I'm back
Well, now that was the longest 6 weeks of my life! That fucking sucked! But I'm home now and everything is much better. We pulled in yesterday after a VERY long and stressful run. 6 weeks really doesn't seem that bad, but this time it just drug by. I was out for longer over the summer but that flew by. BUT, I did get to go swimming the the Bahamas, and also a couple hundred miles off of florida in the Gulf of Mexico. So that was cool. Today's Thanksgiving, my parents are over at Amber's house enjoying the holiday with her family. I'm jealous of both groups! Amber gets to see my family, and they get to see amber! I'm not doing anything for Thanksgiving, I'm fixin to go to Wal Mart and buy something to eat. But dont get me wrong I'm not sad about it of anything, to me it's just another day. a day in port!!! Amber's made a friend over this live journal thing with a girl from up here in Connecticut, so that makes me feel better cause she'll have someone to talk to and hang out with while I"m out at sea, And this girl is a Navy wife so she can give Amber advice and counsel while I'm away. or jus when she gets pissed off at me! I can't freakin wait for december when Amber's gonna come up here for a week, I managed to get the week off on leave, well I go on leave the second day she get's here, but because we'll be on christmas standown I'll actually have the day she flies in off as well so I'll be able to go pick her up and spend that day with her. Just gotta get up and go to the boat the next mornin and check out on leave, then I'm good till the morning of the 3rd, which is when I'll have to check back in off of leave, a sad day for us all! Well at least me and Amber. Which is all that really matters to me. I realized some things lately. People dont understand the way sailors work, and not even just sailors, Submariners. for one we have the most horrible reputation of all branches of the military. Granted when we pull into a port we like to get the hell off the boat and go out and have a good time with the guys you've spent the last several weeks cramped up in a steel can with. An amazingly stressful enviroment, that most people will never fully understand, even those closest to us. Only those wearing fish on their chest really know what I'm talkin about, but anyways back to my point. We do like to get off the boat and go have a few drinks to take us away from stress of the boat. it's a camraderie (spelling?) thing. And just because we pull into places and go out drinking with our buddies and shit, doesn't make us bad people, we dont go off and try to find women to sleep with, most of us would never even think about cheating on our wives/girlfriends. But as they always do the few drag down the many. you hear the horror stories, but the truth is that most of us aren't like that. Now I've got people telling me I cant get drunk when I pull into a port because she's afraid of what might happen because she reads horror stories and cheating sailors, see's pictures of sailors posing with a bunch of girls. But do I have any pictures of me with a bunch of girls in some bar? no. Have I ever even hit on a girl in one of these ports I've pulled into? no. When i pull in I like to go out and drink, I like to get fucking wasted with the guys off the boat. It's what we do. But when I do I'm with a group of guys I trust, not a group of guys that are gonna go out and do something stupid or go tried to get laid. But if Amber really wants me to not get drunk I'll listen to her, I have more respect for her than anyone on the boat including the Captain. I Love her with all my heart. I just wish she wouldn't get all nervous and shit when she reads those things, it's almost hurtful, cause she always says she completely trusts me and I'd never do anything to break that trust, but yet if she really does trust me like that why do these freakin stories even bother her. They are just that, stories. Isolated events that have happened to people that aren't as nearly in love as Amber and I are. She has nothing to worry about. I hope she reads this and will understand. I Love you Amber, and will never do anything to hurt you. ok, anyways, Happy Thanksgiving ya'll, it's great to be home.