Military Spouse Rant

[prosodic]

Lance was supposed to be flying today.

So when my cellphone beeped to alert me to a text message, I hoped it was Paula.

Nope. It was Lance.

Jet broke. Flight cancelled.

This means that it'll be at least another week until he comes home. We were looking at a week from Friday at the earliest - 9 days from now.

Now it will be a week after that, at the earliest.

I feel like I can't complain. Other military spouses have it so much worse. They have to deal with longer deployments. Most don't have the luxury of daily communication.

But still, this sucks. I'm running out of ways to kill time, and with the start date of my job probably being set back again, I'm looking at another long week of nothing to do stretching out before me next week.

And Lance is just as miserable as I am.

Okay. I fully expect some "at least he's not in Iraq" comments. Save it. Separations are difficult regardless of the length or location of his deployment, so anyone who feels this way can bite me.

Comments

[just--a--girl.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry his flight was cancelled. :[ I would be upset about it, too. Is there a chance that he'll get to come home earlier than what's expected now?

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

Probably not. He has so many flights he has to complete for training. Today was his first flight, and that got cancelled. Tomorrow's flight is still scheduled, but the weather forecast makes it questionable.

At the very earliest, he is coming home two weeks from now, instead of one week. And depending on his luck with the rest of his flights, it could be even longer than that.