The Middle Sister

I'm not very good at keeping a journal or a diary so I'm not sure how well this blog is going to work out for me but I'm going to give it a try and just see what happens...just as a heads up to anyone who reads this, I've got tons of random thoughts and most of them are probably not appropriate but I am going to try my hardest to keep this blog as clean as I possibly can.


I am in the Navy Reserves and I don't want to be. I'm pushing my four year mark with one of those spent in Afghanistan (which, by the way, was one of the best years of my life) and I don't want to be in the Navy anymore. I am really, really considering going blue to green and joining the Army and going active duty. I was attached to the 82nd Airborne Division for four months and then the 101st Airborne Division for 8 months during my deployment and I got a really good feel for how the Army works and I like it a lot better than how the Navy works. Don't get me wrong, I like the Navy and I'll stay in for 20 years if I have to but I just have this feeling in my gut that the Army would be a better decision for me, both personally and professionally. I've been talking to some Army folk in my unit and some of the guys I was deployed with about crossing over so we'll see where it goes and what happens. I've got about 2.5 years left on my enlistment with the Navy and if I can't cross over before my enlistment is up then I guess I will just have to ride it out and then join the Army afterward. We'll see what happens.

Anyway, I'm in the process of moving up to Salina, Kansas from Houston so that I can get college started and I'm getting the feeling that it's not going to work out for me like I had hoped. I was all set to move up here about a month ago, I had a plan and now it's not falling into place like I had wanted it to. Granted, things never work out the way one would hope they would but this plan is so far off of what I wanted, I don't know what in the hell I'm going to do. As of right now my living situation has changed like 97,000 times. When I was up here last I found a room mate, we were looking at houses, life was grand. Now, turns out this girl is going to work at some camp during the summer and I have to find somewhere to live until then. Not really a problem except for the fact that I just need somewhere to stay for about three months that will accept pets, most places up here don't accept pets and if you want to rent a place, it's a six month lease minimum. Wonderful. Hopefully I'll figure it all out.

That's all for now, I have to go pick up my big sister. More tomorrow.