Christmas.. How was it?

Well, Christmas wasn't all that bad in itself. I've had the last week off because I've been "moving"
But that seems to be taking a while so I had time to get online, (all I've got here is my Computer) and play some games.
That's all I've been doing these last few days, it's been about all I can do.
Sometime tomorrow though I'm supposed to have a flight outta here so hopefully it'll be "goodbye Kalsu."
Christmas though I ate dinner but didn't eat breakfast or lunch. So, I ate quite a bit and got full for once. Normally I don't eat that much.

Well, overall it's been really, really boring.. We'll see how things are at the clinic, c if I end up doing more work..

Soon it'll be Christmas day...

Whew, it's almost here. and soon it'll almost be over with.. Whew!! :)

Not like it really matters over here much.. Just a few things that are "out of place" things that weren't there before, but are now....

For example I'll have forgotten all about christmas.. Then I look over and there's the Tree Maya sent.. And once again I remember.. Thanks Maya..

Or, I go outside at night and outside the Chapel, they have some christmas lights set up... Which normally I'd be ok with.. But over here normally we try to have All the lights covered up at night so "they" can't see the insides of our FOB.. So, honestly I'm not to fond of that little addition..

But, over all it's been a good time.. I might have had the wrong attitude about Christmas being a bad thing after all and I think it can actually turn out good after all...

Arwen's Singing over there in Romania, suposedly she loves all the attention about as much as I did at that age... I also Saw from Titus's blog that Daren's been doing his own share of singing as well...

LOL I can still remember most of my Japanese Christmas songs...

And Teri, I hope you enjoy the gift and it helps you out one day.. You never know when you might need to Know some Japo...

Merry Christmas y'all and Happy New Years....

Soon it'll be Christmas day...

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Forgot something on today's post

Today I was listening to some of my favorite songs.. And it made me think about good times..
I don't think anyone remembers the Chatahoochie song..

"Way down yonder on the Chatahoochie, it's gets hotter then a hoochie koochie... "

Forgot some words...

But I learned how to swim and I learned who i was a lot about living and a little bout love"

And forgot the rest of it...

I remember that song from WV that time we spent with Dan and Carrie at the scating rink.. can't remember if they had it in Japan also, but I think they did...

There's also another song "I'm already there: Iraq remix" From Lonestar.. That song is so good I could hear it over and over again.. Plus some other country like Toby Kieth's. "Red, White and Blue" (maya hates that one BTW) great songs though...

Anyways... There's one other song that's supposed to be coming to mind... I know it... Hmmm..

Something like ...
You smell like a monkey... no that's too kiddish to be it...
Let me think more...
Yeah I'm starting to see a picture of my Darth vador.. some connection.. Oh yes now I'm starting to c Luke but he looks like me...

Ahh!!! it's the scene where luke finds out Darth is his dad... Good now... Maybe it's something to do with DAD???

hmmm

Oh yeah Happy Birthday Dad... Duh...

Well DAD HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Try writing some more real letters and maybe I won't have a hard time remembering next year...

I can't remember many memories right now.. Except for that time where I was at the roller rink and you knocked me on my face.. :) or that time you Ran that Italian soccer team van down the hill in Campolataro.. Or that time you kicked me out of the little Opel in Italy and left me on the side of the road.. Till mom sent you back to come get me, all because I pissed you off... (yeah you thought I'd forgotten that one..) Something about parenting.. yes it's hard and u do dumn things at times but you just have to move past those things.. Even though your son won't let you forget them.

HEHEHE and you know I never will..... :D

Oh By the way.. There's one reason I'm glad I'm not there for your party ... And no it's not that i might get my face burned from all the candles... It's that I'd have to listen to that insufferable "happy birthday song" again... Oh God!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! I'm missing that :)

Now you thought I was just going to bring up all my "bad" memories.. But in all reality those are the ones I consider to be the good ones... Ones where I think I might have acted the same if I were a dad like you've been all these years to us kids...

The times you bought us all those Ice creams.. Hell no... that's an aching memory now.. "aghh I need a dentist.."

Or that first Mountain dew and real american chilidog you got us at that hotel in Naples.. Well, 4 now it's a good memory.. But next year when I'm fat, I'll be blaming that chilidog. And you'll be all to blame for my fatness... And the Mountain Dew... Well, thanks to you I'm addicted now... aghhhh get that caffiene away from me....

