Day Thirty-Seven.

Monday January 24, 2010

Surprisingly today I got a call from my soldier! I honestly wasn't expecting to due to him running out of internet in the Chu and not knowing if he would move today or not. When I talked to him, he said that he had decided to go ahead and get internet service because he hadn't heard when they were moving yet. He then came to find out that they weren't going to move until at least the end of this week.

It was a nice surprise and definitely lifted my spirits after yesterday. I actually woke up in a decent mood this morning. Although I was tired, I wasn't in the funk that I had been the previous two days.

I felt bad for him because he was technically off work last night, but then had to report for duty at 0700 to help with packing up the SPAM. So the time he usually was getting off work and getting ready for bed, he had to go to work for a few hours. I know he had to be tired.

The weather there has been warmer the last few days. It's been in the 60's during the day. He said that without the breeze, the sun actually feels pretty hot and makes him sweat. That's a far cry from the weather we are having at home. It has been really cold. I actually had to scrape about a quarter-inch of ice off my car yesterday. Today, however, it did "warm up" to the mid-thirties.

I heard a helicopter the other day, which was out of the ordinary because there usually isn't much air traffic around here. I'm sure it will be much different when all the equipment returns to base. I asked my boyfriend about it, wondering if it was some of their birds returning to base, but he said it probably wasn't. Apparently the Kiowa's they work on there will have to be "reset" elsewhere first before returning to base. Not exactly sure what that means.

I was wondering when or if he gets a lunch break since he works typically midnight - 0800 and he mentioned the chow hall times today. He doesn't really get a lunch break, but instead just takes cereal and milk to the shop. Since they do have down time it's not a big deal to stop and eat whenever they get hungry. That was good to hear. I was worried about them getting to eat when they needed to since the hours are a little off from the chow times.

I don't feel like I accomplished much today, but really I did. I read about 150 pages for class, and worked on an assignment. I finally got a call back for a job, however, it's not one of the ones I was particularly excited about. I am set up for an interview on Wednesday, so we'll see how it goes.

Other than that, my soldier and I just chit-chatted about the cat and her craziness, and the other seemingly minute details of my days since we hadn't talked for a couple days. Tomorrow I have class and then the FRG meeting to find more out about the soldier's homecoming. I am anxious to hear what we have to look forward to!