t-minus 14 days.

Wow, okay, so I kinda spaced that I had a blog for a while!  Failure on my part.

Anyways, what's new with me? Not a whole damn lot. I'm enjoying all the luxuries of being a civilian for the next two weeks, that's for sure!  A lot of crazy people are starting waking up at 04:00 hours and working out in the morning and cutting out snacking and all this crazy shit... and I just don't get it!  I'm going to eat all the oreos and junk food I can in two weeks, sleep in til noon, and sit on my ass.  When's the next time I can enjoy this?!  So, I'll just expect the crazy culture shock when I get there, because no way am I doing all that crazy stuff now!

Other than being super lazy, all the time, I have been studying quite a bit.  I have the ranks down in order, and now I want to learn them to where I can see the insignia or hear the rank and know what it is off the bat.  I have the Airman's creed down, but haven't started on the song yet.  I've been working steadily on PT, running either 1, 1.5 or 4 miles every other day.  I've been slacking on pushups, and it shows.  I really need to work on those!

Basically, I'm just chilling.  I'm finding out who my real friends are, because I've been talking to my friends from the ship group we have for September on Facebook on the daily, whereas my "close" friends from town haven't made any effort to make plans or see me.  I'm going to go see some movies with my mom in the coming weeks, and eat a faux-thanksgiving meal because I'll be in tech school for it.

Since my last post, I've had my 30 day briefing, and it wasn't much. Just filled out the form saying I've had no run in's with the law or new body modifications, and I got my sheet to fill out to get my family into Lackland for graduation, as well as my direct deposit form.  We just chatted mostly, and it was my last DEP call that day too, but we didn't do/discuss much.  I have also opened a shiny new bank account with USAA, as well as keeping my local credit union.  I was able to use USAA to link it to my credit union, so I can seamlessly and easily transfer money back and forth for free!  I'm excited, I'm using USAA for direct deposit, and once I'm in, I'm going to start planning for retirement financially early and such "responsible" things to do.

I'm not looking forward to saying goodbye so soon.  My momma is driving me down to MEPS to ship off that Monday, and we'll get some fancy coffee and make a day out of the trip, but it's going to be hard.  I've never really been away from home, I don't know how I'll deal.  I don't have many (any) friends at home really that I see frequently or am close with, so I am looking forward to meeting some of the people from our Facebook group and starting new bonds, but leaving my one close friend will be really hard.  He's my closest friend, and has been for a very long while.  He's been one of my many supporters throughout the ups and downs of the enlistment process, and has kept me strong for it all.  There's been a serious mental breakdown or two that he's carried me through, and it's going to be super hard that he's not going to be a call away in such a trying time such as BMT.  Letters will definitely be the only thing getting me through.  I remember even just at MEPS, it was so stressful and scary and new that I was calling my mom and boyfriend at the time crying and freaking out and stuff, and I was still in the state!

I guess only time will tell how I do.  But, I will never falter, and I will NEVER fail.