25 things

General What's New With You?
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1. I have one green eye and one brown eye

2. I play with my hair but know i look ridiculous doing it.

3. i am an only child.

4. i want to go to London someday

5. I tuck my socks into my pants when I sleep at night so they dont ride up.

6. I love ghost stories and all things paranormal.

7. My birthday is one day after my moms

8. I love to read

9. I sleep with my kindle

10. I played Dorothy in the wizard f oz play in 5th grade

11. My kids go to the same schools I went to

12. Ive been playing words with friends with someone Ive never met for over a year.

13. I finally lost 20 pounds with an app on my iPhone.

14. I have a cupcake addiction

15. My first car was a 77 Camero.

16. My first concert was Def Leppard

17. Starting to like my gray hair

18. I love camping and actually sleeping in a tent. As long as there's a blow up mattress.

19. When I see a bee or a wasp, I scream and run.

20. I love to walk whenever possible.

21. I have worked as a teller in four banks. I would be a teller forever if it paid enough.

22. When I finished reading the Harry Potter series, I walked around the house wondering what I could possibly read next.

23. I shook Tim Mcgraws hand twice at a concert

24. I can watch Enough and Staying Alive over and over

25. I want to get my masters someday

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I could probably make a new 25 list.... Great Repost Beeba !!!

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1. I have a feeling that a lot of these are going to relate to my animals, since they're pretty much the biggest part of my life.

2. I have 3 horses (ok, 2 horses, 1 pony), and most of my paycheck goes to them. (being reminded of this because today is payday, which means tomorrow is trip-to-the-feed-store-day)

3. I have 2 dogs, one of which I paid a lot of money for, and one of which was a stray that started following me and wouldn't leave. Love them both!!

4. I am waaaaaay more bothered than I should be by incorrect usage of your/your, there/their/they're, affect/effect, etc. Doesn't mean I don't like you if you mess up on them, just means that seeing the wrong usage bugs me for some reason! lol

5. I am way more bothered by bad manners while eating. Not in the sense that people need to be all proper and use the right fork or whatever. Just please don't talk with your mouth full, and keep your mouth closed while chewing!!

6. I'm going to try to keep the rest of these more about ME versus my issues with others. haha

7. Like I read on someone else's (sorry forgot whose) post, I was also born on my dad's birthday.

8. I have to have the TV on to fall asleep, I can't have it quiet! (also have to have my dogs!) I usually turn to channels that play reruns of Law & Order. Is that weird? LOL

9. I love warm weather and the sun. Now I have an office job, and all I want to do on nice days is go lay outside like a lizard.

10. I can appreciate cold weather too, but only if I get to be inside under my electric blanket... maybe watching Law & Order with the dogs! haha

11. I graduated last year with a B.S. in Biological Sciences

12. I now work a M-F 8-5 job, but 2-3 days a week I go straight to tutoring jobs, mostly Algebra. Not leaving me with enough time to get my ponies ridden. :(

13. I love bread, pasta, bread bowls full of soup, etc, and am thankful for a good metabolism at this point in life and the ability to exercise it off.

14. I've never travelled out of the U.S. except to Mexico when I was younger (Tijuana a couple times and Cabo once, but I was like 8).

15. I think Colorado is the most gorgeous state that I've been to... especially the sky.

16. I find as cheap of shoes and clothes as I can for myself, but my horse gets shoes every 6 weeks for $100 each time, in addition to dentist every 6 months, chirporactor few times a year, daily supplements........................

17. I'm slowing down on coming up with things.

18. My plan was always to go to veterinary school. Maybe someday, but it would have meant big loans. $$$

19. I was one of 14 valedictorians from my high school (kind of takes away the "specialness").

20. I had a full-tuition scholarship in college (based on academics).

21. I took a class that included a field trip to Vector Control- and LOVED it! (nerd)

22. Also took a class about museums... surprisingly interesting.

23. ...the most interesting was parasitology. Not everyone appreciates my detailed recollections.

24. My dog that was a stray had a tumor when I found him. After a year, it started coming open. I didn't have $ for surgery, so I gave him light sedation and cut it open and found that he had a 9mm slug in his chest. Someone had shot him before they dumped him!

25. My other dog is a spoiled princess with a pink rhinestone BB Simon collar. I don't think she would survive a gunshot.

