bon voyage

patrick is in germany.
seems odd.
saw him off yesterday. my mom was not as bad as i thought she would be. although she did make us wait until he boarded the plane. KCI has the type of set up where even though you can't get into the gate area due to security, you can see it. so we watched through the glass as patrick sat there.
kinda torture really, but in situations like that, you humor your mom.
pretty emotional weekend for everyone. relived that it is over. but now, who knows what will happen...patrick is not due for iraq until about april (at least that is what he was told) so maybe in 6 months everything will be better.
not counting on it.

i have been having some messed up dreams lately. now, the weird thing is i never remember my dreams. i think these are happening between the time when my alarm goes off and i actually get out of bed. this can take up to 30-40 minutes, so it is entirely possible that i am dreaming and remembering them. but what i do recall is fairly vague, but pretty odd. i think my subconscious needs some cleaning or something.
suggestions are welcome.

happy birthday to my mom.
we sorta celebrated this weekend, but got mixed in with all the going away stuff. how's that for a birthday celebration...send your kid off to the military.
but she is doing well and you would never guess her age if you saw her.

so home this weekend as i have mentioned like 80x already, and my mom made me start going through some of my old stuff. notes from middle school, random high school pics and even some stuff from college. made me laugh. the stupid crap we used to get worked up about.

wait,
we are still getting worked up about stupid crap, except now people are married, living together or something like that instead of "going together". and instead of notes in between class it is emails back and forth.
we have just up'd the ante it seems.
i knew i hadn't grown up too much.
hah!