Unassigned Entry #2 Navy: The other side of the story

For this semester I plan on keeping a theme with my unassigned blog entry's. I plan on telling my side of the story of being with a Navy man. I hope everyone enjoys it and continues to read my blog. :)

Like I have said before "it is never easy having someone you love be in the military whether it be boyfriend, girlfriend, son, daughter, brother, mother, sister, father, ex..," but the one thing that stays the same is that no matter how far the distance is you will always love them. In my case that is very true. My boyfriend who is in the Navy is of now stationed in Great Lakes, IL. He is finishing up his ATT schooling and then he will soon be transferred to California to finish his job training, better known as A School.

While all of this is going on I am stuck at home to go to school and well I would be working except for the fact that Pizza Hut is corrupt so I quit my job and now they are out one person, but hey not my fault they treated me like crap. Anyways, I live my day to day life,but it is never the same not having the one person you love by your side. I have been very involved in many support groups online and they do help, but either way you slice it, it will never be the same. We both are miserable, but hey when the Navy has your man there is really nothing you can do, but work around them. At least I still have most of my freedom. Knowing how lonely we both were, my boyfriend planned a trip for me to come up there to see him the weekend before Valentine's day so we could see each other and celebrate. Little did I know I would be in for the surprise of my life.

Upon arriving into Chicago on the 8th of February, I was freezing, but so glad to be off the plane due to my terrible fear of flying. Not only was it a four hour flight, I then had to drive two hours just to get to the base (for those of you who have never been there, traffic in Chicago on a Friday night is well......you get the gist.). Any who, seeing him after the first month and a half of him being gone was like seeing him for the first time. It was amazing and the best feeling to know I could have my best friend and better half back even if it was only for three days, but It was so worth it. After finally making it to the base and back to our place for the night, I had met all his family and we had been left alone for the evening until the morning when we would venture out into Chicago to see Sears Tower.


Since we would not be together for Valentine's day he decided we should celebrate that night. After exchanging what I though was all our gifts, he surprised me with one more. He told me he loved me and to close my eyes. After just a few moments of suspense I opened my eyes to see my boyfriend on one knee holding a small black box with the most beautiful ring I had ever seen. I then heard the words "will you marry me" and I had to hold back the tears of extreme joy so I could get out the word "yes". I was so surprised, but so happy. I had no idea that he had planned this or that he had already called my parents right before we picked him up to ask them if he could marry me. I was so happy to think that I will be able to spend the rest of my life with this man and no matter where he goes I will be able to go with him and be a family wherever the Navy may take him.

Being with someone in the Navy is never easy, but when you go from girlfriend to fiancee it makes it that much easier to know one day we will always be together.

I hoped this story is not to sappy and I will continue the semester with more stories from the other side of the  Navy: Being the Fiancee.
  -Alexandria

Entry #2 Slanted Reporting

1) http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/03/09/hospital-dismisses-pregnant-womans-labor-pains-kidney-stones/

If you read this story, the link above, you would learn that a 19 year old was about 8 months pregnant and complaining of lower back pain so she went to the hospital to get treated. No one would help her and then 18 hours later she gave birth. This story is slanted because it has the feel of that they are taking the side of the hospital. All they talk about is how the hospital was busy with other patients and how they said it was just kidney stones. What they fail to tell you is just how bad this story really is.

2)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1364175/Pregnant-student-nurse-told-labour-pains-kidney-stones--spots-babys-head.html?ITO=1490

If you then read this link, you will find the whole story,truth. The hospital failed to do their job. If they clearly had taken as much time as they said they did on checking out this patient and claiming it to be "kidney stones", then why did 18 hours later she was in the wide open hospital giving birth to a pre mature baby with the chord wrapped around its neck. The first story has clearly favored the hospital because they leave out all the horrible details of just how sever of pain this young girl was in and how the only person to check on her was another patient in another room.

Slanted reporting can sometimes save people from embaresment or from being hurt, but in this story it just made it seem like mistreating a patient is fine, but it is not. The hospital should be lucky that this girl is not suing them for lack of mistreatment and for her baby being born with no pre care before birth.

