right so i never write in this thing anymore. well not much has changed since i came back from leave. we still have stupid worthless leadership and we still have to put up with all the BS that keeps piling on. but there is an up side, im closer than ever to coming home for good, which i could pretty much say every morning i wake up but that's ( Read more... )

right so i told everyone back home that i was going to go to Europe...imagine their surprise when i should up at home out of no where ^_^.....i luv surprises. So i only told my sis that i was coming home and she picked me up from the airport at around 4:00pm on Fri. the 19th and i come home and ali had this elaborate lie that she had a mothers day ( Read more... )

So its been a while...not to much has changed, its Iraq what else can i say. So the pool opened at the beggining of april and me and my buddies have started going there to kick back and relax. Its really nice too because they rebuild it from an old pool that was here when we first came in and has since been renovated. Its got a sweet 20 ft. high ( Read more... )

Right, so i haven't updated in forever and i have some what of an excuse but it might be because i have a bit of a problem with concentrating on one thing for too long. Anyway so the excuse i kind of have is that we moved out of our old building on base here. They kicked us out of our sweet ass building because the guys in charged "need" office ( Read more... )

I like turtles!!!! i always have, don't ask me why. i never did get one as a pet though, the ones in the pet store always seemed so sad, i just wanted to buy them all and set them free at some nice lake somewhere where theres lots of room and lots of bugs for them to feast on and lots of young hot turtle chicas for them to snuggle up to........yea ( Read more... )

Well my sleep schedule is still screwed up so to fix im trying a new technique. Try to stay up till about 7:00 for 8:00 at night the next day and then let my body just crash and fall alseep. So this morning me and my buddy Noah tried to get to church this morning. We picked out the praise and worship service cause we figured there would be alot ( Read more... )

yea so i got up this morning at like 5:00 am because of this crappy detail i had to pull. though i guess i didn't really have to do it, i was actually just filling in for a buddy. Basically i check id cards for people who want to use the gym. I had just had mission the other day to and i didn't get to bed till like midnight. So i did that for like ( Read more... )

So today I opened up and set up my Xbox 360, I just couldn't wait. I actually went to the PX with Shep and bought Call of Duty 2. So that gave me an excuse. Other than that, I come to find out I some how missed a PT test I was supposed to take. My squad, Sgt. Beil, walks in and tells me he needs to give me a counseling statement for not taking it. ( Read more... )

So I bought an Xbox 360 today at the PX. I just couldn't resist. I didn't go there planning on buying it either. This is the first time i've even seen it stock. There was some guy looking at buying one as I was looking. He asked if its worth getting. I then noticed it was the premium pakage Xbox 360s they had in stock. I told him it is totally ( Read more... )

Why am I here? And I don't just mean here in Iraq, I mean here in general. Why was I born? Was I put here for some purpose I don't know of yet? Maybe I'm here just for the experience, like a trail run before something greater. And if I do have a specific purpose, why is it so hard to find that out? Just some questions I've always had, and wanted to ( Read more... )