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I love this!! How did I miss it?? Well, I know...MY BRAIN, IT AIN'T RIGHT!!!LOL

I will have to think about this and post later...thanks Miss Beeba!!

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1. July 4th will be my 20th year anniversary

2. I am a christian and love GOD

3. My profession is in academia

4. I love to travel

5. I hate cats

6. I am a gym rat

7. I graduated from UMUC

8. I love the sun, but it hates me

9. I love home decorating

10. I grew up with Wanda Skyes

11. Love traveling to the islands; once I went to a nude beach and paraded in my birthday suit. Never that I could do that

12. I almost cut off my pinky when I was little, and my family called me butcher knife betty -- even today, I hate knives.

13. I'm a vegetarian

14. I'm known a being blunt

15. I don't let the job work me; I work it

20. I sometimes I wish I could be young again

21. The first thing I look at is a person grill (meaning their teeth)

22. I want to learn how to play a musical instrument

23. My clothes have to be folded a particular way, if not I will refold them.

24. When I hear a good joke I laugh so hard I starting crying

25. I miss me family who have passed on

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A good portion of mine will relate to the military in some way, but then the military has been part of my entire life in some way, shape, or form.

1) I was born a Marine brat... I was even born in a Naval hospital (both my parents are former Marines, mom for 6 years, dad for a little over 16 before switching to Air National Guard).

2) My hubby and I married on December 13th 2013 - Friday the 13th!!! (yes, it was on purpose!)

3) When I go to play bingo, I like to put my pull-tab bingo tickets in numerical order, as much as I can anyway... I don't know why, maybe I'm a little OCD when it comes to that.

4) I enjoy cross-stitching (wish I could do some right now).

5) My old Platoon Sergeant from Germany still calls me "Turbo", a nickname he bestowed upon me not long after I got to my first unit (he said I reminded him of himself when he was my age (his first Platoon Sergeant called him "Turbo" as well)... I was 22 and engaged at the time, and he said I was moving through life too quickly).

6) I was an over-the-road truck driver with SWIFT for about 4-5 months... most people don't believe that when I first tell them, but yes, I earned my CDL when I was 21.

7) My family and I almost moved to North Carolina not long before I turned 9, but my dad's orders were changed to Fort Worth, TX before that happened.

8) My husband and I were both born in Southern California (I was born in Long Beach, he was born in Anaheim), but we did not meet until late 2009 after I returned to Germany from being deployed to Iraq (he arrived at our unit 5 months before we returned from a 15-month deployment, so he was on the rear detachment).

9) My favorite color is purple.

10) I started my Army career as a Medic, then later became a LPN (still enlisted... RNs are officers).

11) My youngest sister and I went to the same place for Basic Training (I went in 2007, she went in 2010).

12) My mom, sisters and I moved from California to Wisconsin, a few months before I turned 8, for a year while my dad was in Okinawa (we stayed with my paternal grandparents).

13) I have seven tattoos, and I want to get more, just not sure what to get next.

14) My husband and I both have Celtic heritage... mine is mostly Irish (I also have some German and Norwegian), his is mostly Scottish... makes for some fun times teasing each other!

15) I love eating breakfast foods, especially waffles, french toast, eggs and bacon.

16) I am at least 4th generation military (that I know of), and not quite in a direct line, but almost.

17) I wear mostly either maxi skirts or men's pants because they are much more comfortable for me (I have Chronic Pelvic Pain).

18) I'd say my biggest life achievement so far is graduating high school... I almost didn't graduate on time (I struggled with high school English classes).

19) I love to sing, but I have stagefright, so most of my singing is done when I'm alone.

20) I wish I knew how to cook more... my husband does most of the cooking at home, but he loves it, and he's very good at it.

21) When I was 8, I wanted to go hunting with my Grandpa one morning, but he said we had to be up at 4AM and I didn't own an alarm clock at the time, so I didn't get to go.

22) I graduated Basic Training on my 22nd birthday (never knew Missouri could get so hot in the summer!).

23) I tend to lose contact with a lot of people after a year or so, so none of my friends now are the same as when I was a kid (you kinda get used to that while growing up military, but it still sucks because you're always the new kid).

24) I am a Green Bay Packers fan, which originally started as a joke... while living in Wisconsin, my Grandpa (who was an ardent Packers fan) used to joke around saying that if we weren't Packers fans, we couldn't live in his house. Still makes me laugh!

25) I am one of 4 people that I know of in my family with a July birthday, the other 3 being my dad, my niece, and my brother-in-law Mike.

