Precious

Quote of the day "I think I put more effort in walking down here to eat than the CSs put into making the food." -Brandi Holland.

With the abundant time I am given, my mind tends to wander, and I also have been watching an array of movies lately. After I ran through all the movies that I actually enjoyed watching and all that was left was the movies from my friends CD collections that I'd never see myself viewing in a million years. But yesterday I attempted to watch Precious.

Here is my review on it

Precious

Right off the bat I dreaded watching this movie, and truth be told, I only got twenty five minutes into the movie. What did me in so quickly you ask? Well aside from the horrible scene where the mother tries to hit Precious with a frying pan upside her head, oh and the sweaty rape scene it was the fried chicken! I get that she's a troubled girl, getting raped and impregnated by her mom's supposed boyfriend, sixteen and still in middle school. But I could no longer take part in the viewing of this movie when the main character steals a bucket of chicken from a local eatery and watching that woman run, while eating friend chicken was just too much for my psyche to handle. I'd like to highlight the fact that she had pieces of chicken on not one but both of her chins. My advice to Precious; sleep in the gym, take walks and work out, get a job (she is sixteen and all you have to do is write your name on an application) get fit and go back and beat your moms ass! It's a shame that I couldn't stomach this movie, because I hear it was quite the tale, I think it took home a few awards, right?

Looking at this damn blog made me take a very unneeded trip down memory lane. After I read some of my old blogs I came to the conclusion that I am the exact same person I am today. I was looking at old pictures from my birthday last year on the boat, and reading about myself taking the advancement exam (I've taken it twice since then) and just how much I didn't care. I was more worried about getting a breakfast burrito in a dress and getting a tan than advancing in the navy and I still am the exact same way. You'd think time would change me a little, but in that area it hasn't at all. As for seeing other things, well it just makes me want to delete my entire iphoto! Sometimes there are people you just wish you could block out of your life entirly and forever and ever and after that too! But you can't and you still have to walk around this boat seeing all his past mistakes (a few of which you live with) I'm just saying it feels like time to close a damn book and start a new one already! Next month I would be getting out of the navy had I not been an idiot and signed up for that fifth year. I'd never have to see Randy again, deal with the drama of shiesty navy people and all their issues! California sun on my face everday and family by my side...

but thats not the way the story goes, is it? Because I'm sitting here looking out at a pitch black flight deck watching the clock wishing the minutes would go by faster and the sun would come up so I can go to bed and pass another day. Not much of "living" going on in my life. But this is underway and work. not much time for anything else.
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Blogging works again on the boat?

for some reason I wasn't able to access my blog from the boat's computers. But now... I am? Whatev, so I just finished up season three of Ugly Betty and am really sad that there will no longer be any witty banter from Amanda and Marc. I am forced to wait till we pull in to buy season four, but then its really over, forever! Because I googled Marc to see if he was gay in real life or just really good at acting like a queen, and turns out that the show was canceled after four seasons due to low ratings... oh and Marc is really gay, and his name is Michael Urie in real life. Also I want him to be my new best friend!

That's all that's really going on out here, whever we are :( Oh and tomorrow is my birthday. This would normally be the part where I incert tragic, yet horribly true pictures of myself celebrating my "golden year" birthdays in the Air Department Office, but the work computer doesn't allow me to upload photos, thus bringing down the quality of my blog. My life is so boring.

I made a boy cry tonight, it was easier than I had planned for

Fridays are usually more crazy in my life right now, but tonight was some good clean fun. I made a boy cry, did a line of crushed up nerds, and did some hard work EMI.

First off I just have to say I got a new drug prescribed to me that is kicking the bacteria's bottom today. I can almost feel my lips again, this is good news. I am still drinking out of a straw and everything I eat is a painfully burning experience but I can see a drastic change for the better.

So after a long day of needle gunning my LPO remembers that I am in trouble and I stay two hours after work, doing some more needle gunning. It wasn't that horrible. The weather was warm, I listened to Miley Cyrus while I chipped away and there was this gorgeous sunset that makes you want to watch it with someone you love.

