tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107235202012-02-16T12:55:16.360-06:00Big Al's Army Life is an online diary of my husband's Army Reserves Nurse Corps adventure.Al's Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02738914519925052668noreply@blogger.comBlogger1391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10723520.post-49097878120824451152010-07-02T02:21:00.000-05:002010-07-02T02:21:40.456-05:00

Well, I have been completely horrible about keeping up poor hubby's military blog. The life of an Army wife whose hubby is not usually full-time military usually doesn't focus on military stuff 24/7 when hubby is not deployed to Iraq. So I found out when Al came home in January '06. Al switched from the MS National Guard to the Army Reserves also so that really made our lives quiet for a while.

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I took off all the fancy/schmancy formatting that I had so that the posts would be easier to read. Something corrupted in the files and it was making everything impossible. I am 're-learning' all the HTML that I used to know when I did Al's blog originally. Hopefully, I can snazz things up around here a little bit again soon.

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Hey everybody! I know that we totally fell off the face of the earth when Al came home - and I want to apologize for that. When you are National Guard and your life has been on hold for soooo long - all you want is for things to go back to 'normal' as much as possible when your soldier comes home. Al and I have been immersed in 'normal' - working, kids, church, etc. - since last January. We moved

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Wow. I can't believe that it's been an entire week already that Al has been home. How crazy is that? Time sure does go fast when you're not counting it - lol.We sure hope everyone is doing great - almost everyone should be home or is already home from the the 155 BCT - YAY! I know that it is a good feeling for everyone to not have to worry constantly, wait for the phone to ring or everything else

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More details later this week - I am leaving to see my hubby!

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Well, just 'a few more days' until Al is home for good. Thank GOD! I will be so thankful for him to be home - and for us to just act like an old married couple! I miss him so much and getting to see him again (finally) will be absolutely wonderful.The Army can still change everything - but I'm praying that we will stay on track. He almost did his entire 365 of "Boots on Ground" time - almost

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Well, you may notice (if you pay really close attention to this stuff, which I doubt that anybody does - lol!) that my day counting got messed up - so it is corrected with this post - I kind of knew that somewhere along the line that it got screwed up - but until I got closer to the end of our year - I wasn't going to take the time to fix it. Well, our year is almost up - I went and counted

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There are lots of soldiers coming home. Not Al, not yet - but soon. I pray that everyone who has their soldier home from the 155 - or who will have them home in a matter of days - has a wonderful reunion and a great Christmas too. Thank God this almost over.http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/13361495.htm155th BCT soldiers expected the begin coming home on SaturdayHOLBROOK

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I'm not sure how consistent my entries will be, but I am officially 'back to blogging'. I apologize for needing such a long break - I am really thankful for everyone that kept checking back - and for all the comments and emails.This blog has seemingly gone so many directions since it's conception, that I'm unsure what direction it will take from here. When I originally conceived of this notion,

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Just wanted to put up a little note to let everyone know that I am thinking of them. I want to apologize for the lack of blog entries. At the very beginning of this deployment, I remember reading a blog from an Army Wife who had stopped her blog mid-deployment saying that she couldn't continue to post her feelings and emotions in such a public way. At the time, I couldn't understand that. Well,

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As you know, I have literally been living under a rock lately. Having gotten knocked down HARD with the worst bout of bronchitis of my life - has not allowed me to do a lot of blog reading lately. I finally had the opportunity today to start to get caught up with visiting all of my blogarrific friends - and I discovered that today is the day that donations have started to be accepted for the

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Yes, I am wishing everyone a happy 'All Saints Day' - that's because I was too lazy/tired/whatever last night to edit our Halloween pics and get them posted in time - lol. So, instead of admitting to you that I have once again shirked my blogging duties, I am choosing to live in denial by only acknowledging 'All Saints Day' instead.First, if you haven't noticed the countdown ticker on our blog -

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Well, this sucks. I am STILL sick. I can't believe this. I emailed Al yesterday telling him that I was still coughing like crazy and not doing good, etc. He emailed me back at 0430 this morning telling me that I had to promise to call the dr. today so that I could get other medicine. He also called me twice today too - so I guess he must be worried, lol. Well, I did call, and they said that I had

