Hailing and Farewelling

Posted on January 18, 2011. Filed under: Navy life, Uncategorized |

Otherwise known in our house as Hail & Bail. Obi-Wan and I will be hosting our first one soon. As long as he’s been in the Navy, we’ve attended several through the years but never hosted and egads, here we are about to welcome 30 plus people into our home … some of whom I’m just not a fan of. In the year of being on this ship, it’s been rough and I’ve come to resent certain leaders on the ship for making his life (and mine for that matter) a living hell. The wardroom on this ship is probably not as typical either, or at least I’m not a typical spouse fitting into the standard Navy wife mold. I work, I have a life outside of the Navy, and God forbid, we don’t have kids right now. Most of the spouses in this group are stay at home moms and while that is awesome for them and I totally respect that, it doesn’t leave much room for me to relate. And then there are the handful of girlfriends on the ship who are quite a bit younger than me so I find myself on an island almost by myself. The other events that we’ve gone to for this ship have been not so much fun quite frankly. All the mommies congregate somewhere in one corner and the guys get into their cliques and chew the fat. Anyway, I digress. I’m not looking forward to socializing unfortunately and that’s not how I usually am.

But the main point is I’ve got a freaky amount of stuff to do to get ready for this event including making sure the house is on a whole new level of cleanness. And I need to channel my inner social butterfly so I can be completely lovely to all who come. Here’s to hoping I behave myself.