A SOLDIER'S PERSPECTIVE
THE WEB'S LEADING MILITARY BLOG SINCE 2004
I haven’t written an entertaining post in a long time. What happened to me? How did I get so serious? One of my good friends from jr. high school found my blog and said that it scared her. When did I grow up? she asked me. That scared me. I didn’t want to grow up. I like to watch Peter Pan and believe wholeheartedly that I will be Forever Young (Rod Stewart). D’oh, dated myself again.
I have a bunch of weird quirks. For one, I find it hard to drink water without ice if it isn’t in a bottle. I don’t know why, it’s weird. I get irritated with Emily when she squeezes my toothpaste from the middle. Then, I have to take a tube of chapstick and roll it from the bottom to get all the toothpaste back to the top where it belongs.
As a DJ, I have over 3000 CDs and they all have to be in some sort of order. I choose alphabetical. It becomes crazy when I buy a CD like Collective Soul. Why couldn’t they call themselves Quolective Soul. At least I wouldn’t have so many CDs to move.
I can’t have errant arm hairs. For whatever reason, if there’s an armhair sticking out, out of formation so to speak, it must be plucked. It’s kind of annoying, especially when it’s really windy. There’s so much static electricity in the desert, it’s also hard to keep up with the armhair punishment to those that won’t conform to the norm and just stay down.
And finally, I can’t stand water in my ears. We keep plenty of Q-tips around so that as soon as I get out of the shower I can instantly dry them. When I came back from Iraq, I had so many q-tips that it was more than a year before we ended up buying more. I also can’t use one for both ears. It’s gotta be a fresh one. Only the best for these ears. No second hand q-tips!
I know I already said finally, but I guess another one is that I say finally when I don’t really mean finally. In the Army, I prefer to use common sense. Apparently, common sense is against some Army regulation somewhere. I haven’t been able to find it, but there are plenty of people who have read it and are quite familiar with the provision therein contained.
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MOM
Errant Arm Hairs. Don’t we all have that problem? I pluck mine. I hate water in my face. I know it stems from when I was a babe and my older brothers would dunk me in the pool or splash me till I couldn’t breathe. Today I take a washcloth in the shower or bath just to wipe my face dry when I wash it or get it wet. I also have to inform you that “that” Army regulation has leaked out into the civilian world. Common sense is lacking in many feilds of life. (sorry to be the bearer of such bad news)
PeggySue66
Make life easy on ya CJ…..just do a download and burn your CD’s….
Then you can just number them and not have to move them so often
I too have the pet peeve of people that are lacking in common sense. Or…..pure stupidity. LOL And yes, it is out of the military and in the private sector.
CJ
Actually, I have a 250Gb hard drive that I use specifically for all my music. It’s about 180Gb full right now and contains almost 18,000 songs, all that I ripped from my CDs. I no longer have to flip through books to listen to music.
Jenn
For some strange reason ,since having children of our own, I can hardly stand seeing a baby out in the sun or on a windy, cold day without hood or hat on. I mean it really bothers me! Is that weird or what?!?!
PeggySue66
Ok….how bout by genre before alphabet?
nick
hey man Q-tips are the devil the devil I tell you they cause more ear infections than I can count with my simple mind.
;o)
CJ
I’ve never had an ear infection as long as I can remember. Probably did as a baby a couple of times, but those memories are fuzzy.