MEPS

As alot of you should know, i am planning on joining the navy, well i am one step closer. My recruiter had stopped by my house Wed. the 19 to have my wife sign some forms and she needed me to finish with the rest of the paper work. To my surprise, and this is 1130 am, she asks if i have my bags packed or if we will come back for them??????? Excuse me????????? You see, you have to stay in a hotel for the night so the next morning they can take you as a big group over to MEPS, Military Entrance Process Station, or something like that. Well anyway i was caught off guard didnt know i would be going so soon. So i throw some clothes in my bag and grab my laptop thinking i can write about what is going on in my blog. So i say good bye to my wife and son. Its only 1 day. No biggie. We finish the paper work, and she gets me and another enlistee to the hotel at like 630-700. Well i get to the hotel and i find out all the rules, you have to be in your room by 10 pm. You are not allowed outside your room after 10. No females on second floor, which is the guys floor, and your wake up call is at 5, breakfast at 530, bus at 6. ok, i try and go to sleep at 10, nope. I was up practically all night, i wasnt use to sleeping by my self, no kid kicking you. No wife wanting to cuddle. So i maybe got like 1 hour a sleep the whole night. I dont want to go into extreme detail about meps, but it was alot of waiting. It is really just a prescreening to verify your health. Had a FULL physical. Oh but i failed my depth perception, i am like what. i have 20/20 vision. I almost failed my pulse. He took my BP and my pulse was well over 100, 4 trys and 8 minutes latr my pulse went down to an acceptable 100 something, like 102 i think. But i left there like 430 thurs. and got back to my wife at 5. I will be going back again, fun fun, to talk to a classifier but i will still have to get a partial physical, everytime you go there you are getting checked. turn and cough. Well my brain is fried. Have a nice week all.

Little Music Man

I am very picky when it comes to music, which everyone is. I listen mainly to rock and hip-hop. Well last year while my wife was pregnant i had went to the local music store to pick up the new yellowcard CD that came out. I found my self holding a classical type Cd some how. I mean of course it had four beautiful women on the cover, naturally i stuck it under the scanner to give it a listen. Not bad i thought, it wasn't straight up classical though. It had a bit of rock to it. That CD was Explosive, a group named Bond. It is a Cd on one side, DVD on the other with 3 vids. As naturally, with any new CD, i put it in my CD player in the car and it stayed there for a solid week, and then on and off that following month. I have a bad habit of listening to one CD for a long time. So when me and my wife would go to the doctor or where ever, that CD was playing. Well right now our son is about to turn one on Oct. 4. Every morning is a routine. He wakes up around 7, I set him on the floor, i turn on the TV/DVD player and play all three videos of them playing. He will sit there and watch it, and i mean watch. Once it is done playing he pulls himself on our bed and will start to play with me till i get out of bed. Even then i take him into the living room, turn on the TV to vh1, MTV, and he will stand there and dance/watch the videos, and of course he is picky as well, he has his favorites that he will watch and others he walks away on. But Bond is apparently his favorite. You can visit there page at http://bondmusic.net/. They have there videos and pictures on there.

diploma

Yes i am finally done. I have been done for about a month. Just been waiting for it in the mail, i finally got it friday and was shocked at how nice it is and the quality of it and the jacket for it. Well that was money well spent. Lesson?!: Dont drop out of school in your junior year, it cost way to much to do it again! But for anyone else who needs to get there credited diploma and not a ged. go to firstcoastacademy.com. You can do it all at home on the computer or through mail and it is very surprising how much they can help you.

baby boy walking

Well our little boy is starting to walk. He started about a month ago, he started standing on his own but then quickly started to take steps. He had first walked for me, it was early morning for me, say around 1pm, no just joking, 7 am and as usual we would go in the living room and watch music videos, he loves to dance. But i was barely awake, out of the corner of my eye i saw him stand up beside the couch and take 2 steps away, he then paused and looked at me, i was in shock. I had laughed and he sat down. Of course my wife didnt believe me when she woke up, but later that day she saw for herself.



We have been working with him and found it easier when there are fewer people around. He will really only walk if no one or 2 people max (mainly mom and dad) are around. This is a short little video we have of him most recently. He was walking all the way down the hall but i accidently scared him. It is difficult to get him walking on film, he loves the camera and most always sits down and smiles.