I'd like to file a grievance

[beans]

Where is everyone?

 Yawn

I need y'all!! how is everyone? What are you dooooooing?


We need some dramz

[bebea]

I never really post here but I thought I would share something funny! This was going around FB yesterday and all the wives were up in arms about this! LOL

www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/dod-to-charge-admission-fee-for-installations-access-to-fix-budget-shortfalls/

[kpol]

Here's the drama happening around here. Idiots, I tell you!

www.stripes.com/news/pacific/bad-behavior-in-the-pacific/shot-soldier-interviewed-by-s-korean-police-in-base-hospital-bed-1.210502

[amaristella]

Lots of moving paperwork. Daily freakouts about whatever new thing that might go wrong. Today it's that I accidentally turned in the moving paperwork requesting the same date for all three shipments. So, that's gonna have to change.

[amaristella]

Mar 5, 2013 21:22:59 GMT -5 kpol said:

Here's the drama happening around here. Idiots, I tell you!

www.stripes.com/news/pacific/bad-behavior-in-the-pacific/shot-soldier-interviewed-by-s-korean-police-in-base-hospital-bed-1.210502

Dude seriously? Don't most people get that one off their chest by the time they're 13? Idiocy knows no bounds.

[amaristella]

Mar 5, 2013 21:18:36 GMT -5 bebea said:

I never really post here but I thought I would share something funny! This was going around FB yesterday and all the wives were up in arms about this! LOL

www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/dod-to-charge-admission-fee-for-installations-access-to-fix-budget-shortfalls/

El oh El. April fool's came early this year. I'd love to see that make the Facebook group rounds in my area. I might run out of popcorn.

[beans]

Mar 5, 2013 21:18:36 GMT -5 bebea said:

I never really post here but I thought I would share something funny! This was going around FB yesterday and all the wives were up in arms about this! LOL

www.duffelblog.com/2013/03/dod-to-charge-admission-fee-for-installations-access-to-fix-budget-shortfalls/

They should totally do this!! lol. It'll cut down on traffic 

[Dory1988]

Mar 5, 2013 21:22:59 GMT -5 kpol said:

Here's the drama happening around here. Idiots, I tell you!

www.stripes.com/news/pacific/bad-behavior-in-the-pacific/shot-soldier-interviewed-by-s-korean-police-in-base-hospital-bed-1.210502

Someone thought this was real!!!  Oh dear...

[Dory1988]

On a side note, we just found a sun spider in the house. DH tried to kill it and it fell on the ground. We both screamed like 6 year old girls. I wish I could have that on video.

[Dory1988]

Mar 5, 2013 22:28:06 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Mar 5, 2013 22:23:13 GMT -5 Dory1988 said:

On a side note, we just found a sun spider in the house. DH tried to kill it and it fell on the ground. We both screamed like 6 year old girls. I wish I could have that on video.

Eff those things. We had them like CRAZY in our backyard down there. Are you guys on base again?

We're out in town this time.  We're saving a lot of money doing that.

[Dory1988]

Mar 5, 2013 22:37:27 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Mar 5, 2013 22:34:56 GMT -5 Dory1988 said:

We're out in town this time.  We're saving a lot of money doing that.

I'm sure. 

I miss that dusty ol' place sometimes. 

It sure does grow on you.  I could do without the man-eating spiders though.

[brandienee]

I don't want to know what a Sun Spider is, but I do know that I would probably scream... And Hell hath no fury if H brings that shit home...

Eff that.

[audette]

Been crazy busy trying to get together a visa application to go to India for work.  Problem is, I'm a Canuck with US residency that is temporarily in Korea due to DH's orders.

Let's just say that hits every special snowflake button for visa processing...  Which means I need to get that much more crap pulled together for the application.


But, I managed to submit it today!  The Indian Embassy here refuses to give me a long-term visa (wanted a 5 year multiple entry, they're letting me get a 3 month, single entry).  But, they're letting the visa application get processed, which I'm going to count as a win.

Tonight I will be celebrating with some Jamesons.    Mmm...  Jamesons...

[audette]

Mar 5, 2013 21:22:59 GMT -5 kpol said:

Here's the drama happening around here. Idiots, I tell you!

www.stripes.com/news/pacific/bad-behavior-in-the-pacific/shot-soldier-interviewed-by-s-korean-police-in-base-hospital-bed-1.210502

Yeah.  I saw this story hit, and now it's just a waiting game to see how long it takes for the fallout from it to hit up here. 

[sushi]

I'm listening to tori Amos, and it brings me to my happy place. I don't care if this song came out when I was in high school (um, over a decade ago). Happy. Peaceful. Naive. Happy.

[kpol]

Mar 6, 2013 3:04:58 GMT -5 audette said:

Mar 5, 2013 21:22:59 GMT -5 kpol said:

Here's the drama happening around here. Idiots, I tell you!

www.stripes.com/news/pacific/bad-behavior-in-the-pacific/shot-soldier-interviewed-by-s-korean-police-in-base-hospital-bed-1.210502

Yeah.  I saw this story hit, and now it's just a waiting game to see how long it takes for the fallout from it to hit up here. 

Rumor mill around here is saying that the Korean police feel justice was served since the guy got shot, instead of just getting away.  We were actually out at a bar across the street from where this happened and knew nothing about it until the next day. It might explain why we didn't even see the MP patrol on our way home, though. It's such a crazy story!