After work I came home to a bunch of girls in my room. We all went to Chili's for Ana's 20th birthday. (Little tired of b-day's this month. Cavanaught, Brem, Rod, and now Ana- all at Chili's) But she had a good turn out of people and instead of sitting with my regular company of people- Brem, Ashley, Rod, Arrica, Heaton, and Lomeli- I ended up sitting across from Graffam and Jeremy. I haven't spent time with him since we lived together with Victor so it was nice to talk about old VA times and his wife and daughter.

This is where I made a boy cry. If you don't know, I have this ability to get under people skin and drive them crazy with kindness. I like to watch people get crazy and make a fool out of them self an all I have to do is smile and wave and say 'okay best friend for live, so that means we're hanging out later.' But this kid just kept walking into walls. He made it too easy for me. At one point (while he was banging on a closed cab door to try to fight the guy inside) I said Wow lets take him to the honch and see what he does in front of Shore Patrol, he'll be our entertainment for the night... hold on Can you please use that vulgar language in front of that 7 year old again... and let me get it on camera so I can upload it to youtube and show everyone how cool you are and how we all want to be your friend. He said he was going to knock me out, and I believed him. But to be honest it would have been worth it to see this kid get stuck on the boat for 4 months then get kicked out of the navy for hitting a girl. I told him why would you hit little ol' me? All I want is for us to be friends forever and share our secrets. :) People who let me control them should watch out... I'll go to town, I just can't resist.

Before this is where me snorting a line of nerds comes into play. For the girls birthday there were trick-or-treat sized nerd boxes strewn out on the table. This kid, whom I do not know, stacked them up and I said looks like Jenga, wanna play? Looser has to snort a line of it. He agrees and the way they are stacked I know if go first he'll be forced to loose. I can count... it wasn't too hard to figure out. So he looses and refuses to hold up his end of the deal. I volunteer myself and the rest of the night I had a sweet sugary taste dripping down the back of my throat, like candy on tap.

After this I decide it best if I go home and take a night "off" from my extensive partying. I'm trying to be over here with angle wings.

I miss you. I hope you had a safe flight. Tell you mom I said hi. Make sure you give Bam Bam some attention too. <3

Pray for me to be home sooner than we thought

Hi Kiddo's

Latley I haven't been able to sleep much. But that's another whole story in itself. Right now I feel better because 1. I got to talk to my mom on the fone and 2. I have decided to submit my request for an early separation from the navy.

Its something that I've known about for a while, just never had the... you know to go through with it. So here we go...

So far I've email the person who is supposed to help me write up my paperwork and he emailed me back. we'll probably be meeting tomorrow to discuss "the deal" i'm making with the devil.

I already know from the little research I've done that I have to pay the navy back the bonus they gave me for signing up for a 5th year. Which amounts to $4000 after taxes got taken out. A $4000 that I remember buying stupid things with such as a camera, phone, and my car AKA Paco the Purple Pathfinder (which is a much larger mistake within itself. FYI VA is a common wealth state, that means they can randomly charge you five hundred and thirty dollars for owning a car in their state even if your car has been in south carolina for the last two years :) But the more and more I live here and deal with the things on this boat the more that the $4000 is looking like a 99 cent price tag.

So pray for me! Pray that when I turn it in the majority will approve rather than deny. They freeking should half of them know me and agree with me and the other half hate me and fire me from my leadership position and bitch about the fact that the date of my separation is tattooed on my wrist.

So if I were to get this passed (knock on wood, cross your fingers) then this would mean I'd be getting out a year early. My original date of separation is september 11 of 2011. So i'd be getting out in september 11 of 2010, which is 9 months from today.

So pray for me!

Those were the days... that was LAST NIGHT!

These ARE the days! Every night I go out I think to myself how could it possible get more fun, and somehow the more I live the better it gets!

