Coming Home Very Soon!

Heya,

I've basically completely forgotton about updating the blog , but here's my update:

Currently counting down the days to going home.

The overall situation in Iraq is pretty much focused at my level, and maybe for the Army as a whole, on packing out. Due to our great planning, this isn't as painful as it potentially could be. This in turn has given me the time to think about how excited I am about coming home.

There are a laundry list of items on my agenda of things to do at home; food to eat, beverages to drink, and thankfully a short list of people I want to spend time with. Some of the highlights of my first few weeks home will be weekend adventures in the Northwest with Shayna, seeing Dave Matthews at the Gorge over Labor Day, learning to golf (Shayna currently shamelessly schools me with a golf club - which is completely untenable), and just relaxing in general. After three deployments, the prospect of simply being home without another deployment looming out there is refreshing.