Postcard/ Christmas Card Swap

Hello everyone!!

I know that it has been forever since my last post. But was wondering who would like to do a pastcard or Christmas card swap this year??

I think that it would be pretty awesome to see where you would get a card from.

Here is my address:

Jennifer Glover

PSC 827 Box 382

FPO, AE 09617

So if I get one from you I will send one to you!

Hope that you all have a great day!!

See you all later!

Just wanted to do a quick post for you all. Tomorrow I will be leaving to be deployed on the USNS Comfort...for all that do not know that is one of the Navy's hospital ships. I am going on a humantarian cruise through September. So I promise once I get back that I will finish the 30 day challenge and tell you all about the deployment. Hope you all have a great spring and summer!

Until later,

30 Day Challenge: Day 3

Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favorite show

This is just one of my favorite shows that I like to watch

30 Day Challenge: Day 2

Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been close with for the longest

I met Baylee during Corps School. We might have not known each other the longest but I would consider her one of my best friends!

I miss her so much since she got stationed in Japan and I am in Italy!

Are there really such things as Stupid Questions??

Here is a video that I thought that I would share...Made me laugh! Hope you all have a great day!

30 Day Challenge: Day 1

Day 01 - A picture of yourself with fifteen facts.

1. Im a Hospital Corpsman in the US Navy

2. 6ft tall

3. I love dogs

4. Love to travel

5. Favorite snack is granny smith apples with peanut butter

6. Paris is my favorite city in Europe so far

7. I am proud to be from Southern Illinois

8. I already have a degree in Healthcare Management

9. Love college football

10. I like to go fising and hunting

11. Love to cook and to bake

12. Hate to go grocery shopping

13. Can be slightly inpatient at times

14. Not a big fan of talking on the phone...would rather text

15. Two favorite colors are chocolate and teal

Mondays...

Hope that everyone is enjoying their Monday so far...if not here is a video for you..



If you have never watched any of her videos on youtube, you should start!! She has some really funny ones! I think that I have watched pretty much all of them so far. I will most likely start posting some more of them in the near future.

I think that tomorrow I will start the 30 Day Picture Challenge that everyone on facebook seems to be doing....so might as well join in on the fun right?

Until later,

What a day~

Hello everyone!

Hope that your day is going well so far. My day started way to early than I would had like it to. We had an uniform inspection this morning. We had to be in fromt of the hospital no later than 0630! So that meant I had to get up at least by 0445...way to early for me! But I am glad to say that I passed inspection and the CO (commanding officer of the hospital) said that I did an outstanding job on shining my boots. lol

From being up so early, my day went by so slow!! I felt like time was standing still. I didn't think that 1600 would ever get here! But I have to say that it wasn't too crazy of a day at the clinic. Which I am thankful for.

So now I am off to have dinner with a couple of great friends!!
Ciao Ciao!!

My first Christmas overseas!

Happy Holidays!!

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas!

My Christmas was pretty good considering this was my first Christmas that I was away from my family.

Thank goodness for Skype!!

Christmas morning I called back home and opened presents with my family via skype. It was awesome! It kinda felt like I was actually back home in Illinois opening presents with them!

Then I got together with a few people that I work with for a great lunch.

I have to say, it was a pretty decent meal that we all put together.

It was almost as good as back home!

Later in the evening I skyped the other side of my family while they were enjoying their time together. I was actually put on the big screen tv in the living room so that everyone could see. Which was nice to be able to see and talk to everyone :)

So that was my Christmas, even though it wasn't exactly like home, I still think that I had a great one.

Hope you all have a great rest of the year!

Any good plans for the 31st?

News Flash!!! Mail Exchange!!

Hey Guys!!

Hope that you are all having a great week and getting ready for Thanksgiving!!

So I just thought of this because right now I can't seem to fall back to sleep.

I hate when this happens, dont you?

So here's my idea....

I figured that I could put my address up

and if someone mails me anything that

I will mail them something in return.

I figured that you could mail things that represent where you are from, things you like or anything like that.

So as you all know, I am in the military and I am stationed in Italy, so if you decide to do this just make sure that you don't mail some crazy items that the USP would frown upon.

(Plus I love getting mail, it makes my day!)

Just make sure that you put a little note saying where you heard about this and if you have a blog I will start following it and I will write about what I got as well!!

So here is my address:

Jennifer Glover

PSC 827 Box 382

FPO AE 09617

*Just a little note, if you want it to get here in a timely fashion, you need to send it priority just so it wont take months to get over here*

Tell any of your blogging friends, I would love to see how many new people I can meet through this experiment :)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Places I have been

Hello Everyone!

Sorry that it has been a while since my last post. So I thought that I would share with you a few pics from the places that I have been able to go to since I have been here in Italy.

Me and my friend Smith at work
Ischia, Italy

Napflion, Greece

Izmir, Turkey

Athens, Greece

Rota, Spain

Hope that you all have a great week!

