Well, it's been almost a week since I signed into the replacement detachment, and been over a week since I moved into my place.
I met a young Soldier who is a single parent, and engaged to a guy in Okinawa. She was having a pretty rough go of it when she first got here, and being the high speed wannabe that I am, and a guy with a big heart for kids, I extended a helping hand. She had her debit card stolen on her way here, and she was without much. I helped her get an account on base, let her use my address to have a new debit card Fedexed from the same bank I use, and also invited her over for dinner. I cooked some ham steak that my mom had sent me, some french fries, and she ate like she had not eaten in a week. She also seemed like she just needed someone to listen to her. We have NOTHING in common but being in replacement at the same time, but I am me, and that ain't changing.
The bills are going to kill me. If they don't hurry up and get my pay straight, I am SCREWED!!! I already had to put off part of my child support because of money being so tight when I had to put down all of the deposits. If it wasn't for the food my mom had sent me, I would probably be living on bread and water. Luckily I got plenty of pork chops, ham steaks, bacon, and even some hamburger meat and fish to live on. I haven't cooked the fish or ribs yet, but may invite some people over this weekend after I am getting into my unit.
Being stateside, and having my cell phone, and of course the home phone (which will be turned off once my cable is hooked up, and let's not even talk about the screw ups that went with me trying to get Dish network service) has done wonders with my ability to talk to my family. Granted, sometimes I am actually trying to do something but it is nice to be able to be where I can be gotten a hold of. Granted leaving my cellphone in the truck last night was kind of nice too.
I am slowly letting Texas grow on me. Although, I am an Okie, I did celebrate when one of the most overrated teams in college football (Ohio State, USC, and LSU being some others) beat another one of the most overrated teams the other day. OU LOST TO TEXAS! Granted, I couldn't watch the game, and had to keep hitting refresh on fox sports.com. Then had to do the same to keep up with the Oklahoma State vs Missouri game. Wish I could have watched it. My Cowboys are in the TOP TEN! GO POKES! The Big 12 has 4 teams in the top 10, six in the top 25. Just goes to back up what I have been saying, the Big Twelve is a helluva conference.
Oh yeah, and all of my crap from Kuwait should be here on Wednesday. I get all of the military crap, my desktop, and more clothes. Oh yeah, and the part I am missing a lot, my stereo system. My laptop speakers just don't cut it.
I picked up a desk and a dresser the other day, CHEAP! Well, the desk was $30 and the dresser was free because it was missing a drawer. It is an old fashioned chest of drawers, and each drawer is different sized so they only fit in it just right....still have yet to figure it out the right way.
I'm off to bed. 4 AM comes awful danged early.
