A challenge for spouses of deployed persons is keeping it together by keeping busy. With no kids or outside job to occupy me at the moment (looking forward to the latter once I know what hours my Handsome Man [hereafter HM] will have), I have only the cats and personal well-being to look after on a day to day basis. Not that there isn't a temptation to get a bag of baby clothes from Goodwill and dress the cats up, Lord knows, sometimes those bags are only a dollar and the entertainment value is beyond measure. And who knows, gentle reader, perhaps that day will come.
There would be photos, have no fear. I'd never leave you out of that.
Hobbies are a great way to keep the mind distracted. One thing that went from my hobby to a full-on trait is frugality, sometimes even austerity (as austere as an American with every utility they could want at their disposal, save cable TV). Our goal is to return to Charleston, SC, from whence I came when I married HM. No matter if we get stationed there and never leave or if we have to wait until retirement, it's where we'll wind up. I have a pinky-swear to hold him to, on pain of having to listen to me endlessly kvetch. Once in Charleston we hope to have a salvage and demolition business; this will take a substantial initial outlay. This is the end of my frugal means - to lay our financial foundation as best we can for the second half of our lives. Efforts must be made now, it's too easy to put off preparing; suddenly you find you're reacting to your circumstances rather than creating them. Luckily, many small efforts over several years adds up; that's what I aim to do. With this blog you'll be along for the ride.
