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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:35:01 GMT

Jessica, this is all your fault.

I'm living in Norfolk, Virginia now and working on a destroyer (you know, because I'm in the Navy). I've been assigned to be the Visit, Boarding, Search and Seizure Officer on the ship. Which basically means I am in charge of the team that boards other ships, kicks ass and takes names. Other than that, I've been learning to do basic Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) things. Like driving the ship. I spent most of my first underway on the bridge learning the commands for steering the ship, memorizing all the 'rules of the road' in terms of what to do when another ship is close, and things like that.

My favorite experience is when we had man overboard drills. I was the conning officer at the time (the officer that gives the commands for the person physically steering the ship). I scanning the horizon when suddenly I hear someone yell "Man overboard, port side!" I had been practicing, so I called the commands to the helmsman as I to the left side of the ship on the bridge wing. The captain and the executive officer had come up to watch the drill, so I had the captain and the XO both standing on the side watching me execute a 360 degree turn going as fast as we could back to the floating life jacket in the water. As we got closer, the captain started helping me with the actual driving of the ship. It was an awesome experience to have the captain taking his time to help me perform my first man overboard drill. Especially since after my drill, he left and let the XO do the rest of the drills with the other junior officers.

Also, the stars are so bright when you are out to sea.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:12:30 GMT

I got a job in Florida for the summer. I'll be approximately, next to the arrow. So if anyone is in Florida for the summer, call me!! I don't work Fridays!

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:49:42 GMT

I started an experiment when I moved in to see how long I could go without repeating a shirt. I moved in August 3rd and yesterday was my last repeat free day. I obviously have wayyy to many shirts.

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:58:44 GMT

In case you've never been in the lounge of my building (TJ), the important thing to know is one wall of the lounge is floor to ceiling windows that connect the lounge to the hallway. We were playing Spaceballs in the lounge last night when a kid stood up, talking on his cell phone and tried leaving. Except, he walked right into the glass wall. A friend of mine who has lived there for nearly 5 years said she'd only seen one other person ever run right into that wall. We laughed, had a great time and kept watching. About an hour later, the same kid runs into the glass wall again! Oh man, it was the funniest thing I'd seen all night.

In other new, I've been having a Smallville marathon. It's great fun.

Monday, July 02, 2007

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:56:45 GMT

Four of July. A time where people can act like complete idiots with fire and explosives and no one thinks a second thing about it. Of course, my friends and I are no exception. Yesterday, after getting tired of blowing up flowers and throwing bottle rockets at each other, we decide to build a fire and toss the remaining 4 gross (app. 576) bottle rockets into the fire. And then not all of them go off, Kyle runs in, and shuffles them around while they shoot off at his head. It was truely entertaining.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:17:53 GMT

Hahaha. I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to do this at RHA...

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:36:10 GMT

Nothing to report other than I got a high five from my physics teacher Dr. Story for showing up to class on Good Friday. Go me. Here is a new Dilbert that brightened my day today.

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:11:45 GMT

The Adventures of Chelsea and the trip to Florida

As you might be able to guess from the title, I went to Florida for three days, stayed on a Navy base and got to tour one of the subs. It was extremely extreme. I did a bunch of other stuff, but the important part was that I ate the best shrimp ever, had one of the guys on the trip with us offer to buy all of us beer only to find out my age and then laugh at me.. almost fell down the ladder on the sub and nearly died, and then had my flight delayed five hours because I people in Florida can't deal with rain. But everything worked out because I got to fly through the cotton candy like clouds at sunset. Which was amazing.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:13:24 GMT

The Adventures of Chelsea and the Best Breakfast Ever!!

(Yes, that is right: chocolate donut, potato salad and lemonade. Hmmmm. Tasty.)

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:22:33 GMT

This Dilbert is a little old, but it doesn't really matter. I bought The Departed yesterday and the guy at the check out was like, "I need to see your i.d." And at the point, I had forgot all the rule that you can't buy R rated movies if you're like 7 or something. Or 17 I guess. So I'm kinda looking at him like, 'what are you talking about?' and then it suddenly hits me, or I guess that might have been Jeff and I remember that whole rule. Then I jumped into action, avoiding the nasty glares from the shoppers behind me because I was holding up their line. Oops.

The rest of this post is mostly for people who watch Naruto. If you don't, well none of these will make sense. But FINALLY! Naruto is out of filler... Here are a few shots for those who haven't seen it yet. Which is my nice way of saying, get off your butt and go watch the new episode!!!!!