Some Background Ambien to Set the Mood

So, why did I start this blog? Oddly enough, it's because I ran across a blog on this site from someone who was assigned to the same unit I was in Iraq. He reminded me of every experience, the good, the bad and the simply hysterical, I had in Iraq. And what a shame, really, that I didn't write it down in the vastness of cyberspace. I never had the time nor the patience to write anything down. Not really an issue- all the events worth mentioning are still with me, as if they happened yesterday. Some are still happening today.

But it goes beyond the war. I think that I am writing this as therapy, a mental escape. I am not insane by any account, just an insomniac needing an outlet for her over-active mind. I can foresee this will be mostly about my past, my observations of the present and the avoidance of the future. The stars of the show will be the villains that irritate my sensitive sensitivities and common sense. Heroes will be far and few in between. Mostly, though, I can see this as a hysterical historical account of what makes the hamsters go around and around in that mind of mine.

I should have started this years ago...