Or when we left Italy and I had to leave all my friends... Well, I didn't need them anyways... so, another good one....

Ohhh yeah I got a good one.... the best memory yet....

Remember Warcraft 2.. Nadia's computer sucked at playing it.. And yours was so cool, so we hid it on your computer... I kinda knew letting Titus play would one day get us caught tho and sure enuf..... grrrr... You caught us while he was playing just because he couldn't follow simple instructions.... Oh well... now I got World of Warcraft.. A bit bigger... And a cool enuf computer... so no more anger over that one.. And yes it is now a happy memory...

So, New years resolution???? Well, I got one for ya... start your own blog and write in it.. "like the rest of us Wells'"

Take care DAD>>>> AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY>>>> love ya 2

Sand and rain don't mix very well. Thankfully about two weeks ago we all worked for about 2 days putting gravel all over. Or else right now it'd be a mess outside with mud everywhere.

Everyone's getting sick too and of course they want Meds, which i can never get. Plus when I do their gone before a week is through and people.. Well, they don't like that.. :(

And... as you may have figured I don't really have anything too write about :D

Another Blustery day..

yup, today is cold and windy. 'Course leave it up to the powers that be to make most of the Cold weather gear unwearable.
It's always been like that tho, and probably always will. There's only been a few times where they actually said that we could wear it..
We'll all be climatized soon enough though after everyone gets a cold and all that. We'll be used to it :)

"It's the Army" true enough...

It's funny, we've got this one NCO that spends all his time on the phone or online. And always talking to people in spanish. If I actually wanted to learn Spanish I probably could just by listening to him talk all the time.. How someone can spend all that time online, and on the phone though is truely beyond me..

Another person of note though is my Mom. A little warning to you crabby people (like me) that always tend to pop up around this time of year, try to stay away from her or you may lose your reason to be crabby and you may Smile... :)

She decided that for all her kids that were gone this year (5) she'd do a nice deed for one person saying that we (us kids) were the ones behind it. Great! I've already done two good deeds for people I've never met..

Seriously though Mom. Thanks. I'm glad to be the inspiration behind your deeds this holiday season. Just don't over do it and get yourself in trouble..

Finally Back... 4 now.

Aghhh it was a shitty week..

A few nights ago we went to check out a house looking for something, someone, kicking in doors, flash bangs, the works. u get the picture. (Or if you don't well too bad i've said enough already.)

Well, we decided to take the back roads.. Walking. And one bad thing about this place is that there are little canals with "water"(more like sludge) running through them, and normally you can only guess what's in there.

We had to cross about 5 of them and though they all tested my limits, the last one... aghh the last one....

That water was sewer (I swear) and was waist deep.. Yuck!!! Well, all I could do was trudge through it, keeping my aid bag out of the water and trying not to fall. Thank God I didn't cause I remember last time I dunked my bag in one of those canals. All the contents were ruined and i never want a repeat of that again...

The army sometimes makes me think I'm living all I might have missed by not going to H.S. Sometimes I'm called 4 eyes, cause I wear Glasses. (though honestly I do kinda look like an alien when I wear these big ugly brown things) :) But, at night not only do I have my glasses on but I have to wear my night vision on top of that (has a lens for each eye, but it only has one at the end. and you lose all depth perception.) Aghhh it was so bad.. as clumsy as I am it really doesn't help that i can't see where I'm walking on top of it....

On another topic though...
Just the other day I got news also that I may be moving, and soon. (it's quite definate right now but there's still a few pieces that need to fall in place before it happens) I've had to start packing up all my stuff and it looks like I'll have to mail a good portion of it, and sell a few larger items.. (TV) :( and just when I had started to feel comfortable also.. in this job though it's good not to get too settled down.. It seems they like to move us around quite a bit just so the only place we can really think of as home is where our family is.. Maybe that's a good thing (for my family and me thinking about them: but for me.... terrible..)

Well, I think I'm done with my christmas shopping this year.. Kinda unexpected how my failure at me learning something (arabic) inspired me to help someone else succeed at something almost as hard that they were trying to do.. It looks like I'm feeling like a Scrooge this year. So presents for most everyone will have to wait till next year when I'm there and can take part in the holiday spirit.