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Ugh. Well, I'm sorry that it's taken me f.o.r.e.v.e.r. to update our blog - Em and I have had a SERIOUS case of fall sickies - like one step away from the bird flu or something - yuck!I started feeling like junk two weekends ago - which progressed into sinus stuff/sore throat by last Monday - which led to a full scale, coughing-all-night fit last Tuesday. I missed work on Wednesday and Thursday (

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Em and I were able to get out of town this past weekend to see my best friend Melissa and her hubby in Chattanooga, TN. We hadn't stepped foot outside of Birmingham since Al was home in early August, because of hurricanes and gas prices, but, we needed the break and breathing room - so it was wonderful to go and see friends for a few days. Since Em goes to her dad's house every other weekend

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Thursday Inspiration!For today’s entry, I wanted us to examine for a moment the things that happen to us in our life – and the way that even a negative experience can be used to benefit us . . .I received this story in my inbox last week, and I thought that it was very applicable to what our theme was going to be for this week:This is Good...The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close

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Seriously. This stuff has to stop. I have to stop spending my weekends organizing my sock drawer. You guys don't even know - I think that I have easily become the most lame person on the planet - second only to maybe Bert of Bert & Ernie fame - and his bottlecap collection - except he's a puppet and not even a real person - so I win. I am officially the most boring person on Earth.In honor of

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Hey everybody! Well, I decided to be uplifting today - I have been very contemplative lately - so I decided that since Al has several months of deployment left, that I would start something new for Thursdays. I thought that everyone needed more encouragement in their life - so I will do my part!! LOL. Hope everyone is having a good week. Al's job in the sand has been changed and moved around and

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It's hard to type what I need to type to y'all today. It's hard to admit to a large group of people that your life has basically sucked for the last month. It's even harder to admit that you know that you have been a complete and total "B-Word" for that month. Even if you know me "in real life" (ie. outside of the computer) - this admission may be a complete surprise to you - because other than

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Well, another week is gone. I haven’t been down in the dumps but I haven’t been exactly jumping for joy either – my rhythm is messed up. With Al back in the sand – and another four to five months of this crap – just existing is becoming a way of life. There is another hurricane coming – this time for Texas though. My good friend from California is in TX right now doing hurricane relief work,

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First, let me say that I am very sorry for taking such a long break from the blog. It wasn't intentional -- after the Hurricane and all the stuff that went along with it, I just didn't feel like I had anything important to say in light of "real life" events going on. I was so glued to the news - and trying to help out locally and just being freakishly introspective - so, I apologize for my

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Let's see, how to put this? Life has been interesting since Al has been back in the Sand. This Saturday marked his one week anniversary of being gone - and that was kind of a rough day - Em and I stayed to ourselves and didn't venture out until my neighbor took us out to dinner that night. "Nanny" is my landlord, next door neighbor, Em's adopted grandma and a real sweetie most of the time - she

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Something kind-of neat happened yesterday as I was stumbling along the web. I discovered that on the Army National Guard site, that our blog was being listed as an example of what a National Guard blog is. LOL. It was listed under the "You Can Make a Difference"/Recruiting Action Center section on the Virtual Armory site.If you haven't been to the Virtual Armory yet, I really encourage you to go.

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Please pray for "Some Soldier's Mom" and her son, SPC Noah Pincusoff. She received word yesterday that Noah was "injured in a VBIED attack ... a serious spinal injury... being operated on in Iraq". Her blog has been a source of inspiration to me personally - and you can just see her love for her son in everything that she writes. My friend, Stacy, called me about this last night - and she is so

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Hey y'all. Well, Al left this weekend to go back to the sand. I haven't heard from him since 10 p.m. on Saturday night - and he hadn't left Dallas yet because of mechanical problems with the plane. I know that he will call as soon as he is able to but I am still pretty numb and sad about all of it. R&R was absolutely wonderful and amazing and I couldn't believe how instaneously comfortable we

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Al's ArrivalHey Everybody! I am so sorry to have been sooooo MIA - actually, I'm not sorry in the sense that I 'regret' it, because I have had an absolutely fantabulous time just living life and enjoying the heck out of my bunny - but I'm sorry in the sense that I have ignored all of you - and not kept you up-to-date of our goings-on.The Happy Couple (I had tears streaming down my face)!Al got

