Long Days

Lately I have been working long days, but for the most part all I mean is full days. I've gotten used to being able to leave early, especially on Fridays, but lately that's been changing. It's due to the deployment being right around the corner. But the good news is that our wedding date should be pretty stable at the moment, assuming we leave on time for deployment, then we should be back on time and all will be swell.

So today we pulled out of dry dock. It was a long not productive day. Mustered at 0500 and I studied until about 0730 when I started a checkout and was then ordered to muster on the "wingwall" for my line handling duty. They flooded the dock, long process, and I played games on my ipod and watched the dock fill. Then I watched them move the door that held back the ocean...I wanted to see how it worked, and got a sunburn because of it. I could have been in the shade but I wanted to watch. Here's my sweet watch tan-line:

So when the boat got out of the drydock I went to the pier/wharf to meet it and help line handle to moor the boat.

Then my LELT spotted me on the pier, he was stuck on the boat ALL day, and signaled me to get him a Mt Dew. I did and by the time I got back the brow was laid so I could get it to him. I am a well trained NUB. lol

I miss Alexandra so much.

While I was waiting for the boat I see a lot of wives and kids walking by to the end of the pier to meet their husbands returning to port, I look forward to the day Alexandra (and Max) meet me at the pier! A master-chief standing by me made a comment that it was pathetic because the boat had been gone a week or less...lol, he said he would "slap" his wife if she did that...then he mentioned that that would only be true if he was married. Haha. I think there's a good chance Alexandra would still come to the pier regardless of how long I was gone, although I think she would be fine with a couple days, but a week or more wouldn't surprise me at all.

I love her so much, and I miss her too!!!

MWAH Honey