365 of the best days of my life!
To the most important person in my life: I love you, I’m so glad we get to celebrate year #1 together, and I’m looking forward to year #2, 3, 25, 50, and however many more God wants to give us!
Married life is still great, one year later. We may still be in that “honeymoon” phase, I don’t know…but it’s wonderful. He even likes me in the morning, and believe me folks, that’s not pretty. So far, in our first year together, we have moved (over 700 miles), been apart for over 2 months, started 2 new jobs, bought a car, sold a car, made it through 2 1/2 training sessions for the AF, and even set up a budget and did our taxes together!
Happy anniversary, Tobin! (he’s pretty great)
*We will try to keep everyone posted on where we’re at with Tobin’s training on the About Us page.*
I forgot we had PICTURES!
That’s right, we had proof of the Bolton/Thompson visit! Here’s Tobin’s parents…
And Grandma Dixie celebrated her birthday with us while she was down here! (Zach, she was born on the same day as you!). We got her a Marble Slab ice cream cake. Mm mm!
And the last and the least…at work, the guys putting in our sprinkler system ran over a pipe with their little vehicle. The result was a lovely geyser. They walked around for a long time shaking their heads and raising their hands in confusion. Finally, my boss found out and had the maintenance guys turn off the water supply. Bye bye geyser. So the guys walk over to their vehicle and start examining it…and the water turned on again! Oh, the hilarity…anyway, it kept turning on and off, not sure if that was a maintenance prank or not. Haha! Anyway, by the time I got my camera, there were no guys or vehicle, just the pretty fountain in our front yard!
Please keep Tobin in your prayers, he has a lot of studying to do every night, and two more tests (his LAST YAAAY) next week. My poor husband. So just be thinking of him, thanks!
Gasp!
I can’t believe I forgot to tell everybody…on Monday, I think it was, we SOLD the Prizm! Yaaaaaaay! We are so excited; this will really help us out. Plus, we sold it to somebody we didn’t know, so no more complaints about my poor little car and it’s issues! Very good news, huh?
Happy birthday, Mom (Rumley)!
It’s my wonderful mother’s birthday; all of my siblings will be visiting her this upcoming weekend to celebrate. We’ll be thinking of you, Mom, even though we can’t be there! Enjoy your special day!
Wow, what a busy few weeks! Tobin is in his third week of API…he had a test and a mile swim this week so far, and another test on Friday. He’s doing so well! I’m amazed at how long he can stay up at night studying, and still get up at the crack of dawn to head to the base.
We got a visit from Tobin’s parents and his maternal grandmother this past weekend. Very fun! We even got anniversary presents. We now have our own set of grilling utensils and some sticks to roast marshmallows/hot dogs on. 
That will come in handy with our new portable fire pit. I can’t believe it’s already been a year (almost!) since we were married. Time really has flown by, and we’ve been too busy to notice. We are still planning on celebrating our anniversary by going to Disney World, but it will have to be later, once the puppy is older and we can get the time off. So, we might just have dinner together on our actual anniversary. Not sure yet!
We are still playing volleyball on Thursdays, and having a great time! I think we are going to start playing on Saturdays too, since we really need the practice (and it’s just plain fun).
This weekend, I am hosting a brunch for military wives; fiesta-themed! Time to clean the house. Good thing it was slightly clean already from our preparation for last weekend’s visitors.
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Effects of a bad economy
I really wonder how it will touch us all. Or where it will stop. You never know when the next Great Depression will hit, even though it seems ridiculous to think about. Had another guy disappear from Pall today. That makes about 3 in the last couple of weeks, and the layoffs haven’t arrived yet. This guy was in IT (we had exactly 2 IT people), and it was completely out of the blue. He does a lot here, so I don’t know how they are planning on replacing him, since they can’t hire anyone. Makes you not feel safe no matter where you are in the company (especially those of us with less than a year of service!).
The good news is, Tobin is doing INCREDIBLE in API. He just had a test today and passed with flying colors. Such a smarty!
At work, same ole same ole. My roofers were applying a coating and the people in R&D complained about the smell. Had to shut down the air handlers, call the roofer for the MSDS’s, and have our safety guy go take air readings on the roof. Hmph, babies. Can’t handle a little nail polish smell.
Volleyball tonight! Time to go take a nap.
What a day!
Good news: Tobin passed his first test in API! I am so proud of him. He has been doing well with the swimming as well. He’s been swimming in flight suit and boots for a while, learning to float and how to do different strokes. He has a test on weather on Thursday too. He has been working so hard! He’s the best.
Bad news: The plant manager announced this morning that we are having to cut the weekend shift at my plant. So there will be layoffs, we just don’t know who yet. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks. The last weekend shift will be at the end of the month, so it’s not too far off. Yay for the wonderful economy.
Volleyball is something we look forward to each week. So far, we have played 6 matches and have won them all! Hope I didn’t jinx us just then…anyway, last week we played the church staff (the Staff Infections), and pastor was playing against us…haha, it was a good time!
Going to go rest up for a bit, it’s been a long day. We appreciate your prayers for Tobin as he begins his second week of API.
Ah yes, the presentation. Thanks for asking! Ha… The good news is, I was at the very beginning of my presentation when the fire alarm went off. And we aren’t going to reschedule it. So, looking back, the presentation went very well. The bad news is, the reason the fire alarm went off was that my roofers (for the roof project I am in charge of) were torching by an air vent that they weren’t supposed to be by. It’s never a good thing when you’re the first one called back into the building after a fire alarm! But, the good news is that everyone was very understanding about it. They have all done it themselves before, and my boss’s comment was that if I’m not making mistakes, I’m not doing anything. So that was good. But I did have to go yell at my contractors and make sure they understood that I had to know EXACTLY where they were going to be and what equipment they would be by. Then I had to shut down certain smoke detectors temporarily. And that’s my story about my presentation!
Tobin is doing very well; he finished his first week of API. On Monday is his first test, and he has another on Thursday. He has been doing a lot of swimming. The instructors had the guys swimming for seventeen minutes straight, just for a warm up! And they have been jumping off the high platform and learning to tread water in flight suits and boots…he kind of likes it; I think it sounds like torture! But he’s learning a lot. He’ll have to swim a mile and perform each kind of stroke that he learned as well for a length of the pool.
That’s it for now. I’ll let you know how API progresses…one week down, five to go!
Correction…
So I may have jumped the gun. There’s some waffling going on about the name…so it may change! But 90% sure that it’s Titus.
Tobin is doing a lot of swimming at API; yesterday they were taught different strokes, and today they are going to play water polo…in flight suits! They will learn to tread water in flight suits and boots, swim a mile, and escape from an overturned helicopter. !! Plus, they are going through 6 flight books for ground school. His first test is on Monday. I know he’ll do great, though; he has been doing a lot of studying.
We are starting a study at church on Wednesday nights, and I’m kind of excited about it. It’s called Defending Your Faith, which is something I could really use in my work environment.
And lastly, I have a presentation today at work that is kind of important. I was stressing about it yesterday, but on the drive home the perfect song played on the radio and helped me relax. It’s that country song about how it’s alright to be little-bitty. “Might as well share, might as well smile, life goes on for a little-bitty while…” It helped put some things in perspective. The job’s not the most important thing in the world. And it’s alright to fail; I’ve been trying to get used to being the young engineer at work and feeling like I don’t know anything. But I’m learning that it’s ok to not know everything at first, to try and to learn from my mistakes. Not an easy thing to do! I’d rather be perfect the first time around. But really, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t seem to matter so much.
First picture
One of those cute little guys is Titus, our new puppy!
We get to pick him out in a few weeks.