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Whew. Well, this post is going to provide me with a tremendous sense of relief. I have not posted anything until now because I have this total "don't count your chicken's until they're hatched" mentality. But, since things are actually in progress now, I can reveal my secrets - lol. Al will be here this week for his R&R - and we will also be getting married. That's a lot of news, huh?We have been

Al's Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02738914519925052668noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10723520.post-1122556290408169942005-07-28T07:51:00.000-05:002005-07-28T08:11:30.416-05:00

As you guys probably remember, Al's MOS in the National Guard is the same thing that he does in civilian life ---> he's a nurse. At his location, he's not really needed to treat soldiers very much because he is in a relatively 'safe' area - and they let the medics run the clinic primarily - unless somebody is super sick and then they call in a doctor.One thing that Al has gotten to do while he

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Yeah, whatever. We don't know what hot and annoying is - that's for sure. Yes, we have record breaking temps here - yes, it is somewhat irksome for my car to take an extra ten minutes to cool down from the heat, yada, yada, yada. Whenever I get to feeling that way though, I just look at the weather in Iraq and I think - 'oh, I don't have it too bad'. And they are dealing with crappy air

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Hey y'all! Guess what? It's my deployment buddy's birthday today!! Whoo Hoo!! I have wanted to tell you for a long time what a special person she is, and how she makes this deployment bearable for me, but I have been waiting for her birthday to tell you --- so I could make a big, sappy post about it and embarrass the heck out of her. LOL.Stacy and I became friends in a very round about way

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Yes, that's right - it's Day 201 - unfreakingbelievable, huh? Yeah, I know I'm pretty amazed too - I mean here I am typing this and my sanity is pretty much intact and everything - lol. I'm very thankful that Al and I have made it this far - and I really appreciate all the support that we have gotten up until this point - I would never have guessed at the beginning of his deployment that a blog

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This is the best article on supporting someone through a deployment that I have ever read. The only thing that I can't figure out is a way to get this to my friends and family without being mean about it - lol. Perhaps I can print out copies of it and keep it in my purse to distribute as needed. Hope everyone has a good start to their week!Subject: [MilitaryPrideNews] Ways to Support a Co-Worker

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Okay, well, hmmm, I have little or nothing to write about today -- for the simple fact that I have done little or nothing all day. I have had my butt in bed reading a book or napping for a good part of the day. I'm not even cool or awesome either because I haven't been reading the Harry Potter book - I'm just reading a mystery book that I got off of Amazon because they profiled it in this month's

Al's Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02738914519925052668noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10723520.post-1121476831233042402005-07-15T20:06:00.000-05:002005-07-15T20:20:31.240-05:00

Hey guys! Whew I am wiped out - BIG TIME. I am always like this on Fridays but my bunny called me at 0100 this morning - and we chatted for about an hour - so I am really, really wiped out.I am playing along with several other bloggers on "Self Portrait Friday" -- you can find everyone else at The Grass Isn't Greener. In retrospect, I should have factored in my extremely busy day before I decided

Al's Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02738914519925052668noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10723520.post-1121346852233822412005-07-14T08:13:00.000-05:002005-07-14T14:47:17.466-05:00

I have come to the recent realization that I could start every single blog entry that I write with the words, "Well, I . . .". I have been trying to break myself of that habit. One thing that I try to do is to not write just for the sake of writing - to not fill this thing up with a bunch of boring, tedious stuff that is so far beyond the realm of actual 'good writing' that it is the equivalent

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Whoo Hoo! Hurricane Dennis was n.o.t.h.i.n.g . . . by some miracle of God - we didn't lose power either - yay! Very yucky winds - tons of yucky rain - but that was all.And Al had a trip today - but he is already back home safe and sound. So, I have absolutely nothing to report - which is a good thing!!Have a great start of your week!

