Dear Journal / Dear World

Another day is done. One more day closer to whatever it is you are looking forward to.

We have this puppy, a female golden Lab named June. We have had her for two weeks. She really enjoys crate training. It must be so fun to sit in a small crate all day. Okay so we have felt really bad about this but she just keeps thinking the carpet is grass. Not a good mix. Well, after a full week of crate training we decieded that we would try to let her out today. All day she did so good. We were so proud of her. She even when up to the door to whine when she needed to go. It was such a good feeling. Just before cooking dinner we took her out for a potty break. Then after dinner, out of no where she forgot all her training. Oh brother! During this wonderful venture I am calling my mother for our weekly Sunday evening talk, and we are on speaker phone, so Jane is trying to disapline the puppy and clean up the mess. Our poor puppy has a very soft spirit. A snap of the fingers and she thinks it’s the end of the world. So the puppy tucks tail and runs back into her crate. Then Jane tries to clean up the mess. Remember how yesterday I said that Jane wasn’t feeling good. Well, she made it though, but we almost ended up with a second mess on the full.

So that is the drama of today.

This morning we both sleep in way to late, because we stayed up way to late last night working on our blogs. So when I got up I started working on homework, writing the essay I just published for my online college class. Well all of this builds up to the climax of… we were not paying attention to the time and missed church. Oops. Now most people would be like that is so bad right? Well the problem with us, we are usually late and there isn’t any sitting available. So we only stay for the opening then leave. So missing entirely isn’t much of a bigger sin than we already are committing. I know, we are so bad, we really need to be going to church more. I mean how can you profess to believe something and not live it. Well there is the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. I totally believe in living the spirit of the law. Plus, our church has a be problem with accepting anyone different. Like Democrats. When 90 percent of your church is Republican, anyone that thinks different is an outsider. It is a really good thing we have such a strong belief in God.

So instead of going to church we spent the day, cuddled up on the couch watching several different movies playing on TBS and a puppy sleeping puppy at our feet. At least until dinner and she decided to end the fun filled night by leaving her last drink on the carpet.

In the wonderful phone conversation with my mother, we talked about the situation I’m currently in with the army. I was originally suppose to separate from the military in September 2008. Due to the upcoming deployment to Iraq I was involuntarily stopped from leaving, known as Stop-Loss. Well the military can only stop loss a soldier from exiting the military 90 days from the time they are suppose to step boots on dessert soil. I was suppose to deploy last Thursday. That changed, now I’m being told that I’m to deploy in a little over a week. But, that is only tentative. We are still waiting on order from the Department of the Army. Which doesn’t make me since, how can I be stop lossed if there aren’t any orders? Any answers? Your ideas are as good as mine. Plus, Iraq is saying that America has to be out of Iraq by the end of the year if we don’t agree to allow Iraq to try our soldiers for murder. This can not happen. If we agree to this, any time someone is killed in Iraq by an American Soldier will get arrested by the Iraqi Police. Right, like that will happen, I wouldn’t allow Iraqi Police to arrest one my soldiers, there will be fights between Iraqi Police and American Soldiers. Iraq knows this and we know this. Iraq is trying to kick us out because they don’t want us there anymore. I think that Department of the Army is waiting to see what will happen before they waste money to send up to Kuwait just to being us home again. Which is good for me, come December and I’m still here, I get to separate and return home. I pray that is going to happen. Two years over there is two to many!!!