Hmm so its blog time again i guess...

Where am i lets see... God there are so many things to say and to catch up on... i'll have to do that later i think... its all about out of sight out of mind... well this is a main link on my browser so maybe i'll update it more often.

Old Love

My Brother. Destiny. Old Love.

quickie....

im not dead. just busy. love you guys... more later.. i promise <3

Joshua redux...

Well Shiite.

Where do I begin?

First off, let me say that Iraqis are some of the silliest people I’ve ever met (stinkiest too.) The Camp mayor cell just finished building the new BX and has subsequently allowed a few local-national merchants to set up kiosks outside the entrance and exits of the PX. Here, they are allowed to peddle their wares to soldiers and they enter and exit the PX. These little congregations are affectionately nicknamed ‘Hajji-marts.’ A few days ago, I was perusing one of the contents of a kiosk at the hajji mart and this particular LN was selling T-shirts. One T-shirt had a picture of Saddam Hussein holding up a bum sign that read “Will dictate for Food” and another said “Who’s your Baghdaddi.” But the funniest one that I have ever seen was a simple white shirt with green lettering that said:“If you’re Sunni, You ain’t Shiite.” Maybe you had to have seen it, but to us out here who deal with the ever present sectarian conflict, this pretty much had us all rolling on the floor. I bought two of them :)

So what have I been up to for the last two months? In early January, I started going to the gym on a regular basis and I started on my little project that as of last weekis nearing completion (in a manner of speaking). As far as the gym goes... Im up from 175 bench max to 255, and I can d 70 push-ups in on go. Theres not really much else to do out here when y'ave got free time lol. Um february... I mainly worked on my project and supported my interrogator... Oh yeah, me and Lenell called it quits again ( and for the last time ) that girl... I worry about her but someday she will figure out what is going on in the head ofhers and make someone happy... As for me, I can deal with that type of person in my life right now...however, I only wish the best for her...
Um we've had a few more mortar attacks but it seems that since the surge, things have died down some. Well I had to write this in two sittings and I tookover tonight at the second paragraph and im really tired tonight and cant think and Im using too many ands and this has turned into a run-on sentence and im done now.
Love yall
I will leave y'all with the lyrics to one of the songs that I listen to all the time
"There's another world inside of me, that you may never see
There's secrets in this life that I can't hide
Somewhere in this darkness there's a light that I can't find
Maybe it's too far away...
Or Maybe I'm just blind...
Maybe I'm just blind...

So hold me when I'm here
Right me when I'm wrong
Hold me when I'm scared
And love me when I'm gone
Everything I am
And everything in me
Wants to be the one that you wanted me to be
I'll never let you down
Even if I could
I'd give up everything
If only for your good
So hold me when I'm here
Right me when I'm wrong
You can hold me when I'm scared
You won't always be there
So love me when I'm gone
Love me when I'm gone...
When your education x-ray
Cannot see under my skin
I won't tell you a damn thing
That I could not tell my friends
Roaming through this darkness
I'm alive but I'm alone
Part of me is fighting this
But part of me is gone
Maybe I'm just blind...
Love me when I'm gone...
When I'm Gone..."

Josh

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Well its been nearly a month since ive had time to site and mind dump. Sorry 'bout that. Anywho, Ive been working retty much nonstop this entire time about 14 hours a day so as you could guess, im a little bit tired. If im not working, im most likely sleeping lol.

I just hit my 50 day mark here inIraq and I've got to tell ya, time sure is flying by for me. Lets break it down for yall for the last three weeks...

December 16th to the 24th, nothing to report here.

Christmas was cool, i worked all night and slept all day haha but it was cool because i got to call a few of my relatives and catch up. I got a lot of nice care packages from a lot of my family and friends. I'm really tired right now so pardon me if this post is a bit lackluster, i just felt the urge to atleast update the page :)

After christmans came newyears. Yay...yeah no. I spent the passover in the gunners seat of an armored HMMV while being geared out in full body armor (including kevlar helmet) with all my guns. The best part was the Turret mounted Fully automatic "SAW" assault weapon that i had in my charge. It has a 200 round drum that feeds into weapon and puts all that ammo downrange in about 60 seconds. thats twoshots a second of deadly fun. Sadly i didnt getto shoot anyone but man i was ready to.

