Today was the day! Kevin FINALLY received his AFSC code 64P which means he will be a contracting officer. We were both a little surprised...stunned...and at a loss for words. Everyone had been so sure he would be getting maintenance, which was his number 1 choice. If not that then definitely intelligence which was his number 2 choice but certainly not his number 4 choice. It's not that he didn't want this field, but that his language and prior experience logically made the first choices in career easy.
I think it'll be great and believe everything happens for a reason. Still not entirely sure what he'll be doing other than he'll be working with or on contracts or contracting organizations or suppliers to get things for acquisitions...or something like that. So, yeah I really know pretty much nothing about it. Most bases do have contracting officers so we're not limited in where we can go, and his training will be two weeks so we'll be going to our duty station immediately (as of his EAD). From there he will TDY for training. Apparently he'll have the opportunity to go TDY a lot. We'll put in our list of base preferences tomorrow. Here's our top 5 CONUS (contiguous United States)
1. Mt. Home, ID
2. Hill, UT
3. McGuire, NJ
4. Wright Patterson, OH
5. Tinker, OK
Our top 5 OCONUS (outside contiguous United States)
1. Kadena, Okinawa JP
2. Hickam, Honalulu, HI
3. Anderson, Guam
4. Yokota, Tokyo JP
5. Mildenhal, England
If possible they will choose from these to place us, but realistically we could be placed anywhere. We should know where we'll be moving by the end of December or beginning of January so we'll count on, maybe, knowing by the time we graduate. We still won't know "when" even when we learn where.
In other good news this is an email I got from my professor. I couldn't help but share because I was so excited. Thanks to all those that helped edit, finalize, and upload my paper.
Hey Megan,
I just graded your paper and was thoroughly impressed- I was wondering if you do might actually want to do this as a 495 study?? I would LOVE to work with you on
this. email me if you
are interested in doing an easier version of this as an independent
study project. I think you should! my main area of research is imagination inflation/false memories so this is totally up my alley. let me know. -dr. p
I don't think I'll be able to because of graduation requirements and deadlines but I was still excited. I love Psychology and especially the research and study parts of it.
Kevin was really excited about learning his career code so we decided to go out to dinner to celebrate. It was delicious food and a horrible experience. We went to Pasta Co, because they have a lot of GF options. As soon as we got there Ellie melted down and wouldn't nurse. Then Alex started throwing things. We'd ordered and were waiting for our food, trying to calm and pacify the children and getting looks from all the other patrons... turns out they were looks of pity as several people tried to entertain Alex. It's a small restaurant and pretty nice so it was a massive mistake taking the kids there especially when we knew they hadn't been feeling well. Seriously, this was a major lapse in common sense and we paid dearly for it. I told Kevin I was done and we needed to leave, before the food even arrived, and a little too loudly I might add. I couldn't hear myself over Ellie crying in my ear. We got the food, boxed it up and retreated to our home where Ellie cried for two more hours. She was in pain, for sure, and it was miserable trying to soothe her with nothing working. A shout out to Chantal though for recommedning Aquaphor for her eczema! It's helped so much. I need to go to bed so I can get up at 5:00 again and get a workout in. I'm trying to make my way through Insanity... yikes.
I think it'll be great and believe everything happens for a reason. Still not entirely sure what he'll be doing other than he'll be working with or on contracts or contracting organizations or suppliers to get things for acquisitions...or something like that. So, yeah I really know pretty much nothing about it. Most bases do have contracting officers so we're not limited in where we can go, and his training will be two weeks so we'll be going to our duty station immediately (as of his EAD). From there he will TDY for training. Apparently he'll have the opportunity to go TDY a lot. We'll put in our list of base preferences tomorrow. Here's our top 5 CONUS (contiguous United States)
1. Mt. Home, ID
2. Hill, UT
3. McGuire, NJ
4. Wright Patterson, OH
5. Tinker, OK
Our top 5 OCONUS (outside contiguous United States)
1. Kadena, Okinawa JP
2. Hickam, Honalulu, HI
3. Anderson, Guam
4. Yokota, Tokyo JP
5. Mildenhal, England
If possible they will choose from these to place us, but realistically we could be placed anywhere. We should know where we'll be moving by the end of December or beginning of January so we'll count on, maybe, knowing by the time we graduate. We still won't know "when" even when we learn where.
In other good news this is an email I got from my professor. I couldn't help but share because I was so excited. Thanks to all those that helped edit, finalize, and upload my paper.
Hey Megan,
I just graded your paper and was thoroughly impressed- I was wondering if you do might actually want to do this as a 495 study?? I would LOVE to work with you on
this. email me if you
are interested in doing an easier version of this as an independent
study project. I think you should! my main area of research is imagination inflation/false memories so this is totally up my alley. let me know. -dr. p
I don't think I'll be able to because of graduation requirements and deadlines but I was still excited. I love Psychology and especially the research and study parts of it.
Kevin was really excited about learning his career code so we decided to go out to dinner to celebrate. It was delicious food and a horrible experience. We went to Pasta Co, because they have a lot of GF options. As soon as we got there Ellie melted down and wouldn't nurse. Then Alex started throwing things. We'd ordered and were waiting for our food, trying to calm and pacify the children and getting looks from all the other patrons... turns out they were looks of pity as several people tried to entertain Alex. It's a small restaurant and pretty nice so it was a massive mistake taking the kids there especially when we knew they hadn't been feeling well. Seriously, this was a major lapse in common sense and we paid dearly for it. I told Kevin I was done and we needed to leave, before the food even arrived, and a little too loudly I might add. I couldn't hear myself over Ellie crying in my ear. We got the food, boxed it up and retreated to our home where Ellie cried for two more hours. She was in pain, for sure, and it was miserable trying to soothe her with nothing working. A shout out to Chantal though for recommedning Aquaphor for her eczema! It's helped so much. I need to go to bed so I can get up at 5:00 again and get a workout in. I'm trying to make my way through Insanity... yikes.
I had to copy and paste this to read it. sounds like many good things (except for the baby meltdown in the restaurant). Congrats to both of you.
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