a myspace message from my husband about our turtle...

Date: Oct 16, 2007 11:20 PM

Subject: wellll..

Body: Ted put his big boy pants on today. during his hated tank cleaning today he took it upon himself to believe that he didn't need to stay in his tupperware bowl. i saw him just in time and shook it to get his front legs off so he wouldn't go tumbling out. he's already outgrown his cup and now he's too big for his bowl. i need to get him a deep dish bowl for tank cleanies. and Freckle still hates me for a full 24 hours after his tank cleanies. he doesn't even want food for a full day. when he sees me he glares at me and refuses to eat food. until he forgets the day after. he's the most tank clean hating grudge keeping fish in the world. well it's late as the world and i'm going to sleep. i love you mine. gnite :)



he makes me laugh with his little messages about our pet turtle...
i miss him so much :(

Yesterday....

This is from yesterday... October 10, 2007

Attack at US base in Iraq kills 2
AP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - A series of rockets or mortar rounds struck Camp Victory, killing two members of the U.S.-led coalition and wounding 40 other people on the sprawling headquarters for U.S. forces in Iraq, the military said Thursday.

There is nothing but something like this to happen that jars you back to reality. It just grabs a hold and yanks you violently back to reality. I was just starting to think that this was just going to be like my last deployment. Laid back. A mortar attack every now and then. One died from an IED in my entire battalion. I was really just starting to think that this wasn't going to be too bad. Shows that you should never be too complacent.

Back to REALITY now..

the manuscript says....

"...whenever people cross our paths, there is always a message for us. Chance encounters do not exist. But how we respond to these encounters determines whether we're able to receive the message. If we have a conversation with someone who crosses our path and we do not see a message pertaining to our questions, it doesn't mean there was no message. It only means we missed it for some reeason."


from The Celestine Prophecy
by James Redffield

blue ice cream

recently we had to attend a stress management class. the army's big on those kind of things. classes for everything out there. in the stress managemnt class, thye are about one of the stressors... our chief/main boss has a reputation of being a difficult lady to work with. everybody's feelings about her came out in that class. even some violent ones. the lady who was teaching the class told us to concentrate on something besides our violent feelings toward her when she's speaking to us. the lady teacher was trying trying to cage just how far our feeling s for chief... she told us to imagine what we would hink if chief came up to us and said "blue ice cream". let me tell you how awful all our thoughts were: "fuck, where am i gonna get blue ice cream?", and "i gotta get her blue icee cream fast!". we didn't even stop to think if it existed. that's how crazy she is. the chief.
this happened a couple weeks ago but i just remembered how crazy it was.