After that whole anning battle positions thing was over it was about 1 AM in '07... ewww i was pissed! haha but its ok, that one hell of a story that i will never forget... i obviously left out a lot of the details that i will probably fill you in on if you ask me to, just dont want to put them out on the www for all eyes to see. Well ive got to be off... i'll talk to you guys later... hopefull i can make a post tomorrow that has a little bit more bounce to it.

KLater

Josh

I found the Panorama function, and it was good...

Well its that time again to post up some more pics... i love this camera... it's awesome... I'm in a rush so i cant type much but I've got a huge update coming in a couple of days guys... oh yeah and if you cant tell... i have this affinity for ellipses... deal with it... :P anyways... on with the eye candy...


This is me right after i had just gotten up to go running... Man i was tired... That spot on my shirt is water from a drink... I thought i looked too mean in this pic so i took on of me smilin for all y'all...

heh... i hate my smile lol... Been workin out though... *Flex* haha anyways lol...

(no caption necessary) ((Picture is worth a thousand words, especially with this girl)) (((Love ya)))...

I love her dark, gorgeous eyes... I get lost in em... Merry Christmas y'all...

You can see a zoom shot of that clock tower in the distance. That lady's name is Panna. Shes a co-worker that was driving around with me on base...

Some sort of observation tower in Baghdad (location withheld for security reasons) Still a pretty sweet zoom shot...

This is a Panaramic shot of the FakeLake that was built for Oday Hussein (Saddams Crazy ass son.) That bastard... Glad hes dead...

Un yeah... i think i was playing a Fighting game when i took this snapshot lol... kinda badass looking lol... not much else to take pictures of at 11:30 at night haha...

The un-finished Palace of Saddam Hussein. Talk about downgraded... He went from this to his hole in the ground haha. What a chump. the cranes just sort of stayed there... lol...




Until we talk again yall... Hey if you want to write me or send me stuff (wink wink) address to:

SSgt Josh S Garrett
UNIT 42129
JIDC
APO AE 09342

And my Email is Somnioblivio@gmail.com

at work, my unclassified email is joshua.garrett@iraq.centcom.mil
and if for some reason you have access to a classified computer, myclassified email is...
haha gotcha.. its classified. :P

TTYL - LEAVE COMMENTS - I LOVE HEARING FROM YOU ALL - IT BRIGHTENS UP MY DAY...

So freakin painful...

Ok, so a funny thing occurred to me today out of the blue... Have you ever done something so incredibly embarrassing that you wanted to just run from the room screaming? We'll about a year or so ago while i was still stationed at Lackland and i was working at Medina... i knew this Girl who was pregnant the last time i had seen her. The next time I had seen her, had to have been about 4-5 months after i found out that she was pregnant. So i saw her one day in one of the establishments on base and i asked her when she was due... she was with some guy, and she appeared to be about ready to pop! We'll she gave me this look as if she had must seen a Puppy get shot in the middle of a playground. Ab-so-lute-ly crushed and she goes “i had her about two months ago”

OH EM Effin' Gee!!

i wanted to run from the room... well... run from it screaming lol. It was excruciating... ODD moment! So i tried to play it off with oh yeah thats awesome... whats her name.. you know... completely disregarding the fact that i just basically call but called her a complete heffer. :( so yeah that was the worst thing ever... and i thought id share with you one of the millions of random thoughts that stop in to say hello to muh brain every day.

Oh and P.S. Its raining cats and dogs out here in iRaq. Who'd have thunk it. Y'all write me to meh email and leave me some comments!! mailto:somnioblivio@gmail.com

Love y'all

Josh

Strike a pose... There's nothin to it...

(you can click on the picture to make it bigger... :) )







God bless Army construction.. Lord knows they try.... :P



Theres three things you should take from this picture, they are:
1. The surprisingly beautiful Iraqi Sky at 9AM
2. Some sweet, geared out Hummers
3. The ARMY doing what they do best in the lower bottom right of the pic. haha...


