Mmmmm, Deployments Are So...

So...I definitely didn't post yesterday like I said I would, but what's new there? I'm just going to pretend like everybody understands that I am really unreliable with blogging and assume that you don't hold it against me. That way I don't have to go thru the whole 'making excuses' thing and skip to the good parts! I will mention my ridiculous anti-social behavior; I wish I could explain it but I can't. I also won't be making any apologies, so I'm sorry if that's what you were looking for...wait...um, never mind. Just know that I'm okay, I'm not trying to hurt anyone, and I mean no disrespect. I'm following my feelings and that's all I can give you right now.

Ok, a little of my life circa the recent past/present. At this present moment Beth and I are 1.5 months into her deployment so things have been a little left of normal for me. I've been eating the heck out of some chips and salsa. Herdez makes the most aMAYYYYYZING salsa in the whole wide world(besides homemade of course!)! I'm learning how incredibly lonely coming home to an empty house every day can make me. I'm watching a TON of the TV show Veronica Mars, it's a great show and also never fails to teach me a lesson on humanity. I've been GLUED to hotmail for the past 6 weeks...if you want to get a hold of me quickly, THAT would be your best bet. I wouldn't expect miracles though, Beth takes priority and let me tell you, that girl can write a WICKED email!! Our apartment is a disaster area. I SWEAR I'm in the process of hoeing out, but would understand if you were reluctant to believe me on that one. I've been doing the most random things at the most random times. Like starting to empty and

 clean the fridge two seconds after walking in the door from work, still in uniform, boots and hat and all. I reserve this right to randomness in accordance with the Deployed Significant Other Handbook. Oh, you've never heard of that handbook? Well I'm sure it's out there and I'm sure THAT is in there! For the most part chaos reigns with intermittent times of semi-normalcy, like during Beth and my almost weekly multi hour video chats on Skype, returning for much too quick visits.  Well, I don't want to bore you so I will wrap it up. That was just a small sample of my life over the last few endlessly quick weeks. It's really been an enlightening time of my life and I've been SO thankful for it, regardless of my distaste for chaos.

As an honorable mention in this blog about deployment, I have to introduce our new camera!

The exquisite Canon EOS 50D that I have only a vague idea of how to use...I'm learning though! You point it and you shoot it, right?? Yea, not quite so easy there feller.  Here are a few shots I took on Sunday when I was supposed to be blogging...I have to work on my composition mucho.