Last night's fireguard was boring, but before I could do my duty, I had to wash my eye open because it was sealed shut by dried eye goop. Once it was cleared out, I pulled my shift from 2400-0100, and went back to bed for a couple of hours. Wake up was at 0300, because we had to get our Nutrigrain bar and then wait 30 minutes so the bar could start to digest to provide energy! So, we started out PT test with pushups (like always) and I did 35 (one less than last time), then sit-ups (one less also...59), and finally the two mile run (improved by about 40 seconds to 15:06). My final score was 191, so not where I want to be, but it's passing and gets me my family day pass! After our run, we marched back to the barracks and went straight to breakfast. After breakfast, we took all of our gas masks downstairs, and then cleaned the bay. After a thorough cleaning, some of us got to relax in the bay, while others had a work detail somewhere on sand hill (the area I'm at for infantry trainees at Ft. Benning). We got our gas masks back after about two hours, because all they did was want to do inventory on them. By lunchtime, the pink eye goop stuff had spread to my left eye, so now my left eye is a little swollen, and my right eye has puss oozing out of it. It's not very fun. So we went downstairs and ate MREs, and I came back upstairs to relieve our weapons guard. When everyone had finished and came back upstairs, we went back to doing a lot of nothing. I took some time to look through the State Fair brochure and started a letter to Brittney about what she wanted to do (Dad, Brittney will tell you what you want to know). I then took a nap, because I was tired from short night sleeps and giving it my all this morning. When I woke back up, people were still not doing much. We headed to dinner and had a formation where drill sergeant told us it was free time and we could do whatever as long as it wasn't being rowdy. I went over to fourth platoon to weigh myself, and I weighed 215 lbs., so I haven't lost any weight in the last week. I still think I'll be down to 200 or less by the end of the summer! Anyway, we had final formation at 2030, and we got our milk and mail! I got a letter from my mom, dad, Sease grandparents, Jody Winko (with and Iraqi scout patch!), Gary Winko, and Brittney! We were then sent back upstairs, so I quickly took a shower and then set out reading my mail well past lights out (good thing I took a nap today!). After I finished reading mail, I finished a letter to Brittney, and mailed it. I got a drink of water to help hydrate for tomorrow, put in eye drops, and went to bed! When you pray next, thank God for giving me strength to pass my PT test today, and to continue to help me through this summer and the tough times ahead! I love you all and thanks for the letters of encouragement and support!
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