Started Out as a "DoctrineMan" Day

**Bloger was down Friday morning when I tried to post this...so I post-dated it"


HUGE apologies ahead of time for the raw verbiage in this post. Today almost started out as a "F*ck My Life Day". That phrase comes from a funny group of videos on You Tube from a channel called "The DoctrineMan" (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDoctrineman). Most of you may know I work in the Directorate of Doctrine and these vids are pretty funny if you've been in the military; even more if you work in the doctrine world. The main character, Doctrine Man, usually says "f*ck my life" at some point in the videos when things are absurd. It has become a term we enjoy at work.

The reason why I invoked Doctrine Man this morning was completely justified! When I do my morning walk, I always put my contractor badge in my zipped left jacket pocket. I use my badge for entry onto post, entry into my building and for access to my computer (soooo, it's a little bit important)! When I returned from my 1.75 mile route, I came back into my office, reached into my left jacket pocket (which was open) and found NO badge. I thought maybe it dropped out in the hall when I started to take my jacket off, so I checked the hallway and even outside of the building...no badge. So what came to my mind..."f*ck my life, not today"! I retraced my steps, I thought...wonderful...I'm going to have to re-walk 1.75 miles!

My co-worker told me that something good will come out of this...I agreed and thought maybe I'll find $100 along the route (wishful thinking)! I headed out and started to retrace my steps but went backwards on the route. I pulled out my phone and started to text my husband about losing my card; but I thought as I was trying to walk and text, maybe I shouldn't be texting, but search the road for my card.

Just as I was putting my phone away, I looked to my right and there was my card sitting in the grass about a foot from the sidewalk. Whew! I remembered that I had pulled my sunglasses out of my same pocket right about that same time. My card probably would not have been found right away since a lot of people don't walk in that area. So, I take back my "f*ck my life" this morning!!