I don't feel like writing.

Ugh. I look like crap. I feel like crap. I'm cranky all the time. Deployment CAN'T be good for a person. I feel myself getting old.... wrinkles are coming in from all the stress.

19 days. This feels like torture.

I remember about a month ago, a buddy of mine who was leaving deployment early was saying that HE was down to 18 days and I was telling him that he had NO RIGHT to complain because we still had like 50 days or something... welp! Now I know how he feels.

I hate it here.
It is horrible.

I CAN'T WAIT:

• To get home and hug my man. I'm going to hug him for maybe 20 or 30 minutes. And I'm going to tell him not to let go until I'm ready.
• To organize: Clothes, Shoes, Files, Makeup/Beauty Products, Kitchen, Bathroom, DVD's, etc.
• To Clean MY NEW HOUSE.
• To meet my new neighbors.
• To HANG OUT WITH MY FRIENDS at places that don't include: The MWR, The MWR Tent, The pool, the px, the hadji mart, the DFAC, the COW, the MOC, etc.
• To sleep in a REAL bed. Not a bunk bed.
• To be able to WEAR makeup and not feel weird.
• To be able to shower in my OWN bathroom, and not in front of a bunch of people.
• To be able to go to the mall, or target, or walmart (and not online).
• To be able to turn the lights on in my room.
  
• To talk as loud as I want to in my room and not get yelled at because the people next to me have to wake up soon for work.
• To GET AWAY FROM ALL THESE PEOPLE I SEE EVERY DAY! (besides my closest friends, you know who you are!)
  
• To be able to see my man EVERY DAY!

Going Home

Oh that sounds so good right now!
I just want to GO HOME! haha.

Sean has been doing SO MUCH for the house! I'm so excited to see everything he's done! The pictures keep coming in and EVERYTHING looks so great!

23 days!

32 Days.

I was told that our reliefs are here. The Advanced Team is anyway... I keep telling myself that 30 days is going to go by so fast. December CAN'T be far away.





UPDATES:
Sean is home. Buying crazy things from Lowes... Things that don't make sense to me, of course he won't inform me of any of the ongoings in our new home, he likes to surprise me... and then there's my side. I HATE SURPRISES! I hate GIVING surprises. I hate GETTING surprises. So, not knowing what is going on in the house is friggin torture. This was his list from Lowes:
Nails,bolts, washers, a door lock, step stool, spackle, scraper, paintbrush, crowbar, extension cords, and sand paper

He put a down payment on a.... BLACK LAB!! We have our Maverick! (We decided back in February of last year to get a black lab named Maverick. I found out through one of my Watch Officers that she was going to be getting a chocolate lab and that there were some black, yellow, and chocolate labs available through one of Sean's Chief's Neighbors... SO! Sean got a call and went over there. They'll be available Dec 24th! JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS! I'm so excited to see little Maverick in person! MAVERICK THE WONDER DOG!! :)

Speaking of Dogs: I was telling a guy I work with about our pet plans and how I want a Teacup Yorkie and he told me that his sister's neighbor breeds Yorkies, that the neighbors dog is having puppies that will be available about the time we get back, and that he's already getting one for his girlfriend and he could get one for me too!!! It sounds WAY too good to be true, but if it IS that would be FABULOUSO times a trillion!

Onto more serious news, I didn't pass my Watch Supervisor Board. It was this morning. I sat with my chief, Mrs. McAndrews, and a second class and basically they quizzed me for an hour. They said what was weird is that I got all the hard questions right, but the easy ones that I should have gotten I didn't. I guess I was so worried about all those difficult questions that I didn't study the easy ones. Oh well, I have to go in in 2 weeks and retake a mini-board for a half hour and they're just going to go over what I missed the first time.

BY THE WAY

I haven't decided whether it's a GOOD thing or not... but, I just got weighed. I'm down to 155 lbs. Which means I've lost 20 lbs. since I got here. Might be muscle since I haven't worked out since June. But either way, I don't know how I feel about it. I know that once you reach a certain age when a woman says she's lost weight normally it's good. I feel better, and I feel like I look better. So I guess that's all that matters. I'm eating healthier than I was back in the states. Fruits, Yogurts, Salads sometimes, instead of pot pies, breakfast at Hardees, and Pizza... Oh and all the beer. I feel much healthier. So, I guess it IS a good thing.

39 days.

Obama...

I just really don't know how I feel. I'm hearing so many things from both sides. I wish I knew how I felt about it. Maybe someday soon I'll figure it out. And I really hope that the decision that I make is not made because of something bad happening.

After I found out, I thought about how my mom said about an hour before he won, "I'm pretty sure Obama is going to win, and I feel sad for our country about it." And I decided that this doesn't have to be a horrible thing.

So I prayed:
Dear Lord,
Please Bless Obama. Lead him to make the right decisions even if he doesn't credit you for them. Help him to do what's right, and help him to be a good president for our country. Protect him from Satan. Help him to not be corrupted. Protect him from being killed by the crazies in our country. I pray that you would help him to be a good president. And thank you for a country that lets us choose our own president.
Amen.

Edit that last one

I found my ID. Well, Jen did. It was in my snack drawer... with the PopTarts I took from breakfast the last time I saw my ID.
DUH, JOY!

Pills Pills Inhalers

So... They say I'm better. Not SIQ (Sick in Quarters) anymore. I still have all these pills I have to take, and I'm supposed to suck on this inhaler once every 4-6 hours. (Actually, my doc informed me that you aren't supposed to put it to your mouth, just hold it about 1-2 inches from your mouth.)
But, I still don't have an ID. WHICH MEANS that in an hour I'm going to head over to AJ and get a new ID. I just hope that I look halfway normal in this picture. The last picture I had NO CHIN, and TWO black eyes. It was horrible. I just showered and got all clean and I feel renewed!
Another note... It's POURING again... well I guess I'll have to take that back, it's not pouring, it's just raining. Which means I'll have to pull out that lovely old rain coat that they gave us. I never did think that I would actually use it. haha... I guess I should start getting ready!

12 Hour Watches?

Not for this chick!
FIRST I get to have Bronchitis! YAY... or no.
I have been feeling ill all week, and now that Saturday has come, I have FINALLY gone to the doctor and they tell me I have mild, if not severe, Bronchitis. I have been having trouble breathing, and felt sick all day. So, now I know why. I just pray I get better soon!