Before I get into last nights activities~Cleaning stations is now referred in my book as Shoot the Shit Stations! lol This chief walks up and we're all sitting at a table and she goes 'What are you guys doing? Is this shoot the shit stations or cleaning stations?' I looked at this old bitch like 'really.... aside from the fact that we clean the same 4 by 4 space everyday it does not take a full hour to shine the same piece of brass. I looked at her and almost fell out of my chair laughing that I was "shootin the shit" (like a natural) on.~

OK Last night! Wow! When a pregnant lady is the first one to hold your beer bong up for you, well you know its going to be a good night! By the way Thanks Jennifer. So we start out at Popeye's where the drinks are seriously 98% vodka and a splash of whatever else to give it color. Popeye calls this a chu hi. I call it the start of the end. We make our way down the honch... Geo's- which we didn't go in for fear of getting our white asses kicked for being the only white girls in there... Tom and yack's was empty. Brandi walked into George's (a country bar) I followed and got three steps in when I saw a kid in full camo hunting overalls! I about DIED! Then somehow I was back in the street. I didn't hear any music so the pain of being in a country bar must have made me jet out of there faster than the speed of sound. Of course we ended in Kenny's. My last favorite bar... two girls got in a fight (it was hilarious) I did the Jerk with my new jerk crew. lol

After 12 its the commands rule that you have to stop drinking.... so we left in search of an unknown bar. We went to this awesome place with a live band that had a Japanese lead singer who let me dance on stage and strum his guitar. haha. So after dancing my butt off for two hours we decide to leave. It was then that I discovered the stripper pole. :) Yah you know. I really wish Miss Kara Powers was with me at that moment! But most of all I'm glad no one had their cameras with them.

Quick stop at beef bowl then Ryan and I decided to hike up a hill, (I had no shoes on) and sat there for a little. I decided that if base secuirty found us they would have a field day with the numerous rules I was breaking and I don't feel like ever being stuck on the boat for restriction.

Rolled in at whatever time it was in the AM and got in bed with Brandi.

I love my life! "Those were the days!" Dude... that was last night. Miss you Terrones! lol

Here are some pictures from last weekend in Roppongi (when I thought it couldn't get any better)

60 Years of Disney Musical Magic

ITS HERE! My life is so much better!

A smoker is a smoker and a liar is a liar.

How hard is it to quit smoking? If you wanted something bad enough couldn't you do it for yourself of someone that you love? If it meant breaking up a relationship would you be able to stop? I guess I am just the kind of person that always gets her way no matter what and keeps asking till she gets the answer she wants. No doesn't always mean no. You just have to keep asking till you get the answer that you want to hear.

Maybe some people are just more weak than others. Maybe they don't know how to say No to their friends when they are offered a cigarette. Maybe they never really intended on quitting and they were just telling that person what they wanted to hear to shut them up for the moment.

You can't base a relationship off that and you can't have a marriage with it either.

Every ones seen He's Just Not That Into You, right? Where the husband is a liar. First he's just lying about the fact that he's smoking and telling his wife that he's quit because her father died of lung cancer. Then he's lying about his affair with another woman. In the end he's a sack of shit and she buys him a whole carton on cigarettes and leaves a note that says 'knock yourself out. P.S. I want a divorce.' I left a similar note, mine wasn't as poetic as that, "told you not to smoke, you trailer trash.' The message is all the same. A smoker is a smoker, and a liar is always a liar. Weather its today when he lies to you at the Navy Lodge and says "I'll quit" and feeds you the same bull shit as before or its its a lie about how he cheated 'No baby I never made out with Owens from security' Sooner or later its going to end, forever and for good. Better tomorrow than married with kids, hopefully today rather than tomorrow.

See this is where having orders that tie you to the same place the liar, cheater, smoker works really gets you down.

A "Good" Time to start your life...

Being in the Navy on a forward deployed carrier I see girls getting pregnant all the time. The fact of the matter here is that since I've arrived to the boat on February 11th 2007 (kind of a date that sticks with you. Similar to how prisoners remember the date they were sentenced.) I've seen well over 100-150 girls leave because they got pregnant. That is statically speaking, and its only the girls that I know in Air Department, not even taking into calculations the females from other departments. FYI they are about 6 hundred people in Air Department and 5500 people station onboard the USS George Washington. You can do the math.

