Category Archives: Humor

Aloha! “They Call Me Dependent” is coming to Hawaii!

November 5, 2012 By in Author:Marie, Deployment, Everyday Life, Family, Humor, Military, Military Wife, SSBN, Submarine Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

 

The last few months have been full of many, many things.  I’ve committed to my health and for the first time in years, followed through on working out.  7 lbs lost and I am feeling better than I have in a long time.  I will be continuing “Me vs The Jiggles” while on vacation and plan to cross my half way point and be down 10 or more pounds by the time I return.

Many curve balls have been thrown in my personal life, but I’m still standing and laughing.  What else can you do?  Well, you can go on a vacation which just happens to involve visiting your sexy husband in Hawaii.  That’ll make everything better!

A few weeks ago, the husband was talking about a work trip he had in Hawaii.  He looked at me and said, “You should come, even if I have to work, you need a vacation.”  I laughed at this idea.  Me?  Leave the kids?  That’s what HE does, not me.  I’m always home balancing my want to stay at home and my want to work and pursue dreams.  I’m always busy, but I like it that way.  My full life is rewarding, exhausting, and empowering.  I love what I do.  I didn’t think I *needed* a vacation.  Funny, as a Mom you think of needs vs wants.  I never once, in fourteen plus years ever considered *wanting* a vacation.  Continue reading →

Got Questions?

September 7, 2012 By in Army, Author:Marie, Deployment, Everyday Life, Family, Humor, Military, Military Wife, SSBN, Submarine Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

I’ve been getting a lot of duplicate questions by email, so I will start posting them (without the use of names/commands/etc) on my Facebook Page with my responses so others can have the answers too and chime in on advice! Just remember to read my “Disclaimer Page” where I make it very, very clear I am not a doctor and in no way is this site like WebMD.  I will give you my best answer (not the standard military one) or point you in the direction of someone who can answer it. All questions welcome, only select ones will be posted on Facebook. And no, I do not know the Muffin Man.

Thanks,

Marie

This may work, or end badly. . .we shall see.

When did you start dressing like a Mom!?

February 28, 2012 By in Author:Marie, Everyday Life, Humor 2 Comments

“When did you start wearing cardigans and khaki’s?!” That’s what my husband asked when looking at a picture of me in a pair of low rise hip hugger jeans and a very snug little t-shirt with the words “charmer” across the boobs. I wanted to throw my Kate Spade Flats at his head.  ”I still have those jeans and that shirt”, I exclaimed! (I was 18 in this photo) Continue reading →

Column-FFA ( Fast Food Anonymous)

February 7, 2012 By in Author:Marie, Everyday Life, Fitness, Health, Humor, Military Wife 6 Comments

small1428170Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.  That’s what I keep telling myself.  I have really change my eating habits over the last few months.  I’ve read labels, buying fresh fruit and veggies every week and making out weekly menus so that we never have to guess what to make for dinner.  It has been WONDERFUL.  I eat 6 times a day.  I am never hungry, I have plenty of energy and I never have that full bloated feeling of eating too much.  Even the kids and husband have gotten use to eating the whole wheat bread and pasta!  We are all eating better and it shows!  Tonight we had Violin practice, then straight to Basketball practice.  After Basketball we splurged and stopped at McDonalds. Continue reading →

Deployment Gremlins

November 21, 2008 By in Air Force, Army, Author:Marie, Coast Gaurd, Deployment, Humor, Marines, Military, Military Wife, Submarine 4 Comments

***This and the prior post were written during our last deployment.  This is a continuation of “Deployment Successes” which was posted the day prior. : )

 

Deployment Gremlins

 

So, one of my recent articles was about staying positive and focusing on the successes during deployments.  Now I promise you I have been through a number of deployments where Murphy’s Law and the Deployment Gremlins tested me, but what happened in less than a week really got me thinking that I upset the Deployment Gremlins. 

 

My deployment started off like anyone else’s.  I was in denial thinking that my husband isn’t really leaving.  I asked my husband the same question I ask him every deployment, “Do you think anyone would notice if you just didn’t go!?”  He just gives me “the look” and kisses my forehead. I’ve been asking this question for years.  I’d like to think it is a completely logical question. By the look he gives me, apparently not.

 

That night before my husband left, he accidently dropped my Mac Book.  It is broken, really broken.  It had everything on it.  My appointments, calendar, address book, contact list for work and emails.  It was my planner.  On top of all that I had dozens of articles and columns saved on it.  My husband just a few days prior was looking at hard drives and said I needed one.  I told him I would wait and look around when I went into the city after he left.  He told me I needed to keep my computer backed up.  Yeah, Foreshadowing stinks.  I have to say that I was freaking out on the inside, but told myself that it will be fine.  I quickly wrote a new article talking about deployment successes because my original column was in my Mac.  I wrote this incident off as an accident and didn’t think twice about it.

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Uh huh. . .

November 20, 2008 By in Air Force, Army, Author:Marie, Beauty, Carrier, Coast Gaurd, Deployment, Diver, Everyday Life, Family, Fast Attack, Holidays, Homecoming, Humor, Marines, Military, Military Kids, Military Wife, SSBN, SSGN, Submarine 2 Comments

From Wikipedia:

The word “Deployment” isn’t any where in here!?  But it did originate at a MILITARY BASE! I knew it!! : )

Murphy’s law is a popular adage in Western culture that most likely originated at Edwards Air Force Base in 1948. The Law broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. “If there’s more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way.” It is most often cited as “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong” (or, alternately, “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time,” or, “Anything that can go wrong, will”).

My Spouse Column, “Anything But Dependent”

November 17, 2008 By in Air Force, Army, Author:Marie, Carrier, Coast Gaurd, Deployment, Diver, Everyday Life, Family, Fast Attack, Friendship, Homecoming, Humor, Kids, Marines, Military, Military Kids, Military Wife, SSBN, SSGN, Submarine 8 Comments

    Anything But Dependent is the title I chose for my weekly spouse column. I came up with this title because of the stereotype we are given. Our civilian counterparts have labeled us as dependent, needy, and whiney.  I am normally pretty reserved when someone has views different from my own.  I respect them, keep an open mind, and try to gain perspective from listening to others.  But this is something that I can’t keep quiet about.  I even caught myself snapping at a very rude woman in line behind me at the store once.  She was talking about living in “this town” and how she was tired of “these lazy military wives” to a friend on the phone.

     She was referring to an exhausted looking woman in pajama pants who was in front of us holding her credit card and a Military ID.  While I waited for her to end her conversation, thoughts flew through my mind.  Who was the woman in the pajama pants? I wonder what would bring her to the store at 7:45AM.  Was she sick with no one to help her?  Was she getting something for her child that couldn’t wait until later?

     I then started thinking of all the times that I have gone to the store in sweat pants and my hair tied in a knotty mess just to get the much needed medicine for my children or myself.  So many thoughts were rushing through my brain that it made my face heat up.  The women hung up her phone and I turned to her and said, “I couldn’t help but over hear your comment about military wives, I just wanted to let you know that you are putting a very negative stereotype on a large and amazing group of women.”  She replied, “There’s nothing amazing about women that sit around waiting on their husbands and having babies!”  Continue reading →

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