[audette]

Mar 6, 2013 5:51:39 GMT -5 kpol said:

Mar 6, 2013 3:04:58 GMT -5 audette said:

Yeah.  I saw this story hit, and now it's just a waiting game to see how long it takes for the fallout from it to hit up here. 

Rumor mill around here is saying that the Korean police feel justice was served since the guy got shot, instead of just getting away.  We were actually out at a bar across the street from where this happened and knew nothing about it until the next day. It might explain why we didn't even see the MP patrol on our way home, though. It's such a crazy story!

Huh.  Somehow that's not too shocking (the whole justice is served thing).

Are you down at Yongsan?  I was in your neighbourhood today...  I visited the commissary there today - I think the commissaries up here would fit in the freezer section of the yongsan commissary!  It was nice to be in a normal sized commissary, even if I could only pick up a couple things because I had to transit them home.

[kpol]

Mar 6, 2013 6:25:22 GMT -5 audette said:

Mar 6, 2013 5:51:39 GMT -5 kpol said:

Rumor mill around here is saying that the Korean police feel justice was served since the guy got shot, instead of just getting away.  We were actually out at a bar across the street from where this happened and knew nothing about it until the next day. It might explain why we didn't even see the MP patrol on our way home, though. It's such a crazy story!

Huh.  Somehow that's not too shocking (the whole justice is served thing).

Are you down at Yongsan?  I was in your neighbourhood today...  I visited the commissary there today - I think the commissaries up here would fit in the freezer section of the yongsan commissary!  It was nice to be in a normal sized commissary, even if I could only pick up a couple things because I had to transit them home.

We are here for a little bit longer, then heading down to Area III. I was at the commissary at 1:30 today. We could have seen each other and never have known it! I'm

[Dory1988]

My husband must have forgotten how to do laundry because he was mad this morning that his black socks weren't clean. I have half a mind to stop doing his laundry if he thinks I'm some kind of maid. I really hate being unemployed because then his excuse is "I work and you don't". I've been running around with him for the past 4 days so, unemployed or not, he had just as much time to do laundry as I did.

[iluvmytxrgr]

Mar 5, 2013 21:22:59 GMT -5 kpol said:

Here's the drama happening around here. Idiots, I tell you!

www.stripes.com/news/pacific/bad-behavior-in-the-pacific/shot-soldier-interviewed-by-s-korean-police-in-base-hospital-bed-1.210502

That's one of my husband's relatives and it has caused ugly things to go down in our family.  It's not pretty.  

[sushi]

What kind of ugly things?

And why do people have to be so stupid? Shooting any kind of gun, bb or toy or otherwise, in such a busy area is insane. As is trying to lie about who shot you.

[iluvmytxrgr]

Mar 6, 2013 17:10:12 GMT -5 sushi said:

What kind of ugly things?

And why do people have to be so stupid? Shooting any kind of gun, bb or toy or otherwise, in such a busy area is insane. As is trying to lie about who shot you.

Well, his first stories of what happened were lying about who shot him.  Then the info started popping up on the net.  Then the stories changed several times.  There were arguments about if he was an idiot or a war hero.   One family member started posting links onto the FB pages of news reporters.  The family was pissed and went off.  Then she blamed it on her son.  Now she blames it on her daughter in law for blabbing about the posts.  It's just a huge mess.  

[beans]

Mar 6, 2013 17:17:03 GMT -5 iluvmytxrgr said:

Mar 6, 2013 17:10:12 GMT -5 sushi said:

What kind of ugly things?

And why do people have to be so stupid? Shooting any kind of gun, bb or toy or otherwise, in such a busy area is insane. As is trying to lie about who shot you.

Well, his first stories of what happened were lying about who shot him.  Then the info started popping up on the net.  Then the stories changed several times.  There were arguments about if he was an idiot or a war hero.   One family member started posting links onto the FB pages of news reporters.  The family was pissed and went off.  Then she blamed it on her son.  Now she blames it on her daughter in law for blabbing about the posts.  It's just a huge mess.  

sounds like a huge mess! craziness

[NomadicMama]

Mar 6, 2013 20:15:00 GMT -5 beans said:

Mar 6, 2013 17:17:03 GMT -5 iluvmytxrgr said:

Well, his first stories of what happened were lying about who shot him.  Then the info started popping up on the net.  Then the stories changed several times.  There were arguments about if he was an idiot or a war hero.   One family member started posting links onto the FB pages of news reporters.  The family was pissed and went off.  Then she blamed it on her son.  Now she blames it on her daughter in law for blabbing about the posts.  It's just a huge mess.  

sounds like a huge mess! craziness

Family drama is never fun.  Facebook just adds a public layer to the madness.  I hope things settle down.

[NomadicMama]

Mar 5, 2013 23:07:51 GMT -5 brandienee said:

I don't want to know what a Sun Spider is, but I do know that I would probably scream... And Hell hath no fury if H brings that shit home...

Eff that.

Seriously.  We have enough spiders currently in residence, I do not want nor need more.  The ones we have are big and ugly enough.  I had not realized that there are such big spiders in Germany.

Perhaps I'll suggest to DH that he put his duffle bags out back upon his return.