Day Twenty.

Today is Friday. For many people this day is a great day of relief. For me it is just another day.
For my upstairs neighbors, it is a night to disrupt my humble abode with loud music, shouting and disruptive behavior. It's frustrating, but I am trying to tune it out. It's not that I don't like to have a good time, I just don't want to be down here listening to others have a good time ALL night, especially when my property has been a casualty from their "good times" previously.
My mind is crowded with my own thoughts and anxiety on it's own, but with the help of my neighbors, I am completely unable to think straight and compose rational thoughts! Not an environment conducive to writing...

However, I am going to do my best to pull together some complete sentences here.

The day started out pretty well. I worked out again, so I was proud to check that off my to-do list for today! I also got a lot of other little things checked off as well. I spoke to the FRG leader of my boyfriend's unit. So I will now be on the emailing list for updates and also on the phone tree. I'm glad to be able to be involved, even though I'm not a spouse. I was worried about that. There is a meeting on January 25th that I am going to attend. It will provide updated information, and who knows what else. I'm not sure what to expect.

I talked to my honey via web-chat today! He had quite a bit to tell me today!

I guess it was really cold there last night. The down side to that is he had to work outside for about 5 hours. In addition to the cold, there were a lot of helicopters (or "birds" as he phrased it) flying around and landing in the area, so this also made it really windy.

He got to work on a helicopter's engine oil temperature transducer. (fancy huh?) It turned out to be a little bit of a challenge than initially thought.
They lost power towards the end of the shift in the "spam" which is a kind of remote work space that he usually works out of, and they lost power in the hangars as well.

He also was telling me that they do often hear mortars, but mostly they are pretty far off. There are some that have hit the Iraqi side of the base, but as of late, none on their side. (thank God!)

Tonight's shift he is going to work at the Walker Center - which is where the computers and such are located. So he'll be in charge of helping people with whatever they need, like headphones to video chat, or whatever else.

He's so ready to get a chance for a ride-along on a test flight. So far he hasn't had the opportunity. I hope that he does before he leaves. I know that will just thrill him to pieces! (Heck, I'd love it too!!!!!)

The National Guard has been filtering in this week. The FRG leader I spoke to today confirmed that they will indeed be moving into a "warehouse" type environment, and that communication will be less frequent. I don't look forward to that. She said it should be around the beginning of February. So I have a month left to talk regularly, and then a month of very limited communication..... sigh. 
BUT, at least then it won't be long until he is home. That is what I need to remember and stay focused on.

I really don't have much else to say today. I have a lot of thoughts spinning in my head, but I don't want to entertain them. I need to contain them and send them away... as an old boss of mine used to say about things that we couldn't control, or do anything about... "Just put it in a bubble and blow it away!"  Sometimes that's the best we can do!