Big bada boom
Wow, it’s been a busy month…and loud too! I was just thinking a couple weeks ago that we’ve lucky and hadn’t heard the “Big Voice” telling us to take cover take cover, the compound is taking mortar rounds. And what happens? We just started getting hit like crazy! We hear the dull explosions almost every day and I was sooo ticked to wake up to a loud siren this morning. The insurgents are going a little crazy! It was so sucky, I kind of woke up to the thud and the sirens and when I went back to sleep I had the most messed up dreams. I dreamt that I woke up to the same siren but when I opened my door to look outside the trailers all around me were in ruins. The ground was all wet mud and the Marines were already out with bulldozers clearing away the rubble. A Marine was outside my door and saw me looking out. He seemed surprised that I was there and told me to grab what I could and get out of the area. The rest of the morning I kept imagining something crashing through my trailer roof. It was not a good morning. And stuff like that has been happening more and more of late.
Well today is a new day and things seem so much better! I just checked my deployment countdown thingy and I’ve only got 74 days till we leave here. Life is gonna be good again soon. Big news that points to things looking up: I’m got accepted to University of Missouri – Columbia for the winter semester!! I am so excited! I am starting the whole VA, grant, scholarship, loan process and it’s a little daunting. I know that if I start now I’ll be a lot better off though. Its nuts, my laptop just broke as well and I’m sending it off to get fixed but that means that anything I need the internet for I have to do at work during lunch and breaks. Oh, while I’m on the subject, if you ever break the glass inside a laptop screen and have to get it fixed check out www.screentekinc.com. I checked with HP and they were going to charge me $800 or so. I saw a couple different articles in online newspapers that mentioned screentek and figured I’d check it out. They are only going to charge $375 and shipping. I’ll keep you updated.
Oh, I talked to Grandma about this a little already but I’ll tell you all as well. I found out that we will demob in Camp Atterbury, IN which is only about an hour away from Sellersburg. I’m definitely hoping Grandma will come up for it but if anyone else wants to consider this your official invitation. I think there may be a short ceremony when we deplane and then maybe we could all grab some dinner or something. I don’t know much yet but I wanted to give everyone a heads up. It should be in the middle of October sometime.
posted by Stacy @ 10:35 PM
6 Comments:
Hey, my deployment countdown thingy is at zero. Take care.
Stacy -
Hope your day is going great! Thanks for this great blog. I love the humor and honesty.
I am PS USAFR and considering joining the KYARNG (actually, I am about 90% yes at this point). It helps to get first-hand info from someone "donwrange" about their deployment. It may never happen for me, but...good to be prepared.
Praying for you and others,
John Ireland
irishwings00@yahoo.com
Dang!! 74 days left, that's great.
Hey, just a tid bit of info. my grampa use to tell me that dreaming of muddy water meant that the death of a close one would happen, but I'm sure your close to alot of people out there and that you have probably herd, known, or even seen someone you knew pass away. Well enough of that crap I just thought your dream was creepy. Goodluck on the rest of your stay in Iraq. Hope to hear from you soon. Chris
We are also counting down - for when we need to have your room ready! I plan to rearrrange things a bit so you have some 'space' downstairs. Send me a list of foods you want me to make and I'll have some in the freezer for you! Love you, Mom
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Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday Day dear Stacy,
Happy Birthday to you!
-Jen and the boys
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