I have decided that FOB MSG is the location

FOB MSG is where I have decided that Tom is hiding out. Looking at pictures of some of the soldiers over there via the Combat Camera and based on the Satellite phone conversations I have had with Tom, my deduction is that he is located in this place for Christmas.

I guess he will be getting everyone's Christmas packages when he returns to the Kandahar Airfield (or KAF) in Tom's new profound Army language that I am having to learn. I guess he forgets sometimes that I am out of an Army environment, so I have no idea what he is talking about at times. But, as Tom says, all I have to talk about is Engineering things and then he gets a little lost because he has been detached from the evolution of technology for a while...so, I guess it is a growth curve for both of us!

I know that he will appreciate gifts from all and I think he said that he will take pictures of opening them. So, hopefully he will send them to me and I can post them on here!

Happy New Year!

4 Months of University LEFT!!!

Done! That's it, that's all. I am DONE!! Soon it will be "Peace the Spork out Waterloo!" That will be the day. Man, best feeling ever right now. I can actually start to get into Christmas!! Yay Christmas!! I won't be glaring at people being cheery in the malls, now I can actually be just as annoyingly cheerful back and be sincere about it. Well, semi-sincere.

Oh, and it has been confirmed: Tom is officially going out to the FOB's/is out at the Forward Operating Bases (FOB's) and I am not too thrilled about it. I mean, it is true that the ripped mooo-scles will be intensified by the fact that there is nothing to do out there but lift heavy things to get rid of stress, which makes complete sense to me. Why eat ice cream and agree out loud with Dr. Phil after you made a trip to Sobey's and bought $30 of junk food, salmon and sushi when you can lift heavy things and make grunting noises?

Tom will be sending pics of the 'stan that will be posted up on here so we can appreciate Canada that much more. Who knew that Ontario (the important part) and Afghanistan (the Tom part) would be having a green Christmas? When I told Tom this, he was disappointed because Canada is supposed to be cold. That is why he was glad the tour was during the cold time. When he found out that it has been warmer in Ontario than in Kandahar, he was thrilled that now global warming was conspiring against him by making our continent warm and his cold, like it is supposed to.

I think you can find some sort of fault with this aforementioned belief, I just chalk it up to Tom logic. Like, wearing cool driving shoes in a car makes you a better driver. Not just driver shoes, but cool ones. There are multiple examples, and if you know Tom, you know how darn cute he is and how he makes my insides melt when he reasons in this way.... (nerd internet heart symbol) <3

Preemptive Merry Christmas and have a great holiday season! Time to start thinking of that New Year's Resolution that I will break within the month of making it!

Almost done this term.....

The countdown is on!! I am almost done this term. The exams are coming, 4 in total, and then I will be officially done this hellish term of 4A-ish. Thank god, because I definitely don't recommend doing 2 terms, let alone 3 terms back to back....tres sucky.

All of les proffesures are inquiring about where I am going to work in the summer and reference letters and blah blah blah and yadda yadda yadda. I feel like they were more excited for my life to start than I am. If only I was older and cynical, such that I needed to live vicariously through my young students...

I have come to the crossroads and I am standing on the threshold of leaving my student life and slowly becoming an adult....to me this is slightly depressing, but exciting in the same sense. But tending to linger on the more depressing side. I mean, I have to grow up and be responsible and be in charge of things and accept the consequences to my actions. No more "Gee, I am tired and lazy, maybe I will lie here and miss my class for fun and watch Holmes on Homes." Not that this has ever occurred (yesterday....and the day before that), I was just speaking figuratively.

Tom's Christmas package in underway. A whole bunch of Christmas v1.0 themed candy and chocolates and a few gaudy Christmas v1.0 decorations should tide him over until we celebrate Christmas v2.0 in Tremblant! Ya for french snob weekend in the Laurentians!

I am just getting through exams, and that is all I have going for me right now. That and guacamole. I may not get 100% on my exams, but I make a mean guac-o-mole!

Back to work. I will update more later. Tom is supposed to be going out into the countryside, so I will be confirming that and appropriately commenting on it in the future!

