Monday, November 2, 2009

It hurts all over

Ok so some updates on my life.

First I now work the night shift so I get to work at 9 p.m. and work until 9:30 a.m. just so you understand thats 9:30 a.m. AZ time to 10 p.m. AZ time (because of daylight savings i'm not sure how everyones time is affected so you can make the adjustments) and the night shift is pretty boring most days but others its very very busy. For example last week when the helicopters crashed I was here and I wrote the initial press release to send to our higher Public Affairs office who sent it to the U.S. media. That was a very busy night but nights like tonight i had 3 small tasks to do.

Second and your probibly wontering to yourself why title this blog "It hurts all over"... well it does almost every muscle in my body aches I started P90X two days ago and ouch, but its the good excersicing ouch.

Now just some rambelings.

I really miss my family, its so different being here then on a mission or at grandpa hatch's for the summer with those i never got home sick but being here has made me really home sick. I have come to have a lot of respect for the Men who left behind wifes and children to go on missions back in the early days of the church. Its hard for me and i have almost daily conversations with Hazel but they only had letters and most of those took weeks if not months to reach them. It had to be very hard . and its not just Hazel and Lorraine i miss, its everyone. Thanksgiving is coming up and i should be going to a thanksgiving dinner some where be it Mom and Dads new house in New Mexico or to Hazels family's thanksgiving both of which would really like to be at.

Its hard but I know I only have a couple of months left I am being told that I should be home in the middle of January sometime the exact date is unknown but I will let people know when I know. Which might not be until my plane lands in the US. See it goes like this I leave here and go to a different base to wait for a flight to the states. That flight will land somewhere in the eastern US. when I get there I will get my ticket to Phoenix (if i don't have it already) and that would be the latest I know but if my arrangements are all made a month in advance to include my flight to Phoenix well thats when I will post my "I will be home the ## of Jan" blog.

well nothing much happens here it boring but I have some photos I took of the Afghanistan sun rise and here they are........


both those were taken the same day notice the mountains


This was taken the next day see the mountains?? thats dust and dirt in the air some days the mountains are clear the next you cant even see them at all



if you remember i once said they burn trash... well here it is and this is light its usually much bigger.