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November 26 Just Talking My love and I are going through a bit of a rough spot for various reasons I don't really want to talk about. If everyone could just cross their fingers and hope it works out that would be great.
I went shopping on black friday, and it wasn't as packed as I thought it would be. I wound up at walmart at 4 am, and they already had everything out, so I just went around putting stuff in my cart and checked out at 5 when the sale prices kicked in. I went a few other places but didn't really buy much. It seemed like everything that was on sale I already had or didn't want.
I also got a new computer, but that I didn't pay for. The Department of Veterans Affairs bought it for me to continue my schooling. It's really nice and I'm glad that I finally have something reliable to do my school work on. Speaking of, I'm almost caught up on my homework, but I'm a little nervous because my teacher won't reply back to me to let me know if I am passing the class or not. I keep praying that she will get back with me, I've sent her six or seven emails, so she's being a little unprofessional now that it has been about three weeks and she still hasn't replied to any of my emails.
I guess I'm just really stressed out lately and that is why I haven't been writing much, I'll write more when I'm in a better mood.
~Opinionated Woman~ November 16 As the days go by... It's been a long time since I last posted! So much has been happening here at work I haven't had time to write anything. Finally I have found a few minutes today. So to start out with, my love and I have been bickering a lot lately. I guess it's because he hasn't been home for about a week now, his work scheduel got mixed up and he had to stand duty a lot more than he should have. Finally the last few days he has been home, but with him getting ready to graduate his platoon and the added stress of the holidays we aren't comunicating very well. I found this book that he had though, called the Languages of Love, and I started reading it. It's all about how men and women mis-communicate, and I have been applying what the book says to our relationship and it seems to be working! I broke down and cleaned his office too, it was a mess! If you have ever seen the show Clean House, that is the type of mess that it was. It took me three hours to clean it, but it was worth it because he was very happy when he saw it. Anything I can do to put his mind at ease is worth it to me. So last night we actually had a very good night together. Hopefully we will continue on this path.
I have also started investing a small amount of money to try to build up my savings. I found a website called sharebuilder, and it seems to be a very easy place to invest money. I know absolutely nothing about investing, but the website breaks it down so even someone like myself can understand it! I also put a small amount of money into a certificate with five percent interest. I have to have it for one year, but at least I will have some savings now! I am thinking about putting a little bit of money into some stocks for my love for a christmas present to him. He doesn't save any money ever so I thought that that might be a good present.
Work has been super busy. We had Monday off for Veterans Day, so it was a short ship week for the recruits comming in for boot camp. This basically means we had one less day to process twice the normal amount of people. Today is the last day for processing, and we still have around 160 recruits to go. They won't be here until this afternoon though, so we wont be getting off early today. I'm looking forward to this weekend. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'll be glad to get away from work for a few days.
Well I guess that's about it for now, I promise to start writing more often!
~Opinionated Woman~ November 01 Birthday Update Ok so yesterday was my birthday. It started off great. I woke up to a text message from my love telling me to look on the counter for my present (he had come home in the middle of the night and put it there and then went right back to work). I saw this blue box with white ribbon sitting there, and immediately started to cry! It was a Tiffanys necklace!!! It was beautiful!!! And it is the best gift I have ever gotten. Work was good, I got small gifts here and there, and then my love got off early and we went out to dinner. That's when things got bad. I don't even want to get into the whole thing but it consisted of lots of crying on my end and lots of yelling on his, and we haven't spoken at all today, and I still am very upset about all of it. It's funny how it was the best and worst birthday I have ever had all in one day. I'm just glad it's over, I don't think I'll be excited about my birthday next year though. Just thinking about it is making me, and I don't feel like typing a lot, so here are some bullets of what is going on.
Well maybe I will write tomorrow. ~Opinionated Woman~ October 30 Excited for Tomorrow! Well dear readers tomorrow is my 22 birthday! I've always been excited about my birthdays, and I don't know why. With the recent loss of some so called friends here at work, I don't have a party planned or anything like that. But the civilians here at work are all comming to my birthday lunch at Ruby Tuesdays that I set up. We always have birthday lunches whenever it is one of the civilians birthdays, and they usually turn out to be pretty fun. Other than that, it will be a normal work day for me, but after work when my love gets home, we are going to go out to dinner, and that I am very excited about!
