Been a While
I've been a huge LJ slacker as of late. I think part of the reason is that I know I'd just blather on and on about wedding stuff and I'm trying to spare the masses from that pain. Under 4 months until the Big Day(TM) and most of the details are in place.
This past weekend I chose not to go to a family gathering down in Miami and it turns out that this was an extremely fortuitous. Had Tom and I gone, he would have either missed an amazingly good job opportunity or we would have had to travel back up here immediatly to get him ready.
Tom's birthday was Wednesday, but seeing as how we live 50 miles apart, we put off a celebration until Friday. Thursday, after work, I headed out to the coast to deliver my home-made birthday cake to my love and we dashed off together to his Air Force squadron's holiday party. I had already met many of the guys, but I got to meet many more. It was a nice time and it felt good to get dressed up and chit chat with some people.
Friday's plans were to have a lazy morning and then head back to Orlando to do a little indoor wall-climbing for Tom's birthday. Instead, we found out that Tom had been selected for a special 60-90 day assignment out in LA and would need to fly out on Sunday. Still wanting to keep our Friday night and Saturday night plans, we worked our butts off to get things taken care on out on the Cape that day. While Tom headed in to work to make sure his travel arrangements were made and transferred all the files he needed onto his government laptop, I did laundry so he'd have some clean clothes to take on that long assignment. I also transferred any foods that could be saved into his freezer and packed up the rest to take to my house.
We had a whirlwind weekend, taking care of business, seeing PZ Myers speak and then spending a few hours chatting it up with him afterward. We also got to attend Jim's Redneck, Trailer Trash, Hillbilly Christmas Party, which was a nice distraction from the fact that it was my last night with Tom until he comes back for Christmas.
So that's life right now. I'll have more open weekends for a while, which will be good for cooking soups, sewing and spending more time with Jeremy. So it's not all bad. But I will miss Tom. ::Sigh:: The life of a military wife...
This past weekend I chose not to go to a family gathering down in Miami and it turns out that this was an extremely fortuitous. Had Tom and I gone, he would have either missed an amazingly good job opportunity or we would have had to travel back up here immediatly to get him ready.
Tom's birthday was Wednesday, but seeing as how we live 50 miles apart, we put off a celebration until Friday. Thursday, after work, I headed out to the coast to deliver my home-made birthday cake to my love and we dashed off together to his Air Force squadron's holiday party. I had already met many of the guys, but I got to meet many more. It was a nice time and it felt good to get dressed up and chit chat with some people.
Friday's plans were to have a lazy morning and then head back to Orlando to do a little indoor wall-climbing for Tom's birthday. Instead, we found out that Tom had been selected for a special 60-90 day assignment out in LA and would need to fly out on Sunday. Still wanting to keep our Friday night and Saturday night plans, we worked our butts off to get things taken care on out on the Cape that day. While Tom headed in to work to make sure his travel arrangements were made and transferred all the files he needed onto his government laptop, I did laundry so he'd have some clean clothes to take on that long assignment. I also transferred any foods that could be saved into his freezer and packed up the rest to take to my house.
We had a whirlwind weekend, taking care of business, seeing PZ Myers speak and then spending a few hours chatting it up with him afterward. We also got to attend Jim's Redneck, Trailer Trash, Hillbilly Christmas Party, which was a nice distraction from the fact that it was my last night with Tom until he comes back for Christmas.
So that's life right now. I'll have more open weekends for a while, which will be good for cooking soups, sewing and spending more time with Jeremy. So it's not all bad. But I will miss Tom. ::Sigh:: The life of a military wife...