The Great Place

Well the trip has been made, we are officially in Fort Hood. People keep asking me how I am liking it..if I even like it all and my only response has been...it is hot...really hot. Heat has never really bothered me but I must say its a whole new breed of hot, and I know it will only get worse.

The guy that put my cable in today warned me that August is considered hell month around here because it is so hot. Joy.

But for the most part I do like it, this base is big, really big. My neighbor and I have done some exploring and errand running and I am slowly learning my way around here. What I do like is that everyone has been so nice. Anytime I have needed a question answered someone is always willing to answer it and in a positive helpful tone. You don't always find that. A lot of people don't want to bother with newbies like me...because I literally don't know a darn thing im doing. So patients is a virtue for me. So thank you Fort Hood for being so nice to me.

The housing is nice. The people before us have really taken care of the place, so we got lucky. I am trying to decorate, one thing at a time. We finally got internet and cable today, woo hoo! I have been missing my usuals..or my usual, Sex and the City.

Daniel is out in the field for 2 weeks so I am all by my lonesome...well not really I have my new puppy. Well she isnt really a puppy anymore. But I called my 12 year old dog a puppy until the day she died, so she's a puppy. She is part australian cattle dog and well we don't know what else. She has a heart of gold and she is house trained...winner! I went to do some research on the breed and supposedly they become your shadows, and I have had her since Saturday and she is definitely my little shadow. I like that. Makes me feel not so alone.

I have a lot of "new" going on, it is exciting...and scary. I know many people don't usually read this but I thought this would be a good way for people to keep up with me in some way, and feel like they have some insight.

But as they tell me at the gate everytime I come on base..." Welcome to the Great Place!"