Most of these pregnancies occurred during the ships transition from Norfolk VA to Yokosuka, Japan. Perhaps many females were scared to come to a country that didn't speak the language, culture shock is crippling for some. Or maybe they truly had intentions of fulfilling their dream to start a family and become a mother. Which ever it is, females have been getting themselves in this particular situation over and over again. Personally I've watch and helped many a friend back up those 4 cubes of what is their life as they know it and leave back to the states to start a new life, one where they're not the number 1 priority anymore.

Every time this happens I talk with my dad about it. Personally I think he might think that I am having the same thoughts of these girls because his response is always the same "Now is not a good time Sam, you need a house and a more money." My moms response is similar "Build a nest first honey." This always leaves me asking... When is a "good" time to have kids?

Here is how I see the next 10-15 years of my life playing out, and surprisingly there isn't one year that looks theoretically a "good time to start a family."

From 2006-2011 I will be in the same boat I am in now: USS George Washington. Sadly I am legally bound to call that some odd tons of metal and more metal "home." Not a good place to raise a baby. However while it may be true that if I found out I was pregnant tomorrow I would be on the first plane back to San Deigo, which happens to be my real home and also the place that every girl on my boat gets sent to when they pop positive for sperm. They would give me money for an apartment and living expenses and I wouldn't have to hear those God awful words "pulling lines and raising anchor USS George Washington is expected to get underway in ___ hours." The down side to this is my boyfriend, baby's father, soon to be husband, or fiancé would be on the boat when those words were said over the 1MC. I'd be going through pregnancy all alone, and then raising a baby all on my own. Not to mention that I'd be set free of the Navy by the time "my baby" was one. Set free with no degree and no income and a one year old baby. The picture is looking very dark for something that should be such a beautiful time in ones life.

My 4 years in the navy, 2006-2011 = not a "good" time to have a baby/start a family.

On September 11, 2011 a date that is burned into my head, and just happens to be tattooed onto my left wrist, is a date that I NEVER want to forget. Its the day that my contract with the military is over. I'm free and the GI Bill is going to pay my rent, books, and college tuition for the next three years. This too seems like not a good time to have a child, what with my full time student status and part-time job to pay the side bills like a car, medical and dental coverage and anything else. 2011-2014 AKA I am now 26 or 27. Still sadly = not a "good" time to have a baby/start a family. Oh also I'm sure I would get married sometime around here, and he'd say... (the golden words) "You should enjoy your time right now sammy girl, its not going to be just you and your husband forever. Once you have the baby its all over." :) ha love you dad! haha

After college obviously comes career. So say I get my degree and become a registered nurse and find a job at a local hospital. I am now 27 years old, ew... am I supposed to tell my boss three months into the job "Hey look I know you just hired me, however I've been waiting patiently for 7 years to have a child and start a family.... so can I get paid vacation time for that or something." No matter how cool of a boss that is he will either fire you for being a moron and actually asking that stupid question out loud or fire you... so you can have you kid that you've been wanting for so long. So I work for two years minimum and now I'm thirty one. :( yet still this time in my life = not a "good" time to have a child/start a family.

** Please keep in mind that a 22 year old body is going to bounce back faster and better after a pregnancy than a 30 year olds. Not to mention that I've always wanted to be a young mom, so they know that I'm sharp and won't try to pull a fast one on me.

So now I am Samantha Aker, a college graduate, a registered nurse and 5 years of service to her country. I have many great accomplishments however I never got to do the one thing that I wanted more than anything: to have my own family. To take my daughter/son on the train from San Diego to HB to meet his grandpa so we can have a bon fire at the beach with all his aunts. Or to have my Meme see her great great great grandchild.... because I know the ol bat is pushing her numbers but I love her so much and I am so thankful that I got to know her because she's a pretty interesting old woman. My sisters will attest to that, Meme's always been there for us and I would be SO pissed off if my daughter never got to have her in her life. Everybody has their own priorities and they change from day to day but when I look back at my life I don't want my greatest accomplishment or most important event in my life to be that I made Chief...woooo. No, I want to know that myself and my "husband" put something into this world, and also they have to take care of my old ass and wheel me around and feed me pancakes. No one wants to be old and alone and not have some great history.

