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

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK--I'd missed the part about him being gone so long already. (Though I still won't give you grief about a week. :) ) As for the book, the offer will remain open!

[prosodic.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly, good sir. I may wait until I get my laptop because everything has been freezing up my computer lately. I had to restart it twice just to make this comment!