*mwah*

Getting excited for Spring Break...

Hopefully Tom is back for Spring Break....that is what I am hoping for....because we were planning on going somewhere warm. Well, he wants to go somewhere warm because Afghanistan is FREEZING and I am pretty much going to tag along....which I definitely don't mind doing. I will have to start to expose my skin to a tanning bed. I know the risks associated with this, but they recommend doing it so that your skin doesn't go into shock when you are down there. They also don't want you to get blistering skin. I know that I am going to have to haul out the SPF 70 (You better BELIEVE I own some!) and put it on during high sun.

I remember when we went to the Dominican during the school year in high school, and it was so hot, you couldn't go outside during the peak sun hours. We ended up going in March, but I think that it still will be super warm! It is amazing how much planning has to go into one of these things. I was looking into the TwinRix vaccine because it protects against Hep A and B. Since I am susceptible to infection, I thought it would be a good preemptive action against the possibility of getting ill.

So, in leu of this new information, I have been looking at bathing suits. Because I only have one suit, I felt it appropriate to look for another one. I sent Tom an email with bathing suits that I liked and the black ones on this page are the ones that he picked out. They are not the super expensive ones, so that makes me happy. I have to go with the one piece bathing suits because of the scar on my stomach, but I think they are still pretty nice!!

I like the silver and pink one, but I guess it wouldn't hurt if I got more than one? So maybe that is what I will do. I mean, it is a week and then there is the honeymoon that will hopefully be in Bora Bora, so there is another beach scenario.

Back to studying and writing an email to Tom. Only 4 months of University left!

I solemly swear....

It's official: I have no patience left for Tom being overseas!!! It is coming up 6 weeks since I have last seen him, so it is starting to weigh in on my nerves.

I am officially: grumpy, impatient, aggressive, snappy, intolerant, sarcastic in a bad way, judgemental, and anything else that would qualify as an unbecoming behaviour. It just seems that the life has been sucked out of me. I don't want to do anything...I just want to sit and sulk! Because that is going to get Tom back here faster!

I think that it had just hit me that Tom is not going to be here for Christmas. And that is why this rush of emotion happened. I guess it was a reality I did not want to face. Ahhhhhhhh welllllllll.....it won't be that bad, right? I think it will be sad, that's all. What I am going to do is book a teleconference with Tom through the PMFRC which will be a nice Christmas gift for him. I just have to call them and book the time.

Just thinking about it has made me all nervous and bubbly! Yeah, I think I will call them and book a time for it. I am sure that Tom will like me talking to him. I think there is a 3-6second delay, but it will be so nice to see him. And I think it would be one of my better Christmas presents...now, if I can only make it work.

Well, I guess that is one way to get rid of a terrible mood, to type it out and each dark chocolate at the same time. AMAZING!

AHHHHHHHHHH.....breathe.....AHHHHHHHHHHH!!

It is down to the wire. I am at 1 day of classes left and I have too much to do. Too toooooo much to do!! I will be so happy when this semester is over. Yay to breathing a little easier. Yay to being able to be calm every once in a while.

In other news, I am almost done 4 A, which means that I have 4 months of school left.....and then it is time to start my life!! My favorite part of the whole me done thing is that I can finally get to spend time with Tom. And, quite frankly, IT'S ABOUT TIME!! So the life plan with kick in and all will be well.

Except for the fact that the ARMY is posting me to Gagetown in May 2007. Ummmmmm.....yeah.....I am going to have to figure that one out. I know that I won't be going to Gagetown, as I am unfit to do my job in the military, but I am not sure as to how everything is going to work out. Maybe I have to live their for a few months, but I won't be working, I will just be sitting doing nothing. That is why I am planning on going on sick leave for the entire time. I can cite that I need to get everything figured out. All I know is that this recent posting message is almost too much stress for me to handle. Not what I currently needed!!

And Tom? Well, he is doing GREAT! He is excited about getting his Christmas Stocking parcel. And I am equally as excited about putting it together. All I can think about is that the faster I get through this semester, the faster I get to see Tom.

So that is my focus. To get him back here safe and in my arms.