It's Official

This is MoM, guest blogger.

Just a note to tell you that Avivah has been all sworn in and flown out.

For pictures of it all you can check out my blog:
http://thoughtsandothersmartalecremarks.blogspot.com

PLEASE write her letters! She can't have care packages or anything else, but a letter or card is perfect and every encouraging word of support is helpful. If you do it on the computer, add pics she'll love it.

V will call this weekend to give us her address, then I'll post it here and on my blog too and you can MAIL AWAY!!!

Any questions can be asked here or on my blog or you can call me if you have the #.

Til this weekend.....

1.

As I write this I think about tomorrow, where at this time, I'll have sworn into active duty, and already be at MEPS, briefing to leave for the airport.

That's kind of unnerving, to be perfectly honest.

On the other hands, my personal fears about making it through this, and my fears about my relationship, are gone.

I don't really know what happened to them, but they aren't there any more.
I KNOW I'm going to go there, rock out, make it through and come out kicking stronger then before.

And you know what? That rocks.
I may still be sad at the hotel tonight, but I'm not afraid.

I'm wrapping up my packing right now, and then I'll be heading up to the station with Justin to fill out some paperwork and go to DEP call, my last.

Henceforth, this will be MY last post until I get out of BMT.
There will be one post that my mother does for me, that should contain my address at BMT, for any of you crazies out there who want to snail mail me. Please don't feel bad if I don't answer your letters until after BMT, I understand that we have VERY little time to write home. But letters would be appreciated.

I will have my phone until mid day tomorrow, if you still need to reach me, though once I leave the house today at like, 13:30 ish today, I will not be back online at all.

So I guess this is goodbye....for now.

I love you all dearly, and I hope you continue reading when I come back!





Frm Rent, it seemed to fit:
Let's always stay friend/though we ma have our disputes/this family tree's got deep roots./Friendship is thicker then blood.

2.

Officially, today was day two.

To top off yesterday's post, I'll let you know what I did after work.

I rode a tortoise. Yeah, that's right, a tortoise.
Named Martin.
He's sixteen years old and lives at Tropical Fish Pond. My friend Sam works there and Justin and I went to go see her for a visit before I leave. It was really cool.

Today, I woke up late, like, eleven thirty....Got dressed, and went to my Aunt Julie's. Got to see the fam, plus some fam I hadn't seen in a while. Talked alot, played with the little ones, stuck lots of 'hair pretties' in Justin's hair...had fun.

Now I'm Packing, and filling a box to go to tech with me.
My brother is sleeping on my floor.
My cat is sleeping in front of the vent, blocking the heat.

Very quiet right now.
Off to bed soon, as I'm fighting getting sick.

You have until Tuesday midday roughly to get a hold of me I guess....then you'll just have to wait....

Yeah, that's right!

It is indeed 0600 on day three! And I've been up for roughly an hour already.

Don't ask me why....I'm just getting ready....


To go to school that is!

Yeah, I'm helping out with the Middle School MSVMA Solo Ensemble Festival today. It's being help d up at Groves, and the choir at the school asked if I would help out. Apparently they don't have enough people or something like that. Anywho, it means that I'm up, rocking and doign stuff, WAAAAYYYY earlier then I'd normally be, but hey, gotta get used to it one way or another, right?

Again, other then that I'm cleaning and packing.
Oh, and getting to see my cousin Hunter! He's in the CAP (Civil Air Patrol), which I think is really really cool. He recently moved outta state, so I thought that the last time I'd get to see him was when he came in a little bit ago. But nope! He and his mom Karen are here until sunday!

Woot!

So I get to see them, clean and pack....and work....

It's like a time warp, prep-ing for time-to-come, yet working in the time-past....
Kinda strange, no?

Hopefully I'll have time later to post again, get some more pictures up for your viewing pleasure.

Catch you on the flipside.

Wow, lookie what we all found!

We found FLOOR!

Not all of it, not yet at least, but some!

Shocking.

Almost as shocking as the fact that I've now remembered to blog every day for three days in a row! *happy dances* I'm surprised really....

Still cleaning, still packing, still gym(ing?).
Today my aunt Karen and Cousin Hunter come in to town, which so totally freaking rocks!
So I'll be working this morning, hitting the gym, then going down to see them and the rest of the fam.

Other then playing with my "dog" Mooch, and getting him REALLY REALLY stoned on catnip, that's about all I'm doing.

Not much to say else. Other then that you should check this out if you EVER need a laugh....http://icanhascheezburger.com
It's a bunch of crazy pictures and captions. it's strange, but amusing as all get out.

That all for now I think.

See you on the flipside.

5.

Day five dawns at around 9:55 am for me.
It's going to be a rough day, as I'm fighting feeling crappy emotionally.
This particular post is feeling kinda attacking to me, but that's just what it is I guess.

Last night was a blast though, a close group of Justin and I's friends and my family and Justin's mom all went to this really awesome microbrewery, Dragonmead.We must have been there something like three hours.

