I think I pictured these few months being more exciting that they have been so far. The only thing I'm excited for is when we get to leave this place and never have to come back again.

I don't have a job, there is no promise of me finding a job, and there is just very very little to do out here. Especially since I don't know anyone. Maybe once Paul starts rolling in the big bucks, I can spend all day online shopping.

Anyway, things aren't that bad. At least we have each other. :)

It's been extremely dry and hot here since we got here, and there's been fires creeping up really close to Fort Huachuca for weeks. I think they're almost completely contained now, but it got a little scary for a while. Last week, Paul spent every day digging trenches and breaking down bushes in order to prevent the fire from spreading onto Fort Huachuca, which apparently happened a few years ago and caused a lot of problems. Looks like their efforts worked, though, because the post is safe!

Monsoon season is indeed in effect; yesterday, we experienced the first lightning storm. It was pretty mild, but it's supposed to continue for the next week or so.

Buut, I won't be around to witness it! We're headed out to Cali this weekend, where I'll stay for the following week, and Paul will only stay for the weekend, then drive back out to "the Zone" (what he likes to call Arizona) and then hopefully drive out again the following weekend for Zach ad Emily's long-awaited wedding! It's just kind of a lame situation, that he has to do so much driving, but what can ya do?!

Alright, I think I'm done here. I'm hoping that I'll eventually have interesting things to blog about. I always start off a post thinking of all the things I have to say, and once I'm done, everything seems so lame. Well, sorry!

We're in Arizona! We arrived here on the 12th, and we've slowly been figuring out the ways of living on an Army post. Things aren't going super smoothly yet... Right now, we're living in a little hotel room basically, on the post. It's supposed to be the Bachelor Officer's Quarters. But, Paul's not a bachelor... so, we're really hoping we can move out of here. We don't even have a kitchen. Just a mini-fridge and a microwave. Plus, I don't have a job or anything at all to do yet, so at home is where I'll be spending all of my time. And, I think I would become depressed if I had to stay here all day. We're trying to find a place off-post, where apparently most of the married people are living. They must have known something we didn't. But, the Army makes everything way more complicated and confusing than anything should ever be, so who knows if we'll be able to figure this out. Anyway, we're really hoping things change!!

Paul said yesterday was the most boring day he's ever been through. He was gone all day going through a series of briefings, and he said that many things were repeated many many times. Today will probably be another boring day for him, but he should start doing fun, or at least interesting things before too long.

It sort of feels like we've stepped back in time out here. Everything looks very very old and outdated, the internet works very poorly, and data on our phones hardly works. It sure makes me feel lucky to have lived in Southern California my whole life where everything is just better in every way.

I think we're already starting to get used to the heat. It's not quite as bad as some of the places we drove through to get here, where temperatures averaged around 103 or so during the day. It hasn't gotten above 95 or so since we've been here. Paul told me that tomorrow is the beginning of monsoon season here. Sounds wild. I guess a monsoon is a scary/dangerous thing, but I can't wait to witness one. It's windy here all the time, so I can imagine how that, combined with a downpour of rain, would be dangerous.

I hope this post doesn't make me sound negative and depressed, because I'm not!! I'm just adjusting to a completely new lifestyle. Thing will get better.