Unassigned Entry #1 Navy: The other side of the story

As of 10/25/12 I became the girlfriend of a United States Navy Sailor. My boyfriend of almost five years joined the Navy to defend our country and fight for our freedom. On the outside I was so proud of him for doing this, but on the inside I was a disaster zone. Soon enough my outside would join my inside and I became and emotional wreck. I was scared beyond belief. This is a huge commitment and not only was i afraid of losing him as my boyfriend, but I was scared of losing him in combat.
                                                                                                                              The day he left for boot camp was a day I will never forget. I took him to his meeting place said my goodbye and drove off with tears streaming from my face. This was such a huge change for me. For the next two months I would have no contact with the person I had just spent the last four and a half years of my life with. Those two months killed me, but I knew that if I could do this I could handle anything. After two months of waiting the day came where we would finally be reunited. I loved him so much that I would wake up at four a.m., wait in the freezing snow for half and hour and sit on an icy bench just to see him again. At nine o clock finally seated the procession started and each division came in. 031,032 I waited and waited and when they called 038 I screamed my head off I knew he was in there and soon enough he would be mine again. The ceremony was phenomenal but the woman who was in charged was testing my patience. After repeating the same information what seemed like a million times she said those two words I was waiting for..."Liberty Calls". Once those words were said all bets were off. I flew down the stairs not caring of who I took down in the process I searched and search and then he came rushing out of the crowd. I have never been so happy in my life to see him. I was over joyed and filled with tears. I knew he was mine and a keeper at that. I was speechless all I could do was cry and smile. He was able to come home with me for two weeks before he had to go back to A-school and those two weeks were incredible. I am so lucky to have him in my life. The day he went back I knew the worst was over, but it is never saying goodbye to the one you love the most. This whole experience has taught me that somethings in life no matter hard it is is worth the fight. I was so new to this Navy girlfriend business and was so lost. I had no one to talk to let alone anyone who knew what I was going through until I snooped around on Facebook. My Sailor Stole My Heart (  https://www.facebook.com/MySailorStoleMyHeart?fref=ts) is the best website I could have found. There are people there my age who know what I am going through and that makes it so much easier to deal with. My boyfriend is serving our country to keep us free and I am fighting the battle of keeping us together and supporting him fight for our freedom.

My blog is showing support for all the girlfriends, wife  and fiances of Navy Sailors who are fighting their own battle and holding the fort down at home. I hope this blog can help some else know that they are not alone in this fight. -Alexandria                                                 

Entry #1 Blogs and I

Blogs and I are very new to each other. I have never blogged before nor have I ever had an interest in doing so. When exploring my blogs of choice I came across the wide variety of blogs that are out there. I never knew how many blogs were out there or that you can blog just about anything and everything. Out of all the blogs I looked at, the corporate blogs kept my interest and kept me wanting to read more. I was surprised by how many corporate blogs there are and I never knew that Google had its own blog. I would like to focus on the corporate blogs.

Where there is good....

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/love-these-valentines-treats

The best corporate blog in my opinion was the Whole Story (Whole Foods Blog) blog. I noticed that not only was it a very professional advertisement blog, but it connected on a personal level to myself. They were advertising their products, but on a relate able level. There current post is about Valentine's Day. It talks about different gifts to get and different Valentine's Day ideas while suggestive selling their products. Not only is it very clever, but it was very enjoyable to read. I would defiantly recommend this blog and will most likely continue to read this particular blog.

There is bad....

http://www.ebaychatter.com/

While the Whole Foods Blog was creative and fun, but also professional, eBay Chatter (eBay's Blog) is not a blog I will ever find myself reading again. eBay Chatter in my opinion is not a well put together or interesting blog. Their blog is all over the place and very inconsistent. At first the blog looked decent, but as I continued reading I was so lost and could not figure out if I was looking for something to buy or actually looking at actual posts. This blog is just a second eBay. All I could find were adds for peoples merchandise and what people bought. I found no information of value and will never be looking at this blog again.

At the conclusion of my blogging search I found that there are many types of blogs I never knew about. Corporate blogs are very useful not only to the company, but also to the consumers only if it is well structured with the consumer in mind.

 

 I hope everyone enjoyed my blog. Until next time -Alexandria

All About Me

Hello everyone!
 My name is Alexandria Bittinger and every time I type my name the computer tells me I am wrong (laughs out loud). I am 19 years young and I am just trying to survive in this crazy world. I am a freshman at Glendale Community College and I currently have not picked my major, but I hope to soon. I am hoping to enter the Interior Design world, but I am not sure if that is what I really want to do. After I graduate from Glendale Community College I am planning on attending a four year university to finish up the rest of my schooling  I am the luckiest girl in the world because I have the best fiance I could ever ask for. We have been together for almost five years and he just recently joined the Navy so I am trying to get used to the Navy life style. He just recently purposed to me on February 8, 2013 and I couldn't be happier  I love to sing anywhere and everywhere even at my job,but they will not hear me sing to much longer because I am currently in the process of quitting. Never work at Pizza Hut you will regret it. Well that is me, I hope you have enjoyed my first blog and I hope you continue to read.
                                          Yours truly, -Alexandria