Whew

So, talk about a busy month.

Hopefully with Christmas done and past the mail will settle down. We were getting twice as much as we normally do every single day. We had to pump our mail process with steroids and bring in the big truck to help facilitate the process which SGT Kane has so pain stakingly published on his blog. It kept us very busy to say the least.

Christmas was a good day here on Camp Anaconda. We got the mail handed out early in the day because we had gone the night before at 2200 hours (10:00 PM for you civilians) to pick up mail in case we had another plane come in for Christmas day. Luckily the Santa run was the only mail that came in and we were able to go to lunch with our section and have free time the rest of the day. The sun was out and it got up to about 60 degrees I think. I took some time to clean out my room since I had some care packages still half full with goodies that I hadn't quite put away yet. Benes also did the same so there was a whole bunch of open floor space that we hadn't had for a while.

Things are actually pretty busy in the office as well. The big project right now is getting all the end of tour awards done and up to our higher eschelon so they can continue processing so all the soldiers in the brigade receive their awards before we go home.

It's hard to believe the new year is only six days away. I remember last year when we returned to Camp Shelby and I marked off January 3 on a new calendar. It felt like such a long time before the deployment would be over knowing that I would have to start a whole new calendar before I would be going home for good. Now that calendar is nearing the end and so is our deployment and just like anything else I wonder where the time has gone.

I hope everybody had a merry Christmas and wish you a happy new year.