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Hmmmm, soooo, this Hurricane thing doesn't look like it going anywhere anytime soon, darn it. Right now, I am sending HUGEAMONGOUS prayers to anywhere south of here - and for all those people that are about to experience Dennis' landfall. We are definitely in the path. Dennis (for right now) is back up to being a category four hurricane - which is way not good. If I remember correctly Ivan was a

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Hey Everybody! Happy WEEKEND!! Whoo HOO! I got to sleep in this morning - and I was woken up by Al calling me - it doesn't get much better than that!I just have a few brief notes to make in this entry . . .1) If anybody has ANY clue why my TTLB (Truth Laid Bear) status won't post correctly in my sidebar I would love some advice. I don't know what I am doing wrong - but it's very frustrating. I

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I had something pretty awesome happen to me this morning --- I opened up my email and a blog reader had written to me telling me that they admired my strength in this deployment - and that they were about two months into their deployment, and did I have any good tips or advice that I could give them so that the next year and a half wasn't the worst one of their life. Well, I wrote a small novel

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I am not a 'newsie' -- I do follow the news, but I'm not a junky. Life keeps me too busy and I usually find out about things late. This morning, however, on my way into work, my radio DJ's were cutting in with the news about the London bombings.Reuters is reporting that a previously unknown Al Qaeda sect is taking responsibility for the attacks. I pray for all those injured -- and I pray for the

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Well, it has taken me most of the day to write this post --- not 'time-wise' but 'thought-wise' --- and I guess I sometimes I wish that Al could write to you himself. Not that I don't enjoy doing this blog (I do, immensely), but because it is hard for me to translate and convey his thoughts to you.I know that you probably get bored silly hearing about my trivial life back here in the States,

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Whew! Well, I fully intended on making this post yesterday - we got back in plenty of time from our beach trip (Em and I went to Fort Walton Beach/Destin for the holiday weekend) - and I was just sitting down at the computer to update everyone when we started having HUGE thunderstorms. A snap, crackle and a pop later --- we lost power from 5:30 last night until 2:00 this morning - NOT FUN!!

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I hope to have some pictures to add to this later, but Al had another (small) Medcap Mission today. They brought box fans to the Iraqis and followed up on some other issues. He is now home safe. He will be doing several of these missions throughout July.I'm thankful that he gets the opportunity to do something positive while he is there. The medical issues and birth defects are rampant there -

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Hey guys! I haven't been posting much because I have been VERY busy at work. With the upcoming three day weekend, I have had a lot to get done. I was also EXTREMELY frustrated with my Blogger template. You may have noticed that all my entries were getting kicked down past the sidebar on the right hand side. Well, WHOO HOO! Sean, from the very awesome blog, Doc in the Box, posted a fix to me in my

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Well, life is cranking along here. I got to talk to Al yesterday and today --- which was really nice. He has been super busy lately - he is filling in for someone on a position that he doesn't normally do - so our communication has been more limited than 'normal'.I thought that I would post some recent pictures of us:This picture I actually found on the Net!! One of the support sites that I

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And if you have no idea what that means, do not feel bad, because I had NO IDEA either - lol. I got tagged by my new friend over at an An American In Italy - and she said that I had been "meme-fied". So, I had to spend the first few minutes of my work day figuring out what the heck a "meme" even was! So, blog readers, a "meme" is a topic or theme that originates on one web page - and then goes

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Did you know that? That it is only nine more days until June is GONE? Isn't that a wonderful fact? Can you tell that I'm wishing my days away?Al and I had a good talk today - we have some "big" plans for his R&R - and we're moving forward on all of that stuff. I have been crossing things off my "TO DO" lists left and right today too. So, I am in a HAPPY MOOD - whoo hoo! I am smiling and whistling

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It's because I have killed a co-worker. And I'm not just talking a gentle killing - we're talking full on hand-to-hand assualt with a deadly weapon (ie. my heavy duty stapler or my good Fiskars scissors). I.AM.SO.SICK.OF.REGULAR.NON-MILITARY.PEOPLE.WHO.DON'T.UNDERSTAND.THIS.BOINKING.SITUATION.THAT.I.COULD.SCREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMM!The last couple of weeks have gotten bad. I think it's

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Happy Father's Day everyone!! But most especially, I want to say 'Happy Father's Day' to Al. He was on another medical mission this past weekend and although he isn't 'home' to his FOB yet, he is safe.I hope that you will indulge me as I send Al a little note today . . .Dear Bunny,I just wanted to tell you "Happy Father's Day" - I wish so much that you were home, and I could spoil you. I have the

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Well, I have been promising to share pictures from our trip home to MN last month - and also of Em's Alabama birthday party. Today seems like as good of a day as any!!MN Pictures:Em and Mommy on the morning of her "real" birthday - in MNPretty GirlWith Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Darren, Aunt Janie and Mommy outside of churchGoing for a boat ride!"Hi Al!!, We miss you!!"-----------------------------