P.S.: In relation to #1, the US Marine Corps gets all its medical needs from the Navy, as the Marine Corps falls under the Department of the Navy.

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Okay, I'll try.

1) On June 16th, I will have been married for 24 years. No it doesn't seem that long and he is my best friend.

2) I have two children. A daughter who is an Army Medic and turned 19 in Afghanistan. A son who is 19 and still trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life.

3) I am 46, my name is Lori, and I love my grays!

4) I'm a book addict. My high school nick name was the Book Eater.

5) I have three books published by a small press, but published none the less.

6) I teach. I have taught 6-8th grade for 15 years. Next year I'm moving to 5th.

7) I crochet, do plastic canvas, and play on my computer.

8) My step father adopted me when I was four. He is my Dad!

9) Found my biological father and his side of the family on Facebook, after finding a cousin on Ancestry.
10) My Dad's first language was Russian. He was born in Germany after my grandparents escaped Russia.

11) My great grandfather played in the Czar's private orchestra. My grandmother played with the Czar's children.

12) My Mother's mother is a direct decendent of Scottish and English royalty.

13) I'm into genealogy.

14) I have lived in Maine my whole life.

15) I am 5' 10" tall. my husband is 6'0"… our son is 6'4" and still growing.

16) I can't watch any Lassie show. I'll end up crying.

17) I can't read or watch anything by Nicholas Sparks. I'll end up crying.

18) I was the class crybaby.

19) I graduated from a public high school with a class of 31.

20) I was raised with 1 brother but have 3 half sisters and a half brother. I'm the oldest (that we know of)

21) I graduated from college with a 2.95 while working two jobs to pay for it.

22) I love to 4 wheel and snowmobile (all added to my fun column last winter)

23) I love my life as a rule, even when things get tough.

24) I don't care for seafood.

25) I think I used well over the 25...

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Liaspyre, my daughter is considering the same move. She's 68W which the Army has too many of and there is a few openings for LPN's. She can shave a few months off the training since whiskey part is done and she loved Ft. Sam. She's at Bragg now.

Thank you for your service!

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Yes and no, Shandier. The 68C program (formerly 68WM6) is its own school, which is about 13 months total. It is still a good program though. One thing that sucks about it though is that her scope of practice could drop quite a bit, depending on what type of setting she's working in now. If she's in a clinical setting now, it will increase, but not by much. And I'm sorry to hear that she's at Bragg. I've never been there myself, but I have heard that if you're stationed there and you're not with an Airborne unit, they tend to treat you like the black sheep of the family. I've also heard that Bragg is also one of the Army's "black holes" (as in: if you get stationed there once, you'll either get stuck there for quite a while or you'll get reassigned there again at some point).

Shandier said:

Liaspyre, my daughter is considering the same move. She's 68W which the Army has too many of and there is a few openings for LPN's. She can shave a few months off the training since whiskey part is done and she loved Ft. Sam. She's at Bragg now.

Thank you for your service!

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She actually likes it there. She was part of the 82nd, but due to an attack on her by a fellow soldier, she requested a move and they moved her to the 44th med. She is part of an interactive theater group that shows/helps soldiers with different issues they face. They did a performance for the Surgeon General who asked to meet them all and gave them a challenge coin.

She is also thinking about becoming a counselor as well. It will be interesting to see what she chooses. She wants to make it a career at the moment.

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Glad to hear that she likes it there. I'm sorry to hear that she was attacked by a fellow soldier, but at least they moved her away from whoever it was. The Army is very good about that, from what I've seen and heard.

Very interesting to hear that they have a theater group to help soldiers with issues they're facing. I've never heard of anything like that, but I like that it's a different approach to counseling. Hopefully it's helpful to the soldiers, whether they need the help now or later.

I never got to meet the Surgeon General myself, but I did get to meet the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army a couple years ago during a censing session (kind of a face-to-face forum), where he was getting our input on the SHARP program (Sexual Harrassment and Assault Response Program), and he gave all of the soldiers there challenge coins.

The military can be a very good career. My dad retired from the service after 26 years (Marines first, then the last 9-10 were with the Air National Guard). I didn't always like it, but I can honestly say that joining the military was definitely one of the better choices I made in my life. The military has many opportunities for various careers, she just has to go after them. Hopefully she'll be happy with whatever career path she chooses.