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At 7:32am on November 13, 2009, Jody Gault said…
so sorry you can't make it. didn't realize that you didn't get a paycheck not working the summer with a school. you're lucky you got another job. I've had 2 really great interviews. one was for asst. branch mgr at trustco bank. I got thru all the steps with flying colors. impressive local interview (she wanted to introduce me to her boss) then got shot down by corporate offices in NY. she was surprised, said there's nothing I could've done differently in the interview. hate that. so little discouraged (lot really). went yesterday to check into stenography school.

Brit is in her first year of highschool. she got into the criminal justice magnet. was really hard at first but she's adapting. she's in soccer. Alyssa last yr of middle school. her grades are excellent and she's in her volleyball season.

Justin loves his job. he's coming home for 2 weeks at Christmas. we know we won't see much of him so he can see all his friends. but him just being here is nice. can't wait. there's rumor of his whole division deploying in the summer. Nick is deploying in January you said? boy I'm not looking forward to those feelings of deployment-that'll be rough.

enjoy your time with Nick and happy Thanksgiving.
At 8:59pm on November 11, 2009, Jody Gault said…
there is a really big event Saturday. let me know if you'll go and, if so, I will go also. I wasn't going to go because, did I tell you?, I'm on unemployment again. I resigned from Liberty Natl. October 2nd. too much crap plus, not to mention, the last 3 weeks I had zero paychecks even though I was selling my weekly quota because of customer cancellations. it was costing me $90 a week in gas to bring home zero paychecks. urgh...here's details:

Central Florida's Molly's Moms Invade UNO's
Packing Party, Molly's Adopt A Sailor-Sat. November 14th~~~
Host:
Molly's Adopt A Sailor
Type:
Party -
Network:
Global
Date:
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Time:
5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
Kissimmee, Florida
Description
Ok My loving Navy Moms!
Central Florida Moms are at it once again!
Please come and join in on the fun!!
UNO's Grill has been generous enough to be accepting donations for Molly's Adopt a Sailor and in exchange for each donation you will receive a coupon for a FREE Appetizer! Yes, I did say FREE. This will be at UNO's here in Kissimmee Florida and hoping that it will "soon" be a nationwide event!
So please join us Sat. Nov 14 for some food-fun-support and best of all "sending support to our Sailors" that won't be HOME for the Holidays!
At 8:32pm on August 19, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Missed seeing you last weekend. We had a wonderful weekend in Daytona Beach. Perhaps you'd like to come to Orlando (UCF area) this Saturday for our N4M get together. We're sponsoring an entire ship of sailors this time-250 or so. see the link:
http://www.navyformoms.com/events/event/show?id=1971797%3AEvent%3A2768093
At 9:48am on August 13, 2009, Jody Gault said…
My phone correction (see I made a typo) is 407-497-9294.
At 9:48am on August 13, 2009, Jody Gault said…
I'm glad Nick got to come home for a while. Those visits go so terribly fast. No, I hear from other moms that have been at this for years-you never get used to it. My nightly prayers always ask for God to keep Justin safe and happy and to return him to Central Fla to live and be profitable after he's done with his Navy enlistment (whenever he decides that may be).

Hey-we're heading to Daytona Beach tomorrow at 2pm for the weekend. We're staying at the Seabreeze. Girls both taking a friend. I know Saturday night we're going out to dinner at Doc's (I believe that's what it's called). It's on the waterway where boats come in. Real cheap seafood and casual atmosphere-we sit outside on picnic tables and feed fish at the pier. If you all would like to bring the boys and meet us and kick back some beers that'd be great. Heck, if you'd even like to do that on the beach with us too you're welcome. I'm taking a case of corona. The boys would be happy...4 pretty 14 and 15 year olds (well they're 13 and 14 til Oct). Sound fun? If so give me your cell again. Mine is 407-4907-9294. Would love to see you guys again and get to know you better.

