August 16, 2005 

August 16, 2005

This is the time I left for work this morning. We got alerted that the exercise was starting at 4 AM.Horrah horrah. I absolutely love working every day for a month without any time off and never being able to wear civilian clothes or even go off post. Nothing says freedom like being locked down like an inmate for 30 days of incarceration. Funny thing is I got a phone call from a recruiter today asking me to reenlist for 3 more wonderful years of this awesomely sweet job. I'll give you 2 guesses what my answer was. The 2 choices would be yes or no for those of you who can't count by the way.

But the day wasn't an entire disaster. It seems that God has shown mercy on the Chaplain's office today. It appears that the Chaplain wasn't feeling great after having a little operation at the hospital and so he had to go home for the rest of the day. And without our Chaplain, we don't really have a purpose for existence, so we dissapeared too.

Of course had my last physical therapy appointment today though, or so I thought. I stopped by and the doc wanted to check out ym achilles tendon one last time. Well, he was worried that I was going to just immediately back into my hard training and running hundreds of miles, which would have been correct so he left me on a profile. But this was no ordinary profile. This one is for 3 months!!!! Holy crap, who has ever heard of a 3 month profile? I told him there was no way I could not run for ANOTHER 3 months and begged the guy to at least me run a little. So he added a little note to the profile saying I could run 2 miles a day at my own pace. Chalk up one small victory for me. So what are my plans tonight? Watch a movie perhaps? TRy out one of my new video games I got for my X box? Hell no, I'm going RUNNING! Bwahahaha. And I even got Jung to tag along with me. He said he wants to lose a few pounds and needed to go running. I told him he could tag along with me and I'd just run at his pace until he got tired and then keep on running once he got tired.

We also had a good long deep conversation tonight. I honestly can't remember it all, and some of it is none of your dang business. Just kidding. Actually I think it started form me talking about ow much I've been missing my wife lately. It's been so hard to get through this past year without her with me. I mis my buddy. Sherry is my best friend. The only thing that kept me going was by counting down the days on my calendar until I left this place. But even that isn't helping me anymore because now I just have to start over again. I had planned on PCSing from here and taking Sherry with me wherever I wound up. That was our plan, but now that plan has changed. It seems that Sherry has a job now and doesn't want to leave her wrestling hobby that she has discovered to move with me to Colorado. I told her that it was her decision to stay or leave with me, and she chose to stay. SO these past few weeks I have been a little depressed because I realize that instead of only 28 more days left now I have 7 months and 28 days until we can be together again. We will have been married for 5 years in June, and of those 5 years we will have actually only been together for 3 1/2 years because I have been gone so long.

Now I know why the Army has such a high divorce rate. But this isn't some self-pity entry into my blog. Things will get better. I'll find something to keep me going. Even if it is running or watching another movie. Or maybe it's a lack of sleep from having to be at work so damn early this morning. Anyway, I'll tell you another story real soon.