to Lemoore right?" And I never told this kid anything about it. I don't even really KNOW him. So i said, "Yeah... how did you know that?" and he goes, "I overheard you telling someone about it." and I said right away, "So you're eavesdropping on my conversations?" And he said somehting dumb like, " No, I'm just really aware of my surroundings" or some shit like that.

So I told CS1 about it and he was like, "I can see why! I told you you were a pretty girl!" And I told him about what he said to Ledesma and the whole Lemoore thing and he goes, "If he's gonna play it like that you shouldn't want to date him! I'll tell him off for you!" 

I love CS1 he's like my older brother.

So as we were leaving to go back to school. CS1 stopped me by the door and he goes, "What's this dude's name?" And I told him and CS3 and AZ2 were like, "What? who?" and as I walked out the door CS1 was telling them all about it, but I don't know what he said because I had to leave. so I'll probably find out on Monday what he said to them. 

CS1, AZ2 and CS3 are like my three older brothers. Especially CS1 and CS3. 

But yeah. It sounds retarded, but you can't force yourself to like somebody the way they like you. I have no feelings for this dude whatsoever. 

So he called me today and I told him I would hang out with him so I could set  him straight. I don't mind being his friend, but I don't want a relationship with him. Duel military relationships suck from what I understand, plus I'm not interested.

So that's been my shitty/goofy week.

Now I get to go study more and take a shower. I think I might watch a movie soon because its all rainy and crappy around here today.

Current Music: Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
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