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Name: erika
Country: United States
State: North Carolina
Metro: Wilmington
Birthday: 8/15/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: General :: love, kisses, girls, near misses, adventure, lound noise, pretty pictures, emo bois, books, truth, protest, love, coffee, eddie izzard, sushi, cigarettes, writing, art, friends (old and new), poetry, comics, music, meditation pool, eye contact, compassion, crocheting, flirting, dancing, politics, hugs, puppies, boston, cool autumn nights, rights.
Music :: ani difranco.belle and sebastian.norma jean.azure ray.bjork.sigur ros.orchid.tori amos.bob dylan.q & not u.prince.jill sobule.beloved.david bowie.braid.doors.butchies.the cure.mountain goats.tweet.rocky votolato.moldy peaches.sarah mclachlan.outkast.jazz june.tom waits.blue hour.amanda woodward.postal service.appleseed cast.death cab for cutie.twista.bright eyes.le tigre.stretch arm strong.agents of man.cursive.kols.city of catepillar.non karisma.louis armstrong.neutral milk hotel.modest mouse.interpol.distillers.tegan and sara.alicia keys.denali.aesop rock.pretty girls make graves.the decemberists.atmosphere.ci
Expertise: writing, love, crocheting, reading, hurting, smiling, dance without rhythm, girl watcher
Occupation: Military
Industry: Government
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  shimmerrage
Yahoo:  isis_aurora
Member Since:
10/27/2003
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| Here I am, HOME!! Safe and sound. Of course I arrived at my house 10pm Friday evening and got up at a very familiar military hour the next morning to start raking/cleaning up the yard! Bah to hurricanes. Since then I've spent most of my time cleaning and organizing. After the yard came my room of course. I'm staying with my parents for a while to help out with the businesses. So I unpacked. On the plus side I did discover the civilian wardrobe I had all but forgotten about. So many choices and colors!! :) I'm at the book store with my mom now so I have to give up the business computer for business. Thank you all for your prayers and positive thoughts and comments, it all played a part in getting me home safe! | | |
| Everything is moving so fast now. We've moved into the tents for people getting ready to leave, my birthday is on Monday, our replacement unit gets here a couple days after that, in two weeks we'll be outta here. I'm literally scared about going home. Everyone is so much different, including myself. NC seems like some kinda dream, like it only existed in a dream I had. There are so many people I want to see, hug/touch just to know they are real. There are a few people I am very apprehensive about seeing again. I don't know how long I'll have at home before I get deployed again. I don't know if I can go back to school in the fall. I feel like after all the celebration of my homecoming is done I'll just fall into a sort of limbo.
My air force beau left over a month ago and I haven't heard anything from him. It is not unexpected considering the circumstances, but no matter how realistic you try to be, whenever you fall in love there is always that part of you that just knows that you'll be the one in a million that can make it work. I wish he had at least sent a letter ending it or that we'd officially ended it before he left...as it is now I feel like (for lack of a better metaphor) a soldier's widow that refuses to believe he's truely gone until she sees proof for herself...I'm still holding out that little bit of hope that he's just been busy, or the letters got lost, or that he'll call when I get home. I'm such a romantic. One day I'll find someone as horribly romantic as I am!
That's pretty much it for the moment. I'm a little sad to be leaving Camp Bucca, I've made some great friends here and had some good times despite all the whining I've done to the contrary!! lol.
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| Internet has been down for like forever! Missed my internet :( Oh well, as long as my office has air con i'm not complaining. Okay, someone lied because the humidity CAN be and IS horrible in the desert.
I'm alive and well. There is a slight possibility that we will be home labor day weekend, there is a definate fact we will be back in Sept. There is a good possibility that we will be redeployed within four months of return to NC.
Quick updates! INdepth later. xoxoxox | | |
| I felt like I was back in school last night! I had "homework". It was really just a crappola load of paperwork that I had a next day dead line on (ahem, they told me yesterday that it needed to be done today and there were roughly 1800 records I needed to update!). Goodness gracious.
And now for your enjoyment, a poem about porta potties and how horrible it is to use one every single day.
Warily I eye the dreaded space
an advesary I am loathe to face
The porta potty in all it's glory
a veritable sweatbox by midmorning
Maybe that second cup a' coffee wasn't such a good idea
But there is no time now for regrets I fear
two boxed privies, which one to chose
I suspect either way I go I shall lose
Einey meiney miney moe
The one on the far end is a go
two flies compared to twenty
less to swat at while I try to pee
before I reach the door my trousers are undone
the more time I'm in there the worse it will become
deep breath and hold it, dive in
Precariously I balance over the steaming depths within
Don't touch the wall/the seat/the door
I cringe even when my boots touch the floor
there is writing and darker smudges everywhere
no time to read I'm struggling to pull up my underwear
there is a bead of sweat trickling down my neck
I burst from the container flailing to swat it away
another hygiene-less adventure
and just the first for today
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| Well, I never thought I'd be saying this, but I Can't Wait to get back to Morehead City. The lovely coast. The temperate climate. The people I care about.
The weather here is crazy. Yesterday it was hotter than hades and today it's rainy. I don't like the desert one bit and shall never willing live in one.
Work wise things are up and down, busy and slow. Things happen, they get straightened out, then it all goes crazy again. But, I guess that makes time go by faster.
My air force guy is a real doll. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did. Breakups are hard but in this case it opened up the road for a much better experience. :) Did I mention I get nightly foot rubs?!! haha.
The boss is on the way in. Later kids. XOXO | | |
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