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Its 2230HRS on Sunday 13 June 04 and tomarrow I leave on a rather long plane ride back to the East Coast. Its so weird, the feeling I get from this trip. Its not like other trips in the past, it could be due to the fact that I'll be home for so long or it could be because I know why I'm going home and its the Most Important decision in my life that I will ever make. I will admitt I'm kinda bummed about going home and leaving this island. Its not like a deployment where I'm not leaving my life behind and just moving locations. I'm actually leaving my life, my job and the military, behind for 29 days. The complexity of it, is I'm leaving my life to start my life. It really feels like 5 Feb 02 all over again when I took that long trip to my recruiters office to take an even longer trip to MEPS and then to the airport to go to Boot Camp. Then I was leaving my life behind to start my life. LOL! Except this time I'm not all super bummed cause I didn't think I'd ever see my parents or house again. No, this feeling is much different; I'm extatically excited. I'm actually sitting here just contimplating on the past. From the time I met Aubrey in the guitar room at Annandale High School and the times we were off and on like a light switch each not really knowing what we wanted. Meaning we wanted to be with one another but we also wanted to date around. The trips to Myrtle Beach, the Trips to Hawaii, and Finally now... the trip that will take me to my Bride. WoW, what an amazing rollar coaster of emotion and thoughts! I mean, I don't know what more to say about the whole thing. We began her freshman year and my senior year, the memories together could almost fill a life time and yet just think.... we are just begining. Unfortunantly, people have their doubts but thats expected and normal. The one thing I can say about people's opinions both positive and negative is that you know who really looks out for you by the way they express their opinion. Anyone can just agree with you and say "Oh yea thats fine" But it takes a real individual to tell you how they really feel and when they do you will most likely get Both positive and negative re-enforcement. There is one guy that I would like to especially thank, and that is my Good Friend and Brother Chris. He helped me through the toughest of times when I was about to pull the plug on the whole thing. He helped me put things back into perspective and I'm sure most of you know what I'm referring to. One thing that he told me that I don't think I will ever forget was (in referring to me and aubrey) "I've seen you two together and its a great thing" And that really meant alot to me coming from him. So thanks for everything Chris, I look forward to hanging out with you brother.
On a seperate note I got baptised today, what a cool expierence that was! It just seemed to fit in nicely with getting ready to be married and all.
For now I'm going to iron some clothes, take a shower and triple check everything to make sure I have everything packed.
"Well I'm all packed, man that wasn't all that bad. (picks up Aubrey's wedding ring) I like how this catches the light....hey wait.... why am I holding her ring and its not in the suitcase? D'OH!!!"
Yes I really did do that and if I didn't catch it then I'm not sure if I would have. *WHEW*
On a seperate note I got baptised today, what a cool expierence that was! It just seemed to fit in nicely with getting ready to be married and all.
For now I'm going to iron some clothes, take a shower and triple check everything to make sure I have everything packed.
"Well I'm all packed, man that wasn't all that bad. (picks up Aubrey's wedding ring) I like how this catches the light....hey wait.... why am I holding her ring and its not in the suitcase? D'OH!!!"
Yes I really did do that and if I didn't catch it then I'm not sure if I would have. *WHEW*