Missing Home

Hmm...lets see. I think the tally comes down to being home a total of 6 and a half days out of 42 days. Now, don't get me wrong, I love travelling and seeing the country (and world when I can), but give me a break!! No, it really hasn't been all that bad. I exagerate. Even though I haven't been able to sleep in my comfy bed all that often, or watch my cat chase a lazer pointer like the silly thing that she is, I've still had some fun times. (maybe I'm repeating myself from an earlier post, but here I am again, away from home doing the king's business). Alright, enough rambling. Just as an update, life is going farely well for me even if I am busy and never home. I've been able to catch up with a few old friends (one of which I hope to have dinner with tomorrow) and make a few new ones (one of which I am definately looking forward to seeing again). Coming up in the near future I am looking forward to starting my training at the Warrenton Fire Department. I turned in my paperwork and even though I will miss the first training day this Thursday, I'm sure I'll be able to catch back up and start learning a ton of new stuff. After that, the month of October is gong to be pretty packed with a nationally run exercise that I'm going to be part of called TOPOFF. Should be pretty cool (even if it does take up a lot of time and energy). TOPOFF is being held in Portland and Guam and Pheonix. Speaking of Pheonix, I'm hoping to head down there sometime in October too, if the timing works out with the whole exercise thing. I also had the chance to hit up a huge private holoween party in Miami, but it just didn't work out, so that kinda sucks. Oh yeah, and one of my good friends from home is thinking of visiting at the end of October too...hopefully that can get all figured out cause I haven't seen him in quite a while. And then, after all that craziness...I hope to take a trip down to Costa Rica for a week with a friend so as to just relax and enjoy the sun and amazing beaches that I keep hearing about. Well, I'm going to get off my soapbox for now and try to get some studying done so I can pass my yearly instrument check (and if you don't know what that is, feel free to ask!)