Welcome to “They call me Dependent”.

I’m a passionate twenty-something that loves to write and create.  I am an entrepreneur, artist, mother of two amazing kids, and wife aka “Dependent” of an Active Duty Service Member. This leads me to have a crazy and often entertaining life. I’m a Military Spouse Columnist and write a weekly Spouse Column appropriately titled, “Anything But Dependent”. This is my little corner in the Blogging world where I hope to share all of my interest in one place. And most importantly be unedited!! You don’t have to be a military spouse to feel at home here.  I love meeting new people and learning new things.  I’m an over thinker and an over doer. I work hard and play hard.  If you want to know something, just ask.

And we’re all older today. . .

It’s that time again! February 15, 2009 is the second annual 26.2 with Donna in Jacksonville, Florida!

100% of race proceeds go to breast cancer research and women living with breast cancer. 

I will be jog/walking (more so walking) the 1/2 marathon.

If you are interested in joining me, send me an email (marieangela (at) mac.com). I would love to get a team together!  I will be designing an “Anything But Dependent/milspouse” T-shirt with the breast care awareness ribbon to sell. Everything I make over the cost of the shirt will be donated at the Marathon.

And if you want to participate, you can wear the shirt and show you are a Military Spouse who supports Breast Cancer Awareness and Research!

Click Here for the Official Site!

The T-Shirt will be available asap!

Sci Fi Characters or Basketball Players?

I coach a U-11 Coed Basketball team on base.  I love it. I have 9-11 year olds and this age group keeps me moving and laughing. I encourage the kids to pick whatever name they want for their jerseys. This year’s team is unique to say the least.  As I stand in front of the shirt guy today to place my teams order, he is reading down the list . . .”Convicted?” he says. “Yes”, I reply. “Is this Bobbles, or Bubbles?” he asked in a concerned and confused voice. “That would be Bubbles,” I said. “So, Monkey, Bubbles, Convicted, Blade, The Man, Super Man, Spooner, and Kaylee,” He says. “Yep, that would be my team”, I sighed.  He chuckled along with the others in the office and all I can do is smile. These kids are awesome! Hopefully none of these names are foreshadowing to what their future holds.

Tube Daze – Hey Shipwrek!

Here is the latest and greatest from Pat over at TubeDaze.com.

If you don’t know Pat, well then you’re just not a good person. Go introduce yourself and support his “morale boosting” show by giving him some L$VE. 

Love the song Pat!

Episode 2-05

 

THE BATTLE ‘E’ WINNERS!

Here is “The List” 

Congrats to all the winners, especially the USS FL (B).

 the COMSUBPAC message:

UNCLASSIFIED//
R 010001Z JAN 09
FM COMSUBPAC PEARL HARBOR HI//00//
TO SUBPAC
MSGID/GENADMIN/COMSUBPAC//
SUBJ/BATTLE EFFICIENCY COMPETITION//
REF/A/DOC/COMNAVSUBFOR/19JUL06//
AMPN/COMNAVSUBFORINST 3590.15C, BATTLE
EFFICIENCY COMPETITION AND INTRATYPE SERVICE AWARDS//
RMKS/1. PER REF A, IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE THAT I ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING WINNERS OF THE 2008 BATTLE EFFICIENCY COMPETITION:
 

Wednesday Fun. . .

FFA ( Fast Food Anonymous)

 

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.  That’s what I keep telling myself.  I have really change my eating habits over the last few months.  I’ve been reading labels, buying fresh fruit and veggies every week and making out weekly menus so that we never have to guess what to make for dinner.  It has been WONDERFUL.  I eat 6 times a day.  I am never hungry, I have plenty of energy and I never have that full bloated feeling of eating too much.  Even the kids and husband have gotten use to eating the whole wheat bread and pasta!  We are all eating better and it shows!  Tonight we had Violin practice, then straight to Basketball practice.  After Basketball we splurged and stopped at McDonalds.

The Parents are coming. . .

This was an unplanned visit. My parents are coming in from St. Louis and don’t seem to get that this is work, not a vacation for me. They will be leaving freezing weather for my warm sunny porch and I will be getting ready to have two adults in my house which I must tote around to practices, games, and rearrange my schedule for work and play. I did politely inform the planner of the two, which would be my Mom that this wasn’t as good of a time as originally thought and that I would rather them come at a later date. With that said, they decided to still come now. If I knew I could say, “don’t come” without causing a family uprising, I would. I think a may have an anxiety attack, but other than that, I’ll make it through.

When did you start dressing like a Mom!?

“When did you start wearing cardigans and khaki’s?!” That’s what my husband asked when looking at a picture of me in a pair of low rise hip hugger jeans and a very snug little t-shirt with the words “charmer” across the boobs. I wanted to throw my Kate Spade Flats at his head.  ”I still have those jeans and that shirt”, I exclaimed!

2009 = More or Less $$

Most of you know about our annual increase in Base Pay (3.9% for 2009), but BAH has also been reevaluated and you need to check it out! 

Your BAH will either go up, down or stay the same. You can CLICK HERE and put in you Zip Code to find out what you will be getting on your next pay check!

Don’t get all upset if you have a mortgage or pay rent and your BAH shows that it is going down. You are grandfathered in, which means you keep your current BAH. 

But, if you are just moving off base, or looking into buying, beware, you will be receiving whatever the new BAH is.

It’s good to know what you are supposed to be receiving so that if it is ever wrong you can catch it and not end up owing the Military for getting “over paid”.