Connections

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 [...]

Poor Obi-Wan

I called him on my way to work today and unfortunately, as I was merging onto the highway, I treated him to an explosion of colorful expletives that came flying out of my mouth.  You see, as I was attemping to merge, a very inconsiderate driver (I’m trying to keep this clean here) sped up [...]

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.  [...]

Reemergence of Obi-Wan

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 [...]

Military access to blogs

I’m kind of bummed now.  Obi-Wan can no longer access my blog from his computer at work.  He really got a kick out of being able to read it every day but since last week, they have updated the list of blocked sites on their work computers and he can’t visit the site anymore.  I’m [...]

Nothing to talk about

Another pickle in this whole communication during deployment situation is having the means to communicate but nothing to really say.  I was able to talk to Obi-Wan this morning and aside from dispensing with the usual “what did you do today or what are you doing today” stuff, we had nothing really to say to each other.  I said “how ironic is [...]