I just had an awesome conversation with Pastor Ed Eberhart! We talked back and forth via e-mail. It was so sweet! We talked about my bros, Brian and Steven, and how they are moving for the Lord! AMEN!! You have no idea how good that is to hear. It's so great to know that they are following Jesus' footsteps :).

I really hope that it is in God's Will for me to be the youth pastor at Ed's church in Barnesville. That'll be awesome!!!!

Did I tell ya that I lost my car? Yeah! Kendra took our car to the PSD buliding on base so that she could catch her airport bus on time Thursday. Well, I went to get the car out of their parking lot on Friday and it was gone! Not only was mine gone... but everyone that was parked there, their cars were gone! I was like, "What the heck!" So I called Kendra to verify that she did drop the car off at PSD. She said that she did and I told her what was going on. She said, "Well, you need to call around and find out where the car is." So, I did. I called around and couldn't find out anything. So I called Kendra back and she said that I should call the police station and ask them if they know anything about the cars. You see, it is for reasons such as that that I married her (she has the brains). So, I called the police station and they said that the cars were towed to Sullivans School parking garage (a school on base). I felt relieved. The only thing was I didn't know where that parking garage was. So, I walked around for almost 45min before I found the parking garage. Not only that but the car was on the top floor :). How great.

Well, I'm going to get back to work. Chow!!!!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: Never trust your car in a parking lot of a military establishment ;).

Well... she's gone. Kendra left this morning for her flight back to the states. She has now been in the air for an hour and a half :(. The sad thing is, I didn't get to see her off. I had to be on the ship by 6:45am and we pulled out to sea by 9am. I wasn't allowed to leave the ship. It was horrible!

The base has a bus that drives from here to the airport (about a 2 hour drive). Kendra's bus left at 12:30pm. Her flight left at about 6:30pm. So, for the whole 11 hours that she was STILL IN JAPAN I couldn't see her :(. It is so hard being away from her. I miss her so much :(.

Work was no help on my depression today. It is now 8:09pm and I just got off about a half an hour ago! I was so mad. I didn't want to do anything today. I just want to curl up in my bed and cry myself to sleep. Oh... the life of a Navy sailor. It sucks!!!!!

Well, I'm going to bed. Night.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: Always take advantage of the time you have with your loved ones.

All right. So I am working... again. The midnight shift... again. I tell ya, this gets old after a while. It is now 2:24am on Wed. July 30th, 2003 (1:24pm, Tue. July 29th, 2003 EST). This is sucking!!!! I would rather be at in bed with my wife right now! This sucks!!!!!!! I am so ready to get out of the Navy. This is definitely NOT for me. I would NEVER wish this kind of life on anyone. That would just be horrible.

Speaking of Kendra, she's leaving tomorrow :(. I am not looking forward to that. It's going to be really hard this time because we've been together for about 2 1/2 months now and I'm not going to be able to see here off at the airport. It sucks! My freakin' ship is going out to sea the morning that she leaves. It's so horrible!!!! I am so depressed right now. Is wanting to be with my wife, lay next to her EVERY night, to never have to say good-bye to her for months at a time, too much to ask?! I don't think so! Apparently the government does think so. I was putting up a fight to try to get Thursday off because my ship is not even going out for one day. We'll leave on Thursday and pull back in on Friday morning. You'd think they'd let me go. But NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Heaven forbid that I do that. My "superiors" were actually surprised that I put the request in to take the day off. They even asked, "Why do you want to take your wife to the airport?" I'm thinking, "Are you kidding me?" Please pray for my superiors... they need it.

Well, I'm done complaining now. I'll write again when I can. God bless!!

SOMETHING TO THNK ABOUT: NEVER JOIN THE NAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!