never replacing the old.

on thursday i will board a plane and head to MOS school for the Marine Corps... again... but this time i am not a PVT. I am nervous and full of excitement to find out what is to come, and to be apart of something I love so much, again... I can't help but compare it to what I already know.. but it's not going to be the same.. fb is annoying when you don't want to run down memory lane.. but you find yourself flashing thru album after album, reliving your old moments in time..

I find myself on the Marine Corps ball of 2007... all of my friends.. all together... having a blast.. we are all LCpl's and some have already made it to Cpl.... so young.. not that we are old now.. but we are for sure not 21 anymore... it's hard to grasp that 6 years have already come and gone...

6 years is kind of a long time when you have only been an adult for 8.

I went to the Marine Corps ball this last year with someone I just met because he needed a date... (friends of friends)... I remember looking around (this was also before I decided to reup)... but I looked around and saw 300 Marines that I had never met before.. granted, we all do the same thing at the Ball.. sit around.. all done up in our best dress, eat slightly cold dinner, watch the Comm of the Corps give a speech (which is always found to have the audio mess up along the way)... followed by excessive drinking, black outs, dancing, and some of us puking.. But i realized that I don't know anyone.. and that the Corps will never be the same for me...

Headed to school in 5 days.. I must remember that this is not to relive the past, nor is it to duplicate my old life.... this is a new beginning and I can't be let down if it doesn't fulfill my nostalgia. If anything this is a chance to be the Marine I always wanted to be..

starting new things in 2012...

I started my Bachelor of Science in Culinary Arts last Monday.. a lot of homework, but i am excited to be learning new things...

and SUPER pumped to make dinner for my roommates and have them tell me how much they love it or what they can do to change it :)...

I also bought a leather journal.. i'll be channeling a lot of my thoughts there...

until my thoughts get too much -Gilligan