Sunday, July 13, 2008, 09:13 PM
Yep...that's me in my crowing moment of glory...
and then later recieving my award.
Wow...I do look drunk....
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( 3.4 / 14 )Thursday, June 19, 2008, 05:11 PM
Here's my new puppie Charlie. He's a 6 month old Lab Retriever. I adopted him from the humane society. He's a real sweetheart and I love him mucho!
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( 3.5 / 17 )Monday, December 10, 2007, 05:34 PM
Think
If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think that you dare not, you don't;
If you'd like to win, but think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost;
For out in the world you'll find
Success begins with a fellow's will -
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise;
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win the prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he CAN!
-Author Unknown
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( 3.1 / 27 )Friday, November 9, 2007, 09:13 PM
So most of you have probably noticed I've not been around much since the summer. To be quite honest, this job take a lot out of you physically and mentally, especially as a rookie.
For the past week, I've been working the overnight charge of quarters shift (refered to as CQ). I was only suppose to work it over the weekend, but the person scheduled to work it for the week called in sick on Monday and Tuesday night, so I was called in to cover for him, which I really don't mind.
Wedsneday was and early day, as I had parade practice at 0730 in the morning, and again on the actual parade field at 0930. After that I stuck around and helped my teamie out with some inspections on trainee clothing items before finally checking out for the day at about noon. Then I came back to base to begin round 5 of the most painful dental procedure I've ever had, my stupid root canal. So I sit in the dentist chair for about 2 1/2 more hours, getting another 10 shots in the mouth and she's finally done with the root canal portion of the work and schedules me to come back in a couple of weeks to finish repairing the rest of the broken tooth.
So all night yesterday I was in a butt load of pain and didn't sleep well. Then I woke up early this morning for another early practice time, 0615. Then came time for parade.
It was foggy all morning and cool.. But right at parade time, the fog lifts and the sun comes out, raising the temperatures by what felt like a hundred degrees. So I'm standing out there on my parade spot and while we're waiting for the ceremony to begin, I tell my staff commander that my head is starting to hurt because my hat is cutting into my forehead. She tells me to adjust it during invocation. So a few minutes later, the chaplin is saying his thing and I reach up and adjust my hat.
As soon as I did that, I felt a wave of nausea and a chill pass thru me. I knew this wasn't going to end well at all. So I try to step up and get thru the light headedness and stay in parade. At one point, I had to turn around and march to a certain location on the parade field, wait for all the flights to march up, then go back to my spot. As soon as I turn around, my vision started to do the whole fade to black thing. I make it out to my spot, do my thing and on the way back I'm wobbling apparently. So I get back and I tell my staff commander that I think I'm gonna pass out. She tries to keep me calm and focused all the while telling me to take a knee before I hit the grass. I try to tough it out a little longer, but eventually my vision goes all black, so I finally took a knee. I wait a couple of seconds before another instructor comes running out to take my place and I go to the back where the "body drag" instructors are waiting.
On my way back there, the National Anthem plays. So of course I stop walking to the back and render a salute (much to the amazment of the other instructors). But apparently I looked worse when I turned around than I did before I stopped. Both rushed over to me and grabbed ahold of me so I wouldn't fall. According to them I was white as a ghost and wasn't talking coherently. A few minutes and an air conditioned van later I'm feeling better, except for the headache.
It was pretty embarassing to fall out at parade, especially as a rookie. I'll hear about it for a few months I'm sure. So I come back home and after a quick check of e-mail, go take a nap to try and calm the throbbing headache and painful mouth. So I'm sleeping and I wake up suddenly and take a look at the time. My clock says it's 5:57. I go into panic mode thinking I'm late for work, leap out of bed, start grabbing my uniform, reach for my cell phone and start dialing the number to work to let them know I'm on my way. As I'm about to hit send it dawns on me the sun is still up and it's pm not am.
So it's at this point that I realize that I probably need a day off, considering I've been working every day since I came back from leave, which was last month. I think after tomorrow I'm going to take a couple of days and get some sleep and a good meal.
And maybe finish my commanders table story that I've tried to work on...
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( 3.1 / 35 )Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 03:26 PM
Since my last update alot has gone on. I graduated from Military Training Instructor School last Friday. It feels great to be done with all of that. Now I'm a rookie for the next year. But that's okay, cause I'll be getting the extra money in my bank account.
It was nice to spend time with Falk, even though I really didn't see him or any of my other visitors due to my crazy work schedule over the past few weeks. Apparently the two most hectic times during my job are the first week and the last one. I was working up to 18 hour days last week and was basically running on fumes by the end of the week. Being cranky and crabby sucks, especially when you have visitors.
For the past couple of days, I've just been relaxing a little and SHOPPING! The great benifit of my job is weight loss. I've lost 35lbs since getting down to texas, which is awesome, but now I have to buy an entire new wardrobe. Thank goodness my sister has a great sense of style and can pick stuff out!
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