Visitation

So, my oldest sister Amanda is coming to visit me next week and I'm trying to think of things to do while she is here. Luckily she likes the outdoors and things that involve nature and my house is right next to the national forest. Nice! I knew that I picked my house for a reason. I figure we can go hiking and riding somewhere, go to a movie . . . . I'm hoping that she's easy to please as far as entertainment. When the rest of my family came to visit I had an entire itenerary. I am unprepared. And I need to clean my house. It's not that bad, but not that good either. Re-wash the sheets on the guest bed, clean the bathtub (it was last used to wash the dog), put the guns somewhere other than everywhere . . . there's a long list.

My last post was in August of 2010. How very sad for all you out there, breathe bated, waiting for my next outpouring of genius. I feel for you and am now going to give you something to read. I'm sure that the people who read my blog (read that read as past tense. Ha! fun with language) already know that I left the Navy and moved to Arkansas to pursue a more enjoyable lifestyle. I bought a house, have horses, a dog, a temporary cat, and am much happier now then I was when I last posted. Well, happier in my sistuation. Apparently I was quite enamored with a beautiful girl last time I wrote on here and now I'm single. That was a fun reminder. Thanks blog. New to my family (the only people that read this) I have purchased a motorcycle to replace the one that I sold before leaving CT. Very pretty, very nice. My good friend Kathryn was helping me to pick out names and love her idea. I'm going to name her after a famous pin-up artist. She's a genius! Betty, Rita, Dorothy, Jane . . . so many! You can see what she looks like here. The review from the associated article was not that great but the pictures are good. I don't agree with his appraisal at all, but he is allowed to be wrong. Name suggestions are welcome. It is also my recommendation that if you choose to tell my mother about this that you do so when she is not driving or involved in any other activity that could cause bodily harm. She might have a severely negative reaction, as she hates the idea of me riding a motorcycle. I won't point out that I also shoot guns all of the time, go horseback riding, and work in an industrial power plant every day. I'll take the risk.

What else is new with me? Not much. I need to work on decorating my house more and getting some more furniture so that I take some things out of the boxes in my spare bedrooms. I'm not in much of a hurry since these are things that I don't really use and don't need to display. I feel like I should have a more permanent storage solution since I don't plan on moving anytime in the next 50 years or so. Decor is the more important issue. My house is out in the country and I have horses so some people would think that I would have horsey, hunting, or woodland pictures EVERYwhere, but I don't like that style at all. My wonderful sisters and my mother have posted some excellent ideas on pinterest. I really do like the firelog wall decor idea. I will almost definitely put some shelves in to duplicate it. Evetually. I also love the wine-cask bath/jacuzzi. Awesome. When I remodel my bathroom I might knock out the wall to the closet just to put one in. You can view them here. I'm very happy that I figured out how to make a word a link. I'm so techno-savvy! I was trying to find a custom mailbox that looks like a fast-attack submarine but all I could find were ones that look like the yellow beatles submarine. Poo. I might have to make one. Ideas are more than welcome and can be either emailed to me or "pinned" to what is apparently my pinterest page. I have no idea how that works, I just like it! Enjoy. Much love to everyone. I'll be back in another year or two.

How did he know?

Somehow Uncle Kracker knew what I was thinking and wrote a song about it! Thanks to a special friend for introducing me to this song. Now I'm incredibly blessed to have someone in my life who makes me want to sing it.

You´re better then the best
I´m lucky just to linger in your life
Cooler then the flip side of my pillow that´s right
Completely unaware
Nothing can compare to where you send me
Lets me know that it´s ok yeah it´s ok
And the moments when my good times start to fade

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed
Sing like a bird
Dizzy in my head
Spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold
Buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh you make me smile

Even when you´re gone
Somehow you come along
Just like a flower poking through the sidewalk crack and just like that
You steal away the rain and just like that

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of
bed sing like bird
Dizzy in my head spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold
buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh you make me smile

Don´t know how I lived without you
Cuz everytime that I get around you
I see the best of me inside your eyes
You make me smile
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold
buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild

You make me smile like the sun
Fall out of bed
sing like bird
Dizzy in my head
spin like a record
Crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool
Forget how to breathe
Shine like gold
buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Ohh you make me smile
Ohh you make me smile
Ohh you make me smile

Too happy for my own good!

So to start with, there are many things in my life that should be making me unhappy right now. I deploy soon and it looks like there is a decent chance that I won't get to see my family before I go. Not cool. I moved out of my house and am now couch/floor hopping until the aforementioned deployment. Also not cool. For those of you not up to date, let me know and I'll fill you in. Work is horrible, more so now than normal because I can't stop thinking that I'm supposed to be in California right now on leave and not here in the hell-hole that is CT. Also not cool.

So why you might ask am I so happy all the time? Well I'll give you a hint. I've been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow (yes that's Jane Austen, and it's perfect). Luckily for me those eyes are looking in my direction and I'm staring directly into hers. And yes, her eyes are bewitching and her face beautiful. This makes me happy. It overpowers my work and the rest of the drama of my life. Every day I look forward to hearing her voice and every time I even think of it I smile. So I'm happy and that's that.

719 Day

For those of you that don't know, today is a very special day. Today we celebrate the boat. For most of the crew it's a sarcastic and meaningless exercise, but we do enjoy the day off of work, if we get it. Somehow I am very fortunate today and don't have to go in, I get to enjoy the picnic we're having. Hopefully I get to slip away early and go do something that's actually fun.

Anyway, my hate and discontent are beyond the scope. We, the crew, mostly nukes, make fun of the diggit mentality of the upper chain of command by taking it to a whole new level. If something happens that we need to put in the logs and it happens close to 0719 or 1719 on the clock, then we log it at 0719/1719. That's just one small example of ou ever expanding ridiculousness. Our new captain came up with a new slogan for the boat: PRIDE. Providence is the only boat that has the word pride in its name, so now we get to use it all the freakin time. Every time we have quarters on the pier it ends with "Pride on 9, 719- PRIDE!!!" by the entire crew. Except for me of course. I refuse to say it in such a forum. I will, however, make fun of it every chance I get. It's one of the little things that we do to try and find some enjoyment in the misery that is our existence onboard the mighty P.

I guess I was tired

I just woke up at 2 am, halfway off of the side of the bed. I'm fully clothed, even my boots are still on. And how did I get here? I guess when you're that tired you just fall asleep anywhere and anyhow. Good thing I woke up before work!

Society

I came to the realization yesterday that people are rude. I pushed the little blue button in my truck for directions and a very pleasant woman answered. The "navigation adviser" people are almost always nice, but they get paid to be that way so it doesn't count. Anyway, I always try to be really nice to them, since I'm sure that a lot of people are not. The woman seemed genuinely surprised that I said thank you and told her to have a nice day. It reminded me of a day in high school when i stepped in front of a girl in my class to open the door for her. She stopped and told me rather haughtily that she was very capable of opening her own doors. I don't mean to sound egotistical, but what the hell happened to good manners? Be nice to people! You usually feel good about and it makes both your days better.