Jeji

I guess I'll just have to put my little thinking cap on. hee hee!! Actually, I do scrapbooks/memory books. I'm perpetually in kindergarden... I get to play with paper, tape, stickers and glue... fun stuff!!! I am clueless when it comes to computer graphics. Anybody recommend any good programs???? Jeji

Thats actually a really good idea... Ok who's gonna submit the first design??????????????????????????????????????????? Jeji

Ok, I own a craft store and sell stickers. Which one do I post to??????? Truly confused ???Jeji????

Oh good, I'm not the only one!!!! Every AM on my way to the DZ I stop at the Uncle Willies right down the road from me and get a Tastycake Coffeecake Jr. and a Diet Sprite. Nothing phenomonal, but I had been doing it for monthes before I really realized it. Now it has become something of a tradition. I don't usually eat lunch there, so much to do I normally just plum forget, but when I get home there better be nobody between me and the kitchen!!!!!!! Jeji

Well... after a fun filled day of detailing cars I did manage to pin hubbie down for a "talk". I think we did get a few things ironed out. I calmly explained to him how much he and the kids mean to me, but that skydiving also is a part of my life and that he knew this was something that meant something to me before he said "I do". We discussed the risks vs. rewards and all of that other fun stuff. He's still not thrilled about it, but is willing to try to be a bit more understanding. We did set a few rules though, namely; I'm not allowed to jump w/o a cypres, no hot doggin', and I can't go to the DZ on Sunday, which is his only day off. I can abide by those. Monday is my offical DZ day, which kinda bums now because they aren't jumping much during the week right now, but since I went past my 30 days I'm just hanging tight for a month to finish AFF. Well I'm off to the DZ now to clean out the loft and packing area. Only 46 more hours of work and I'll have my AFF paid off!! WHHHOOOOO!!!!! Jeji

I don't hunt much but, the first time I went out with my hubbie about 5 years ago we got in the woods about an hour and a half before sunup. He got in his stand and I found a nice little hole right next to the hottest run on the island. ( I won't get in his stand cause anything under 2000' is scary!) About 20 minutes before sunup some Einstein goes tromping thru the brush about 10 ft. from me. I blink my flashlight at him a few times just to let him know I was there and he turns his gun on me!!!!! I mean jeez... I had on my blaze and this idiot keeps his gun on me for about a minute before he goes stomping off into the woods!!! Last time I looked deer did NOT carry flashlights!!! And they say skydiving is dangerous!!!! That was scarier then anything I have ever done!! I would REALLY like to know how many people are injured/killed by morans who think they can hunt as compared to people who toss themselves out of planes!! Jeji

You are all soooooo right!! I don't think a person can be truly happy with another unless they are happy with themselves, and the choices they make in their life. Here's to livin'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jeji

Music preference... I'll listen to just about anything except rap, country, or gospel. Have a hard time pinning down any real favorites, but I am somewhat partial to Jimmy Buffett, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Billy Joel and Fleetwood Mac. Like alot of the new stuff I hear, but I never seem to figure out who it is?? Jeji

Thanks so much guys!!! This forum is like a lifeline some days!! The really funny thing about my hubbie is that he is the one who talked me into jumping the first time and he is the one who laughed me out of the plane when I was so terrified I was almost in tears. He came back with me for jump #2 but when they opened the door he flat out said "NO!" and looked at me and asked me to please not go either, so we both rode the plane down. We came back a week later and did #2 together but he would have no more of it!!! I guess he thought it would be funny to see me so freaked out, but he didn't anticipate my actually liking it!!! Hee Hee!!! A friend of my brothers fell out of a tree stand a few years ago and broke his back. He'll never have the use of his legs again. I'll have to remember that the next time hubbie heads out the door to go hunting!!! I guess he thought that after a few kids I would morph into Donna Reed or something, SURPRISE!!! File that under NEVER!!! I think it has alot to do with the fact that it is a mostly male dominated sport and the jump suits after all can be somewhat tight fitting!!! (that is a direct quote, he's VERY jealous) I guess I'll just have to get into freeflying, LOL!!! We just need more chics in the sport!!!! Jeji

A guy came into where my hubbie works yesterday wearing a skydive t-shirt. Of course my honey asks where he jumps, etc, etc. This guy says he has 89 jumps, but hasn't jumped in 5 years. He decided to do the "right thing" and quit jumping after his first child was born. He didn't feel like he should be taking the extra risk and spending the extra money when he had a family to think about. One of the girls that hubbie works with says she wants to try it but doesn't know anybody to jump with. Of course this other skydiver says, " It's great, but it you love it you're F**KED!!" (how true) SO... hubbie comes home all sour faced talking about this guy and how I should be more like him, you know realize how "stupid" it is to jump out of planes when you have a family to support. I mean the kids are fed and clothed and have more toys than they know what to do with, we both have functioning vehicles, the kids even have a tidy college fund set up already, I have enought life insurance to leave my family VERY well off in the case of an accident, I am with the kids all day every day except 1 day at the DZ, for crying out loud I'm even VP on the school board and we are about to move into our first home!!!! WHAT MORE DO I NEED TO DO!!!!!! He knows how serious I am about safety and not taking any unnessasay risks but the guilt he's throwing my way is almost too much!!! I'm starting to rethink what I already should know??!!!??!! I know alot of you folks don't get support from your significant others, but do they throw all of this guilt on ya too? I don't know what I'd do without you folks, it's really hard to make friends at the DZ when you have to jump and run or in my case now clean and run!!! OK I'm done complaining!!!!!! Jeji

I love you guys!!!! It's soooooo nice to know that I'm not alone out there!!! From the time we board the plane until the door opens I keep thinking, "What the H*** am I doing!!!!" As soon as I am in the door it all gets forgotten, but that ride to altitude is just awful. It's been 2 mths. since I did my L-3 and the longer I go between jumps the more I question my reason for jumping. I know I'll love every second of it and be ready to head up again as soon as I'm on the ground, but... I do remember how relieved I felt when we got winded out a few days. Since I went past my 30 days, I'm just hanging tight for another mth. or so and am gonna finish AFF in a weekend as soon as money/weather/time allow. I've been at the DZ every week and I find that just being around there my fears are starting to evaporate. But then again, do I really want them to? Fear is healthy and if I wanted a sport that I had no fear of I guess I could go bowling!!!!!!!! Jeji

...I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space...

I'm certainly not am OBGYN, but I did 2 S/L jumps while I was pregnant, but didn't know it yet. My OB was at the time working on his A licence. Off the record he had told me that if I was a more experienced jumper it would probally be OK if I jumped until I could no longer fit my gear, however there were of course risks to it. A hard landing that the average bear could walk away from could certainly harm the baby. Looking back now, even if I was an experienced jumper I probally would not have continued to jump. At the beginning of my first pregnancy I had no clue how the hormonal changes would effect my moods and decision making skills. Each pregnancy is different and every womans body reacts differently to it. Personally I was a spaz!! Half the time I was crying and the other half the time I couldn't remember my name!!!! I can't imagine how I would have reacted to a malfunction, I had a hard time trying to figure out what to cook for lunch!!! Just my opinion!!! Jeji

These days.... It would have to be, "Honey, just one jump and I should be home by noon!"