HEY!

For those of you still looking for me here I moved a loooooong time ago. Greg's Notes

My Address Has Changed

Well I got my own site. Yup, that's right. I am moving my blog to greg's notes. I have been wanting to do this for a while and decided it was time. I am able to play with this site a little better than Bloggers.

I want all of you to visit my new site. I will be adding a picture gallery this week. (maybe)

We are in the home stretch of our deployment. Things are about to get interesting. They are already starting to.

Until next time

Greg

PICTURES

Cool Pic
Sand

Sand
More Sand

I'm So Bad I Scare Myself!! LOL

The Mirror

I went to the Barber today for the first time in a long time. As from the pic I had posted you can tell I kept my head shaved. Well, I had gotten lazy and let it grow. It was about an inch long. Now for me that is long.

Anyways, as I sat in the chair, I looked into the mirror. Now around here the only mirrors are in the shower trailers. When I go to shower I never go to the mirror. Why would I? I shave in the mornings with an electric razor. No mirror needed. Now I am sitting right in front of a large mirror. I could not believe what I saw. I saw bags under the eyes that were hardly open and the wrinkles that have appeared. I saw a tired and aging me. I sent my wife some photos the other day. After she got them she said you look so tired. I said yes I am. But after looking at the pics again I saw what I saw in the mirror. I am getting old and quick. Now whether my wife saw this and wanted to be nice and say you look tired instead of, DAMN! You are getting old!!!! I do not know. If she did, I say thank you to her.

My wife is older than I am. She looks younger than me. This is a very good thing. My wife is very beautiful. As for myself, I look to be in my 40s. I know this because people tell me BULLSHIT when I tell them how old I am. Their response is, I thought you were 43 or 44 yr old. I usually say a couple of unloving words and walk off.

Now I am trying to quit smoking. Some days are good and others are, well let’s say I could smoke a concrete barrier. It gets that bad. When it does, I find a cigarette. It is better for me to smoke a cigarette than kill someone, right?

I am taking Zyban to help me quit. I have not been taking it long enough to start working yet so, I am doing it on my own right now. I have smoked for 21 years. I need to quit.

Well off I go. I am going on a 7 day field trip. (YEA I WISH)

Until next time.

Greg

HOME

The rumors are flying with dates for us to go home. I know how the rumor will is but at the same time it makes me anxious. I am ready for us to POP SMOKE, as my old Commander would say.

We do have dates to have certain things done by. Some of these things include inventory and Customs for our tuff boxes. When that time rolls around it will seem more real to me.

There are some issues I have about going home. A little over a year ago, I left all I knew. I left my family, my job, and my life. Now, in a few months I have to do it all over again. I will leave all I have known for the last year or so. Will I be able to sleep without the sound of choppers and big booms? Will I be able to adjust to kids in the house? Will I be able to adjust going back to my job? This will be a big adjustment for me. Just as was coming over here. Anyways, I am glad I took this deployment. I have grown in some ways. I have had time to do some soul searching and take care of some of my own issues. That is good.

Until next time.

Greg

Apologies In Advance

I am back for another round. I have taken some time to relax and get back to basics. It has been a long year and I am ready to get home.

A little about my new picture. Without saying too much, my Platoon is known as the Pale Horse element. That explains the picture.

I want to thank you for all of your support you have given my wife and I. We are trying to deal with the separation we are enduring. We will have been married two years come November. I will have spent 14 months of that away from home when our anniversary comes around.

I just want people to know out here in BLOGLAND, that no matter what you encounter within your own families, it is never ok for an outsider to attack one of your loved ones. This has been done. Remember Emma? Well, there is one just a little worse out there. I have some half blown idiot attacking my wife. So, I want to apologize right here and now for any comment I may leave him, whether it is on my Blog or his. I am hoping the first comment I left will end his insanity. I pray he does not have the audacity to return to her blog and say one more word. He has decided to create his own blog and use it as a way to run my wife in the ground. This is unacceptable. I want him to come on over to my Blog. I want him to run his mouth here. Again, remember Emma? I will deal with him the same as I did her only a little worse. It will not be pretty.

Anyways, please forgive me in advance. And to all of you who have been missing my posts, I have missed you.

Until next time,

Greg

Not Gone

Just taking a break