It seems so long since I wrote the previous update. We flew from Baltimore to Raleigh, got picked up by Shawn's sponsor and a volunteer, spent time in the base hotel, dropped our stuff off in our new house on base, had Christmas with Shawn's family, a second Christmas with my family, made it back to our house, got Shawn's truck from the port, got ( Read more... )

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I have some fairly interesting text conversations during the day ( Read more... )

I have two topics to talk about in this entry, and while neither have anything to do with the other, they can both use the same title. Nifty.

Item One: ( Derby )

Some things have been going on around here. We're down to five months 'til we move back to the States. Though we still haven't been told where we're going, the official list of possible locations has come out. We're looking at Cannon, NM; Peterson, CO; Vandenberg, CA; and Hurlburt Field, FL. Of course, we're hoping to go back home to Florida. ( Read more... )

Yeah, you read that title correctly. Tomorrow, I'm getting up at the ass crack of dawn, boarding a bus with my team mates, and leaving the parking lot at 6am for Utrecht, Holland to bout against the Dom City Dolls. This will be my second bout, my first away bout ( Read more... )

This will be an all-derby post. If you're not interested in the sport (you're wrong, and) you can skip by this entry.
( They see me rollin' )

At the end of my previous entry, I said I was thinking on typing up a list of things I won't miss about Germany. Sounds awfully negative. I'm still going to do that, but I'm going to intersperse it with things I will miss. I have three (read: five) things I've already listed about things I will miss, and I want to make sure with this, I'll match ( Read more... )

Another month has gone by since my last update. So while I am again using LJ more than I used to, I'm still not using it as often as I used to used to ( Read more... )

Eleven days after I said I would do a follow-up post to the previous (for more pictures of Keukenhof), and I'm here to tell you this post will NOT be about that ( Read more... )