after reading some comments in my last post, i realized that not everyone completely understood what i posted. as such, i will provide translation services for those not fluent in military or acronym ( here )

Feelin': tired

[apologies to anyone who gets offended by the song in the title]

got an e-mail from my detailer today.

Phillip,
The June slate has now been signed and approved. Congratulations, you've been slated as the Traino on PCU FARRAGUT (DDG 99), presently in Bath, to be home ported in Mayport. It was a very competitive slate. Though the slate is done, it may be a month or more before you see orders due to the work required to ensure reliefs on both ends as well as to set up any training track that you may have for your next billet. Once again, congratulations and I wish you the best at your new job.

R/
Chuck [my detailer]

dammit. mayport. [sigh] maybe i'll have the luck my dad did in that area (he met my mom when stationed in jacksonville.

Feelin': annoyed

this is something i found, part of something i wrote almost three and a half years ago. interesting how some things never change...

"I have never seen Evil. I know it exists in this world, else I would be out of a job. But I have never had the chance to lay eyes on it, or to meet its gaze. Do I want to? I don’t know. Part of me says yes, because then I would no longer be afraid of what it could do. I think I would always be afraid of Evil, but it would be a knowledgeable fear once I’d seen it. But part of me also says no, because I don’t know how I would react if I were to come face to face with Evil. Would I run off, screaming like a child who cannot find his mother? Or would I stand with false bravado, looking into its face, all the while my eyes quivering in fear? I’ve always said courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the ability to perform adequately under fear. Would I be courageous? Would I be brave and live up to the Scout Law?"

Feelin': contemplative

as LJ is back up.....i'll make an obligatory drunken post.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel

played poker at logan's tonight whilst drinking SoCo. not always a good combo, but it worked tonight - i ended up $25 (on $5 buy-ins every game).

thinking hurts my brain right now, so i'll go. peese.

Feelin': drunk

made chili tonight for the first time since......jeez. corpus? dunno. can't remember if i made it in newport or since. threw black beans and corn into the mix, in addition to all my usual stuff. didn't season the pan with habañeros, or use any hot sauce, though. didn't feel like killing my mouth.

weekend was awesome. thursday evening i had dinner with bonbon in williamsburg (there was a small problem at paul's house, so he couldn't make it). i had.....steak with fries, because they wouldn't let me sub it out for something else ("i'm sorry. we don't do substitutions." "do what?"). good times.

made it to NoVA around 2300, and talked with mom for a bit (she had been in bed reading, waiting for me. even after all these yeras, she can't sleep until i'm at the house). friday was spent with mom, and dad once he got home (around 1630). had a great time just hanging out with my parents (which i haven't really done in awhile, because whenever ive seen them, we've been in pennsylvania worring about grandpa).

speaking of PA, they left for there saturday morning, and i read until i met up with will and valerie ober (the latter used to be valerie furey, of rL six fame). had a BLAST. will's an awesome guy, and val and i had fun reminiscing about a cappella stuffs. [grin]

afterwards, i eventually met up with scott, and headed off to the 9:30 club to see emmet swimming.

wow. wow. need to get their albums. frickin' awesome music.

got home laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate (0300?), crashed. eventually got up and cleaned up, and went off to see vernie for sushi. got caught up on all the wherewithal of the TJFam, and gave her a present (rachel rhea's "30 minute meals cookbook 2", 'cause she wanted one. kinda. long story).

met back up with the parents at the house and napped for a few hours (i was tired! i only slept 5 hours the night before!). got back to norfolk around 2000, and saw lara (who had jusr returned from a week-ish long trip around ireland. ALL around ireland). got caught up on things there, and got gifts from her (jameson's irish whisey glass, coasters, and bar towel [!!!!]).

kidna irked i didn't get to see some people over the weekend, though (alex enders, shauna, etc)

today was rough, considering i'm starting my 05 workouts again. ran 2 miles this morning. had a regular breakfast since i didn't have those shakes yet. the day was....interesting. found out i'm driving to martinsville, va (here) to take one of our young kids to court for some shit he got into over the brealk. ugh. i get to do it again on thuesday as well. AND i have duty tomorrow. fun fun fun.

did finally get the shakes i wanted (myoplex) and a pint sized bottle, so i can put the powder in, add milk, shake, drink, and not worry about meals. also making food and taking it in now, too, so i can snack all day and get metabolism up again.

