And I didn't post a blog update for months. Anyway, that time is now. I've been here for about 4 months now and this is blog update #2, so sorry about that. Anyway, I'm still alive, Harry is still doing good. Nobody has died or been seriously injured yet. My buddy Corey Bahn did get hit and hurt his leg, but he's alright now and is in the US with his wife and son, so that's good. I did end up getting hit twice in June, but everyone was fine in both hits. I was with some good buddies both times, so we got to laugh about it afterwards. I've decided I'm going to get out of the army when my ETS comes in June and I'll probably go to BYU-I. I know how much crap I talk about it and how I never want to go there, but the fact is, I'm getting out to be near my family, and my family is in Idaho, and I'm not going to ISU. Anyway, I think I still want to do film, but I'll do the basic classes in BYU-I and then transfer once my family has driven me crazy again. I like the idea of transferring schools to get away from them better than joining the army.
Now that my days in the army are numbered(on my desktop)I've been thinking about how awesome the army is and how much I've grown from being in it and how much I'll miss the friends I've made. I remember getting out of basic and living with two buddies, Silvia and Cotting, from basic and then deploying with Cotting. I'll always remember Iraq with the Dirty Deuce and the friends I made there, especially Frank and Tavis who I still consider some of my best friends today. I remember the ramp ceremony after Cotting died and how sad I was. I remember redeploying and hanging out with Mike during work hours watching Power Rangers all day and sports all night. I'm always going to remember going with Harry to Springfield almost every weekend and getting gummy worms and monsters for the drive there and talking about the most random things(real life pokemon wars) or singing music at the top of our lungs. I'm going to remember hanging out here and taping Zach to his bed and Tucker to Zach when he tried to cut him out.
Looking back on this post, I've decided I don't like it, but because I can't think of what else to do I won't delete it.
Anyway, more on me getting out. I'm pretty dang excited for it. I do feel like I've 4 years removed from the world though, particularly the LDS world. I don't really know how to behave around girls, for example, which makes it awkward just being around them, haha. I'm so used to some things being a certain way that it will be weird when they aren't. I'm afraid of becoming a recluse that goes to familiar places occasionally but mostly just stays in playing games and watching sports(this is a very real fear)or that all of my old friends who I'm hoping will hang out with me and keep me from being the recluse will all have their routines and be too busy to hang out with me much, thus causing me to recluse further. I'm not sure how it will work out, but I'm sure it will.
Anyway, I'll try and post more, but we've seen how that works. TTFN, everybody.
