Monday, July 26, 2010

Change of Plans

Today started out as a good day. I made it my goal to get stuff done and have a successful day. I woke up with a good start. Ate a healthy breakfast, went to the gym, worked out some more at home. I did laundry, the dishes, vacuumed and took a shower and got ready for the day. All of this before 1030! I was pretty proud of myself. Now I had to make calls and get stuff done.
Now before I go on, I want to tell you what my plan was for the next 4.5 years. I was going to go to college for the fall semester just to take some classes. Then I was going to join the Air Force in the beginning of next year and serve my 4 years. Then after that I was going to use the GI Bill to go back to college. That was my plan...
I've been in the process of registering for college and it's taking some time. I'm getting Financial Aid from MyCaa (My Career Advancement Program). It's a program for military spouses and they pay up to $6000 of your tuition. Great program. Well, I won't go into details but registering got a lot harder than I anticipated. I had 6 classes I wanted to take but I was only able to get into 4. I might be able to get into the other 2 but I won't know till after the first couple of days of classes. I'm not really having a problem with the financial aid but I realized something today. If I can't get these two classes then I more than likely won't be able to complete my certificate in two semesters. I only have two semesters till Justin's EAS and we move. If I can't get these two classes then I'm going to have to take 19 hours next semester. One of those being an internship. I really don't think I'll be able to do that. And I don't see a point in going to college and taking classes if i can't complete my certificate. So now I just have to wait and see if I can get into these two classes.
That's the whole college situation. Now here's the whole Air Force situation.
I can't join. Evidently the cross tattoo on the back of my neck disqualifies me from joining. I talked to a recruiter and the agent guy on the website and both of them told me it disqualifies me. My heart broke when they told me. But after it sunk in for awhile and I prayed about it, I came to realize that it might be a good thing that I can't join. I've always told myself that I don't want my job to be my life and, obviously, if I joined the Air Force or any military branch for that matter, it would be.

So that was my day. Still successful. But definitely not what I was hoping for.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Short, Sweet, and to the Point...

JUSTIN IS NOT DEPLOYING!!!

There
I'm happy now

THE END

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

"The Big Green Weenie"

Justin and I are getting the Big Green Weenie...
Now before you go off thinking we're getting some kind of sex toy let me explain what the "Big Green Weenie" is.
Urban Dictionary defines it as:

When you are in the Marine Corps and your boss
f**** you over big time, making it feel like you
have the Marine Corp's Big Green Weenie right
up your a** hole with no anal ease even offered.


or my favorite

Something that you will eventually get and
continue to get once you become a Marine.
Getting the "big green weenie" may include
such fine events as: getting f***** with
duty on a particularly important weekend,
getting in trouble for some small petty s***
while being in garrison, getting stationed at
a s***hole like 29 Dumps.
The "big"
represents the big bad Marine Corps
picking on the little guy, the Marine. The
"green" represents the true color of the
Corps. The "weenie" represents getting
f***** over.


I'm sure you understand what it is by now.

Now, we've gotten lucky in the past. For example: Justin EAS's right after his unit deploys to Afghanistan so he doesn't have to go. He almost had to go to RIMPAC for 3 weeks but his Granny ended up passing away a couple days before they left. So instead of going we were able to take emergency leave and go home. (Now I don't consider having his Granny pass away as being lucky, we were not happy about this in any means. But it did get him out of going to RIMPAC)
However, we have also been f***** by the Marine Corps' Big Green Weenie before. Justin had 24hr duty at least once a week for 5 weeks right after he got back from a deployment. It was ridiculous. That's really been the worst once, so I won't go on. But now, we might be getting it hard time...

Justin just got back from a 7 month deployment a little over 3 months ago. It was just to Okinawa, but it still sucked. I'm about to go a little off topic here but I really want to let this out. I get sick and tired of people saying that, "Oh, he's just going to Okinawa. At least it's not Afghanistan. It won't be that bad." Ok. First of all I was to say (before people start to twist my words around) that I AM sooo grateful that it is not to Afghanistan or Iraq. But it's still a deployment! We're still going through the separation! The separation itself is hard! Yes, with combat deployments you have to worry about other stuff other than the separation. I am in no way trying to say that noncombat deployments are just as hard as combat deployments. I can only imagine how hard a combat deployment is! And I highly respect those ladies who go through combat deployments. But ANY deployment is hard. NO deployment is easy. No matter where they go! Okay. I've said it. But as I was saying. Another battery in Justin's unit is leaving in 3 weeks for Okinawa (not his battery). We found out yesterday that one of the mechanics in that battery might not be able to go and out of all the Cpl mechanics in the unit, only 2 could replace him. And Justin is one of them. So in other words. My husband might be deploying in 3 weeks back to Okinawa for 8 months this time. I feel like I'm having my own little version of Army Wives going on. Only I have a little more time and it's not as long.
We should hopefully now by the end of the week if he's going or not. I feel myself trying to prepare for it, but every time I think about it my heartbreaks! I just got him back. One good thing is I could get back into deployment mode very easily but I really don't want to. It's like going on a diet. But there's no possible way for you to cheat. It sucks.
Anyway. That's what's going on right now. I'll keep you all updated on whether or not he'll be going.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Back in Paradise?

Hey y'all! I'm back! It's been over 2 weeks since I last posted so I must catch you all up on what has been going on in the life of Lindsey Comer! Not that there's anyone who really reads this...lol. But I don't care. I just like writing blogs!

So Justin and I got back from TN Thursday afternoon. It was an extremely lloonngg flight. Almost 11 hours. Painful. Not to mention I got the full treatment going through security in Chattanooga. Got my hands swiped to make sure I haven't been messing with chemicals and I got frisked. I just think they were bored... But anywho. I'm finally back in Hawaiiville. It's nice to be back in my own place with all my stuff, but of course I do really still miss Tennessee. It was a lot harder leaving this time than last time. I know it was because last time I was there for 3 months and I was READY to be on my own again. This time... I wanted at least one more week. There were so many more people I wanted to see and places I wanted to go and eat at. But oh well. It was still a nice visit and I can't wait to go back for Christmas!

Not too much has changed since we got back. Jeff (Justin's brother and our roommate) just left today for a deployment. He'll be gone either 4 or 5 months. To be honest, I'm kinda happy that Justin and I won't have a roommate for awhile. Cleaning up after 1 guy and 2 cats is hard enough. Don't get me wrong, I'll miss him. He was the one who would always buy Justin and I alcohol. But FINALLY Justin will be turning 21 here soon so it won't be a problem.

I haven't decided whether or not I'm happy or scared about Justin turning 21. I think I'm just more scared of the night he turns 21. I told him we could go celebrate as long as we went to a 18 and up bar/club so I could go and make sure he doesn't do anything stupid. But I don't know if his friends are going to drag him somewhere without me. After all, all his friends are Marines...

But oh well. I'll worry about that later.

Sorry this is short but I'm trying to have a productive day and I don't really have to time to type up a long blog. I just wanted to let you all know I'm still alive and kicking!