I got a birthday present from my grandmother in the mail yesterday. It was a really pretty pair of gold hoop earings. She had them wrapped up in a taco kit box though. My family is so weird. I also got a card from my mom, who then called to tell me that it was the first card, the second card and my present were on their way. Again, my family is so weird. But I do love them!
Yesterday when I got home from work, my love was already home, which was nice for a change. I had made a pit stop at the ABC package store after I left work, so he made dinner and we had pomagranite martinis and slow gin fizzes and listened to music and danced around the living room all night. It was a good time. But I woke up this morning to the sound of my love puking his brains out. I had told him not to drink that last drink, but there was no telling him no lol. So this morning, his whole team was out at the range firing weapons, and I decided to be nice and take them coffee from the coffee shop (awww). It was fourty degrees this morning so they were all happy about the coffee. The sad news is my love has to work tonight, so I won't see him until tomorrow night when we go to dinner. The good news is I will finally be able to do some more homework! I plan on staying up very late tonight to get it done. Of course I am so far behind I am sure I won't finish it tonight, but I only have until Sunday to finish it, and I know I won't do any tomorrow so tonight is the night for me to get busy on it.
In other news, I'm taking off early today to go get low lights in my hair. My hair is a beautiful shade of Strawberry Blonde (NOT ORANGE!!), but with the winter comming up I really want to make it darker without loosing its color entirely. Hopefully I will love the results! Cross your fingers for me!
I decided to go for the jewelery side business I was talking about. I really don't have that much contact with people outside of my office, so I think I might set up a website or something, but so far two people here have placed orders with me. I'm sure that it's not going to take off into anything big, but it's nice to do for a side thing. I had a few pendants that I had ordered come in yesterday, and I already sold two of them on top of my other two orders. Hopefully things will keep going like this! Well I should go for now, but I let you know how my hair turns out tomorrow!!
~Opinionated Woman~ October 29 Talking about 10 Things You Don’t Know About WomenI ran across this on someone elses blog, and I got a kick out of it. I happen to like older men, but for the most part I tend to agree with these. Enjoy! Quote 10 Things You Don’t Know About Women Start of the Work Week Oh it is Monday, and usually Mondays are horrible. Today has not been so bad so far! This morning I came into work, and didn't have anything to do. So I ran over to the coffee shop and enjoyed my morning cup of tea. My love happend to stop by to see me, and by this I mean he stopped by, took a big sip of my tea, smiled and left. Isn't he sweet?
 After that I had a meeting out in town with my Veterans Assistant councelor. ( I was in the Navy and got medically discharged, and the VA now pays for me to go to school.) He just wanted to know how I was doing in school. Of course I lied, and said wonderful, although I am actually very behind ( I got an email this weekend from my teacher, she said I have one week to make up six weeks of homework or she will fail me, yikes! ). After my meeting, I realized that I was dangerously close to the Chocolate Tree, and of course I had to stop in there! They make the best chocolate, and I wound up buying a one pound box of chocolate covered cherries. I'm shaking my head even as I write this, because I do not need to be eating these!! I am already very unhappy with my recent weight gain! But what's a girl to do? Anyway, a friend and I went to McDonalds for lunch (what is wrong with me?!) and then bought some lottery tickets. Of course I didn't win anything, I have terrible luck with those things. And of course she did. She usually wins fifty dollars or more all the time. I guess there is no get rich quick for the people who really need it.  So now it is after lunch, and I still don't have anything to do. My weekend went ok. Saturday I set out on an all day shopping spree through the two malls in Savannah. I like to take road through down town to get to the mall, but there was some type of parade going on, and all the roads were blocked off. It took me half an hour to find my way to the mall. Once I was there, I swear I tried on every piece of clothing in every store. In both malls. And nothing fit. NOT ONE THING!! This lead me to the conclusion that all designers think that if a woman has a large waist, her thighs and butt are big too, and vice versa. I don't know about anyone else, but that is not me! I have skinny legs, a little butt, and a pudgy waist. Could someone please makes some jeans that actually fit real women?! After I got disgusted with jeans, I turned my attention to shoes. They must fit right? Wrong. Apparently I have some wide feet, because everything I tried on was too narrow. I did find a good pair of boots though. I then realized that makeup always fits and wound up buying a terrible amount of makeup from the MAC counter. I guess at least my face looks pretty.
