A Time For Change

I meant to write on Saturday, but you know how it is...now it's Monday and I have got to keep this short. My mother came to pick me up from the airport on Thursday and we went to pack up all of my remaining belongings to drive back to Illinois. If you would like to keep count, this is 10 hours total on the road for my mom Thursday/Friday. On Saturday we got a huge chunk of work done on packing my room and had 4 plastic totes full of things to take to Goodwill. Saturday night was my 5 year class reunion...augh.

I started out excited for this class reunion. Yeah! It'll be great to see all of my old friends, and catch up with their lives! Only, about 7 minutes before it was going to 'start' I was having dinner with my Mom & Grammy and I realized that--this is really going to suck! So I went with the intention of staying an hour, and then was going to go to run. About 40 minutes into the damn thing it started to rain. No, POUR! It was raining harder than I've seen in a long time. There was no way I was going to go out to my car, so I texted mom that I was going to stay until the rain passed. Finally the rain stopped, but I was too busy finding out about people's enthralling lives to go home. It was a depressing night--people were still the same old 'fake' that they had been...only some of the guys were really nice, and easy to talk to. Okay..so there were just a few bitchy females here and there, but it was SO annoying! I just wanted to scream at everybody to get a life!! :) Naw, I'd never do something like that! So, I ended up going home around 11:30, thoroughly satisfied with the evening.

Yesterday, my mom and I made the trek back to Kansas and back again today (chalk up 10 more hours for mom on the road for me...that's 20 total in the period of 5 days~! What an angel!) to get the remaining belongings, go to a Dr appointment, and see Clare--maybe for one last time before I leave on this deployment.

Also, today was the funeral of a local hero from my town SSG Matthew Weichart was buried today in Jacksonville Illinois and guess what rumor I heard about from the deli lady at Walmart tonight?! The ass from Topeka who protests funerals decided to show his ugly face. All of the town lined Morton St. in honor of him, and two fire trucks fully extended their buckets and dropped the American flag over the road...from what I hear, it was an amazing sight to see. Pictures will be in the paper tomorrow. The other rumor I heard was that some Jacksonville people gave the 'preacher man' quite a tongue lashing. I hope there's a story about that in the paper!!

R.I.P, Soldier--you served your country well.