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MilSpouse (first) Friday Fill-In #68
Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
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I love learning more about my fellow MilSpouse bloggers. So I created a weekly meme, which has now morphed into a monthly meme. This will happen on the first Friday of every month. To do this, I’ll post a list of questions the day before (on Thursday so you can have your blog ready on Friday). Come back here on Friday (like today!) and enter your blog post into Mr. Linky below so others know who else participated and we can all visit other blogs. Please leave a comment too! And please feel free to use the button above!
1. What is your favorite winter memory?
My favorite winter memory is driving our three-wheeler around with my brother riding on the saucer behind it (attached with a rope, of course). He’d try to stay on and I’d whip around the yard and try to fling him off. Yes, I was driving it when I was seven.
2. What is your current favorite TV show?
Big Bang Theory! I just recently discovered this awesome show and now am trying to catch up on it!
3. What was your favorite thing that happened in January?
My favorite thing was finally getting a breakthrough in my physical therapy literally overnight. I can now move my shoulder INCHES more!
4. What is the best sound in the world to you?
My favorite sound is the purring of kittens as they sleep on me!
5. What is the biggest lesson you have learned as a MilSpouse (or significant other)?
The biggest thing I’ve learned–and am still learning–is to go with the flow more. It still bugs me when things we plan change or re-change or re-re-change last minute… but it doesn’t drive me up the wall anymore!
Please don’t forget to add your blog link to Mr. Linky below by clicking on it. But also if you are not participating in MilSpouse Friday Fill-In this week, please do not put your link on there… I will remove it. It is unfair to others who do participate.
MilSpouse (first) Friday Fill-In #68: Questions for Tomorrow
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~Confucius
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I love learning more about my fellow MilSpouse bloggers! Here’s the skinny for newcomers about MilSpouse Friday Fill-ins (and when I say MilSpouse, I mean significant others, too!):
The first Friday of each month will be MilSpouse (First) Friday Fill-In and I’ll post a list of questions on Thursday (so you can have your blog ready on Friday). Come back here on Friday and enter your blog post into Mr. Linky so others know who else participated and we can all visit other blogs. And please feel free to use the button above!
For those who have been following MFF for a while, you’ll notice that this has changed a bit. I am now just doing this on the first Friday of each month. It just became way too much for me to do every week and I felt like it was taking over my blog… and that is not what this blog is about. However, I LOVE my MFF and I had many, many people say they didn’t want to see it go. So now it is the MilSpouse (First) Friday Fill-In.
- What is your favorite winter memory?
- What is your current favorite TV show?
- What was your favorite thing that happened in January?
- What is the best sound in the world to you?
- What is the biggest lesson you have learned as a MilSpouse (or significant other)?
Computers Are Taking Over!
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
~Aldous Huxley
So today I was out doing errands and at one register, my total ended up being $6.72. I handed the cashier a $20 bill, two pennies and four nickles (I was cleaning out my change purse!). She counted the change and then counted it a second time and then looked at me and said, “the change was 76 cents.” I paused for a second and then said (very nicely), “Yeah, I know… this way I’ll get two quarters back.” She looked at me skeptically and then typed it into her computer and then just handed me my change back. I shudder to think how much I would have confused her if I would have given her $22.22, expecting $15.50 back. *sigh* I learned to count change properly–including counting the change back to someone starting with the price of the purchase and going up to the amount given to me–when I was eight. EIGHT!
I sure hope that our future children aren’t allowed to use calculators in school until they learn how to do the calculations behind the math themselves. My mom didn’t let us type any papers on the computer (we didn’t get one until 6th grade anyway) until we learned how to type properly… as in “asdf jkl;” typing. I plan to do the same thing with our kids.
Oh how much I appreciate the things my parents made us do. Sometimes I thought they were too “old-fashioned” but I am so appreciative of it now.
P.S.
Thanks for the comments on MilSpouse Friday Fill-In. I think I’m just going to do it on the first Friday of the month (thus making it MilSpouse FIRST Friday Fill-In). This will give me some more time to write on my blog. It seems as though every time I have a post to write, it’s either on Thursdays or Fridays when I have to get the MFF posts ready. However, I don’t want to abandon MFF completely, so I think this is a good compromise.
MilSpouse Friday Fill-In?
Hey all…
So the participation in MilSpouse Friday Fill-In has really been dwindling in the last six months. I’m not sure what the reason is, but I’m starting to think it has just run its course.
So what do you think? Should I continue it, or let it go?
MilSpouse Friday Fill-In #67
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan
Hey, you! Check out my party! (bonus: chance to win free stuff! Double bonus: you MAY get to learn my real first name!)
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Okay, so my blog didn’t post the MFF thing yesterday or today, so it’s running a bit late. Sorry about that. Also… due to the holidays, MFF will not return until the New Year! Enjoy the season!
I love learning more about my fellow MilSpouse bloggers. So I created a weekly meme. Each week, I’ll post a list of questions on Thursday (so you can have your blog ready on Friday). Come back here on Friday (like today!) and enter your blog post into Mr. Linky below so others know who else participated and we can all visit other blogs. Please leave a comment too! And please feel free to use the button above!
1. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight. Seriously. Like 30 pounds. I hope I can do this now that my shoulder is being fixed and I should start to be able to work out again.
2. One thing I’d like to happen next year is to get pregnant.
3. One thing I’m looking forward to next year is shore duty. By then, it’ll have been a long three years since Huzzy’s last and since that was recruiting… that doesn’t count.
4. One change I’d like to see next year is I’d like government to get their heads out of their rears and actually get things done on time.
5. My plans for NYE include I’m not sure… it will depend on if Huzzy has duty or not. If he has duty, I’ll ring it in alone. If he doesn’t, we are thinking of going to a comedy club.
Please don’t forget to add your blog link to Mr. Linky below by clicking on it. But also if you are not participating in MilSpouse Friday Fill-In this week, please do not put your link on there… I will remove it. It is unfair to others who do participate.
