Fourth Week in Iraq

This will be my fourth week in Iraq. I am doing fairly well. I think it's because I have such a wonderful woman back home to support me and be there when I get back. That's always such an awesome thing to have. Not so lonely.
Last week was a very busy week. We finally finished cleaning up the shop and making it look like an actual shop. Now we can do work on aircraft component without spending an hour looking for a place to do it, the parts to do it with, and the tools to do it with. It's nice. We have everything organized and know where it's at.
I worked on my first Apache the other day. That was pretty cool. Nothing complicated, but it was still neat. Now I've worked on every airframe the Army has. That's pretty cool. And I got to do it out on the flightline, which I've never done before either. You'd think I hadn't already spent six years in the Army, but for some reason I've never had to work out on a flightline before. I've worked on helicopters directly before, but they've always been in a hangar. So that was interesting. It was hot as hell though. Nothing like being out in the middle of the day on a black helicopter, just soaks up the sun. Haha!
I'm going to church too, which is a change from the last deployment. But they have more option here. There's actually a contemporary service here. I went to it last week and it was pretty cool, so I'm going again.
Just like I have a hard time keeping things up to date on this journal, I've been having a hard time keeping up to date on my handwritten journal. Yes, there are still people who keep handwritten journals, and I am one of them.
Well, it's almost time for me to head to church. Be back soon hopefully.

From Iraq

Well, I have been here for about two weeks. Things aren't bad at all. I am relatively safe and basically just do my job: work on helicopters. It seems a little senseless to bring me here for such a short time, but I know that God has his plans and as long as I do what I'm supposed to, I will be fine.
The guys are doing well. Everyone is in pretty decent spirits. Obviously there are people who aren't too happy, but then with the end of the deployment so near, it's easy to just look past everything and just be glad you'll be home soon. So I think most people are looking forward to being home.
Things back home are going fairly well. There's always the little annoying thing like an online bill not going through and having to spend 40 minutes of your phone time trying to hash things out with automated phone services before you can finally talk to a human being who helps you fix things in 5 minutes.
Julianna, the love of my life, is doing well. She starts art school in a couple of weeks and she's "wicked stoked" about it! LOL. She's been doing all kinds of art projects which I can't wait to see when I get back. I can't wait to see her when I get back!
Well, I hope everyone is doing well. Especially you, Crys since you're the only one who really checks this! LOL
See you all soon