Off I go, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho-hi-ho-hi-ho

I'm off to see the Wizard! I will write all about my big adventures when I can.

TTFN!

Finally....

This past week has been so crazy. My uncle died on Monday. My mom and I found him dead in his apartment. He was like a father to me, so this has been so unreal. I don't think it has sunk in yet that he ins't going to be there anymore. I thought about cancelling my deployment to stay and be with my mom during this time, but she said my uncle would want me to go. She is doing much better than I thought she would be. So, I am going ahead with my deployment.

I have quit work and am now just finishing up the last final bit of crap to be done before I leave. This past Sunday, I took my rate exam...what a joke!! I haven't worked in my rate in over 9 years and they are probably going to bust me down to an E-3 for how crappy I did on my exam. Oh well. My chain of command made me stay around the entire day to get my exit eval done and signed before I left. So, with that being said.....I have finally checked out of my NOSC for Active Duty!!! wooohoooooo!! (doing the happy dance now) I went to Wal-Mart today and dropped $250 on crap. Hey, I'm a girl...I have to make sure I have all of my beauty essentials for the war zone. Sheesh what do you think this is a war-fighting effort or something?

Anyhow, I digress. Sorry this post is so lame. I'm just not really in the writing mood. My mind is all over the place this week. Enjoy the new getting-ready-for-depolyment tunes!

P.S. The Jimmy Buffett song is for my uncle

TTFN

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Stupid America

Hold on readers for a serious rant on this issue!! I just finished watching a segment on Fox News today in which the city of Bereley, CA wants to demand the Marine Recruiting office be forced out of the city. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327347,00.html) What a crock of Sh@#!! The so-called peace protesters "Code Pink" that are against the war and think that the Marines don't tell the recruits the truth that come in to their office to sign up to DEFEND these assignine "Code Pink" pukes in their RIGHT to be total ASSHOLE. I am completely in awe at the new lowes this country will stoop to in the areas of protesting the war. So, I guess the Marines that gave thier lives for these pukes don't matter, what matters is that now the mayor of Berkeley has given a parking space to the "Code Pink" pukes right in front of the Marine Recruiting office to show thier disdaine for them being there. The "code pinks" say that 18 year olds can't make up their own minds on whether to enlist and they feel the Marines are lying to them just to join the military. Those of us in the military know that our recruiters lie to get us to join, but we all went down to the recruiter on our own free will. Since our country DOESN'T have adraft right now. DUH!! Oh I'm so pissed off right now I can barely type this. This is the lowest of the low.