Thoughts of a Sprite

Friday, November 11, 2005

'Tis Veteran's Day

First of all, a thank you, from the very bottom of my heart, to all of our soldiers, past and present. It is you that we owe our freedom, You are in my heart, today, and always.

Link: Thank you

I think that every country should take time to thank their soldiers. For it is upon their shoulders that our great countries were built. It was their blood, sweat, and tears....

My Grandfather (my stepmom's dad,) that just passed away, was a prisoner of war for 3 years in Vietnam. My Papa (Mom's dad) fought in the Korean war, is a retired Detroit Police Officer, and a retired Florida Corrections Officer. My Father's dad, my father and my mother were all in the Navy. My Great Grandfather was in the Navy and was a Detroit Police Officer. And that brings the line to me, I work in Law Enforcement, have for almost 5 years. I wish to carry on the legacy to be an officer of the law, but I fear that my knee injury is going to prohibit this. I struggle with this.

I am feeling somewhat better today. Not great, but not nearly as bad as I was. I can breath, and contrary to popular belief, breathing is NOT overrated.

A moved back to Orlando today. He came over last night, and I saw him off today. It was so quick. My thoughts hardly had time to catch up with reality. It should not be too bad, as he is coming back to see me Saturday night. I am kinda new at the whole label thing, with dates and what not, I did not realize that you were supposed to celebrate month anniversary's (does a month even count as an anniversary - ann - annual....) anyhow, Our 1 month is Saturday, we are celebrating, so I am excited... It feels kinda high school, but eh, you only live once.

After this weekend will be the real test. It will be a week until I see him again. We should be fine. With the end of the semester nearing, I have oodles of homework to do, tests to study for, papers to write.... Wow, I have a lot of shit to do!

Saturday my seaweed class heads to St. Augustine. I am totally stoked. We are going 3 places. I don't remember the first one, the second is the alligator farm, and finally we will head to the hidden conquinas to collect specimens and shells at low tide. This should be tons of fun! I got some cool diagrams from last week. We drew what we saw under the microscope, identified and labeled them. I even colored mine. (yeah, I told you I am one of those students)

Thought for the day: You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once and move on. ~Homer Simpson

Useless fact of the day: If you can see a rainbow, you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.

Complements of National Geographics.

shes_a_sprite @ 2:20 PM.

1 comments

Unknown said...

Oh that must have been so hard for you grandfather (stepmum's dad) sorry to hear of his passing too. You come from a family of great service people it sounds, and you yourself.
Wow I didnt know that useless fact lol, interesting, I love rainbows and lurve the pic.
Glad you are feeling betta

5:57 PM