A NEW CHAPTER

I'm gonna be a father.....

It's Been Awhile...

Do you know what I really miss......I miss making love to a woman. I've been having these deep introspective moments for the past week about my sparse love life since HS. It's funny how I still think about those moments like they were yesterday and It's hard realizing that it's been seven years since I've really deeply loved a woman. I've been with a couple of women in the last seven years ( just a couple ) but I wasn't deeply in love with them. Don't get me wrong...I really cared about them but it just didn't work out.

Good Friends.....The Cereal

So I was in the cereal isle the other day and I came across the new box of "Good Friends" which for some reason has the funniest pictures of couples everytime. I remember some of the last boxes featured great couples such as the "inter-racial lesbian couple" or the "60 yr. old asian man with 30 yr. old white woman couple".

Well I'm there and I'm looking for my usual cinnomon LIFE cereal which is some of the best cereal in the world and I saw the new box of "Good Friends" and I let out this loud hearty grand pa laugh...you know... the ones that last like 25 seconds. Then all of a sudden I became alarmingly aware of the numerous sets of eyes all over me. I looked around to meet glances of uncertainty, curiosity, and a hint of fear. Oh well. I don't care. If they knew what I was looking at then I'm sure they would be laughing too. Hahahahahaha

Where have I been?

I know I haven't updated in a long time and there really isn't much of an excuse. I just realized that I haven't posted since before New Years. Oh well, that's what I get for being lazy. I think I'll always remember that night without having to write it down. Just ask me about the well off Arabian and the woman who looked like Eva Longoria. She was amazing....I would make love to her.....10 bucks says I like it too.

Not too much going on in my life. Just goin to work and trying to get a little more ahead everyday. I'll be going to Yuma, AZ for the months of March and April for some training. Which is going to be kinda nice. My parents are originally from Arizona and my dad just moved back there a few months ago. Hopefully I'll get some time to drop by and see him.

The Last Big Bang

Well that was it. I'm finally 25 years old! I think of 25 as the last big bang. If you really think about it....18 is gambling and voting, 21 is going out to all the good clubs and bars, and 25 your insurance goes down. Other than that there's no more hoo-rahs. Of course there is 65 when you get to collect your social security but I honestly do not believe that system is going to be around when I grow old. It's already in shambles and I still got 40 years to go. With my luck It'll go away when I'm 64 after I've paid into it my whole life.

But to tell you the truth........I don't want to live that long.

Ride Along

Thursday night I got a taste of what the police life would be. It was a simple intro really. One of my good friends is a cop in a small quite suburb. Well I guess I couldn't call it small and quite. It's surrounded by alot of other communities and everything is well mashed together so it's only a stones throw away between small towns and big towns.

Anyways my friend invited me along for an 8 hour cruise to see what it's like. It was a good time and all but once again I feel like it's too structured for me. I need a little time after the Corps to live my life without a leash. All in all it was a good time. I still have plenty of time to think about what I want to do after the Corps.

Strange Dreams

Lately I've been having some really strange dreams. Best part about them is that they're really long and theatrical. They're like little miniature movies. I'm actually beginning to look forward to sleeping at night just to see what I'll dream next.

The one that 's really sticking out in my mind is the one from 3 nights ago. Some strangers and myself were cruising around in outer space in a 78 lincoln continental. We were looking for a particular planet that was home to a particular breed of rabbits known to roll the best cherry cigars in the galaxy. So somehow we finally get one and we're all sitting there watching this rabbit but all it keeps rolling is blunts.

Funny thing about the whole dream that I realized later that everyone was afraid to grab the joint. They just kept throwing it away and telling the rabbit to roll another one. What's funnier is that I didn't even grab it. I haven't done that stuff in years. I'm a guy cruising arount the galaxy in a space ship shaped like a 78' lincoln continental.....like I'm getting piss tested in space.

Gas Leak

My washer decided to play a joke on me and crap out mid-wash the night before an important event. I didn't think the joke was very funny. The next day I decided that I was going to buy a new washer and dryer. There was nothing wrong with my old dryer but I bought it used and it was like 20 years old. I really didn't want a new washer in my house sitting next to this rusty old dryer. Just didn't think it would look right.

Anyways, I figured because I installed this gas dryer myself, I would be able to uninstall it too. Problem is that my house was built in the 50's and all the pipes in that house are falling apart. So I had the dryer pulled out and I went to turn off the gas and the line breaks and I can hear the gas just hissing. I'm surprised at myself how I reacted. First thing I did was reach up and kill all the circuit breakers in the house and kicked everyone out. I also opened every door and window and told my neighbors that my house might explode and since their house is connected to mine that they might want to evacuate too.

This familly must be a familly of rocket scientists because she asks me "how will I know if the house explodes?" I tell her that she will know because she'll hear it. Then she asks the golden question: "what will it sound like?" What I really wanted to yell in this ladys face was that it would sound like a house exploding. What I ended up replying was...well you'll hear a loud boom. Really come on, could she be serious with these questions? "What will it sound like?" I seriously wanted to slap this lady in the face and pull her whole familly out of the house. Even after the warning they never came out of the house. Not even when the two fire trucks showed up with two police cars and lights and horns screaming. They just stayed in their house because it was cold outside. It probably wouldn't be so cold if she would to have caught fire. People will never cease to amaze me.

Da Bears

The Chicago Bears contacted the USO here at Great Lakes and asked if they could have 20 members from each service come and stretch out a 100' by 50' flag onto Soldier Field before the game on Sunday. It wasn't too bad. The only thing that really sucked was that it was like 20 degrees and the wind was blowin 40 - 50 mph. Which is ideal weather when you're stretching out a 100' flag. I know what you're thinking...he's being sarcastic and you're completely right. So we ended up doing it anyways and a few of the smaller people damn near went flying in the air. We had to call in people on the sidelines to come and help out because we were afraid the flag was going to take off but it all worked out in the end.

Afterwords they gave us all tickets to enjoy the rest of the game but I didn't stay long becasue it was just too damn cold.

It was real funny because there was 20 members from all the other four services but the Marines were the only ones getting all kinds of props from the crowd. There were thousands of people walking by and patting us on the back. There were all these little kids walking up to us and asking for our autographs which is kinda funny. It was also kinda sad because there were 80 other service members there and nobody was saying anything to them. Oh well that's what they get for not being Marines.

Remembering Marc

You know what I'm tired of?

Finding obituaries in my inbox when I go to work in the morning. I miss so many of my friends that I've met in the Corps.

...and it hurts so bad knowing that I'll never bump into them again later on down the road.

I love and miss you Marc..you were a damn good Marine and an even better friend to me. Maybe someday we'll be in the same unit again.

Sgt Marc John Kaliszewski
22 Apr 1982 - 31 Oct 05