Sunday I did some grocerie shopping. I made the mistake of going to Bi-Lo instead of the Commisary on base. God food out in town is expensive!! I tried to buy healthy so I wouldn't eat out, but that didn't last very long given my trip to McDonalds today! The rest of the day I spent doing some homework and laundry. My love came home and we bickered on and off until bedtime, which I am not happy about. We are a wierd couple, the two of us. But I still love him.
This afternoon I overheard Hypocrite talking about how someone keeps calling the command on her for having unauthorized guests in her house. I laughed to myself and just thought, "that's what you get for being mean to people". She used to live in a nice part of housing, but then she started cheating on her husband. Her husband moved out, and her boyfriend moved in, and the neighbors told on her. Our Officer In Charge told her to stop seeing her boyfriend, and she told him she did, even though she didn't. Her neighbors kept calling and telling on her. So instead of doing what she was told, she told the command that her neighbors were lying, and asked to be moved to another part of housing. She really moved houses (and her two children, by the way) so she could continue to have her boyfriend live with her. Well, the old neighbors have seen where she lives and who is still living with her, and keep calling and telling on her. Apparently she doesn't care about her future in the Marine Corps, because this is something she could get busted down in rank for. Another thing about her is she is badly in debt. When she met her boyfriend, he had no debt. Now he has tons. He buys her and her kids groceries, pays her cell phone bill, he just bought her a brand new bedroom set from Havertys (!), a two thousand dollar vaccume, a new computer, and the list goes on and on and on. She controls all his money, she even keeps his debit card and only gives it to him when he needs to get gas! A part of me hopes that it all ends badly for her, so she gets what she deserves for what she did to me (believe me when I say what she did to me was a very terrible thing). The other part feels bad for saying that. But, I just sit back and watch, smile to myself and take satisfaction in knowing that when you do bad things, they tend to come back to you in one way or another. And I do think it will come back to her. I may not be around to see it, but I'm sure it will.
I keep thinking I would like to set up my own business, maybe run it out of my home, for something to do on the side to earn extra money. I would really like to start selling jewelry, like the sterling silver pendants with the stones in them, and things like that. I guess I'm just scared that not enough people will want them, and I will wind up spending more money than I make. But I ordered a few pendants, I think I'll start off slowly, and see where it takes me. Maybe set up a small website or something. Who knows.
~Opinionated Woman~ October 26 An arguement My love and I got into an arguement last night. He has a very stressful job where he is only home for a few hours each night before he has to go to bed and get up at 3 AM and do the whole thing over again, and every third night he has to stay at work overnight. So needless to say we don't see eachother much. Well, like I said before, he is not a very affectionate person, it's just not in his nature. Me on the other hand, I am a "cuddle bug" as he likes to call me. I had a very bad day at work yesterday, and when he came home, I wanted to cuddle, but he didn't. He said needed to go to Walmart to get some things for work, and then go back to work to drop the items off. So I asked if I could go with him. At first he told me no, because he was taking the bike and would have to drop me off at the house before he went back to work. But of course I pouted, and so he told me I could go. When we got to Walmart, he was running around trying to get everything, and I kept trying to ask him what he needed so I could help, but he got mad that I was asking questions, and told me this is why he didn't want me to go with him. (Did I mention he can be mean sometimes?) So he dropped me off back at the house, and went back to work. Well when he got home, he just sat on the other side of the couch and wasn't saying anything to me. So of course I start to pick a fight (that's just me) and ask him why it is that I've asked him for a hug about ten times since he had been home and he wouldn't do it. He tells me that after being at work for 36 hours straight he just wants to relax, and that he is not like me, all cuddly and stuff. And I tell him that after being alone for 36 hours, I just wanted to cuddle because I missed him. I guess I just have a hard time understanding that we are two different people. I know there is no right or wrong side to this arguement, it just makes me a little sad.