Justin is now a janitor. He's bummed. He has to do that for 1 month. They had nobody to do it and he's low man on the totem pole. Other than that he was really liking it. He's a deployable unit and there's rumor of deployment after the first of the year sometime. Gosh I miss him so badly. Mind you when he's home he's always gone with his friends but at least he's here in body and I feel like a complete family again. Now I know how our parents felt!
At 1:04pm on August 9, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Justin's number is 407-462-7982 if Nick wants to text him. I gave him Nick's number also, but I'm sure he still has it. Justin also is on Facebook. Yeah we're ready for school to start around here. Brittany got into a criminal justice magnet for her first year of high school and the money it has already cost us because she needs 2 complete uniforms. Now girls will be in 2 different schools again. That part isn't so good but we'll work it out. Justin likes what he's doing. He's talking that he'll be home for Christmas and we're hoping so. He doesn't want to come home this month as he'd planned because he doesn't want to only be home 5 days plus burn up the leave time for Christmas. When did Nick get to WA state? Did you all go with him? Did he fly or drive? Did you get to have time with him before he went? I know so many questions...
At 11:22pm on June 21, 2009, Kathy S (Josh's Mom) said…
Hi Joanne, Congrats on your son's graduation this coming week. I am suprised he is graduation on the 29th. I thought all graduations were on Fridays ??? Do you know where you son is going for is permanent duty station. Luckily, my son is 109 miles from home and so far has been home every week. Too bad his car gets horrible mileage. But we did find out he can get a train pass for $20 a year to anywhere in California. He is having a hard time getting reimbursed for his Xmas travel home. And they won't give him his E3 because they said he didn't earn it, even though we have the certificate and letter of recommendation. He has had nothing but trouble since he joined. Thank goodness his spirits are still high. He loves his new job as AC and after what I am reading, he might be one of the last ones to even have this great job. I hope Nick's travels are smooth and you get to see him soon.
At 9:05am on June 18, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Me too! That way Justin would have somebody he's allowed to talk to (unless Nick is a higher rank than him). It's weird Justin says he's still an E2 (I think that's what he said) but yet he's making about $200 more per paycheck since he's been there. I said 'maybe you ranked up'. He said no but he didn't know what it was. He doesn't want to rank up because he doesn't want the responsibilites that come with it he said.
At 8:33am on June 18, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Hi Joanne. We're fine here. Justin is in Whidby Island, WA. He says it's an air base so if Nick gets that I'm sure that's where he'd go. The planes are going all night long so it's hard for him to sleep sometimes. He likes his job though. I worry about him because he's not allowed to talk to anybody or hang out with anybody because he's at a lower rank than all of them. It's just he, xbox and cable tv. He says he's fine with that but his momma worries.

I'm still at my insurance job and still hating it. Money's good but not worth my nerves. I'm holding out hope for this office manager job in August. Don't think I told you about that. It's for Classic Cookie (they do fundraising). The owner is Kelvin Moses. He's a pro player with the New York Jets. He flys up there and plays during season and has moved here to be co-owner of this franchise. He's really really nice. He said I was his top pick that he just needed to work out details with his partner and then we'd speak in July. Hope it's enough money that I can swing it because I'd sure love to get out of sales.

How is Nick? How much longer is his schooling?
At 4:50pm on June 1, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Well I'm glad they're at least staying in touch via texting. It would be great if they could be out there together.
At 12:40pm on May 27, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Whew-sorry that was so long of an entry I just made. I didn't realize it was that long.
At 12:40pm on May 27, 2009, Jody Gault said…
What a wonderful surprise! That was too cool. Wow Nick is doing really well and you seem to get more info out of him than we ever could out of Justin (all that that you spoke of I haven't heard before-not because it's not something Justin may have gone thru but just because Justin doesn't talk about it). Is that Washington State he's hoping for? I hope so and hope it's Whigdby Island. That's where Justin is and I know there's marines there too.

Mike got back on the redeye flight Monday 9am. He said it was hard saying goodbye to Justin. He cried a bit but Justin didn't he just smiled. They had a nice week together in their drive. They went along the bottom part of the US then up thru California. Justin hadn't used his digital camera yet and did for this trip. He downloaded pictures onto his laptop then deleted the pictures. Now he can't find the pictures in the laptop-weird. So about 200 pictures were lost. Mike was bumming.

Justin hadn't met anybody yet, as of yesterday his 1st day of work. He says he has his xbox. They don't have air conditioning. He asked if he could buy a window unit and they said no that's only for officers. They did give him a little box fan. I'm not sure but sounds like where he's at is awful pretty out there but awfully boring. He's on an island that you have to ferry to get to and from. What he'll be doing is working on the computers on aircraft. So if that's where Nick wants to go he and Justin should definately cross paths again. Justin had picked Japan, Italy or Florida but got Hawaii then they changed it on him to Washington.

