Two, and three.

So... its been a long time since I wrote a post. Please forgive. Here is the basic idea of what is going on in my life: 1) I'm attempting to join the National Guard with the College First option. This makes me non- deployable for Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation enduring freedom. Note: I can still be deployed for US things like hurricanes and big bear butts stuck in honey trees. 2) After I become a sophomore I am going to contract with ROTC. This makes me non- deployable under any circumstances at all and gives me even more money for college. 3) The end goal is a commission in the Army. Active duty. I have talked to a lot of people in the last few days about this. Not just the recruiter. Although everyone who knows him has highly recommended him. I have to say the paperwork they make you fill out is freakin insane. I spent 3 hours last night filling everything out. I found out I have moved 8 times since 1998. 3 different states. I also found out that my social lif...

Damm took the ASVAB Wednesday. Did tons of paperwork yesterday. Has more today. Has the physical on the 9th. He might be doing his basic training in the spring instead of the summer (mostly because once that's done we qualify for Tri-Care). Or, if he can't go til the summer, he has 18 hours this semester. I've just been accepted to NMSU. That last transcript finally arrived. Now I have to go through the financial aid office, the meeting with the History Dept. Head, and scheduling my own round of classes. I've been trying to keep my work schedule to about 30 hours. They gave me 40. I think that's the first time I've ever had to call a co-worker and ask them to take a shift for me because they're giving me too many hours. I'm dreading having to combine my work schedule and class schedule ... I don't really want to quit. I've already made friends AND of course they transfer me every time we move. And it's a nice place to work. I really need like...

Totally forgot yesterday, but Happy Birthday to both Dammerung and Mooncadence, born on the same day two years apart. And congratulations to their long-suffering mother who let them live that long. And me as well :D We had chocolate gravy with biscuits (yum) , a long-standing tradition in their family. Orclette really seemed to like it, and I have pictures ...... I should get those uploaded :P Then we spent the rest of the morning at the recruiter's office finding out how great and awesome simultaneous enlistment is. This isn't something out of the blue, Damm's father was in the airforce and his grandfather was also in the military. He himself scored a 97 on his ASVAB when he took it 8 years ago (the highest you can get being a 98. Yes, I am bragging). Moon turned down a lucrative offer to become a nuclear engineer. It's a good thing Damm met me and then convinced Moon to come to Missouri with him .... I think they both kind of grew up there. It's not a certain thin...

I actually logged on tonight. Pretty exciting stuff. I've been closing quite a bit this week-over 30 hours-so I'm exhausted. I'm not in as good a shape as I was 2 years ago when I was a young whipper snapper. Speaking of ........ Damm is turning 27 tomorrow. Moon is turning 25 tomorrow. They be old men now. And yeah, born on the same day. They're practically twins just 2 years apart. I'll have to do a really big Happy Birthday post tomorrow ..... I'm having a blast at my store. They've clued in to the fact that I like projects and so I've been doing a lot of rearranging and condensing and making things pretty. Although I am getting cramping leg muscles and spasming ilio-whatzit band (my mom described it and I KNEW that's what I had, I just can't spell it :) As I said, I'm getting old :P I have nothing else right now. My brain is incredibly active and spouting things that you SHOULD KNOW, because they're super-cool, but my fingers don'...

I want to say thank you. The comments on my post yesterday were incredibly cheering. This morning after waking up from a nice 13 hour(yeah I went to bed early and slept in) nap I felt a lot better. Spending this morning with Wulfa also helped. Today after making sure to keep busy even doing small things I found myself in a much better mood. Thank you for the suggestions of making lists. I plan to do this and started this morning with a small one. The job search isn't going -that- badly and I have a few more leads I am waiting on replies from. My heart was just very down yesterday, and I wanted to say thank you again for all the replies. You really helped cheer me up.

I cannot describe how hard it is for me to remain cheerful right now. My life is so entirely different from what I expected, that now I do not know what I was thinking back then. My plan had been to get down here and stay busy. That has been the furthest thing from what has happened. Instead I find myself constantly distracted or in conversation. Nothing ever seems to get done and daily I lose the battle. Hell, its not even like I'm playing too many video games. I play half what I played when I was working full time. I don't think about WoW much at all now. I don't even feel like reading. It seems like such an easy thing to me to get a job. I mean I -know- I can do a number of different things and do them well. Even things I don't enjoy. But thats not the issue. Even 3 months doesn't seem like a horribly long time to be without a job, and I've only been out of work for one. The issue is that I find myself with a lack of hope. I did not ever imagine I...

Hah! Back to dark purple! Color of kings! Woot! The Reason for the Post. I tamed a new pet and I really like it. The Background Story Behind the Choice of Pet. Warning Rambliness Ahead. I grew up in the Virginia Beach, VA area. Nothing humongo special about that particular area except that it was close to one of the greatest vacation spots on earth. Colonial Williamsburg, with its' Shops and Restaurants and Character Actors and Tours and Gorgeous Houses AND IT'S JUST FREAKIN BEAUTIFUL. Not that I get excited talking about it. Anyway, we went there once or twice a year. Also nearby was the Jamestown settlement and a couple lesser-known towns that also got completely massacred by Indians (err Native Americans .... I'm not sure what is PC) back in the day. Exciting stuff. And if you're in that area you HAVE to go by the College of William and Mary. Red brick, stately buildings ..... you feel like you're in a very cool place with lots of history . Ok, and the point of ...