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Postby jskm » November 16th, 2007, 12:18 pm

iammissruth wrote: Some of his buddies say to expect 3 hours each night and 8-12 hours on the weekend.


Weeeelllllll......I hate to be the bearer of bad news....but I won't lie either. That's probably close to accurate. The three hours is about right, but only most, not all nights. It's mostly due to READING and more flipping READING READING READING READING. If your dh hates to read--like my dh--then I feel sorry for him. I LIKE to read and I was ready to PUKE if I had to read anymore. And honestly you really better read at least the majority of it. AT LEAST skim it, bare minimum, if you want to pass those convoluted tests--they are a real B!

I don't know about that eight to 12 on weekends though. That's probably up to your dh. We did a lot of coming in on weekends for study groups and practicing marching flights and things, but all that was totally self directed and optional, and not everyone chooses to come in. If your dh doesn't need the extra work, he doesn't have to come in. And his flight (small class group--the larger whole ALS "CLASS" is divided into smaller "flights" so there's actually like three or more small "classes" within the big official "CLASS") might not even set things like that up anyway. BUT, point being if he comes in for stuff like that and you count all THAT time on the weekend then yes it might add up to eight to 12 hours.

Also, if they are shortening the course, but not taking any information out, then those hours might go up. However, if they take some information out along with cutting the instructional hours, they should stay about the same.

The speeches and presentations can be easy unless you make them hard. They give you a format, and if you follow it like a kindergartener and put it together EXACTLY like they give it to you, like puzzle pieces, you will do well on it. At least that's how my ALS did it.

I'll tell you, I did VERY VERY VERY well on my speeches and presentations (98, 99, 100). The tests were what kept me from getting Distinguished Grad. I only got high 80s and low 90s on the tests. Another guy in my flight got like 98s and 99s on his tests, and he beat me out for DG.
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Postby iammissruth » November 16th, 2007, 12:28 pm

Ok, the military is NOT on my good side right now. (See my journal as to why. :x ) But I am not looking forward to ALS. Dave is a SLOW reader and he is going to cringe at the thought. /sigh
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Postby jskm » November 16th, 2007, 2:32 pm

Charity wrote:Hey cutie! ;)
You are doing great so far! You just started and you are almost at 20#?!?!?!?


Well thank you. And what are you talking about? You look like you've been doing it for two months and you're almost at 40#!!
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Postby jskm » November 17th, 2007, 10:03 am

I made it!!!! 20# club y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (there's my country raising coming out :roflmao: )
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Postby bikipatra » November 17th, 2007, 10:06 am

CONGRATS!!!!
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Postby iammissruth » November 17th, 2007, 11:34 am

Thanks AWESOME Brooke!
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Postby Mike » November 17th, 2007, 12:00 pm

jskm wrote:I made it!!!! 20# club y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (there's my country raising coming out :roflmao: )


Great job... :cheermed:
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Postby Tawanda » November 17th, 2007, 12:18 pm

jskm wrote:I made it!!!! 20# club y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (there's my country raising coming out :roflmao: )


Congratulations!!!!! :D
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Postby CGal67 » November 17th, 2007, 12:38 pm

Thank you for the welcome and congrats on making into the 20 pounds loss range!!! YOU GO GIRL!!
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Postby rodeomom » November 17th, 2007, 6:03 pm

WAY TO GO!!! :bananadance:
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Postby lifelovinaries » November 17th, 2007, 7:04 pm

Ahhemm....That's 20.1 pounds for jskm. 20# was sooooo last hour!! Congrats girlie!!
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Postby Charity » November 17th, 2007, 9:24 pm

jskm wrote:
Charity wrote:Hey cutie! ;)
You are doing great so far! You just started and you are almost at 20#?!?!?!?


Well thank you. And what are you talking about? You look like you've been doing it for two months and you're almost at 40#!!


Congrats on the size 14s :bananadance: ! You are totally right about Old Navy sizes!

Oh, I have lost ~22# since restarting but my total losses since the very beginning is 40. I fell off program for a couple months and gained 10lbs the very last weeks of those 2 months. :x boy did it suck having to loose those all over again! :mrgreen: Don't do that! Next time I update my profile, I'll make it more clear :mrgreen:
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Postby jskm » November 17th, 2007, 9:48 pm

THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!!!
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Postby Sojourner » November 17th, 2007, 9:53 pm

Suh - WEEEEET!!!!!!!!!
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Postby Serendipity » November 19th, 2007, 7:13 pm

Hey, there. I saw a post you made in another journal and thought I'd respond here because it's about you.

IMHO, being a stay at home mom is the most important job you could do! Making sure your child is cared for and loved is so much more important than getting a job and dropping him/her off at day care to be raised by strangers who don't love him and who have other children taking up their attention. When your child falls at home, you come running to make it better. When your child wakes from a nap, your loving face is the first face he sees. How can that be considered failure?

Please don't minimize the importance of being a parent.
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