Nothing says Merry Christmas like the sound of gunfire in the morning!

Seriously, that is what I woke up to on Christmas day. I hear gunfire often but for some reason waking up to it on Christmas Day just didn't sit well with me. I had plans to go watch some people in my unit play football and hang out but after I woke up like that I changed my mind. And don't get me wrong, I didn't think I would get hit or anything. I feel "relatively" safe where I am. It just kinda messed things up for me. So instead I rolled over and went back to sleep. That's where I stayed almost the entire day! I watched "White Christmas" on my laptop, watched a bunch of TV, read almost a whole book, and talked to all kinds of family on the phone. The only time I left my bed was to shower and go to Christmas dinner at the DFAC (dining facility) where I had a pretty good dinner. They had Hawaiian ham (burned, but that's how I like it), yummy turkey, crab legs (I didn't eat them, we had a bunch of people get sick last month from the seafood so I played it safe), candied yams (mashed though, which was weird), cranberry sauce (yay!!), a bunch of other stuff I don't remember, and most importantly...pumpkin and pecan pie!! I have a serious weakness for pie. Heck, at Thanksgiving 6 pieces of pie disappeared between my cousin Caitlin and I. It was pretty bad! I got to Iraq like 5 or 10 pounds heavier than when I left Missouri a month before! Anyway, after dinner I pretty much went back to the hooch and drifted in and out of sleep with the TV on. I'll tell you, that was the laziest day I've had in ages and it was great!! So all in all, a pretty decent Christmas. Hope you all had a great Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanza/Nondenominational Holiday!! Email me with all your "holiday" stories, I'd love to hear them!