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• 7Dec 09

  Oh look, it's last week all over again :(

  So yet again I call at 10am to make sure MEPS is a go... get told he'd have to call me back in 15...Gets the nice sinking feeling.
  
  Well nearly an hour goes by before recruiter calls back...CANCLED AGAIN "No estimation on when there will be one" .
  
  Apparently last week when it was cancled, it wasn't because of Thanksgiving the week before. But it was because the Proctor incharge of running it just up and quit, to go work for the A.C.E. So now we don't have one for the area. They are working on trying to get someone in, but it will take time, plus, with Christmas coming up, it is going to be hard to find someone to fill in.
  
  Now he's trying to get hold of the local Job Corp campus to see if he can't get me and the 3 others in to take the ASVAB there, so atleast we can get that out of the way, so we can try and SAVE A SPOT IN OUR MOS (job), becuase they are still being filled by alllll the other locations and the longer we go without saving a spot the greater the risk we can't get a slot for training, so eiher we have to take a different job - don't want anything different - or we have to wait for another 5 months to get to BCT/AIT. I already know that in the last cycle the slots for 31b were filled and over filled, so a bunch of people had to be delayed to this one - the cycle I SHOULD be going into. So the slots that were already hard enough to get are even harder as it is.
  
  So at this point it looks like my shipping to BCT will get bumped later no matter what , March is lesssssss and lessss likely each day I get delayed. And it sucks. If I have to wait till Aug/Sept to go, then I'll be heading to Ft. LW, MO in the onset of winter, and it gets freaking cold there at that time of the year been told by many is sucks there in the later months, I won't be able to do nearly as well as I could in better temps.
  
  I really don't want to have to switch recruiters, because mine is really cool, but... I can't sit around and wait forever, if I don't get to MEPS soon, and risk losing out on 31b because they can't do it here, then I'll have to find a recruiter in Spokane to work with so I can get this done already. Or demand that my recruiter sends me to Spokane for MEPS next week if he can't work something out this week.
  • Posted Dec 7, 2009 11:52 am PT
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• 6Dec 09

  Same drill as last time... hopefully it happens.

  Okay, just like last Sunday when I posted...
  
  I'll be going to MEPS tomorrow and the day after (as long as they don't cancle it AGAIN :evil. ASVAB tomorrow evening, and physical/eyes/ears/teeth/paperwork/ sworn in on Tuesday.
  
  Had time to get in a few more practice ASVABS, up to 87.9% on there , good score overall.
  
  I found out that to get the MOS 31b (MP) I'll need to get a "ST:90. Skilled Technical: GS+VE+MK+MC" - combination of 4 line scores - General Science (GS), Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehention (VE), Mathematics Knowledge (MK), Mechanical Comprehention (MC). So I'm not totally sure how my total practice scores broke down only gave me an overall number. I know on the real test in those areas there are 110 total questions (thus I can only mis 20 questions or no MOS) 200something total questions for the test. There are also other subjects covered that will count for overall score, but not included in the line scores - Auto / wood shop, electronics, and something else - those only matter if that's the type of job you are going for...
  
  Okay now I'm rambeling again .
  
  I've been using a free pass to Anytime Fitness . Nice place, Wens - first day - got in an hour, just tryin the place out, did the bikes, olyptical mac, some weight machs, and wht not. Not tooo hard of a work out, but good. Thurs I got in 1 hour 15 min, more reps on the weights, felt it a little that evening. On friday I got in a full 2 hours and 20 min NONSTOP, worked my ars off. was a little sore that night, but felt fine yesterday . I would of spent more time there Friday, but these two guys there were being total jerks, kept laughing AT me, making snide remarks, because I only had 50 lbs on each side of the butterfly thing ( I don't know what it's called for sure) = 100lbs total, and they were benching like 250lbs. They kept it up each time I went onto a different station. I acted like I didn't notice, and I wasn't going to tell them to shut up or the trainer to tell them to shut up because I didn't want to give them the benifit of acting like it was pi$$ing me off. Yes, I'm a girl, Yes, I was lifting lite, but I'm just starting. By the time I ship to BCT I want to be doing atleast 200lbs. In the 3 days I've been there I've added to how much I lift, how many reps at th machs I do and how long I'm there. So those two guys can just go *bleep* themselves.
  
  Starting to see som definition in me muskles , not a ton but some. Lost a few more pounds
  
  Couldn't go in Sat or today - closed to non-members this weekend. So they'll extend my pass two days this next week. Going to start up a membership, 129$ for 3 months, to get into shape. It's gonna be my birthday + Christmas prez. With the membership I'll get access to a trainer so he can whip my a$$ into shape, no letting me stop/slow down when I'm tired . Can't do the bike outside anymore, waaaayyyyy too cold now, been in the high 20's in the day to like 7 at night.
  
  Although I do find it sooooooooooo freaking funny that when the kid at the print shop - 20 - found out that I was starting at the gym he made the comment "Oh, she's gotta man up?" (mind you this is the guy that is like a foot and half taller than me, skinny as a pole) he about died when he found out I put in over an hour the first two days, he can only last 15min each time And on friday when I went in to pick up mom the boss asked how my day went and I said I did over 2 hours, her son Mark - a County Sheriff - jaw dropped, he couldn't even believe I could do that much
  
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  Gotta try and contact AIS again to get my transcripts... still haven't gotten hold of anyone in person yet, just a stupid automated system. It's a little hard to have them sent if they only take the order by Fax if I don't have access to a Fax mac and I need them ASAP, because they'll be going on vacation in a few days and I can't wait till they get back. I so don't want to have to drive over there to get them... over the pass in the mid of winter with a crap car and no heat in it...
  
  Anyway, it all things go well I'll be back Tuesday night with good news .
  
  Later for now.
  *hugs*
  
  P.S. Today would have been grandma's 80th birthday .
  • Posted Dec 6, 2009 9:20 pm PT
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• 30Nov 09

  Cancle that - well Delay that order.

  Called the recruiter at 10 to find out what other papers I needed to take with me... he got called earlier this morning, MEPS was cancled for this week thanks to Thanksgiving last week. It has been moved to next Monday/Tuesday... Yay, more waiting.
  • Posted Nov 30, 2009 12:38 pm PT
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