So I just read Boni's latest blog via facebook and realized that it has been over a month(almost 2 months in fact) since I wrote anything on here. SO a quick update from Speicher...it's dusty today...and I do mean dusty. We heard from the weather guys early this morning that "severe dust" would be here by lunchtime. Lunchtime came and went with no dust and we were starting to feel pretty silly for hurrying up all of the missions. Then I went into THE meeting...and lo and behold, 20 minutes later was severe dust everywhere! It's so gross when it does this. The dust just hangs in the air and then when it settles you make little dust clouds with your feet wherever you walk. To make matters worse, our room isn't what you'd call exactly "sealed off from the outside", so dust comes into the room and settles on every available surface. This means that all of the cleaning I did on my day off last week is now in vain. Builds character though! :)
For anyone that knows me well, this next story will come as NO surprise, but will make you giggle. The other day we went flying and swung by the range so I could get a little target practice in. After I shot all my bullets, I had to change ammo cans. If you've ever done this before while flying along at 120 knots you know it's no small feat. If you have never done this before, let me tell you, it's not small feat. In order to get the weapon close enough to me to reload without risking dropping a full ammo can over the middle of nowhere, Iraq, I had to stick my foot out the window and push on the gun mount to relieve enough pressure to bring the mount close to the aircraft. This led to FAIL #1...I got my foot stuck between the aircraft and the gun mount. Luckily the wind was strong enough to KEEP my foot stuck while I reloaded. Don't worry folks, it didn't hurt...much. Which brings us to FAIL #2, upon getting my foot unstuck and getting the gun mount back outside of the aircraft where it belongs I somehow managed to bang the top of my knee into the bottom of the ELT. If you know what and ELT is, you know that this must have hurt. If you don't know what an ELT is, it's a small black metal thing. I promise that it was not a gentle bump and it did NOT tickle. I now have a large purple bruise on my knee. But the bruise could possible have come from FAIL #3. After the flight was over I took my empty ammo can back to refill it. I picked up the full ammo can and I swear it was as if my knee and the ammo can were two magnets. For some odd reason I swung my arm and banged the full ammo can into my knee(at exactly the same place I had hit it earlier). As previously mentioned, to those who know me and my accident prone ways, this story comes as no surprise. I can assure you that Lyle was not surprised at all to hear of my wonderful day.
On that note, things are well with us. We're staying busy. Lyle and I have started doing Crossfit. I whined a lot at first, but I'm starting to find that I really enjoy the workouts now. Good thing Lyle never reads this because I'd never admit to him that I'm enjoying the workouts. PS, If anyone can get the address to this blog to Mimi, I'd be ever so greatfull! Hope everyone has a wonderful day and if you're in Iraq, watch out for the dust! :)