Until later,

Some of my favorite Quotes

Beautiful pictures are developed from negatives in a darkroom..

So if you see darkness in your life

be reassured that a beautiful picture is being prepared!

~quote off a friends facebook~

We are like teabags..

We don't know how strong we are until we are in hot water!

~my friend Krystal Yagovane from bootcamp~

See the beauty in everything.

~unknown~

You were given this life because you're

strong enough to live it!

~unknown~

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different

~Coco Chanel~

Some where there is someone that dreams of your smile, finds in your presence that lif is worthwile, so when you are lonely remember it's true, someone somewhere is thinking of you.

~unknown~

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

~Eleanor Roosevelt~

Things I Miss....

Being stationed in Italy is great and a good oppurtunity for me as well,

but there are a few things that I still miss and sometimes wish that I would have picked some where state side first besides Italy.

So here's my list:

1. Miss my family including my dog, Tinker!

2. Being able to drive

(since I don't have a car over here)

3. Having a full kitchen to cook in!

(but I am thankful for the small one that I have)

4. Being able to pay with US Dollars every where I go

(converting to €'s is a pain sometimes)

5. Starbucks!!

6. Dairy Queen Blizzards

7. Being able to go to college football games!

8. My friends from back home

9. The fall weather

(it's not the same here in Italy)

10. Enjoying the holidays with the fam.

(haven't had to experience a holiday yet with out them yet over here, but im sure its not going to be the same)

Well, thats all that I can think of, but Im sure that there are more..

I promise that my next post will be happier!

Hope you all enjoy your Monday off due to Columbus day!

Until Later,

O Curls, Curls! Where Forth Art Thou, Curls?

I know that this post might seem a little strange but I was thinking about this this afternoon...

I am wondering what happened to my natural curly hair???

It has gone from great curls to just normal straight hair, just out of no where. Well, maybe it has been going on since January when I was in bootcamp. Slowly since then it has gotten more straight.

Crazy!!!

I miss just being able to just get of the shower, put some mousse in it and be done with it! Now I have to blow dry it and then straighten it

So here are a couple of pics to show what I am talking about:

This was taken in July of last year and thats how it was like up to bootcamp:

And the current pic of me:

See what I mean!!

I only used the straightener just to make it lay better!

Sorry for having you to read about my crazy thoughts that just come out of no where!

Hope that you all have a GREAT day!

Until Later,

Just some thoughts...

Some thoughts since being here in Italy.....

Working and living in Italy has been great up to this point!

I have met so many great people so far and

have made some great new friends as well!

But at the moment I am feeling a little bit lonely even though I am surrounded by so many people.

I am missing my family, which I know is normal by moving so far away from home.

I am also missing my good friends at home and the ones that I made while I was at Naval Corps School.

And one of the few people that I am missing is a guy that I met while I was there, and he was also going to Corps school as well. I guess that you would call it just a little fling. It wasn't anything serious but he was one of the nicest guys that I have met in a while.

I think what I am missing about him is just his company. He was always so kind to me and always had compliments for me. And he was just nice to be around as well.

So currently he is stationed in San Diego and is going to be with the Marines and will most likely going to be deployed once he gets done with his training in

Field Medical Training.

And as you all know, I am stationed in Naples, Italy.

Just a little distance problem as of right now.

I know that I am going to have to get over this in the near future

and hopefully I will meet some great guy over here.

But I guess since I am feeling a little bit lonely right now, so maybe thats while I am having these feelings.

So other than that, Italy has been great!

The next post will be more interesting than what this one has been, I promise!!

So hope that you all have a great rest of the week!!

Ciao!

Well I made it to Italy!

I got into Naples on the 17th of July. So far it has been pretty nice. I think that Im going to like it here.

I still miss everyone back in the states.

I haven't really done a whole lot with my job just yet. I had to do a lot of online training before I could even get to my department. Im suppose to be working in opthalmology. That should be interesting, since I don't haveany clue about the eyes except for general information. So I will keep an opened mind to learn about it and it should turn out alright. One major plus of working in that department is that one of my coworkers is really awesome, so we should have some good times at work.

So last week I went on a winery tour in Taurasi, Italy. Let me tell you it was BEAUTIFUL!!! We went to the Caggiano Winery and it was just like what you would imagine Italy to look like with all of the vineyards. I will post pictures later!

So this weekend should be a good one.

Tonight Im going on another winery tour :)

Saturday, the plans are still being made and I will update you on that.

Sunday, Im going on another tour of a city, not really sure what the name of it is but it sounds really interesting.

So thats it for now.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Until Later,

I'm Back!

