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Lara

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About Me

I'm a CIWS tech aboard the USS Enterprise, CVN 65. We're in the shipyards right now getting everything all fixed up and de-rusted, which means I do a lot of painting and other such menial tasks. I'm stationed in Norfolk, Virginia but my home will always be Colorado. I'm an outdoor kind of person, and a lover of things wild and free. I love a good adventure, especially random road trips planned at 10 pm and begun at midnight. When I ski, I do it fast and reckless. I play hard, and sometimes I even work hard. I eat at Taco Bell frequently, but I love crab (one good thing about living on the Chesapeake Bay) and will eat just about anything that doesn't have onions in it, especially raw onions. I'm a pretty easygoing person. I do not crave drama or create much of it in my life. If you ask me for something--a ride home, a few bucks, to borrow something--you'll probably get it. My most annoying character trait may be my tendency to make fun of snowboarders, depending on who you ask. Others may say that I laugh at everything; can't please everyone! I dress in relatively plain clothes, usually jeans with solid color tops. I'm trying to broaden my horizons and wear more pink, but I'm just not a very girly type of girl.
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My Interests

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My Blog

Security

So I've been sent to ship's security, which is a year long billet.  A year in which I don't have to deal with CIWS, RAM, spot checks, maintenance, troubleshooting, or (most blessedly) my division's ch...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:24:00 GMT

Chase

You never will appreciate what has been just handed to you.  I f you never had to work for it, you will take it for granted.
Posted by on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:14:00 GMT

Poker = life???

I haven't played poker in a long time.  I'd like to play it again sometime, because I realized something.  The way I play poker and the way I live my life are completely opposite, which is g...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:19:00 GMT

A small chicken egg

It all started with acid reflux.  In about April I started having weird pains in my chest.  Not wanting to be a hypochondriac or to be thought of as a malingerer, I waited a few months to g...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:49:00 GMT

Skiing...out of my comfort zone!

So I experienced the typical east coast ski trip this weekend.  I went with Johnny Pope on an MWR ski trip to Timberline, W. Virginia.  It's a tiny ski area in the Appalachians with weather ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:52:00 GMT

Being on deployment

Being out to sea for 6 months is a hard thing to describe.  You can't escape the people you work with, which is strange.  There isn't really any such thing as having my own time.  I cou...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:09:00 GMT

Birches

..> So was I once myself a swinger of birches;   And so I dream of going back to be.   It's when I'm weary of considerations,   And life is too much like a pathless wood  &nbs...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:58:00 GMT