Long time No Write

Well, It's been a long time since my last entry. Alot has been going on, and to be honest, I have just not taken the time to write anything.
Our location here in Iraq was robbed, and the intruder took off with around 36,000.00 in cash. That was a sad morning to wake up and realize that A. I had not been smarter in securing our money, and B. that someone had actually broken into the one place that I feel safe here in IRaq....here in my office/living quarters. I guess that you can't escape crime, nomatter where you are. My false sense of security was by all means shattered. I guess in my naive mind, I was thinking "we are on the base with all US soldiers, and US civilians, so we have nothing to worry about!" Oh well, you can bet that we now handle things in a much smarter way. Unless the next theives rob us and have a forklift and bulldozer, there is no way that they will take us again!!
I have been making wedding plans online, and even hired a wedding planner to help. There was no way that I was going to be able to get all this stuff organized on my own, and just via the internet. The lady that is helping me has been great, and seems to know her stuff.
So far, everything is reserved. The date is set for April 26th, 2008!!
Weddings are soo expensive huh? It's amazing how much cost goes into a wedding. Until you are going through the motions of planning your own, you never truly realize how much effort goes into one! I have to say that as many weddings that I have attended, and been involved in, I have never stopped to truly notice the flowers and decorations, etc. Maybe that should tell me something huh? Now though, after doing all this myself, I am pretty certain that I will be more observant at the next wedding that I attend!! I will stop to notice the flowers and be sure to remark to the bride how beautiful everything is, etc. Going to someone else's wedding, we rarely stop to think of all the effort that someone has put into making sure that their day is extra special.

Iraq is the same as the last time that I wrote except that the weather is changing. Right now, we are among the 2-3 weeks of really nice weather here. The sun is shining, the birds are singing (Probably because I am feeding them!!), and a cool breeze is still blowing.
Within 2-3 more weeks, it will be scortching heat, dust, and mosquitos galore.
Oh, the mosquitos have already started to rear their nasty little heads. I think that I have killed about 10 already today. I hate them. The Iraqi mosquitos are sneaky!! They like to bite you at night when you are sleeping and not alert so that you can defend youself!!
In just a few more days, I will be coating myself with my signature fragrance of Backwoods OFF. Not very appealing to humans, and thankfully, not too appealing to the mosquitos either.

Will hopefully be off to a short vacation to Dubai within the next few weeks. I can't wait....to have some food that isn't saturated in Lard, and to actually have a choice of what to eat!!! I also look forward to sitting in a bath tub of clear water, and knowing that I will come out cleaner than when I went in!!

I can't think of much to say today, maybe if I wrote more often, I could highlight on some of the wittier things that happen around here. Today the wittiest thing that I noticed was the fact that one of my workers put my block of bird feed into the feeder WITH the plastic on it. Guess the birds just thought that I was decorating their crib! Other than that, it's been all work and no play!

Peace Out!