To Whom It May Concern

50 Things From Home I Miss While In Iraq

1) weekends off
2) movies in a real movie theater with the real theater experience
3) visiting with mark about sports and life
4) visiting with andy about sports and life and all sorts of other crazy shit
5) Todd
6) Tyler
7) Memow
8) Tharsis Gate on high speed internet
9) high speed internet of any kind
10) sitting by the tub on the bathroom floor while my baby takes a bath
11) driving a civilian vehicle
12) riding my bicycle
13) the Offutt rec center
14) fresh bread
15) my cd collection
16) date night
17) taking a bath
18) Subway sandwiches that actually taste like Subway sandwiches
19) Pepsi that actually tastes like Pepsi and not coke
20) Husker football
21) Husker baseball
22) anything Husker in general
23) Old Chicago nachos
24) working on cars with my dad
25) the smell of fresh raked hay on a dewy summer morning
26) a delicious fire grilled steak with all the trimmings
27) Aqua Teen Hunger Force
28) Sealab 2021
29) Valentino’s Buffet
30) Walmart! (yes, Walmart, the ability to get whatever you need is underrated)
31) running around Wehrspan Lake
32) NFL Football on Sundays
33) good donuts
34) waking up at night and putting my arms around my baby
35) being able to actually comb my hair haha
36) American Steak Buffet
37) our quad cab Dodge Ram pickup truck
38) mac n cheese with beets mmmmm
39) a regular job
40) my own home cooked spaghetti
41) playing PS2 with Andy for 9 hours straight
42) Papa John’s pizza
43) hanging out with Alfonzo with nothing going on, just having fun
44) cheap Taco Bell at 1 in the morning
45) fireworks
46) silly family get togethers
47) McDonald’s Double Quarter Pounder w/ cheese, large fries, large Dr. Pepper
48) drinking beer
49) drinking alcohol in general
50) quality time with the most amazing woman in the entire world!!!

50 Things From Home I Do NOT Miss!!!

1) fart muffler Hondas and other foreign junkers
2) blaring rap music
3) American Idol
4) Survivor Island
5) reality shows in general
6) traffic jams
7) my old job
8) the apartment complex staff
9) rude waitresses
10) snow
11) cold weather in general
12) my crazy religious aunt
13) the nightly news
14) crappy drivers
15) Katie Couric
16) the “Only Classic Rock, Never Anything New Station” Z-92 of Omaha
17) almost all new music
18) guard drill weekends haha
19) telemarketers
20) cell phone
21) phones in general
22) $3 a gallon for gas
23) smog
24) Old Navy commercials
25) Gap commercials
26) traffic lights
27) politics
28) religious zealots
29) soap operas
30) screaming children
31) Sunday Morning television
32) liberal idiots
33) waiting in line to buy groceries
34) paying taxes
35) handicapped parking
36) fat girls in slutty clothing (“muffin tops” do these girls think they are hot???)
37) Al Franken
38) Panera Bread
39) Nebraska roads
40) Nebraska road construction
41) windshields
42) deer in the road
43) Lifetime Network on cable tv
44) teen drivers
45) cops, state patrol, deputy sheriffs
46) slow drivers (although we have them here too dammit)
47) Britney Spears
48) Whose Line Is It Anyway (I’ve never cared for this show)
49) credit card offers in the mail
50) BILLS BILLS BILLS

Current Lyrical Ramblings

It's Time after time after time I've tried to fight it.
But your love is strong it keeps on holding on.
Resistance is down when you're around, starts fading.
In my condition I don't want to be alone.

Weak – SWV