The weather is crappy here, a snow/sleet/ice/freezing rain storm hit us starting early yesterday morning and lasting all day into the night...dumped several inches worth of snow and ice on us. As my mom said, if there was ever weather making a good reason to leave Michigan, this is it! It's supposed to stay icy and cold right up until I leave.

I'm still cleaning and packing, although I don't have a lot of time, I was really enjoying the time to myself, or time with bear to actually be getting something done, without anyone else. I mean, there's the gym, and that's great and all, but it's not time where i feel like I'm getting anything done. Even if mom can't see it, we've gotten a lot of stuff done in here, and yet, again, all I hear from around the circle is, "it's not enough, it's not done, it's not good enough." *shrug* You'd think I was used to it by now, but no. It still bothers me, It still ticks me off, It still aggravates the living daylights outta me when I get helped without asking. I mean, I know that she's just trying to help, and trying to spend time with me. But honestly, I don't want the help in my room. I would love it if the laundry got transfered on it's own, it'd save me time. But it doesn't, and I don't expect it to. I'd love to wave a wand and 'make it so' but I can't. But I'm working on it, and doing it with Justin, or on my own, and IT'S BEEN WORKING. Not as fast as you want it to, but it's going. I'm not complaining about it as much, and it's still getting done.

Even though you just want to help, just don't, ok? In the long run it hinders me more, because it irritates me and although it can have it's fun times, more often cleaning with mom drives me up a way, makes me feel invaded and attacked, and leaves one or the other or both of us in a pissy black mood. Let me just work it out on my own, find a different way to spend time with me...please.


Other hen that, that's all I'm doing, cleaning, packing, and the gym. I guess you'll catch me if you need me...

See you on the flipside.

Crunch.

Today.

Is day.

6.



That shouldn't wig me much, right?
Wrong.
Dead wrong.


Because, see, 6 means that I can't say I have a week left.
And that's a little nerve-wracking.


But time clicks on, and things go as they should.

I'm working on not getting involved in things around here, because I won't be here to deal with hem in 6 days. It's hard and it hurts, but that's what I need to do

I've been spending as much time as I can with Justin, which means that I've become a lot closer to another friend, Chris. That's been really cool. And I've gotten to see Travis more, which is cool, because he's the third member of the AF fam from here. He leaves in march.

Anywho, all I've been doing other then that and the gym is cleaning and packing, packing and cleaning. Kinda boring, but it needs to be done.


That's all for this post I think.


Catch me if you need me!

So I thought I'd throw some more pics up....

Jayden, the little boy I've been working with. Got a lot of pics of him, he's photogenic.


Jayden and me, on the couch.


Jayden and Mr. Tree.


Jayden, with a basket on his head.


This one takes some explaining. This is Jayden, in the background, and Azera. A little while ago, Jayden, Lisa and I took a field trip to the Build-A-Bear factory at the mall. There, Jayden picked out an animal, a husky/wolf in this case, and proceeded to stuff it, give it a heart, "wash" it, clothe it, name it and get a puppy to match it. As you can see, the Wolf is in Dress blues, and the ranking markings on it's sleeve make it something like, chief master Sargent of the USAF....or something like that. Way up there on the scale. The Puppy, lil' Zee, as Jayden calls her, is like a smaller version of Azera, sans the clothes. Though you can't see them in the photo, Azera has black shoe/boots, and a hat as well. She has now become his constant companion, sharing naptime, playing Cash Cab, and letting Jaydne fly Zee around in a toy plane that he has. I hope that she and Zee continue to help Jayden, when ever he's missing me or sad.


Here is little Zee, Azera's puppy.


This is again, Jayden, in the dark at the doctor's office. He was the best behaved that day....We had a lot of fun playing in the waiting room, and still keeping quiet.


That's all the pics for now, next pic blog will prolly be Mooch again, and random things....but there you have it, Jayden, who is NOT a Jewish chicken, the little boy I've been spending my time with working.

Update again.

Finally got a chance to take my Friends Ryan and Jaz up to the station to talk to SSgt. Marunick last Wednesday. That was cool, as it ended up with like, Mom, Ryan, Jaz, Me, Justin, Travis, Chris and his sister Samara all there at the same time, and It was a good meeting, I think.

Still having some car problems, plus overnight, the weather has dropped several inches of snow on the ground, made it painfully cold, and there's more on the way today, tonight and tomorrow. Meaning that the driveway is horribly hard to use, and getting to the gym will be a challenge at best and dangerous at worst. ^_^ It aught to be fun...

Been spending time thinking, writing a lot, but not much of it's any good, so I delete more then half of what I write because I don't like it.

The days are ticking down to leaving time for us, and the closer it gets, the more nervous I'm getting. Not in a bad way, just excited and feeling the crunch.

If you need me, drop me a line I guess, I'll be around for a little bit longer.