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Our current flag, featuring 50 stars on a canton against the background of 13 stripes, 7 red and six white, has been in effect since July 4, 1960 – following the inclusion of Hawaii in the United States of America.__________________________________________________________Though the Flag Day was first celebrated in 1877, with the centennial of the U.S. flag's existence, the idea of making it a

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This weekend was a sad weekend. For the faithful blog readers out there, you know that I belong to a Yahoo Board of other National Guard wives. There are a lot 155 wives/significant others on that board and I woke up Sunday morning to an email that one of our wives lost her hubby. Her son is also serving with the 155 BCT - and he actually was home on R&R - she had just picked him up on Friday,

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LOL. I have been a major slacker. I realize this, I accept it -- and I apologize for it. There is a very simple reason for it though - I have realized that the fewer posts that I make, that I can give myself a false sense of time going by faster. For example, the last post that I made was on "Day 150" - well, today's post is "Day 158" - so I can say to myself, "Oh my goodness, look at that,

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Well, Em and I are back from vacation. We had a lot of fun. We saw a lot of relatives, etc. Em learned the words "Grandpa" (pronounced "Popa") and "Grandma" (pronounced "Grrmma") - and she just generally loved being slathered with constant attention. It's got to be a good feeling to know that absolutely everything you do is adorably cute and precious. LOL. I will post vacation pics for you

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I am writing this post a day early . . . my family and I will be traveling to my brother's lake cabin in Devils Lake - and so far the weather report looks favorable. I actually snorted as I packed swimming suits into Emelia's and my luggage - but it looks as though we might actually be able to wear them after all.In a way, I'm pretty disappointed in myself that I won't be able to attend a

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Hi faithful blog readers!! I am so very sorry that you have had nothing to read for a whole week!! Work has been so very, very busy!! Fifteen hours of overtime last weekend - barf.AND, Em and I leave on vacation tomorrow! We fly out of Birmingham at the crack of dawn tomorrow!! Yikes!! We will eventually (after switching planes like three times - - don't even get me started - - ) land in

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Well, my morning started off at the typical 0500, and it didn't seem to be starting off all that great, Al had called and after about five minutes on the phone -- the lines messed up again, and we got off. I went to the computer though - and he had sent me a nice email with new pictures, so I will post those for y'all tomorrow.Em was being a crankpot, and by the time I got her dressed, and me

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Toby Keith made a big splash at last night's Country Music Award's by entertaining the troops in Iraq. Keith is on his third USO tour, with additional stops in Germany, Belgium and the Persian Gulf region - and I thought that I would highlight the brief history of the USO for you here.THE USO: A PROUD HISTORYThe USO was formed in response to a 1941 request from President Franklin D. Roosevelt,

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CHIEFTAIN PHOTO/CHRIS McLEANMarine Lance Cpl. Ryan Landreth answers questions while several Bradford Elementary students wait to ask more questions during his visit to the school Monday morning.Pueblo Marine returns to hero's welcomeTuesday May 10, 2005Bradford Elementary students meet Ryan Landreth, a double Purple Heart recipient they adopted while he was fighting in Iraq.By GAYLE PEREZ/THE

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When I was growing up, my parents would be the first to tell you that math was not my strong point. They literally would have to force me to sit down at the kitchen table and drill multiplication tables into my head. 4 X 4 = ?, 4X5=?, etc., and if I was a number or two off, I would raise an eyebrow at them and tell them that it was close enough and that when I was a "grown up" I would use a

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Well, this entry is going to be a day late. I had been planning this entry all week, but I ended up getting very sick from something I ate at an outdoor craft festival Saturday. I'm not as young as I used to be, and apparently Mini Donuts, Fried Pies and Corn-on-the-Cob-on-a-Stick should not all be consumed within a one hour period of one another. My Mother's Day was less than stellar! LOL!When a

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Well, due to Opsec reasons, I couldn't say anything, but Al had been gearing up for a big medical mission today . . . I haven't gotten to talk to him yet -- but he is back "home" safe and sound as I make this blog entry -- and as far as I know it went well. This is a follow up to a previous mission that they did a couple of months ago. Al was very excited about it . . .I will, of course,

