hanging out at Lee's place tonight. we played a card/quarter game called "screw your neighbor". lots of fun. also went bowling for like 5 hours...didnt too too hot, but it was fun.
i love bowling.

washed the truck earlier this afternoon. inside and out. nice and shinny and smells good too.


on the news, Saddam was executed today by hanging. sweeeeeeeet! bout time that rat bastard...

anyway, the weekend continues. and im again off to bed during the wee hours of the morning...

well made it back to VA. a long and boring trip it was...18 hours!
traffic everywhere. some nasty accidents too.

so no work tomarrow or monday...four day weekend!
going to spend most of it...i have duty sunday....at Lee's place. some drinking and games and fun are at hand.

leased a storage unit today. finally got all my junk out of the truck....and i mean ALL my junk, i brought EVERYTHING i own from home with me down here. its crazy. so now its in storage. good.

saw Black Christmas with the guys...it was okay. korny...

and now its bed time.

in less than an hour i will begin my trip back to Norfolk.

it was fun here at home. im glad i was able to be here.

tonight is the night. thats when i leave, and Operation: Go-Time will be over.

i had a blast! it was fun to finally come home for some quality family and friend time. had a great Christmas too.


but now its off to Norfolk again, and back to work...

oh, and we saw our segment on the 6pm news yesterday! it was short, not even but a couple minutes, but we're famous!

ill be signing autographs later this afternoon....

oh, and

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

well the CBS news crew came and went!

they came around noon, did some interviewing with me and kyle and mother, then took some shots of pictures me and dad have taken, and got some footage as a background camera while we stood around the christmas cookies and talked!!

it was freakin awesome.

the reporter said it will air either on the 5pm or 6pm evening news! so look out!!

well Operation: Go-Time is coming along quite nicely.

didnt do too much last night, or all day. visited Molly for a couple hours. sat at home most the day. me and kyle went to visit a military museum nearby, but it wasclosed for the holidays, so we went to an animal fair instead. it was pretty cool, they had alot of cool bugs, rodents, reptiles; all sorts of stuff. fun times.

today we are going to visit moms side of the family and open presents and such.

so,

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!

well. that article the reporter wrote up was in the Kane County Chronicle today, front page!

it was really cool.

AND channel 2 news (CBS) wants to do a little segment on me and kyle Christmas morning!!

im gettin' famous. ha.

oh yea, also this afternoon a reporter came over from the Kane County Chronicle and interviewed me and kyle for a story that will appear hopefully this weekend. a photographer came by too and took pics.

sweet!

so Marissa came over today.

we watched Dane Cook's new comedy DVD, oh man was it funny as hell!!

she also gave me something for Christmas:
a book about ICP
and a shirt SIGNED by Shaggy 2 Dope!!

its freakin bad ass. im going to cherish it forever...

wow. last night was...well, a blast!

partied at joes. at first all this shit went down between everyone; i even peeled out of the parking lot at one point it so rediculous.

but eventually all was well, and we had koolaid until the wee-early morning. it was a lot of fun.


this afternoon me and kyle are dressing out and going to steven's class to visit and read to him. he'll like it, the whole school knows about us ha.


tonight i might hang out with mike. got to give him a call to see whats up...

thus i continue my "operations".

tonight is hopefully the big party day.

suppossed to go to joes for a little "get together"

mucho fun i can tell it will be...

OPERATION: GO-TIME is is full effect!

got home about two hours ago. i stayed the night in a motel in PA...sleep finally got to me.

it was nice though to catch something before the longer drive here. weather wasnt too bad. windy. traffic in IL was the same...horrendous.

today is hanging at home day. tomarrow i visit the 'Stad for their Christmas party thing, and to see Julio and Noe before they leave for Mexico for the holidays. should be fun.

partying will commence shortly after all that....

TODAY is the DAY.

OPERATION: GO-TIME will go into effect at noon.

we have a change of command in a couple hours too. getting a new captian! he seems pretty cool. we shall see how much he likes homeport time or out at sea time.... hopefully the first one...

well the first couple days of being back in Norfolk are over.

picked up my truck from long-term parking, did some shopping, drove people around...relaxed.

monday i have duty, and thats it until im back from leave!


4 days until Operation: Go-Time !!

and Norfolk it was!


we just moored up to the pier, so Cruise 6-6-06 is officially OVAR!!

and in a couple hours ill be picking up my truck and getting it all checked out and flushed and like new again.

then ill treat myself to food and entertainmant all night long.....or at least until tomarrow....i have duty....but the rest of this week is a no work week! not bad.

today is the day!

Norfolk. this afternoon will conclude our six months of strenuous work. its chillaxing time, and im going to live it up.

after we are all tied off to the pier, im going straight to the long-term parking lot and picking up my truck. bring it in and get the oil changed, tires rotated, everything checked out and such. then probably off to entertain myself with movies, real American food, and once again experience the Virginia winter weather and traffic.

itll be a blast...

one week until Operation: Go-Time. rejoice.

AMERICA!!

actually Moorhead City, NC to be exact. dropping off the Marines.

and two days till Norfolk!

well the exam resaults came back the other day...

and i passed!

im now a Petty Officer Third Class!!


pretty sweet. the advancment ceremony is tomarrow afternoon. thats when i can officially wear the insignia. more responability, more respect......more money!

also, only FOUR m0re days until Norfolk!!

the seas have lightened up too. not rough like they have been the past week now. thats nice, i can finally sleep at night...