Merry Christmas! I find myself away from home this year. Away from Natalia, the comforts of home and away from my favorite season. I found this year to be very good year for me with the news of my deployment most of the year over my head and squeezing every moment with Natalia to make it special. Also blessed to have shared time with Roisin whom became part of my life. I eagerly await next year and a homecoming and hopefully a reunion with those I miss and look forward to that experience of coming home from a deployment. Of course not as glorious as I would have wanted but I answered the call to duty.
“if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”
- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
Finished a 77 hour work week during the Christmas week with that day spent at work. A Christmas to remember for sure. Also to finish up our long week I thank my team at work for making me feel human for just a few hours. Those small things in life are missed here and I am slowly starting to feel it.
New Year's is around the corner and I will also spend that night at work. One of my New Year's resolution has been accomplished just in time by reading
Unholy Night, which becomes my 50th book this year and one I recommend and fits the season. Get another view on the lives if the Three Kings and the birth of Jesus in this book. Also read two Kurt Vonnegut novels in
Slaughterhouse-Five and the
Cat's Cradle and found them to my liking.
I am still running and getting more regular with it. Slowly working my way to 10 km runs comfortably as my legs just keep feeling heavy and bulky and hoping to break through that feeling.
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