Public goodbyes

I borrowed this post topic from Just Another Snarky Navy Wife because I wanted to blog about my own experiences and opinions on public goodbyes.  She wrote of the local media coverage and having to say goodbye in public.  I have had 3 big deployment goodbyes from Obi-Wan in the 8 years we’ve been married so [...]

Visualizations

Obi-Wan is starting to visualize being in our home again, spending time with me and the paws.  That just warmed my heart.  He said that up until now, he hadn’t let himself do that so it would make it easier to process being over there and away from home.  I said that I had done the same thing.  [...]

Update on puppy training

Well the paws are starting to learn some things … finally.  Saturday I had a great training session with my dog trainer and the paws.  We spent most of the hour working on their greeting guests at the door behavior, which is pretty appalling.  Yellow Dog is a hiney-biter and a jumper.  Chocolate Dog is [...]

Endorphins

I just finished working out at the gym and those endorphins are releasing like crazy.  I’m wired and it’s 9:00 pm.  I was going to hit the gym this morning but I loathe getting up early, especially before 5 to get to the gym by 5 am.  And I do mean loathe.  I’m not a [...]

Football

I think I’ve already mentioned before how I love watching football, particularly NFL.  While perusing the blogs this morning, I saw a great post and discussion on SpouseBUZZ about watching football so I had to put my two cents in on the topic.
Andi had mentioned in her post how she thought football season was the [...]

No pain, no gain

While I’m not in massive amounts of pain or anything, my abs are killing me today.  I did 3 exercises on a stability ball yesterday to work my abs and oh … the pain.  If I laugh too hard or contract my stomach in any way, it hurts.  But I’m ok with this.  It’s my own [...]

Body For Life

I officially started doing the Body for Life program on Monday, January 21.  I’ve sort of followed the mantra of it for years since Obi-Wan and I lived in California.  And it worked great.  I lost 8 pounds in 3 months, which pleased me.  Another 12 pounds would have been wonderful but he came home from [...]

A sign of homecoming

I talked to Obi-Wan this morning and he mentioned that he would be shipping a box of stuff home to me this week.  Yippee!  It’s a sign that he’s coming home.  I won’t be sending him packages unless there is something specific he needs that he can’t find.  And he’ll be starting to ship things [...]

Expiration dates

Since Obi-Wan left, various food items have been expiring in my fridge and pantry.  I’m obviously not talking about produce but condiments like salad dressings, marinades, hot sauces, etc.  We are major consumers of condiments in our house.  An entire shelf on the fridge door is dedicated to hot sauces alone since Obi-Wan likes his food hot [...]

The downside of the upside

I know that title is whack so I’ll explain.  The upside part is that Obi-Wan is coming home in 8 weeks from now.  And I’ve written about how we are engaging in the “when I/you come home talk” and that I’m grateful we can finally have those kinds of conversations.  The downside is that with [...]