So...For those of you who didn’t know: I got Medically Disqualified from the Air Force ROTC program because of medication that I am currently on for anxiety/depression and migraines...basically I am no longer in the program. They are trying to figure out a way to keep me in the program (possible putting me on medical recheck status, so that the medication is kinda ignored), but I’m not sure it’s going to work. At the very least, I can return to the program after being off of this medication for a period of time (I’ve heard either 1 or 3 years), if the medical recheck status doesn’t work out. To sum the whole thing up: I don’t know what the hell is going on with my future, but there is the chance (even if it’s very small) that I can return to the Air Force. I guess it could be worse! :-)
The pulled my out of Field Training (FT) on Training Day Two (TD-2) around
FT Regrets:
(1) 2 feet of hair for 2 days
(2) all that time I spent preparing
(3) all the money I spent (silly underwear and towels and toiletries! Who buys white bras anyway...they just get dirty! Why couldn’t I wear beige or grey or something pale but not white! Sorry, it just really gets to me!)
(4) lost watch...I’m so mad it fell out of my pocket, but there’s nothing I can really do about it, I had to have a watch and all my other ones are dead...silly batteries
(5) white bras (did I mention how much they bug me)
(6) the fact that I didn’t see this coming...ah, well, hindsight is 20/20
but really...none of these silly “regrets” are bad at all...or even remotely something I really regret or anything...they’re just really annoying. (and if I think of this, I don’t think about how I’m not sure if I’m in the Air Force any more!)
At any rate, I spent the rest of the day reading and pacing in this room, waiting for TD-3 to come so that I could leave (they couldn’t get me a flight out until the next morning). I finished that Honor Harrington book I’d been reading all term. (I thought it was really good, by the way.) The next morning I woke up at 0400 (I’d gotten used to this in just 2 days) to catch my 0600 flight to
I ended up getting home late that night and spent the week following that with my parents and friends. It was nice...talking to them about everything that’s going on. Everyone’s been very supportive! Oh, and I’ve gotten an average of about two phone calls a day from people (mostly my friends from school) checking up on me.
On Saturday my parents and I started a very long trip to
The next morning we woke up early and went to the store...to buy little snacks to make it until breakfast and coloring books (it’s good to be five again!). Then we headed up the mountain to take a hike up a hill...ok, it was a big “hill,” 1200 miles high hill. We had a lot of fun and took all morning to eat breakfast and travel the what worked out to be a little more than 4 mile trail up the mountain and around a few little lakes. It was awesome!
We finally made it to
My mom and dad finally saw Cars yesterday...it’s so good! And my dad stayed awake for the whole thing...a real feat, he rarely ever does that! If you’ve not seen it yet, go! Now! Tractor tipping is the best scene in any movie. Ever! So good! So happy! Go! Now! Or dl it...i don’t care, but see it!
Today we’re supposed to meet up with my dad’s cousin’s wife and go to a movie and do a little shopping (I still need a new watch! Ick!). And tomorrow we’re going to the top of a mountain for lunch and out to a nice dinner (or so I hear)...and then Saturday we drive home...man will it be a long drive!
Any way...talk at ya later! <3
Yeah...i thought I’d get internet that day...oh well...it didn’t work out! We did see a movie...Donny Deckchair...it was pretty good...ok, stupid. But really good...funny!
Let’s see...since I wrote that...um...a lot has happened. I got a crappy job at a local burger joint...ok, it’s not that bad, it’s just so boring!
Anyway, other than that crap up there...I went to visit my friend Amy and my Aunt Annie in the Bay Area. Amy’s moving there for a job she got, so she was in town visiting and looking for apartments...found one after 2 days of looking...it’s a nice one too! The way Amy put my visit:
“I spent the last two days with a visiting [me]
And that’s pretty much how it went! :) We had a great time!
Oh, and...more by amy
After that weekend, I spent a week in
My Aunt Sandy got sick the week before we went and couldn’t go...she had a 6 inch blood clot in her stomach...ick! The worst part is that she was in the hospital for over a week...we are all very worried about her. She’s on blood thinners for her heart and they were having a hell of a time getting everything to work right with them...oh well, she’s out of the hospital now, and she’s doing much better. The really, kinda funny thing about all of this was that the whole time she was in the hospital she was worried or really bummed about the Vegas vacation. She wasn’t worried about the fact that she almost died, but called us just about every day to make sure we were having fun and doing all the things she’d make us do if she where there to show us around. It was really nice...cute...sweet...awesome of her—we still missed having her there though...
Other than that, we did a lot of shows...saw some ska band at the house of blues, blue man group, and Jubilee (a girly show). They where all very awesome. We got to go behind the scenes of the girly show and see how they did everything and get a closer look at all those really big and awesome costumes...that was my favorite part of the whole thing! It was really cool!
Now I’m back in
1 comment:
Was surprised to hear you are in Boston. Wishing you the best in whatever you decide.
Fran
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