Pig's Ramblings

Dear Wednesday, You should be Friday.  Dear Creativity, You seem to have gone missing lately.  My brain feels like a blur of blah.  Maybe it's because I've been reading more for escapism than for an actual brainworkout lately.  Time to change that.  I will be working on picking up some new books to spark my synapses.  I've picked up I, Lucifer and it's quite interesting.  The vocabulary is ahhmazing and making my brain hurt, in a good way.  More to come hopefully because this one's a shortie.  Dear Fancy Canon/Nikon Camera, You should magically find your way into my hands.  I want to take big beautiful pictures that wow and amaze.  Dear Thanksgiving, You are fast approaching and that makes me happy.  I've been trying to refocus the negativesoulsuckingmood that C Co breeds towards gratitude in reverence of your coming, but it's been hard.  Maybe this weekend with the MonkeyHubs and HB will make strides forward.  Especially since after that it will only be three working days until your 4day weekend.  Dear OldManHB, You better bring your A-game when you come visit this weekend buddy.  There is a crowd of Army folks missing their own pups here who are dying to meet you, play with you, squeeze your wrinkles, and stretch your ears.  I'd say I hope you're up to the challenge, but I know you bring smiles wherever you go!

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Dear Diet, You have totally sucked me in this long weekend.  Hershey bars, honey buns, zebra cakes, chocolate chip muffins, pepperoni pizza, many, many, many DrP's later my stomach, both internal and external, are angry with me.  Hopefully that salad I picked up for dinner as a peace offering will get this new week started off in better fashion.
Dear Flu, You hung around way too long.  But I'm finally starting to feel better.  Although, you still make my head feel light and fuzzy.  PT should be an interesting adventure this week.  Sigh.
Dear Tulsa, You stole two of my absolute favorite veterans this past weekend.  (Yes, that's right, you caught it, a slight of hand mention of Veterans Day - Thank you ALL!)  But that's okay because Ogie and SPCJohnson had a great time, didn't spend too much money at the Tulsa Gun Show, and are bringing my absolute favorite hound back to NC with them.
Dear Friday, You can NOT get here fast enough!  Mainly because you bring with you MonkeyHubby and OldManHB, but you know, I'm excited for you!  Come faster, come faster!

Pig's Ramblings: Love After 7 Years

Well, sadly, there are no fun weekend shenanigans to report.  Sandy stole our weekend passes so there was no time for MonkeyHubby and Pig.  It made for a bad mood to say the least.  I spent the mass majority of my weekend hermitted up in my room reading.  And thinking.  Mainly reading, but my brain never seems to stop causing trouble for itself.  And, as we approach November 25th which will be 7 years of MonkeyHubby and I being together, I wondered what love is after 7 years in the making.  So needless to say, I asked MonkeyHubby, just like I ask/tell him every random thought that comes through my head, to see what his thoughts were.  His response was just the romance I needed to hear on a gloomy weekend.  For him, our love feels like walking hand in hand with Old Man HB, playing footsies all night long, holding hands different than anyone else because it's our special way, and spending all day Sundays in bed just hanging out with each other.  It definitely made me smile from ear to ear, and feel all warm on the inside.  Truly must be what love feels like.  But of course, my brain didn't stop there, it wondered, since all of those things are things you feel when you're together, how we feel our love in our current separation.  I've been thinking on that one and it's a toughie.  The separation just is what it is, and trust me, while we just do what we have to each day, it does wear on you.  You miss each other, you lose touch on certain aspects, and that can rub you wrong sometimes, but you push through.  So what little things still make us feel that love even with the miles between us?! Twisting my wedding band around my ring finger feeling the weight of it and it's commitment, snuggling my nose in my stuffed monkey when I crawl in bed at night knowing he's cuddled up to my pillow back home, and running my fingers across the Texas flag that he moved from his own rigger's belt to mine after his tour in Afghanistan.  The little things that remind me we're always connected because we always want to be.  To me, that's what love feels like 7 years later.  There may not be any butterflies anymore, but there also aren't any fears.  There may not be as many electrical sparks, but there aren't any doubts.  There may not be as much unknown to explore, but there is more comfort than anything else in this world.  And I wouldn't give it up for the world.

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Congratulations SPC Johnson!  You poured your heart out on the field this week and are officially an Expert Infantryman, I'm quite proud of you! On another note, Sandy has poured rain and misery all over our weekend, which, we no longer are getting together.  Thanks C Co for seemingly being the only company who revoked our phase 5's for the 'bad weather' this weekend.  Fabulous of you, no doubt.

Pouring with sarcasm...

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I have officially complete my first pass request form in hopes of spending a WHOLE night with my MonkeyHubby this weekend!  Of course, it's all pending on tomorrow morning's PT test, as well as my reclass, but that should be no biggy whatsoever.
I was lucky to have a very good friend give me a call last night and check on me, on a day, after a weekend, that I really needed it.  Jud's a sweetie, full of good reminders during rough moments.  Not to mention he has the cutest new baby!  And, he's headed to another promotion board soon, time to send some extra good juju his way!

MonkeyHubby is working on getting his EIB (Expert Infantry Badge) this week, so far he's passed his PT test, day land nav, night land nav, and his first lane.  He's gonna do awesome and rock it the rest of the week so that he'll have some new bling for his uniform soon!

Pig's Ramblings

I read a lot this weekend.  And napped a lot this weekend.  And watched quite a bit of Netflix this weekend.  It was fantabulous.  I really wished for nothing more than to be alone in peace and quiet this weekend, and I got about as close to that as I can get living in barracks, so I'll call that a success.  I also was reminded why you never use glitter nail polish...it's hard as heck to take off!  Oh, I also learned that apparently 40 minutes still isn't enough time for toenail polish to completely dry.  Boo having to put boots back on all the time...I miss flip-flops.  Happy end to the weekend folks...hope your Mondays aren't too bad!

Pig's Ramblings

I've been reading a lot lately.  It's the only thing that keeps me feeling like my brain isn't just turning to complete mush while I wait to get re-classed and start up school/classes again.  When I first got back to Fort Lee a few weeks ago, I really, really did not want to be here.  So I consequently immersed myself in some Laurell K. Hamilton style escapism.  But, having finished off the two books I had of hers, I picked up a newbie yesterday that I randomly grabbed on paperback sometime this past summer. I made it about 50 pages in yesterday and so far I'm intrigued.  It jumps back and forth between a modern day PI and 16th century Christopher Marlowe.  I love books that have more than one 'story' going on at the same time so I think I'll like this one.  The front of the book claims that if you liked The Da Vinci Code that you'll love The Intelligencer, I guess we'll just have to see!