I know we're supposed to support each other but...

[panicked]

But this is rubbing me the wrong way. I love Ellen. I think she does a lot of good and this probably is more staged than anything. This guy is a major and asked Ellen to do something special because he missed ONE anniversary out of the past ten. He's in training six hours away (by car) from their home. They can't afford to fix their car so they never see each other. (But she's at the show...) So they get a brand new car and he surprises his wife on the show. I don't know. I don't know their circumstances, and my bitter, cold heart might just be jealous, but it just seems like polite begging to me. Flame on.

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[meltoine]

He's in the Guard, not AD. If he's not been activated for a while and is un(der)employed outside of the Guard, I can see how things might be tough for them financially. I also think that spouses who have only been married to Guard or Reserve members are less likely to be used to them missing major family events than AD families who deal with it all the time.

Objectively I'm sure there are needier military families out there. I tend towards thinking that anyone who wins stuff like this because they're military is kind of AWing the heck of being military for the fringe benefits, which gets a side-eye from me.

[amaristella]

Honestly I'm with you on that. How do you manage only to miss one anniversary in ten? Was he not in the service the whole time?

But I'm also sitting at my desk making a paper chain to count down the rest of this IA. And I'm realizing I should have made the links smaller because this sucker is going to run around the whole downstairs and up the staircase by the time I"m finished.

And I'm mad because today I found out I have no choice but to give up my current driver's license (about to expire) for a California one. I actually used to have a California license but I decided not to keep it after the wild goose chase that California sent me on trying to keep it the first time that I had it and I've been mad at them ever since. I actually cried on the phone while talking to the lady from the DMV in the state where I currently hold a driver's license.

So, yes, perhaps I might be inclined to judge others because today in particular I am in a bad place. :^)

[maebyfunke]

I saw that episode and had the same thoughts. It didn't really tug at my heartstrings.

My mom and I joked last year while H was "deployed" (to a non-hazardous, non-desert location) that I should write into Ellen and get some free stuff lol. "Military" and "deployed" seem to be the magic words for giveaways. Actually, H has been and will be TDY quite a bit this year and has a deployment looming...maybe I'll write in anyway.

[amaristella]

And on top of the previous I'm waiting on a package that the post office says on their website that they delivered yesterday that definitely has not arrived yet. I suspect no delivery attempt has been made yet.

[killercupcake]

I'd be lying if I said I didn't consider writing Ellen, on more than one occasion, for her money giveaways ("How can Ellen change your life?").

I hold off because I worry that I'll end up being talked about on a message board. lol Truly.

[Beeps (WOT?*)]

I'm sorry but I'm part of the not entirely sympathetic club. He's an officer which means college education (because he's not old enough to have worked his way through the ranks from what I can tell), so I'm pretty sure he's either woefully underemployed or they're making some pretty piss-poor financial decisions (they live in LCOL so there's that). I know a lot of military personnel who have it a LOT worse than having missed one anniversary in ten. My friend's husband just missed theirs, and he's stationed in Romania, plus she and a daughter both suffer from a debilitating chronic illness, her step-children's mother just died and they're raising four kids under ten between them. My daughter's husband is gone as often as he's at home (he's an officer as well, and gone two weeks out of every month). My ex was deployed when I was 7.5 months pregnant and didn't see our first until she was six months old (and missed nine months of our first year of marriage on dets leading up to said cruise. We lived in a tent after he was disabled, and raised our kids on disability pay supplemented with barely over minimum wage income.  There are millions of veterans suffering worse than "missing my tenth anniversary, the first one I've ever missed" and being six hours away rather than half a world away.

(Sorry, I hit MF instead of ML but at least I'm semi-legit. lol.)

[killercupcake]

I can't get upset about this.

I was underemployed and had to go to grad school to have even a shot at not being so, and I still can't seem to get an interview despite the fact that I meet 100% of the qualifications for my field.

Ellen transported her there. I don't side eye the fact that she's there.

I also can't get upset that he wanted to do something special for her after only missing one anniversary. The military status likely helped because Ellen does stuff for military families all the time, but whatever. H and I had a relatively easy military experience and it was still really shitty at times. Everyone's different. And, to reiterate what was said above, we don't know their circumstances, financially or otherwise.

Ellen gives away cars more often than Oprah. I know 4 people who entered a group contest for a road trip across the country to meet Ellen, they won, and when they got to the show, she gave them all cars. None of them were in need, they just had the most creative video and won the contest. Ellen gives stuff away all the time. A former nestie was trying to get a few of us on Ellen for a military themed show. I don't know if it's begging if Ellen has sign ups on her page for this exact sort of thing (How can Ellen change your life?, Are you a military family...?, etc.).

[killercupcake]

Stan, yep! Lol

[killercupcake]

May 14, 2015 11:13:45 GMT -5 Stan said:

May 14, 2015 11:11:39 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Stan, yep! Lol

In retrospect, going on tv with someone that beautiful would've just been dumb. Lol.

I know. Lol There's no competing with her.

[softspot]

Who's the model looking nestie?

[softspot]

May 30, 2015 8:15:27 GMT -5 softspot said:

Who's the model looking nestie?

oh dang, I see how old this post is. I was clearly creeping this morning.