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| Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 | | 11:29 pm |
I am officially down 10lbs. It is not overly obvious when you see me. But I do find it motivating. | | Monday, February 1st, 2010 | | 12:57 am |
| | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 | | 8:57 pm |
WHEW. Friends of ours are stationed here, in Vilseck. Their eldest daughter enlisted in the Air Force last spring. She got orders for Ramstein AFB. The original plan, was that Jen would drive to Frankfurt airport with myself and our friend Joe, to pick up Jen's daughter Kelycia. Kelycia was informed that because she is flying into Germany on Gov. money, she has to in process within 24 hours. So what was once a simple snatch and go.. has turned into a weird thing. Joe is a Solider, so Joe can not be away overnight for something like that. Jen does not feel comfortable driving to Frankfurt having never been there before... The NEW plan, seems to be Jen and I will get a GPS, drive to Frankfurt, pick up Kelycia, drive to Ramstein, get a room for the night, Kelycia can sign in on Friday, be released for the weekend, drive back to Vilseck. K will then spend the weekend with her family and then train it back to Ramstein sunday night. I am in for a hella busy couple of days. O.o | | 12:47 pm |
*whine whine whine*
Sometimes I don't think my mom and I speak the same language. Or she has selective hearing or something. I have not been able to wear my engagement ring, almost since I got married. It is a family ring, it was originally done in yellow gold. I don't wear yellow, so we had it dipped in white. The logic behind it being, that when we had money, I could have the band switched to solid white gold. The surface of the ring was rubbed away from wear during the 2 month of wear that I had it during my engagement and by the time it had a band next to it, the dipped surface wore away. For the subsequent 2 years, I haven't worn the ring because no matter what I did, the band looked like it needed to be cleaned or like it was some kind of bizarre base metal. When my mom was here in October, I gave her the ring and told her to bring it to the family jeweler to have it reset, not to worry about paying for it, because I would take care of it. 3 months AFTER the fact. She finally brings the ring over. For it to be -re dipped-. Even though I called her the night before and we discussed what it was I wanted done. She emailed me last night to tell me it was getting dipped. O.o I sent her the link to the dress I want and asked her opinion on the color. She sends me a link to a DIFFERENT dress. And says they are both pretty, but she likes her choice better. Um. What? | | 1:09 am |
| | Monday, January 25th, 2010 | | 9:46 pm |
 Radar loves his new kennel! Almost to the point where I was bummed that he wasn't sitting with me on the sofa like he usually does. I got a fair amount of work done on the house today. Vacuumed, cleaned the kitchen, dishes, cleaned the downstairs bathroom and I swept the floors. I made friends with a girl in my housing area. She is childless as well, so she is usually free to hang out at random times like I am. Sweeeeet. | | Sunday, January 24th, 2010 | | 3:08 pm |
"You have the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone."
 I love this photo. It either looks like he is screaming or peeing lava. Bamberg this weekend was a smashing success. I enjoy spending the occasional weekend away from everything. I don't think we talked about work or serious work related stuff for the first time in AGES. It was nice. We found a Biergarten that we want to go back to in the Spring. We had dinner in a place that must be frequented by locals, because we were the only Americans in the entire place and the prices were good. Also, I think our bastardization of the German language won us brownie points because the wait staff was very nice to us and we made an honest to god effort to speak as much of the language as we could. Go Team Ayube. | | Sunday, January 17th, 2010 | | 12:24 am |
| | Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 | | 9:00 am |
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Radar has every kind of toy under the sun. My parents send him things all the time and he still has most of the toys he got when he was a puppy. I bought a basket a few months back to store his toys in, as I have almost broken my neck several times tripping over his toys in the darkness. Radar recently discovered that he can tip the basket and arrange his toys all over the house "just so". Also. For the 9 gajillion toys he has, plastic bottles reign supreme. If I finish I soda, he will sit in front of me, looking from bottle to me. back and forth. Once I remove the plastic lid ring, he is good to go. I woke up this morning to find all of his bottles ALL OVER THE HOUSE. >.< My house needs a Chore Fairy. I can't ever keep it clean. | | Thursday, January 7th, 2010 | | 2:40 pm |
An actual update.
