Welcome to the last post before I go home for Christmas!!! Yay!!!  Needless to say, I'm pretty excited about going home, especially after the weekend I just had.  While the exact details shall remain a mystery to these pages, just trust me when I say it was extremely stressful and chaotic. But that's over, lesson learned.  Next phase, lol.

Tonight as my watch team and I came onto shift, we were greeted by our LPO's.  It was just to go over our mid-term evaluations, nothing overly serious.  As I sat down for mine, I noticed I wasn't nervous.  I'm almost always nervous when faced with being the center of attention regarding, well, anything.  Fortunately, the jist of it all was to keep on being self-motivated and pushing forward, and to keep helping others to push forward as well.  I admitted that I have basically zero confidence in any of my abilities, and was given a solid piece of advice I hope I never forget:  When faced with a decision, it is more important to make a decision and stick to it than to flounder and back down.  Even if you're wrong, so long as the decision was not made with malicious intent, it is correctable.  You learn a lesson, and you move on.  The message they were trying to get across was that we're all human, we're going to make mistakes.  That's how we learn.  Now I just face the task of trusting myself to make a decision in the first place, let alone stick to one! It will take time, but I'll figure it all out.  Fortunately, I have a good chain of command, and they honestly care about their people.  They see everything we do, and everything we don't.  Nothing goes unnoticed, and both the good and the bad are talked about behind their door.  Moral of the story: find your guns, then stick to them. 

It's a good thing I've put this here, because honestly, after today, I DON'T CARE I'M ON LEAVE!!!!! Bahahhaha!  I can't wait to see snow again! This 70+ degrees in the middle of December crap is for the birds!  Have a good night, all!!