so once again here i sit on radio watch. i sit here finding my mind wandering about the vast things going on at home. i think about all of the things i could be doing right now. i've been thinking about the past 2 spring breaks i've spent with the gruppe'. the hard part about all of this is not the war part, its the being away from home part. the ( Read more... )

so here i sit another morning in iraq. things here are going alright. the days are slowly starting to tick by and i find myself more and more captivated by thoughts of home, it consumes me... i miss all of the little things that i used to have. my mom is send a tv, a new ps2 slim, GT4, and ratchet and clank "up your arsenal". i miss home, i've been ( Read more... )

i'll update a real update soon... i'm alive and well in iraq... things are going pretty well and although i've been hit with a couple of bombs, nothing has happened to me. i'm alive and well. i'll be back later with a real update but for now i decided to be a poser like everyone else. then this got me to thinking... if you read this, reply... i ( Read more... )

so yeah.... iraq sucks.... my patrols are cool cept for the i.e.d. that i got hit with the other night... i'm alive and well. my tent sucks ass, i'm in there with all my bosses and no privacy and or sanity is anywhere near my future. i'm at FOB Kalsu and i'll be here for a year... i.e.d.'s are everywhere which is a nerve racking job in my hummer, ( Read more... )

welp here i am in kuwait.... with all of 3rd i.d. cept for john aparently.... kuwait sucks.... nothing but desert until you get about 2 hours outside of where i'm currently at.... i hate this dull place and am actually looking forward to getting to iraq that way i can unpack all my crap and get everything set up the way i want it for the next year ( Read more... )

so yeah.... here i sit getting closer and closer to my deployment for a year to iraq... for those of you that don't know, i'll be leaving around friday and i'll be in kuwait for about a month. i will then move into iraq and i'll be there for a while. i should be home by about the end of Feb. 2006 ( Read more... )

ok folks... in about 24 hours i'll be at the airport awaiting my flight. i need a headcount of all who are planning on attending the 23rd's movie, dinner and afterparty.... if you are bringing more than one person then lemme know about that too. trying to get a handle on the needs for some party favors as well as food for later. post it here so the ( Read more... )

so yeah sometimes when you think you've got everything in your life worked out and set and things are great something kinda comes along and screws with your head. i'm happy with the decision i've made for my life but at sometimes i wish that there could be more understanding. the carefree days of my highschool life are done, and now as i have to ( Read more... )

so yeah... as of 9am on the 23rd i will officially be back in b'ham, chillin for the final days before my trip to iraq over the next year... as the gruppe knows plans have been made to go out. john should also be in town so i'm hoping those of you who can, will come out and chill with us on the 23rd. i'm not sure really as to what other days we ( Read more... )

AHHH!!!! stupid livejournal!!!! i had a good post that explained what all had been going on and the *poof* the damn thing just vanishes.... shit... oh well now... umm.... i'm in vegas... and this came from a great movie....