Through the Looking Glass

Here's a link to the 11th MEU homepage if some of you haven't already seen it:

http://www.usmc.mil/11thmeu/


There's a cool .pdf newsletter they do each month. Called Pacific Pride. It has lots of nice pictures and info about the unit. You can find it on the 11th MEU website.

Let's see...what else? Oh! If you're planning on any kind of a christmas package...now is the time to send that out. It seems it could take a good month to get there.


I'm glad you guys are blogging! He enjoys posting. And loves the replies too.

Love,
Trina

Well..We passed Guam this morning! I could see the little island through the fog. It was quite strange to see land after a month of seeing just water everywhere. I can't wait to get back. One month down..5 more to go! Hard to believe it's only been one month already.

Trina makes it sound like she had a fun little project for you guys for thanksgiving. I beat guitar hero 3 on medium for those of you interested in that sort of thing. I'm practicing on hard right now! I'm definitely turning into a little rock star on ship. Wait until you see me play it. Your jaws will drop and your eyes will widen in excitement! And Trina will drool and flock to me like a little rock star groupie when she sees. Mark mywords. BWAHAHAHAAH.

Other than that they've got me trying to learn FarsiArabic. I'm confused every time I learn a language I'm not really concerned about learning. I can't wait for Trina to start helping me with German when I get back. And I'm going to help her with her language when I get back as well!

Anyway. I'm just a month closer to coming home. Still don't know where we're going and how long we're going to stay there but I'll let you know just after we leave. You know. For security reasons. I'll keep everyone posted.

Just to let all of you know... i'm moderating comments because we keep getting spam from random people. So if you don't see your comment pop up instantly, it'll be there soon! I just have to approve it first.

Posted by Kevin:

Happy thanksgiving everyone! I had an alright turkey day. I had steak instead of turkey. And mashed potatoes. I'm about to get some chocolate and take a shower. You know. Comfort food. By the way, I saw my first insect on ship! It was quite strange. It was one of those tiny moth things. Don't know what they're called. But they're really really tiny.And they look like moths. It was quite interesting. Crap. This isn'tmuch of a blog. But it's all I can think about right now. It's been along day. I had to take a nap today because I was so tired today. I hope you all had a happy thanksgiving though!

Posted by Kevin:

Well guys, I'm sick. I got this chest/head cold thing that's been going around. And the word out there is there's something worse in the form of a stomach virus that I don't want. Hehe. Just glad I got the latter of the 2. Trina would probably think my sniffling is cute or something. And I got some medicine for it. I told them I just wanted the pain to go away. So they game me stuffiness medicine, congestion stuff, and cough drops. Pretty much all I need! I don't know if I'll blog again until Thanksgiving Day. But we'll see. Because what if something cool happens before then. You know? Looks we're going to pay the Corolla off within the next 2 months which is good. And Trina's one step closer to trading her Echo in for a Prius when I get back! She'll be happy about that. Well I'm going to go now. I'll blog again sometime in the near future. See you guys!

Posted by Kevin:



Well..it looked like we were going to go to Bangladesh for a few days. But the hurricanes are making that kinda impossible. We were going to provide humanitarian aid but the 22nd MEU is going to do that instead of us. Not a whole lot is going on here. Trina got me a little morale booster in the form of a MP3 player that she's loading up as we speak. Hehe. It'll be good for the gym. I'm actually starting to find stuff around the ship now. And now the ship doesn't seem so huge anymore. They switched my shifts so I work in the day now. My eyes aren't used to the light anymore. Hehe. We're still in the middle of nowhere. We just got away from Hawaii and are heading who knows where. That's about it for now. I think I'm going to try and get a phone card so I can call Trina. I'll blog more if I can think of it some other time.

Posted by Kevin:

So it's really really dark out here. There's hardly any light. And I was just outside looking at the stars. They're really really pretty when youcan actually see them. And I just put some clean clothes on..and they still smell like our detergent! I was like oh man. There's only 23 moreweeks left..if not more. Crap. That's all I can think about really.

Posted by Kevin:

So, there I was on watch last night. Playing guitar hero 3 all night long. I played so long that I didn't realize the time flew by, and in comes a fellow co-worker LCpl Wood! I was like.."GEEEZ..did that time fly by." I was like.."holy crap!" to myself. So he was jealous of all my GuitarHero song progresses. He said I would totally own him. There's some really good songs from really crappy bands on that game. "My Name Is Jonas" from weezer is on it. Haven't played it yet..but I'm going to. This song from Dragonforce is on there too. I LOVE playing it. Even though I never make it through the whole song without failing. I'm going to work on that some more tonight. Anywho. I'm going to go for now. ButI'll blog some more later. See you guys!

Posted by Kevin:

Well..took a shower today! First shower on ship! It was weird. Theydon't use normal faucets and whatnot. You have to spray yourself with a water sprayer. It's sprays kind of hard and stings a little. But it's alright. It gets me clean! So here I am squeaky clean! *sparkle* hehe That's all for now. I'm sure I'll think of something new to blog soon.

Posted by Kevin:

Well. Here I am on ship writing to my baby and everyone else reading this. Things have been weird for me so far. Trying to establish a schedule around guard and a language class they got me taking. Somehow I have to work the gym into it. Eventually I will. But you know. It’s only the beginning of the deployment. Anywho. i’m eating 3 meals a day, we’re out in the middle of the ocean, and they’re taking care of us with a troop lounge so we don’t get bored out of our skulls. Check this out..the bed I chose to sleep in is friggen awesome. I have a very bottom bed so it’s dark and quiet. I just crawl into there at the end of my day and go to sleep. Sometimes I feel like some kind of reclusive spider when I do that. It’s nice though. I crawl into my bed and the boat rocks me to sleep. Hehe. It’s great. Well, that’s all for now guys. I’ll be sure to post as much as I can.