The Dept of Defense is taking this whole DADT thing pretty seriously. Its trickled down to our level and I have to go with PC this morning to a meeting/panel/survey (Im not really sure what it is, I just know when to show up) to discuss it. Not only do they want the Marine’s input, [...]

Filed under: Military Life

I should really create an ‘about’ page so that every time I want to talk about Colorado I don’t have to explain our history there. Colorado is home. Its home according to my drivers license, its our home according to the Marine Corps and its home in my heart.
Occassionally, when I have nothing better to [...]

Filed under: Colorado and Mountains Make Me Happy, Grace in Small Things, Military Life, This Is My Life

This past Friday was PC’s change of command ceremony. He’s now head honcho for the 3rd largest company in the Marine Corps. For you non-military folks, I’ll humbly tell you this is kind of a big deal.  Im really proud of him and all his hard work. Two of the units that fall under him [...]

Filed under: Military Life, The Captain

Lucky number 9 has it. Amy- send me your address and your box will be on its way!
This weekend we went to the Torii Beach salsa and jazz fest. Both nights- yes, it was that much free fun. We had a fantastic time eating way too much unhealthy food, listening to good music, watching beautiful [...]

Filed under: JAPAN, Military Life, This Is My Life

One of the things thats hard about being in the military is your future can be such an unknown. Even if you think you know where you are going- you could have orders in hand only to have them changed at the last minute. Its best to just file that one under “A: part of [...]

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I just had another person compliment my writing, suggesting that I could have been a writer. Oh you guys, stop. Im blushing. Sometimes when I go back and read old entries I think: wow, did you really think that was funny? Lame. And Im not sure that anyone would actually pay money to read my [...]

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The playhouse is on the back burner for right now. Remember that playtable I ordered for Nathan? Yeah, well it never showed up. I had to wait 3 months for them to determine it was ‘lost’ and then they refunded my shipping and sent a replacement. Except they didn’t. When I got my credit card [...]

Filed under: Military Life, someday you'll look back at this and laugh...someday

Well. We had a little bit of a hiccup there because we thought PC was headed to A-stan. Im unbelievably grateful that he’s not. In addition to that we moved last week and, well, despite the fact that I’ve gone to flea market after flea market and thought I was doing so good purging we [...]

Filed under: Military Life, the cement bungalow

We’re knee deep in some decision making this week and its consuming all the free space in my brain.

Filed under: Military Life

This morning as I was checking my Facebook feed (yes, as sad as it is, I check email and Facebook first thing in the morning) and my friend Janelle had made mention of Marines that were killed. I checked the news and, there it was. Well….SUCK. 3 of the 4 Marines were Captains, and while [...]

Filed under: Military Life