Too early for Christmas music
Posted by Gypsy on Nov 14, 2005
This past weekend I had a wonderful four days off in a row. It was great. I had time to sleep and clean and do all the things there just never seems to be enough time for. During the weekend, I also decided to go to the mall, hoping to enjoy one final weekend of normal mall shopping before the furor of the holiday shopping season begins.
Well, I guess I missed the memo. Not even Thanksgiving yet and already the mall is ready for Santa, the stores have their Christmas trees up and all through the mall all that can be heard is really bad renditions of “Let it Snow” by the Backdoor Boys and Lisa Marie Pressley’s “Merry, Merry Christmas.” Seriously, it was almost enough for me to stab myself in the ears and gouge my eyes out.
What happened to the time when you didn’t see a single Christmas thing until the day after Thanksgiving, like that was the official start of the season. Now there is Christmas shit everywhere and it’s just driving me crazy. I just want to have a normal day at the mall. I don’t want to find the perfect gift and then have to race a 400 pound behemoth who walks with a cane hoping her disability will make people be nice to her when really she just uses it to pull a Tonya Harding on anyone who gets between her and that perfect Christmas gift. These people are like a pack of rabid wolves going after a baby bunny. It’s so sad.
I love the mall, so I’m sure I’ll be back once or twice before the end of the holiday season, but I’m done trying to shop there. I’m doing the rest of my Christmas shopping online.
There isn’t a lot to say
Posted by Gypsy on Nov 8, 2005
I started this blog as a way to talk about Jeremy’s deployment and use it as a form of therapy, but I haven’’t really said a lot about him being gone.
This deployment has actually been easier to deal with than I had expected. I think part of the reason is Jeremy and I spend the first 14 months of our marriage living 1,800 miles apart. After living together only eight months, he was sent on this deployment. So I’’m fairly used to living alone.
The only difference between the deployment and when we were stationed separately is he can’’t call me everyday. And while I do miss talking to him all the time, I’’m busy most of the time and I get daily emails from him, which makes it much easier to deal with.
Even though I’m adjusted to living alone, having him in
I’’ll keep sharing updates on how he’’s doing, but there just isn’’t a lot to say about this deployment. He’’s gone and I miss him, but I’’ve developed a good support network to help me though.
I can’’t wait for him to come home. It feels like a part of me is missing and will be for another five months.
Sexiest man alive
Posted by Gypsy on Nov 4, 2005
I was on the phone with Jeremy the other day, and as we were talking he was going through the photos on his new iPod his dad just sent him. It seems some of these photos are cause for minor embarassment. So I emailed my father-in-law for some of the photos. The following photos are all from when he was younger, before he joined the military and before he met me. Isn’t he a cutie.
Most ridiculous 48 hours ever
Posted by Gypsy on Nov 3, 2005
For two months now, ever since Jeremy left for
There were so many great things about going to this class. It got me away from the desert for a month and put me back on the east coast for a month. I was going to see Jeremy’s grandmother, aunt, uncle and cousins while I was there. And the best part of all: I was going home for Thanksgiving. I saw my family over the summer, but I would love to see them again. And it would be great to be back home and get to see all my friends.
So I flew to
And things were going great. Right up until Monday morning.
I got up Monday morning, had a great run (even though it was freezing cold) and even had a yummy breakfast at the chow hall. Life was great. Until I got to the schoolhouse, that is.
Turns out my class was cancelled, they just never bothered to tell me. Within 30 minutes of the company realizing class was cancelled, I already had plane ticked sending me back to
It sucks and I’m pretty bummed. I had already made plans to see some of Jeremy’s family this weekend and those now must be cancelled. And I may miss on Thanksgiving. Although I’m hoping Jeremy won’t mind if I take leave and go anyway. I had a lot of plans for that weekend. I’d go home for Christmas, but then the weather would be bad and I might get stuck flying in a storm, and I’m not too into that.
So I guess it’s back to
