LAPD Wife

Visual Blogathon Entry

It's getting late, I'm a wuss and getting tired. Am about to retire for the evening, but wanted to put at least one last post up for the Blogathon. It's a soothing visual post. Sometimes it's nice to look at sites on the internet and see things of beauty. Reading about politics, life's ups and downs and all is great, but once in awhile I just crave peace. Here some of my peace that I find in my travels and nature that I'd like to share with you.

 

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My Reading Addiction

I am a passionate reader. I love it, I can't get enough of it. I read magazines, novels, how-to's, cookbooks and the backs of every cereal box, to name a few things. I love to read so much that it often gets in the way of me accomplishing all my "to-do's" for daily life and work. Recently, when I was so absorbed in reading the Twilight series of books, I'd find myself working on a deadline project on the computer, but having the book propped open at my side, leaning over to read a few paragraphs when the computer connection would slow down. Except a few paragraphs would turn into a whole chapter and I would suddenly snap out of it and realize I just lost 20 minutes and am that much closer to deadline. It's like an addiction, but I just don't feel that guilty about it.

Blogathon Haiku

For the Blogathon
Police wives type and ponder
Life behind the badge

Screen glows, cursor taunts
Oh to write the perfect post
my life in short bursts

Yes, inspiration
Fingers fly, heart aflutter
I reach out to you

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What the Heck....

Blogathon Entry #4

The latest challenge: Finish this sentence: "What the heck..."

Ok, here's my blast. "What the heck are people thinking when they put on a gallon of perfume before getting on an airplane for a 4-hour ride? Don't they think about the rest of the people sitting around them who now have to inhale their noxious mix of cheap perfume, body odor and foot stank because you also decided to take off your shoes?! What the heck?!"

This rant was inspired by my latest airplane ride. Thank you lady who sat next to me causing my eyes to water and the 10 people surrounding you to reach up simultaneously and crank up those vent nozzles to maximum for the duration of the ride.

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The Dream: Getting Paid to Do Something I Love

Ok, I'm answering the writing challenges in no certain order. So now I will answer MJ's question: "If you could get paid to do what you love, what would it be?"

What do I love? Let me list the top things that come to mind. I love to read, I love to write. I love puttering around in my yard and my gardens. I love it when Jake gets home after a night shift and we take long walks together (since the kids are in school) and just talk - no interruptions. I love being home and there for my kids, no matter what they need. I love to cook. And I love playing Jane Geek on the computer.

So, my ideal job? When I look at this list, while I love doing some of those things, like gardening and cooking, I think I'd loose the love by having to do it for a living. It turns from fun to work, then. So the best thing I can imagine being paid to do? To work online from home, writing for a living. Anybody hiring? Give me a yell!

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Rookie Stories

The first writing challenge for the blogathon is to tell a story about a rookie mistake my husband may have made or a time that he was totally embarassed as a rookie. Here's the full challenge and another leo wife's story - it's a good one!

I called Jake (he's working today) and asked him about this. Of course, his first response is that he didn't make mistakes, of course. Ummm, sure. Anyway, he finally reminded me the story of the rusty gun at the Academy.

When Jake was a few months in the Academy, there came the day that they were issued their work guns. Everyone was handed a shiny new box that contained a brand new 9mm - or so Jake thought. As he opened his new box, he was totally surprised to see an old, rusty, falling apart, piece-of-crap 38.

"What the...?" he was thinking, looking around at this classmate, who were all inspecting their shiny new 9mms without a problem. The Academy is like the military - you don't talk back, you don't question your superiors, etc. He was really hesitant to say anything, but figured there had to have been a mistake, so tenatively approached his superior. And got reamed out for complaining about the gun he was given, was ordered that he was to use and like using it, etc etc. He shut up, totally embarassed and went through the entire next day or two with the POS gun in his Sam Brown, worrying that pieces would fall off and having no idea what to do next.

His classmates were not help, either. They were all glad they didn't get that gun, agreed that it was horrible, but no one wanted to stick up for him and put their neck on the line. Finally, on the second day, the training officer's made him stand in front of the class and demonstrate something like loading or whatever to the class with his POS gun. As he's struggling to do this, while grabbing rusty pieces as they fall off, finally the training officer loses his poker face and starts to crack up. 

Jake was informed that the gun was compliments of a relative of his, who was currently on the job and tight buddies with the training officers in the Academy. It was all a great joke at Jake's expense. Poor guy thought he was going to have to carry that thing for the next few months. 

Apparently that gun is infamous at the Academy and it's used often for just this sort of thing. Everyone got a good laugh and Jake was relieved at the end of it all to get his own brand new work-issue 9mm. And it was so embarassing for him that he remembers it in great clarity, even today, over 20 years later.

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