Hey everyone...if there is still people around thats going to read my blog since I have been MIA for the past 6 months. There's a good reason for me being gone...I went to bootcamp in Jan. I graduated from there on March 19 and then went straight to my A school for Hospital Corpsman. I just graduated from school on July 1. I had a couple weeks of leave which was really nice and the best part was to be able to be around my family for the whole time. Now I am stationed in Naples, Italy for 2 years working at the Naval Hospital that is on base. The base is really nice from what I can tell from what I have seen of it so far. So hopefully I will be better at posting to keep all of you updated on my travels here and what is going on.

Until later,

Until Later...

So my name of my blog is actually going to be starting in a couple of days!

But before I go on, just wanted to say that I had a great time on the cruise that I went on to the Bahamas on Norwegian Cruise Line. I can't wait to go back on another on with the same cruise line. (Especially their new ship, The Epic that they are going to have really soon. It looks AMAZING!)

I will have to post some pics another day, because I am crazy busy right at the moment.

So back to the title...I leave for bootcamp tomorrow! Where has the time gone? These past 10 months have flown by! I have to go meet with my recruiter at 1130 tomorrow I guess to finish up some paper work and then after that I will be taken up to St. Louis where the processing place is. I will spend the night up there and on the 20th I will get up really early and do my last bit of physicals. I think that the only things that they will really check is my weight, do a drug test and pregancy test and that should be it. I will swear in again, this time offically, and then I will be off to Great Lakes, IL to bootcamp.

So right now, I am doing pretty good. Just trying to get some last minute things done before I have to leave. I will be up there for 8 weeks and should graduate sometime around the 3rd week in March.

I am going to miss reading all of your posts while I am gone! Oh well, guess that will give me something to do when I get done.

I will do an update post once I graduate, just so that you all know that I made it lol

Until Later,

The Past Couple of Weeks

December 13, 2009

Sunday

I had my graduation/going away party.

Had a better than expected turn out. We had about 35 people show up which was a little over half of how many we invited. At first we thought that we didn't order enough food, but as it turned out, we had a lot of left overs!

December 18, 2009

Friday

Celebrated a friend's birthday!

I called into work that night, which I normally don't do that, but let me tell you, it was completely worth it!

I don't think that I had that much of a good time since the start of the fall semester.

I didn't get home until 130 or so.

I got to meet some of her friends and they wereawesome.

December 19, 2009

Saturday

Was the big day!

(well at least in the education part of my life!)

Graduation had finally come.

It started at 930 in the morning.

It was a pretty nice ceremony, but of course they could have done with out some parts of it, but thats ok.

My mom, dad, sister, grandma, uncle, and aunt all got to go to it.

My uncle had just gotten home from Seattle they night before, so it was nice that he could make it as well.

December 20, 2009

Sunday

Went shopping all day in St. Louis!

Me, mom, my sister and my uncle left around 730 that morning.

We went to the Galleria Mall and maybe spent a few hours there.

Then we went to Trader Joes, one of my favorite stores.

Looked around WholeFoods. First time going there, and I wish there was one closer to me instead of being 2 hours away.

Then we went to Costco, which is one of my uncle's favorite places to shop at. I have to say they do have pretty good deals on things.

I don't think that we got back until 9 that night.

I think that was the most time that we got to spend with my uncle when ever he gets the chance to come home for the holidays. I really enjoyed spending the day with him, my sister and my mom.

December 21, 2009

Monday

Celebrated my sister's birthday.

She turned 26.

We didn't do a whole lot

just had a small little family party at home.

She picked what we cooked for dinner, which was tacos,turned out pretty good :)

And then we had Larry House of Cakes, red velvet cupcakes, yum-o!

(a little side note: they have the best iced sugar cookies that you could possibly have, especially the pink ones! for some reason the pink ones are the best)

December 24, 2009

Thursday

Got together with my mom's side of the family at my grandma's house.

Had great food, like always!

I don't know what it is but you can't get anything better than enjoying grandma's cooking.

Then we all opened gifts after everyone got done eating.

I got exactly what I wanted.

I finally got a North Face jacket and some gloves to go with it!

They are so warm!

But really, what I enjoyed the most was how the that side of the family got to spend time with each other.

Later that night, we opened all of our gifts that were just from each other.

I do believe that mom, dad, my sister, and myself loved what we got from each other.

We open our gifts on Christmas Eve because we go to my Dad's side of the family on the 25th. But this year we did this, because my dad had to work from 8-4 on Christmas day.

By the way, I got so many DVDs to add to my collection that I could open up a small video rental place. haha!

December 25, 2009

CHRISTmas Day!!

Went to my aunt's place to have lunch and exchange gifts with my dad's side of the family.

Had a great time spending the afternoon with everyone.

I think that everyone enjoyed what they got.

Then we all got to talk to my aunt who lives in Colorado,

which was nice because I don't really get to talk to her that much like we should.

After that we just sat around and watched a movie that my uncle had gotten and enjoyed each others company.

So I will post some pictures of the events that I told you about in the next post.

Hopes everyone has a great weekend!

Until later,

Merry Christmas!

(I will come back and do a complete post of what has happend the past week or so)