Sky Watch friday

Well today,for my sky watch, I have proof that most of the time there isn't much in the sky here.

With this one if you look very carefully you can see a little bit of cloud way up there. If your looking at the horizon thinking oh there it is, your looking at the wrong thing that is actually sand that has been blowing all night. and for part of yesterday. I have one other one that is a pretty good picture.

This last one shows the difference a few seconds can make to a sun rise. I like it much better than the first. By the way I just wanted to also share that sunrise seems to happen quite a bit earlier here than anywhere I have ever been in my life. The first rays of light start to show over the horizon at about 4 am.

A new highlight

Well for the past few weeks I have wanted to try something new with my hair. You see at home I go about once a month and get a pedicure, and that is my beauty for that month. It’s not much but it does keep me feeling good. Well here they don’t have that kind of thing, but they do have some very nice Iraqi men who can do hair. I went in this morning looking for something new, I don’t want a hair cut because then I might not be able to put it up as well. Hmmmm…. I think I might go for highlights! So I did, I told him what I wanted through an interpreter and he did the highlights. I wish I had a picture of the in between, but I don’t. But anyway the highlights were terrible, at first. He saw the look of dismay when he unveiled the hair, and I really felt like I was going to throw up. You see I thought the highlighting resembled a skunk or maybe a zebra. Well he put in a reducer, and they came out just right, not too much lighter than my real hair, but to me it looks like it’s a little lighter all over.

Well that is the finished product I think it looks nicely understated. It’s a little hard to see in this picture. Anyway the man that was doing my hair was so nice, because as you can see I am not lacking in the hair department, so he had to spend a lot of time. Then I had a little freak out at the unveiling, he soothed me and said he could fix it, and it turned out really nice. When he was in the middle of painting on the reducer, I was thinking well I can just have mom send me a few boxes of like coloring and I will have my roommate Jani dye it for me and this whole thing will be cleared up. Then he fixed it and I was so happy that I didn’t have to look like a skunk for month.

See look what a happy camper I am! I know it seems a little frivolous, but I need to have something to do on my off days than sit here on the computer all day. It was record hot today, but it was still fun to go over and get my hair done. Julia went with me and got a hair cut, that took about 15 minutes. Mine took about 2 hours, so kudos to her for being patient and waiting for me. Thanks Julia.

My first sky watch

I have been reading on some other people's blogs how they do Skywatch Friday, and I always thought there isn't ever anything interesting in my sky. We don't even have any clouds here. Well, I was looking through my pictures and I realized I was right - I don't have any good sky pictures. Then I remembered sometimes we do have some pretty cool things in our sky, but all I have is video. Hope everyone enjoys my little video of the medevac taking off after they dropped off a patient for us. talk to you all soon.

The other night

The other night at work, much fun was had by all. It was the one night during the week when almost everyone works and we had a good time. This little video is of the fun that we were having it just so happens that in the video we are enjoying one of the bags of pop corn mom sent us. Hope you like it.

Julia's present from home

Well the other day Julia received and opened, at work, a box from home. Inside this box there was a certain item that she decided to take several pictures of. See if you can identify said item.



Don't let any pointing give it away try and find it for yourself.

See look even 1st Sergeant joined in.


Also today I have a sky watch photo, I know it isn't the right day, but what do I have to lose. Mine is of the night sky because there really isn't much to look at during the day.

And no people, that isn't a street light its the moon. I hope you enjoy, see you all again in a few days.

Goodies from mommy

Well today I got another package from my mother and I thought I would share the things that were in it. It seems like every time something happens to me now I want to blog about it. It may be because not much out of the ordinary happens to me, or it might be me trying to make something of my life here. :) Sometimes it gets a little boring and monotonous. So anyway today my life was made good by a gift from home. Specifically from my mother. Here are some of the things she sent.

That is at least one of everything that she sent. She must really love me! And my co-workers, because they are going to get a lot of this stuff. There is one item you notice here that is one of my favorites, but if you look at the picture you may notice something is terribly wrong.


Like some kind of nuclear radiation hit them, or maybe the mail was tampered with by terrorists! I don't really think it was anything quite as dramatic as all that, but they are quite amusing. And even though they look just a little bit different they still taste the same, although, they don't eat the same.

Another week

Hey guys I have a bunch of pictures for you today from the swap meet. I wanted all of you to see what good use your things are going to. And for any of you that don't know we have one very special donator in the states called Operation Toasty Toes. These wonderful women make different things out of yarn and then send them to us for the patients and for the soldiers/marines. The last shipment we got of them were great and everyone loved them so much, that I took a lot of pictures of people with their slippers. Hope you guys enjoy the pictures. Have a great day!




Also this week we had a little bit of excitment Gary Sinise came to visit us, and he talked to our wounded and gave them some goodies! Here is one picture of me and Kim with him. I had to black out the patients face, because we aren't allowed to show it.

pictures from work

Ok today I would like to apologize about missing several days. As you may have seen on the news we have been busy for the last few days, and I was tired. But now that is over and I have time to write about stuff again. The other night at work I decided to take some pictures of my wacky co-workers. That is mainly what I am going to put up today. I wanted to talk a little about the drinking water here and how it works. Every so often a man comes with a huge fork lift carrying a large pallet of about 300-400, 1 liter water bottles. Then as we need them we bring them into our living area and the hospital, clean them off and use them for drinking, cooking and patient care. Well this can be a time consuming effort, but not when you work as a team, its a good thing we all went to basic training so they could teach us that. :)


That is all of us working together to get the water clean, and look how pristine the water looks when we are done.
Alright these next ones are of the only other enlisted female working nights. These are her before and after shots, the second one I told her to smile.


This one is of my NCO's on nights. One of them said, quick get a picture that looks like I'm working. As you may notice that suggests maybe he wasn't. I'll let you figure it out from the way the picture looks. :)

Alright this last one is a picture of one of our officers, and also a perfect example of why you shouldn't leave your camera laying around.

It's the 4th

Happy 4th of July everyone!!

Have a beer or three for me. Also have some steak and chocolate and fresh veggies and pot roast and fire works and so on and so forth. Have a great night!

New sand storm!

I thought the storm in Kuwait was bad! I have never seen anything like this!

Now I will be the first to admit our over all situation in this part of the world is very good compared to how some others have it. But this storm really dampened my spirits! The sand is still every where from it, and we had to spend a lot of extra time cleaning the hospital after it had passed through. And to add injury to insult my allergies were really bad during it! Ok I'm done with the complaining. Here is a picture of what it normally looks like at about the same angle and the same time of day.

However not all is bad with the world, here is one of Julia crawling under her bed to clean it out. She stayed under there for quite awhile so I decided to take her picture. At one point an arm reached out and tried to grab my leg, but not to fear I jumped away in time.


Also I noticed, while I was reading through some of your blogs, that some of you are planning on sending some stuff to us. I wanted to let you know in advance that we really appreciate anything that you are able to send. The list that mom has up on her site is a very good list, that I helped make. The only thing I can think of that we really need that may not be there is shaving cream, and mens deoderant. Thanks again.