So after reading all that.... When do you think is a "good" time? I'm interested to hear opinions.

There are worse things that could have happened

You can survey the damage for yourself. :(

Than buying a brand new thousand dollar macbook on the third of the month then having the screen crack on the 23rd and the "warranty doesn't cover it."

The US could somehow freakishly loose the war and we could all be governed by those wakie Iraquies. Suicide bombers would teach your kids in school. It would be worse...

Korea might actually launch a missile that reaches the United States.

I could have taken out a loan to pay for my new/old now macbook and still be paying on a broken piece of $#1T.

My ship could pull-out tomorrow.

My hair could all fall out :(

I could be broke. (This is a good point, because I usually am close to broke this time of month, Right before pay-day)

Global Warming

There are lots of things. So I am going to stop crying over spilt milk.

** This blog comes to you from Randy's perfectly intact macbook.

I wonder if I should shell out and buy a new one. This hurts. What would you do?

Death Grip on Your Life

Turns out that even when the Navy says "your free" You're really not! Poor Derick and Jamey are stuck here longer than the navy said they would be. Well at first they said they're out on the 28th and 29th of this month but now they're telling them they're leaving on the 8th because flights only leave out on Sundays. The 8th is a Tuesday.

If this doesn't prove how difficult it is to get away what can? I feel bad because I was like Oh really your not leaving till you don't know when. I can be out of here before you, because I'm a girl. The only way your leaving this B1#(h is if your pregnant or you jump in-front of a car.... if the first two don't apply you better load up on spaghetti-0s and baby wipes because your going underway in October with everyone else! :) Love the Navy Life. Sailors are meant to be on ships and ships are meant to be underway. Wish my recruiter would have told me that.

Well I've got to go find something else to occupy my time. Cap'n says we've got to be here till 4, on the dot. (It's true, he'll hold us here like prisoners until four'o'clock bell rings. I think the extra ten minutes that we have to give him mean the world to him) Its only 11am.

Randy's Duty Day :(

Today I had to rely on myself to entertain myself. Not an easy task. So after I woke up at nine am I decided to clean the house. After I did all the dishes and threw in a load of laundry in I was bored again. So I took a trip... and ended up in Yokohama. I got really lost which is weird because I know how to get there. I think it's because I decided to be adventurous and take whatever path I wanted. I took three trains there and walked around for about an hour once I got there. I guess I took the wrong exit. So now I'm back home.

I picked up some cute rain boots, since it rains here almost every other day, and some fresh flowers that sadly do not have a pot to live in. I am going to go to the nex after this and pick up a home for my flowers and maybe a new bed spread if they have any nice ones. With the boat pulling in its been slim pickin's with the necessities: bedding, hangers, clothes.

Bye<3

Number 5

Four hours of my life :) But it was worth it because its gorgeous!! My tattoo artist really liked it and took a picture of it, so it will probably end up in her profile online :( Nobody better copy me.

Randy's Tattoo

The Before

Right After

Advancement Day

Today was the test for petty officer. It started at seven thirty and it is now 910am and I am in the park in my civilian clothes drinking a soy chai and eating a very hefty breakfast burrito.

I considered reading every question to give the perception that I cared, but it was such a gorgeous day outside and I just did all my laundry so I had a pretty dress that I wanted to wear that allows me to get a nice tan-lines-free tan. So it was either pretend that I was actually trying and waste a perfectly good morning, not to mention the breakfast menu at the American Grill or "christmas tree" the test and enjoy another Great Navy Day in Yokosuka.

I'm not so sure why everyone is so quick to defend the Navy when they find out I'd rather not advance. Perhaps they've forgotten all the times the navy has screwed them over by taking away their freedom or something they've worked hard for to get. Some people must like being told what to wear, and being away from their families, or told that they are not allowed to be with their boyfriend.

Not me!! I am one for destroyed jeans, giving my boyfriend a hug when he needs it and land!!! I'm a huge fan of land and all the great amenities that come along with it. One of my favorites is grass and seeing the sun, also the great affects the sun has on the color of my skin. I do not enjoy being white as a ghost from a 4 month deployment. I also feel so bad for the girls who come here and fall in love and decide that they want to start a family and have a baby. Their options are limited to get pregnant and leave the command, also leaving their boyfriend (who can't be their husband, because you are not allowed to get married to someone in your command) and continuing their pregnancy alone, or wait. Wait till their time in the Navy is complete. Waiting is not fun, let me tell you. Waiting for the part of your life that you care about isn't fun.

Oh advancement day, if I had a dollar for every time someone said "well advance for the money." That is sad. I really don't need the money. Plus if I get a 1300 pay check I will probably loose faith and say 'Oh I'm fine, the Navy isn't that bad. I don't do much and get this nice little check on the 1st and the 15th.' Its important to remember the grass. Having a home, and a family. Being able to see your family daily or weekly or at your free will. Having the ability to make choices for yourself. I'm only 21, but I can't remember the last time someone put a curfew on me and told me "you can't wear that."

Perhaps I am jaded though. I hear my command is horrible compared to other commands in the Navy. Am I really supposed to aspire to be like my first class petty officer LPO who can't even compose a professional/casual email. I understand spelling and grammar isn't everyones strong suit, my sister will tell you I can't spell for crap, but if she saw what this 40 year old man was writing she would laugh. But he is my leader, and although his emails are more like cave paintings where you have to depict what the author is trying to convey (which is difficult when you think he might be trying to tell you to muster at a certain time) I have to follow him.

One of their favorite sayings is "Why wouldn't you like this? We get paid for doing nothing, maybe sweeping once in a while." I am so glad you have such high goals and expectations for yourself. Yes that is EXACTLY what I want for my career and life. I would love nothing more than to look back at my career and say yeah, I achieved so much! I am proud of me!

How people join this organization and stay is beyond me. I don't think I'll ever fully comprehend things like the CO closing the brow come time to get off of work. That would be like your boss seeing the clock hit five, running to the office doors and chaining them shut saying "nope sorry, maybe later when I feel like it." Or how this organization makes you wear your salary on your uniform. Not only that but your get treated with less respect if your lower. I think its in the petty officer handbook that when you make rank you don't have to use your manners and you can treat lower ranked sailors like they aren't human beings. After all they do call us "bodies." Like hey v-5 needs to send two bodies down to help carry on boxes of shit.

So with that said I bid you good day. I SAID GOOD DAY!

They blew up my house!!

This is probably the scariest thing i've ever seen. I would be dead because one went right into the tower and my berthing is under it. 

Tokyo Disney March 09

Randy's First Trip 

He did not want to take this but made him.

Seriously this was a four hour wait. It was our first ride too!! 

We were so happy that we got the front of the log!!!!! It was cool to be next to him too. That's not the way my Disneyland is.

This is after we landed. Being in the front of the log had its advantages... Like seeing Randy's face afterwards. :)

Churro, ears, and some hot chocolate!! Perfect days do exist. 

He actually wanted to get mickey gloves all on his own. I think it was all the better to beat me with but it was fun holding is hand.

The electric parade, where I danced out of control to the music!!

Their castle at night. 

Easter Sunday

Hey!! Happy Easter Everyone!! So I finally am getting around to writing this. I'm actually sitting in the park right now blogging. No lie... see there's a picture to prove it. Anyways everyone has been asking me why I haven't blogged in a while. 

Randy brought me a bouquet of daisies and a sugar free vanilla chai latte to my window. I took one and put it in my hair!! I LOVE spring! The weather is getting so nice. Almost as nice as Huntington. I've been able to wear shorts and dresses almost everyday!

So here's what's been going on lately. Randy and I celebrated Easter today. He got me a basket. It had hypnotic in it, hahah. Then we just went to go see Shopaholic. It hit very close to home! I feel like that's how I'm going to turn out. Only she was $1600 in debt and had to sell ALL her cloths to break even. I could never do that. I know how she feels though, I had to give away a few things when I left for boot camp. It was like giving away my children. 

My Easter Dress

I made you an egg mom! It says Miss You Mom!

Randy made a humpdy dumpty egg.

Also I was "chosen" to represent California for the Change of Command ceremony. It sounds like a good thing but nothing is with Senior. It was a punishment in disguise because everyone got off the three days that we had it and I had to stay till 3 for this thing! But as always I am more than happy to represent CA. I guess not everyone got to have their state. There were about 5 guys who fought over the flag with me. They were like "Oh I'm from CA too!! Why'd they pick you?" I was like well I guess I do a better job of representing California than you could do. Plus your from Northern California... How many shows do they have about your county? Ya that's what I thought. This one guy was like well I'm from LA. I was O cool, you have one show about your city... its just too bad Cops peaked in the 90's. haha I was not about to stand by the Mississippi flag or something. 

This is just from Saturday night. Brem, Nicole and Brandi.

This is one of my favorite things about Japan. The Cherry Blossoms!! I remember taking Christmas pictures here in late November and they had all red and orange leaves. 

Randy and I. 

ME!

Cozmo Park

Hi!

Last night Randy and I finally made it to the big ferris wheel. It's actually a whole amusement park with roller coasters and fair rides and games. It's really pretty at night because every where has lights and all the rides and escalators have lights all over them too. 

Even though we had a couple of issues on the way to Yokohama...like Randy was pusing my buttons really bad. Like he was pushing the big red button that has a clear plastic cover over it that says "do not touch" Yeah he was hitting that at 15 minute intervals. We didn't talk the whole 45 minute train ride to Yokohama. We're both so hard headed. 

But the night as a whole was so great! Jason and Smitty were there already so we hung out with them for a while. The park was free to get into, but the cab ride was 1475 and each ride/roller coaster was 700Y it was a little dumb. 

We went on the ferris wheel, which is supposed to be the tallest in Japan. While we were on it though they were saying it was the tallest in the world. I'm not sure but I know that it was super high up. Randy almost had a panic attack. He's a really charming kid, but I think seeing him freak out and squeeze his eyes closed tight with his death grip on the hand rail was the most adorable i've ever seen him be in the whole two years that I've known him. I knew he was a little scared of heights but wow. Like if i moved an millimeter i could have given him a heart attack easily. It was so cute!! I felt like a bitch for making him go on it afterward. Best fifteen minutes of my life! hahah<3>

After we went and got some food. Then went home. It was nice.

I am so white. Its ridiculous! 

Feels like the First Day

First off HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEME!! I can't call, but I wanted to say Happy Birthday to my Meme.

So today is my second official leave day. It feels like the first because everyone had work off yesterday so I had people to hang out with. Today was a nice day though. I did the regular things, shower, clean up my room, finish off the dishes and do some laundry. Oh that reminds me I need to get some more detergent right now before I forget.

But now I'm at Starbucks listening to every mom on this base try to shut their screaming banchie of a kid up. I swear this base is a whole other world when I'm at work. I'm so glad I don't have kids right now. I wouldn't be able to take it being in the military and all. These moms must feel so limmited. Being on a base and all...same people all the time. eh

But yeah I got Taco Bell for breakfast/lunch and wow! I walked in at the right time. I guess its lunch time for all the middle schoolers and high schoolers because the line went from two people to twenty in about thirty seconds. I came in just at the right time. 

I don't mind it all. I'm just happy that I didnt have to be locked in the metal box today from 7-4. It's nice!! 

Last night Randy and I saw "He's just not that into you." It was good, defiantly opened up my eyes. But I already knew that I am an idiot. Anyways after that we met up with Ashley and Jason for drinks at Kenny's. Ashley just got her first tattoo. A half sleeve. It looks great too, and her half sleeve was the same price of my tiny little kiss that looks like crap. I am going to get it retouched next check. Never going to Scratch Addiction again!! WOW! I will put up a picture when i get one of her. 

Other than that I'm just stoked to go to the giant ferris wheel today after Randy gets off of work!! We were supposed to go yesterday, but we were both too tired and didn't feel good. 

I'll post my picts of the largest ferris wheel in Japan when I get them...<3