ok, i am not great about updating my blogg this go around....so, i just noticed it has been just about a month when i last wrote, and michele made a note to me to update my blogg, so I AM!
christmas was actually nice for being deployed, christmas eve we sent the staff on a wild scavenger hunt --they had to wear santa's hats and have pictures taken for proof...which were hysterical when all was said and done....they were running around the base getting crazy pictures for example: eating french fries at mcdonalds (we do have a mcdonalds, believe it or not); with the command commander, saving a life on the ambulance, on the fire truck, in the dry cleaners with certain people, a picture with ANWAR, who works at taco bell....inside starbucks --which had not opened yet (YES, they put a starbucks on my way out)
while they were running around, i bought a stocking for everyone and ordered chocolate coal to put in as a joke....we stuffed them with other odds and ends....later we did secret santa followed by a white elephant...then off to church for early service. not much on christmas day. we did serve the troops again, note the picture!!
the best part of the holidays, was susan my replacement showed up teh 27 and i started turnover with her! so we did just that...meanwhile i moved to a really crappy place to live with toilets and showers even farther away than my last home! UUUGGGHH, i hate having to go to the toilet in the middle of the night in the COLD 30 degree desert. so after that painful ordeal, they move me to camp cupcake, arifjan, where i get to live in an open bay ward with 150 other women....boy the army sure knows how to take care of senior officers! they navy would not treat an 05 like this at all....but, to be honest, i don't care because, THERE IS INDOOR PLUMBING...and i can walk to the end of the ward and there is showers and toilets...no complaining here. now i find myself jobless, and homeless, and THEY won't let me go home....so i managed to get to go back to qatar to cover for the arcent surgeon while he is house hunting in hawaii...and yes, this is where i am today.
not much to do. BUT i do get to swim! i did swim at camp arifjan last week, but in this country of plenty of oil, they don't have enough to heat the pool so the temp was 62 degrees, JUST like la jolla cove! although, i am not prepared for that, and after 40 minutes i was done and hypothermic i passed out early.....i am hoping they have fuel to heat the pool or NO more swimming for me in kuwait, rumor is it is 57 now...way tooo cold.
SO, here i am just swam in qatar, the weather is like san diego, so i am loving it. the funny thing is that conrad kress, the pa from hawaii who was here and passed through camp virginia 2 months ago is here now on some secret squirrel mission he has alot of hair...it is funny running into him as much on this deployment.
anyway, just biding my time till i get home in LESS than 30 days. i hope.
i will try to update this thing more frequently....how do you like that michele?
christmas was actually nice for being deployed, christmas eve we sent the staff on a wild scavenger hunt --they had to wear santa's hats and have pictures taken for proof...which were hysterical when all was said and done....they were running around the base getting crazy pictures for example: eating french fries at mcdonalds (we do have a mcdonalds, believe it or not); with the command commander, saving a life on the ambulance, on the fire truck, in the dry cleaners with certain people, a picture with ANWAR, who works at taco bell....inside starbucks --which had not opened yet (YES, they put a starbucks on my way out)
while they were running around, i bought a stocking for everyone and ordered chocolate coal to put in as a joke....we stuffed them with other odds and ends....later we did secret santa followed by a white elephant...then off to church for early service. not much on christmas day. we did serve the troops again, note the picture!!
the best part of the holidays, was susan my replacement showed up teh 27 and i started turnover with her! so we did just that...meanwhile i moved to a really crappy place to live with toilets and showers even farther away than my last home! UUUGGGHH, i hate having to go to the toilet in the middle of the night in the COLD 30 degree desert. so after that painful ordeal, they move me to camp cupcake, arifjan, where i get to live in an open bay ward with 150 other women....boy the army sure knows how to take care of senior officers! they navy would not treat an 05 like this at all....but, to be honest, i don't care because, THERE IS INDOOR PLUMBING...and i can walk to the end of the ward and there is showers and toilets...no complaining here. now i find myself jobless, and homeless, and THEY won't let me go home....so i managed to get to go back to qatar to cover for the arcent surgeon while he is house hunting in hawaii...and yes, this is where i am today.
not much to do. BUT i do get to swim! i did swim at camp arifjan last week, but in this country of plenty of oil, they don't have enough to heat the pool so the temp was 62 degrees, JUST like la jolla cove! although, i am not prepared for that, and after 40 minutes i was done and hypothermic i passed out early.....i am hoping they have fuel to heat the pool or NO more swimming for me in kuwait, rumor is it is 57 now...way tooo cold.
SO, here i am just swam in qatar, the weather is like san diego, so i am loving it. the funny thing is that conrad kress, the pa from hawaii who was here and passed through camp virginia 2 months ago is here now on some secret squirrel mission he has alot of hair...it is funny running into him as much on this deployment.
anyway, just biding my time till i get home in LESS than 30 days. i hope.
i will try to update this thing more frequently....how do you like that michele?
1 comment:
Good to hear that you're still alive and kicking out there! Sorry your pool is so cold... If it's any consolation, pools are pretty damn cold around here right now too! And there was an oil spill in Waikiki so no swimming there... I'm meeting Michele Merritt in town today for lunch... She'll get to meet Moana! :)
Look forward to seeing you in LESS THAN 30 DAYS!!
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