I put in my 2 week notice at work yesterday. My position there was as a part time flex. Apparently, when they say "flex" they meant it. For weeks, possibly a couple of months by now, they have been doing things like calling me in on days off, bullying me into ditching things like Dr. appointments in favor of going into work, sending me home HOURS early on the days that I did work and changing my scheduled hours with out informing me of the changes. The final straw, the one thing that really drove me over the edge, was when an actual part time slot opened that would promise me at least 20 hours a week. Rather than move me into the spot... they decided to hire from outside the company. In their words... I "wasn't showing the proper dedication and motivation to earn the extra 5 hours a week." I don't know what they were expecting of me for that extra 5 hours, but that was just insulting. It was one thing to hire me for one purpose, then end up using me for something entirely different. But after all the crap I have dealt with in the 7 months that I have been there, it was enough. James was encouraging me to leave, a work friend encouraged me to leave as well. Apparently she has seen them do it to the Flex's before me. She says all the time that if she could afford to leave, she would be gone. I am worried for myself as a result of leaving this job. It took me 7 months to find that job and the chances of working anywhere else is looking slim. I have applied to no less than 6 Contractor's jobs in 24 hours. Some of those jobs would take me to places like Afghanistan or Dubai. I can honestly say, I don't care where (if hired) they send me, as long as I can work. I am more than qualified for the jobs I applied for, so I can only cross my fingers. I should be hearing a "yay or nay" from them over the next few months until March. If I can contract after June, then I can go to work right after James deploys in May or June. I have been searching the Recruiting sites for the Air Force and Navy, as well. I have lost around 8 lbs, so I have miles to go before I am down to where I should be weight wise. I sort of feel like my life has no clear direction any more. Current Music: Skin Head on the MBTA-Dropkick Murphys | | Friday, December 25th, 2009 | | 11:44 am |
Last night we hosted a part for xmas eve. It was pretty good, we had 12 people over altogether. Today I am feeling insanely bitter. I miss my family. | | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | | 3:58 pm |
| | Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | | 2:50 pm |
I have been down and out with the flu, work and IRL for the past couple of weeks. I worked really hard trying to figure out how to make an H1N1 costume. I completed it pretty much exactly how I wanted it to look. Unfortunately, due to the flu, I was too ill to stay out last night and party with it. THE GOOD NEWS. James and Kraemer went to a party and they both wore it around. Kraemer had it at the time of the Costume Contest. It got second place. There was a tie and the way they decided to settle it was a dance off. Kraemer can't dance, so there you go. James kneed the dishwasher shut after putting in a load and his machismo broke 2 of my glasses. >.< It's okay. One day I might be able to have nice things. After James figures out that doing that isnt okay....and after the kids are had and grown. So maybe when I am ready to retire. | | Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | | 6:03 pm |
The only thing that feels worse than having to pack my bags and leave my country for Germany; is staying behind in Germany, while the people I love get on the plane home. Then I return to an empty house. | | Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | | 6:31 pm |
| | Monday, September 21st, 2009 | | 6:40 pm |
We might be going to Garmisch this weekend.... WOOOOOOT!!! I am pumped. I have wanted to go to Edelweiss probably since I started googling Bavaria. :D :D :D | | Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 | | 11:30 am |
There are a ton of high needs kids in our program. Yesterday was a nightmare. One boy in particular has a lot of problems, to the point where I am not even sure why he is still IN the program. Yesterday, he would not listen, yelled at teachers, yelled at students, tried fighting other kids. Refused to apologize because "He never apologizes to -anyone- unless they apologize first. Not to his parents, teachers. ANYONE." Clearly, the case with him is at home, he runs the show. HIs mother doesnt appear to discipline him. She admitted in a meeting yesterday that she is more lapse than his father. They have "different ideas" about what it means to have rules for their son. There is no way we can fix what goes on at home... but we were just given a sheet of paper telling us how we can discipline him from now on. Unfortunately, disciplining him is so time consuming, it will be hard to get keep tabs on the other 14 kids in the room. WTF. Last year, he had a huge issue with hitting people. He punched a Teacher in the stomach and later on that week she miscarried. Because she had a high risk pregnancy to start with, there is no real proof that he was the cause of the miscarrage. I am sure punching her didnt help anything. But still, Oh man. | | Sunday, September 13th, 2009 | | 9:43 pm |
| | Thursday, September 10th, 2009 | | 6:09 pm |
Breaking Radio silence
The past few weeks have been my first as a Drama Teacher at an afterschool program. The kids are at the point where they are "testing" me . It boggles the mind. Drama club starts next week, this week I have been covering Home Work time. I feel like I turned into the enemy! *shudder* :-p | | Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | | 4:51 pm |
I think I just realized why I "lol" so much in typed conversations. 10 out of the last 13 emails I have received from my mother have "LOL" stuck randomly in the sentence. |
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