E3 - A1C Smith

    I really know that I'm bad at staying on this thing, I really do.  I say it everytime I write something new!  But anyways, still at tech school...forever and ever.  Been at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio for months now, since November, and I won't be graduating until June. ): I'm sick of the place, and everyone keeps getting the dorms in trouble, so we're basically on lockdown on the weekends lately. For the past month, they've given us curfew, which absoloutely sucks. Words cannot even describe how frustrated the higher ups have been making myself and the fellow Airmen here.  The newer Airmen than me?  I don't feel bad for.  But my job as well as Biomedical Tech, I feel bad for, because we've been here forever. I think they should grandfather us in, and ditch the curfew.
    Other than this stupid curfew, I made A1C this past Friday, because it was my 5 month out of BMT mark. Now to get that volunteer stuff under my belt to get SrA BTZ. (: Hopefully, I start getting my E3 pay soon, because living paycheck to paycheck is starting to suck.
    Since I'm E3 now, I had to sew on stripes.  When I went to pick up my Blues from the drycleaners this weekend, I forgot them in the dressing room AFTER I paid for them.  And then they proceeded to not be open on Sunday OR today.  I'm quite frustrated and hoping that no one took them and the cleaners put them up somewhere, because I can't afford a new service coat, lightweight jacket, and 2 shirts.  I'm praying to whatever's out there, because I really need that stuff back.  It was on account of my own stupididy, but I'm still hoping.
    I'm not going to say that life's good, because I'm not jinxing it, so I'm not gunna say anything.  Whenever I admit to being happy, life get's all crazy.  But I've got a lot to be thankful for, so I won't complain today.  I've got my family back home, my Air Force family here, all my close friends who have become family, steady pay, and an adventure laid out before me for the rest of my career.
    I'm in class now on break, so it's time to close this out.  I'll appologize in advanced, because I know I won't be any better at keeping up.

t-minus 4 days.

My little sisters, Josie and Sophie

    Wow, 4 days?!  This is crazy.  I still have a bunch of stuff to do.  My bag is packed, for the most part, but I'm sure I'll unpack and repack it like 9 times before I leave still.  I need to pack all my clothes I'm not bringing in totes and stuff, but I can't really do that until Sunday.  I've done nothing all day today, nothing at all.  Besides eat leftover turkey.  I might do a little organizing later tonight, but I feel too lazy right now.  I haven't even ran since Sunday.  I justify that by saying I don't want to get hurt before I leave, or burn myself out on running again.  I'm still occasionally doing sit ups and push ups, but I'm not worried about them.  I'm going into BMT with the attitude that there's no way that I can fail.  Not saying that I'm amazing at everything and won't get in trouble, but simply that failing just isn't an option.  Even if I can't do the run in 14:46 normally, I WILL run it in 14:00 on PT test day, simply because there is no other option.  I may rip every abdominal muscle and bicep I have, but I will do all the sit ups and push ups I need to do to pass.  There just isn't another option.  What, am I going to get sent home and go to college like everyone else around here at LSSU in Sault Ste. Marie, MI?  Hell no.  I will be an Airman come November 8th.  No exceptions.

My Bath & Body Works!

    Anyways, I guess I'm just relaxing, enjoying music, food, and family before I leave.  Studying and PT aren't high on my to do list right now.  I have a couple DIY projects I wanna finish before I leave, including a refinished desk I did that needs polyurethane, and a bookstand thing that needs a rainbow painted on the side. (:  Today, we did a mini-photoshoot of me and my little sisters and my baby cousin, because we're never all in the same place.  My grandpa wanted a picture of all of his granddaughters, so we made it happen.  They came out cute, my sisters are adorable.  I'm going to miss so much stuff at BMT!  Probably the most, I'll miss Bath and Body works fall scents.  Fall is my favorite season, and after much deliberation last week while talking to my friend about it, we've determined it's our favorite because the way the air smells.  It's crisp, the air is nice, you can smell the leaves and stuff.  I love it so much!

Sophie & I

   I took a little hiatus to this post, and went up to the hospital to visit my Grandpa.  He's doing well, up and about, but they're still monitoring him.  I guess his heart beat was jacked up this morning, so they kept him today to stabilize it.  It was nice to see him though, I hope he gets to come home tomorrow.

t-minus 5 days.

Trip to Traverse

    Today has been a very hectic day.  I woke up out of a dead sleep after a late night hanging out with family, and a long day driving to and home from Traverse City with my grandpa, to my grandma yelling about something, but she's nuts so I just rolled over and went back to sleep.  Then, I heard her yell for my uncle to get up because she was calling 911.  God, I have never gotten out of bed so fast.  I didn't know if something happened to my little sisters, or if my grandpa had a heart attack, or what.  Anyways, I sprung up, and it was my grandpa.  He was fine when I got out, but apparently he passed out a bit before and his pace maker zapped him back.  The EMT's got here in record time (they're volunteer in my town), and I rode the rig up to the hospital with him - unshowered, hair not brushed, morning breath and all.  We got up there (the hospital is about an hour away), and his heart doctor and a bunch of people came and were trying to get the scoop on what happened.  Once they interrogated his pace maker, they determined that the shock was justified, and without it he would have died instantly.  It took them about 3 hours to figure this all out, and then he got moved to the ICU.  He'll be in the ICU for a couple days for observation.  I didn't leave the hospital until dinner time, and I was so starving from being there all day and tired.  But at least he's going to be alright, I hate that this is happening right before I leave.  He promised he'd hang on to his health and get back in shape and lose weight until I get home from basic and tech school.  Hopefully there will be no more emergencies.