This is a picture of one of the officers from Saddam's former Regime. Its now ours. :)


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Anyways guys... just wanted to pass on the good stuff....

My 1st day off since November the 9th is coming up on saturday!! (that's friday night for you guys :P) and i plan on taking about 5.4 million pictures of the base... i'll talk to you guys later :)

Josh

Incoming...!

Tonight proved to be yet another interesting experience in my life and times here in iCrack. I was walking back to work from dinner chow with Leedy, Frazee, and Naylor. No big, we were all cutting up about something funny that had happened at work... I can’t even remember what it was all about but anyways… we were walking along and out of no where the area notification siren started issuing a steady unwavering tone. Damn it was loud… we couldn’t have been more than 30 meters from it. We all froze. We looked at each other and no longer than 20 seconds later a voice and message came that none of us ever wanted to hear. The speaker bellowed:

“INCOMING! INCOMING! TAKE COVER! I REPEAT… TAKE COVER! THIS IS NOT AN EXERCISE! TAKE COVER! INCOMING!”

We all bolted instantly toward the barriers as if we were madmen after someone. It was a little bit odd, watching everyone scatter like ants toward safety. So we posted up behind the barrier (this barrier was about 15 feet high and made of two foot think concrete) we felt a little safe. So we waited and waited… nothing. Pins and needles for five minutes… it was excruciating! then over the loud speaker, comes the same voice, false alarm… carry on, ALL CLEAR!” we all looked at each other and burst into laughter. Then we proceeded to make fun of how each other ran and how we all thought that everyone else was all scared. I wasn’t scared… I swear… honest… haha :P

I mean it was a sort of feeling that made me feel like “This is going to be sweet!” But yeah, we continued to walk back to work as if nothing had happened. This place is going to give me a heart attack I swear it. Lol.

Josh

Finally, some pictures...

Ok so i finally dragged my Hard drive down to the MWR (Morale Wellness centeR) i think lol any yeah so whatever, here they are... more to come i swear... I've just got like zero downtime around here y'all

This tat is the one that i got for my little (in a manner of speaking) brother Eric. I sure love that guy, im jealous of him sometimes... he just seems so down to earth, I think about him a lot... I sure miss him...

This tat is for my sisters Erin and Toni Marie. A beautiful Rose for each beautiful Sister.

This is the very 1st picture that i took with my brandy new camera. Im in DCU's and i've been up for atleast 30 hours in this Picture. Damn i needed a haircut haha

This is one of Saddam's old palaces... This is where i will be Re-enlisting... 43K signing bonus Cha ching! Can we say new house? yeah baby...

Some of the local Haji... they love posing for the Americans haha.... one thing i love about them... they are all tiny, haha! I've not seen more than a handful that were anywhere close to as tall as I am... it's awesome... oh yeah... one thing that i dont really like about them...they dont really bathe over here... so most of them smell like doo doo... ;(

So yeah, when we came over here, we just sort of said.. "yeah these buildings... they are ours now"... I have no idea what this building is but it's pretty sweet looking haha

i have this thing for extreme close-ups...

I know its blurry, i just thought that it looked way awesome...

I think that i had just woken up about 15 mins before I took this pic... interesting angle with the wide angle lens... I'm not sure why im smiling cause its a goofy grin kinda smile... oh well.. gotta stay positive.. only 29.4 million seconds to go! haha

Dead ass tired mug shot. Ive got some landscape shots i swear... ive not been sure as to where i can and cannot take my camera until just a few days ago...

1 AM iraqi style... headed home from talking to lenell... she keeps me up at night... in fact im gonna call her as soon as i get off the phone here... man... lemee check... yep, i still miss her so much.

I am Holy s**t sleepy here but for some reason i was messing around with the color function and i found the 'Sepia' setting... i think it looks sweet cause it looks like those old western photos... haha

Well yall this took like almost an hour to upload so as soon as i get the satellite feed in my room, im sure that i'll be posting more pics... untill then... talk to yall later....

Josh...