The number one thing that makes me feel uncomfortable is dressing to impress. I regularly wear just normal loose fit clothing , not really caring if it matches or not. Letting my tattoo's and piercings show, cause its just another characteristic, that makes me feel more as myself.
Recently I had to wear a nice”dress to impress” outfit. It was a nice black button up shirt with a gray sweater vest,and khaki pants. No piercings or tattoos showing, I felt really out of place and not like myself. As the day went by I realized, by friends and professors talking to me, that just because I was dressed up nice, or what they call” cleans up well”. I knew that either way I dressed, I was still me. I could still make my friends laugh and still have a good time. It didn't change who I was on the inside and people still seen me as who I truly was.
I really enjoyed this experience and it taught me that my appearance doesn't change ,who I really am.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
It's Not The Real Deal
I recently read a posting at The Princess And The Blog that was written on the television series Army Wives. In this blog the writer describes that the show proves how the standard and code of the army wife has changed. Tell me this though, what was that code!?
As the writer goes on in this blog, she says, "I myself would rather see the backstabbing, the gossip, and the pure unadulterated truth."She sees the show as the true lifestyle of an army wife when really the producer is putting the backstabbing, the gossip, and the pure unadulterated truth to please the audiences watching it. There's no "real life" to any television show. Army Wives to me is just another a soap opera. This show is far from the real, truthful life of military wives and their loved ones.
The only thing that catches the audiences attention is the word "Army" in the title. Being a country at war, this makes people want to watch it. People want to understand what soldiers and their families go through. I have served six years in the army. I have been to combat. I had to leave my wife and daughter behind. The producers of this show truly don't capture the meaning of the emotional state in which families and soldiers go through during deployment. They don't even come close to caputuring the true emotions of a father leaving his daughter and watching her grow and learn without him,or the emotions in which a daughter goes through as she receives the folded flag that was just draped over her mother's casket.
What I have learned through my military experience is that you shouldn't believe anything on television unless its live footage. You will never get the real emotions of what we soldiers and our families go through. I can see why this show would piss off a lot of soldiers and there families. If you really want to know how it feels, marry a soldier.
As the writer goes on in this blog, she says, "I myself would rather see the backstabbing, the gossip, and the pure unadulterated truth."She sees the show as the true lifestyle of an army wife when really the producer is putting the backstabbing, the gossip, and the pure unadulterated truth to please the audiences watching it. There's no "real life" to any television show. Army Wives to me is just another a soap opera. This show is far from the real, truthful life of military wives and their loved ones.
The only thing that catches the audiences attention is the word "Army" in the title. Being a country at war, this makes people want to watch it. People want to understand what soldiers and their families go through. I have served six years in the army. I have been to combat. I had to leave my wife and daughter behind. The producers of this show truly don't capture the meaning of the emotional state in which families and soldiers go through during deployment. They don't even come close to caputuring the true emotions of a father leaving his daughter and watching her grow and learn without him,or the emotions in which a daughter goes through as she receives the folded flag that was just draped over her mother's casket.
What I have learned through my military experience is that you shouldn't believe anything on television unless its live footage. You will never get the real emotions of what we soldiers and our families go through. I can see why this show would piss off a lot of soldiers and there families. If you really want to know how it feels, marry a soldier.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
My Future
I love classic Corvette restoration. In fact, I’m going back to school just so I can get a job restoring Corvettes for the rest of my life—and get paid for it.
Corvette earned its “American Muscle” name after the first one was built back in 1953, proving it offered nothing but an adrenaline rush of pure power and speed. Of course, Ford Mustangs are American made too, but Corvettes have blown the roof off of hot rod ratings.
When I first saw a Corvette I thought it wasn’t worth a damn. After seeing that first ‘vette, I started researching some history and saw what real American Muscle was about. I was then convinced I should start building one. Damn, the feeling of working on my first 1976 Corvette was unreal. Yeah, I was nervous, thinking, “Is this Corvette going to turn heads or make them laugh?” Then I let pride shine through and it was time to make my dream come true.
I imagine myself going to a junkyard and finding a classic corvette sitting in the weeds, covered in rust. At first, I’m not interested in it because it’s got weeds growing through it and needs too much work. But then I take another look, further than what my eye can see. I imagine rolling a 1976 corvette stingray off a trailer and into my garage. I imagine working and changing the look of this rust bucket into the everyday hot rod that I dream of. I imagine the joyful feeling that I would get being the one who built this eye catcher, and having the pride to say “I rebuilt this corvette from nothing and now it’s a show stopper”.
And as I day dream of these classic cars, I can imagine what they look like before I’m finished with them. That’s why it’s my future.
Corvette earned its “American Muscle” name after the first one was built back in 1953, proving it offered nothing but an adrenaline rush of pure power and speed. Of course, Ford Mustangs are American made too, but Corvettes have blown the roof off of hot rod ratings.
When I first saw a Corvette I thought it wasn’t worth a damn. After seeing that first ‘vette, I started researching some history and saw what real American Muscle was about. I was then convinced I should start building one. Damn, the feeling of working on my first 1976 Corvette was unreal. Yeah, I was nervous, thinking, “Is this Corvette going to turn heads or make them laugh?” Then I let pride shine through and it was time to make my dream come true.
I imagine myself going to a junkyard and finding a classic corvette sitting in the weeds, covered in rust. At first, I’m not interested in it because it’s got weeds growing through it and needs too much work. But then I take another look, further than what my eye can see. I imagine rolling a 1976 corvette stingray off a trailer and into my garage. I imagine working and changing the look of this rust bucket into the everyday hot rod that I dream of. I imagine the joyful feeling that I would get being the one who built this eye catcher, and having the pride to say “I rebuilt this corvette from nothing and now it’s a show stopper”.
And as I day dream of these classic cars, I can imagine what they look like before I’m finished with them. That’s why it’s my future.
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