'Tis Christmas time!! YAY!
We had Christmas with my parents on Friday, currently at my grandparents' for today and tomorrow, gonna open gifts with grandparents Sunday... and then Christmas with hubby on Tuesday! :D
Less than 2 months to go until I leave for basic training! EEK! It's starting to get scary! lol I know I'm gonna do awesome on my APFT... at least the pushups and situps part, I know I'll PASS the run but I've only been getting like a 9 minute mile... and I haven't run 2 full miles in a while. I'm hoping that we'll do some serious PT at the next few future soldier training sessions, now that it's snowing I'm definitely not going out running for fear that I'll twist or break an ankle, at this point, if that happens I won't be shipping on time.
Today while we were traveling we had car problems (why does this always happen!) we drove from home to dad's building, cleaned the building, drove to the gas station... he had pulled up to the wrong side, tried to turn the car back on to move it and it wouldn't start... Dad came and jumped it and we drove it to an auto parts store and got a new battery which fixed the problem. Don't even buy a car from Bizzaro's... we just bought the car and, after getting a new battery, it is starting up WAYYY better so they had to know that the battery was on its way out. Anyways... got that replaced, thankfully we had cash in the bank account, if that had happened 2 days ago we wouldn't have even been able to afford it!
Well... I'm gonna finish this then because we're headed out to watch The Hobbit soon :D
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Counting Down the Days!
Wow, time has been flying by! It's December all of a sudden... a fact which I noticed as I flipped the page on my calendar the other day...
I'm still working on getting my run time down and I'm praying that I don't have to do a APFT in the cold! Hopefully they'll just take my word for it that I can make the run in the allotted time... not betting on that though! I need to work on pushups and situps too but I'm not really worried about them... I've done a few here and there... banged out 70 pushups over the course of like 15minutes the other day whilst chatting with other future soldiers! I ran Sunday afternoon 'cause it was so darn nice outside. Went 0.61mi at an 8min/mile pace. Not too shabby! I almost died doing it though... DH says I need to pace myself better but I'm not really sure how to do that. I was planning on going running today 'cause it's a nice temperature, but it's been raining off and on. As soon as I'm done with this I'm gonna go see if it looks like the rain will hold off for another 15-20 minutes and then get ready and go out.
I did purchase new running shoes the other day! They were my birthday present from DH :D. I ended up getting another pair of UnderArmour ones, I just really like the way the fit! At the end it was between those and a pair of... I think Nike's... the ones with the knobbly sole, they are what he took with him and they WERE nice, I just didn't quite like the way they felt and they were the same price as the UA ones. I wanted ones that I was comfortable with.
I haven't yet found another 31E that's leaving at the same time as myself... Actually, I haven't yet found another 31E... I've heard that it's a relatively uncommon MOS, not sure if that's good or not lol. I'm not too worried about it though, I mean, it's about the uniform and serving my country, not so much about the exact job. Besides, I tend to be the kind of person who at least tries to see the best side of everything. I figure, if 31B wasn't available for me then there must be a reason for it. We shall see. I've also heard that we cross-train with the MPs a lot and I can always reclass when it comes time to re-enlist (assuming I choose to do so!). A few people that I've talked to say that MPs tend to stay with the Army until they retire, apparently they make more in the military than they would in a comparable job in the civilian world? IDK, but I suppose I shall find out!
OK... back to civilian life here for a bit before I close this down... We rearranged the house... DH is trying to see if we can get another couple (he works with the guy) to rent out the other half of the house... we have to get my parents on board with the idea obviously... The biggest problem is that there is only one shower (the other bathroom is only a 1/2 bath) and there's only one washer/dryer. The shower is in a fairly common part of the house (you'd just have to walk through one parties living area to get to it) but the other half the house has the washer and dryer and you have to walk through what is currently our bedroom and stand in what is basically our living room to use them... IDK, i mean, if he really wants to share stuff with them I don't really care. I'm not gonna be there for most of the time anyways and I know that it would be nice for him to have someone at the house sometimes. The other nice part is that when we move out that couple might actually want to purchase/continue renting the house (they were talking about buying one but they couldn't get the financing or something). So yeah... we might have roommates as of like... January. Again, we shall see!
Welp... I suppose I should go... gonna try to go on a run, then got a tiny bit of shopping to do, and then I have to clean the building 'cause DH works late tonight. Sooo, I shall (try) to post in a few days! I know... I'm terrible at updating this thing!!!
I'm still working on getting my run time down and I'm praying that I don't have to do a APFT in the cold! Hopefully they'll just take my word for it that I can make the run in the allotted time... not betting on that though! I need to work on pushups and situps too but I'm not really worried about them... I've done a few here and there... banged out 70 pushups over the course of like 15minutes the other day whilst chatting with other future soldiers! I ran Sunday afternoon 'cause it was so darn nice outside. Went 0.61mi at an 8min/mile pace. Not too shabby! I almost died doing it though... DH says I need to pace myself better but I'm not really sure how to do that. I was planning on going running today 'cause it's a nice temperature, but it's been raining off and on. As soon as I'm done with this I'm gonna go see if it looks like the rain will hold off for another 15-20 minutes and then get ready and go out.
I did purchase new running shoes the other day! They were my birthday present from DH :D. I ended up getting another pair of UnderArmour ones, I just really like the way the fit! At the end it was between those and a pair of... I think Nike's... the ones with the knobbly sole, they are what he took with him and they WERE nice, I just didn't quite like the way they felt and they were the same price as the UA ones. I wanted ones that I was comfortable with.
I haven't yet found another 31E that's leaving at the same time as myself... Actually, I haven't yet found another 31E... I've heard that it's a relatively uncommon MOS, not sure if that's good or not lol. I'm not too worried about it though, I mean, it's about the uniform and serving my country, not so much about the exact job. Besides, I tend to be the kind of person who at least tries to see the best side of everything. I figure, if 31B wasn't available for me then there must be a reason for it. We shall see. I've also heard that we cross-train with the MPs a lot and I can always reclass when it comes time to re-enlist (assuming I choose to do so!). A few people that I've talked to say that MPs tend to stay with the Army until they retire, apparently they make more in the military than they would in a comparable job in the civilian world? IDK, but I suppose I shall find out!
OK... back to civilian life here for a bit before I close this down... We rearranged the house... DH is trying to see if we can get another couple (he works with the guy) to rent out the other half of the house... we have to get my parents on board with the idea obviously... The biggest problem is that there is only one shower (the other bathroom is only a 1/2 bath) and there's only one washer/dryer. The shower is in a fairly common part of the house (you'd just have to walk through one parties living area to get to it) but the other half the house has the washer and dryer and you have to walk through what is currently our bedroom and stand in what is basically our living room to use them... IDK, i mean, if he really wants to share stuff with them I don't really care. I'm not gonna be there for most of the time anyways and I know that it would be nice for him to have someone at the house sometimes. The other nice part is that when we move out that couple might actually want to purchase/continue renting the house (they were talking about buying one but they couldn't get the financing or something). So yeah... we might have roommates as of like... January. Again, we shall see!
Welp... I suppose I should go... gonna try to go on a run, then got a tiny bit of shopping to do, and then I have to clean the building 'cause DH works late tonight. Sooo, I shall (try) to post in a few days! I know... I'm terrible at updating this thing!!!
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