Finally
Posted by Gypsy on Sep 30, 2005
After months a months of wondering “when’s it gonna be my time” I am finally getting promoted. Actually, less that three hours from now, I’ll finally be a noncommissioned officer.
For those of you who don’t know how the military rank system goes, there are four types of troop. There are junior enlisted (the privates) who get crapped on all the time, the noncommissioned officers who are in charge of the junior enlisted, the warrent officers who really aren’t in charge of anyone and commissioned officers who are in charge of everyone.
I say finally, though I’ve only been in the military for two and a half years, which is about two years less than most people who become a noncom.
Regardless, I worked really hard for this, which is why I’m getting promoted so early.
The thing that sucks about it happening today is there were two people who helped me a lot in the last year to get to this point and neither of them will be here to see it.
The first and, most important, is Hubby. I just want to thank him for always making me study and work even when I was tired and didn’t really feel like it. He pushed me and encouraged me to keep working to get to this point, even when I didn’t think it would happen.
The second is my coworker and friend, OCD. Whenever we had down time at work, OCD was studying with me and giving me hints and tips to help me succeed.
I hope they both know all their help and encouragement has gotten me to this point and is much appreciated.
Thank you.
A geek’s wet dream
Posted by Gypsy on Sep 26, 2005
I was surfing the Internet last week when I came across this interesting tidbit of information. It would seem the folks over at Engadget have gotten their mitts on the new Treo, which was just announced this morning as the “Treo smartphone on Windows Mobile” by Microsoft, Palm and Verizon.
Though many would think an upgrade like this wouldn’t be a big deal, my fellow gadgets geeks will be quick to defend. The new Treo is really a milestone for Palm, introducing it’s partnership with Microsoft by offering WinMo 5.0 instead of the Palm operating system.
So besides WinMo 5.0, what else is different about Treo’s new smartphone? For one, it now offers vertical and horizontal orientation. The camera has been bumped up to one megapixal (as opposed to .5), the memory is up to 64 MB (the the ability to use memory cards for more storage), Bluetooth and EV-DO, which is essentially wireless Internet.
Is the new Treo better than the 650? I think so. Is it worth paying full price to upgrade? Not really. Unless you must have the latest and greatest. Or someone else will buy it for you.
From hot redhead to blue-haired grandma
Posted by Gypsy on Sep 21, 2005
Recently one of my girlfriends decided to dye her hair. The thing is, Vee has the kind of red hair other people would die for (as opposed to Carrot Top’s color). And, because it’s long and curly (naturally, of course), her hair is the envy of many women.
I was at her house Friday to hang out when she hands me a L’Oriel home dye kit with a photo on it of a woman who obviously doesn’t dye her hair at home. The woman has gorgeous long auburn hair. Now, I’m not going to say ‘I told her so’…Well, actually I am, because I told her not to do it and she’d regret it.
This is where we fast forward to Monday morning. I come in to work and get an e-mail from Vee. Just one line of text saying,“OMG I dyed my hair! Help! How scarey I look!” (Text color reflects actual hair color.) It had to be bad for her to resort to spelling and grammar mistakes.
Being the wonderful friend I am, I hop in the car to drive to her office to see. The horror I witnessed was so shocking that tact flew right out the window. “You look like a 40-year-old trying to pass for 20.” Poor girl. She went from looking like a 25-year-old to looking like a 50-year-old overnight (when in actuality she’s 38).
Needless to say, we will be making a trip to the wonderful wizard of hair color this weekend to do some damage control. And on the brightside, if we can’t fix it, we can just shave it off and wait until it grows back.
I’m definitely the pet
Posted by Gypsy on Sep 16, 2005
Back in February, to prove I’m not a selfish brat, I bought my husband a cat. A cat who made our apartment the seventh circle of hell for the first month as my allergies adjusted to her and since then lowered it to the fourth circle of hell. Cat and I have gotten by on merely tolerating each other since we got her because Hubby was always the buffer. He played with Cat and she left me alone and all was well.
Since Hubby left in July, Cat and I have surpassed the seventh circle of hell and have moved to that place you go when even hell doesn’t want you. Not only must we now tolerate each other, but we have to pretend we like each other for fear of one killing the other in her sleep.
The only thing making this easier is I spend 12 hours a day, Monday through Friday, away from home. But she’s sure to mention that before I’m even unlocking the door. I walk up the steps and I can already hear her yelling at me. For the first 30 minutes I’m home, she’s just yelling at me in her annoying high pitch meows. I don’t know what her problem is. She has food, water, a clean place to shit and doesn’t pay for any of it. Ungrateful brat.
I can’t even sit on the couch and eat a granola bar without getting attacked. She’ll walk all over me to see what I’m eating and sniff it out. I try not to let her do this anymore as this is how she discovered she loves marshmallows and whipped cream.
Her newest ploy to drive me insane is meowing at me when I go on the balcony to have a cigarette. I can hear her meowing at me through the door then entire time I’m out there. When I come in, she meows at me for about 15 minutes as she follows me everywhere.
And almost seven more months to go? I can’t guarantee I’ll still have what’s left of my sanity by then.
