Before Obi-Wan left for the sandbox, he always sat in his favorite chair, a brown leather recliner. He almost never sat anywhere else in that room. Since he’s been back, he’s been sitting in a different chair. While we were watching tv last night, it hit him that he hasn’t sat in that chair since [...]
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Yup, I’m confessing. I’m 34 years old … for one more day. Tomorrow I turn 35 (AAAAAGGGGGHHH*&^*&(&*). It hit me this week that I’ll no longer be in that 18-34 marketing demographic, that I’ll no longer be in my “early 30’s”. Tomorrow I’ll be in my mid 30’s and I’ll be equal to a speed [...]
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Whew! This is the third day in a row that Obi-Wan and I woke up at 4:30 am to hit the gym. I’m still doing his workouts and holy crap, they might be killing me. We did shoulders and legs one day, chest and triceps yesterday, and back and biceps today, plus cardio. Now that [...]
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Eleven weeks ago, I began doing the Body for Life program. I have one more week to go before the 12 week challenge is complete but I’ll continue to stick to the eating habits I’ve adopted as a long-term program. They are manageable and realistic so that isn’t going to be a problem for me. [...]
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Obi-Wan has been home for 2 weeks and a few days now. Sometime during the first week, I was going through my list of contacts in my cell searching for my friend’s number and I came across his Iraq numbers. I thought “well I guess I don’t need these anymore and thank God for that.” But I [...]
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I just emailed Obi-Wan tonight the following email:
I just watched a news segment on a group of National Guardsmen leaving from this area and I got emotional seeing all the families saying goodbye. It reminded me of this time last year and how hard that was and everything. I’m so thankful you are coming home [...]
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Obi-Wan and I briefly spoke this afternoon before he was heading off to bed and we talked about him coming home. I asked him if he felt weird about leaving Iraq and he answered “to be honest, yes.” He’s ready to get out of dodge, believe me, but he will miss the friends and co-workers [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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By reemergence, I mean, I’m starting to get my husband back in small doses. He’s been as shut off as I have during this deployment to maintain sanity and not dwell on all the crappy parts about it. Our conversations are more of a friendship nature versus anything more intimate. Once in a while, we [...]
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