One of the biggest weeks of my life...comin' up!

Next Saturday I get the awesome opportunity of taking command of my navy squadron. As I sit here looking at my current life through a set of very jetlagged eyes (I just returned from Hong Kong today) I see so much that I hope to do in the next 15 months, but at the same time, know that I'm going to be challenged in ways I cannot yet fathom. I do know this- I'm going to give this gig every ounce of my soul. I think there have been times over the last three years where I've kept my emotions in check with regard to the upcoming Commanding Officer role because I felt the navy reserves might make that job go away through realignment or decommissioning and I didn't want to go down that emotional gopher hole of a loss from something that may have never been mine in the first place. Kind of an abstract statement, but one I stand by. I hope to use this blog as a bit of a truth serum to give my inner voice a chance to speak through journaling. I've done this for years with a pen and paper, but a blog is a more user friendly forum for me. Nobody is more curious than me how this will go.