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The Basics of The Basic School (TBS)
Congratulations! Your person has completed OCS! What an accomplishment. Time for reality to sink in that you now have a second lieutenant on your hands. Next stop: The Basic School (TBS). This school is roughly six months of hiking with a nice dose of smelly feet and MRE farts. No but seriously, it’s a tough six months for them where they learn “the basics” of being a Marine Officer. From my general understanding, they learn how to be an Officer and lead, as well as what they need to do if they are ever a ground Marine (i.e. land navigation, hiking, rifle range stuff etc.). So as a spouse, significant…
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Post-Hurrication Life
Well I can safely say I will not name our first child Florence…not that I was going to anyway. She did our town dirty, and it smells like fish and poop. After a long two weeks of hurrication we are finally home- bless up. I enjoyed the time off, but man being in my own bed was SO NICE. My dogs were also so happy to be home. It was time. Poor Tuna did get greeted by a nice fire ant hill attack when he went in the backyard, but we gave him a bath and some Benadryl and he passed out happily haha. Driving home I didn’t really know…
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The Hurrication
It’s the never ending vacation. We’re loving it, but it is getting exhausting. We’ve been in a hotel in Jacksonville, Fl., for 6 days. Tuna is OVER it. I’m losing my mind, my dogs are losing their mind, and boredom is setting in. BUT at least we are safe and we have food, gas, and power. I can’t really complain, but it would be nice to not be in a hotel. I decided to make another post updating our current situation, because Things I Google: Hurricane Florence was getting long. Today is Sunday, Sept 16 and we have no idea when we can go back. Our town (New Bern, NC)…
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Things I Google: Hurricane Florence
How’s my morning going you ask? Well, Hurricane Florence is quickly approaching and which each prediction the news gets worse and more comical for us. The title of this could also be some of the following: Things I Google: How to stay sane Things I Google: How to close on a house before a hurricane Things I Google: Should I close on a house before a hurricane Things I Google: Hurricane Preparedness Things I Google: How to pack when you don’t have boxes because your plan has been shot to hell Things I Google: Help. Where do I start? I got this fun email first thing this morning and it’s…
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OCS in a Nutshell
If you’re reading this you’re either: a) a girlfriend/boyfriend, fiancé, spouse or family member who’s significant other (or son/daughter) is interested in or is pursuing OCS *I’ll be referring to the military person in your life as ‘your person’ because it’s too difficult to try and say spouse, bf/gf, son/daughter and respect everyone’s differences while being inclusive b) one of the aforementioned people who’s been through it, but still loves a good OCS reminder c) someone just interested in reading about this wonderful military experience called OCS. For the newbies here, OCS stands for Officer Candidate School. This post will focus primarily on the United States Marine Corps OCS, but…
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Dog Fish
Back on the Our Military Journey (Thus Far) post I mentioned that I moved to Pensacola on December 30th, 2016. We wanted to start the new year fresh and fun, so we decided to throw a New Year’s Eve party. We woke up on NYE and made a plan for the day, which consisted mostly of going to various thrift stores to try and find dinner and coffee tables. As we sat on the couch eating breakfast, we watched the tail end of Oceans Eleven with Brad Pitt and George Clooney (this is an important detail). As we drove around, my husband would NOT stop talking about getting a dog. The topics of…
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Our Military Journey (Thus Far)
As I’ve mentioned in About Me, and The Wing It Life, my husband is in the United States Marine Corps. He’s a pilot and in the past year we’ve moved about 4 times. It’s been quite fun. Each time we’ve moved we’ve encountered a hurricane too, so that’s made it really interesting. I’ll talk more on that in a later post. When I met him he was just a guy with a dream of being a pilot and here we are some 5 years later and that dream has come true. I feel so lucky to have been part of his journey through it all. His USMC journey started in Harrisonburg, VA and…
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The Wing It Life
In the About Me post I really wanted to focus on the blog and why I’m doing it so you all could get an idea of what I’m going for. Fun, humorous, laid back reading. I want this to be conversational, so grammar police forgive me now if I make some errors here and there. So where do I start? I’m a Pisces for those interested in that realm of the world and skies. Sometimes it’s fun to believe in your horoscope, but only when it’s like, “hey the skies are telling me you’re going to make money,” and then you get a paycheck for 50 cents. What a jokester the…
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About Me
Welcome! My name is Danni and I wanted to create a fun and inviting space where I could write about navigating military life and my experiences “just winging it”. Where the name comes from: My husband makes fun of me quite often because I wing a lot of things I do – recipes, making things, this blog, dog care, the list goes on. The most infuriating part for him (or so I assume) is that I google how to do things and STILL end up winging it. I guess I just don’t like the confines of directions. Some times it works out very well for me, other times it doesn’t,…
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Welcome
Welcome to the winging it lifestyle! I want to open up a space where hopefully some of my experiences can help others who are trying to navigate the military and various adulthood topics. I don’t like to take life too seriously, so I want this to be a fun space for me and for you! How to Navigate: The Military Topics tab is pretty self explanatory. I’ll have topics on Marine Corps life, being a military spouse, making friends, pilot wife life, etc. If there are any topics you ever want me to discuss, please comment and let me know! The Things I Googled tab is also self explanatory, but I’ll post…
