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Blah. That is exactly how I have been feeling lately. We have passed the half-way point on this deployment and now it's pretty much all downhill from here. I'm getting ready to go on R&R and see someone who means a great deal to me and I am very excited about that. However, the day-to-day boredom is overshadowing the excitement of even that small ounce of hope for a break in the routine. Blah. I go to the pool and it's too damn hot to enjoy that. I go work-out and you are pouring sweat before you even start your work-out. It's too hot to walk anywhere. It's too hot to eat. So, the only alternative is to buy snacks in the PX and eat in your room. I'm sick of seeing AFN commercials! Oh what I wouldn't give to see just one McDonald's commercial or a Wal-Mart commercial and I LOATHE Wal-Mart! A fountain drink from a drive-thru would be totally awesome right about now. A Super-Sized one with lots of ice and a straw. Ahhh, the little things I miss about home. The care packages have slowed down. I know we are not forgotten over here, but after time people just go on with their lives and you become something to think about only every so often instead of every minute. Blah. I go to the PX in hopes that maybe something new has arrived worth giving a second glance. No luck. We did get a cell phone shop on base and I couldn't believe that myself and another female were completely disrespected because we are women. Oh hell no! Not on an AMERICAN military base. I don't give a damn if that's how they treat the women in their culture, that's NOT how we treat ours and I'll be damned if they are going to do that on my base where I'm the one supporting their paycheck! A little trip to see the manager did the trick. HA!! The look on those men's faces as they were being called out in front of their male peers by two chicks was priceless. I won't be treated like that by people that we are over here to "liberate"!
Oh well, I digress. All of this has created a nice little package of BLAH that has been wrapped up and tied with a nice little bow and presented to me ever so kindly. Thanks, but this gift you can keep 'cause I don't like your gift! Blah.