Lifetime Lied

Yes, The Lifetime Channel lied to me. According to Army Wives, we should live in amazing on post housing, officers and enlisted should be able to BBQ on the weekend no questions asked, and I should be skinny and gorgeous. FAIL. This is it, this is my not so glamorous life, but I wouldn't trade it for the world!
I'm not going to back track this blog and tell you all about how I met my husband or how I knew he was "The One", but fate brought us together and couldn't have matched us more perfectly. In August it will be four years that I've been married, been an Army wife, and four years since I have lived in my home state of Georgia (GO DAWGS!!)
My husband has been in the Army for 12 years and has been through two deployments to Iraq. I was lucky that I wasn't around for those (he was still married to the infamous EX) but I knew deployment was a possibility when I married him so I am going to attempt to survive this deployment with grace. We moved here to Kansas in November from Germany (Ich vermisse Sie Deutschland!!), and I must admit I was a little nervous about coming here to Middle Earth but I have fallen in LOVE with Kansas. There's one thing you should know about me and it is that I am obsessed with The Wizard of Oz so it would only be fitting that I would grow to love Kansas right??  Not to mention a friend of mine from Germany had PCSed (Permanent change of duty station) here a year before us so I was lucky enough to come to Kansas where I already knew someone [she shall be referred to as SUPER MOM in any future blog postings].
Anyways, long story short, we moved to Kansas and after two weeks of house hunting and staying in the Econo Lodge (EW) and then with SUPER MOM, we found a house to rent right beside post. The husband quickly made friends in the unit and with man friends come wife friends (IF I'm that lucky...which I was!) I've met a handful of really amazing women here already and we've only been here six months-ish. That is one thing that I love about the Army life, wherever you go you can make some truly amazing friendships because everyone is moving constantly and these people become your family.
Now we are 3 weeks and 2 days into this deployment and so far so good (considering). We decided to save some money during the deployment by me moving home to stay with family for a few months so I have been working on getting the remaining boxes into storage so that I can clean up and turn in our keys. And by working on it, I mean staring hopelessly at what is left to do and missing my husband. One more week to get everything out which won't be a problem because the aforementioned friends are making me...I mean HELPING ME get off my toosh and be productive. All in good time.
Since the deployment I've avoided working on the house by keeping busy with work, homework, and making care packages for the husband. (These will be bragged about in future posts, I'm sure.) I am so proud of myself for keeping it together the past few weeks. You know, since Army Wives makes everything so dramatic and romantic I figured I'd be a sobbing mess!! I will say that the good-bye was difficult...when I had to say my final good-bye before he prepared for formation and I handed him a letter I wrote him I turned into an ugly, snotty version of myself. Totally lost it but composed myself by the time I reached the house. And then there was that first phone call where I was so excited but as soon as I heard "Hey babe!" on the other end all I could respond with was a snotty blubbering non-comprehensible "Hey!".
I've already found one of the most annoying things about deployment...feeling like you cannot be out of arms' reach of your phone at all times because you just might miss that e-mail, chat session, or phone call that you've been longing for. Being this obsessed about your phone is simply unhealthy and the 2-day Com-Blackouts do not help with the anticipation one bit!
We opted to pay $130-ish per month for the husband to have an Internet password and capabilities in his plywood box, I mean room. So far it has been such a horrible connection that Skype is completely impossible and Face Time has a 30-second delay between each 10 second stretch of speech. SO frustrating. Still working on getting him to write me an old fashioned love letter...you know, on paper. Maybe I'll get one before he comes home..... 
Well I believe that is enough rambling for one post...welcome to my blog!