Have you ever thought about your dream home?

Ok, So I had just a little bit too much time on my hands in class today. We finished our basic/advanced PHTLS yesterday. Today we started TC3 (tactical combat casualty care), but I don't think that I could tell you what they said. Instead of listening to the instructors, as I probably should have, I was thinking about how I would design my dream house. It ended up that it is settled on a lake in Minnesota, nestled in the pines but still accessible. It has a four car garage with heated floors so that I can work on my cars and had a guest room above. I apparently lost so much track that I drew a full schematic of it out on a piece of paper, detailed down to the siding and the lilacs bordering the walkway to the front entrance. It is oh so much fun to dream. . . .

When I am not dazed out into space, I have been reading my MCAT study guide book. So far I have gotten 3/4 the way through the physics section, but I seem to be stuck on electromagnetism. Classes will be done on the 26th and sometime thereafter we will be leaving for JRTC (joint regional training center) at Fort Polk, LA. Just a heads up: I will probably have no contact with the outside world for the month of February. We have already packed up an turned in three of our duffel bags and our tote box. That means that we only have one bag and our rucksack left. We won't see the bags that we turned in until we get in country at our FOB.

Things will be happening quickly now and before we know it we will be on the plane with our rifles headed over to the sandbox. It still seems so weird that we haven't even touched the tip of the iceberg on this deployment, we still have another 14-16 months left to go. I can only imagine the amount of stress this is to all those people who have families at home. I go through the barracks and look at the pictures of their wives and kids and it just makes me want this whole thing to be over so that they can go home to their families. It is almost more difficult for the ones left at home to deal with this deployment and in turn the stress can be shifted onto their marriage. Let's hope that everyone back home is doing what they can to support the families through this whole ordeal.

Well I think that I have said enough for one day. I added pictures to the yahoo photos (link on the right side of the page Christina) if I didn't already say that. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!!!

Nick