Concerning my recent dilemma to change, I'm discovering that it's not necessarily me, or how I talk to these people, but rather them and how they take it. I really don't care if some people like me, and I would rather them not like me, because if they in fact do like me it is because I fit the personality that they find entertaining/fun to be around, and I don't want to be that person. Instead I will be me, and work hard at doing me job, that's why I'm here. To do my job, serving this country in a time of war. I will do it to the best of my ability and do it happily and faithfully because that's what my creator expects.

Now, people that we are replacing keep talking about what they are going to do when they get back to the states, and I keep coming up with new ideas. I'm going to make a list for when I get back of something new each day I want to do when I get back.

Day 1: Extreme affection and PDA with my beautiful wife Sarah! I want to love on her so much and make her feel like a queen. I'm talking flowers, awesome date, tons of kisses, and hours of nonsensical chatter about anything and everything we can possibly think of, just like before I left, and how we've always been :)