Where's the cream filling?

Dear Tubercle <3

I'm trying to think of new romantic words but I feel I am not hitting it with today's.

You are like a tubercle on my heart?? That's nice... As long as I say heart somewhere it makes it nice. And romantic. I totally know how to be romantic. My love for you is a pedunculated tubercle growing on my heart!! With stratified squamous cell epithelia... okay that's going to far.

I benched 170 for 4 sets of 5 reps. My app calculated my 1RM from that to be 211. So I decided I'd try 200 to see if it was correct. I surprised myself when I benched 200 with relative ease. It was on the machine though so maybe that makes it easier? I don't know. I love how I can brag about this to you because I feel you are like yay, that is great! And then I feel cool, but really it's not too impressive at all but don't read that part and you keep thinking that it is impressive and say YAY that is great! Let's smoosh!

I told you all about clinic. I thought of a great speech I would give if i were in front of the clinic staff and had all of their attention and someone spoke out and said "CPT Pilgrim, give us a speech about how you feel about this situation and where you think we should go from here" and then I say OK. I tell them something like "This clinic is wounded. If there is anything we have learned as health care providers its that wounds need healing. Continuing to operate in this clinic as it is is like trying to run a marathon on a sprained ankle. Or more in our home front, like persistently chewing gum with TMD, or smoking after and extraction... Continuing to function with an injury leads to chronic issues and only delays the healing process and potentially leads to more serious ailments. We need to take  some of our own medicine. The clinic had just completed its treatment phase. In oral surgery we would then prescribe quarters for the patient to ensure healing before functional activities are resumed. That's where we are now. We are on quarters. My prescription for us now is to take time away, close this clinic, give it time to heal as we work together and put it back together, clean it up, and bring it into functional order. This is our house and I believe we need to put our house in order. It is a reflection of who we are and the treatment we provide. Now who is with me? Let's close the clinic down and get cleaning!!!" Then at this point I grab a mop and a tooth brush and lead a march around the clinic.

I had a blissful midday nap. It will be last weekday midday nap on this deployment (minus the ones I will have on the weekends). I totally took advantage of that.

I hope I can go to sleep now that I had that nap.

I reread that talk about Pedro's dad. I just love that talk so much. I think it sumarizes pretty much everything about being a parent. That's our role, just lead them through life with the limited experience that we have and then love them. Be there when they scrape their knees and love them again. It's pretty simple but complicated at the same time.

I stopped writing to pick my nose a while. Something else that is romantic is spaghetti. It's hard not to talk about spaghetti and not feel romantic.

Ok,

I hope you are having gun swimming today and other cool things. Live it up with your family there before I take you away from them again:)

I'm planning out how our reunion will go at the airport. Write me what you think it should look like and then I'll write you and then we can read each others.

I absolutely love you and desire to keep you as mine forever and ever. And ever. I want to make you happy and keep you happy and comfort you and love you and support you always. This brings me joy and feeling of fulfillment in my life when I have brought you fulfillment in your life.

To the Pilgrims!