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Name: Jessica
Country: United States
State: New Mexico
Metro: Albuquerque
Birthday: 10/3/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: cats
Swimming
music
NOT DRINKING, as in a member of MADD and all that sort of thing.
Expertise: Manpower/personnel
Occupation: Military
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AIM:  honeyct16
Member Since:
11/16/2004
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| I think it's all hitting me now. There's no FEDEX in town and I need to get paperwork to USAA for the mortgage by Monday and they sent me a prepaid envelope and Im TIRED and Im HUNGRY and Im LONELY. But I bought a house and a bed and 2 bookshelves and I get to take Tuesday off to wait for my furniture and I dont KNOW what Im going to do when I have to pull a FULL duty week. MAN I am EXHAUSTED. And pretty emotionally drained. And I miss John. It's really dumb, but I miss him. And the other 598 people who were just at ASBC with me. The officer population here is REALLY small, and half are married, so it seems even smaller and I dont know what Im going to DO with myself for the next 3 years. Were settling into the grind here and it's interesting and it's keeping me busy, but if I come home with enough energy to fall asleep every day, I dont know how Im going to handle being deployed. MAN. MAN MAN MAN!!! And everyone is telling me that I should take my jelewry off my left hand because the guys are hard to come by, but you know what? I don't even have enough energy to talk to John on the phone about work. How the heck would I be able to handle a relationship? THOSE take a LOT of energy. So life is lookin good, but I think I'm aging about 2 days for every day since I've been here. I know that Im more confident and Im maturing and growing up and all that, but man, it just might kill me. It's 830 and I feel like I shoulda gone to bed an hour ago. Night, all. I'll let you know when I get furniture to go with my new house!
J | | |
| Making an offer on a HOUSE!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!! I'm psyched. Who'd have thought that I would be in a position to BUY my own HOUSE at 22?? I have done SO MUCH in the last 3 or 4 months! I am really, really proud of myself. Now, if I could just get my grandmother to get off my case about BOYS! Or convice John that he and I are perfect together. I can correct his grammar, he can correct my stupid Lieutenant mistakes  I miss them, but I am SO GLAD that God has finally brought me to a place where I can just be glad and joyous and thankful. EVERYTHING is going SO WELL! It's a huge relief. I'm really, really happy. And I almost have my own house!!
So funny story. I drove around base to see if I could pick up a wireless internet signal, because the military is really strict about what you can use government computers for, and that doesn't allow for me to log onto AIM to talk to all my friends back home. So I'm in a parking lot in front of a green space on Sunday (yesterday) and across from the dorms on one side (where all the airmen live) and base housing on the other side. And I'm picking up like 8 different signals. So, before I continue, I'll explain that using someone else's router isn't technically stealing. It's an unsecured wireless network, so basically it's public domain, as long as that public has a wireless adapter in their computer. So I'm on someone else's connection, maybe a little underhanded, but anyhow it's out there. They can't arrest me for stealing, because the owner can't see me on his network, and it's not coming from a utlities company, so we're good. So I'm talking to John over AIM, which is what I DO, and I really really miss talking to him, so we're chatting away and I'm listening to some music. In a parking lot, on a laptop, in my car, across from the dorms. See where this is going? So the MPs pull up next to me. Military Police. So I understand NOW that it probably looked really suspicious...But looking back I think it's kinda funny. So they sat for a few minutes, don't think they figured out what I was doing, but they deemed me harmless. THAT would have been a helluva thing to explain to my commander. Rather than getting in trouble for a DUI like a lot of LTs are doing, I'd get pulled in for using a wireless internet signal...HA. So they left, and I laughed about it last night when I got home, but now I can definately say that I will be waiting to hook up to AIM once I have a wireless signal in my room...or I buy my own internet connection for my house. AS John said to me last night on the phone, "I'm not judging you, I'm just pointing some things out here, Jess." It's been a learning experience, to say the least. | | |
| I miss John and Bill and Ryan and Eric and Greg, and poker, and Montgomery, too
Cell phones rock my socks off. I have SERVICE HERE!! YAY! | | |
| I miss John and Bill and Ryan and Eric and Greg, and poker, and Montgomery, too
Cell phones rock my socks off. I have SERVICE HERE!! YAY! | | |
| The Land of Enchantment, but I've heard otherwise...Ok. So I've been in New Mexico for almost a week now. I must say that first impressions sucked. Yeah, they REALLY sucked.
Moving on. Dad drove out with me and he drove me NUTS in the process. We drove something like 1300 miles in like 2 days and it was NOT fun. So we stayed east of Dallas the first night and we got to Clovis by the second night. After everything that I went through to get him to change the plane tickets back to Omaha for a later date, I must say that by the time we got here we coulda gotten to Albuquerque in time for the first plane and I was really sad that he didn't go SOONER. But we drove around town, found stuff, checked out housing all that jazz, and I was pretty glad that I had some moral support before he LEFT me here. Yes, he left me in God's Armpit of the United States. Salina, KS, was the armpit of kansas, this is a whole lot worse. But I was glad for the company and I got to see Albuquerque in daylight and the drive to and from was nice, and it was really nice to know that my daddy still loves me enough to see what I've gotten myself into and offer me support.
So, been looking for places to live here lately. Got all my inprocessing done and now I will be getting paid the whole amount that they owe me and I'm pretty glad for it. So, that'll be safe and secure. Houses, on the other hand, may be anohter story. I found a townhouse/condo deal that I can rent, lease, or buy. The CATS will be the deciding factor on that one. The landlords down here do NOT allow pets at ALL. So if I want my kitties, I will have to buy a home. Hey, I'm 22, can I actually do that?
That seems to be the question of the quarter here. Hey, I'm 22...? Yeah, I have found that I can do A LOT. I've been able to find a lot of strength in myself that I wasn't really sure was there. And it's been pretty liberating. I got my car taken care of, I drove across the country, I went to ASBC and did WONDERFULLY, I got to new Mexico, I'm starting a new job, I think I'm going to buy my first house. WOW. That's a LOT of stuff in the last 2 months! I had NO IDEA that all that was coming a year ago. I probably would have laughed if anyone had suggested that I could take care of all that by myself! So, all in all, the move has been awesome for me. I think that I can take care of myself and I'm really glad that I'm not setting myself up for failure!
JOB!
Yes, I have a real job now and it doesn't involve playing video games. LOL! I'll be working in the military personnel flight for about 2 months, where I will get to pick up the basics about what I'm doing (at least until I can go to tech school and they'll teach me out of books and such), and in the middle of that I get to be the officer in charge of a deployment readiness line, where basically I get to supervise the people DOING stuff and maing sure that they're doing what they need to be doing....hey as long as it looks good on the performance report, right? So about may 1 they're gonna move me out to the Ccommander's Support Staff over in one of the fighter wings. Joy...you know how much I love pilots...
So I went to a mardi Gras party with the other young, single, officers which was really great, because for a while there I wasn't sure there WERE any young, single officers HERE...I had several people offer me their spare bedrooms, which was really nice. I don't think that I will take them up, but I know that I have go-to people if I need it. Overall, the Air Force family has really kicked in and I feel like I'm being welcomed. Man, that's relief. It really is.
No internet in the billeting room they've got me staying in, so I will need to hit the library every few days or so to check up on the email and all that. So I was pretty bummed out about no AIM, but overall it's making me get out and find things and people. Good thing? Well, I have to get going for now, but I will definately be around later. Church at the base chapel tomorrow. I think I'll go on base here for a while to get the atmosphere/networking down, and maybe I'll try the Lutheran Church later. They do a lot of stuff here on base, so I need to get around and see what's going on. yay for Sunday!
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