Me, I'm hating my job worse than ever (I've never in my life not enjoyed my work and I've not had that many different jobs). I am driving to cities 1 1/2 hrs away only to find the people no showing the appointment or not buying. The the stress of having to sell $85 worth of insurance everyweek to maintain on my bonus level or have to start all over again. It's hard because the clients have to have a checking account. I'm getting people that don't or don't have the money. It's just not my cup of tea. I'd probably like it if I was in an agency and the clients came to me. I'm still applying for other jobs and hoping and PRAYING that something better will come along. But it's so hard out there that, I guess, I'm lucky I'm making money and it's good money at that (heck, I'm so miserable that I would accept a $10 hr job now which I'd said before I couldn't afford to do but it's killing my health being so stressed).

Our oldest daughter is so excited. She got the Magnet to Boone High here. It's a good school. She'll be doing Criminal Justice. Our youngest got recognized today in 7th grade awards for GPA (the older one will get that in her 8th grade awards tomorrow) and PE student of the year. So very proud of all 3 of them.

Hope you and your family are doing well.
At 7:07am on May 7, 2009, Jody Gault said…
We did buy that car yesterday because our auto shop said all was well and it was a great deal. It's a 1999 (5 yrs newer than what I had) Chrysler 300M. Fully loaded to the hilt and has a sunroof. The car looks new. I really like it. Nice present for Mother's Day. Now we've got to concentrate on Justin.

Yes, I'm still at Liberty Natl. I keep applying for jobs but also keep getting the ole 'we've decided to pursue other options'. Makes no sense because the jobs I'm applying for I am more than qualified for and I've been told on my past interviews how impressive my resume is. It's tough out there. I'm making money but it's such an up one day and down the next feeling that I just don't like it and I often worry about not making a sale during the week. So far that's not happened but if it does that will be painful.

I do hope that Justin and Nick see each other again.
At 7:47am on May 6, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Justin got home at 5pm Friday. He'll be here until the 16th or 17th. He heads to buddies houses about 9pm nearly every night (oh the young). I just know time is whizzing by. It's gonna kill me when he leaves. It just feels, right now, like he's never been gone. Most of our time, so far, has been looking at cars for both of us. Hoping the car we want for me checks out at our auto repair place today and we'll buy it. Justin has found a 2006 VW Jetta that he's thinking about. He says he still likes the Navy. He'll be working on airplanes in WA.
At 8:40pm on April 28, 2009, Jody Gault said…
I saw my life flash in front of my eyes yesterday. I got in a wreck in the middle of I4 yesterday at 3pm. I thought I was going to die! God was definately there with me (and the other drivers). This young girl was exiting then she must've decided she didn't want that exit and merged back in. No room for her to do that. I swerved to miss her and did and hit the car on my left. We were in the middle lanes. No injuries. Thank God I had no kids with me. My car is a 94 so with all the damage we're waiting to see if they're going to total it. Soooo....my hubby is going to go with Justin to shop for a new car for him while he's home and prob. have to shop for a new car for me too. That's hated. Let me tell you my heart stopped. I maintained then once I got home I started bawling and shaking. I was so scared (after shock).
At 8:45am on April 27, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Congrats to Nick on his latest accomplishments! I know Justin said this weekend was rough because there's hardly anybody left over at Corry Station. He took 2 buddies to the airport Friday and most of the other buddies have already left. His one friend is still there. She hasn't gotten her station yet and has been told that it may, now, not be until October or after before she leaves. That would be awful.

I'm glad you all got to go and see him for Easter. That's wonderful. Yeah, if he wants to move on that's his wishes. I know this next goodbye will just kill me because I know it'll be more than 2 months before we'll get out to see him again or for him to come home. This is so very very hard. I just wished he would've stayed here and gone to college.