okay, that's enough recapping. got one more load of laundry i want to do tonight (workout clothes, so i have something to erg in tomorrow morning), and then i'm to bed. 5 points for the song title and artist, no googling allowed.

peese, y'all's.

so, i've made an addendum to my new year's resolutions:
6. take all fast food out of my diet.

along that vein, it is near impossible to eat healthy on the ship. it's do-able, but difficult. there's something i want to try out, but i need some info (stryer, biggest of erns, i'm looking at you two).

i'm going to be going to the gym on base at 05 4 days a week (because the other day is what ever day i have duty and cannot get off the ship). i want to start using those whey/soy protein shakes in the morning as my breakfast and bring my lunch, but with regard to the shakes, i can't seem to find any that are reasonable size containers that are the meal replacement ones. i've found huge-ass containers at sam's and BJ's, but the GNC in the exchange doesn't seem to carry them.

help? any suggestions on which brand/etc i should use if i want to try this out?

Feelin': curious

yes, so, now i'm finally writing about my cooking adventured. be warned, this is very graphic heavy (18 pictures). as such, it's all behind an ( lj-cut )

yoinked from vernie - six apart to buy livejournal.

i know the link says "rumour", but i've seen a few other sites where it says confirmed, and that it'll be announced tomorrow.



not really sure what this means for my LJ, but if vern's moving back to her webpage-blog (frenetic), then it can't be good.

Feelin': irritated

hokay, so.

i have decided to make my alfredo sauce tonight, but a chicken alfredo. mainly because i forgot to get shrimp when i was at the store. d'oh.

ree - this will be a slight experiment in the bedro.....KITCHEN. i'm trying something new with the recipie, and hopefully making it better.
ashLee - i can send you the recipie if you wanna start trying things. i'd send some through the mail, but it'd be bad by the time it got there.


starboard rigged the mace, and found out that one of the club's racing sculls has a MASSIVE crack in it. that pisses me off, and is gonna be a hell of a repair job. thanks, nick. just what i wanted, really.

okay, time to defrost the chicken.

EDIT: forthcoming tonight will be a pictoral showing how i make my special white sauce. ... ... ALFREDO SAUCE, you sickos.

Feelin': content

last night's dinner was good (no experimenting, ree, i did something i already knew) - flank steak pinwheel with italian bread stuffing inside, italian cut green beans, and a bottle of 2002 alice white shiraz, wherein i've found another wine i really like. i had about 2/3 of the bottle, but from 1930 to 0100, so there was no worries of me getting drunk last night.

was gonna scull this morning, but the winds on the river are outside my comfort zone, so i'll row with the erg mafia tonight.

SO. today, i've got paperwork and cleaning the kitchen and TV/dining room in the morning, a few errands at lunch, and then cleaning and starboard rigging the mace at the boathouse in the afternoon. making dinner again (i'm stock piling to have leftovers when i'm too tired to cook), and then laundry in the evening. i'll prolly go into the ship and check my e-mail there, too. yes, it's a fun-filled work day for me.

for dinner, should i make my chili, my lamb in cabernet sauvingon sauce, my shrimp alfredo (i have a few ideas on how to make this better), or something else that i may or may not have already made?

Feelin': good

( just a song lyric. that's all )

entry number 38 into the "I! AM! MIGHTY!" log - i've built a rolling mirror frame! be proud of me, because this is my first solo wood project in a LONG time.

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man, i feel accomplished. not bad for my first project in almost 8 years.


christmas was good. i got 3 DVDs, a scanner (with negative and slide scanning capability!), and a t-shirt (i'm the evil twin) from my parents, a handmadepoker table (that's actually a chirstmas, birthday, and housewarming gift) from ross and kari, two bottles of wine from mike and nicole, and a bottle of maker's mark from danny and carrie.

benRo was here on the 29th and 30th. he and lara and i went to dinner at an awesome italian restaurant here, and the next day i took him to see the ship and the boathouse. good times.

new year's was fun. mike's birthday is tomorrow, so we threw a surprise b-day party and new year's party together at mike and nicole's apartment. i got DRUNK. called my parents (they were laughing at me), called ross and kari. didn't call anyone else (hwhew). have some....interesting stories from that night (including sleeping on the floor of their office while logan and amy got it on on the futon in there....i was so out of it i didn't even wake up).

seeing paul and bonnie on thursday for dinner in richmond.

vernie, sorry i missed the get togethers. i'll give you a call (or, i might be in DC later this week - sushi?).


okay, resolutions:
1. get down to 200 lbs. i'll reassess where i want to be when i hit that weight.
2. row in some form at least 4 times a week (erg, scull, sweep). goes with #1.
3. buy house. will be helped with orders to norfolk/little creek.
4. get a girlfriend. ross, kari, i love you guys, but i am NOT showing up to the wedding without a date. preferrably one that i've been with for at least some amount of time.
5. continue wood working (goes with #3). i have a lot of things i want to make, like bed frames, etc. i can only get better.

i think that's good for now. i hope all of y'all had a great holiday season, and that things are good with you. peese.

