I'd be lying if I said my name was Jackaroy...

I meet tons of people on a daily basis.  It is quite a learning experience on how to deal with certain types of personalities.   I've met the "you are so quiet are you even alive" personality, those you have to pound with questions to get them to talk to you.  Eventually they come around and it is nice to have conversations with them.  Then there is the "I am SO hilarious" personality.  These people can either be super funny or super annoying.  Either way you are going to laugh or make so much fun of them that you make yourself laugh.  Then you have the "everything you've done, I've done better" personality.  These are the people you just listen and nod because no matter what you say they've somehow done it 100 times better.  These personalities drive me crazy.  But the personality the is the most annoying which I have encountered entirely too much lately is the, "I've done all these amazing things, non of which are true, so everything that comes out of my mouth is a lie" personality.  With that being said, let my rant begin!

Bottom line:  I have an utter dislike for liars!!!!  I do realize there are certain situations people encounter in their lives where they must lie.  For example, a child asking where babies come from.  A parent is going to make up a white lie for the sake of not scarring the child at a young age.  Acceptable.  These people are not creating the lie to compensate for their meager existence but to help not create chaos.  But if you are an ADULT who has to lie to other ADULTS to impress them, you seriously need to get in check with reality.   I personally do not care where you don't work and how much you don't make, where you did not go to school and what collegiate sports you did not play, where you were going to go and what you were going to do.  There is no person on the face of the planet that is worth loosing your self worth over because you must impress them with your tales of crap that never happened!

So if you ever encounter this personality, RUN!  These people are exhausting and will waste precious minutes of your life babbling over things that are not true.

If I was HALF as strong as my sister, I'd be doing great!!!!

"Army wives:  The toughest job in the military."  Unknown

(This is a blog I started a while back and wanted to share with everyone.  Coming Home actually contacted Kelli and I about my sister's story!  It was awesome!!!)

My transition from California to Georgia put a toll on me.  Dane was going to stay in California to see if he could continue to act and with our flight privlages we would be able to see each other anytime.  Sounds easy, right?  Not so much.  Just that short time apart pushed me into having anxiety attacks and the strange thing about it was that I even got to see him a few days a month.  He ended up moving back to Georgia (a good thing for his acting) and the attacks stopped (well slowed down until I figured out how to control them).  I thought him wanting to be an actor was hard, what on earth would I do if he decided to join the military!!!!!

My sister may be the strongest person I have ever known!!!  She is halfway through my brother-n-law's forth deployment, yes I said FORTH deployment, and she has not be admitted to the crazy farm (yet).  I could not imagine having to be in a new location, with 3 kids, and a husband half a world away!  And for an entire year!!!  No thanks!!!  So my younger sister and I got the great idea after watching a T.V. show on lifetime,  Coming Home, to write to them about my sister.  This is how much we love and admire our older sister!!!  Enjoy and we love you, Kimmy!!!

Dear Coming Home Casting,

Our brother-n-law, 1st SGT Daniel Homan, is currently on a year
deployment to Afghanistan.  He has been gone since September 2010.  We
really want to surprise our sister who is one of the strongest women
we know.  My sister and brother-n-law were high school sweethearts.
During their 17 years of marriage they have seen 3 children born, 6
states, and 4 deployments (3 to Iraq and this recent one to
Afghanistan).

Our sister is an incredibly amazing wife and mother.  During his first
and second deployment to Iraq she cared for two children, she went
back to school and finished college, she held down a full-time job,
and had to mend to one of her children that had a partial leg
amputation a year after he was born.  She never missed a beat.  Life
continued to stay as normal as possible for her children even though
deep inside she was missing her soldier.  One week before his 3rd
deployment she gave birth to their last child and then he was off to
Iraq for another nine months defending his country.

We are currently halfway through his 4th deployment.  It has been 4
years since he was last deployed and their kids are now at the age
where having dad gone is difficult on them all.  A new base, a new
state, a new community, and a new school.  The oldest is missing his
dad and the youngest does not understand where daddy is.  Yet our
sister remains to keep everyday life as normal as possible for their
children yet deep down she is missing her love, her soldier.

We are the sister-n-laws of the soldier.  We think it would be a great
surprise to our sister and our nephews and niece if our brother-n-law
came home unexpectedly.  After the year that she has endured being a
single mother of three, where days can be chaotic with school,
homework, and swim/baseball practice, we think nothing would be more
perfect than to give her a surprise of a lifetime.  She is always
having to be the rock for us all and it would be great for us to give
something back to her.