Being An Air Force Wife

Guess where I am this week?

To my darling husband,

Before you return from your business trip I just want to let you know about the small accident I had with the pick up truck when I turned into the driveway. Fortunately, it’s not too bad and I really didn’t get hurt, so please don’t worry too much about me.

I was coming home from Wal-Mart, and when I turned into the driveway I accidentally pushed down on the accelerator instead of the brake. The garage door is slightly bent but the pick up fortunately came to a halt when it bumped into your car.

I am really sorry, but I know with your kindhearted personality you will forgive me. You know how much I love you and care for you my sweetheart. I am enclosing a picture for you.

I cannot wait to hold you in my arms again.

Your loving wife

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MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on the popular social networking Web site, more than four times the number cited by the company two months ago, North Carolina officials said Tuesday. North Carolina’s Roy Cooper is one of several attorneys general who recently demanded the News Corp.-owned Web site provide data on how many registered sex offenders were using the site, along with information about where they live. After initially withholding the information, citing federal privacy laws, MySpace began sharing the information in May after the states filed formal legal requests.

At the time, MySpace said it had already used a database it helped create to remove about 7,000 profiles of sex offenders, out of a total of about 180 million profiles on the site.

Two MySpace spokeswomen did not immediately return calls seeking comment Tuesday. Cooper is pushing for legislation that would require children to receive parental permission before creating social networking profiles and require the Web sites to enact procedures for verifying the parents’ identity and age.

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*** As a parent~ this is extremely disturbing information!***

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I found a group of AF Wife slogan T-shirt’s yesterday at CafePress. My 13 favorites:

1.) Sexually Deprived for your freedom

2.) Air Force Wife… You try doing this shit!

3.) Air Force Wife: Do not confuse your rank with my authority!

4.) My husband deployment was extend! Ain’t that a bitch!

5.) AF Wife- toughest duty in the Air Force

6.) I’m cranky! You try dealing with a deployment!

7.) My husband wears combat boots

8.) DANGER: AF Wife deployment zone…

9.) I love a man in BDU’s

10.) There’s nothing sexier than an Airman who knows how to use his gun

11.) Deployed Husband= Bitchy Wife!

12.) I get to mess with government property

13.) Hug a military wife, or buy her liquor

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I think this is so amazing! A soldier who was injured in Iraq received a bionic hand! Read more here.

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This is so amazing:

Iraq war veteran Sgt. Juan Arredondo can grasp tennis balls and door knobs with his left hand again, now that he’s been outfitted with a bionic hand that has flexible fingers.

The 27-year-old former soldier, who lost his left hand in 2005 during a patrol, is one of the first recipients of the i-LIMB.

“To have this movement, it’s — it’s amazing,” Arredondo said Monday as he showed off the limb made by Scotland-based Touch Bionics. “It just gets me more excited about now, about the future.”

The prosthetic hand is made of semi-translucent plastics. Five individual motors power the fingers, allowing the person to grasp round objects. The hand’s gestures are made possible through electrode plates that detect electrical signals generated in the remaining muscles in the amputated limb.

The i-LIMB can be covered with flexible material to mimic the look of human skin, called cosmesis.

Arredondo, of San Antonio, likened the limb to the bionics in “Star Wars” and “Terminator.” “My son, he goes nuts about it,” he said.

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MASONVILLE, Colo. - Zoey is a Chihuahua, but when a rattlesnake lunged at her owners’ 1-year-old grandson, she was a real bulldog.

Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents’ northern Colorado back yard when the snake slithered up to the toddler, rattled and struck. Five-pound Zoey jumped in the way and took the bites.

“She got in between Booker and the snake, and that’s when I heard her yipe,” said Monty Long, the boy’s grandfather.

The dog required treatment and for a time it appeared she might not survive. Now she prances about.

“These little bitty dogs, they just don’t really get credit,” Booker’s grandma Denise Long told the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald.

** I just think that it’s amazing this little dog saved this child, and survived the snake bites!

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13 Movies that take place or were filmed in Texas

1.)Armageddon (1998)

2.) Capote (2005)

3.) Dazed and Confused (1993)

4.) From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

5.) Glory Road (2006)

6.) Good Will Hunting (1997)

7.) How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)

8.) Independence Day (1996)

9.) Invincible (2006)

10.) Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

11.) Man on Fire (2004)

12.) Office Space (1999)

13.) Pearl Harbor

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This is my first (ever) WFMW, hosted by Rocks in my Dryer.

This week my tip is about when Daddy will be gone a long time. Since we are a military family, long separations are a part of our life. This is normal for us, but doesn’t make it any easier for the children.

Before a deployment, I buy a lot of Hershey’s kisses. Each day the boys are able to get a ‘kiss from Dad’.

I am sure you could use this for shorter separations, such as a business trip. This tip works for me!

Works for me Wednesdays, Hershey’s kisses

Look what else we are getting from our garden…

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True Definitions

Need a little help understanding women???

1. Fine~ This is a word women use to end an argument when they are right, and you need to shut up.

2. Five minutes~ If she is getting dressed, this means half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game, before helping around the house.

3. Nothing~ This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing, usually ends with fine.

4. Go ahead~ This is a dare, not permission. Don’t do it!

5. Loud Sigh~ This is actually a word, a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and she wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3)

6. That’s okay~ This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman can make to a man. That’s okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

7. Thanks~ A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you’re welcome.

8. Whatever~ This is a woman’s way of saying F**k you!

9. Don’t worry about it, I’ve got it~ Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several time, but is now doing herself. This will later result in a man asking, “What’s wrong?” For the woman’s response refer to #3.

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Not only is July National Ice Cream Month, but July 15th is National Ice Cream Day! That means a double dip all around!

What are the most popular flavors?

1. Vanilla
2. Chocolate
3. Strawberry
4. Peach
5. Banana
6. Coffee
7. Green Tea
8. Coconut
9. Butter Pecan
10. Peanut Butter
11. Lemon
12. Pineapple
13. Apple
14. Ginger
15. Mango
16. Mint
17. Cinnamon
18. Spumoni
19. Oreo
20. Blueberry
21. Pistachio
22. Apricot
23. Custard
24. Cherry
25. Cheesecake

I’m a chocolate ice cream girl myself, and some of these flavors just boggle my mind! Pineapple?? Apricot?? Green Tea?? No thanks!

July, Ice Cream, National Ice Cream Month

I hate this day. Really, I do. I am always paranoid that something bad will happen to me, like a car accident. I still leave my house anyway, and nothing bad has ever happened to me on a Friday the 13th.

According to Wikipedia:
A Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck in English, German, Polish and Portuguese -speaking cultures around the globe. Similar superstitions exist in some other traditions. In Greece or Spain, for example, Tuesday the 13th takes the same role. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia (a word that is derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Παρασκευή, δεκατρείς, and φοβία, meaning Friday, thirteen, and phobia respectively; alternative spellings include paskevodekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia, and is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen. (Forget even trying to pronounce those words!)

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