New Beginnings!!!
I started a new blog on Yahoo 360. This was my first entry. For all my friends who want to keep track, I will probably start posting on there more and just cut and paste entries into this. But has all kinds of cool stuff where you can invite friends, post pic albums, send blasts and when you update or your friends update it sends you a message to your yahoo messenger. I happened upon it by chance and just thought I would check it out even though I have this and turns out it really is pretty cool and you get all the spifs, bells and whistles for free. So who knows. Anyway, below was my first entry in it. *And a little update on the entry below (you'll understand once you read it). I talked to Kell for two hours tonight and will be flying to San Diego in a couple of months. Her husband and her insist on buying me a ticket. So, I may get a much needed respite in San Diego soon and get to see my little baby niece. I hear Madison can't wait to see Auntie Shan. YAY FOR ME!!! I can't wait. Missed her soooooooooooo much!!!!!!
This is the start of a new beginning. I have been home a little over two months from completing my BA in Political Science. Now I am officially a bonofide govt employee. YeeHaw!!! Seems like just yesterday I was the roughneck kid getting picked up off her front door step by the recruiter. Life has flown by and now I picture them in snapshots. Hellraiser in high school. Navy duty stations and deployments. College. Now work. Today I had a blast from the past and it hit me at just the right time when I was getting so frazzled from the workload I was about to run to the smoking area and light em up like a gremlin with about 6 cancer sticks dangling from my lips. Yep, it was getting to that point. Anyway, recently I reconnected with a girl who as she puts it, "we were like peas and carrots". She was like my big sis. I have had two females who were instrumental in raising me in the military and credit a lot of my military education to. AKC(SW/AW) Carrie Griffin and then MA2 Kelly Hallmark, now MAC(SW/AW)Kelly Wright. I have been waiting to talk to her and we've both been so busy, especially her now that she has little Madison to take care of (as my friend Mel would say *squeal*). She called me today and in classic Kell fashion said in that baby voice that just makes you want to giggle and cut up, "Hi honey!" I was having such a bad day, not necessarily bad, just buried in work that I am just learning how to do (and successfully at that). And then she called. She told me over email she might, but it slipped my mind so bad that when I answered the phone I was just taken aback. I am so excited. So excited to have that reconnection. So excited to know she is doing so much better than last time I talked to her which was about four years ago. And so excited to know she has little Madison now because I remember how badly she wanted babies and how long she waited for them. I AM JUST PLAIN EXCITED!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, we get to talk more tonight. I'm gonna call her and we'll catch up more. When she called I was knee deep in about 15 Chapters and had 10 more dropped on my desk while we were on the phone. Ugh!
Anyway, aside from all that today was a good day. Again I felt very productive. When you are so busy you either don't have time to get up and take a break to smoke, or you don't want to because you are on such a role you just aren't feeling it, it's a good thing. Next Wednesday I am moving over to the other office and from then on I am going to make a committed effort to stop. Would be a good idea considering I am a chair for Relay for Life with ACS this year and an ambassador and will have to go to the capital to lobby for tobacco excise taxes. Next September is Celebration on the Hill in DC and I will be sent by our ACS here. So as long as I am going to burn my vacation on "working" as a volunteer for ACS, I may as well make a committed effort because in a few years I may be in Mom's shoes. NOTE TO SELF: Quit Smoking!!!
Well, that's about it for today. I am going to try to be faithful to this blog unlike my livejournal. I guess more so because other people who don't necessarily do the lj thing can check this out and keep up with me. It's just another phase of my life and I might as well start documenting it here.
To my friends who read this, I love you and miss you tremendously. My babies in MS, hopefully I will see you in September when I have to move Dad back up for his retirement.
all my love,
shan
ps: if you want an invite to my blog or how to find me there, email me at shannon_rickey@yahoo.com and i will send you an invite. need your email though. not sure how to connect to it directly yet...
This is the start of a new beginning. I have been home a little over two months from completing my BA in Political Science. Now I am officially a bonofide govt employee. YeeHaw!!! Seems like just yesterday I was the roughneck kid getting picked up off her front door step by the recruiter. Life has flown by and now I picture them in snapshots. Hellraiser in high school. Navy duty stations and deployments. College. Now work. Today I had a blast from the past and it hit me at just the right time when I was getting so frazzled from the workload I was about to run to the smoking area and light em up like a gremlin with about 6 cancer sticks dangling from my lips. Yep, it was getting to that point. Anyway, recently I reconnected with a girl who as she puts it, "we were like peas and carrots". She was like my big sis. I have had two females who were instrumental in raising me in the military and credit a lot of my military education to. AKC(SW/AW) Carrie Griffin and then MA2 Kelly Hallmark, now MAC(SW/AW)Kelly Wright. I have been waiting to talk to her and we've both been so busy, especially her now that she has little Madison to take care of (as my friend Mel would say *squeal*). She called me today and in classic Kell fashion said in that baby voice that just makes you want to giggle and cut up, "Hi honey!" I was having such a bad day, not necessarily bad, just buried in work that I am just learning how to do (and successfully at that). And then she called. She told me over email she might, but it slipped my mind so bad that when I answered the phone I was just taken aback. I am so excited. So excited to have that reconnection. So excited to know she is doing so much better than last time I talked to her which was about four years ago. And so excited to know she has little Madison now because I remember how badly she wanted babies and how long she waited for them. I AM JUST PLAIN EXCITED!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, we get to talk more tonight. I'm gonna call her and we'll catch up more. When she called I was knee deep in about 15 Chapters and had 10 more dropped on my desk while we were on the phone. Ugh!
Anyway, aside from all that today was a good day. Again I felt very productive. When you are so busy you either don't have time to get up and take a break to smoke, or you don't want to because you are on such a role you just aren't feeling it, it's a good thing. Next Wednesday I am moving over to the other office and from then on I am going to make a committed effort to stop. Would be a good idea considering I am a chair for Relay for Life with ACS this year and an ambassador and will have to go to the capital to lobby for tobacco excise taxes. Next September is Celebration on the Hill in DC and I will be sent by our ACS here. So as long as I am going to burn my vacation on "working" as a volunteer for ACS, I may as well make a committed effort because in a few years I may be in Mom's shoes. NOTE TO SELF: Quit Smoking!!!
Well, that's about it for today. I am going to try to be faithful to this blog unlike my livejournal. I guess more so because other people who don't necessarily do the lj thing can check this out and keep up with me. It's just another phase of my life and I might as well start documenting it here.
To my friends who read this, I love you and miss you tremendously. My babies in MS, hopefully I will see you in September when I have to move Dad back up for his retirement.
all my love,
shan
ps: if you want an invite to my blog or how to find me there, email me at shannon_rickey@yahoo.com and i will send you an invite. need your email though. not sure how to connect to it directly yet...