He was Framed!

On saturday Colin and I took a framing class at the post Arts and Crafts Center. It was quite enjoyable, the guy we were taking the class from was pretty layed back and of course being the girl that I am I was being difficult with our picture. I think it took me 30 minutes just to pick out the matting and frame choice. AND go figure I pick one of the most expensive frame choice.(Our new friend Tasha says its because I have good taste.) We learned how to cut the matting and place the picture on a foam board so it doesn't move after framing is completed. And how to get everything to stick together. We cut the wood framing ourselves to the right size that we needed and stapled it together. All on our own. Then Colin cut the glass to fit the frame and we put it all together. After getting it all in the frame and making sure there were no dirt particules on the inside of the glass we closed it up and put paper on the back to make it look nice. And the final thing we did was add the wire to hang it. All in all it was a good class. I already have more ideas of things I want to frame. Its so much cheaper when you can do it yourself.

This says it all!

LOVE IT!

JRTC

So I finaly went on my first rotation at Fort Polk. I played a Iraqi named Zolton Amare Waheed. I was up against The second Infantry Divison. Out of Fort Irwin CA. And let me tell you, there is a reason that they come train before they deploy. It was alot of fun. We use MILES gear (Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System) which is a really long way of saying Lazer Tag. My job is to "Kill" as many infedels as I can.

This is a short clip of what I do.

As you can see I get to suprise the americans alot and pop out of nowhere and start shooting. It really is alot of fun. I spent alot of tine in the back of a pickup truck running away from Strykers (Armored Personal Carrier) who were trying to capture the Iraqis who are fireing at us. But the best way to explain is to show you here is a video of some of the things my unit does.

This is a video of all the things my unit has done under my old comander. I hope it gives you a better idea of what I do. Here is a few pics of me to show you what I look like.

Is a penny saved really a penny earned?

To answer the question... Yes... yes it is. Yesterday Colin finally got me to break my piggy bank of just quarters. I have had this little collection of quarters for about 7 years, maybe more. After counting all the coins we came to find that we had a total of 260 dollars in quarters. I didn't even imagine that was the amount of money in that small bank. All in all after we turned in all of my other coinage I was hording, we came to a grand total of 355 dollars. Colin firmly belives that saving money in that way should be used for "blowing" money. "blowing money" is that which should be spent on whatever junk you might want at the time... no so much NEED but something you WANT. Im the kind of person who would put it in savings but this time I let colin have his way. We bought a new printer, some movies and a microwave popcorn popper. And still have some left over that im not sure what im going to do with yet but we will see.