it's been forever and a day since i've updated this site. I update the other quite frequently...almost daily...here's the web address for it if you're interested.

http://www.xanga.com/GIJAMIE6

if that doesn't work, well, I'm sorry. I attempted.

Life has taken some turns on this foreign soil that i never thought it would take.

Amazing how spontaneous life can be.

Tomorrow is my last day of in-processing and I am both happy and nervous. Joyous for the fact that I don't have to sit through anymore boring ass briefings.....nervous for the fact that I actually start my job on friday...that's crazy. My uniform isn't squared away at all with the patches and all so I'll probably get chewed out for that ( Read more... )

Okay, so I purposely skipped my softball game on wednesday which left a giant array of people VERY angry with me because I was in the starting line-up and was a no show. Oops. They weren't the only ones that were surprised that I wasn't there--I actually took myself off guard too. It's really out of character for me--especially because I PURPOSELY ( Read more... )

So, by being a Colvin such as I am, I have really high standards set for myself. I am now on the Wurzburg Softball Team which is awesome. I am also making more and more friends, which always makes an adjustment better. I actually start my job next friday. Thank the Lord. I am so tired of In-Processing, although right now it's fun because I'm ( Read more... )

So, let's see....I'm going to talk about my night last night. Well, actually my day yesterday. So, I woke up at 5 and went to my in-processing briefings which I pretty much slept through. Then, I got back to the barracks at bouat 330pm and everyone and therir mother invited me to go out to this Irish Pub called Jimmy'z. I accepted then went back to ( Read more... )

The army is confusing. My orders are now back to the original plan---Landstuhl Hospital in Kaiserslautern. This is crazy. If they would have just stayed the same, then I would have gotten there yesterday. Horrible ( Read more... )

So, I've made it. I am in Germany. The downside---my orders have changed. I'm being set to 1st Infantry Division Combat Support Battalion in Wurzburg.

Nick, I take back all of my jokes. They just turned around and bit me in the ass.

So, I have spent the majority of my morning picking all the clothes that I want to bring with me to Germany. Mainly summer clothes seeing as it is summer with a few warm items. I've heard that the weather over there is just like Chicago. GREAT ( Read more... )

A very good friend of mine told me that the more I stress myself out about being apart from SB, as he likes to call him, the harder I'm going to make things on myself and not to worry about things that I cannot control ( Read more... )