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WELCOME TO: GEMINI RISING ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() UPDATED INTRO 30 JUNE 2025: Just a little about me. I've been married for 33 years this past NOV and currently live in Southern California, but I grew up in New Hampshire. I've got 2 boys who are young adults. I work as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. I enjoy my job a lot. Still. If you can believe that. I love to write. Thankfully both of my boys achieved Eagle Scout. My Scouting days are over and I'm back to focusing on my writing. I like to get out in nature, drink coffee and watch football. Here's a little bio about my zodiac. GEMINI: Gemini, the sign of the Twins, is dual-natured, elusive, complex and contradictory. On the one hand it produces the virtue of versatility, and on the other the vices of two-facedness and flightiness. The sign is linked with Mercury, the planet of childhood and youth, and its subjects tend to have the graces and faults of the young. When they are good, they are very attractive; when they are bad they are more the worse for being the charmers they are. Like children they are lively, and happy, if circumstances are right for them, or egocentric, imaginative and restless. Their good qualities are attractive and come easily to them. They are affectionate, courteous, kind, generous, and thoughtful towards the poor and suffering - provided none of the activities resulting from expressing these traits interferes too greatly with their own lives and comforts. Geminians can be successful in many walks of life though their general characteristics tend to make them unreliable. They are often skilled manipulators of language, in speech and writing, and may be: debaters, diplomats (though in politics they are more interested in theory than practice), orators, preachers (brilliant rather than profound), teachers, authors, poets, journalists, or lawyers. BLOG ACCOMPLISHMENTS: SEPTEMBER 2025:
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Today, I went to downtown LA to collect my 25 year pin in person. LAPD did a nice ceremony for us civilian and sworn employees which I thought was thoughtful. Mind you, the City of LA is notoriously late on just about everything. I got my 10 year pin at 15 years - in fact, I got 2 and didn't get a 15 year pin. I got my 20 year pin at 22 1/2 years. So when they sent me the invite for the 25 year pin I said I better show up! ![]() The day was a bit overcast. And my classmates (there's only 4, me, Sarah, Olga, and Jessica) were ALL supposed to go, but Olga and Jessica canceled. I get it. Fufu ceremonies are not for everyone, and Olga and Jessica are the type where they are uncomfortable in recognition of achievement. Mind you, I'm only only a hair better. I got my picture with the Deputy Chief and moved on. My husband was there dressed up in all his LAPD finest so that was nice. It's hard to believe it's been 25 years since I was hired by the City of LA and LAPD. We started with a class of 28 and there's only 4 of us now. When started, a cell phone was only good to make a phone call and everyone used a pager. CD players were in cars. My boys weren't born. My, how the times have changed. One of my most memorable calls, I was just qualified as a calltaker and this guy called up and wanted the Popo to come out. I asked, "What happened?" Caller: "I just paid this guy 1400 dollars for my drugs and he took off with the drugs and my money. I want to the police to track him down and get me my drugs I bought." ![]() ![]() I said, "You know drugs are illegal?" Caller: "yeah." Me: "Well, the police would come out and arrest you for buying drugs." CLICK. |