(My) Turkey Day!

    Anyways, the original plan for today was faux-Thanksgiving with my family and best friend.  They thought about not cooking it once the hoopla happened, but I would have been very upset if I got no Thanksgiving before I left!  We had a turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberries, and deviled eggs.  Thanksgiving and Christmas are my favorite holiday's other than Halloween because of the food!  It would have been better if my grandpa could have been there and not having an eggbeater-salad sandwich in the hospital because he is a turkey junkie, but he'll have his Thanksgiving with the rest of the family in November when I'm gone to Tech School.  My friend Jordan had plans to come too, but he had to drive someone to Detroit and fly back, and it went a little later than expected.  But I got my beautiful turkey, and that's all that matters!

Chocolate mousse, white chocolate
strawberry, and caramel chocolate
dessert shooters.

    Yesterday, I got to go on an outing with my grandpa for a doctors appointment in Traverse City, which is about 3 hours away.  We didn't do anything too exciting, but the drive was fun.  Listening to channel 10 on Sirius radio, looking at the fall colors changing already, and just relaxing.  I had Olive Garden for the first time ever, and it was amazing!  I ate myself sick on fettuccine alfredo, bread sticks, salad, and dessert shooters.  On the way home, I got a Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks, because I just happened to read on Facebook that it was the opening day for the flavor, and it's my favorite!  Normally, my mom and I make a 2 hour trip in the fall and in the winter to Starbucks once the seasonal flavors are released, so I'm happy I got to get some before I leave.

    All in all, it's been an alright couple of days, minus the hospital trip this morning.  My Uncle and Aunt are up with their little baby Vivian, and we're all just hanging out.  There are so many children in this house, its silly.  3 children under 2 years old is fun sometimes, but most of the time it's just a little bit much!  I'm enjoying the mayhem and chaos while I can, because come Monday, I'm out of here!  My oldest sister, Sophie, keeps asking me if she can come to the Air Force with me.  Maybe I'll start a line of future Airmen. (:

BMT packing video.

Hey guys!  I just recorded a packing video for Air Force BMT of all the stuff I'm packing!  One week, HUA!

t-minus 9 days.

Not much is new, at all.  I just feel a need to post!  Anyways, last night my mumma and I had a date night and went to go see Paranorman in 3D and had dinner at Applebees.  After, we went to Walmart and if was definitely a full moon last night - the crazies were out in full force!  Anyways, yeah.  That's really all that's new.  My room is in a crazy packing limbo, I'm trying to burn up all my Bath and Body works candles while I can, and trying to stay busy cause I'm just so bored!  Listening to lots of music while I can, and studying tons.  Still trying to decide what flippin' job I even want!  And just hanging out.  I'm going to go hang out with my best friend tonight, I keep asking him if I can just pack him up with my little sister in my backpack and bring him with me, but we don't think he'll quite fit. (:  My little sister could fit for sure, and she would give the MTI's a run for their money for sure!

But anywho, there's my post for today.  Au revoir!

t-minus 12 days.

Wow!  It's getting so real.  Today, I had my 15 day briefing, because my recruiter was busy these past few days.  It was pretty uneventful.  Signed my usual briefing paper saying I'm not pregnant, newly tattooed, a new felon, etc.  I found my sheet from MEPS that has all the jobs I qualified for, and I has highlighted all the ones in my aptitude area to consider.  She went over the good ones with me and circled some, and crossed others off that were below me/boring.  Currently, I'm torn between a medical job and an intelligence job.  I originally wanted Operational Intelligence, but now I'm leaning more toward the medical field.  I'm super torn, and probably will just go with my gut when the time comes to fill out what jobs I want.  I'm not picky, I'd be happy doing most anything on the General Aptitude list of mine, but those are the two I really wish I could just do both!  Anyways, we just chatted mostly about what's been new with both of us, cause my recruiter is super cool.

These next 12 days feel so busy and so empty at the same time.  I have so much to do in a little amount of time, but really not many plans.  The fair is in town til Sunday, so I'm trying to get my friend to get time off of being on EMT call so we can go one night and ride some rides! (: Hopefully someone will have a heart and cover, because I've been looking forward to this since April.  Other than that, I think we're doing dinner/coffee/something tomorrow since he's been so busy I haven't seen him in 2 weeks!  Then this weekend, my mama and I are going to see a movie - either "Paranorman" or "Hope Springs" and get some dinner or something.  Saturday, I'll go to the fair with my little sister to ride the kiddie rides and such, and Sunday/Monday I have my Uncle and Aunt coming to town.  We'll BBQ/going away party for Labor Day on Monday, and then Wednesday we're having a faux-Thanksgiving meal since I'll be in tech school for Thanksgiving. (:  Friday is my final briefing with my recruiter, and a haircut, and I'll be out the door the following Monday to Lansing to fly out!

It's going so fast and so slow at the same time.  All I want is a nap. (: