it seems i am the new supply petty officer for our division.

that means im in charge of organizing and obtaining any items we may need for work purposes. its a big responsibility, and i guess i have proven i can handle it.

so i made a list of things we need before we deploy. the grand total to the list was something like 1600 smackers! but we need these things. tomarrow i have to route the list up through all the high ranks. hoepfully it gets approved, even if it is a little pricey...

cool news yesterday. Liann got her license! good for her. now she can drive me everywhere when i want to use the car when im home for leave next week haha.

wow. so me and Tim went and saw Rambo today.

amazing!! so much blood and guts. it was bad ass.

anyway only a week until Operation: Final Farewell is in play.

oh yeah, i just got done filling my taxes. im getting like a grand back. whoop-dee-do. BS.

also, the parents havent recieved my atm card yet, so it looks like i wont have money access until i am home. which sucks. i need gas.

back in the US of A.

it was a busy underway period. i was the Watch Supervisor under instruction, which is way better than rotating with the rest of the watch personnel. gets boring however...

well i never found my bank card. i did call the bank up and reported it lost, so they canceled the card and will send me a new one. should take 5-7 days they say.
bummer.
so now i have no easy access to money. or cash at least. i can still use checks. and change!

anyway it actually SNOWED today!! its been so long since ive seen snow in Virginia, but its been coming down! most of it melted when it touched ground, but now its started to collect. pretty cool!
tomarrow is duty for Tim. ill be here filling in. for $100 its worth it.

bad news.

i lost my debit card last night. the only time i used it was at the movie theater. i think it might have dropped out of my hoodie pocket when i took it off. i went to the theater in person and made a "lost and foud" entry. im going to contact the bank here in a minute and let them know its lost.

this freakin sucks.

another long weekend. monday is a day off. although we all have to be on the ship by 6pm. tuesday we get underway for the week. itll be early tuesday when we leave.
im also taking Tim's duty on sunday. he wanted to head home to Jersey, and he asked if i could stand his watch and stuff. i said yes; i wont be doing much of anything anyway. plus hes giving me $100, which is way more than the $50 or $60 people usually give. not bad!

been a slow day today. we got off work at 11, but i was tired so i slept till 4. my sleeping pattern is all screwed up. for the past week ive been up till 3 or 4am, and i just nap in the afternoon. so now im never tired early in the morning,but for the rest of the work day im falling out! i should probably fix that. plus i still have the remnants of my cold from two weeks ago; stuffed nose, headaches...im sure the lack of sleep isnt helping. or all the caffeine i drink. or the junk food i buy....

updates are good.

we are underway Tuesday. till that Friday. training, training and more fun training.

leave is still a go until otherwise stated. so my ticket is still good!


the Marine unit we were supposed to take with us on deployment has been reassigned to Afghanistan, so we are no longer taking them with us. whether we will have a new unit or not is uncertain. it changes the mission a bit.

more to follow..

HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

nothing new today. a little tired from this morning, had the 4-8am watch.

finally got around to taking pictures of the BMX and me. they turned out all right. it was really sunny so they are bright. ill be taking more (and better) ones in the near future! hopefully some action ones too.

still getting ready for an early deployment. no word yet but better safe then sorry.

we had some bad news the other day too. it seems on of the guys on our ship committed suicide a couple days ago. not sure how or why. he was found by a friend in his apartment around 2am. i didnt really know him, but its still sad.

heres the low down:


we are still on standby. from here until we are scheduled to deploy.
our two week underway was changed to a one week underway, but now it might be reverted back to a two week. we will find out tomarrow.
leave is now up in the air, but i will keep my tickets until otherwise confirmed if the leave is cancelled or moved.

some cool news:


i was put in charge today, and it looks like i will be supervising everyone from this day forth. or at least helping with the supervision. im more like a trainee right now. i was hand selected by a group of my high ranking officials. this makes me feel good. and i am happy today.

otherwise i wish it was summer because i am in the mood for BMX-ing. its cold out. it kindda sucks.

news news news.

got the word about our deployment. some things might change.
with this whole thing with Iran harassing our naval ships up there, higher ups are disussing optoins.

cant talk about it here, but lets say i am preparing for deployment much earlier than i intended. good thing i bought insurence for my plane ticket too. just in case things go through and these rumors going around are for real.

boom.

just bought my plane ticket for Operation: Final Farewell! 1:51pm on the 4th. to return at 11pm on the 10th. 268 moosalla all together.

not bad!!

monday.

had some problems with the cell phone this morning.
screen went wacko on me. freezing, blinking, making weird color-shapes and stuff.

so i took it in to a Sprint shop. they took it to the back, installed a new screen, and it worked like a charm!

not that i care much, im leaving Sprint after im back from the deployment. none of my friends have the walkie talkie feature, which was mainly why i bought it. im going Verison probably. they have cooler phones and better plans anyway!!

still havent heard from Kyle in almost a month. though im not worried a whole lot; it was like that with Steve, and with me, but theres always that little voice in the back of my head that worries. i hope he's doing all right out there...


we put our leave chits in for Operation: Final Farewell. i took the second period; February 4-11. im flying in this time. its only 7 days total, and theres no point in wasting three days total driving. in a minute here ima look for tickets.

like right now!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2008!!

anyway, this year was better than last. this time i wasnt on duty and on watch during the ball drop.
my and Mark went to a bar. we were driving around forever before that looking for a place that was 18 and up. hes only 20. we finally just walked into this bar at about 11pm. the bouncer didn't say anything! we ordered a couple beers and played Foosball with some drunks ha. it was fun. had a shot of champagne at midnight; it was on the house. fun times.

then i had duty new years day. that was boring.

now im battling a hellacious cold. im stuffed up, achy, and my eyebrows hurt.
and to make things better its 32 degrees outside, and supposed to snow a little sometime today.

good timing.