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President Bush came to Jackson, MS yesterday. The "main" reason for his visit was to discuss his new plan for Social Security reform -- and he did so at the Canton, MS Nissan Plant. However, as I have learned in life, there are always two sides to every story . . . and there is definitely a further level to this one. Not only did President Bush discuss Social Security during his time in Jackson,

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The occasion of this photograph was a Veterans Day Commemoration at Dallas City Hall on 11 November 2004. The veteran pictured is Houston James, a survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and the Marine is Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr., a member of an ordnance-disposal team who lost his left hand, one leg, and an eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq in July 2003.------------I

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Well, I need to start writing in our blog again, work has been so busy that I can't write at the office and I haven't really had the energy to blog when I get home either. Spring is always a really crazy time in the construction industry - we are also conducting our annual seminar in two weeks, so I have a lot of preparation to do on that too. I'm glad to be so busy though - it sure makes the

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Okay, first things first - - - Al sent out a little update today, he doesn't do this very often so I thought that I would post it first . . .Hey everyone this is an update from Iraq. Ever since I started doing the XXXXXX job I have had to keep up with the weather. We have a small weather station on the roof of our building. We heard on the radio that everyone should roll up their windows now. We

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Well, tomorrow we are about to hit day 100 of our "Boots on Ground" of deployment and I think that knowing that we are getting closer to being one third done with our one year stint is causing me to wax poetic about what is precisely that makes us miss "the other person" so much. At the beginning of this deployment, a bunch of us National Guard wives had a discussion about how we went into auto

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Well, this morning I had to go to a different Post Office, I normally go to the one by my work - and I usually go on the Friday after Pay Day - because I go to Walmart and the Dollar Store on Pay Day and then I pack boxes up that night. Then I go the next day and mail the boxes off - based on my system, Al then receives those boxes on the mail run two weeks later. It's a great system. It works

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Today was a care package night. I love routine. It's wonderful. It helps time go so much quicker. Every two weeks on Thursday night it's box night. Line up the boxes --- dump out the Wallyworld bags -- stuff the boxes full --- cram everything but the kitchen sink in them --- write little notes - fill out custom forms --- tape the boxes shut - label the boxes. -- stack the boxes --- wake up

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Wow. I can't believe it. I know it sounds stupid to read this and you probably barely know me and you can't really gauge whether I believe it or not - but I promise that I really truly don't believe it. We have made it to another milestone. Three hundred days. In this slow trickle of time - of the true sands through the hourglass - we have conquered another hurdle --- three hundred days. It

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We miss you Al!! 

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Trey-man and Mama Judy! 

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At the Co. C - 106th SB Armory 

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Busy Girl!! 

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Playing Outside at Al's House 

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Trey and the neighbor dog, Lucky 

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Trey and His Birthday Submarine! 

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Well, life has been busy in our neck of the woods, I pray that "all y'all" have been doing good. Em and I went over to Jackson, MS for the weekend - we got to see Al's son Trey for the weekend - he just turned five this past week - and he is the spitting image of his father. It was wonderful to see him - and in a lot of ways, it was like spending time with Al. Their mannerisms are so similar -

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Okay, I have been absolutely awful about posting pictures lately - I have dial-up at home which makes it a pain - and I have been really busy at work!!The first picture is my signature on a "Mommy's Debate Board" that I go to -- those women can be fierce! There are a lot of people over there who don't have any understanding of the war in Iraq other than what is represented to them by an overly

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Well, things have been sort of mundane here lately - without much to say, I haven't wanted to bore y'all with the hum drum that I call life!! LOL! We are at 85 days in - Al is having a hard time with the long days lately. I am cheerleading him on - but please pray for him. He never gets 'down' very often - and I know that it's getting to him. It's getting to me too - but I am in the happy

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Well, we made it through another 10 days - yay!! Al called this morning at 0500 - I was sleepy. We had really, really severe weather here last night - and I woke up about every half hour with the house shaking from thunder. I'll tell you - bad storms aren't very much fun when your "thunder buddy" is playing in the Sand - lol!! Emelia, of course, slept soundly through the whole thing.Al is

