If you don't like gross things........

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Originally uploaded by ErikHoltan.

.....then you might want to read this anyways, because I am telling some of the effects of what it is like on your body here in the desert!
I realized this morning that I am used to the effects of here, and the changes that I am now used to as far as climate and diet! i did not really pay attention to things like this, but lately we have our HOT wind back, and you could probably try a test at home by turning your oven on to 130 degrees, for abut maybe 15 minutes and then open it and fell the nice WARM breeze that shoots at you, then you can imagine what it feels like in the air here! When these HOT winds arrive the air is VERY dry, and you get rock buggers, and lately I have had this chapped inside of my nose you could call it, and last night I noticed the blood buggers before I went to bed from the dryness. So this morning when I sat up from the bed I got an intstant bloody nose, and I don't get those that often, so that thing I got under control, and came up to the office and took some people to the AP, and came back sat down and had one of those huge hard buggers that hurt, so I grabbed the thing, and out came this HUGE, what seemed like foot long blood clot worm that instantly opened my sinus, and it felt like if you ever have surgery and they put packing gauze in there and pull it out! Nasty, but feels relieving! Don't worry, all is clear snot now! So also, I don't know if it is the water or whet but you NEVER have to worry about costipation here. Somehow everything seems to be nice and REAL loose! Yes, nasty, but such is life here, and I figured I would get that out of the way in one post!
On to other things, I put a pic up of our living area, and you can see rows and rows of trailer parks! My area is called Dodge City, and you can see in the distance the bird house cone that Saddam had as this area used to be a wildlife refuge for him with lions and tigers and all that!
Oh, I thought about breaking my blogs up into a fun one and then a Iraq one, but man, I made this blog for 1 reason, my deployment, so I am keeping it all here because I just want to chronicle my whole deployment, the good, bad, and bloody snot!
I hope that family members don't mind that so many other people have come along for the ride, but it gets me through and hopefully it brings a little reality to Iraq!
Everyone have a PEACEFUL day!
And Love from the Latrine has been updated!

Later,
Erik