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Michael sent a couple of pictures for his birthday. It's nice to have a visual of where he lives.
The first picture is just of him and his surroundings - dirt.
The first picture is just of him and his surroundings - dirt.
Michael says he's growing a mustache because locals believe that if you don't have facial hair you're either a woman or you're homosexual. I find this humorous because he hates his mustache. At home, he never misses a day of shaving his mustache atleast once. His mustache is still undetectable in his picture.
You can also see his home that he is sharing with several other officers. It's good that guys don't need to nest much or that they don't care much about decorations. Although, you can see they've tried some decorating.
Michael's area makes me a laugh a little because it's not completely different from his area at home. He has books piled up with his everyday essentials also piled up around him. I personally would lose my mind without more organization, but he seems to work well with just having everything within reach and not placed in containers.
If you go to the link to the journalist embedded with Michael (I believe he's actually one of the guys in Michael's tent) he writes about how carefully the guys make sure other Marine's space is respected. Specifically, he writes that the Marine's always carefully wipe off the sink for the next marine. As a wife, this is a bit annoying, because he rarely does the same for me.
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Marines wipe off the sink for the next guy? Wow, this is the first time I hear it, but why didn't their superiors teach them that they do this all the time - whether at home or out with the guys? And of course Michael is alert enough to know where he is at every moment, such that he knows when he can get away with NOT wiping off the sink.
When does a boy grow up into a man? When does a man become neat and organized? A woman would never know. When he was little, I would sometimes told him that he needed to clean up his room, and that I would come inspect the result. Surely he tidied up as I inspected his room. But when I opened up the closet door, all things tumbled out! Yes, he just tossed everything from the floor and his bed into the closet door and shut the door.
That’s Michael.
Michael has often said that he feels most comfortable in our room and that is why it is always the messiest of his areas.
I have mixed feelings about that. I'm glad he feels comfortable in our room but his comfortable-ness makes me tense!
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