Thank You Soldier 

When your in a situation where your loved one is serving our country, whether it be over sea's or serving the state, You don't realize the commitment your loved one and you have signed up for. When your loved one signs on the dotted line, they are no longer just yours, they are now "Owned", by the military, they are military property. It doesn't sound real or feel real until they take your loved one away. Its a surreal feeling for the first couple days, you feel as though they will walk through the door at any moment, but that moment never comes. you count the minutes that go by without them, and you count the moments you shared together, the good and the bad. When they leave and the communication is sealed, you wonder when the next time you'll be able to say "I Love You" or "I Miss You", and when the phone call finally comes, and you hear your loved one say, I only have 45 seconds to talk, so all you do is cry and say the most meaningful things before the connection is severed. Its a hard adjustment, but in time it becomes the new normal. Each letter that comes through the mail is another piece of your heart being glue back together.

And when the day comes where they step off the plane, wearing their combat boots and the uniform to match, its a moment where time stops, the world stops spinning and all that matters is the two of you finally seeing each other. Feels as though it has been years since that last hug and the final kiss happened, you run faster then the speed of light (not really) jumping into their arms, and then reliving the moments that made you so happy with your loved one.

One day my loved one will walk off the plane in uniform while I await to jump into his arms

Sea Foam

Deep in Alaska there was a man, Tracy, he owned the largest seafood and fishing distribution. Tracy was a rather large man, but not fat, like blubber fat, he was built like a wrestler who has retired but still could hold his ground. His wife and him had five daughters together, they all grew up to become popular in their towns high school, everyone wanted to be them and hang out with them, Sierra, who was 17, she was a member of the schools Choir, everyone said she could sing like Ceilen Dion, her voice was powerful and strong, but also sweet and subtle. Sierra’s dream has always been to leave Alaska and see new things, experience new sights. But her mom had a strict rule, once Sierra turned 18, she could venture out, BUT not until she turned 18.

Sierra, she’s just turned 18, and the only present she wants is the ‘Ok’ to travel, and leave Alaska, but before she packed a bag to visit LA, her mom had to remind her the LA, is nothing like Alaska, there’s these things called Boys!, and their a strange species, they might come across sweet, but, their everything but sweet. As she discarded her moms last few words, she took the next flight to LA, as she stepped off the plane, she starred in Awe at all the skyscrapers that cut through the cloudy skies, as she walked the busy, crowded streets, she notice men unloading boxes upon boxes of unknown objects. She wanted to meet her first LA local, but as she walked towered them she looked down at herself, she was dressed as a marshmallow,  all covered up in her winter gear, not realizing that its not -50 degrees and more and more like 75 degrees.

As she watched the workers unload boxes, a young man, who seemed to be the workers manager, Sierra couldn't help but notice he was GORGEOUS! Picture Jason Ackles, From Supernatural, but easier to talk to because he’s not famous. His name was Chad, Chad the manager.

Suddenly, Chad was walking into the middle of the busy street, Sierra noticed a car racing towards him and she tried yelling to Chad to look out, but the loud horn was over powering everything else. The car struck Chad, but before anyone would get to him, Sierra was by his side to help him out. She held him in her arms until the ambulance arrived on sight. Even though her arms were tired, and she was sweating through all the layers she was wearing, she didn’t care.  As Chad was placed in a gurney and placed in the ambulance he glanced at Sierra and said “Thank You”.

Sierra flew back to Alaska after a couple days in LA, she couldn’t seem to forget about Chad, so when she came home, her sisters where at the airport ready to greet her, as they asked about her trip, she started bawling, she didn’t know why, and she locked herself in her room for days on end. Sierra went to go visit her Aunt and to beg her on what she should do about Chad, she wanted to see Chad again but she didn’t know how. Her aunt promised to help her, but warned her of the consequences that would come. Sierra didn’t care, all she cared about was Chad, the hot manager. Her aunt, asked for a favor in exchange for helping her find Chad, Sierra said ok, anything, so her aunt told her to NEVER sing again, because if people heard her voice they would kidnap her and steal her voice. She seemed scared by the news but agreed to surrender her voice. Sierra’s aunt reminded her that if she finds Chad and he happens to be with another lady, you will not be able to come home, because your mother warned you to stay away from men, you will be banned from home and possibly Alaska. Sierra agreed, and her aunt went to work on investigating where Chad might be.      

Sierra left Alaska once again and headed towards LA, she walked down the stairs from the plane and all of a sudden tripped and fell face first onto the pavement. A man (Chad) helped her up and as he was helping Sierra to her feet he asked where she was staying and he would help her get there. So she and him left the airport and headed towards her hotel. For the next couple days she spent her time sight seeing with Chad and enjoying LA. She would sometimes get so stressed that the only way to de-stress was to sing, but she promised her Aunt hat her singing career was long gone. Sierra knew that in all the time she spent with Chad that his mind would be somewhere else, he didn’t know that Sierra was the girl that held him a few months back, and Sierra couldn’t tell him either, one day in particular Chad seemed a little more upbeat than normal, they where headed to the airport, Chad said someone was coming, when Sierra and Chad got there and supermodel like women came towards Chad walking as though an invisible fan was in front of her as she walked an invisible catwalk, in Sierra’s mind “Mustang Sally” was also playing, just to add to her pain. Chad kissed her and soon after arriving, they married, Sierra was baffled, she thought Chad was starting to like her, but she was wrong.  After the wedding Sierra’s sisters called her to see how she was doing, and they were also concerned for her. Sierra confided in them and told them how she liked him so much. Her sisters were cruel evil bitches, and they told Sierra that she should kill the damn boy; not thinking that Sierra would take literally, Sierra now wanted revenge. But even though she wanted to kill Chad for getting her hopes up, she didn’t want to literally kill someone and then end up in prison for several years.

The Next day when the maid came to clean the room, expecting to find the room empty she found a bathtub filled with water and blood, the maid screamed and called 911, when the cops came, along with a corner, they concluded that Sierra had used Hydrofluoric acid to dissolve most of her body, she was lifeless. That last thing anybody heard that day was the maid describing the image is though Sierra had turned into ‘Sea Foam”.     

CaNdY!

Halloween, a time where candy is flying, kids are screaming and parents pop those pills to relieve an oncoming headache. I haven't "trick or treated", since the 4th grade, not because its weird to disguise yourself for a night and switch personalities for several hours, but because dressing up as something/someone that isn't your normal day to day self and parents wouldn't recognize you, then going from door to door begging for candy from strangers who for all we know could have a record of some sort. Strange? Personally I wouldn't like to be heading up to a strangers door, hoping for the best 'King sized' candy bar then getting snatched! by some weird man who smells like rotten eggs and chocolate with a hint of an un-know substance that lingers under his neck. Then from there, taken from the scene of the crime to a stalker van with technology a 5 year old would never understand then as I lay helpless, tied up, mouth duct tapped, and tears gracing down my face. Its only been 5 minutes and my parents were waiting at the end of the driveway for me to come back with a smile ear to ear, only to find out that I wasn't in the group who went to the strangers house. My mom starts to panic, running up to the house, demanding to know what happened to her kid (me), when the strangers door opens and they tell my parent that a child dressed as a 'Witch' never showed up to collect the candy. My parents are beyond historical now, My mom, she's screaming at the top of her lungs, running down the road talking to even more strangers asking about where her beloved child could be, could on of the strangers be the kidnapper? would we ever find out? Will I be alive?...

   Cliff hangers suck!

Anyways, I prefer to just eat the delicious candy from the store, rather than meet strangers, getting snatched and maybe eaten. No one wants to be eaten, thats strange!