Perspective

February 2nd, 2011 was the worst day of my life up until that point in time, haha. I was completely stressed out with trying to manage an event where we invited several Iraqis on base and getting them where they needed to go. "We updated our paperwork! You need this guy's signature! The facility is unavailable for use even though we had planned on this weeks ago! Don't let the Iraqis out of your sight!" It was a nightmare of getting pulled between military requirements and State requirements... basically it was too much, dealing with all that at once, being on a remote base that was kind of in the middle of nowhere, not really knowing anyone, and dealing with something way out of my league, on my birthday of all days! Yeah, eventually I got to celebrate after a few days with people I know, which was pretty cool, but the actual day itself? Absolute misery.

February 2nd, 2012: I'm a little under the weather, so I stayed in bed until the early afternoon. I think I can handle that.