-phill/p/papa tango/agent smith/pepe/philly steak/phillster/dj tango/jefe

Feelin': content

i know i haven't updated in, oh, FOREVER, but that's not what this is. nope. i'm thinking of a plan to throw a party every month (not necess by myself, and not necess at my home, but i'll have a hand in all of them), and i've only got seven. can y'all help me think of more?

( here's what i have )

real brief update:

-no longer DCA. am cool with this, as i expected it to happen.
-habby birdday to scottyK, my best friend these last 7 years. (i woulda said something earlier in the day, but i've hardly been home)
-9 hours at the boathouse this weekend - 4 yesterday fixing boats, 2 this morning testing boats, 3 this afternoon doing odds and ends around the 'house
-vaTech won (URR!), navy won (YUT!), redskins won (KILL!). good football weekend over all for me
-time at the boat was spent, but not as much as i wanted. 2 inspections this week (3M and supply), as well as engineering, damage control, and combat systems training gurus coming to "help" us
-underway week after next.
-leave and upkeep starts 17DEC, i start leave 29DEC. i have duty on the 24th, and will be racing to PA on the 25th as soon as they say "liberty call." alas, i won't be seing ross or kari, as they are going to see her family for that holiday. BUT, they might be going to DC for new years, and i have to convince them to come down and visit around that time (HINT HINT)

it's 2200 and i'm exhausted. this is pathetic. okay, i's out. peese.

Feelin': tired

people!

e-mail me your snail mail addresses if you want holiday goodness in your mailboxes from me. that is all.

well, it happened. i'm a SWO.

a Surface Warfare Officer. i've got a gold boat on my chest, and the knowledge that i have to fuck up REALLY bad to get kicked out. but that doesn't matter. what matters is that i finally did it. now, onto to EOOW and CDO.

( a few pics from the ceremony )

Feelin': excited

roight.

saturday was a lot of fun. in the morning i worked at the boathouse briefly before going into the ship to give a tour to 43 scouts and 16 leaders from BSA troop 373 from clarksville, MD. i had a blast with that, and had forgotten how much fun it was to work with the scouts. makes me almost want to get involved with a local troop here. i've got enough on my plate, though. in the afternoon lara and i left for DC to attend a james bond themed party. scotty pretty much summed it up in his post. before i left my parents house, i ran over to see marty (ross, he wants to talk to you over the weekend, something about getting yvonne a laptop for christmas). he gave me the quote of the weekend - "you came up fonr one night to go to a party? that's my boy!" marty roks.

lara and i got back to norfolk around 1300 (due to a nap in the williamsburg/lightfoot wal-mart parking lot). i then packed up some stuff and went into the ship to finish my SWO lookups. took a brief trip out to get some supplies for the ship, and then finished up around 2100. to prevent losing my pin AGAIN, i stayed on board. today was a normal workday. did my lookups with the XO, passed them, so i'm getting my pin tomorrow at 1130 (it's scheduled in the POD, so i know it's happening). i doing some laundry right now (coveralls, so i can take them into the tailor and get the SWO patch sewn on), and then back into the ship. finish up some work and hit my rack.

not much else. peese.

grr....this sucks. i'm in a mood to party, and there's no one to party with.

i passed my SWO board this afternoon! i'll get my lookups to the XO monday morning, and then hopefully mon afternoon i'll have my pin on my chest! woo hoo! which is why i want to party. only....trevor isn't home, mike and nicole aren't answering their phone, danny has duty and carrie is at some swanky dinner with her doctor friends, amanda wants to stay in, lara is over at ebony's......i'd dink anyway, but i know how i get when i drink alone. grr!

i wanna party. anyone wanna come to norfolk and party with me?

EDIT - this game is wrong in SO many ways...

Feelin': annoyed

minor break from all night on-ship studying. SWO (re-)board at 1330 today. w00t.

Feelin': tired