So I’ve had a headache for the past 3 weeks… it began as a migraine and once that went away the headaches continued. So finally after being stubborn for so long my office told me to go see the doctor.

I go and the corpsman asks me if I was hydrating… ha… I said “Yes I drink a bottle or two of water”. He looked at me disapprovingly and said “You know you should be drinking at least three or four bottles a day”… I nodded and said okay. Now the thing with this headache… when its dull smells trigger it… so as he gives me the thermometer to put in my mouth the smell hits me hard. My head starts to pound. Once I take it out I look at him and ask “Do you smoke?” He stops and looks at me all guilty… and responds “Yes…can you..can you smell it…”

Can I smell it?…seriously? Ask my pulsating head if I can smell it? What a nerd… so from that moment on he treated me from a distance… The Doc came in and gave me Imitrex… its safe to say that didn’t work… so I went and got a deep tissue massage… that did the rest of my body good but nothing for my head… well at least I have no work today…

Here you go Whitney…a post…

 I am currently in Chicago with my family.  My Grandfather passed away on Saturday, 12 April.  Baba Sawa is what we called grandpa it translates to ‘old dad’ or ‘old man’.  Its a bitter sweet occasion as the family has all gathered for the funeral.  I saw friends I had not seen for 8 to 15 years.  I had missed 15 years with my grandpa as we were in the US and they were in Iraq.  I saw him maybe three times after having not seen him for 15 years.  Last he saw me I was 5 the next time he saw me i was 20.  I am now 21 and he died at 76.  His birthday was in March.  I will miss him and all the time we did not spend together.  We would play cards when we were younger and he would let us win all the games and would celebrate with us.  When we got older and learned to play the game the right way he  would not let us win a hand…  He had such a kind heart.  He was so humble and all around amazing.  He would make us laugh til our sides hurt.  It is from him I got my sense of humor.

This blog was inspired by Whitney’s comment “Dude? What happened to your myspace? ” Here is what happened…  I kept receiving emails from this guy at work… and at first I didn’t know who he was so I added him as one of my friends and then it hit me…  I knew this guy and he outranked me and should not have been emailing me.  So instead of blocking him I deleted the whole profile.  I think I might go and create one when I have the energy to…   So that answers your question Whit…

Quit bugging me Whit… Here is your blog…

 So I have a sleeping problem and I get nauseous a lot…(No I’m not pregnant… unless Whitney is the father… hmmm…not possible…I think…) and no matter how tired I am I just can not get to sleep once I get in bed.  I was given some meds for my nauseousness… and one of the side effects was drowsiness.  I took these meds four times a day… one with every meal and one at bedtime…   I felt like zombie with these pills…  recently I was prescribed a new med specifically for sleeping…I don’t now what its called … well last night I had both these pill bottles next to each other… and took the wrong pills…now I can take up to three sleeping pills so after an hour of me still being awake I took a second pill… and after swallowing the pill I realize my pill tastes different so I look at the bottle and sure enough I took my nauseousness pills instead of my sleeping pills… so to top it off I grabbed the right pills and took yet another pill…  if anyone is keeping count that was pill number 3.  I finally fell asleep… I woke up this morning and went to sit up and as soon as I did that I fell over in bed and fell asleep again… I am still tired and its 1:41 pm…

What did I learn you ask?  well not much… just don’t mix your meds…

I have been in the Marine Corps for a little over two years now… Sep 11 was my two year mark… That day is significant to many… and it marks the day I went to Marine Corps book camp… On December 2nd I was promoted to Meritorious Corporal… Being its on the second it makes it special… regular promotions are on the 1st of the month… in order to get it Meritoriously I competed on several boards where you stand in front of 7 Marines, the ranks range from SSgt to SgtMaj… on the last board you have 6 1StSgt’s and 1 SgtMaj and you get asked a series of questions…

 I was so nervous before getting up in front of these Marines but once I stepped in front of them all I could think about was getting promoted… Once I won two weeks later I would get pinned on (promoted to the new rank).

There was a lot of drama with the ceremony it self and I wasn’t able to get it like I wanted it… So we had two ceremony’s… one was on Dec 2nd which fell on a Sunday with close friends and family and the second one was on the 3rd with Co-workers.

 On the first promotion I had The Ma’am (Maj Johnson) and GySgt Packard pin me on and Maj Johnson led the promotion.  On the second ceremony my parents pinned me on and my boss led the promotion ceremony so everyone was happy… I was so happy to be able to get all the people I cared about and looked up to involved…