Congrats.

Congrats to another applicant to get an invitation to the 121st FSS Orientation. Time to move his blog from the prospective to active FS blogs! Happy Day!

Follow up on finger

Okay so showing everyone my right middle finger never gets old.  I have my stitches out now, which was a painful process.  I had a total of five stitches.  Three of them came out pretty easily.  One didn't have long enough tails to pull and get under the loop so there was a bit of painful digging there to get that one out.  The hardest by far though was the stitch in the middle.  The knot was covered up and needed lots of tugging to get it up.  When he went to cut the loop, the only got the knot, it opened up but then sank back into my finger.  Well not to get to graphic, it took some team work to get that stitch out.  I had the scaple trying to lift up an end while the Doc tried to grab it while looking through the ... well the thing they check your nose and ears.  And now, it seems like one of the stitch holes has a bit on infection so I'm waiting on a call back from the nurse to see if they want me to come in.

Addiction Observation

What my husband says is correct (don’t tell him I said that), him and now our daughter are anger bird addicts. I come home the other night and there they are one in the chair and one on the coach. Their heads down, IPOD and DROID in hand. So I ask, what your guys doing, response, watching TV. My question is do they even know what’s playing on tv? But the kind of scary thing is that they do know what’s on and what is happening. Like father, like daughter we must be multi tasking. If our brain sits idle to long then we get restless. Luckily for me I don’t have that problem. I sometimes I get much enjoyment from seeing my husband’s logic come back to him from his daughter. They are so much alike that she thinks the way he does. So now I have come to pretty much accept that wherever we go if we have to spend any time waiting, in restaurant to be seated or even waiting for food to arrive that the birds will come out. Now I am telling my husband that he has to take me out on a nice date before he leaves for class; since we will not be joining him right away. If he knows what’s good for him he will leave the birds at home with the daughter. I will let you know how it turns out.

Addiction...

Okay I'm sure most will agree that addiction is a bad thing.  I'm going to start here and now admitting my addiction.  It all started with a reasonable use and quite frankly "everyone was/is doing it".  Soon after though I found my daughter mimicking my actions.  This in itself should have been a HUGE RED FLAG.  But who's it really hurting right?  Besides I can stop anytime.  Of course don't ask my wife that, she would probably disagree.  And now, yesterday I was able to get more action for free!  Free now it's even cheaper.  This has definately impacted me, it has given me more options than just the slaughter of egg stealing pigs.  Now I must liberate birds that have been caged in Rio.  If you haven't figured out my addiction, it is to the Angry Birds app.  So simple a game, yet so addicting.

What games have you addicted?

New Title

As with most things this blog is evolving.  Now we've got a new title.  I feel "Milestones" is more appropriate to how I see this blog developing.  It's still a little rough around the edges, but I'll keep refining it and refining it till it gets to the "Goldilocks" point.

From the wifes view

My husband says that I should post something on the blog about how our journey with the State Department is beginning. Only I tell him that there isn’t much say since we really don’t know anything except when he is leaving. I have to admit though he has made me a little batty with the process and waiting to see if he’s on the list and where. But you know I spent all of my adult life (with the exception of about 1 year) from the time I was 15 years old as a military dependant. I have to tell you when Mike got out of the Army going on 9 years ago, I hated it. I decided that civilian life was not for me. But I will say that I have learned to adjust and try to make the best of it. We have made some very good friends and I have had the opportunity be around my family for a while; which is overrated, teasing. So when Mike went and did the interview and we all did the medical clearance and getting rated and where you are on the list really brings back my memories of the military life style “hurry up and wait”. I have to say that I enjoyed the life style the moving around meeting new people, which turn out to be friends for life, and see different places. I have also forgotten about the living with the unknown, when you leaving, where you going, when you coming back? All those questions that get asked and all you can say is: I don’t know. So I am very much looking forward to this new chapter of our life. I hope to go many places and see many things.

Stitches still in

Well I went to get my stitches out this morning at the VA hospital.  For those of you that don't know I had about a half an inch taken off of my right middle finger.  Car door a long time ago didn't heal right... so anyway I had the end cleaned up a bit.  Well guess it needs a little more healing.  The fact that I keep bumping it doesn't help either. 

It really is amazing how much you use the tips of your fingers and how often you impact them on one thing or another.  My mischievous nature and need to fiddle with things doesn't help either.  On a good not it doesn't hurt no where near as much as it initially did.  Itches mostly and I hear that's a good sign regardless of how miserable it makes me.

Wandering Mind

Well it has been a couple of day since my last post.  My finger is doing better and I get my stitches out on Thrusday.  Finger tip is a little sensitive in a couple of spots and I'm not really looking forward to getting them out.  Well at least not the process of taking them out.  I think I have all my paper work filled out that I need to send to HR and I'll get that shipped out tomorrow.  I gave my notice this past Friday at work and it wasn't that bad, though I only told my supervisors and a few select others, I wonder how long it will take to circulate through the rumor mill?

I've seen this video a couple of times now, originally shared with me by someone going into the same class as me.  The satire is great and honestly, could fit into just about any job/employer.


Well thats enough wandering for now, enjoy.

Lots To Do

Well I know its been a bit since my last post, time really gets away when you get busy.  Lets see we are getting the house ready to go on to the market.  Selling our house is our biggest worry right now.  Not really a good time to try to sell.  Anyway, I tiled the bathroom.  First time event for me.  All in all I think it turned out pretty good.  Lets see, umm this next update requires a little history ... when I was in the army I lost part of my right middle finger to a car door.  I lost about a half an inch, pretty much down to where the fingernail starts.  But, I don't think the doctor got all the nail bed out because it kept getting infected and cleared up over and over again... after about 15 years, my wife got tired of me complaining about it and made me go to the doctor and get it checked out.  Well I procrastinated to long and an infection developed in the bone... So now I'm down to the first knuckle (from the end, still have the majority of my finger).  The good doctor at the VA did a fine job and I'm sure it will quit hurting when the pain goes away.

Okay well that leave the kitchen tile, yeah we hired a contractor to take care of that.  All the tire has been laid today and it looks really good.  Tomorrow he'll get it grouted and put all the appliances back.  We have lots of little things to do to finish getting the house ready.  Tomorrow I'll be giving my notice at work, it should not be much of a big deal since I'm already in the government it will be more of a transfer than quitting one job and starting a new one.

Lets see, lots of paper work to fill out, nothing new there.  It's pretty exciting and stressful.  I love moving, but hate the process of moving.  But we are going to take this opportunity to scale back on our worldly possessions and donate the rest to charity.  You know "I's" are really hard to type... gonna have to get used to that again.  Stitches come out on St. Patrick's Day, so stitches out then Green Beer!

Okay,  this is starting to feel like random thoughts streaming out so I'm gonna wrap this up for tonight.