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I have been looking at this pattern for a while and wanting to complete it. The pattern is Baby Maryjane Skimmers by Sylvia Schuchardt. I saw the pattern on Ravelry and headed over to her Etsy Store and bought the pattern along with 2 other baby shoe patterns. I made these for my cousin Shelley's daughter. The are so fast and easy and require little yarn. I am going to make a ton of these in different colors.

So I got my fourth Anthrax shot yesterday. I am putting this as an update to the post about my first one. The first one sucked ass. But the other three including the one yesterday have not been bad at all. They were a little sire but that’s about it. Some other people told me the reaction gets worse the more you get them, but my reaction has been less the more I get. I am a weird girl when it comes to drugs and shots and what not. I don't have to get the next one for like another 6 months, so we'll see how that goes. I really hope all these weird crazy Vaccines the Army has given me don't affect any future children I have. I have already been over vaccinated for Hep A and B, dumbasses!

We have entered the rainy season in the desert! About 3 or 4 days ago was the first rain that I have seen since we have been in Kuwait. Now when I say rain, its probably not what you are thinking, its more like sprinkles. I need sit outside and watch an awesome lightning storm in the distance the other day, it was beauitful. Last night I was laying in bed and it was actually hailing. It sounded like it was going to bust through our metal roof. When I got up this morning it seemed like rain, ahh. I normally hate rain back home! The things you grow to apperciate when you are stuck in the asshole of the earth. On another note my wonderful roommate, Amy, has returned from her R&R trip to Germany, so now I won't be lonely when i go home tonight! Very soon is my turn to go home and I can't wait. I am literally counting down the days (really I have each day numbered on my calendar)!

Sick of the constent chow hall food that seems to be getting worse and worse. My gym crew and I including the 1SG decided to start having cook outs. We aqquired a grill and a burn permit from the fire station and started grilling out by our PCBs (the buildings we live in). Or first grill session was the night before Kyle and Amy left for Germany. It was a great hit so we did it again a few days later, this time we decided to roast marshmallows and make s'mores. The grilling will continue through out our time here. Everyone hanging out. Roasting Marshallows, yum!

My 27th (ugh) Birthday was on September 13th, I celebrated it in Balad, Iraq it was a good day overall. My Gym Crew friends sent a card with the First Sergeant to give me on my bday since they weren't there to give it to me! So my Admin SGT's got me a cake after I got back from Iraq. Here are the pictures, a little late I know, but better late then never. I like Big Knives Making a Wish Cutting the Cake

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So I got to go out in town on an MWR Trip over a month ago. I totally forgot about posting pictures of the towers! Of course I remembered to post the new shoes I bought on the trip. But here they are. The Kuwait Towers are located right on the coast of the Arabian Gulf in the Sharq area of Kuwait, and they were built in 1975. The viewing sphere has restaurants and a viewing are in it.