Two Down, 10 to Go

Monday, 20 March 2006, 20:04

I can’t believe it’s only been two months since the SGM left for Afghanistan. It feels like two years already. I’m trying to decide which deployment was/is worse: Bosnia or this one.

Bosnia was for 7 months. No regular communication, via e-mail or phone. Not much about it in the news.

Aghanistan is for 12 months. Regular communication, via e-mail and phone. Too much about it in the news (no, not the TV media, I get it off local newspapers).

Maybe that is why this one seems to be dragging along more than the Bosnia deployment.

I do have plenty to do to keep busy, outside of work — but I haven’t gotten the bug yet to do any of it except hang curtains.

I need to work on my AAI designation for insurance; sign up to a gym, start tanning, plant flowers in the mailbox planter, and lots of other stuff. But for right now, I only have the will to update my blog, watch old TV shows on DVD, play computer games and veg.

Maybe Spring and daylight savings will be the trigger for motivation.

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4 Comments for “Two Down, 10 to Go”

  1. 1Alabama Improper

    Well, I know this isn’t the same but I just sent the kids to Ohio for spring break and I feel absolutely lost without them. And it’s funny, when they are here I seem to have a million things to do and can’t get them all done but now that they are not here this week I just walk around the house aimlessly with nothing to do.

  2. 2don surber

    “Too much about it in the news (no, not the TV media, I get it off local newspapers).”

    Ah! There’s a gal after me own heart

    Go, local newspapers, go!

  3. 3Greta (Hooah Wife)

    I still haven’t lost the last 5 pounds that I intended to lose over the last deployment. Blog therapy, driving by the gym, and watching movies seems like plenty!

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