Sleep always seems elusive when I travel. You'd think being more sleepy from driving most of the day would help. The travel seems kind of endless right now as well. I suppose SERE had lots of random "travel" experiences. So, I am on my way to water survival down in Florida. It should be a fun time, as long as the hurricanes don't rain us out. After that I am on my way to finally sign into Little Rock which will be home for the next 3 to 4 years. And of course shortly after I get to the Rock I will be leaving for MC-12 training and then the deployment. I am excited to start flying again, and I am warming to the idea of deploying. Of course, deploying is never fun, but it'll be good for the career. And there will be lots of flying which will help the time pass quickly.
Now to get some sleep so I can finish the drive tomorrow.

The End of UPT

Well, here I am at the end of pilot training - a very significant event no doubt. I have my assignment, which will eventually place me back in the arms of the man I love. Though as most things in life, the journey will seem a long one.
The first part of my assignment is an MC-12 deployment. That entails a month of survival training, approximately 2 months of training to fly the plane, and a 6 to 9 month deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. The plane/mission seems rather interesting and exciting itself. Though I must say that living in tents in the desert is not quite what I had in mind when I joined the air force. If I was really that much in to camping and roughing it I would have joined the army. But that seems to be the current way of doing things in the air force as well. So, off to the desert I will go, and hopefully I can be useful to the air force and I get some good experiences and combat time out of it.
That will of course have a huge down side of being away from Josh for almost a year - not looking forward to that in the least bit.
The 2nd part of my assignment is flying c-130s at Little Rock AFB. That part I am really looking forward to. Of course there is more training involved with that, 6 months of it. All of which is at Little Rock, which is awesome. Because then I will finally get to live with the man I married again.
For now I am just waiting for my training dates and orders and procrastinating. I actually have a decent amount to do before I leave, which could be on a week and a half or even a month. I should definitely get to work on all those things, but this week there has been little motivation. This weekend I will have to force myself to find some...after the baby shower that I forgot about. Haha, so maybe Sunday?

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Guess who is done with pilot training!

I successfully finished my last checkride and thus last flight in pilot training today! It has been a rough journey, but now the last of the painful parts of pilot training are over. All that is left is paperwork, assignment night, and graduation. I just had steak and zuccinni and squash. It was pretty good. I am also on my second glass of wine. Also, I think I want to make dessert, but I don't know what to make. Maybe Angel Food cake. I will have to look up a recipe to see if it is possible.

I don't know if this whole "done with pilot training" thing has fully set in. I will have to see tomorrow or next week. Ok, now back to Friday night.

Navigation check completed and passed! Woot! And today I finished my last simulator in pilot training. 14 flights left before drop and graduation.
Also, Josh gets back tomorrow!

Conversation going on inside my head:
You ok?
No.
Yes, you are.
I am freaking out.
No, you're not.
Well, I am a little.
But not so bad.
I am arguing with myself in my head. Yes, I am freaking out.

Tomorrow, I have my to-check. Meaning, the pair of end of block rides before my checkride. This checkride means a lot. It is weighted more than the others, and it is my chance to redeem for the bad checkride I had during transition. No big deal...

And on another note, I miss Josh. More than mushy love songs and cheesy poems could ever describe.

Wednesday. This week feels weird. It is getting really close to nav check, or at least sorta. I am not any flights closer, but I am two sims closer. Yesterday was a weather cancel for potential thunderstorms in the area. Which means my nav check got pushed back until the Monday after next instead of Thursday or Friday of next week. One extra weekend to study for it, which is good. I feel as if the time is barreling on without me myself getting any more ready. I suppose I am pretty nervous, sorta. But I definitely need to get my proverbial butt into gear.

Also, I ran twice this week and did push-ups each night. The only goal I am slacking on is getting to bed on time. It is really hard to fall asleep lately. Lonely, bored, mostly just missing Josh I guess and looking for something to distract my mind too late into the night. I am going to get up at 7 and go for a run with Shadow before going into work. We have a later show than usual in an effort to give us all some gym time - awesome for me. And now to stop doing the distract myself thing and get ready for bed.

Today was rather melancholy to begin with. I woke up with a stuffy nose and a sore throat and spent the morning being lazy trying to get over it, which actually worked. I even took a nap, which may have been spent better engaged, but no more sore throat.
I helped a friend get ready for his navigation checkride tomorrow. It was good to get out and interact with someone other than Shadow.
I have decided that I need to set some goals for myself with Josh away, and especially with him out in the woods with no contact this week. Most days I just look forward to seeing him, and if he's gone to talking to him every few days at least. But now while I have nothing better to do or give me an excuse to do, I should get myself back in shape and get to a rigorous schedule to get me through these next two weeks until my nav check.
This week my goal will be to run at least 4 times and once run the 1.5 mile course on the track to gauge how much I need to improve. Also to do push-ups every day. Paltry goals I am sure, however, the amount I have let myself go recently calls for small steps back to fitness.
As for my sleep and other type schedules. My goal for the week will be to be in bed by 10:30 every night. That should give me long enough sleep each day to not make being tired an excuse.
I am very glad I am done with night week and can actually set a normal schedule, or at least normal for someone who works 10-12 hours a day.