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.

life as i know it.

    Now that I posted about zero week, it's time for a personal update. (: I've been in the military for 4 months yesterday, which freaks me out because that's almost half a year!  But, it means a pay raise when I get paid on Monday. (: $100 more dollars in the bank for me.  It's crazy that a mere and forever-long 2 months ago, I was walking across the Lackland parade field in Blues with all my Air Force brothers and sisters.  I'm so blessed to have all these wonderful extended family in my life.  I'm in tech school at Fort Sam Houston, and it really is a family here.  I have 2 girls from my flight and one from my brother flight here, and I'd be lost without them and quite a few other people here.  Somedays I just feel like skipping class and pretending to be a civilian again, but there isn't a day that goes by where I'm not thankful for the decision I made and everything I went through to get to this point.
    I'm almost done with course II in my dental lab class, which is exciting.  EOC next week...I should probably be studying right now, but oh well.  I've got awesome friends who never let me spend a night alone being bored in my room, and family to keep me motivated every day. (:

   Other than school and friends, I got my first tattoo yesterday!  Happy 4 months in the Air Force to me - I got my blog's namesake tattooed on my ribs.  That quote singlehandedly got me through basic training and a lot of other things in life.  I've been planning it for a while, and went on a whim last night and got it.  I'm pretty sore, but holding up.  It'll be worth it once it heals. (: