Women Warriors

I usually don't watch the show, but last night I watched the Extreme Makeover Home Edition where they built a house for the family of PFC Lori Piestewa. It was a real tear jerker. Sheahomes had a commercial that said, "they are moms, they are daughters, they are sisters, they are friends, they are our inspiration and they are our heroes" It showed pairs of women and at the end they showed PFC Piestewa's photo. As a military woman I am proud of the women that are out there fighting alongside their shipmates and soldiers. And I'm angry that the House Armed Services Committee and the President want women to take a step backwards. They want to close over 1,000 billets that are presently open to women because they are in "combat" zones and they want them behind the lines again. That's so stupid because there is no more "behind the lines" these days. PFC Piestewa was in a supply company and they ended up being shot at. At least let them fight back. I'm my day I was only allowed on supply or auxiliary ships. I thought that was pretty stupid too because all the military history I learned, that's the first ships the enemy hit. The Merchant's Marine was hit hard during WWII (they didn't get any recognition either). The enemy are hitting convoys and supply lines. There is no "front line" anymore in this war or any since WWII. I think the best comment I heard was "You can't tell me I'm not being shot at. You can't tell me I can't handle combat," said Provancha, who has nearly been hit by road bombs, rockets and the chow hall suicide bombing that killed 22 in December. "That was pretty frickin' direct fire if you ask me," she said, holding up a piece of shrapnel. Damn right!

My dog Sophie

My dog amazes me. I call her "Sophie the one-eyed wonder dog". We got her free from the pound because she was what they call a humane adoption. She was squished in the womb and has an underdeveloped head. That's why she was born blind in one eye. The man who dropped her off at the pound when she was 6 months said she was too stupid to potty train. Okay she's a little slow sometimes but we had her trained in a few week. Mind you we need new carpet now, but with 4 teenage boys the beige carpet didn't have an chance anyway! Sophie is part whippet and, we think, part bull terrier. She has a very short lower jaw so we had to get some teeth filed down so she could close her mouth. Where she's not slow is in her running. I have never seen a one-eyed dog that can cut around the table and chairs with such precision. She runs so fast that she's run up the walls. We like taking her to the dog park to meet other dogs and she runs them ragged once she gets over her shyness. It kind of scares her when they come up on her blind side. But when she gets going, they can't keep up. She different from the other greyhounds and whippets that come to the park in that she cuts in and out instead of running a straight line. She's an amazing dog and we love her to death. My husband takes her to Weinersnitzel all the time for hotdogs! Like I said, she's a spoiled dog.

Blah Day

Ever had those days when everything seems blah. Your job is blah, your family is blah, everything is blah. I think I need a new job, a new life, a new something. Mind you I wouldn't want another husband or family, they're exactly what I want. But I sure would like to win a million dollars or something and take them all the Disney World. It's rather silly, I have a job that I like and a life that I like. I live in the perfect city, everyone wants to live here, so I shouldn't have the blahs. But I guess it hits everyone. Speaking of my city, everytime I see the coventioners walking down the street with wonderment on their face I kind of smirk because I live here and you don't. You get to go back to cold snowy Wisconsin while I get to wear short sleeve shirts in January. Life is good after all.