RnR
Rest and Relaxation Leave
I left Iraq for the last half of September. I got home and spent time with my wife doing a whole lot of nothing. It was so nice to not have to work on a timetable. The weather was cold and rainy, but it was nice after all of the heat and dust of Iraq.
There were a few things that we did that were noteworthy. We went to a Hatebreed show. I enjoyed myself and made a mental note to leave the wife at home next time I go to a hardcore show. (I don’t think she liked dealing with all of the drunks at The Rock.) We visited a few of my friends and ate all kinds of good food. I’m sure that I gained a few pounds in just the first week.
On the second week we made our way up to Bayfield, Wisconsin. We were supposed to go kayaking in Lake Superior, but the weather had been so cold that we decided to do it next summer. We drove all around the northern parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, stopping several times to take pictures of the fall colors. Up in Bayfield we took a boat tour around the Apostle Islands. We also went to Madeline Island and walked about. On our way back to the cities we stopped at St. Croix Falls and had a fun time.
The last few days seemed too short and everyone was starting to get snappy. I was not excited to come back and the wife certainly was not. Although… Part of me was anxious to get back and to get the last portion of my deployment over so that I could come back again. The wife always asks me things about our future and I’m stuck in this zone where I can only see about three months out. I can’t seriously talk to my wife about all of the things she wants to do with furniture or about what kind of a house I’m interested in living in when I don’t even know where I’m working next month. Nothing about this mess has any order to it and it’s finally starting to wear me down.
It is not that I came here trying to change the world. But as the deployment has come along, I have found less and less positive things to post about. It is not that I have lost the will to do my job, but my will to put up with the BS here is starting to drop. I am not trying to censor the readers of this blog from my feelings, but I hardly think that all you guys wanna hear from me is bitching.
I left Iraq for the last half of September. I got home and spent time with my wife doing a whole lot of nothing. It was so nice to not have to work on a timetable. The weather was cold and rainy, but it was nice after all of the heat and dust of Iraq.
There were a few things that we did that were noteworthy. We went to a Hatebreed show. I enjoyed myself and made a mental note to leave the wife at home next time I go to a hardcore show. (I don’t think she liked dealing with all of the drunks at The Rock.) We visited a few of my friends and ate all kinds of good food. I’m sure that I gained a few pounds in just the first week.
On the second week we made our way up to Bayfield, Wisconsin. We were supposed to go kayaking in Lake Superior, but the weather had been so cold that we decided to do it next summer. We drove all around the northern parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, stopping several times to take pictures of the fall colors. Up in Bayfield we took a boat tour around the Apostle Islands. We also went to Madeline Island and walked about. On our way back to the cities we stopped at St. Croix Falls and had a fun time.
The last few days seemed too short and everyone was starting to get snappy. I was not excited to come back and the wife certainly was not. Although… Part of me was anxious to get back and to get the last portion of my deployment over so that I could come back again. The wife always asks me things about our future and I’m stuck in this zone where I can only see about three months out. I can’t seriously talk to my wife about all of the things she wants to do with furniture or about what kind of a house I’m interested in living in when I don’t even know where I’m working next month. Nothing about this mess has any order to it and it’s finally starting to wear me down.
It is not that I came here trying to change the world. But as the deployment has come along, I have found less and less positive things to post about. It is not that I have lost the will to do my job, but my will to put up with the BS here is starting to drop. I am not trying to censor the readers of this blog from my feelings, but I hardly think that all you guys wanna hear from me is bitching.
posted by SGT Dock at 10:59
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