My name is Tammy. I am 35 years
old. I have been married
for 18 years. I have 2 beautiful daughters. They are 16
& 14 years old. I do have my hands full. I live in
Gladstone in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Personally I feel
like we should be Wisconsin, as we are connected to them and no one
downstate really recognizes us anyways. Plus we have alot of
Green Bay Packer fans. We are called "Yoopers", this is because
we live above the bridge.
We call those who live below the bridge "Trolls".
Hmm, lets see it is hard to write about
yourself. Let me start
with where i went to school etc. I went to Marquette Senoir High
School, in Marquette, Michigan. I got married when I was a Senoir
in high school. I was 17 years old and it was 4 days before my
18th birthday so my mother had to sign for me to get married. I
am so glad that she did, as I am so happy. My husband is from
Marquette too. He graduated a year before me. His name is
Brett.
Brett decided to join the service so we would
be able to start our
lives out together in a positive way. He joined the U.S.
Navy. It was during the Gulf War, so I was worried for him.
He got to pick from Virginia or California to be stationed so he asked
me and of course I said California. We lived in California for 4
years. Talk about being scary being so young and living in such a
big place all alone. We lived in Long Beach, San Pedro, and
Spring Valley.
When we lived in Long Beach it was in Navy housing and it was four
miles from the base in dowtown Long Beach. We had a brick wall up
around our housing units but no guards were posted at the gates so
people could come and go as they pleased. It was scary. At
night you could hear gunfire and sirens constantly. This is where
I first experienced my first earthquake without my husband (he was out
to sea on a Westpac for 6 months), WOW, that was awesome and scary of
course I was waiting to find out if it was the "BIG " one, that is one
thing I had heard about when moving to California. It wasn't the
BIG one but it was a 7.4 on the richter scale which is pretty
big. It was the one where the freeways collapsed etc. It
was so scary. It happened in the morning, it woke me up and that
is how I met my neighbors. The earthquake was an experience I
won't forget the cement floors in my house were literally rolling
moving and the whole place just shook. The aftershocks were just
as bad, they were 5's on the richter scale.
I remember going to this one restraunt in Los Angeles however I don't
recall the name, it was on top of a huge building and while you sat
down and ate the floor would do a complete circle so you could see the
whole city, it was beautiful. I think it was called the top of
the five. I am not sure.
I know the people weren't all that friendly in California, it was a
different lifestyle for me coming from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
to California. It is something I won't forget about.
We then had to move out of Navy housing in Long Beach and into
Navy housing in San Pedro, that was a nicer place and the housing unit
was much bigger. It was on the outskirts of Long Beach. Our
first daughter was born here in Long Beach. Then my husband's
ship got transferred to another base called "32nd Street" in San Diego,
so we moved to an apartment in Spring Valley. There was too
long of a waiting list for Navy housing in that area so we had no
choice but to get a civilain place. It was very expensive and
beautiful, When you looked off the balcony it looked like a
jungle, it was just gorgeous. This is where we had our second
daughter in La Mesa, which is by San Diego. After she was born my
husband got out of the service he had served his time and we moved back
up to the U.P. of Michigan in Gwinn with his mother. Our second
daughter Courtney was only 20 days old when we drove back from
California. The Navy wouldn't ship our car back so we drove it
back, it was in the heat wave that was killing people in July of
1995. That was interesting but it was a quick trip to get home we
wanted to get back home. We had to stop once in the mountain
areas and get a room for a couple hours to give the kids a cool down
bath and take a nap and then be on our way again.
Finally we were home in the good ol U.P. of Michigan. We lived in
Gwinn for a little bit and then Brett was able to get a great job just
as his unemployment was running out and we moved to Superior Wisconsin
for 3 months for training for his job, then we moved to Delta County
and now we are here in Gladstone.
That is pretty much how my life has been except for now the normal
every day to day stuff. I hope you didn't get too bored reading
about me. Make sure to stop back by to check out all my updates
on the website. Thank you.
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