Updation

After some recent frustrations with my incredibly slow internet connection, and trying to change my account over to this new google feature, I've finally resurrected my blog. The internet never seems to keep things simple. Always changing, adapting. To make things better, easier to use, they say. A pain in the ass, if you ask me. Now I have an idea of how my dad must feel, not knowing how to use all of the modern day technology. Pretty soon, technology is going to advance to the point where I'm not going to know how the hell to use it. OK, probably not... but that's what it seems like at times.

Looks like my last post was back in January. Quite a bit has changed since then. Life has been moving at a fast pace for the past couple of years. I've gone from South Korea, to Texas, to Iraq. Had a couple different girlfriends and am now single. Typical military life... never staying in once place for too long, can't maintain a stable relationship. I must say though, I've become quite comfortable with not being in a relationship. A lot less emotional work on my part.

I had somewhat of an epiphany a little while back.. or something like that. I'm 22 years old and just about a year away from getting out of the Army (for certain this time). I'm faced with having to find/start a career. A career! That means no more fun.. well, at least not as much. I look at all of the people that I know outside of the military, and they're either still in school, have just graduated and started pretty nice jobs, or they're getting married and/or having kids. Kind of weird to consider myself an adult. I'm still young. 23 When I get out of the military. I don't know how well I'm going to transition back into the "real world."

In about 13 days I'll be flying out of Baghdad, on my way home for a little R&R. As anxious and excited as I am about that, those feelings are pretty much drowned out with knowing that 18 days later I have to come back here.. for who knows how long. We were originally supposed to stay here until May 08. Then it got pushed back to August 08. Then there were talks of pushing it back to November 08 and even May 09. Talk about a morale killer. There was a small rumor floating around that we could possibly have our deployment shortened back to May 08. It's just a little bit of hope that I refuse to allow myself to cling to. I've convinced myself that we're here for at least 15 months. To think of anything less is just ignorance.