A Mile Away

Oh, Thanksgiving! How quiet and peaceful it will be this year… pretty much just a Thursday. No complaints from my end, except that Alan was supposed to be home and his flight got pushed back. Not that I wasn’t completely expecting that, but it still sucks.

I went to the doctor yesterday because apple cider vinegar wasn’t helping my rash and it wasn’t spreading and basically, even though it looks like ringworm, wasn’t behaving the way ringworm. So the random family practice doctor I get turns out to have a background in dermatology. It’s NOT ringworm, but rather a rash that can appear shortly after a virus, made much worse by severely dry skin and the crazy back and forth temperatures. I was sick a few weeks ago, so it makes sense. She "prescribed" Aquaphor and Claritin for the itching. I love it when military doctors prescribe things that I can get over the counter. It means I don’t have to pay for them.

So when I checked Facebook this afternoon, I saw that Pez had changed his relationship status from married to single. Pez is Alan’s friend from work who’s married to Katie and they live in our complex. She’s the one I suspected was cheating and Alan and I have both been saying for a while that things didn’t seem quite right. Guess we called that one. Whether she was cheating or not, I’m not really surprised that it’s over. Katie never struck me as someone who could handle the hard parts. You’d think that a single mom would be adept at the hard parts, but apparently not. I guess she decided that the benefits of being married to a solider weren’t worth the cost of being married to a soldier. Sad, but unsurprising. I feel really bad for Claire, her little girl. As if she didn’t have enough upheaval in her short life. Poor little thing’s only going to be 3 in January.

Saw that coming.

Still feel kind of bad for Pez though. Granted, at least a few people probably warned him about getting married so fast, but who ever listens when they’re in love?

~Liz