“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolute ridicules than absolute boring” Marilyn Monroe.
My life has been amazing; it is
filled with imperfections and is full of ridiculousness. I wrote this up for an ice breaker for Toastmasters. I think it is the perfect first post, a little about me.
On December 20th 1979, 3 weeks early, I was born.
I am the middle child of five kids.
Forward a few more years, at the age of 5, I got my first
ride in a Cop Car. My sister pushed me off the bed and I hit my head on the
corner of the toy box. Blood rushing
down my face, my mom waved down a friend that was a cop, he drove us to the
nearest hospital where the staff believed it was my mom that beat me up….not
the toy box.
In High School, I got the courage to sing my first solo at
Solo ensemble, I cried afterwards.
My senior year we made it to State softball, division 3…. we
did not win.
My Name (Sabrina) is Irish which means Princess so it should not be
surprising that I was Queen three times in high school: Rodeo Queen, Homecoming
Queen and Prom queen. Believe me I don’t let it go to my head.
After graduating from High school, I traveled to New Zealand
to play in Hoops down under. I played a
lot of basketball and did some sightseeing.
I went whitewater rafting for the first time in my life.
In the fall I went to College at UW-Platteville where I
played basketball and majored in....college. The next year I transferred to
UW-Milwaukee to pursue a nursing degree.
While going to school, I worked at Rocky Rococo’s in
Milwaukee. One night we got held up by gun point. It was surreal. Never once
did I think they would shoot me. This was the second time that I got to ride in
a cop car. And hopefully my last.
During a summer break I went on a bike ride, I stopped at an
old neighbor’s house. We got to talking and shortly after we were in his 4 seat
plane flying over my hometown. He let me fly!
In 2002, almost exactly one year after 911 I signed up to
join the United States Navy. By far the
best decision I ever made.
2003 the war in Iraq started and I went to boot camp several
months later.
That November, my mother called me to let me know that a
High school friend was killed in Iraq. 17 soldiers died when 2 Blackhawks
collided. I will forever remember my
friend, my brother Eugene Uhl.
After I had completed my training, I got orders to Okinawa
Japan. That December the Tsunami hit Indonesia and the surrounding areas. I was
deployed to Sri Lanka to provide medical care to an Engineering unit. This was
my only deployment….a mini deployment.
In Japan I met my husband. We are both from Wisconsin. It
took us moving half way around the world and a Tsunami to make us meet. We were
both deployed and on that deployment we started talking. After our year in
Japan we were transferred to Bremerton Washington. Shortly after we moved, my Son Kadyn was
born.
January 3, 2008 we made it official, Chad and I got married
on a rainy night in a park in Washington…a few days later we got some other big
news. We were pregnant with our 2nd child.
In February, My husband was deployed to Iraq. About 2 month
after he got there I got a call that he was in Baghdad hospital. Thank God he only broke a few bones in his
ankle.
Kiera was born September 3rd, one week early. She
didn’t want to wait for her dad to get home first. She met him 3 weeks
later. And together we moved to Aurora
Colorado.
Several fun things happened while we lived in Colorado:
I finally graduated for College.
A tornado hit within a mile from my house.
I hiked my first 14er.
We took a family vacation to Florida; Disney world and Daytona
Beach.
Started my Photography Business, not officially a legal company.
Then 2011 we got new order to move to Minnesota, we decided
this state because it was close to family, not because of the weather.
2012 Both Kadyn and Kiera had
their first surgeries; tonsils and Adenoid.
And now we are here in 2013 waiting on orders. Waiting to
see what our next adventure will be.
My life is not perfect but that is exactly why it is perfect
for me.
<3 Love it and love you cuz! <3 -Trina
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