just like that

And just like that it's already my LAST Sunday offshore!  This has actually been a really great week.  Pretty much my favorite Korean (the one I have English lessons with) came back from vacation on Wednesday.  I told him that he is the glue that holds our contractor commissioning team together....which took a bit of explaining, but I think he was happy to hear that he was glue ;)

I usually start waking up before my 4:47AM alarm a few days before leaving (which is my cue to leave), but I have been waking up pre-4:47 for over a week now.  I love it and I hate it because I am usually thinking about something I had forgotten to do the night before.  Which I love because I have a built in reminder to do whatever it is that I missed, but I hate it because I'm dreaming about work.  Never in my carefree-life did I think that would happen to me, but I am a product of my sweet daddy...dreaming about work...

The good news is that when I get on the plane next Thursday, there will be NO dreaming about work!  My back-to-back will get in on Wednesday morning, and I couldn't be happier!  I'm going to go into camp Wednesday morning to do a face-to-face turnover with him for a few hours because SO much has changed since he left.  I have never spent more than an hour with him before, which is crazy to think about because I feel like I know him so well.  Such a strange life - my mom likes to remind me of that!

I missed a big weekend back home celebrating our soon-to-be first baby in the family!  My cousin Jessica is expecting a baby boy in November, and everyone is just over the moon.  There are countless people anxiously awaiting being able to call themselves grandma/grandpa/uncle/aunt/great-Ma/great-Pa...you name it.  But I think that more than anything, everyone just wants to get their hands on a baby! 

24 days down, 4 to go!  xoxo...

excuses

Ok, let's start with my excuses as to why it's taken me SO long to get a blog up.  The first week was explained in my previous blog - I was in a time warp and have no idea what happened between when I touched down in Angola on Thursday to Sunday when I should have had my time-off blog prepared to post.  Starting last Saturday we had a major outage of basically our entire network - no phones, no computer, no wifi - so that was a wash straight through the weekend to Monday afternoon.  


So that brings me to my second time warp...I'm not really sure how it's already Sunday again.  We have been SO BUSY that I am never quite sure what day it really is.  I did get the most wonderul news EVER....my back-to-back got his visa!  Meaning I have an end date to my rotation, and I will get a proper 4-weeks off...starting SEPTEMBER 22nd!

Annnnyways, I suck and I still haven't been able to write down all the details of my amazing trips to Idaho and Iceland, but here's a little photo gallery for your viewing pleasure :) 

17 days down,  11 to go!  xoxo...