So since the Disturbed concert was postponed till January 13th I decided to buy tickets (I'm 99.5% sure I'll be home by then). I have 2 extra tickets so whoever wants to go with me just say so. I dont have the time to ask people individually if they want to go and since most of my friends read this thing every once in awhile I figured I'd offer ( Read more... )

I have an ugly stomach bug and I accidentally threw up in the sergeant major's vehicle, oops. Also, I found out today that I will be on the advance party team to go back to the states so technically I get to leave Iraq 11 days before the rest of this unit, woohoo ( Read more... )

Finally made it back to Iraq at 5am this morning after spending 5 days in the hell that I call kuwait. Cancelled and delayed flights made my stay extremely pleasant. Did get to ride in my first C17, pretty nifty and no motion sickness whatsoever, yay. But now we only have 2 more months before we leave this place, woohoo! Finally a little bit of

Well the time has come and my trip is over =( Cory and I are heading to the airport in 4 hours. We had such a blast though. I think we walked through every part of Paris. The palace of Versailles was sooo incredibly gorgeous, especially the huge gardens. During the fountain shows they would blast classical music throughout the garden. I also ( Read more... )

Cory and I are sooo obsessed with the pastries here now. We bought ecliars at one bakery then ate them as we walked. One more block down we saw another bakery with prettier desserts so we were both thinking "I could go for another dessert." So yeah, we downed our ecliars outside that bakery so we could in and buy more. But they're soooo good ( Read more... )

I am another year older but none the wiser =) My birthday was pretty awetastic (I'm in Paris so I definitely can't complain). Was woken up this morning by 3 phone calls by Justin, my mom and my grandma. It just felt odd to roll over and answer a phone again. Then Cory and I took a tour through an old prison where they kept the prisoners that ( Read more... )

Hey everyone, I have uploaded a ton of pictures of Paris onto my Yahoo photo album so check it out if you want. As you'll see we had way too much fun at the Louvre, take care everyone!!

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mdmjillian/my_photos

Well, I finally made it, woohoo!! Kuwait was such a bore!! Was stuck on lockdown in a hot room from 9am to 8pm until the buses finally took us to the airport. Good thing I had my laptop and other people had movies so a few of us just watched movies the whole time. Got to germany at 3am, got billeting across the street, took a 2 hour nap and had ( Read more... )

My bags are packed and I will hopefully be flying to Kuwait later on this evening. After a day or so in Kuwait I will be off for my 2 weeks in Paris, I'm soooo excited! I cant wait to just look and act like a girl again!! My hair has only been down maybe 3 or 4 times since I've been in Iraq so I finally get to blow dry it and straighten it. I ( Read more... )

Headaches suck. I was on quarters for the past 4 days because I had a really really bad one and they had to give me a shot and pills that make me very very sleepy. So I think I slept for about 18-20 hours out of the day. And when I wasnt sleeping it took all of my energy to not drool when I walked to the bathroom =) I'm off the sleepy medicine ( Read more... )