1 Day Down- 37 to go
Rich left for NTC last night. Michelle and Todd picked him up. They had to be on base by 1am and I was't about to wake Autumn up to take her with us to drop him off. Besides, in a slightly selfish way it was so much easier seeing him go that way than to take him and drop him off myself.
My heart hurts though. I miss him like crazy. I haven't cried yet, and I am going to try not to. I want to be strong for Autumn. Rich made a video for her that I am going to play every morning so she can keep seeing him and hearing his voice at the same time. We don't want her acting funny and forgetting what he looks like. Kids so young do that sometimes, and I don't want that to happen. That would kill Rich. He is already so upset and worried that she will forget him when he goes to Iraq.
So I talked to Rich earlier today, thank god for us having our new cell phones. He made it to California alright and apparently they are sleeping on cots in a big circus tent until next week. All those guys in one huge tent- that has to suck. And sadly they don't have a generator there yet so he has to wait until it comes in the next few days to be able to charge his phone. That sucks a lot because that means the more we talk on it when he does call, the more battery will be used. So we only talked for a few minutes. Apparently he is the man with the phone over there. He has the best signal (go cingular wireless!!) so that's a huge plus. When he was in El Paso and had to use phones from other guys they had crappy signal so we were always getting cut off. Hooray for that. At least for now anyway. Who knows what will happen once they actually go into the training exercise. Which by the way I think is ridiculous, because they are only going to actually be doing that for two weeks, yet they have to be out there for a month and a half. Stupid. Absolutely stupid. Just another testimony as to how much common sense the Army lacks. I won't get into that subject again though. I could go on about that crap all day long. Anyway, Rich is now two hours behind me so that sort of sucks. Especially since he hasn't had sleep. He had to be up all last night, then all day today and when they got there this morning at 10:30 this morning, it was only 8:30 there. That meant he still had to stay up all day long. I hope he was able to get a nap or something after we talked. He said he's going to call me around 10pm my time to talk. My days seem so long when he's gone. I hate not having him home at night. It's just so...lonely. I miss my friends.
Well I should go eat. Rich gets mad when he leaves and I don't eat, so since Autumn is napping, I should take advantage. Here's to getting through this month quickly and painlessly. *sigh* Wish me luck.
Peace-Love-Monkeys
xoxo
My heart hurts though. I miss him like crazy. I haven't cried yet, and I am going to try not to. I want to be strong for Autumn. Rich made a video for her that I am going to play every morning so she can keep seeing him and hearing his voice at the same time. We don't want her acting funny and forgetting what he looks like. Kids so young do that sometimes, and I don't want that to happen. That would kill Rich. He is already so upset and worried that she will forget him when he goes to Iraq.
So I talked to Rich earlier today, thank god for us having our new cell phones. He made it to California alright and apparently they are sleeping on cots in a big circus tent until next week. All those guys in one huge tent- that has to suck. And sadly they don't have a generator there yet so he has to wait until it comes in the next few days to be able to charge his phone. That sucks a lot because that means the more we talk on it when he does call, the more battery will be used. So we only talked for a few minutes. Apparently he is the man with the phone over there. He has the best signal (go cingular wireless!!) so that's a huge plus. When he was in El Paso and had to use phones from other guys they had crappy signal so we were always getting cut off. Hooray for that. At least for now anyway. Who knows what will happen once they actually go into the training exercise. Which by the way I think is ridiculous, because they are only going to actually be doing that for two weeks, yet they have to be out there for a month and a half. Stupid. Absolutely stupid. Just another testimony as to how much common sense the Army lacks. I won't get into that subject again though. I could go on about that crap all day long. Anyway, Rich is now two hours behind me so that sort of sucks. Especially since he hasn't had sleep. He had to be up all last night, then all day today and when they got there this morning at 10:30 this morning, it was only 8:30 there. That meant he still had to stay up all day long. I hope he was able to get a nap or something after we talked. He said he's going to call me around 10pm my time to talk. My days seem so long when he's gone. I hate not having him home at night. It's just so...lonely. I miss my friends.
Well I should go eat. Rich gets mad when he leaves and I don't eat, so since Autumn is napping, I should take advantage. Here's to getting through this month quickly and painlessly. *sigh* Wish me luck.
Peace-Love-Monkeys
xoxo