Work-well, I'm not loving it. I'm putting applications in elsewhere like crazy hoping for a good career to come along. I feel I've been misrepresented on a few things. For instance I had a huge sale last week. My manager said on that sale alone I'll make over $1,000-that my bonus alone would be about $700. I looked at my report and the bonus is $29. Not the first time that I've been given bad info and I can't ask any questions because if I do that's being negative and the branch manager jumps down my throat. At first the leads were coming in like crazy (leads are customers names/phn # that have inquired online about insurance). Now, that I'm on my own I rarely get any leads at all. Got 3 the week before last and 1 last week-woo hoo. You're expected to go out and find your own business. Guess I'm finding outside sales aren't my cup of tea. I've never done that before and I don't like feeling like I'm imposing upon people. I kill it with inbound sales (where customers call you). So, please, pray for me that I find job happiness again. I was so very happy at SunTrust then that rug got pulled out from under me. Plus 100% commission scares the hell out of me. So far I've had a paycheck each of the 4 weeks I've been doing it but there could be weeks that I don't have any sales, thus no paycheck. Also, I have to sell $15,000 in life insurance before I earn health insurance for my family and I. That could be months.
At 10:19pm on April 23, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Hey there. How's everything? How's Nick's schooling going? Justin graduated A schooling about 2 weeks ago. He told us not to come since it was nothing to watch and parents don't usually come (that he'd seen). He told us we didn't miss anything that all that happened was he shook his commanders hand. He 'suppossed' (I use that word loosely) to be coming home May 1st for 15 days. It was going to be April 24th for 3 weeks but they changed his station on him. He'd chosen Japan, Italy or FL for his dream list. They told him he got Hawaii. He was all happy about that as he could see his 2nd cousin as she's stationed in SAN and docs where he'd be stationed. But, oh no, about 5 days later they changed it-he's being stationed in WA. Not exstatic about him (neither him nor us). He will go to intl destinations sometimes for 3 weeks at a time. He'll be working on the fighter jets. Sure doesn't sound like IT work to me and I'm now very worried that Iraq could be in his future. Ya know the recruiters said that we'd never worry about that because with Justin's brains he wouldn't be sent to danger areas. Well, I'm learning, that what they say and what they do is 2 completely different things. It's sad that he had his BC buddies that followed him to PNS now they all go different places and he has to make all new friends (I guess that's the military life). I guess he and Nick have lost touch. Hated to hear that. His plan is to buy a new car when he gets home and then Mike will drive with him to WA (Justin gets 8 extra days for driving) then fly back. Lord I hope he can find a car that quickly. He doesn't want his car because it's too old and needs some work so he may leave it here for his sisters if he doesn't get enough on trade in. Let me know how all is.
At 8:28pm on March 23, 2009, Jody Gault said…
I'm so sorry about your aunt. Prayers sent her way. Glad Nick is happy and doing well now. Mike's finger is fine. It was nasty for a few days but no medical treatment became necessary once they told us what to do with it. He didn't work all last week because of the pain so back to work this week for him. Work, well it'll take a little getting used to yet. I'm sure once I know what I'm doing that I'll like it better. Right now-not so much. But that's the way I felt when I started at the bank and I became the expert of the team in 3 months when it normally takes 6 mos. so I hope it happens (quicker) with the insurance. I've made some appointments and 2 of them (1 which was tonight) were in these old dilapitated mobile homes in a very slummy neighborhood. The people were both terribly nice though. My manager said to not judge a book by it's cover and she's right. We may have sold this policy tonight. Friday I have an appointment in Ormond Beach-that guy better not noshow me! I can't believe that my manager will drive that far. At least the customer indicated so much-we'll see. Our girls spring breaks start Friday so I can hear it now...I need money blah blah blah.
At 9:17am on March 21, 2009, Jody Gault said…
Sorry that was so long.
At 9:17am on March 21, 2009, Jody Gault said…
How's everything with Nick and his studies? Did you go last weekend to see him? We missed you at the get together. Wish you could've come. There were about 20 of us this time. We sent out 10 boxes packed full of stuff for the adopt a sailor program-that's a good feeling.

Justin, yet again at the last minute, wasn't able to come home for this weekend. They sure are jerking him around. They tell him he can come, then they say they'll let him know, then on Weds night he called and said they won't let him because it's too far to drive on a Friday (even though his classes got out about noon that day). I just wished they'd say from the beginning that he can't go so he and us don't get our hopes up. He sounded so bummed this time. So I hustled to the post office to send off his bday presents and hope he gets them today. I told him to tell his friends it's his bday because I didn't want him there not celebrating. It's prob. the reason for my mood. I just want to bawl.

This week was my 1st full week as an insurance agent. Little rocky this week because the managers were at a job fair trying to hire 200 people. I was in the office Monday being a telemarketer trying to set my appointments for the week. Tuesday I just stayed home to do that. Weds. I had medical emergency with Mike-didn't know what was wrong with his finger. Took him to our daughters schools clinic and he just needed to drain his finger-infection made it twice the size. He still doesn't know what he did to it. Thurs and yesterday I went with my manager on my appointments and walk n talks (going into businesses to try to sell them health or life). We had a good week. She sold 4 policies and more maybe coming from that group. Not real sure, yet, if it's for me but I know I need to give it a chance. The money sounds good. My manager has only worked there 1 yr and she lives in $500k house. Our branch manager lives in a 3 million dollar house. So, if I can get thru the rough parts of learning, then money can be made. Very different than what I'm accustomed to but there just isn't any other good paying jobs out there that don't require a bachelors degree or years of previous experience in a given field.

Hope all is well and that you're finally over that awful cold you had.

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