In other news, I just bought Buckcherry's new CD. Now, I really liked their first album. It was funky and had that hippy love sound to it. This one seems a little more sincere, more focused on relationships. The lead singer has the most beautiful rock voice to me. It has a really good sound to it. The makes me happy, because the last few CDs I bought were terrible, I wound up only enjoying the songs that were already out on the radio. I'm also really excited for Leona Naess new album to come out, although I don't think there is a date on the release yet. Incase that name doesn't ring a bell, a big hit she had was her song "Charm Attack". I like her music because it's so emotional.
It just recently dawned on me how behind on school work I am. I take online college classes, and with everything that's been going on lately I stopped doing my work. Now I'm about seven weeks behind, and am working so hard to catch up. I'm one of those people that when something is bothering me I quit doing everything that I'm supposed to be doing until I work my problem out. I hate that I'm like that. I really need to stop taking online classes and go back to night classes. At least I was getting my work done then.
October 25 Jumping into the drama! Hello to anyone that reads this! As my first entry, there is so much history that I need to explain for any of this to make sence. On a day when I feel like getting into it I will, but for now, I will do a summary so you can get a general idea of what is going on.
I work for the Marine Corps as a civilian. I work directly with administrative Marines. Most are junior in rank, but a few of course are senior. This is the most dramatic and gossipy place I have ever worked in my life. Please refer to my list of people to get a description of who I am talking about if something doesn't make sence.In a nutshell, I was until recently very close friends with Hypocrite. About a week ago I had to make a choice in my personal life that was very hard for me. It was a very personal (and legal) decision. I turned to Hypocrite as a friend for support, but she decided that she did not agree with my decision, and even though my decision had no effect on her whatsoever, she told me she did not want to be my friend anymore. This shocked and hurt me. I tried to talk to her about it, but she had no interest in listening to me, she was just extremely rude and mean. And then she began to tell people about my very personal decision. So needless to say, I am very upset and hurt over this situation. I tried to talk to her again this morning, but she was still rude and mean to me. So I am trying my best to wash my hands of her. I know now that she was not a true friend to being with, and I don't need people like that in my life. But I do still work in the same office as her. She is a junior leader to the junior Marines, and the example that she sets for them is always hypocritical, hence where I got her name.
My job here, among many other things, requires me to make a scheduel utilizing the Marines for three days out of the week to help complete the same task every week. It's a crapy task, and everyone, to include myself, hates doing it. Usually we have to stay late to finish the job, and sometimes the office will be able to go home early, but whoever is on the scheduel will have to stay to finish the task. Each Marine only has to do this one day a week, while I have to stay every day. But of course, it's always an huge issue if someone has to stay late one night a week. So yesterday I was making the scheduel, and I realized Home Girl had done Friday of last week, so I rotated her to Wednesday of this week. I then realized that Whiner had done Thursday of last week, so I roated him to Friday of this week. He is a cronic complainer, so I knew he wouldn't be happy about this. Sketchy is my clerk, and he was helping make the scheduel. So I said to Sketchy, "Whiner isn't going to be happy about being on Friday, the office will probably get to go home early and he'll be pissed." Well, this was right before lunch. Sketchy and Whiner happen to be friends, so they went to lunch together right after I said that. When they came back from lunch, Whiner went and told his boss that Sketchy had told him I said, " I'm going to put Whiner on Friday so I can hear him complain and so he won't be able to go home early." So the next thing I know I'm getting questioned about some crap I didn't even say. So this is why I think Sketchy is starting to like starting drama, which makes me sad because I used to really trust him, and now I don't think I can. And now Whiner is really mad over what he thinks was said, and is starting rumors and talking bad about me to people in the office, espically Hypocrite. I talked to Sketchy about all of this last night, and he said he never said anything like that. So I don't know who to trust, but I am being very cafeful about what I say to Sketchy now.
I also talked to My Love about all of this last night. It's not the first time that he has heard it, and I think he's getting tired of hearing me complain about the situation. He keeps telling me to just let it go, they are not worth it, and they will get what they deserve in the end. I am trying to adapt this mentality but I am a worrier so it is harder to do than I expected.
This pretty much sumarizes what is going on at this moment in time. I'm will try to update this every day, this is a nice stress release for me. |
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