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Saturday, September 6th, 2003
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6:42p - warm fuzzy bonding crap
The squid is leaving soon for a whole week. However shall I survive?! (what I need is a seriously dripping sarcasm smiley. Know where I can get one?!)
sarcasm aside.. sometimes I can understand why these kids run off to join the military. I keep reading these random posts by MOTHERS whining about how it's so HAAARD not to hear from their PREEEESHIOUS son/daughter/next door neighbor's kid while s/he is deployed. They wanna cut the apron strings! Yo! Mom! he's 21.. he's a big boy now.. he has a gun, and he knows how to use it...
I mean, I can almost empathize with the 20 something kids who whine about how hard it is to go weeks on end without hearing from their DG/F/H. I was one once upon a time, although I was NEVER 20 something and I did all my whingeing to the cats. I do have to bite my tongue and force myself not to tell them to grow up and get over it.. cuz I really was just like them 5 years ago.. it's just that, having lived through it, it doesn't seem so bad.. after the fact. trying to find a nice polite, supportive way to say.. suck it up and deal, cuz when it's over you'll think.. "damn, that was easy. when's the next deployment!"
and of course, its just so hard to take ANYTHING an Officer's spouse says without it being derogatory or condescending. Where IS that Sarcasm smiley when you really need it?! It's not like my squid wasn't a Blueshirt for four years or anything. or that I dealt with a deployment myself.. alone, and unmarried, so of course the Navy didn't even acknowledge my existance.
My goal this upcoming deployment: Find or build a sarcasm smiley.. dripping with the stuff...
current mood:  hot
current music: the football game in the other room... (1 comment |comment on this)
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