Moving up in the world!

One of the rules to a happy life is to appreciate the little things. Never has that been more prevalent to me than now. When you are deployed and living in a tent, you appreciate that you have a tent, because if this deployment was 9 years ago you know you would probably have slept on the ground outside or if you were lucky you would have a cot. What am I getting at? I'm just setting the mood for you, so that you can try to understand the ridiculous level of excitement that I felt about finaly going and signing for the keys to my very own room! I tell you, getting that news felt like getting a stratch-off lottery ticket (Matt does that occasionally) and winning $1,000(he hasn't done that yet)!
When I walked into the room I gawked. Compared to the tent I have been given a suite in the Kandahar Hilton! Some of the many ammenities include: A single bed! That's right, no more banging my head on the top bunk! A night stand AND a wall locker that has room to hang things. It also comes with it's very own mini-fridge and I only share the room with 3 other girls!  

Haha while moving in I laughed with my roommate because we thought about how unhappy we would be to have living conditions like this back in states, and how quickly your standards change with the environment.
 More luxuries that you probably don't think about on a daily basis (or ever) are electrical outlets. Instead of sharing one outlet amongst 6 people we now have one outlet per person! We also have a remote to the air conditioner, so I turned it up to 22 degrees celcius. For those of you that don't deal with celcius on a regular basis.. so all of you haha.. that is between 71 and 72 degrees farenheit. It's colder than I prefer to be, but in the tent the air was set to 17 celcius which roughly converts over to igloo-status in any normal household!
The final blessing of the modular housing is that they are set up kind of like a motel- when you walk in the door there is a long hallway that the rooms are off of. This is a blessing because at the end of the hallway is a bathroom! It may smell like cauliflower, which is the weirdest smell for a bathroom and quite unplesant (seriously, next time you have raw cauliflower take a big whiff and you'll see what I mean), but it's close to our room! So we don't have to put our full uniforms on just to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night or to shower! It's so insanely convenient! The second half of the blessing of the motel hallway is that now when people come in and out of the room (which happens far less now that there are only 4 of us) I don't get blinded by the Afghan sun blasting in!
As you can see I turned this oversized and underloved dorm-room into my home away from home in a hurry, and I am quite excited to charge my electronics at my bedside, sleep with fewer interruptions and have the freedom to go to the bathroom whenever I feel the urge!

Like I said before.. It's the little things :)