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I got this off the Yahoo National Guard message board that I frequent - it is absolutely awesome:LESSONS I'VE LEARNEDBy Mandy B, Wife of SGT Erik B Now that the journey has almost come to a much-anticipated end, I find myself looking back, and discovering that I've learned some precious lessons along the way…I've learned that dads need their kids.I've learned that two-year-olds hurt & need their

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"God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world." Galatians 6:14Al called this morning at 1200 - and get this - we got to talk for TWO HOURS. Absolutely no one was in line waiting to use the phone - and it was so nice to just get to talk and talk. Definitely a great Easter surprise!! The medical

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Just wanted to pop on and post a very quick update to keep everyone informed. Al is doing good and is out doing medical missions for the Iraqi people today and tomorrow. He said that he would get lots of pictures for everybody. Even though it is hectic for him, I know that he enjoys getting out of the confines of the Camp and getting to see the countryside.He was able to call me every day this

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Well, this past weekend marked Al's and my official "one year of dating". At this time last year - I drove over to Jackson to meet him for the first time - we met on eHarmony.com, I used to be embarrassed to tell people that - like it was a bad thing to tell somebody that we met off the computer - but now that I know how much in love I am with him - and how deeply we are connected - I'm proud of

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They passed this story out to us at our last FRG meeting --- it's pretty neat. I tried to verify it on www.snopes.com, but I couldn't find anything on it. We have been in Iraq for the war for two years now. I know that Al and I are so blessed that he is there during "Year Two" than at the beginning of everything. My heart goes out to all the men and women who sacrificed so much during those

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Woot Woot!! We made it through another 10 days - yay!! Only about 32 more sets of 10 and we're all done - LOL!!Al called at 1230 today - we got to talk for almost 45 minutes - it was so nice. He is safe - but we would like to ask your prayers for an unspoken prayer request if possible. Thank you!For today's entry - I would like to send up a "shout out" to my friend Denise and her husband Tom.

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Well, I should have known something was up when Al called so early last night. He never calls that early -- and "I slept really good" kind of sounded fishy ---So, when I was at work this afternoon and I got this picture:I realized why he had called me so early. He had gone on a convoy today to the other camp --- and he got to see his friends Jason and Troy. He said Jason may end up moving to

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Wow. I am so ready to sleepy sleep it's not even funny. It is 1953 here - 0653 there. My bunny bear just called me - he is so sweet. We got to talk for 30 minutes. It was wonderful and blissful and awesome. He said he slept really good last night.I spent my evening watching the OC and the Apprentice - and doing this:Yes, those are 11 boxes. No, they are not all for Al! His church, Parkway

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Okay, I have been a big procrastinator --- I meant to get this entry done a couple of weeks ago - and I didn't do it. This story is going to take a little while to tell, so that is partially why I have waited so long.First, let me give you some background -- Al is National Guard -- as such, I knew absolutely NOTHING about the military. You see, when you are dating or married to someone in the

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Such a cutie!! 

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I didn't get to see Trey on my trip last weekend, but Al's mom took some new pictures --- he is so darn cute and he looks just like Al! 

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The care package that Al got yesterday. Can you believe that I found a Hummer basket and camo Easter eggs? 

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Al's friends Arlene and Henry at church!! 

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Al's mom and me at church --- Al is 38 - His mom still looks so young and pretty! 

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Al's mom taking good care of him and checking his mail!! 

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Flowers are blooming at Al's house in Mississippi!! 

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Well, we finally made it 329 days. Yay! Seriously. I know it's like - whoop de doo - only 329 more days . . . but, I play little counting tricks with my mind - I try to countdown how many days to the next holiday (only four days until the one year anniversary of Al's and my first kiss - only 12 days until Easter) --- or I try to go - okay, lets count down the next thirty days - and when that's

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Sorry it's been so many days since I posted last!! I noticed that we have now had over a 1000 hits - so I figured that I better give y'all something to read!!I had a wonderful weekend with Al's mom --- I will post pics tomorrow at work where I have 'fast' internet . . . it is so nice to be able to get together with her and just have fun - she's so sweet - and out of anybody in my life right now

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Instead of looking at myself - and thinking about being here without Al - I try every day to think of his life - and what he's going through "there" -- it's hard sometimes - in America we are taught to not see past the nose on our face - but that's what love will do for you - it can melt the heart of even the most selfish person on the planet - I find myself thinking of Al so often - Where is he?

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