Yeah hurray! This video has finally uploaded on the third try! So real quick.... Kansas was great! It was a lot of fun visiting with Christy and Dan and their kids. Definitely worth the trip seeing as I will not know when I will see them again. Today has been quite the long day. It began this morning at 5am with a call from Japan. It was good that I got the call cause I needed some questions answered, but it was early. Since then I feel like I have been on the phone all day long calling everyone and their mother to give them our new address and/or cancel my account with them. And for those of you who are wondering we will be using mom and dad's address for now cause that is all we have. I was warned about the address that we were given that would go to the ship. Apparently, mail takes a really long time to get to us if we send it there. So good riddance to America! See you all when we return!

Home Alone

  Well I dropped Joy off at the airport today to see her sister in Kansas.  Her flight left early this morning so I've been home all day by myself.  I did the usual things a guy does on a Sunday; I went back to sleep and slept in for entirely too long.  I went to Home Depot for some stuff to repair a screen to our kitchen window that Sandy (Joy's dog!) ruined.  I got about half way finished before I stopped to watch The Unit on NBC.com, but I need Joy's help anyway so I can get the screen tight enough.  In case you didn't know The Unit is a very cool t.v. show about a secret elite military unit.

  Last night we went to see the movie Burn After Reading with Brad Pitt and George Clooney.  It was

 a good movie and was pretty funny but had a weird twist at the end.  Tomorrow night I'm going to see Miracle at St. Anne.

Leaving San Diego

  So since Joy and I are leaving San Diego pretty soon we decided to finally take a walk down the pier in Imperial Beach.  I grabbed our new point-and-shoot camera so I could take some photos to post on this blog since I haven't done it yet myself.

  Here are those photos along with one of us with our decaying Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns.  I think they look cool with mold and flies coming out their mouths.  I just wish I had some dynamite or something to blow them to pieces before we have to leave because I don't have a hill I can roll them down.  Sometimes I just wish I was a kid again... although maybe it's better to be grown up because I get cooler toys to play with.

  -Brian

The New Grass!?!

  The picture below is actually the spot where I buried Joy after I killed her and her stupid dog (my friend is taking care of her stupid horse).  I didn't have enough room in the back for a dead stupid horse too.  My sister Amie knows, now the rest of you know.  I only use Joy's name on the blog so that people think she's still alive, but she's not she's in the ground.

  Ok that might actually freak some of her family out but don't worry she's still alive and although she might not be "normal" she's at least her normal self.  Sorry if I freaked any one out but hey, it's almost Halloween and we're going to miss Halloween because we'll be sitting in an airport or on a plane to Tokyo.  I've also been home half the day bored watching Youtube and reading The Total Money Makeover (only got through one chapter).  Joy's in the shower singing, maybe I should make a video of that.

  Some of you probably wonder what it is that I do at work now that I'm not at BUD/S anymore...  Just so you know BUD/S stands for Basic Underwater Demolition/ SEAL training.  There were originally Navy Underwater Demolition Teams or UDT's then in the 60's the SEAL Teams were created and the UDT's were decommissioned but they still teach the basics of both the UDT's and SEAL teams at BUD/S which is why they call it Basic Underwater Demolition/ SEAL training.  

  Ok back to where I left off...  Now I'm in a holding unit called X-Division (X-Div) while I wait to be re-assigned to my next duty station, which is going to be a Destroyer named the Lassen out of Yokosuka, Japan.  There are about 30 guys in x-div and we all get assigned random jobs around base.  Mostly I've been getting the "good" job of cleaning the x-div barracks I don't even live in, but I say it's good because I get off around 12 or 1pm everyday while some guys don't get off till 4pm.  I have to do things like take out trash, sweep, clean urinals and anything else a janitor might do in the civilian world.  But I'm in the United States Navy and your tax dollars are paying me to live my dream of being a janitor.  So thank you to those of you who actually pay your taxes.

  Well Joy's finally out of the shower now so I better go.

Yay for grass!

We have been waiting for these little sprouts for a week and a half now.I am very relieved to finally see them. You see, our lovely dogs (who are no longer with us here in SD) loved to lay in the same place all day, day after day. The end result was a dead patch of grass. As the patch turned to dirt, the young pup (Shugo) found it fun to dig in that area, only making it worse. So when they left we (by "we" I mean Brian) put new soil down and seeded it. I realize it will not be perfect by the time we leave (next Friday). BUT my hope is that our landlord will see the new growth and realize that it is going to turn into beautiful thick grass like you see in the background. We had to give an extra deposit cause of sweet Sandy, and I would like to get it back... I don't know what I did, but I can't undo it so this is now underlined...

Spaghetti Anyone?

So last night we were making spaghetti. I asked Brian to strain the pasta while I got the rest of the stuff together. Well, I started to hear water pouring, and then nothing. I heard a big shppptsh (I am not sure how to spell the noise it made). Anyway, turn around and there it goes, all our spaghetti down the drain. We accidentally bought angel hair pasta and I think that is why it well down the drain so fast. It was very quick. Pretty funny. At least we still had pasta to cook, so dinner was just postponed for another 10 minutes. And the second batch did not slither down the drain!

The Empty Nest

It is true our nest is empty. I think I got some good videos and plenty of pics. Basically, Brian and I spent 5-8 hours organizing and packing. Two guys did the rest. It was awesome. We only packed what we did cause I wanted to feel like there was some order to it all. I had no idea what to expect. So we did as much as we could, staying up till midnight the night before (I realize that is not that late, but I was very tired). So they were supposed to come anytime between 8 and 5pm. What are the odds they will come at 8am right? So we set our alarm for 7am wanting to get up wash the dishes and one last load of laundry (that was going with them). Well, two minutes after my alarm goes off the movers call and say they are on their way! So we rushed through everything. The guys got here and we continued to pack a few things while they were working on the other room. Let me tell ya these guys work freaking fast! I honestly only saw each of them take about a 5 second break to chug some water. All I know is they have got to sleep extremely well at night.

So basically we had nothing to sleep with last night. We went on base and got a "kit" that had some cooking stuff so we don't have to eat out for the next two weeks. But I was so excited to find this place that someone told me about (but everyone that I asked where it was looked at me like I was crazy), I was so excited we both forgot to ask about blankets. I was going to borrow some from a friend, but she was out and by the time she got home I didn't want to go anywhere. So we will have to get blankets from her today.

So very exciting stuff! It is starting to sink in a little bit that we are actually leaving. Now that our stuff is gone, our dogs our gone, our horse is gone, there is not much left for us. I am excited and nervous. Not sure what to really expect. I am ready though, that is for sure. I will be posting video later. I got some cool ones, but they are long so I need to figure out how to edit them. I only have my laptop now which does not have as many cool applications as my desktop...