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Feeling Odd

Posted in Recruiting, What???, tagged on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

D told me yesterday that a guy in his friends recruiting command on the west coast committed suicide.  I don’t know why, or any details other than it happened.  And to be honest, its made me pretty sad.  The Army has been getting some negative press lately for the climbing suicide numbers for 2009 as [...]

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I’ve Been Waiting…

Posted in Frustration, Military Spouse, Navy Wife, Politics, Work on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been waiting until I uploaded pictures from the Obama speech to post about it.  But since I am pretty lazy, it hasnt happened yet.  I don’t really have the energy right now to get into the politics of the speech, but I will say that it was very good.  Whether you like President Obama [...]

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President Obama Speech

Posted in Liberal, Politics, tagged , on July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

President Obama will be speaking later this afternoon at a local college that D and I both attend.  He entered a “lottery” to get two tickets and got the call on Sunday afternoon that he got them.  We are both pretty excited to be able to go.  I have a conference for work to attend, [...]

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The Waiting Game: Clearance / Orders

Posted in Military Spouse, Navy Wife, Recruiting, tagged , , on July 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Okay.  Well D finally got interviewed for his security clearance a little over a week ago.  He was told that they now have to finish processing clearances like his in under 90 days, or they have to do a bunch of extra work explaining why it wasn’t done.  The guy said that his has been [...]

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Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Post on LeftFace

Posted in Liberal, Politics, tagged , , , on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I wrote a pretty long post regarding my opinions of the Don’t Ask Don’t tell policy on LeftFace.  So feel free to head on over and check it out.
http://leftface.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/dont-ask-dont-tell-policy/

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The 4th and all that Jazz…

Posted in Adventures in Parenting, Baby Girl, Family, tagged , on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Well happy belated 4th of July.  I was much too lazy this past weekend to actually get around to saying that on the 4th.  I hope you all had wonderful holiday weekends. 
Mine weekend was nice and relaxing, just the way I like it.  Actually looking back we didn’t do a whole lot of anything.  Saturday [...]

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It Feels Like Thursday

Posted in Everyday Life, Military Spouse, Recruiting, tagged , , , on July 1, 2009 | 7 Comments »

I have to keep reminding myself that today is in fact NOT Thursday, but Wednesday.  Even though tomorrow is the end of the work week thus making today feel like a Thursday it is not.  Damn you Wednesday for dressing up like Thursday like its Halloween and fooling me multiple times today!
Happy July 1st everyone!  How [...]

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